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

how many ballots could possibly ask to nom their #1 vote after the deadline tho? he could easily check the 1-2

I only need to check ballots who nominate a #1 from this point onward! Exactly

damn we forgot to nominate "duffle bag boy" didn't we

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

jewlia eisenberg (of charming hostess)'s trilectic is a vocally inventive playful post-meredith monk album that uses cantorial traditions, eskimo throat singing, doo wop, ethiopian jewish traditions and more as settings for text excerpted from letters exchanged between walter benjamin, asja lacis, and gershom sholem (+ other texts). it came out on zorn's tzadik label under the radical jewish culture imprint. it was tremendously important to me when it came out in 2001 and i was still a rabbinic student in yeshiva, bc it was so unlike anything else i had heard (both musically + in that nexus of theological/political thought) but over the years its uniqueness has only grown to me. it sounds like very few other things (and most of the things it does sound like are also in the tzadik catalog and are influenced imo by eisenberg's work -- i'll write a recommendation about mayim rabim at a later point unless sund4r wants to??) but it's extremely listenable and memorable for an avant/experimental vocal work. it has hooky moments and gorgeous melodic moments. it also has a song ("Dream of Me") based on Susan Buck-Morss's The Dialectics of Seeing about Asja's frustrations with Benjamin that includes the line, "I dreamt you fucked me like John Reed, and I'm a good red - I pushed back and begged for more / I dreamed the vanguard of the left she came so hard she had to scream." it's a v weird + strange alternate dimension of an album both in choice of subject material (communist love songs) + sonic palette. i really think ppl should seek out the whole thing bc the style + tones shift wildly over the course of the album but i'll include a couple youtube links bc i'm not sure where you can actually stream the whole thing. i could probably write a million more things about this album but i'll just say that i always thought it was the kind of thing i'd think [some] ilmers would be into and i'm not sure why it never happened [yet, utopian longing v much themely].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4n2LVyMy1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2leR5i8Hw

those are the only two i can find on youtube. also i dropboxed one of my favorite tracks that i cannot find on youtube here

Here are some of my nominations that aren't on spotify (or maybe just not on canada spotify?) that i wanna highlight/campaign for

1. ZAZEN BOYS - WEEKEND
I literally think about this song almost every 7 days. Weird mathy Japanese band goes FUNKY and screams about the WEEKEND. Also the video rules. everyone should be as obsessed with this as i am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZjYq8-SHw

2. STONED GREEN APPLES - SUGAR K (YURA YURA TEIKOKU REMIX)
Why this hasn't played at every good party I've ever been to is a stupid mystery. doesn't really sound like the original, doesn't reaaally sound like a lot of yura yura teikoku, but goddamn is it good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1epHwAQTVc

y'all voting for this one, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6T3I_Zskfs

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

yes

Or here

NOUGHTIES/NOWTS/00s POLL CAMPAIGNING SIDE-THREAD: Youtube, Bandcamp & other links to YOUR nominations that AREN'T ON SPOTIFY

Spotfiy is still banned by the local mystics here since they formed an alliance with the Asda Boys, their grip is tightening so I have no idea what has made it out there

man i really need to give zazen boys a proper listen someday, "weekend" rules

No. 1?

Ok, anyone is allowed to nominate their no. 1 song if it's missing. However, if their ballot later shows up without that song at no. 1 their ballot will be discounted! Isn't power fun

― imago, Monday, September 16, 2019 9:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks, imago!

Here we go!

Alexis Strum - Nothing Good About This Goodbye

:)

on I plunge playlisting

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

noticed we all failed to nominate merzbeat, or indeed any merzbow. what has become of us? only my colossal respect for imago stops me from voting for it anyway

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

There is now an Albums master list!

Tracks to follow.

If I've made any errors, let me know and I'll correct...

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

i was going purely on my shoddy antiquated mp3 tags, apologies for wasting your valuable time.

Right now I've been playing the fun game of going through the tracks playlist on shuffle and trying to pinpoint what year a song I don't recognize is from without looking at any track or artist information.

xxp thanks! only 1,661 album noms, I can do this.

looks like you've got Dam-Funk's Toeachizown on there twice

A couple more dupes:

Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Abe Vigoda - Kid City
Elliot(t) Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Move D / Namlook - XII: Space & Time
Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House / Up the Wooden Hills
Spoon - Transference
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Oh, and Mastodon - Leviathan

Transference turned out to be ineligible.

Has a voting deadline been set yet?

Daamn no-one nominated Daft Punk's Human After All (not that I'd vote for it)

It was pointed out already but Fripp & Eno's 'Evening Star' is presumably ineligible? It was merely remastered in 2008 afaik

TRACKS NOMINATION LIST

As before, please let me know if you find any dupes or omissions!

The Glow pt. 2 is listed under Microphones, The instead of The Microphones where the other such albums are listed

Albums I would vote for, but are not on the list: Xiu Xiu "A Promise", Harvey Milk "Life.. The Best Game In Town", Deerhoof "Reveille"

Xiu Xiu "A Promise"

Fuuuuckkkk.... I was sure that was nominated, which is why I didn't myself...

Oh also: The Mountain Goats "We Shall All Be Healed", like every album is there except the best 00s album

I myself would vote Constantines s/t over "Shine A Light", and Fucked Up "Epics In Minutes" over "Hidden World", and I intend to do so

Will you allow write-ins LJ? 'A Promise' cannot be absent.

is there a voting thread with the links to the nomination lists on top?

My list includes only two mainstream albums (Missy "Under Construction", Erykah "Mama's Gun"), only one Solex album, zero Grouper albums-- one Kranky release and it's "Tired Sounds Of...", Life Without Buildings, only one Xiu Xiu album and only one "electronic" album (and it's Max Tundra, of course)

Dupe in tracks:

Fatima Yamaha – What's a Girl to Do
Fatima Yamaha ‎– What's A Girl To Do?

Oh and I am voting for three Canadian albums. The aforementioned two and Destroyer "Your Blues".

If this is the campaigning thread, let me once again state that the best Fucked Up album is "Epics In Minutes", it is also the best Canadian album of this century, and you can hear for yourself and I am tired of saying this over and over again

https://derangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/epics-in-minutes

No voting thread until seandalai creates the voting form, and he's only back from holiday tomorrow!

As I'm such a pushover, I will allow anyone who has not posted to thisthread before today a small handful of 'panic nominations'. fgti bring the first of such. But that only applies if you really didn't see this until now.

I'm out now but will make further edits later and add fgti's choices etc

<333

Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy is there twice in tracks (my fault for having nominated it a second time)

has to shoot him twice just to be sure

*had ffs

The track list has Isolee - Beau mot plage, which was released in 1998.

Also this one:

Thee Madkatt Courtship III - My Life Musik

...which was released in 1999 and was a club hit that year, as discussed upthread.

oh lmao i forgot to nominate anything for this bc i was so sick last week

More track dupes:

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight

The track list has Isolee - Beau mot plage, which was released in 1998.

― Tuomas, Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:17 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh, i nommed that cause it was included on the 2000 album 'rest'

didn't realize it came out earlier

More dupes:

Cure - Underneath the Stars
Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl to Do
Washed Out - Feel It All Around

Thanks imago <3

np! Brad you can do your thing as well :)

So did some hero make a Spotify playlist of all the tracks? Link?

I'm about 4/5 done with that. Will have finished by the time I begin the voting thread