The Guardian's Best 50 Albums of the 21st Century - The Official I Love Music Poll

i don't know what people are moaning about, it's a pretty eclectic list imo

there's really only one option isn't there

Wait - The Archandroid was their album of the year one year and they didn’t even nominate it?

they're clearly trolling for clicks

Why are we even doing this? Alexis Petridis has already explained why Back to Black is objectively the greatest album of the 21st century.

NV I applaud you

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1 is probably the best but none of it is from the 21st century so American Idiot because "Jesus of Suburbia"?

I'm surprised Julia Wolfe didn't make it.

she might be in the 51-100 stretch

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So, according to Guardian only chart-topping pop/rock/rap albums are good?

well it's a populist paper, they'll be pandering to their core readers

This isn't the real guardian top 50, it is a funny joke, think it is probably the bestseller list.

Ah, okay. Hahaha.

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So many epochal albums on this list, but in the end the choice is obvious. A crime they left off Lukas Graham - Lukas Graham, though.

i honestly thought Lukas Graham was a bloke

Awaiting the inevitable Alice Cooper scenario of the lead singer going solo and taking the name for himself.

damn what a century, up there with the best

Can’t believe I got Peter Walkered. This is why I normally stay out of ILM. I’ll leave the final word on this to the big man himself

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I voted for American Idiot. I can understand why it didn't come top, but it shouldn't have been five places below Back to Black as the gap in quality isn't that big. Similarly the Shakira album should have been closer to Breakaway by at least a couple of places, and shouldn't have been below the Blink 182 album at all, that album being in turn better than the Adele album but worse than Stripped by Xtina, a worthy contender sold short by the Guardian's notoriously byzantine list-generation processes

Great list though

My son loves that Shakira 2010 world cup tune, tbf it's pretty good!

Of course, a lot of dark arts go on with these things, and this being 2019 the list will doubtlessly have been cynically rejigged to drive clicks and keep PR men happy, cf three (!) Coldplay entries, a bit excessive even for me, and tokenistic nonsense like Usher (remember him?)

A well-connected media contact actually slipped me a bit of paper that was purportedly the original, objectively correct list earlier today, but there was some kind of mix up and it just had "fuck terfs" printed on it in 72pt comic sans

not a single album I like, well done

xp, I’m still on the G2 writers’ Slack and Dave Simpson is going spare about Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ placing. He says he voted for Jack Johnson twice (?). I won’t c&p as this isn’t on 77 but wow.

american idiot

this is such a shit list. the guardian has really become a shadow of it's former self

xp nah he's from leeds, isn't he?

Sincere apologies as I thought this thread actually was on 77 when I made my last post (a bit of common sense next time please noodle!!), and my first post was in fact intended to be posted directly as a comment under the Guardian article in question, where the corrections would have been of more benefit

Regrettably I had once again become disorientated by my many hernias

Voting for the Backstreet Boys, such a bold move for them to cover the Stones' greatest album in full.

ILM is a different country

only one of these records is literally all Number One Hits

Dave S is a pro and will of course bounce back from this,and despite all else will have allowed himself a wry chuckle at Gaz Coombes sneaking on there from waaaaay outta leftfield. A couple of People in the Know, formerly of this parish, just advised me there were a few wags involved who were *this close* to sneaking Fischerspooner in there, before those upstairs of course caught wind of the fledgling operation and smashed it like one would smash a crab with a hammer

i was kinda shocked by the number of voters for Invincible in the end, especially the (much-loved political commentator) guy who finished his blurb by claiming that the recent Jackson documentary was a QAnon false flag

who funds you NV

This list is fucking horrible. I'm voting the Beatles - 1 in protest, as a collection of the Beatles' #1 hits is better than everything else on this list by not just a mile but a fucking planet's distance, and despite the fact that it's clearly out of place as none of the music was recorded or altered outside of maybe mastering from their 60's origins.

I mean Coldplay is on this list THREE TIMES. wtf people

I gave them all three of my votes

I feel like the Coldplay albums offer a genteel English counterbalance to the sheer weight of Eminem albums on the list. FFS Guardian journos stop obsessing over him!

WHERE ARE TOOL!??!

Look, Taylor Swift made the list, say no more.

Easy vote for Jack Johnson. It's the kind of album that gives you faith in the future of music. It is not rock and roll, but it’s nothing stereotyped as jazz either. All at once, it owes almost as much to the techniques developed by rock improvisors in the last four years as to John'son's jazz background. It is part of a transcendental new music which flushes categories away and, while using musical devices from all styles and cultures, is defined mainly by its deep emotion and unaffected originality.

BLACK MUSIC SUCKS!!>!?**

Dave S is a pro and will of course bounce back

I hope so but I haven’t seen him so steamed since Caspar made him cover Alexandra Stan for New Band Of The Day (“if this is how far we have fallen they can shove their £20 a column”, etc).

Maybe if it was Folklore or Whoa, Nelly!...

gotta vote for 50

g-g-g-g-g-G-u-NIT!!

for real that's the best album

genuinely did not know that gaz coombes album was called matador until now

this has such chaotic energy, I love it -- I voted for Back to Black

I understand Nickelback on the list more than I understand U2 on the list.

Gaz Coombes

There is only 1 album on this list that can't be beat.

Yeah but what will finish 2nd to Gaz I wonder

Naming no names but it all got very personal and unnecessary on the G2 Slack last night (“if Sheffield Hallam let me start selling my plasma again I’ll never have to speak to any of you fuckers for the rest of my days”, etc).

Say what you like about ILX but if we don’t agree which order the best albums should go in, we generally keep it civil.

hahaha whaaaat? you hate to see it!

confessions, either one

Might ask a mod to move this to 77, last thing we need is more beef with the G2 massive

gotta vote for 50

g-g-g-g-g-G-u-NIT!!

for real that's the best album

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If those were the best 50 albums of the 21st century I wouldn't like music. At all.

i feel for you babe

G-g-g-g-gaz INNIT

that ^^^

I listened to all of In It For The Money today and it's genuinely good

i feel for you babe

Did you intentionally leave out Gay Dad? Not cool.

Will have to be voting Gaz.

I started at the bottom with 1989 and clicked it and then slowly scrolled up waiting to find something better and never did.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

last chance to vote for the real best albums of the noughties, folks

That Dido went from Queen of Carthage to Queen of the Charts was a real landmark of feminsim and an inspiration to us all. Well, the birds and that. Well done Dido - she gets my vote.

a real g goes a to z (gaz)

It's such an odd list. You'd think The Guardian would have stuffed it full of people who are fashionable right now, or were fashionable until recently, or who get good press - Robyn, Billie Eilish, Sam Smith, Tegan And Sara, etc.

Or is this an arch Ilxor joke? It's an arch Ilxor joke, isn't it. The Guardian's list has a hundred entries. It's still pretty crap but it's not as bad as this. The Guardian's list describes Lily Allen as "the voice of a generation", those exact words. Or is this from the print edition of the paper? There's no Grouper, no Benoît Pioulard. Is it satire? It's satire.

Of all the albums in that list the only one I own is A Day Without Rain, which I have so far never listened to. I've copied the contents of the compact disc into iTunes, but I've never listened to it. I like to imagine that Enya exists outside of lists like this because she's inoffensive and barely ever promotes herself. She is without sin. Not like the others.

After skimming through The Guardian's actual list of a hundred albums there are two dozen good ones. The best is Untrue by Burial. It exists on a higher level than the other records.

this has to be a troll poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILM understands

Ok I guess I need to listen to Gaz Coombes.

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before. Is this a joke I’m not aware of?

it's a joke

get familiar!!!

GAZ familiGAZ

(nb: i may not have heard any music by this guy but his name is gaz coombes)

Good turn-out and of course a pleasure to see Gaz vindicated as 150 percent better than the Beatles.

Xpost: Oh thank god, I felt like I was going crazy, listened to the first trio of songs and they were very unremarkable

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before.

this is a challenging question though

Guess there are still people on ILM who don't really *love* music

These results are chefliss.jpg, ty NV for your invaluable service <3

chefkiss even

I voted Jack Johnson this is bullshit

i forgot to vote for dido why didnt she win

I hope somebody writes an article about ILM and uses this as an example of the current consensus and Gaz suddenly gets all kinds of critical plaudits and gets p4k album of the century

American Idiot too low