ILM Top 100 Records - Results - No. 75-51

what's next???? yes' roundabout?????

and how the hell did sleater-kinney place so high?

I voted for 3 Miles albums. And not even all of the ones that have made it in so far, ha.

I hope you're happy about your Turbonegro single, Otis. And number 69, even. I suspect the band would be pleased.

Besides, Loaded? Uh.

i'll eat my shorts twice if the godamn stone roses are further up this list

I got 10 of these records which makes it an overall 25 at the moment :) This looks like the indie-stretch, with the token reggae album thrown in. But nothing really irritating has shown up yet.

Number 31, I reckon.

Josh is right. You guys are total cockfarmers.

This is exactly why I hate lists, so it's good to see that confirmed.

I told you the whole thing would end in tears!

You were right, Nick. As I think I said at the time.

Here goes:

Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

What is it with the interest in this band? Hearing them almost sends me into a take-no-prisoners 'guitar music is dead' rant of the worst kind. Can someone explain the joys of this record to me? I was going to say that maybe you need to hear them play live but then I remembered I already had (at Camber Sands) and anyway, we're supposed to be talking about records.

Anyway, to get on with a bit of discussion. I noticed that voting no- tactically paid off. While making up my list I was toying with changing some votes with the idea that there was a greater chance of people voting for Horses instead of Radio Ethiopia, Tago Mago instead of Future Days. I'm glad I just voted for what I wanted in there (and that somebody else remembers A Guy Called Gerald ;)

Still there's going to be hell if What's Bloody Going On is in the top 50.

Fred - did votes for the individual albums get combined? Or might they theoretically pop up on their own higher up (a la 'Debaser'/'Doolittle' maybe) thus thrusting the supremacy of 'the record as artifact' in the faces of the 'it's all about the music, man' brigade.

Anyway, I like my 'Surf's Up' neat and clean, as there's only been a couple of tracks of 'Sunflower' I've heard that are great. And Surf's Up has 'Student Demonstration Time' on it, which really rocks.

Sleater-Kinney... I love Call The Doctor, used to listen to it compulsively, think Dig Me Out is okay, but I'm not gonna beat on the heads of folks who feel otherwise. But boy does "Good Things" speak to me.

Actually I have trouble preferring any of the last 3 SK albums over one another (though I am certain I prefer them to Call the Doctor, which I still find worthwhile). But I voted for Dig Me Out over the others because I knew Sterling would vote for some SK, and asked what he would vote for in order to make sure my vote would count for the list.

Most of the album is some of the most electrifying, gripping music I know. Perhaps that's not very convincing - people say that sort of thing about all kinds of music - but I find plenty of music electrifying, exciting, gripping, etc., and I've not yet found any to compare to SK at their most electrifying. I think the wail clinches it.

WHAAT?? I never voted at all. The prospect of someone pretending to be me is so unlikely that I can only assume this is further evidence of your all-round incompetence. As a matter of interest, just when did you first become the Freaky Trigger whipping boy, Fred?

My point about Pixies (was the lack of definite article a band decision, a piece of Vaughan Oliver poncery or was Fred Solinger somehow involved?) was to question the difference between a single and the album it appears on being treated as separate entities versus two albums being collected together on a two-fer reissue. Is it about a single's B-sides, its artwork or just a sentimental attachment to a single's seven inches of manic pop thrill? Sorry, I'm wittering. My question remains - if someone had voted for 'Surf's Up' on it's own would it have been treated as a vote for a separate record to the two-fer?

as far as two-fers are concerned, if one voted for surf's up, it's a vote for surf's up: they obviously didn't want to be subjected to sunflower and so their vote shan't suggest that they would. if you voted for the two-fer, as i did, it meant that you enjoyed both albums, if not equally then pretty close to it.

Mark: we started at 1. Which was License To Ill by the Beastie Boys, I think, which we'd been doing imitations of all evening, to prove it. Then #2 was "The Boys Of Summer" by Don Henley.