― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 751No. of votes: 34No. of #1 votes: 1
Artist: RADIOHEADTitle: HAIL TO THE THIEFLabel: ParlophoneYear: 2003
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50 words on Hail to the Thief (THANK YOU ILM IF ONLY THERE WAS A THREAD LIKE THIS FOR EVERY ALBUM NOMINATED)
Recommended tracks: There There, Sail To The Moon, Myxamatosis, I Will
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Indie is like metal: attractive people can't do it properly.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Points: 804No. of votes: 39No. of #1 votes: 2
Artist: RADIOHEADTitle: AMNESIACLabel: ParlophoneYear: 2001
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You can call it scattered, or a glorified b-side collection, or what have you, but it's precisely that quality that makes it work for me. I don't think the band would be able to put together a completely non-rock Warpish record that had the dynamics to make it interesting -- I think if they tried, they'd come up with static, 4-minute snippets like "Everything...," laid end to end until they seemed meaningless. The beauty of Amnesiac is not only that it wins on the song front -- even though the songs here really are less plodding, more clever, more memorable -- but that the song selections and the sequencing create dynamics between the songs, so that "I Might be Wrong" suddenly firms up into the clear arpeggios of "Knives Out," which shatters into the fragments of "Morning Bell." This is no bog -- this is like stepping out of the bog into a city and being overwhelmed by the sheer stimulus of it, walking from corner to corner and seeing something new at each one. (Forgive me for just turning the two records into some sort of science-fiction epic, in which our heroes travel across the bog to the cathedral and the crystal city beyond. But these are my gut reactions, really: Kid A = mud, Amnesiac = crystal.) nitsuh
Recommended tracks: Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors, Life In A Glasshouse
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Tool - Lateralus - would have been in the TOP 10 if it were on the nominations list.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Just go to any Coldplay concert audience, Mr. Blount, you'll find it's not just the Brits.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"OBVIOUSLY this is the good stuff, so why in the name of god almighty are these other things being picked? People actually LIKE them? EURGH!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Looking at the top 10 my comments on bloc votes have rather boomeranged.
I think an interesting qn is - 'what does an album need to do/be in order to get into the ILM superhits'
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I think I might even nominate Pablo Honey just for fun.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link