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

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

have just done a brutal first pass on the albums list, and having not clicked on any of these threads previously, I would like to insist before I go further that: tracks ballots should be expanded to 100 or 200, mixes / compilations should be a top ten in addition to albums, and there should be an EPs poll. thank you.

tracks ballot particularly brutal I agree, but at least it is equally brutal on us all

from an even more aggressive first swing through the tracks I am starting with a shortlist of 140, but Dollar Sign by Sticky feat. Stush is not nominated, so I'm afraid ILM as a whole must be deleted and replaced

just became the first person ever to listen to the official youtube upload of Making Love In The Sunshine

Did "Seven Nation Army" really not get nominated? Lol.

I'm talking to myself at night because I forgot

EMERGENCY

NOBODY NOMINATED PURPLE RIBBON ALL STARS "KRYPTONITE (I'M ON IT)"

ABORT POLL

Glenn Jones - Linden Avenue Stomp is included in the tracks playlist on Spotify but I don't see it on the Google list?

It's under Jack Rose

people complaining about albums or tracks not nominated are pathetic. why didn't they nominate those items themselves in the first place?

i don't think ppl are complaining at anyone but themselves, more marvelling at the ever-unfolding absurdity that is trying to come up with these lists