Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread

My three favorite albums that seem to otherwise completely lack acclaim. Give 'em a listen!

The Casual Dots - S/T, riot grrl as cold soul music. Sorta like early Cate Le Bon, if well before her.
The Marked Men - Ghosts I put this on a lot more frequently than Blood Visions and the A Frames, my other favorite punk albums of the decade.
Nethers - In Fields We Will Lie fell between the freak folk/heavy psychfolk interregnum, should please Heron Oblivion fans.

If it helps refresh any memories:

Acclaimed Music's Top Albums of the 2000s
Acclaimed Music's Top Songs of the 2000s

TRACKS

Rich Boy - Throw Some D's

(7/30)

Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat
Ghostface Killah The Pretty Toney Album
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Tyranny of Distance
Robyn Robyn
Iron and Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak
Songs: Ohia Magnolia Electric Co.
Notwist Neon Golden
Dixie Chicks Home
Kathleen Edwards Asking For Flowers
Dizzee Rascal Showtime
Damone Out Here All Night
The National Boxer
Liars Drum's Not Dead
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Clinic Internal Wrangler
Drive-By Truckers Decoration Days
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Veronicas Hook Me Up
David Banner Mississippi: The Album
Field From Here We Go Sublime
Lee Ann Womack There's More Where That Came From

23/30

oops scratch Notwist, that one's already been mentioned I see

Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Whoa, this sounds wild.

Right? It's a motherfucking beast of a record. Discovered only a couple of years ago thru ilm obv.

Half Man Half Biscuit - Cammell Laird Social Club
Clipse - Lord Willin
Smog - Supper
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea
Pulp - We Love Life
Kompakt Total 3

24/30

ALBUMS

I'll help get a few obvious ones from the way, including the top 2 albums that'll inevitably win this poll (kid a, person pitch obvs)

ALBUMS

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
Destroyer - Rubies
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Four Tet - Rounds
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Paavoharju - Yhä hämärää
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Radiohead - Kid A
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa

TRACKS
Animal Collective - Leaf House
Björk - Cocoon
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in The Country
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
Clinic - The Second Line
Crystal Castles - Vanished
Death Cab for Cutie - Photobooth
Dntel - (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan
The Fiery Furnaces - My Egyptian Grammar
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her in The Anti-war Demonstration
Kindness - Swingin Party
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze Mix)
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once

30/30

Albums
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Charlotte Hatherley - Grey Will Fade

Tracks
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Aeroplane Featuring Kathy Diamond - Whispers
Santigold - L.E.S Artistes

30/30

Here's the results of previous half decade polls... I think they haven't been posted yet:

ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS
ILM Top 100 2000-2004: TRACKS
ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS
ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS

Recalling this one as well because it's my most popular poll ever, I think, and it's related to this poll:

RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

I absolutely need a '10s version of the electronic dance tracks poll btw.

ALBUMS

Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
M.I.A. - Arular
M.I.A. - Kala
The Glands - The Glands
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

10/30

ALBUMS

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of
Gas - Pop
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Troum & All Sides - Shutûn
Sunn O))) - Black One
The Necks - Aether
Hood - Cold House
David Lynch - The Air Is On Fire
Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen

(14/30)

I absolutely need a '10s version of the electronic dance tracks poll btw.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.)

I'm all in but I'd wait until early 2020 to do it.

ALBUMS

Deathspell Omega - Fas–Ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum
Taake - ...Doedskvad

(16/30)

ALBUMS

David Sylvian - Blemish
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love

(18/30)

ALBUMS
Bang on a Can - Renegade Heaven
Les Savy Fav - Inches
A Mountain of One - Collected Works
Studio - West Coast / Yearbook 1 -- these are more or less the same album
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Brian Wilson - Smile
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Mastodon - Leviathan
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto

TRACKS
Mirah - Cold Cold Water
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

11/30

xpost Ooh yeah that Superpitcher album is a good call

I know right? It's weird diving into this period looking for selections. I'd refer to the noughts as the 'blogging days': everyone, including myself, had a blog back then. Blogs where we published our top tens of the year and such. As I'm really bad with years (did Superpitcher's album come out in '99 or '04? No idea!) I've wondered where to turn to. Itunes is useless, so is Spotify. RYM does some of the lifting, but ultimately I have to google if an album is from those years or not. It's pretty fascinating (apart from the fact that it reminds me that my mind is a sieve).

Stuff like Junior Boys and Dizzee Rascal are intrinsically linked to ILM gushfests for me

more ALBUMS
various - Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
Luomo - Vocalcity

more TRACKS
Rihanna - Umbrella
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Pet Shop Boys - Miracles
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Ghost (Japan) - Aramaic Barbarous Dawn
Mclusky - Friends Stoning Friends (b-side version)

20/30

SONGS

Ass Ponys – Astronaut
Pharcyde – Frontline
She Mob – Your Therapy
Clipse – When the Last Time
Dressy Bessy – Buttercups
Imperial Teen – My Spy
Joey Ramone – Maria Bartiromo
Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Yo La Tengo – How Some Jellyfish Are Born
Blur – Out of Time
Monade – Ode to a Keyring
Danger Mouse – 99 Problems
Estelle – 1980
Mendoza Line – Will You Be Here Tomorrow
Pet Shop Boys – Flamboyant
50 Cent & Mobb Deep – Outta Control
Consultants – Pop Pop
Devendra Banhart – Now That I Know
Legendary K.O. – George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People
Wussy – Airborne
Hot Chip – The Warning
Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
Oliver Schroer – Field of Stars
Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
Wussy – Melody Ranch
Figghole – Red, White and MILF
Magnetic Fields – Please Stop Dancing
Vivian Girls – I Believe in Nothing
Hylozoists – Soixante-Sept
Knight School – Pregnant Again

ALBUMS

the-dream - love/hate
the-dream - love vs money
portishead - third
brand new - the devil and god are raging inside me
the gaslight anthem - the '59 sound
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
air france - no way down EP
the walkmen - you & me

TRACKS
sade - by your side
yeah yeah yeahs - cheated hearts
yeah yeah yeahs - turn into
bloc party - this modern love
fantasia - when I see u
j holiday - bed

14/30

ufo already nominated Air France.

& moloko, uh xp to kitchen person

Album:

Puffy - Spike (Japanese version)

27/30

Tracks:

Ruff Sqwad - Anna
The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing
Amerie - Why Don't We Fall in Love
Madonna - What It Feels Like for a Girl
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is a Computer
Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter
The Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love
Ada - Blindhouse
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality

(16/30)

& moloko, uh xp to kitchen person

― lowercase (eric)

Ah, ok. Sorry about that.

Tracks

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning

30/30

Debating whether to allow Euler his nomination back for throwing an album from 2014 in there (Miranda Lambert - Platinum)

Which reminds me...

Album:

Miranda! - Es Mentira

28/30

ALBUMS:
Alizee - Mes Courants Electriques
Oren Ambarchi - Triste
Bardo Pond - On the Ellipse
Boris - Akuma no Uta
Boris - Pink
Cat Power - You Are Free
Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks
Electrelane - The Power Out
Electrelane - Axes
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Kaito UK - band red
Microphones, The - The Glow Pt 2
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
Mogwai - Rock Action
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Raveonettes, the - Lust Lust Lust
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses in the Sky
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

19/30

ALBUMS

Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Loverboy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Coachwhips - Bangers vs. Fuckers
Stereolab - Sound-Dust
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Enon - High Society
Sparks - Lil’ Beethoven
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Björk - Medúlla
Broadcast - HaHa Sound
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool

19/30

(Real Life Is No Cool has a 2010 copyright but was available from Rough Trade at the end of 2009.)

ALBUMS

School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Group Doueh - Guitar Music from the Western Sahara
Burial - Untrue
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth
Matt Sweeney And Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolf
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days Of Mars
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Tom Carter and Christian Kiefer - From the Great American Songbook

TRACKS

Perfume - Chocolate Disco
The Juan Maclean - Happy House
Laka - Pokušaj

(13/30)

Surprise for me listening back was just how clunky "I'll Be By Your Side" sounds these days.

Ah forgot to nom the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album.

ALBUMS

Björk – Vespertine
Sonic Youth – Murray Street
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Low – The Great Destroyer
Jim O'Rourke – Insignificance

6/30

Untrue was first on my list, glad to see seandalai just nominated it!

are dj mixes allowed for albums?

forget i asked

most people won't vote for these but I think they are some of the best recordings from the 2000s:

ALBUMS

Terry Riley – Atlantis Nath
Current 93 – Sleep Has His House
Cecil Taylor - 2 Ts for A Lovely T
Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Duos for Doris
Coil – Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Murcof - Martes
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
Pandit Pran Nath - Midnight
Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Fushitsusha - I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
Nurse with Wound - Salt Marie Celeste
Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix

20/30

ALBUMS

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Itiberê Orquestra Família - Calendário do Som
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Low - Drums and Guns
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos - Filtros
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Fred Hersch - Plays Jobim
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Christina Pluhar & L'Arpeggiata - La tarantella: Antidotum tarantulae
Glenn Jones - This Is the Wind That Blows It Out
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean
Espers - Espers II
El Perro del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Anja Lechner - Chants, Hymns and Dances
Marcel Khalife - Taqasim
Teresa Cristina & Grupo Semente - Delicada
Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations

(23/30)

Tracks

Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Air - Sex Born Poison
Girls Aloud - The Show
Robyn - Crash and Burn Girl
The Chalets - Kiss Chasing
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
OutKast - The Way You Move

8/30

TRACKS

Petey Pablo - Raise Up
Gillian Welch - April the 14th (Part 1)
Three 6 Mafia - Testin My Gangsta
Ghostface Killah - One
Mekons - Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem
Bob Dylan - High Water (For Charley Patton)
Scarface - On My Block
Neko Case - Hold On Hold On
Electrelane - The Valleys
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission
Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
Richard Youngs - The Valley in Flight

12/30

Albums

CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Girls Aloud - Out of Control
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
Phoenix - Alphabetical

4/30

Phoenix - Alphabetical

Yes!!

ALBUMS:

Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel The Illinoise
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Metro Area - Metro Area
Hot Chip - The Warning
Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
Gravenhurst - The Western Lands

8/30

Sorry, my count should be 12/30

TRACKS:

Aeroplane - Caramellas
Grace Jones - Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix)
Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
Cut Copy - Out There On The Ice
The Knife - Heartbeats
M.I.A - Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)

14/30

Album:

Candy Lo - Candy’s Airline

Track:

Sammi Cheng - 808

30/30

ALBUMS

The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Gucci Mane - The Burrprint 3D
Scarface - the Fix
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
Lil B - 6 Kiss
Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI Ambleside
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...
Los Campesinos! - We are Beautiful, We are Doomed

TRACKS

Birdman and Lil Wayne - 1st Key
Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day
The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape
Joanna Newsom - Emily

17/30