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

Oh wait I see the Sufjan albums are all in there, still he’s very underrepresented in the tracks poll. I don’t think I even voted for him, not huge on the songs from Chicago which were the couple of noms. I think his best songs are in seven swans and michigan.

sent! hope i didn't fuck up!

There’s a terrible Coldplay album somewhere on the noms too.

viva la vida is the best coldplay album and i may vote for it

I would have voted for Parachutes had I nominated it or found it on the noms list.

you never meant to cause us trouble

I'd sort kidded myself that Martin became progressively duller, lyric-wise, but christ, I just looked at some of the Parachutes lyrics and that's a slough of despond right there.

In terms of errors, someone seems to have nominated U2

The error was nominating the wrong hated U2 album. I think How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb would make my top 50, maybe All That You Can't Leave Behind in the right mood, but even I can't get behind No Line on the Horizon

viva la vida is easily the best coldplay album but there's no chance it'll make my top 50

htdaab and nloth are both pretty dreadful, easily some of the worst u2 albums, but of the two nloth is at least kinda interesting in places and there's the general feeling of maybe it could have been something worthwhile if they hadn't gotten scared and changed paths halfway through recording

voted.

albums ballot turned out to be relatively painless in the end, but I chickened out and didn't do a weighted ballot for tracks - it was hard enough to compile, let alone rank.

It might be Coldplay’s best but I can’t think of a single reason I’d like to listen to it, let alone vote for it, over 500+ of the noms.

Of interest, I think:

15th anniversary edition of Complex Simplicity is out, with some added tracks. It’s on Spotify as well, from where the original album has been absent for a long time, at least where I live.
https://ratedrnb.com/2019/09/teedra-moses-releases-15th-anniversary-edition-of-complex-simplicity/

no lollipop on the tracks list?

PSA: If voting for DMX 'Party Up' please base it on the original recording / music video version rather than the distinctly inferior version that is on Spotify.

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

VOTED

btw having copied and pasted from the sheet the entry for Studio includes the qualifier still Studio - West Coast / Yearbook 1 -- these are more or less the same album

I voted.

I managed to get the albums into some kind of order. Tracks seemed hopeless, so I did a top 5 then had the rest unweighted. I did one album/track per artist (altho I goofed and included two Jay-Z tracks, oh well), and still I had to cut out some great artists entirely.

have to start seriously thinking about this

Voted! So relieved to get this done. I promised myself I wouldn't overthink it and get stressed out, but that very much did not happen.

My one shout out is for Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did when it quietly appeared in 2003 and many years on it has become one of my favourite heartbreak records of all time.

in some ways, it was a decade that started with !!! and ended with Zwan, especially when one takes an alphabetical perspective of album artists.

have to start seriously thinking about this

― Dan S

voted!

i'm having a hell of a time even getting my Tracks list under 100.

I've decided the first track and am pretty close on another one. If everything goes well and there are no complications with technology I'm aiming for 5

I forgot how great Akufen's "My Way" is. I actually removed it from my ballot before finding it on youtube for a re-listen. The sad thing is that I own this cd, too.

Voted earlier today, finally.

"finally"? I got nine days left!

albums list is easier for me than the tracks one

lol @ "gold digger" not being nominated

t/s

Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Fatima Yamaha ‎– What's A Girl To Do?

t/s

Fabolous – Breathe
Faith Hill – Breathe

this is real music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6JNE-bSCc

lol @ "gold digger" not being nominated

And yet "Legendary K.O. – George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People" is.

I hugely fucked up not nominating Ashlee Simpson "Pieces Of Me" or Jimmy Eat World "Work"

i forgot Duck :'(

Don’t know how I forgot to nominate Goldfrapp’s Ride a White Horse (Ewan Pearson disco odyssey).

I believe I nominated Strict Machine, if that helps!

Strict Machine is great but the Ewan Pearson remix is next level. I’ll definitely vote for his remix of Cortney Tidwell’s ‘Don’t Let The Stars Keep us Tangled Up’ which is in the same vein.

I forgot how great Akufen's "My Way" is. I actually removed it from my ballot before finding it on youtube for a re-listen. The sad thing is that I own this cd, too.

Just did exactly these same things! My CD is probably not more than 3 metres away. #TeamAkufen

so tempted to submit a ballot with 51 albums, I can't seem to make that last cut

well fuck me. was entering my ballot when i realized the album version of Radiohead's Everything In It's Right Place isn't in the nominations list – just some disco remix.

fwiw I was listening to the Spotify playlist and it's got the wrong version of Neko Case's Magpie to the Morning. That song appears on two different albums, Middle Cyclone (2009) and The Worse Things Get (2013).

i concentrated only on albums today and my first pass was 116 and i kept some off on purpose. i'm going to have to put in like five hours to do this whole thing correctly. don't know if i will have that kind of time and just do a mixed ballot. i already know the tracks list will be harder to do. so yeah, this is impossible.

and might...

amended, pgwp

Thanks imago

Spending time with all these tracks nominees. Boy does ILM love house music

I really wanted to listen at least a bit to everything on the tracks playlist, but I'm like a fifth of the way through and every time I hear a forgotten R&B hit from 2002, nostalgia overtakes it goes on my ballot and makes things much more complicated.

It seems to have disappeared from Spotify (besides an instrumental version), so here is a reminder of this wonderful Solange song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT-bIwGqW4

I gave Sandcastle Disco a lot of points. Still mystified as to why that wasn't a huge hit.

Not that I'm voting for it, but I'm assuming that whoever nominated Gorillaz - 19-2000 meant the remix version, because frankly

I know! It was on repeat in my house for like two years. Strange also how her sound now (still great) is such a departure from this. xp

The first Wilderness album is fucking immense. I hope I'm not the only one voting for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3RI-B6Tb4