ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

ok i have steadfastly avoided Joy Orbison because thats like the worst name in the history of naming stuff, but if it made it into this i will finally give it a shot i guess

I've tried, but all I keep hearing is banging, repetitive and abrasive nonsense. Maybe fine for a minute, but not for 5 and a half.

Sexyback was obviously played out at the time but it has aged pretty well.

― skip, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:18 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

My fave track from that album is What Goes Around... such a brilliantly written melody.

The Joy Orbison sounds like the music you hear in the Gap.

To summarize,

100. NE-YO "Because of You" (2007) [195.5 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
99. DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY "Welcome to Jamrock" (2005) [197 points, 11 votes]
98. CHAMILLIONAIRE ft. KRAYZIE BONE "Ridin'" (2005) [198.5 points, 10 votes]
97. RÓISÍN MURPHY "Overpowered" (2007) [199.5 points, 10 votes]
96. THE KNIFE "Marble House" (2006) [204.5 points, 10 votes]
95. CAMERA OBSCURA "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" (2006) [204.5 points, 11 votes]
94. THE-DREAM "Fancy" (2009) [205.5 points, 8 votes]
93. BIG BOI ft. GUCCI MANE "Shine Blockas" (2009) [206 points, 8 votes]
92. CORTNEY TIDWELL "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects in Space Remix)" (2007) [207.5 points, 10 votes]
91. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "45:33" (2006) [208 points, 10 votes]
90. WASHED OUT "Feel it All Around" (2009) [208.5 points, 10 votes]
89. GIRLS "Lust for Life" (2008) [209 points, 8 votes]
88. LADY GAGA "Paparazzi" (2009) [209 points, 10 votes]
87. ROBYN "Be Mine" (2005) [209 points, 12 votes]
86. THE HOLD STEADY "Stuck Between Stations" (2007) [210.5 points, 8 votes]
85. JACKIE CHAIN ft. JHI ALI "Rollin'" (2008) [212.5 points, 7 votes]
84. FEVER RAY "Seven" (2009) [212.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
83. FUTURE OF THE LEFT "Arming Eritrea" (2009) [213.5 points, 10 votes]
82. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "SexyBack" (2006) [216 points, 9 votes]
81. JOY ORBISON "Hyph Mngo" (2009) [219.5 points, 9 votes]

I'll pick it up tomorrow for #'s 80-61.

ok, i actually was ok with it, but never in a million years would i have guessed that the Joy Orbison track was released in the last decade, let alone 2009

all those songs are good!

more or less

I think so too (minus Girls and Joy Orbison, perhaps).

yeah of the stuff ive heard i can only work up a good frothing hate for Girls tbh

(well, and im also bored to death of the hold steady but its more of an inactive ehhhh)

Nice. Totally would have voted high for Roisin Murphy if "Sow Into You" had been an option, but she was high on my albums list.

Good list so far. I think I voted for "Fancy," but enjoy a ton of these other songs. Voted for other stuff by Ne-Yo, the Knife, LCD, Gaga, Fever Ray -- all of which I confidently expect will place a bit higher.

Love the Camera Obscura, Future of the Left, Washed Out, Girls tracks. I am a corny rockist asshole.

Yeah I like the Girls track a lot as well. I guess listening closely his voice is annoying, but it's a nice tune and the out of tune guitar sounds good.

I think I like everything! I guess I am undiscerning. I'm most meh on Welcome to Jamrock, probably for the awful reason that I heard it eight million times playing FIFA 06 and now hearing it is just nothing but that game to me.

hate the band Girls so much

Love these polls precisely because if I hadn't read, but not voted in, the 2009 poll my actual ballot for this poll would have looked completely different. For instance I only heard/checked out 'Shine Blockas' and 'Fancy' 'cos of the 2009 poll, loved them and voted accordingly this time round. Of the 20 revealed so far I'm familiar with most solely because of the last poll. But I hadn't heard the Camera Obscura or the Jackie Chain both of which were pleasant surprises.

have never heard girls, and while i've heard the hold steady, i wouldn't know one song from another. based on listening to most of that joy orbison track, however, i'd be real surprised if either could outsuck it.

listen to girls and report back

seriously, it will change your life

somehow i'm 14/20 for songs i really like => love, but...0/20 for songs i voted for (i was SURE i voted for "rollin"! but apparently not! obv several of those were b/c i voted for the albums)

the andreas saag house remix of "hyph mngo" is even better than the original, which i love, and which was one of the anthems of sónar this year - it's one of those trax which sounds incredible suddenly pealing out of a huge soundsystem, i never really got it until i heard it like that.

"sexyback" is a jam, def one of my favourites off the overrated fs/ls. "i'll let you whip me if i misbehave" - rrr come here justin~

and while obv i really dislike girls, robyn, camera obscura, there's no real ~PAROXYSMS OF RAGE~ yet

The Cortney Tidwell gets awesome about 5 mins in, but up until then it's unremarkable imo

If I hadn't heard "Fancy" for the first time a couple of days after I sent in my ballot, that would have placed even higher.

Good job so far people. Less Electrodribble than imagined though I'm sure there's more to come, you guitar-hating heathens.

Hyph Mngo is the first of mine to place. Love it. There's so much more to it than the 90s things it sounds like, but they're quite subtle things, nice instrumental backing flourishes and so forth. It's all about the breakdown anyway, that's the beautiful bit.

A little alarmed at seeing it so early though, it rules out about half my ballot in one go.

okay, so i listened to the girls track a couple times, and it sounds exactly like i thought it would, based on what ppl have written. it's just lazy indie sugar pop w smarmy vocals. more cloying than JO, but more fun, too. if it weren't for the gross singer's gross affectations, i'd probably like it a lot.

It's all about the breakdown anyway

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/3021508818_ab6199d864.jpg

like if you just took the "lust for life" instrumental and had the len girl saying "steal my sunshine" every once in a while, it would be awesome.

good mash-up idea

If not for "45:33," this would make a pretty good mix cd.

Could lose the guitar tunes imo (though I do like Arming Eritrea) but yeah, you've been dj'ing at casa Klata tonight and it's been nice.

so far only song I voted for is "Ridin." but I voted for THREE other Ne-Yo songs (plus another he wrote), so as much as I dislike "Because Of You" I'll take it as a good omen for the chances of his other songs.

kinda surprised by the heavy presence of 2009 tracks so far, but maybe they're just getting out of the way early.

The first time I heard "Hyph Mngo", I thought it was really weird and original, but in a passively appreciative way. I didn't really care for it at all. Now I think it's fairly ordinary track (like jj said, more like some kind of early 90's rave thing) but I actually like it. Go figure.

(I didn't vote for it though)

I'd have voted for the remix of "Because Of You" with the Kanye intro, but I took this to be the original; instead I went with another Ne-Yo song.

like if you just took the "lust for life" instrumental and had the len girl saying "steal my sunshine" every once in a while, it would be awesome.

― interstellar overdraft (contenderizer), Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:26 PM (32 minutes ago)

would listen!

i'm 2/20 ("rollin'" and "arming ertirea", though i could have sworn i voted for "ridin'"). like a bunch of these tho

and i'm pretty positive at least half of my other picks will place

I think 0 of mine will

(actually I have no idea)

i'm surprised that people haven't been demanding that the "lust for life" voters be outed so we can be hanged in the city square

a la 2009 poll

J0rdan has a good point

Who do we blame by default?

nice. glad "fancy" made it. probably my favorite Dream track. this list is awesome so far and only 2 of my 40 have made it at this point.

I guess my favorite new-to-me discovery in the first 20 is the Jackie Chain track. I said it above, but that song's beat and cadence is so hypnotic. I let it loop five times in a row before I even realized it.

that jackie song is so classic -- it creates such a perfect atmosphere -- that beat is truly amazing

you've heard the track it samples, right? robert miles' "children"?