Get Naked (I Got A POLL): ILM's Top 100 ALBUMS Of The 00's

We've all barely got our breath back from the tracks, but we go again!

As usual, here's a Spotify playlist.

I could let things stew until tomorrow...or I could post a few tonight. What do we think?

Fire away.

You know I love an early start to poll

Let's get 5-10 people here and I'll make a start

hi!

I'm sure we've already got 5-10 lurkers among us.

o/

Let's do this

TOO HIGH

Lurking eagerly

we're all NV's socks saying do it

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100. Panda Bear - Person Pitch - 556 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs

I don't think I've ever heard this, I still like early AnCo though.

Lovely graphics btw TT

NV otm.

TOO HIGH

Person Pitchfork, eh? Terrible start.

yeah tt your work has been consistenly fab on these things

Early AnCo is indeed good, though.

And I third the tt praise!

Midtown 120 for number 1 or fuck all of youse btw

Thanks guys! I wish I could have made the images less compressed so you can actually see them. Next decade I'll just put them on Snapchat.

Nothing else?

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99. Kanye West - The College Dropout - 558 points - 9 votes - 1 FPV

Cant comment on something I haven't heard I'm afraid.

xp

Probably too low

Looks like he made it this time around. I've never understood the fuss, his flow was always wack.

I should probably listen to the whole thing again one of these days (not today).

TOO LOW

btw excellent thread title, imago

I'm listening to Panda Bear and it sounds sort of like a busy railway station. It's not as bad as I was expecting based on an aversion to Animal Collective, but the lovely, hazy reverb is not enough to make me overlook there being few changes in melody.

pomenitul otm about Kanye

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98. Basement Jaxx - Rooty - 558 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs

Glad this is out the way. This period of dance music turned me right off for a few years

Cool singles and all but I don't think it qualifies for a top 100 sub specie aeternitatis.

clearly ten people disagree enough

idk what sort of music basement jaxx even is after hearing several of their songs

I expected this to be top 10 tbh They were hugely popular here back in the day

To their credit it's all kinds of music, danceable being the lynchpin.

Wow at Kanye only just scraping into the top 100, his rep has really dropped off.

There's a few more Kanye albums to come, right?

Maybe, maybe not. How was 808 received on ILM?

I can’t say, but College Dropout won the EOY poll for 2004.

Streets were #2 that year and I don’t expect them to place.

808 rules but dropout was the only kanye i voted for

Yeah, I can't imagine many ILMers still listen to the stuff.

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Wild results so far! These could've passed for the top 3 prob in 2010

At least Mike Skinner taught me the British meaning of 'geezer' as early as 2002.

Huh, I must have listened to Rooty more than I remember, because some of these tracks are instantly familiar. 'Jus 1 Kiss' and 'Get Me Off' are great, and I voted for 'Where's Your Head At' in the tracks poll.

I voted for Person Pitch. That and Feels are fading for me but still like them very much.

Love the images, again.

re: Person Pitch, Mark Richardson has a nice image in his Pitchfork review about spinning samples in "wheels of sound that seem like they could go forever".

didn't vote for it, but I like Person Pitch a lot too. surprised to see it just barely make it onto this list

lol the wrens album has been my favourite record long before i even knew what ILM was. I think all the discussion of it in the voting thread got more people to throw it votes than it usually would've gotten

but yeah, it did really well in that emo poll and the 2003 Acclaimed Music albums poll that Bee OK ran a few years ago

and it's just aged magnificently in general. it feels timeless in the way that something like Chutes Too Narrow doesn't

I think Chutes Too Narrow is fantastic and has aged very well

(also The Meadowlands)

Not a revelation but have been thinking about the difference between "music of the 00s" and "music I listened to in the 00s". It's the first decade where I was consuming music, as it came out, all the way through - all but 3-4 of the albums I voted for, I heard at the time. But what were the 00s for me? Lots of reissues (Shuggie Otis, Arthur Russell, Analog Africa), stuff on blogs, a deep dive into soul and disco and the beginning of my Christmas music obsession. Very little of which ties into the "new" music I voted for.

I bought the wrens album around the time it was released and enjoyed it I guess but if I would have made a top 10 in 2003 I doubt it would have made it. But over the years I kept coming back to this album, listening to it every once in a while. This album had a surprising amount of depth. It was only while making my ballot that I realized that this is one of the best albums of the 00s.

imago THE MIDNIGHT ORGAN FIGHT is Lido for people who didn't go to public school, Vital and Important at hazy non-specific hours of this
morn

We've done albums/tracks for the 00s, 80s, 70s (albums twice for the 70s, once and again with all the albums that placed the first time being ineligible for the second time) and tracks for the 50s. Did we attempt the 90s? Dare we attempt the 60s?

90s has been done:

THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS
Ladies and gentlemen....the 1990s ILX SINGLES POLL RESULTS

and there was a second 90s poll run by imago with the original placing albums excluded and unusual ballot rules that lead to uh interesting results (the top 2 were a shiina ringo album and the space jam soundtrack, both with a single vote)

FREEFORM 1990's ALTERNATIVE ALBUM POLL - THE RECKONING (TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW)

I'm pretty sure the 1960s have been done too? I seem to remember voting in such a poll?

oh yeah here are those

Better late than never. ILX 60'S POLL PART TWO - THE ALBUMS
ILX 60'S POLL PART ONE - THE SONGS

It would be great to poll the 10-19 decade immediately as it closes, then again in 2029. Not having polled 00-09 in January 2010 was a missed opportunity.

Thanks voodoo chili, did you notice that another favourite of yours nearly placed at #2 in the rollout?

― tangenttangent, Saturday, 26 October 2019 13:26 (yesterday) link

Haha yes, my old fav broken bears.

That album cover is brilliant, makes me want to start an 00s tribute band with that name

the 10s poll would be ideal june-ish next year which would be just enough time after the usual year end polls

Broadcast are my number one discovery from this, so thanks to everyone who voted for them. I'd heard Third years ago but forgot how good it was so I guess that's a rediscovery for me. A solid choice for number one I'd say (and better than bloody Radiohead)

I think another 90s poll with regular rules would be interesting, didn't realize it was 15 years since the first time. Partially because I can't even remember if I voted the first time. But yeah, 10s poll first

1920s / 1930s / 1940s ? Tracks not albums of course

The ILX List of Lists most of the polls are here, all the other decade polls are pretty old now. the most recent are the second 70s and 90s albums polls (2010) and the 80s albums poll (2009)

stirmonster and i were supposed to be doing the equivalent of the 70s/80s rock polls for the 60s and were going to finish with the 90s version but we never got to it as he was too busy

(no, seriously, I obviously mean the seven who had their breakthroughs in the nineties...)

Avalanches released more good records in the ‘90s than the ‘00s tbh

Not having polled 00-09 in January 2010 was a missed opportunity.

Those old polls are so primitive. 60s albums only had 265 nominees.

We are slaves to the Gregorian calendar. A 1955-1964 poll always made more sense to me than a 60s poll.

I like that idea.

I found my vote for the first 80s poll deep in my gmail (which I probably had just signed up for). I don't remember how the nominations process went but I suspect there was a lot missing, given many of my long-time favorites are absent from my ballot and I voted for a few albums I still haven't heard but like one or two singles on

Still waiting on Tuomas to run the Jazz tracks poll he promised to do when I ran the post war jazz albums poll.

If he definitely doesn't want to do it I might be up for it in spring or summer if there's still interest in it

Tuomas should do it though

55-64 would be cool. What would the splits after that be to end up in 1999?

55-64 was an amazing era for jazz albums

Still waiting on Tuomas to run the Jazz tracks poll he promised to do when I ran the post war jazz albums poll.

I'd forgotten all about this, but sure, I can run such a poll, if there would be enough interest in it?

will it be an all-time tracks poll or just pre-war?

Kerr do you have a link to the jazz albums poll list?

Here we go Winston

JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

Thanks

will it be an all-time tracks poll or just pre-war?

All-time, I think... I don't think there's enough pre-war jazz enthusiasts here to run a poll just for them.

yeah, that's what I thought

We could address every concern raised in this discussion by beginning a thread for French Canadian country music, which I will happily bookmark.

Started with this post: Nous voilà enfin débarrassés de tous ces amateurs

I don't think I'd heard of The Wrens till now, let alone the album, and I was the corniest indie fuxx in 2003

the impression i've gotten is that it got a very good score from p4k at the time, which has kinda helped people discover it more long-term, but it was just before a good p4k review could really break a band on the sort of level that happened with say, arcade fire a year later

I think its stock also went up because after that album, all those who loved it started longing for more... Which still hasn't come, despite numerous announcements. Anticipation of a next album has mythologized The Meadowlands even more I think.

The new Loveless

In a way, yes.

it's a weirdly singular record, despite being fairly straight-forward indie rock in sound there's nothing else that feels much like it

Someone recommended it to me in the '00s, but it made no lasting impression, musically. Fairly or not it mostly lingered in my mind as That Amerindie Thing With The Uninspiring Typeface. (Though I now see that the sleeve design is more interesting beyond the front cover.)

The Wrens enjoyed a small, but hardcore, cult following in the 90s. Among it were a lot of people who ended up writing reviews at notable music outfits like Pitchfork. Because it had been so long since their last album, The Meadowlands became kind of like the Chinese Democracy of indie rock. Once it dropped, these folks did a lot to give it a big platform.

Damn, I totally missed until now that these polls took place at all! But for that, Barbara Morgenstern's Nichts Muss would have been nommed, gained a high vote and um I guess gone nowhere further.

If you would have been the only vote, it might have landed on this poll!

Top-3 might have been pushing it, but thanks for the link, fun idea!