Best ILX end-of-year albums poll winner (2002-09)

lcd

Portishead, easy.

portishead, kanye, then LCD, all of which are incredible

Arular > Kish Kash (both of which would be my #1 for that year) > The College Dropout > Sound of Silver > Third > Silent Shout >>>>>>>>>>>>> Fever Ray > Original Pirate Material

sound of silver

Portishead. though I still got love for The Streets.

davidM is just.....nothing.

streets or fever ray by a mile

m.i.a. (though I have never actually voted in the poll myself.)

lcd, ye & b jaxx are the only ones i like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFF842sxMFI

Not a big fan of any of these. LCD maybe. Or Portishead.

Arular

All great albums but LCD gets my vote.

Kish Kash is easily my favorite Basement Jaxx album but 2003 had some other classics I'd rate a bit higher, Ted Leo, Goldfrapp, The Fall and The Hidden Cameras. That was actually a really great year for albums.

Silent Shout>Kish Kash>Fever Ray, don't really care about the rest

Silent Shout>Kish Kash>Fever Ray, don't really care about the rest

This is more my style. Will probably end up voting Silent Shout, but we'll see...

wonder if a guitar album will ever win an ilm eoy poll

Is there a similar poll for tracks yet?

Britney won the greatest song of all time in an early ILM poll, David.

lcd
arular
fever ray
third
college
kish kash
opm (the only one i really have no desire to hear again)

portishead
kanye
the knife

after that don't really care

also best thing in this thread is probably that descendents song

xpost woops, put silent shout between college and kish

xxxxpost But was it like this one? How long ago?

What's going to be interesting is to see if one one of these albums is the winner of the ilx decade poll (if there is one).

yeah that would be soooooooooooooo interesting

kanye by a longshot, then the knife, lcd, third, fever ray, m.i.a., (i've never heard basement jaxx or the streets)

i dont partic care abt any of these albms

plax is waaay too cool for his shoes

the xx ruined his ears :)

LCD

kanye

fever ray>the knife>>>portishead>>opm>lcd>m.i.a.>>kanye>>>>>jaxx

lcd>kanye>>>jaxx>>>mia>knife>>>>fever ray

never really listened 2 portishead/streets tbh

Oddly enough these are all albums which I heard non stop when they came out. I remember thinking they were absolutely brilliant at first but by the end of their respective year I didn't care much about them anymore. I hope the infatuation comes back when I listen to them once again in a few years.

top tier - thought were amazing then, still think are amazing now - kish kash, college dropout, silent shout, fever ray
second tier - not so amazing but pretty good - arular, third
third tier - thought was good then, can't listen to now - original pirate material
tierless - boring then boring now - sound of silver

idk which i'll vote for out of the first four :/

Loved Arular in 2005 and still listen to it all the time. Sound of Silver isn't even the best LCD Soundsystem album if you count the second disc of the self-titled. The Knife is classic, Kish Kash is meh, don't really listen to the others.

my order would be:

Silent Shout
Sound of Silver (would win if it had a different closing song)
Third
Arular
Fever Ray
The College Dropout

never heard Kish Kash

forgot Original Pirate Material but didn't care for it so.

put opm on a while back and surprise, i still like it a lot. same with kish kash.

it's btw arular/silentshout/collegedropout though.

OPM > Kish Kash = Silent Shout > College Dropout > Arular = Sound of Silver = Third = Fever Ray.

These are all good to great.

Silent Shout = Fever Ray > Kish Kash > Arular >>> Sound of Silver >> Third = OPM >> College Dropout

People getting tired of OPM seems like a bit of a trend. For instance, compare its placing in the 00-04 polls to the full decade ones. I'd have put in my top five of the decade when I first heard it, but like others I have no desire to listen to it now.

Rashly voted LCD but rlly, the truth is Basement Jaxx or The Knife/Fever Ray > M.I.A or Kanye or LCD

Never really got into OPM even when it was being praised left, right and centre.

Have yet to listen to Portishead Third.

Between the Jaxx and The Knife, its too difficult to pick one: one is a perfect summer, fun album and the other great for darker seasons.

Jaxx Knife

m.i.a. by a considerable distance. then kanye, portishead, jaxx, lcd, the streets. nothing i've ever heard by the knife or fever ray has made me want to listen to the full albums.

(tho i'll grant that the knife/fever ray make excellent music videos)

My interest in/appreciation of these acts drops off pretty sharply after Portishead and Knife-related activities cease. I've already voiced my stance on LCD Soundsystem and won't do so again. Voting Portishead.

opm easily

I pretty much like all of these. Silent Shout by a lot though.

People getting tired of OPM seems like a bit of a trend.

I think a lot of this has to do with Mike Skinner releasing increasingly less listenable albums over the years. Personally I'd argue that A Grand Don't Come for Free is his best work, but for most people I'm pretty sure it goes Pirate > Grand >>> Easy Living >>>>>>> whatever the name of that fourth album was.

kind of surprised Kanye didn't get more votes from mainstream hip hop/R&B types like me who only heard that album out of these, thought maybe the demographic similarity of most of the others would split the vote more

lol. i totally voted for Sound of Silver.

I think Sound of Silver appeals to a lot of people (including myself) for finding a way to make 60s/70s style canonical album rock work with music that sounded by and large totally 00s. It's probably my second favourite thing here, maybe vying with Arular.

I voted for Kish Kash, by the way. I can't think of many albums of the last decade, and certainly none on this list, that match the sheer giddy rush of excitement of hearing that record for the first time.

relistened to Kish Kash after I voted and it holds up really well. I loved it at the time and I now think I was underrating just how good it is. Anyway, Sound of Silver was a more defining album for me personally, so I don't regret my vote.

I don't begrudge Sound of Silver winning, just by such a wide margin (though I guess if you combined The Knife and Fever Ray into one vote that'd run pretty close). These are all great albums covering quite a broad spectrum of sounds (though no R&B - would Wonderland be the potential 2000 selection I wonder??) and it strikes me as unfortunate that the one option that can be described as indie-rock without any quibbles won so soundly.

haha yeah Kelis woulda beat Kid A, that coulda happened

calling lcd soundsystem 'indie-rock without any quibbles' is just using 'indie-rock' as a empty pejorative.

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voodo would have a better chance if anything

Goddammit, indie-rock is so much more than a empty pejorative

aaliyah's s/t would have a better chance of winning in 01 than anything in 00 prob

would've went for Portishead or the Knife if i had voted

there's no year in the history of ilx that an R&B album had a snowball's chance in hell of winning the albums poll before Love Vs. Money

Yeah but that's because R&B is objectively oh hang on

a snoball's chance

a very snoball christmas

Oh yeah forgot about Kid A.

calling lcd soundsystem 'indie-rock without any quibbles' is just using 'indie-rock' as a empty pejorative.

No, it's using it as a category. There's nothing wrong with indie-rock or the fact that Sound of Silver is indie-rock (IMO, others may disagree), but I think it's pretty obvious that that's why it's won by such a large distance (Matt's spot-on defence even goes towards this).

Oh hang on why am I even bothering engaging with noted scholar iatee.

haha yeah don't waste time on me you could be churning out another 30 paragraphs on taylor swift

Exactly!

would Wonderland be the potential 2000 selection I wonder??

Wanderland was 2001, wasn't released stateside in an era before everyone had jumped on the mp3 bandwagon that made such distinctions meaningless, and has never enjoyed even the limited consensus that have built around Kaleidoscope or Tasty. I've barely seen it mentioned on ILM. So in short, whatchu talkin' bout Willis?

Also, isn't decrying Sound of Silver as "indie rock without any quibles" kind of disingenuous.

urrrrrgh

I voted for LCD because it's pure pleasure, start to finish, not because it's "indie-rock". Stop yr complaining. (Portishead and Kanye close behind, btw)

i can't remember if i voted but 'silent shout' prob my album of the 00s. not that it would've made a difference u indie losers.

messing, like.

Sound of silver talk to me, makes you want to feel like a teenager.

Wanderland was 2001, wasn't released stateside in an era before everyone had jumped on the mp3 bandwagon that made such distinctions meaningless, and has never enjoyed even the limited consensus that have built around Kaleidoscope or Tasty. I've barely seen it mentioned on ILM. So in short, whatchu talkin' bout Willis?

Also, isn't decrying Sound of Silver as "indie rock without any quibles" kind of disingenuous.

Yeah I meant Kaleidoscope, but I accept the argument that Kid A would have beaten it soundly (anything else? I always think of The Avalanches as a 2000 album but I'm not sure of any other totally obvious 2000 contender off the top of my head).

Anyway, I'm not trying to decry Sound of Silver as being indie rock. I'm saying I don't believe it would have won by such a large amount if it wasn't. It's a very good album! But so is everything else in this list.

I voted for Kish Kash, by the way. I can't think of many albums of the last decade, and certainly none on this list, that match the sheer giddy rush of excitement of hearing that record for the first time.

― Matt DC, Sunday, March 7, 2010 9:06 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this thread prompted me to search out Kish Kash and WOW it's incredible.

this thread prompted me to search out Kish Kash and WOW it's incredible.

A wise choice.

I'm not trying to decry Sound of Silver as being indie rock. I'm saying I don't believe it would have won by such a large amount if it wasn't.

Not sure if this has been said upthread, but Sound of Silver isn't really indie rock, going by its sonics alone. It just has wide appeal to a lot of indie listeners... probably because it sounds like Mark E. Smith making a DFA party record, and indie kids love the Fall and the DFA. But neither of those are "indie rock," either.

My point is simply: Sound of Silver smashed the other options because it "has wide appeal to a lot of indie listeners" - wider than the other options.

agree with tim on how disappointing this result is, sound of silver is such a boring album - easily the worst here give or take original pirate material dating really badly

every time one of you associates sound of silver with the fall, a part of me fucking dies

OPM was terrible even when i first came out, though; "Weak Become Heroes" can't save the entire album by itself

Every other album on here is great, although I really wish Portishead or The Knife had won. Not too mad at SoS since it has two of my favorite songs from the decade on it, though ("Get Innocuous!" and "Someone Great")

those two songs are good, I will allow

also agree entirely that Portishead/The Knife/Fever Ray stand above - Third especially gets better every time I hear it

also R&B as a popular genre sort of died in 2000; everything is hip-hop or pop now (he says, conveniently ignoring the Maxwell and Sade resurgences)

It's worth bearing in mind that ILM was a hell of a lot smaller in 2000 so a vocal campaign in favour of one album would have been a lot more likely to skew the poll. Also Kid A didn't have that much of a rep here at the time and even Radiohead fans found it a bit underwhelming.

FWIW I'd say that if any 2000 album would have been a shoo-in for ILX poll winner it would have been 69 Love Songs. Maybe The Marshall Mathers LP or as an outside choice Stankonia.

69LS sounds right to me; everyone was jocking that album HARD

Anyway Kish Kash > Arular > Sound of Silver > Silent Shout > Fever Ray > Third > Original Pirate Material > College Dropout. The latter one is the only one I really don't like.

If anything would have been a challenge to Kid A in 2000, is would have been Stankonia.

where did you find the 02/03 polls at?

there's no way in hell Stankonia would've ever beat Kid A in an ILM poll

why not? it should.

i'm talking about the votership of ILX, particularly in 2000, not the quality of the albums.

I still don't like Stankonia that much :(

I like Stankonia more now

this is a fucking fucking fucking stupid disgrace

what won '10-'15 again? presumably DAM you give D'Angelo the GOAT

did we even do '10-'14 yet? i don't remember it

Theres another one of these thats mire up to date but iirc

10 Big Boi
11 Destroyer
12 Miguel
13 ...Haim???
14 D'angelo

D'angelo wd be my favorite, yeah, though I really like Knife, Miguel, & Portishead as well