ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

hey i try not to fuck with polls beyond year-end but there's tons of good tracks on this so good job everyone.

78. THE FALL "Blindness" (2005) [225.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPg3A9Mz-cI

No one? I know there at least nine of you who like this, and one of you very much.

i never really pay attention to the Fall anymore, but this one is pretty great.

Do you like The Fall - Y/N?

77. MAXWELL "Pretty Wings" (2009) [227 points, 9 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPy4yq7EJo

xp Y

...Waow! Didn't really expect to see "Blindness"!

alright! another track i voted for, albeit another '09 one.

My third track to place - all from '09.

You're contributing to your own disappointment? xp

I'm liking the bottom 20 a lot more so far. The Maxwell song is well constructed though.

Usually content to sit back and watch with these as I don't really feel confident enough in my musical articulacy to contribute by and large, but as no one was repping for Blindness, then I will just say that the John Peel version was probably the last incontrovertibly truly great, stands-with-their-early career Fall songs. The momentum and shifts in intensity were remarkable and the sinister, vision of future/satire of present, minimalist lyrics, the different stanzas with their different vocal styles, from high-pitched fear, to desert dry commandment, all contribute to make this one of their finest moments. Top ten for me, I'd imagine, top five even. (Word of warning to anyone who's interested, album version I'm kinda lukewarm about, JP session is the one to go for).

As for the reset, love Shine Blockas (thanks ilm!), one of my favourites from last year, and thoroughly enjoying sitting back and seeing what's going to turn up, esp those gems which I've never heard before, which are such a feature of the countdowns.

76. ÂME "Rej" (2005) [228 points, 10 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51MZQBFKmgg

I'll throw in a word for "Blindness" as well. Just incredible -- one of those songs that was in my top 45, then was cut at the very end from my ballot. In retrospect, I probably should've cut something else instead.

C'MON "REJ"!!!!!

My first vote! That track literally is mdma to me.

and good to see that despite the nominations list, ILM dance crew is still repping

Ah Rej - a real creeper of a track. Kind of infamous for being a "nothing" tune, until you hear it in a darkened room at Plastic People at full volume.

Surprised it wasn't a little bit higher tbh.

it's still getting played and seems to be popular w/the UK funky DJs who take their cues from techno - cooly g's played it, and braiden dropping it into his set at sónar this year was <3 <3 <3

Hey, that Joy Orbison tune is pretty good! I never would've guessed something called "Joy Orbison" sounds like that, I thought it was gonna be indie pop or something. Can't see how anyone could think it's "abrasive", unless you feel all techno/house is abrasive.

Rej is cool too! I should've voted for it, I'm not sure why I didn't.

REJ! AWESOME! HANDS IN THE AIR!

And I wouldn't call Rej a "nothing" tune - it's much more tuneful than, say, that The Fall monstrosity.

i've never heard a track by the fall. everything i've ever read suggests that i shouldn't.

I'm sure their absolute crappiness is one more thing on which you and me would agree.

Tuomas OTM re: Joy Orbison.

I love The Fall but am pretty certain you wouldn't, lex! :)

Yeah - Rej has definitely not aged at all. I heard it played out at a club a few years ago (maybe by Luke Slater?) and even then it had been out for ages, but it didn't seem old at all.

Think it's just got that timeless feel to it. Incidentally it is a fucking travesty that Mandarine Girl is not nominated in this poll. If only I'd bothered to nominate...

lex, you oughta play "Blindness" so you can at least say you've heard something you are certain you'd hate.

totally forgot abt rej, so glad it made it

That track kicks ass! Love the treatment on the lower notes.

I think I've said this before, but the Fall vocalist sounds exactly like a wino I once heard in a local karaoke bar trying to interpret a Finnish schlager version of "Delilah" without knowing how to sing nor remembering the lyrics, so he basically just mumbled whatever came to his mind, with an occasional "my... my my... DELILAH!".

Incidentally it is a fucking travesty that Mandarine Girl is not nominated in this poll. If only I'd bothered to nominate...

there were so many obvious dance classics missing ;_;

75. GHOSTFACE KILLAH "Shakey Dog" (2006) [228 points, 11 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf_BsCiJ6Sc

the high end of "rej" is like a pointillist painting of a cloudless, starry night sky

And I wouldn't call Rej a "nothing" tune - it's much more tuneful than, say, that The Fall monstrosity.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:17 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've never heard a track by the fall. everything i've ever read suggests that i shouldn't.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:18 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm sure their absolute crappiness is one more thing on which you and me would agree.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:19 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Okay, okay we get it already.

I didn't vote in this thing, but if I had've done, then Blindness would have been right up there. Such a monstrous song. Loving MES rocking the Alvin Stardust glove in the youtube vid btw.

I think I've said this before, but the Fall vocalist sounds exactly like a wino I once heard in a local karaoke bar trying to interpret a Finnish schlager version of "Delilah" without knowing how to sing nor remembering the lyrics, so he basically just mumbled whatever came to his mind, with an occasional "my... my my... DELILAH!".

― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:26 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

You like ODB right?

I think I've said this before, but the Fall vocalist sounds exactly like a wino I once heard in a local karaoke bar trying to interpret a Finnish schlager version of "Delilah" without knowing how to sing nor remembering the lyrics, so he basically just mumbled whatever came to his mind, with an occasional "my... my my... DELILAH!".

This sounds awesome.

yeah srsly

Someone ought to set Mark E Smith straight about the fact he can't sing very well.

Voted for "Shakey Dog," such an excellent track from a really, really great album. Still think Fishscale is on par with Supreme Clientele, which seems to be contrary to the general ILM/critical consensus in 2010.

"shakey dog" - best storytelling of the last 5 years

Really like "Blindness" and "Rej". Didn't vote for either though. "Overpowered" is, I think, the only one from my ballot to make the list, thus far.

74. MGMT "Time to Pretend" (2007) [228 points, 13 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dSYgd5Elk

wow is that really from 2007? jesus

not a fan, not a hater, expected the backlash to shove it off the bottom of the 100 tbh

oh fuck OFF mgmt, such a tedious song

wow is that really from 2007? jesus

Oracular Spectacular was released digitally in October 2007, and then in physical form in January of 2008. I think "Time to Pretend" was the official single around the same time of the album's digital release, though.