NOUGHT BUT THE TRUTH: 2000-2009 albums & tracks VOTING (and campaigning) thread DEADLINE OCTOBER 11

track campaign: Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects In Space mix)

probably the greatest thing i've ever heard

I sort of assumed everyone had heard that already? but yes extremely good

i mean me too but i can’t assume anything on ilm

Don't Let The Stars is one of the songs that I wasn't aware of until it place in the 2005-09 poll. It's gorgeous.

this is gonna be tough, i just hit 50 and i'm only at F alphabetically

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (Jan 2010 release)
Oni Ayhun - OAR004-A
Robyn - Dancing On My Own

― nashwan, Monday, September 23, 2019 5:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

all zapped

One Life Stand was released digitally in November 2009, so please unzap it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Life_Stand_(song)

unzapped!

Thanks!

if nashwan turns up with evidence that november 2009 was actually in this decade though, we've got problems

i got a bit more selective but still ended up with 127 albums on my first pass

shortlist of 200 nearly ..

campaigning wise I hope people dont forget the albums by Isis and Agalloch on the noms list.

Also Yob - Catharsis which is the best album they made in the OG incarnation if not the best in both.

Zombi - Spirit Animal
And Emeralds - What Happened?
for the non metal synth fans on ILM

making sure everybody plans to vote for the meadowlands.

that is all.

Creeping up my album ballot: múm - Finally We Are No One.

i plan to vote for the meadowlands

that's in my 200
xp

i think it probably won't need the help but everyone please remember to vote for the magnolia electric co, the best album of the 2000s

i plan to vote for the meadowlands

― ciderpress, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not to rain on anybody's parade but this:

Kaija Saariaho / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen / Kronos Quartet ‎– Du cristal …à la fumée / Sept papillons / Nymphéa

…is a reissue of a 1993 album with Sept papillons tacked on.

ZAPPED

And didn't Sigur Rós's Ágætis byrjun come out in JUNE 1999?

that one's a bit controversial

it was released in iceland in 1999, don't think it had a global release until 2000/2001

that's a totally acceptable year of impact thing imo

i'm not zapping jon and his yelping

pitchfork, rolling stone, et al have already run 00s lists with it in there i think it's grandfathered in now

Yeah we discussed Agaetis Byrjun earlier, din't get a release outside of Iceland until mid 2000.

This is hard. My longlist was about 200 albums. Cutting it down to 100 was not a big problem, but the hurting has def started.

I've got about 100 too at this point and am afraid to go any further.

voted. had the albums list already like 99% thought out. winged the tracks voting but I feel strongly about it. lots of nostalgia when putting these together. thanks a lot for setting this all up.

i plan to vote for the meadowlands

― ciderpress, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:04 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i plan to vote for the meadowlands

― ciderpress, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:04 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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Emeralds - What Happened?

well worth your time if you dig floaty space synth action with a bit of grit in the mix

I’ll put some information on some of the more niche stuff I’ll be voting for up in phases. A couple of tracks:

Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa- Maydow - Polish drone-folk. KZWW were early participants in Poland’s roots revival scene, taking near-forgotten trad melodies / styles at risk of disappearing in a country perceived as being indifferent to its cultural heritage and incorporating them into new songs. A lot of their stuff is fairly jaunty but Maydow has a strong folk-horror vibe that may appeal to fans of Espers or the Wicker Man idk.

Kasia Stankiewicz - Francuzeczka - I have vivid memories of going to Poland for the first time, getting to the hotel, switching on the TV and the video for this sprawling electro-pop marvel playing. I’ve been transfixed ever since.

The Konki Duet - Il Fait Tout Gris Released slightly before the Nouvelle Vague album but with a similar concept, it’s a French cello cover of Fade To Grey. There isn’t the same sense of ironic detachment you get with Olivier Libeaux’s project though, it’s played dead straight and works wonderfully.

Lady Saw - Five Star Hotel Probably a minor entry in her immense discography but the combination of Mario C’s bouncy Bomb-A-Drop riddim and Saw’s lyrics about precisely which hotels she’d let suitors take her to is enormous fun.

imago -- Brandy - "Full Moon" should be on the track list, not albums.

Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters is on the albums list but was released too early for the poll.

Brandy - Full Moon is on both lists - presumably the track is a title-track? It was nominated by Jeff W as an album too

Maryanne Amacher is about to be zapped

I voted. I was surprised that I got up to >50 albums and had to make cuts - most of my heavy album listening was in college (which excludes most of the 00s). But the last couple years I've been catching up on a lot of more recent albums. Tracks was TOUGH.

Ah ok! For some reason I didn't see it on the tracks (it is there) and assumed it fell into the wrong list.

imago, google docs is unfortunately blocked on my laptop so i have to send them over via my phone which loses all the 'special characters'
i'll try sort any ones out on my voting slips but apologies if i miss any

More tracks:

Raymond & Maria - Ingen Vill Veta Var Du Köpt Din Tröja - Raymond & Maria have cornered the market in sweet acoustic indie-pop songs about how capitalism can lead to a decent standard of living but is ultimately dehumanising (Jobs Where They Don’t Know Our Names, The Fish Are Swimming Slower Every Year, etc). Their best is Ingen Vill Veta Var Du Köpt Din Tröja, re-released a couple of years later in English as No-One Notices Your Brand-New T-Shirt. The chorus approximates to “no-one will be sad when you die / nobody will miss you / nobody even cares where you bought your shirt / even though you’ve done everything that you should / you’ve been polite and happy / and you’ve worked hard to lose that stupid accent”.

Calle 13 - Atrevete-te-te - One of the most popular reggaeton songs of the decade – poking fun at a girl who listens to “pop-rock Latino”, Green Day and Coldplay and is too snobby for Puerto Rican music. Good use of cumbia clarinets.

Delfin - Vesna - Maudlin Russian electro-pop is very much my jam and Delfin’s glittering Vesna with its single verse (forgive me / it’s spring where I’m going / can you find me?) repeated like an incantation is one of the most affecting things of the decade.

B-Jeans - Ei Saa - Estonian Italodisco packed with twinkling synths and rolled consonants. Estonian pop of the era was still a strange cottage industry where almost everything seemed to be written or produced by one guy – Sven Lohmus. I’m 99% sure this was one of his.

Capleton - Long Time - Almost everything on South Rakkas’ infectious Bionic Ras riddim is good but Capleton’s Long Time is a standout. He’s probably marginally better known for conscious reggae these days but excelled at being silly as well.

Sammi Cheng - 808 - Sammi is probably best known in the West for her acting (Blind Detective, Everlasting Regret, etc) but has sold tens of millions of albums at home. Most of her records are fairly boilerplate Cantopop ballads but 808 has a wonderfully woozy charm.

Not to rain on anybody's parade but this:

Kaija Saariaho / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen / Kronos Quartet ‎– Du cristal …à la fumée / Sept papillons / Nymphéa

…is a reissue of a 1993 album with Sept papillons tacked on.

I'm sure it is.

I quite like the Lurker of Chalice, LBI. It's less metal-oriented than I expected (in a good way), almost d&b/trip-hop-ish in parts, and much better than the couple of Leviathan albums I've heard.

damn, we managed not to nominate the hold steady's separation sunday? not my number one, but probably my number two

shit, well when i was nominating my bonus picks, i ctrl+f'd for it, and thought I saw it nominated, but it turns out it was posted in a "pitchfork top 200 albums of the 00s that haven't been nominated yet" post.

I'm glad you like it Pom! It's way better than Leviathan, I agree.

xp oh sorry for the confusion, i was a little afraid that might happen. it wasn't the p4k list though it was from the ilx one

ah word. bummer. i'll vote for a different hold steady album instead, unless we're accepting beyond-last-minute additions?

if nominations were prevented by mischance rather than negligence i suppose i can be lenient. check the nominations list later (or tomorrow) perhaps...

Are We Having Fun Yet? ILM's Top 100 Tracks Of The 00's

top tracks of the '70s?

Still holding out for 20s

This is news to me. I hope you all like low image resolution

― tangenttangent, Sunday, October 13, 2019 7:06 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Please tt don't hurt 'im!

Still holding out for 20s

Bill Griffith was born in 1944

Er, just clicked on the link now and saw that that article was written by an ilxor I respect and one of whose albums I voted for. Sorry about that:(. If it helps, I was feeling annoyed by the argument on here more than anything else.

Also can I be churlish and point out that 'The Magical World of the Strands' was relaased in 1998 and definitely doesn't count here?

coulda ruled out Dead Prez for being first released in early '99 too