ILM Top 100 2000-2004: ALBUMS

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I find it amusing that nobody really whines about the r&b/rap/pop/dance picks.

"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

Sorry, I meant to post that on the tracks thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned OTM

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I know Ned's post was satirical but it's how I genuinely feel about some of the records, and no apologies for it. If somebody stepped up to froth at the mouth about Toxic/Girls Aloud/Work It/anything else I voted for I wouldn't mind at all.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

What Tom said. And in my case it's more to do with the specific indie records, rather than the fact they are indie. If eg Hearts Of Oak or Go Forth had made it into the Top 10 albums I would have been very happy indeed.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

How many FUN indie songs are there in the list? i think that's the key to the issue.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe i should ask that question at the end...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and on the tracks thread, not here

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh whew, after #13 had gone by, I was thinking to myself, "Oh no, please do not have three Radiohead albums in the top ten." Good to see Amnesiac place over HTTT, anyway, though the latter should not have been anywhere near #12.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't remember offhand if anyone voted for only one Basement Jaxx album and not the other but that strikes me as very daft.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not daft. Rooty is classic. Kish Kash is above average.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for Kish Kash and I haven't got Rooty!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

daft!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I almost forgot to vote for Kish Kash (silly too, because I don't think I had fifteen albums on my ballot). I agree with Dr. Bill's assessment though.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i didn't vote for ANY bjaxx lps

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

you didn't send me a 'Romeo' comment either, but that's okay, I'm dead chuffed with my assessment.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i thought it'd rank higher and i'd have time!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

If it was my Real Actual top 15 rather than top 15 from the poll only one BJ album would get in I think.

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

anyhow i was gonna tie it into nina sky and lumidee and inoj queen of my heart (and dear god did nina sky not rank either????)(reminder to 12 ft lizards: no ilx year end poll this year. for reals.)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

o tom that's an easy one - 'appeal to anglophile americans'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

can't wait until the 90s poll. TWO RADIOHEAD ALBUMS ION TH E TOP TEN?!??!? TEHERE IS NO GOD!!!!!!1!

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

There are greater horrors lurking in the 90s poll I think.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish i'd done the 90s poll first (and the 80s poll before that!). perhaps by then i would not have had the time and energy for this crapola...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, no one seems to be bothered to point out the awesomeness of VCN making top 20, so I'll do it.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's because everyone automatically assumed it was the Noise Dudez bloc vote!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i assumed it would go higher!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

it was top 10 for quite a while!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, it's still Japanese nosie-kraut-trance-psychedelic-chantn'bass ranking higher than The White Stripes. Pretty cool.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

This is true...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for Kish Kash and I haven't got Rooty!

Me too! Color me daft!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I may have missed the announcement, but WHEN DO WE GET THE TOP 10?

Shall I just leave work now, or will the action start tonight?

― Jamie (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Neurotic S is I very much hope DJing at a club night tonight rather than putting up more records.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

top 10 tomorrow, hopefully all over by teatime (BST)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Well can't he get a laptop behind the decks and spin 'em as he posts 'em? The tension is unbearable.

Is Club FT on tonight then? I might come along.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

you should. bring one hundred girls.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Melissa, did you give Amnesiac the other #1 vote?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

that would be me

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Do Wilco's records sound like this show? If so, I think they're great. "Spiders" roolz.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"(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.)"

Speaking of which, here are the entries for the two albums on Wikipedia's concept albums page:

"Kid A - Radiohead (2000) - Homicidal genetically-engineered monstrosities (which represent capitalist exploitation) are let loose upon a complacent and denial-filled society."

"Amnesiac - Radiohead (2001) - Kid A narrator returns from death, and puts together his past life piece by piece"

Eh?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Gosh, I just realized that I missed the Sisters's album when it was posted. Bummer. It should've been higher.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

x^152-post: every PJH album has filler. Stories is jangly and therefore great.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Melissa, did you give Amnesiac the other #1 vote?

Of course.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot Stars of the Lid! Sorry, Amnesiac was #2 and GYBE was #3.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

when i met sundar in 2001 he was totally dissing on GYBE! you are so busted.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

He also used to hate Radiohead.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

JUDAS!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Both bands got better.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 26 August 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

More seriously, I don't think I'd heard very much GYBE when I met you and what I had heard (in the background at someone's house one night) was from F#A#oo, which I still don't like very much. I do remember that I was drunk enough that that might not have stopped me from totally dissing on them.

I don't think I ever hated Radiohead. I actually liked OK Computer a lot for a while before I burnt out on it later, but just took my time to hear the next two. When I actually gave them a good listen I liked them.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

have you heard a silver mt.zion sundar? (GYBE side-project thing which is way better than any GYBE)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I only voted for Kish Kash, but Rooty was like my #17 or 18 album. Fifteen isn't very many, you know! I really can't believe I completely forgot about Cannibal Ox. That would have been really high on my list and should've been way higher than #41 overall. I shoulda voted for Boredoms (it was my #16), but it did well enough without my vote, and I didn't even realize Kanye West was nominated, but again, he did well enough without my support.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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