ILM Top 100 2000-2004: MOST HATED ALBUMS

Afuken 'My Way'
Amon Tobin 'Out From Out Where'
Bardo Pond 'Every Man'
Belle & Sebastian 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress'
Bersuit Vargabarat 'Hijos Del Culo'
The Beta Band 'Hot Shots II'
Boards Of Canada 'Geogaddi'
British Sea Power 'The Decline Of British Sea Power'
Camera Obscura 'Underachievers Please Try Harder'
Cat Power 'You Are Free'
The Desaparecidos 'Read English/Speak Spanish'
Destroyer 'Your Blues'
The Fiery Furnaces 'Gallowsbird Bark'
Fog 'Ether Teeth'
Fosca 'It's Going To End In Tears'
Fugazi 'The Argument'
The Futureheads 'The Futureheads'
Goldfrapp 'Felt Mountain'
Jay-Z 'The Blueprint Vol. 1'
Joy Zipper 'American Whip'
Junior Senior 'D-d-don't Stop The Beat'
Kanye West 'The College Dropout'
Lightning Bolt 'Wonderful Rainbow'
Low 'Trust'
Madlib & MF Doom present 'Madvillain'
Mclusky 'Mclusky Do Dallas'
Missy Elliott 'Miss E...So Addictive'
My Favorite 'The Happiest Days Of Our Lives'
N.E.R.D. 'In Search Of...'
Nellie McKay 'Get Away From Me'
New Order 'Get Ready'
Queens Of The Stone Age 'Rated R'
Radiohead 'Amnesiac'
The Rapture 'Echoes'
Richard X '...presents his X-Factor Vol. 1'
Sage Francis 'Makeshift Patriot'
The Scissor Sisters 'The Scissor Sisters'
Shellac '1000 Hurts'
Spoon 'Kill The Moonlight'
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 'Pig Lib'
The Streets 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'
Sufjan Stevens 'Greetings From Michigan'
The Walkmen 'Everybody That Pretended To Like Me Has Gone'
Xiu Xiu 'Knife Play'

The Bees 'Sunshine Hit Me'
Bob Dylan 'Love And Theft'
The Cure 'The Cure'
Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner'
Eminem 'The Marshall Mathers LP'
Emma Bunton 'Free Me'
PJ Harvey 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'
Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
Rancid 'Rancid'
Xiu Xiu 'A Promise'
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Fever To Tell'

Gilian Welch 'Time (The Revelator)'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven'
Interpol 'Turn On The Bright Lights'
Justin Timberlake 'Justified'
The Streets 'Original Pirate Material'
The White Stripes 'Elephant'

Buff The Vampire Slayer, The Cast Of - Once More With Feeling (OST)
Sigur Ros 'Agaetis Byrjun'
Smashing Pumpkins 'Machina: The Machines Of God'

5th. Andrew WK 'I Get Wet' (5 votes)

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He foresaw it you know...

3rd.

Radiohead 'Kid A' (6 votes)

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Wilco 'Yankee Foxtrot Hotel' (6 votes)

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Well obviously...

2nd. Ryan Adams 'Heartbreaker' (7 votes)

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I searched ILM but could not find a bad word about it...perhaps a case of people just seeing the artist's name and remembering all the crap they're associated with before the good? (see also the winner maybe, which is......)

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Far and away the most hated (NB: most hated != least popular!) album among those nominated, yet something of a surprise given the seeming popularity on ILM of tracks like the ubiquitious 'In Da Club' (yet it was no nominated for the tracks poll) and 'Many Men'. What is it about 50 Cent that has irritated so many (well, 14) people? If anything it may suggest that a shift has taken place on ILM in the last year with interest in West Coast hip hop seemingly waning here at least. 50 continues to divide critics with regards to his style and creativity, though I suspect many found his follow-up singles (21 Questions, P.I.M.P., If I Can't) letdowns...

I voted for Hail To The Thief, porkpie. Damn that split vote.

Hahaha it's residual disappointment from when I first heard it. I was all, "What's this French poppy gloop?? Where's my triphoppy/Orbitalesque space opera???" and the subsequent luvvin it got/gets. But FWIW I find "Ooompa Radar" pretty charming.

choosing 50 is a symbol of corniness, suspect c.i.fx were voting on the basis of 21 questions/p.i.m.p not actually hearing the album, many men = classic^2

I mean REALLYREALLY BAD!

Is manymen that great, you know, to overcome the stench?

Which coast now?

For the record, I can't be bothered hating anything, so I didn't fill in that part, and from a couple of comments above, I wasn't alone, so what's the breakdown?

Buddy, I voted...

See, Fiddy represents the massive pastiche of East London teenagers that is my almost 21 year old brother and because I genuinely found half the record boring, taking into account those I have listened too (the only alternative off the top of my todd is Justified, yet that has 3 of my favourite songs of the past 2 years, and 2 of them aren't the last 2 singles for reference).

To be honest, I think this whole most hated thing is a bit daft.

I was going only on albums I'd heard all the way through, too.

Rockist.

I meant to vote for Amnesiac, as I hated 'Pyramid Song' so much.

Argh, well, I just hope some of you liked that Low album so I got you back.

That 50 Cent album is pretty terrific, on the whole. Not top 10 of the year or anything for me but its certainly great. I mean, its got fucking "In Da Club" on it. 21 Questions isn't great but its certainly not offensively horrible. "If I Can't," "Many Men," "Gotta Make it To Heaven" (or whatever that last track was called) = classic.

I don't get it to be honest...why the hate?

This surely can't be Nick Warner?

Quite true, actually. He went to my school. And all of my friends apparently know his father. I, on the other hand, am a loser.

I voted for the Amon Tobin album, not so much because I actually hate it but because it's so much worse than any of his other albums and I was annoyed to see it on the list.

I don't think the rest of the list allows for this interpretation, Al.

the blueprint
original pirate material
hot shots ii
miss e... so addictive
boy in da corner
the marshall mathers lp
justified
get rich or die tryin'

please make yourself publicly known so that i might save myself the future inconvenience of taking your music opinions at all seriously.

And then there were ppl championing it as an alternative to mainstream Country (as alt country albums always get, of course, that ain't Welch's fault) and other ppl going "see, THIS is so much better than the new Ryan Adams album", which I was kinda into at the time. Still am, actually, kinda, he's cheap but I like all the ppl he rips off on that record, so I like the album all right. And I can't hate his persona because it doesn't mean enough to me.

But, you know, I'm awful at defending my hates, almost everything I wrote up there is basically bullshit (especially the 2nd paragraph, not the stuff about Ryan Adams but the comparsion itself, it's silly), I voted for it cuz it's the album that I most hated after buying it and expecting to like it.

I don't know; I like Gillian alot. I don't see any sort of pose or "persona" there. She rings VERY true to me and I'm a born and bred rural Southerner. All of the people I know who dig her music are too... tho' you may well be too for all i know. My point is that those who grew up don't seem to notice [or mind] that she's a city gal.

I would say that it's a top loaded album; after the first six tracks it's something less than exciting... but man, those first six tracks!

Revelator may be a bit "sleepy" but it's a song about monotony and hopelessness. Where you apparently see something dragging, I see a title made concrete: time is draggin' that lady down.

"My First Lover" is strident, ballsy and aloof; "Dear Someone" is a countrycroonin' heartbreaker; "I Want to Sing that Rock n Roll" and "Elvis Presley Blues" are good ol' honkey tonk tunes.

I'm certainly FAMILIAR with this argument regarding Welch; that she snoozifies bluegrass down so that Starbucks can fit it into their rotation but damn if I can see it.

Sorry if I came off a bit harsh there earlier; I really am a fan.

In any case, thanks for making me think about the album, cuz now I got it out and am listening to it again.

Every Song
What Was Behind
Unreleased Songs

It's a tie for the most hated Hated albums, because Unreleased Songs is boot off of a fourth-generation cassette and because What Was Behind was mastered at the wrong speed and Tonie Joy took the money and ran.

this is a balls argument anyway cs it's one difficult album to listen to.

starbucks playing 'time (the revelator)' :: "Bangs and friends, out eating together, realise "Orphans" is playing on the jukebox, Muzak-style ("No more ankles and no more clothes/Little orphans running through the snow/Little orphans in the blood"). "Enjoy your food foax!" chuckles someone present."

Haha Forksclovetofu, I'm just a no-good privileged European, I certainly got no case for declaring class war on Gillian! It's just that...well, you mentioned "I Want To Sing That Rock & Roll", which I had forgotten all about, and that song kinda defines what I'm talking about when I mention falseness...I mean, it's clearly written from a persona living in the past, like '53 or so, and much (though not all) of the album holds that same aura to me. Like she decided to write a few old Country songs, and approached that task as a historical/archeological one instead of as a creative one. Which is a dumb accusation, coz I'm a music history geek, too, and since I'm DLing an album of Oscar Brand covering presidential campaign songs I'm one to talk, but it just felt a bit joyless, a bit too academic to me.

I never understood exactly what the fuck the title song was on about!