post your ballot for the ILM Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS poll here

things that didn't make the big list in bold

Apollo Sunshine - Apollo Sunshine 40
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II 39
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah... 38
Young Jeezy - The Recession 37
Fall Out Boy – Folie A Deux 36
Wye Oak - If Children 35
Kanye West - Late Registration 34
Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It 33
The Roots - Game Theory 32
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1 31
Demi Lovato - Don't Forget 30
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin 29
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout 28
UGK- Underground Kingz 27
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid 26
Beyonce- B'day 25
Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea 24
Nels Cline - Coward 23
My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me The Workhorse 22
T.I. - King 21
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac 20
Pink - Funhouse 19
System Of A Down - Mezmerize 18
John Legend - Once Again 17
ponytail - ice cream spiritual 16
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire 15
Sonic Youth - the Eternal 14
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound 13
Beanie Sigel - The B.Coming 12
paramore - riot! 11
Ne-Yo - In My Own Words 10
parts & labor - mapmaker 9
The Evens - Get Evens 8
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis 7
maxwell - blacksummersnight 6
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond 5
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High 4
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It 3
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped 2
Amerie - Because I Love It 1

did not know you were an apollo sunshine fan

ugh, okay someone lock the other one

1. Portishead - Third - 40
2. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll - 39
3. Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor - 38
4. The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning - 37
5. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped - 36
6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - 35
7. The National - Alligator - 34
8. Robyn - Robyn - 33
9. Cansei de Ser Sexy - Cansei de Ser Sexy - 32
10. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions - 31
11. Santigold - Santigold - 30
12. Panda Bear - Person Pitch - 29
13. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - 28
14. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns - 27
15. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds - 26
16. Róisín Murphy - Overpowered - 25
17. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat - 24
18. Mariah Carey - Emancipation of Mimi - 23
19. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis - 22
20. Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers - 21
21. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster - 20
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! - 19
23. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - 18
24. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel - 17
25. Sigur Ros - Takk... - 16
26. Missy Elliott - The Cookbook - 15
27. Herman Düne - Not On Top - 14
28. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II - 13
29. Tom Vek - We Have Sound - 12
30. Lo-Fi-FNK - Boylife - 11
31. Metronomy - Nights Out - 10
32. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye - 9
33. Mahogany - Connectivity! - 8
34. Kanye West - Late Registration - 7
35. Ratatat - Classics - 6
36. Justice - † - 5
37. Studio - West Coast - 4
38. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - 3
39. PJ Harvey - White Chalk - 2
40. Radiohead - In Rainbows - 1

ALBUMS

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
2. Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady: Volume 1
3. Taylor Swift - Fearless
4. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
5. Kate Bush - Aerial
6. Paris Hilton - Paris
7. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
8. T.I. - King
9. Britney Spears - Blackout
10. V/A - Run The Road
11. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
12. Booka Shade - Movements
13. V/A - 5 Years Of Hyperdub
14. DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
15. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
16. Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin'
17. Beyoncé - B'Day
18. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter II
19. Ellen Allien - Thrills
20. V/A - Hyphy Hitz
21. The-Dream - Love/Hate
22. Rihanna - Rated R
23. The Knife - Silent Shout
24. Young Jeezy - The Recession
25. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
26. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
27. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
28. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi
29. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
30. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
31. The xx - xx
32. Meanderthals - Desire Lines
33. Maxwell - Blacksummers'night
34. SCSI-9 - The Line Of Nine
35. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
36. Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
37. Solange - Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams
38. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
39. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
40. School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

1. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
2. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
3. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
4. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
5. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
6. Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet
7. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
8. Baroness – Blue Record
9. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
10. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster
11. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
12. Battles – Mirrored
13. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
14. Kanye West – Graduation
15. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
16. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
17. Boris with Michio Kurihara – Rainbow
18. Oneida – Rated O
19. Radiohead – In Rainbows
20. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
21. Against Me! – New Wave
22. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
23. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
24. Portishead – Third
25. M.I.A. – Arular
26. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
27. Converge – Axe To Fall
28. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
29. The xx – xx
30. Torche – Meanderthal
31. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls In America
32. Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
33. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
34. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
35. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
36. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
37. Boris – Pink
38. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
39. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
40. Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder

6. Paris Hilton - Paris

I thought you were kidding when you mentioned Paris at one point.

do you not recall the lex's many varied defenses of "paris?"

Not from the past, no. Just once in the poll results thread.

fwiw, I actually liked the Paris album at the time, but I haven't even thought about it since.

paris has endured through the years even better than i thought it would. if anything i love it more now than i did at the time. it's a dance-pop classic imo.

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It (40)
Nelly Furtado - Loose (39)
MIA - Arular (38)
girls aloud - chemistry (37)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (36)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (35)
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (34)
Ladytron - Witching Hour (33)
Washed Out - Life Of Leisure EP (32)
Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (31)
Annie - Don't Stop (30)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:07 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

which other albums have you heard?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:10 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man this still kills me

i LOVE this song so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8jaExBeOY

(final placement according to the spreadsheet):

40 points Isolée - We Are Monster (66th)
39 points Kurt Vile - God is Saying this to You (393)
38 points Atlas Sound – Logos (381)
37 points Fever Ray - Fever Ray (6)
36 points Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (188)
35 points Liars - Drum's Not Dead (68)
34 points Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (111)
33 points Radiohead - In Rainbows (8)
32 points James Holden - The Idiots Are Winning (446)
31 points Broadcast - Tender Buttons (36)
30 points Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More (258)
29 points Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (402)
28 points Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker (350)
27 points Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness (375)
26 points Deerhunter – Microcastle (236)
25 points No Age - Weirdo Rippers (226)
24 points Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins (147)
23 points Panda Bear - Person Pitch (10)
22 points Various Artists - After Dark (260)
21 points Strategy - Future Rock (306)
20 points Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (204)
19 points Cave - Hunt Like Devil / JAMZ (338)
18 points Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (94)
17 points Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (126)
16 points Portishead – Third (2)
15 points Fennesz - Black Sea (206)
14 points Beach House – Devotion (766)
13 points Blonde Redhead – 23 (200)
12 points Deerhunter - Cryptograms (775)
11 points Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls (102)
10 points Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (84)
09 points Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals (578)
08 points Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (19)
07 points Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (76)
06 points Benoit Pioulard – Précis (261)
05 points M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (186)
04 points Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (135)
03 points Battles – Mirrored (95)
02 points Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (370)
01 points Six Organs of Admittance - School Of The Flower (743)

1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Taylor Swift - Fearless
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Boris - Pink
5. J Dilla - Donuts
6. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
7. Oneida - Rated O
8. Animal Collective - Feels
9. Isolée - We Are Monster
10. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
11. the flaming lips - embryonic
12. Grizzly Bear -Yellow House
13. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
14. Gang Gang Dance - St. Dymphna
15. Boredoms- 77 Boadrum (live)
16. Portishead - Third
17. Radiohead - In Rainbows
18. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
19. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
20. Fennesz - Black Sea
21. Low - Drums and Guns
22. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
23. Gorillaz - Demon Days
24. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
25. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
26. MIA - Kala
27. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
28. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
29. Young Jeezy - The Recession
30. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
31. The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
32. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
33. clipse - hell hath no fury
34. jj - jj n*2
35. Islands - Return to Sea
36. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
37. Kanye West - Late Registration
38. Baroness - Blue Record
39. Emeralds - What Happened
40.The Books - Lost and Safe

did not know you were an apollo sunshine fan

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't know if they've even been mentioned on ILM outside of me stanning for them and that album/era in particular!

my ballot, in descending order:

001 ERYKAH BADU, Nu Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War
162 HIGH ON FIRE, Blessed Black Wings
005 MIA, Kala
034 GANG GANG DANCE, St. Dymphna
027 DIRTY PROJECTORS, Bitte Orca
121 EARTH, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
127 THE WHITE STRIPES, Get Behind Me Satan
023 OF MONTREAL, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
148 THE FALL, Imperial Wax Solvent
170 NELLY FURTADO, Loose
012 THE XX, xx
157 BORIS, Pink
024 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Merriweather Post Pavilion
290 WITCH
221 MF DOOM, Born Like This
302 THE BREEDERS, Mountain Battles
120 ONEIDA, Rated O
073 VON SUDENFED, Traumatic Reflexxions
199 YO LA TENGO, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

ugh, okay someone lock the other one

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:42 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry dudes! i thought about double checking first on the main thread, but last time j0rdan decided mine was the proper ballots thread so i figured i'd be good to go ahead with it again.

bold = no show

El Perro Del Mar - s/t
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
el perro del mar - love is not pop
Portishead - Third
The Knife - Silent Shout
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love
Charlotte Hatherley - New Worlds
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Air France - No Way Down EP
Kate Bush - Aerial
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
The Roots - Game Theory
Caribou - Andorra
Feist - The Reminder
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Royksopp - Junior
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Githead - Landing
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
The Indelicates - American Demo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
robert wyatt - comicopera
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
patton oswalt - werewolves and lollipops
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

I threw my list together at the very last minute and I think it shows. Two TV on the Radio albums??

some dude...Tha Carter II is close to the top of CDs-to-listen-to...too late for you, I understand :/...esp. considering it clocked in at #106.

no, it's my fault. this thread is 28 seconds older than the one I made, so you got to it first. xxp

things that didn't make the big list in bold

Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde 40
Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair 39
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion 38
Man Man - Six Demon Bag 37
YOB - The Great Cessation 36
Lambchop - OH (Ohio) 35
Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life 34
Benoit Pioulard - Précis 33
Witchcraft - The Alchemist 32
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 31
Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner 30
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo 29
Celtic Frost - Monotheist 28
Bloody Panda - Summon 27
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain 26
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come 25
Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel - Willie and the Wheel 24
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 23
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 22
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain 21
Various Artists - African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s 20
Caïna - Mourner 19
Joe Henry - Blood From Stars 18
Six Organs of Admittance - School Of The Flower 17
Ufomammut - Lucifer Songs 16
The National - Boxer 15
Zu - Carboniferous 14
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday 13
Seu Jorge - América Brasil o Disco 12
Wetnurse - Invisible City 11
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 10
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms 9
Kaki King - Dreaming Of Revenge 8
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga 7
Madder Mortem - Eight Ways 6
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now 5
Espers - II 4
Torche - Meanderthal 3
Mugison - Mugiboogie 2
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 1

so you're the other Benoit Pioulard - Préc voter

Early contender for least in step with hivemind.

I wanna identify the other two Rameses III voters, love <3 love that album

Orthrelm - OV 40 pts
The Knife - Silent Shout 39 pts
M.I.A.- Kala 38 pts
Scott Walker - The Drift 37 pts
Panda Bear - Person Pitch 36 pts
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 35 pts
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm 34 pts
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You 33 pts
Pattern is Movement - All Together 32 pts
M.I.A. - Arular 31 pts
Ricard Villalobos - Fabric 36 30 pts
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard 29 pts
Animal Collective - Feels 28 pts
Mu - Out of Breach 27 pts
Lindstrom - It's A Feedelity Affair 26 pts
Battles - Mirrored 25 pts
Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin 24 pts
J Dilla - Donuts 23 pts
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 22 pts
Optimo - Psyche Out 21 pts
Ghostface Killah - Fishcale 20 pts
Fever Ray - Fever Ray 19 pts
Sunn O))) - Black One 18 pts
Portishead - Third 17 pts
dj /rupture - Uproot 16 pts
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism 15 pts
Belong - October Language 14 pts
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity 13 pts
El Guincho - Alegranza 12 pts
Ewan Pearson - Piece Work 11 pts
Kevin Blechdom - Eat My Heart Out 10 pts
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem 9 pts
St. Vincent - Actor 8 pts
The Bug - London Zoo 7 pts
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden 6 pts
Black Dice - Broken Ear Record 5 pts
Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks 4 pts
Broadcast - Tender Buttons 3 pts
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head 2 pts
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That 1 pt

I'm consistently the outlier in these things. Consensus forms without me.

Descending order of preference, so 40 pts to 1pt.

1. the Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
2. The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
3. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
5. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
6. Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change the World
7. MIA – Arular
8. Robert Forster - The Evangelist
9. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
10. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
11. The New Pornographers – Challengers
12. Kanye West - Late Registration
13. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
14. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
15. MIA – Kala
16. Santigold – Santigold
17. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
18. Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis
19. Justice - †
20. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
22. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
23. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
24. The Horrors - Primary Colours
25. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
26. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
27. T.I. - Paper Trail
28. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
29. Kanye West – Graduation
30. Pink – Funhouse
31. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
32. Al Green - Lay It Down
33. Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
34. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
35. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
36. The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
37. Nicole Atkins - Neptune City
38. Lee Fields - My World
39. tom waits - orphans: brawlers, bawlers and bastards
40. Al Green - Everything's OK

40 Studio - West Coast
39 Kate Bush - Aerial
38 The Knife - Silent Shout
37 Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again
36 lil wayne - dedication 2
35 Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
34 Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future
33 Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah
32 rhythm & sound - see mi yah (remixes)
31 Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas
30 Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
29 Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
28 Todd Edwards - Odyssey
27 ricardo villalobos - vasco
26 DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
25 Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
24 J Dilla - Donuts
23 Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days Of Mars
22 Amerie - Because I Love It
21 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
20 el perro del mar - love is not pop
19 Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
18 Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
17 Hatchback - Colors of the Sun
16 Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
15 Mariah Carey - Emancipation of Mimi
14 Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
13 Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive
12 Burial - Untrue
11 Meanderthals - Desire Lines
10 Daft Punk - Alive 2007
9 Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower
8 Convextion - Convextion
7 Booka Shade - Movements
6 The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
5 onur ozer - kasmir
4 Liars - Drum's Not Dead
3 Echospace - The Coldest Season

20 points Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (204)

a+++

my ballot:

01 the-dream - love/hate
02 keith fullerton whitman - multiples
03 various artists - after dark
04 studio - west coast
05 gorilla zoe - welcome to the zoo
06 2 pistols - death before dishonor
07 the national - alligator
08 ryoji ikeda - test pattern
09 shearwater - rook
10 carla bozulich - evangelista
11 sally shapiro - disco romance
12 booka shade - movements
13 bj nilsen - fade to white
14 moritz von oswald trio - vertical ascent
15 haswell & hecker - blackest ever black
16 the-dream - love vs. money
17 t.i. - king
18 various artists - prima norsk vol.3: the space disco edition
19 ne-yo - year of the gentleman
20 lindstrøm & prins thomas - II
21 gui boratto - chromophobia
22 rameses III - i could not love you more
23 hatchback - colors of the sun
24 the mae shi - HLLLYH
25 ugk - underground kingz
26 akron/family - love is simple
27 young jeezy - the recession
28 sir richard bishop - while my guitar gently bleeds, for ilxor (forever ago)
29 tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet
30 michael mayer - immer 2

Revised to include final placings.

1. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War) (1)
2. Mastodon – Blood Mountain (155)
3. The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (49)
4. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (33)
5. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (62)
6. Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet (185)
7. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary (80)
8. Baroness – Blue Record (168)
9. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions (56)
10. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster (92)
11. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (44)
12. Battles – Mirrored (96)
13. Mastodon – Crack the Skye (115)
14. Kanye West – Graduation (71)
15. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver (5)
16. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam (88)
17. Boris with Michio Kurihara – Rainbow (134)
18. Oneida – Rated O (121)
19. Radiohead – In Rainbows (9)
20. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain (124)
21. Against Me! – New Wave (321)
22. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (18)
23. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (25)
24. Portishead – Third (2)
25. M.I.A. – Arular (14)
26. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (42)
27. Converge – Axe To Fall (377)
28. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale (26)
29. The xx – xx (13)
30. Torche – Meanderthal (198)
31. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls In America (34)
32. Liars – Drum’s Not Dead (69)
33. TV on the Radio – Dear Science (68)
34. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (30)
35. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight (423)
36. Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (119)
37. Boris – Pink (158)
38. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (24)
39. Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (108)
40. Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder (832)

Didn't rank and looking at the spreadsheet I realize in cutting and pasting my ballot together I left a few things off, even stuff I nominated... :/

Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - In the Heart of the Moon
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Caribou - Andorra
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
ES - Sateenkaarisuudelma
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
J Dilla - Donuts
James Blackshaw - the glass bead game
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People
Various Artists - 5 years of hyperdub

Studio - West Coast (40)
J Dilla - Donuts (39)
Biosphere - Dropsonde (38)
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism (37)
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs (36)
Cornelius - Sensuous (35)
Unai - A Love Moderne (34)
Chelonis R. Jones - Dislocated Genius (33)
Quiet Village - Silent Movie (32)
The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People (31)
Broadcast - Tender Buttons (30)
Todd Edwards - Odyssey (29)
Optimo - Walkabout (28)
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered (27)
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality (26)
William Basinski - El Camino Real (25)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (24)
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout (23)
Ellen Allien - Thrills (22)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi: Fragments of an Earth (21)
Juana Molina - Son (20)
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (19)
lil wayne - dedication 2 (18)
Michael Mayer - Immer 2 (17)
Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (16)
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (15)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (14)
UGK - Underground Kingz (13)
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent (12)
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (11)
Rod Modell - Incense & Black Light (10)
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (9)
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch (8)
Gudrun Gut - I Put a Record On (7)
Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää (6)
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (5)
lindstrøm & prins thomas - II (4)
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels (13) (3)
Richard Davis - Details (2)
Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star (1)

A+ ballot hobbes

The Advisory Circle - Other Channels

forgot to vote for this^^

I wanna identify the other two Rameses III voters, love <3 love that album

i was one of them. also i think u have the most overlap so far w/ my ballot hmmmm

REALLY shocked that more people didn't vote for BYOP, thought there were quite a few stans of that debut album around here.

03 various artists - after dark
22 rameses III - i could not love you more
29 tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet

nice lamp, you were my other half on these I think
sometime we should chill and have a very dark afternoon

oops xpost :)

Burial - Untrue 40
MIA - Kala 39
The-Dream - Love/Hate 38
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) 37
Fever Ray - Fever Ray 36
Joanna Newsom - Ys 35
Panda Bear - Person Pitch 34
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 33
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 32
Low - The Great Destroyer 31
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad 30
ne-yo - year of the gentleman 29
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 28
Air France - No Way Down EP 27
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 26
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money 25
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 24
Solange - Sol-Angel & the Hadley St. Dreams 23
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair 22
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light 21
The Knife - Silent Shout 20
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 19
Amerie - Because I Love It 18
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls 17
Von Sudenfed - Traumatic Reflexxions 16
The Bug - London Zoo 15
Ben Frost - By The Throat 14
Meanderthals - Desire Lines 13
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You 12
Beach House - Devotion 11
Coil - The Age of Naples 10
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky 9
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens 8
Jamie Lidell - Multiply 7
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye 6
Hot Chip - The Warning 5
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent 4
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase 3
Emeralds - Emeralds 2
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos 1

as possibly the only other person in the world who owns both the Gorilla Zoe and Carla Bozulich albums, I enjoy Lamp's ballot

Sadly i somehow forgot to vote for Portishead & Paavoharju, but it didn't effect the result either way in the end.

My (unranked) ballot

5ive - Hesperus
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Alcest - Souvenirs d’un autre monde
Alex Moulton - Exodus
Baroness - Blue Record
Baroness - Red Album
Blonde Redhead - 23
Cave - Hunt Like Devil / JAMZ
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cobalt - Gin
Converge - Axe to Fall
converge - no heroes
Corrupted - El mundo frio
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Emeralds - Emeralds
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
harvey milk - life...the best game in town
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Jesu - Jesu
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
neurosis - given to the rising
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Scott Walker - The Drift
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
The Bug - London Zoo
torche - meanderthal
Torche - Torche
Ulver - Blood Inside
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
wolves in the throne room - two hunters
Woods - At Rear House
YOB - The Great Cessation
Zombi - Spirit Animal

Ordered ballot, with points allocated as follows:

40 - Air France - No Way Down EP
39 - Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
38 - Daft Punk - Alive 2007
37 - Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
36 - The xx - xx
35 - air france - on trade winds
34 - Kate Bush - Aerial
33 - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
32 - Various Artists - African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
31 - Libertines, the - The Libertines
30 - Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
29 - Amerie – Because I Love It
28 - Cassie - Cassie
27 - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
26 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
25 - Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
24 - The Knife - Silent Shout
23 - Portishead - Third
22 - Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
21 - Seu Jorge - América Brasil o Disco
20 - shakira - oral fixation, vol 2
19 - Foals - Antidotes
18 - Gang Gang Dance - St. Dymphna
17 - girls aloud - chemistry
16 - Girls Aloud - The Sound of Girls Aloud
15 - The Killers - Sam's Town
14 - The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
13 - tinariwen - aman iman: water is life

... and that's where I petered out. The only thing I have that I couldn't bring myself to vote for was Sound of Silver - the cold hard cash spent on that one still hurts.

ALBUMS (RANKED)

40. Tokyo Jihen - Adult
39. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte
38. Kate Bush – Aerial
37. Ayelet Rose Gottleib - Mayim Rabim
36. Bannakumbi - Un Nuevo Día
35. Maria Rita – Segundo
34. Miguel “Anga” Diaz - Echu Mingua
33. Michael Stuart - Back to da Barrio
32. Boris - Smile
31. Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
30. Nejo y Dalmata - Broke & Famous
29. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
28. boris ft michio kurihara – rainbow
27. Sunny Jain Collective – Avaaz
26. Taylor Swift – Fearless
25. marit larsen - under the surface
24. Lansing-Dreiden - Dividing Island
23. Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold

Had hoped Miranda Lambert and Boris had a shot.

i seriously forgot to vote for Alcest!!!

can we do a whole decade poll next? (Whenever next may be...)

I heard the next poll was an alltime indie poll

oh well that will be good i guess...

oh well that will be good i guess...

as possibly the only other person in the world who owns both the Gorilla Zoe and Carla Bozulich albums

lol i also own & am fond of the 1st couple of my chemical romance albums

okay the dude that voted for like two dozen metal albums i havent heard of + taylor swift: kudos

Albums
40 pts - Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
39 - Joanna Newsom - Ys
38 - MIA - Kala
37 - Britney Spears - Blackout
36 - Cassie - Cassie
35 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
34 - The-Dream - Love/Hate
33 - Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
32 - Demi Lovato - Don't Forget
31 - Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
30 - Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
29 - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
28 - Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
27 - Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
26 - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster...
25 - Studio - West Coast
24 - The Knife - Silent Shout
23 - The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
22 - Girl Talk - Night Ripper
21 - The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
20 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
19 - The xx - xx
18 - Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling
17 - TV On The Radio - Dear Science
16 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
15 - Mariah Carey - Emancipation of Mimi
14 - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
13 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
12 - Jay Reatard - Matador 08 Singles
11 - Kanye West - Late Registration
10 - Kate Bush - Aerial
9 - Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
8 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
7 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
6 - Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
5 - Portishead - Third
4 - The National - Boxer
3 - Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
2 - Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
1 - Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim

Kind of pisses me off to be the only one to vote for certain albums nominated by someone other than me.

Pts - Artist - Album

40 - Scott Walker - The Drift
39 - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
38 - Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
37 - Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
36 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
35 - J Dilla - Donuts
34 - V/A - 5 Years Of Hyperdub
33 - Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
32 - Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
31 - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
30 - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
29 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
28 - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
27 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
26 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War
25 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
24 - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
23 - Washed Out - Life Of Leisure EP
22 - Kanye West - Graduation
21 - Burial - Untrue
20 - Studio - West Coast
19 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
18 - The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
17 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
16 - Torche - Meanderthal
15 - Destroyer - Rubies
14 - The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
13 - The-Dream - Love/Hate
12 - Fennesz - Black Sea
11 - Superpitcher - Today
10 - Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
9 - The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
8 - Boris & Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
7 - Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
6 - V/A - Run The Road
5 - SunnO))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
4 - Baroness - Blue Record
3 - Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
2 - Solange - Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams
1 - PJ Harvey - White Chalk

"Kind of pisses me off to be the only one to vote for certain albums nominated by someone other than me."

that might be my fault... which albums?

ordered:

Charalambides - Likeness
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
Kate Bush - Aerial

Kleptones - A Night At The Hip-Hopera
ES - Sateenkaarisuudelma

Throbbing Gristle - The Endless Not
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

Biota - Half A True Day
Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Michael Hurley/Ida - Ida Con Snock
Alan and Richard Bishop- The Brothers Unconnected: A Tribute To Charles Gocher And The Sun City Girls

robert wyatt - comicopera

The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon

Coil - The Ape of Naples

Indian Jewelry - Free Gold
The Ex/Getatchew Mekuria - Moa Anbessa
Alvarius B - Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset

Charalambides - A Vintage Burden

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days Of Mars

The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent

Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise And Twigs
Sir Richard Bishop - Fingering The Devil
United Bible Studies - The Shore That Fears The Sea
Emeralds - What Happened

Helena Espvall/Masaki Batoh - Overloaded Ark

Jay Reatard - Matador 08 Singles

Islaja - Palaa Aurinkoon
Einsturzende Neubauten - Alles Weider Offen
Kurt Vile - God is Saying this to you

Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge
OOIOO - Taiga

Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista

Legendary Pink Dots - Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves
Om - Pilgrimage

tom waits - orphans: brawlers, bawlers and bastards

fannypack - see you next tuesday

Animal Collective - Feels

el guincho - alegranza

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions


only 5 of those made it into the top 100 I think.

01 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
02 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
03 The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
04 A Frames - Black Forest
05 Sigur Ros - Takk
06 Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
07 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
08 Portishead - Third
09 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
10 Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
11 Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
12 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
13 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
14 Low - The Great Destroyer
15 M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
16 Jesu - Jesu
17 Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
18 Caribou - Andorra
19 Cat Power - The Greatest
20 Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
21 Eluvium - Copia
22 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
23 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
24 Future Of The Left - Curses
25 Isis - Wavering Radiant
26 Kate Bush - Aerial
27 Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
28 Liars - Drum's Not Dead

a frames were robbed imo

Benoit Pioulard - Précis
A Mountain of One - Collected Works
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
Uusitalo - Tulenkantaja
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
Apparat - Walls
Ladytron - Witching Hour
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Scott Walker - The Drift
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Kate Bush - Aerial
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Burial - Untrue
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Animal Collective - Feels
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
MIA - Kala

Twenty Four from my list placed.

Art Brut-Bang Bang Rock 'n' Roll 40 Points
LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver 39
Junior Boys-So This is Goodbye 38
Plush-Fed 37
St Etienne-Tales From Turnpike House 36
Wild Beasts-Limbo Panto 35
Antony & the Johnsons-I Am a Bird Now 34
Portishead-Third 33
Scritti Pollitti-White Bread, Black Beer 32
Sparks-Hello Young Lovers 31

My Morning Jacket-Z 30
Hot Chip-The Warning 29
Broadcast-Tender Buttons 28
Rachel Stevens-Come & Get it 27
Radiohead-In Rainbows 26
Erykah Badu-New Amerykah Part One 25
Art brut-Art Brut Vs. Satan 24
Robert Forster-The Evangelist 23
Goldfrapp-Seventh Tree 22
Robyn-Robyn 21

Jazmine Sullivan-Fearless 20
Solange-Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams 19
Girls Aloud-Chemistry 18
Clipse-Hell Hath no Fury 17
Charlotte Hatherley-The Deep Blue 16
Kanye West-Graduation 15
The Knife-Silent Shout 14
Maximo Park-A Certain Trigger 13
The Flaming Lips-Embryonic 12
The Go-Betweens-Oceans Apart 11

Von Sudenfed-Tromattic Relexxions 10
Cut Copy-In ghost Colours 9
Ghostface Killah-Fishscale 8
LCD Soundsystem-LCD Soundsystem 7
Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala 6
St Vincent-Actor 5
The XX-The XX 4
Britney-Blackout 3
J Dilla-Donuts 2
Ellen Alien & Apparat-Orchestra of Bubbles 1

who's the other two people who voted for Blessed Black Wings?

(Ordered)

The-Dream - Love/Hate
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
Cassie - Cassie
Britney Spears - Blackout
Mariah Carey - Emancipation of Mimi
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
Beyonce- B'day
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future
Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
Burial - Burial
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive
Alex Under- Dispositivos de mi Granja
Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Mu - Out of Breach
the Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
Lawrence - The Night Will Last Forever
Chelonis R. Jones - Dislocated Genius
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
omar s - fabric 45
Amerie - Because I Love It
Rod Modell - Incense & Black Light
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
matias aguayo - are you really lost
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
ne-yo - year of the gentleman
Alex Smoke - Incommunicado
Triple R- Selection 4
Superpitcher - Today
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Richard Davis - Details
Convextion - Convextion
Isolée - We Are Monster

I seem to have several drafts of my ballot saved, but I'm pretty sure that this was the final one (those that didn't place in bold):

1. Low - Drums and Guns
2. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
3. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
4. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
5. Herman Düne - Not On Top
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. Tenniscoats - Totemo Aimasho
8. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
9. Scott Walker - The Drift
10. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
11. el guincho – alegranza
12. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
13. Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
14. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
15. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
16. Zombi - Spirit Animal
17. The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People
18. Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää
19. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
20. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
21. Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise And Twigs
22. Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light
23. The Blow - Paper Television
24. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
25. Atlas Sound - Logos
26. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
27. Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
28. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
29. Stereolab - Chemical Chords
30. ES – Sateenkaarisuudelma
31. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
32. keith fullerton whitman – multiples
33. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
34. Emeralds – Emeralds
35. Nurse With Wound - The Surveillance Lounge
36. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
37. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
38. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
39. Zomby - Where were you in '92
40. spank rock – yoyoyoyoyo

Looking at it now, some of the ordering seems a bit odd, but these things do fluctuate.

Also, sleeve is my new favourite ilx0r. A most excellent ballot, sir.

rank in ILM poll --- Artist --- Title --- points from me!

164 - Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity - 40
66 - Isolée - We Are Monster - 39
352 - My My - Songs for the Gentle - 38 - Thank you, other voter!
231 - Richard Davis - Details - 37
2 - Portishead - Third - 36
42 - The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - 35
105 - Deerhoof - The Runners Four - 34 - Close!
250 - Autechre - Quaristice - 33
389 - Morgan Geist - Double Night Time - 32
567 - Deerhoof - Offend Maggie - 31
390 - Autechre - Untilted - 30
9 - Burial - Untrue - 29
597 - Röyksopp - The Understanding - 28
24 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - 27
615 - Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen - 26
143 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You - 25
211 - Royksopp - Junior - 24
93 - ne-yo - year of the gentleman - 23
293 - Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts - 22
81 - Low - Drums and Guns - 21
269 - Apparat - Walls - 20
88 - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - 19
478 - Audion - Suckfish - 18
17 - Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye - 17
51 - Pantha du Prince - This Bliss - 16
68 - TV On The Radio - Dear Science - 15
197 - Burial - Burial - 14
215 - Mahogany - Connectivity! - 13
133 - Scritti Polliti - White Bread Black Beer - 12
730 - Alex Smoke - Incommunicado - 11
96 - Battles - Mirrored - 10
46 - Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - 9
77 - Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles - 8
9 - Radiohead - In Rainbows - 7
30 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois - 6
20 - Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too - 5
429 - Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself - 4
253 - Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch - 3
534 - The New Pornographers - Challengers - 2
570 - Moderat - Moderat - 1

a lot of you have extremely cool ballots!

I'm pumped to check out some of the albums I haven't heard on ballots that share some of my own faves.

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Broken Social Scene - S/T
Chromeo – Fancy Footwork
clipse - hell hath no fury
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
Common - Be
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Destroyer - Rubies
DJ Quik & Kurupt – BlaQKout
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
J Dilla – Donuts
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Justice - †
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Kanye West - Late Registration
L C D S o u n d s y s t e m - S o u n d o f S i l v e r
L i l W a y n e - D a D r o u g h t 3
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
MIA – Kala
My Morning Jacket – Z
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Studio - West Coast
T.I. - King
The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
The Knife - Silent Shout
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Um, I don't know why LCD and Wayne look like that.

ok EZ Snappin is a massive hero basically and I actually got love for quite a few things on his ballot - nice #1 choice!
Davek's a bro, obv, and I can get behind most of his choices
karl clearly knows the shit out of good dance music and I will be consulting him on the topic - his top 3 is huge
hobbes' ballot I find completely unplaceable and intriguing - Cornelius! wow! good album, that. but again, loads of good dance
pfunkboy, what can I say eh? again, loads of really great stuff in there
Klata, your stance on SoS has been noted and applauded
Rudipherous, as my fellow Lansing-Dreiden voter I feel I ought to shake your hand or something
Gavin In Leeds, plenty of superb stuff (and stuff I need to check out) in yours too

OK, and so we reach mine. Not as obscure as some, but one of the outliers for sure:

Ulver - Blood Inside (40pts)
Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure (39)
Thomas White - I Dream Of Black (38)
Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel (37)
Dälek - Absence (36)
The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlord Of Mars (35)
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun (34)
Youthmovies - Good Nature (33)
Six By Seven - If Symptoms Persist, Kill Your Doctor (32)
Oceansize - Frames (31)
Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery (30)
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (29)
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts (28)
Portishead - Third (27)
Foetus - Love (26)
Caribou - Andorra (25)
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position (24)
St. Vincent - Actor (23)
The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (22)
Lansing-Dreiden - Dividing Island (21)
Murcof - Cosmos (20)
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat (19)
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (18)
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (17)
fiery furnaces - bitter tea (16)
Von Sudenfed - Traumatic Reflexxions (15)
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (14)
The Horrors - Primary Colours (13)
Orthrelm - OV (12)
Hood - Outside Closer (11)
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (10)
Studio - West Coast (9)
Battles - Mirrored (8)
Edan - Beauty and the Beat (7)
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (6)
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent (5)
Mew - ...and the glass handed kites (4)
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (3)
dillinger escape plan - ire works (2)
opeth - watershed (1pt)

Happy to note that Blood Inside reached the highest total of any album voted for by 3 people. Presumably John Justen only gave it the 39 points then ;-)

Scott Walker - The Drift - 40 pts
Herbert - Scale - 39 pts
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me - 38 pts
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered - 37 pts
Cat Power - The Greatest - 36 pts
The Kills - Midnight Boom - 35 pts
Portishead - Third - 34 pts
Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions - 33 pts
The Fall - Reformation! Post TLC - 32 pts
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent - 31 pts
MIA - Kala - 30 pts
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - 29 pts
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase - 28 pts
Fennesz - Black Sea - 27 pts
Stereolab - Chemical Chords - 26 pts
The Kills - No Wow - 25 pts
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! - 24 pts
Liars - Liars - 23 pts
Pole - Steingarten - 22 pts
Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre - 21 pts
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You - 20 pts
Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep - 19 pts
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods - 18 pts
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part I - 17 pts
The Dead Weather - Horehound - 16 pts
Coachwhips - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge - 15 pts
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers - 14 pts
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - 13 pts
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped - 12 pts
Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue - 11 pts
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too - 10 pts
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet - 9 pts
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - 8 pts
Ellen Allien - Thrills - 7 pts
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia - 6 pts
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass - 5 pts

Oops, Arthur Russell placed of course.

LJ, I tried to hunt down that Dälek album before voting, but couldn't grab it online. I've seen them live shitloads over the years and they've always been great, but just never got around to buying that. Also, I miss their h0tt turntablist.

ordered:

spankrock - yoyoyoyoyo
stars - set yourself on fire
taylor swift - fearless
clipse - hhnf
dream - love vs money
cut copy - in ghost colours
girls aloud - chemistry
pill - 4180:the prescription
lcd soundsystem - self titled
dream - lovehate
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
the virgins - self-titled
justin timberlake -futuresex/lovesounds
kanye - late registration
t.i. - paper trail
hello saferide - more modern short stories
liars - drums not dead
rural alberta advantage - hometowns
japandroids - post nothing
rachel stevens - come and get it
fiery furnaces - bitter tea
lady gaga - the fame monster
voxtrot - raised by wolves ep
lil wayne - carter 3
gucci - burrprint 3d
radiohead - in rainbows
flying lotus - l.a.
shortwave set - the debt collection
st. etienne - tales from turnpike house
fall out boy - folie a deux
animal collective - mpp
tv on the radio - dear science
studio - west coast
kanye - graduation

ranked here but gave all of them 20.5 points. The last five or so were afterthoughts, would do those differently now.

1. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
2. Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
3. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
4. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves EP
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
7. Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting
8. Format - Dog Problems
9. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
10. M.I.A. - Arular
11. Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
12. Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
13. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
14. Death Vessel - Stay Close
15. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
16. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
17. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
18. Annie - Don’t Stop
19. New Order - Waiting for the Sirens’ Call
20. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
21. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
22. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
23. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
24. Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Solid State Warrior
25. Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country
26. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
27. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
28. Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
29. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
30. Yolks - Yolks
31. Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling
32. MIA – Kala
33. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
34. Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
35. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
36. The Knife - Silent Shout
37. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
38. Zomby - Where were you in '92
39. gui boratto – chromophobia
40. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

LJ, I tried to hunt down that Dälek album before voting, but couldn't grab it online. I've seen them live shitloads over the years and they've always been great, but just never got around to buying that. Also, I miss their h0tt turntablist.

Would have thought Whiney might have given it LOADS of points - did he even vote? It's on Spotify if you want to give it a listen! Staggering record, inspires me with more genuine revolutionary sentiment than pretty much anything else I've heard. That sounds silly but I really don't care - it's music to march to, music to chant and cheer to.

and then I followed it up with a Dandy Warhols album that Pitchfork gave 1.2 to. I RULE :D

It doesn't sound silly to me - they are truly awesome.

Also, man, where were the props for my ballot? If nothing else, I think I was the only person to vote for all nominated Ghost Box albums (can't be arsed to check if this is true, ha).

oh shit, I had the thread open from a bit earlier and it ended after Paul In Santa Cruz's! Honest!

*Gavin In Leeds' - I'd seen Paul's but I scrolled down only as far as Gavin's PLEASE FORGIVE ME I AM A MESS

Hahaha, I didn't really mind, dude.

ok basically I'd have gone NUTZOID for Sleeve's ballot if I'd seen it during my Big Summing-Up - it's fucking astonishing and I need to hear SO MUCH of it. emil.y despite the A and D of GAPDY featuring prominently yours is similarly infested with groovy arty coolness. I remember that Deerhoof album being absolutely superb but not listening to it after the online stream was removed - will need to return to it! Speaking of which, PISC and I have often seen eye-to-eye on musical issues, and his ballot contains a lot of indieproggish Jaggerness (WFANFC -and- Max Tundra!) you three between you are flaming awesome and I am deeply ashamed not to have scrolled down that far while I did my write-up

also pretty much everything on Sleeve's ballot that made it is fucking amazing - why have I not conversed with that guy more often?

shame on you
xp

lj do you still use aim or msn?

neither really these days - logged into chatz the other night but was the only time in like 5 months

i thought chatz was dead cuz some scriptkiddie tookover

anyway I believe you have some nominating and stanning to do on another poll. Better get to it as it ends friday

fear not, I have some tracks in mind

Lovely choices everyone...in particular all that Fonal records stuff on Emily's ballot.

About to hit play on the first song on Blood Inside!

excellent choice mr k
fonal rules

STEEL THYSELF O DAVEK

What's the Fonal stuff? Paavofinnishfolk?

LJ - You know, I really like that Dandy Warhols album too. And I have to admit, Blood Inside should have made my ballot; I chose not to duplicate any artists, and between that and Shadow of the Sun I love the one I've just listened to the most and had just spun SotS. Now, having just played Blood Inside the other day I'm regretting my vote.

I voted both

"Kind of pisses me off to be the only one to vote for certain albums nominated by someone other than me."

that might be my fault... which albums?

― elephant rob, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:35 (Yesterday)

Nah, it was tipsy mothra (if I recall correctly) and Mordy. I don't really mind. At least they nominated a couple albums I would have nominated otherwise, which gave me more room to nominate other things that weren't going to place either.

LJ, one day you need to run a decade poll of bands only on independent labels. I dont believe that has ever been done.
But you gotta open it up to all genres not just indie rock.

Fonal - Paavorharju, Es, Eleanor Rosenholm. Fits in nicely soundwise with all the freak/psyche folk stuff from around mid decade, see also Sung Tongs, Espers, Charalambides, Excepter maybe.

Ulver, um well 2.40 in and this is not what I was expecting. Where's the hailstorm black metal!?

Also, Louis, I think you'd really like at least parts of Tokyo Jihen's Adult. If "Blackout" (from that album) isn't proggy, I don't know what is.

Ulver left the BM behind long ago

I decided I wasn't going to do much duplication but basically Ulver are beyond reproach for me - they're like a new level of musical comprehension. Shadows Of The Sun is as intricate, beautifully-crafted and well-sequenced as Blood Inside - it doesn't have the same shock-and-awe factor or the indelibly-seared musical images, IMO, but it's still a fucking fabulous piece of music, and I also understand those who prefer its tragic subtlety to BI's severed-artery spatter.

I wasn't expecting ANYONE else to have anything nice to say about that Dandys album!! Consequently I was looking forward to smiling sweetly and refusing to defend my choice. What can I say? Sweet, sweet psych-jams meet lovely pop-songs, the whole thing's totally euphoric and spaced-out in a way no other mainstream artist quite articulated during the last decade.

I now need to listen to loads of stuff in YOUR ballot - Alcest will definitely be getting a relisten over the next few days. One of the finest shoegaze albums I've heard.

BTW, as a final message for those feeling trepidation about Blood Inside - it's POSSIBLY the most LJ album ever made. Interpret that how you will, run in fear if you like.

Oh Davek, you're in for a frigging treat in a minute...

Rudipherous - why thanks! I'm not exclusively prog, but yeah recommendation accepted with glee!

LJ you up for doing an independent labels album poll sometime?

I'd need to make sure I knew what the independent labels were first! But yeah, in theory...

LJ - search out the Goslings. It's an eye-opener. Stuff I think you might like if you haven't heard it - Benoit Pioulard, Bloody Panda, Mono & World's End Girlfriend.

I have LOTS (well, two albums) of Goslings on my computer so I should really probably give them a good go! A track of their came on my iPod Shuffle recently and I didn't know who it was but it was brilliant - the track as it turns out was Motorcade, a thrilling, building noise-thing with a beautiful tune hidden underneath the fuzz and fury. Should have been the spur for a proper listen - this will be.

Bloody Panda did a split with Kayo Dot, which is enough for me. (I didn't nominate Kayo Dot's Dowsing Anemone... because I'd nominated one of the tracks instead - but it'd have made my top 15). Mono I've been aware of. The other two, completely unheard of. Will make a little list!

Just so you know, the Mono one doesn't sound like Mono at all - the collaboration with World's End Girlfriend gets them into soundscapes and off the post-rock nowhere train. I think Bloody Panda moved way past that split into something powerful and creepy, but the sound is similar so if it didn't work for you I understand. "Motorcade" is off Occasion, which tons down the howling wall of noise and pain that is Grandeur of Hair.

<3 mookie for voting for kubichek

my balloot

1. kubichek! - not enough night
2. Outrageous Cherry - Stay Happy
3. charmparticles - alive in the hot spell
4. cranebuilders - sometimes you hear through someone else
5. for against - shade side sunny side
6. Outrageous Cherry - Universal Malcontents
7. Mahogany - Connectivity!
8. let's go naked - insides
9. rainer maria - catastrophe keeps us together
10. Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change the World
11. the hussy's - super pro
12. Section 25 - Nature + Degree
13. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
14. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
15. Section 25 - Part-Primitiv
16. the Clientele - Strange Geometry
17. hatcham social - you dig the tunnel, i'll hide the soil
18. Low - The Great Destroyer
19. The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
20. Field Music - Field Music
21. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
22. tompaulin - into the black
23. LCD Soundsystem - s/t
24. Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song
25. Plush - Fed
26. Field Music - Tones of Town
27. Annie - Don't Stop
28. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
29. Ladytron - Witching Hour
30. Steve Moore - The Henge
31. durutti column - keep breathing

LJ im sure theres plenty of people to guide you on what labels are Independent and are part owned by majors or have major label distribution deals. And you can decide what parameters you will allow.

sorry i bolded the ones that made it, seemed to make more sense that way xpost

I think Bloody Panda moved way past that split into something powerful and creepy, but the sound is similar so if it didn't work for you I understand.

Oh, I haven't HEARD the split yet! I just know of its existence! Merely the fact that they worked WITH Kayo Dot is sufficient recommendation, is what I meant! Will definitely be listening in.

Glad you said that about Mono - I've heard they're a bit dull in a pretty way and what you said there sounds more promising.

Motorcade was still freakin' loud! Unmistakeably at the 'pop' end of noise tho

esoj's ballot reminds me I need to hear the new Field Music, urgently

Sorry I misread that! If it helps even more, a certain aerosmith poster loves Bloody Panda too.

This is what I wrote about the Goslings when I first heard it.

so they're basically Einstuerzende Neubauten's HEEEEEADCLEEEEEANER prophecy fulfilled huh :D

sadly I only have Occasion and Between The Dead - will have to somehow get hold of Grandeur Of Hair

My friend Ian compares Between the Dead to Isn't Anything and Grandeur to Loveless, only both are darker and heavier. He prefers the former albums to the latter.

The Goslings are amazing and so are Mono.
Grandeur of hair is prob the best

Nah, it was tipsy mothra (if I recall correctly) and Mordy. I don't really mind. At least they nominated a couple albums I would have nominated otherwise, which gave me more room to nominate other things that weren't going to place either.

I forgot to vote!

YOB - The Great Cessation
Zombi - Spirit Animal

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

LOL your music taste sucks.

let's play nice folks

LOL, he started it by LOLling at my #1 pick.

Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
MIA - Arular
Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Bruce Springsteen – Magic
Bob Dylan – Modern Times
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
No Age - Nouns
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Mendoza Line - Full Of Light and Fire
Lil Wayne – The Carter III
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
MIA - Kala
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Wussy – Left For Dead
Wussy – Funeral Dress
tom waits - orphans: brawlers, bawlers and bastards
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Against Me! - New Wave
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Taylor Swift - Fearless
The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
The Dead Weather - Horehound
New York Dolls - One day it will please us to remember even this
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
TV On The Radio – Dear Science
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Feist - The Reminder
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

haha. I was just surprised that conor oberst would be #1 on an ILMers list.
BTW I like the 1st 3 bright eyes albums

that yob album is incredible wtf are you talking about

Dude, since I'm not a 13 year old girl I have no idea who YOB is.

terrible zing attempt, be ashamed

i don't even know what the intent of that zing was, goddamn

i love these threads so much for shit like lamps list. one of my favourite things to dream of is an alternate universe with a drastically different musical history or canon. consensus lists are fun but i they always tend way too close to the mean, to the point where the only aspect of interest is the occasional hiccough in between processions of the lcd soundsystems and mias.

Your zing of my zing was even worse. It wasn't even a zing, it was more of a zi. But what can I expect from a yob fan?

lol, kornrulez thinks YOB is a teenpop band

no zings on my part; these are straight up facts bro

Love seeing these ballots. The overlaps and differences say a lot about the music and the voters.

Still want to know who cast the other MY MY vote. Folks who don't know that album, I promise it's worth hearing.

lol I had you fooled. I know them to be a major influence of the doom metal scene. In fact, Mike Scheidt and I go way back. When I met him he was into Raydio and early RPJ. I turned him onto metal.

There is no band called Yob, you are all just making this up.

My unranked ballot,

59. ARTHUR RUSSELL Love is Overtaking Me (2008) [249 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Broken Social Scene - S/T
9. BURIAL Untrue (2007) [590 points, 24 votes, 1 point]
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Destroyer - Rubies
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Eluvium - Copia
1. ERYKAH BADU New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) [1,029.5 points, 36 votes, 4 first place votes]
6. FEVER RAY Fever Ray (2009) [661.5 points, 29 votes]
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
25. GHOSTFACE KILLAH Fishscale (2006) [420 points, 21 votes]
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
15. J DILLA Donuts (2006) [492 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. JOANNA NEWSOM Ys (2006) [332.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
68. LIARS Drum's Not Dead (2006) [229.5 points, 14 votes]
19. LINDSTRØM Where You Go I Go Too (2008) [465 points, 24 votes]
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
miracle fortress - five roses
Oneida - Rated O
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
2. PORTISHEAD Third (2008) [967 points, 40 votes, 1 first place vote]
8. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (2007) [600 points, 27 votes]
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos
Sam Amidon - All Is Well
37. SCOTT WALKER The Drift (2006) [320 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes]
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from The Ash
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
55. SUNN O))) Monoliths & Dimensions (2009) [263 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
the Clientele - Strange Geometry
50. THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime (2007) [280 votes, 14 points]
39. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS The Sunset Tree (2005) [314.5 points, 13 votes]
58. THE NATIONAL Alligator (2005) [258.5 votes, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
wilco - sky blue sky
79. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) [210.5 points, 10 votes]
Zombi - Spirit Animal

1 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
MIA - Arular
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money

6 Kanye West - Graduation
The-Dream - Love/Hate
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
Death - ... for the whole world to see
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

11 Amerie - Because I Love It
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Beyonce- B'day

16 T.I. - King
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Calle 13 - Residente o Visitante
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
robyn - robyn

21 Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
the Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Ne-Yo - In My Own Words
Alex Moulton - Exodus

26 Solange - Sol-Angel & the Hadley St. Dreams
John Legend - Once Again
Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3

31 Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Various Artists - Hyphy Hits
E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card

36 Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin
Common - Be
Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Portishead - Third
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

I don't have my ballot in front of me, but the highest-placed noms I definitely voted for that didn't make the 100 are:

Various Artists - African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
Scritti Polliti - White Bread Black Beer
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

The three nominations that received only my lone vote (none of which I nominated myself!!!):

Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/ Alter Ego; Kajia Saariaho; György Kurtág

These slackers who nominate obscure things and then don't show up to vote for them. . .

i totally forgot about the My My album, haven't listened to it in a couple years. will def be putting that on tonight. xposts

ty for the props btw LJ. lots of intriguing stuff on your's and others' ballots that i'll be checking out. love the ballots thread for getting me interested in stuff that i normally wouldn't be exposed to in my habitual ILX reading.

Albums I voted for that didn't make it:

Breeders, Mountain Battles
Man Man, Six Demon Bag
Fiery Furnaces, Widow City
Takka Takka, s/t
Magnetic Fields, Distortion
Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust
Jens Lekman, Night Falls over Kortedala
Coachwhips, Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge
Mountain Goats, Get Lonely
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah s/t

In retrospect, should have voted for New Pornographers, Challengers (would that have gotten it on?) and not for Clap Your Hands, think I was influenced here by a pleasant live show but remember nothing about the actual album tbh

xpost to Nag! Nag! Nag! Nice to see another vote for that Scritti Politti album. It was my summer album that year and easily my favourite album they've done. Shame it didn't make the list, I really didn't know if it had any other fans.

where it placed followed by the thing itself in order, * means im the only vote for it so shame on you:

*461 - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - in Glorious Times - 40 points
204 - Ulver - Blood Inside - 39 points
79 - Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another - 38 points
196 - Sparks - Hello Young Lovers - 37 points
*506 - MSTRKRFT - the looks - 36 points
*520 - Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick - 35 points
*533 - Presets - Beams - 34 points
283 - Future of the Left - Curses - 33 points
*556 - Supersystem - Always Never Again - 32 points
246 - Man Man - Six Demon Bag - 31 points
*580 - Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! - 30 points
345 - Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun - 29 points
40 - The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree - 28 points
243 - System Of A Down - Mezmerize - 27 points
379 - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum - 26 points
198 - torche - meanderthal - 25 points
*644 - Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie - 24 points
*652 - Devin Townsend Project - Addicted - 23 points
*658 - Dethklok - the Dethalbum - 22 points
*666 YEAHHHHHHH - Flat Earth Society - Psychoscout - 21 points
*731 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues
for Thirteen Moons - 20 points
460 - The Decemberists - Picaresque - 19 points
455 - The Books - Lost and Safe - 18 points
112 - Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline - 17 points
66 - School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms - 16 points
*762 - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela - 15 points
*769 - Paleo - Misery, Missouri - 14 points
115 - Mastodon - Crack the Skye - 13 points
58 - Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster - 12 points
242 - harvey milk - life...the best game in town - 11 points
508 - Foetus - Love - 10 points
122 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - 9 points
176 - Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You - 8 points
494 - Pink - Funhouse - 7 points
378 - Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain - 6 points
627 - Baroness - Red Album - 5 points
*818 - Bohren & der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust - 4 points
*823 - Craig Wedren - Lapland - 3 points
415 - Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky - 2 points
*830 - Krallice - Krallice - 1 point

The-Dream - Love/Hate
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Portishead - Third
T.I. - King
Taylor Swift - Fearless
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1
Beyonce- B'day
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Animal Collective - Feels
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Gucci Mane - The Burrprint 3
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
james blackshaw - the glass bead game
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Jeremih - Jeremih
Air France - No Way Down EP
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
The xx - xx
Eat Skull - Sick to Death
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
maxwell - blacksummersnight
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
pill - 4180: the prescription
Ciara - Fantasy Ride

so jordan, some dude, gman and i are the only dudes who voted for gaslight huh

who else voted for jeremih?

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns 40
Studio - West Coast 39
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll 38
M.I.A. - Kala 37
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle 36
Panda Bear - Person Pitch 35
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light 34
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money 33
Kanye West - Late Registration 32
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah part 1: 4th world war 31
Portishead - Third 30
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too 29
M.I.A. - Arular 28
Burial - Burial 27
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 26
Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah 25
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 24
David Last - The Push Pull 23
Santigold - Santigold 22
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness 21
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine 20
High Places - 03/07-09/07 19
Various Artists - Run the Road 18
Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet 17
Kanye West - Graduation 16

should have voted for saint dymphna, but i don't have it and haven't listened to it a million times like i have god's money

Same with me re: ggd

23 out of my 40 made the top 100. Where they placed if in the top 250. --- are +250.

in order:

23 of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
08 Radiohead - In Rainbows
45 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
03 The Knife - Silent Shout
87 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
14 Studio - West Coast
41 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
27 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
120 Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
86 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
--- Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
04 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
24 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
54 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
12 The xx – xx
17 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
112 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
209 The National – Boxer
--- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
221 Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
68 Liars - Drum's Not Dead
10 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
99 Spoon - Gimme Fiction
33 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
187 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
16 Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
--- Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
109 Broken Social Scene - S/T
64 robyn – robyn
02 Portishead – Third
06 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
32 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
--- Delays - You See Colours
--- My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
--- The Cure - 4:13 Dream
--- Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
--- Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
--- Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
--- wilco - sky blue sky
--- fiery furnaces - bitter tea

jjjustin - I felt so bad dropping Gay Witch Abortion from my ballot. Literally the final cut. I wanted to make sure there was at least one vote for an Ufomammut record, and then the bastards (just joshing) skipped that one anyways.

1. Espers - II
2. Burial - Untrue
3. Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
4. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
5. Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
6. Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
7. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
8. Hot Chip - The Warning
9. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
10. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
11. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
12. Portishead - Third

Unranked:

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (#111)
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Boris - Pink (#158)
Burial - Untrue
Caribou - Andorra
Daft Punk - Human After All (#565) (Only one other person voted for this??)
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (#122)
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (#127)
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Gang Gang Dance - St. Dymphna
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (#712) (Cannot believe I was the only one to vote for this killer album.)
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (#159) (Shame on you ILM, in a perfect world this would place in your top ten of the decade.)
J Dilla - Donuts
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
The Knife - Silent Shout
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
LCD Soundsystem - s/t
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Low - Drums and Guns
M83 - Saturdays = Youth (#156)
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
Oneida - Rated O (#121)
Portishead - Third
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (#138)
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (#153) (One of the best R&B/pop albums of the last 5 years. I mean, I like Electrik Red fine, but this really should've taken its place in the #11 slot.)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (#112)
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Kanye West - Late Registration
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
The xx - xx
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (#166) (This should take In Rainbows' place in the top ten, clearly.)

Sleeve, emil.y, you guys' ballots are fantastic. Lots of other great ones as well. I think when I'm voting in these big ILM polls my ballots tend to skew toward pop, but I'm down with about 90% of the stuff on sleeve's ballot, and lots of others.

I should've voted for Stars of the Lid. I guess I thought I hadn't listened to it enough, but it definitely has more of an impact than, like, Zomby (not Zombi).

Daft Punk - Human After All (#565) (Only one other person voted for this??)

How is that surprising? Most of ILM hated it.

I bet Alive 2007 stole a couple potential Human After All votes as well.

I would change so much about my ballot. Ah well.

Well I've said this before, but it's secretly their best album -- fucking steamrolls Homework flat as a pancake and it's so different from Discovery (which I also love) as to be incomparable... may as well be a different artist. But I think Human After All represents what is really special about Daft Punk. I like Discovery but it's more so the odd album out in their discography. A really fun album, but without the lushly dominant spirit that is Human After All.

(xp to Dan)

My biggest regret, actually, is not nominating Mika's "Life in Cartoon Motion."

I mean, how you Daft Punk fans are not immediately sold from the first few seconds of this track, when the drumbeat starts, then the distorted squelchy synth hits against that drumbeat, then the guitar comes in, then the vocoder'd vocals coming in... "we are human after all"... sounding more robotic than anything on Discovery, their truly "human" album... great, great tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e94y4EjWGs

Waaay xpost: Gaslight Anthem on this one too. Surprised to see Joy Formidable on a couple other ballots. One or two more votes might have made it crack top 100.

1 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2 Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
3 Field Music - Field Music
4 The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
5 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
6 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
7 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
8 Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
9 Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
10 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
12 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13 Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
14 Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
15 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
16 NOMO - New Tones
17 Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery
18 The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
19 The xx - xx
20 Field Music - Tones of Town
21 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
22 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
23 Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
24 gentleman jesse and his men - s/t
25 Matthew Dear - Asa Breed

j0rdan did not vote for gaslight O_O wtf

BTW I like the 1st 3 bright eyes albums

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:57 PM (Yesterday)

O_____O

and you prefer what came after, so what?

yeah who is the winner here

America, Kev; America is the winner

Conor Oberst is the winner because he can count Herman G. Neuname as a fan!

I have never heard his solo album. Even when you offered to give me the cd for free.

Here's my unranked ballot:

Alex Moulton – Exodus
Baroness - Blue Record
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Bronnt Industries Kapital - Hard for Justice
Burial – Untrue
clipse - hell hath no fury
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Deerhunter – Microcastle
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - The Days Of Mars
Diskjokke - Staying In
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Glimmers - DJ Kicks
Hatchback - Colors of the Sun
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Kool DJ Dust - The Disco Opera
kylesa - static tensions
LCD Sounsystem - Sound of Silver
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
lindstrøm & prins thomas – II
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
MF Doom - Born Like This
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Om – Pilgrimage
Optimo – Walkabout
Optimo Present Psyche Out
Portishead – Third
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos
steinski - what does it all mean: 1983 – 2006
Studio - West Coast
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
the Field - From Here We Go Sublime
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
The Knife - Silent Shout 
Zomby - Where were you in '92

Have the full lists been released yet, and if so where's the thread? Thx!

Ranked (from #1 (40 pts) to #40 (1 pt)

Only about nine of these albums made the final list ...

1. Sigur Ros - Takk...
2. Eluvium - Copia
3. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
4. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
5. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
6. No Age - Nouns
7. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
8. Low - The Great Destroyer
9. Animal Collective - Feels
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

11. Moderat - Moderat
12. Rhythm and Sound - See Mi Yah
13. Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor
14. Burial - Untrue
15. Portishead - Third
16. Ladytron - Velocifero
17. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
18. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
19. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
20. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

21. torche - meanderthal
22. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
23. Jesu - Jesu
24. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
25. Nelly Furtado - Loose
26. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
27. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
28. Sunn o))) - Black One
29. Fennesz - Black Sea
30. Shed - Shedding the Past

31. sunn O))) & boris - altar
32. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
33. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
34. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
35. Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History In Rust
36. Ellen Allien - Thrills
37. Murcof - Cosmos
38. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
39. converge - no heroes
40. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak