The Guardian's Best 50 Albums of the 21st Century - The Official I Love Music Poll

gotta vote for 50

g-g-g-g-g-G-u-NIT!!

for real that's the best album

genuinely did not know that gaz coombes album was called matador until now

this has such chaotic energy, I love it -- I voted for Back to Black

I understand Nickelback on the list more than I understand U2 on the list.

Gaz Coombes

There is only 1 album on this list that can't be beat.

Yeah but what will finish 2nd to Gaz I wonder

Naming no names but it all got very personal and unnecessary on the G2 Slack last night (“if Sheffield Hallam let me start selling my plasma again I’ll never have to speak to any of you fuckers for the rest of my days”, etc).

Say what you like about ILX but if we don’t agree which order the best albums should go in, we generally keep it civil.

hahaha whaaaat? you hate to see it!

confessions, either one

Might ask a mod to move this to 77, last thing we need is more beef with the G2 massive

gotta vote for 50

g-g-g-g-g-G-u-NIT!!

for real that's the best album

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If those were the best 50 albums of the 21st century I wouldn't like music. At all.

i feel for you babe

G-g-g-g-gaz INNIT

that ^^^

I listened to all of In It For The Money today and it's genuinely good

i feel for you babe

Did you intentionally leave out Gay Dad? Not cool.

Will have to be voting Gaz.

I started at the bottom with 1989 and clicked it and then slowly scrolled up waiting to find something better and never did.

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last chance to vote for the real best albums of the noughties, folks

That Dido went from Queen of Carthage to Queen of the Charts was a real landmark of feminsim and an inspiration to us all. Well, the birds and that. Well done Dido - she gets my vote.

a real g goes a to z (gaz)

It's such an odd list. You'd think The Guardian would have stuffed it full of people who are fashionable right now, or were fashionable until recently, or who get good press - Robyn, Billie Eilish, Sam Smith, Tegan And Sara, etc.

Or is this an arch Ilxor joke? It's an arch Ilxor joke, isn't it. The Guardian's list has a hundred entries. It's still pretty crap but it's not as bad as this. The Guardian's list describes Lily Allen as "the voice of a generation", those exact words. Or is this from the print edition of the paper? There's no Grouper, no Benoît Pioulard. Is it satire? It's satire.

Of all the albums in that list the only one I own is A Day Without Rain, which I have so far never listened to. I've copied the contents of the compact disc into iTunes, but I've never listened to it. I like to imagine that Enya exists outside of lists like this because she's inoffensive and barely ever promotes herself. She is without sin. Not like the others.

After skimming through The Guardian's actual list of a hundred albums there are two dozen good ones. The best is Untrue by Burial. It exists on a higher level than the other records.

this has to be a troll poll

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ILM understands

Ok I guess I need to listen to Gaz Coombes.

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before. Is this a joke I’m not aware of?

it's a joke

get familiar!!!

GAZ familiGAZ

(nb: i may not have heard any music by this guy but his name is gaz coombes)

Good turn-out and of course a pleasure to see Gaz vindicated as 150 percent better than the Beatles.

Xpost: Oh thank god, I felt like I was going crazy, listened to the first trio of songs and they were very unremarkable

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before.

this is a challenging question though

Guess there are still people on ILM who don't really *love* music

These results are chefliss.jpg, ty NV for your invaluable service <3

chefkiss even

I voted Jack Johnson this is bullshit

i forgot to vote for dido why didnt she win

I hope somebody writes an article about ILM and uses this as an example of the current consensus and Gaz suddenly gets all kinds of critical plaudits and gets p4k album of the century

American Idiot too low