ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

I don't really listen to abrasive rock music at all anymore, I used to love the Fall and I liked The Hold Steady's first album in HS, but I haven't even checked out either of those band's songs that made this list b/c I'm just not really interested and I know what to expect. But FOTL's Arming Eritrea is a really great song that gave me flashbacks to when I used to really love aggressive rock music; its weird to feel old neuro-pleasure-pathways lighting up after my brain has been re-routed for so long.

More like "Ready for the Bore," amirite?

Hot Chip might be the first thing here that makes me actively angry. (LOLGIRLS, I guess, but I think the difference is that Hot Chip sounds close to something I'd actually listen to, except done horribly wrong.)

See also: "Ready for the Snore."

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Wish I had voted in this poll btw, really enjoying it so far. Rej is prob my favorite song to make it so far. Also looooved "Rollin" which I'd never heard before.

It sounds like dance music of, for, and by anal-reticent dweebs.

Rej has always been missing something for me. I guess the nightclub experience is what it needs

btw for those new to "Rollin'": rollin rollin rollin we aint slept in weeks

It sounds like dance music of, for, and by anal-reticent dweebs.

Cosign. This is exactly my problem w/r/t Hot Chip. See also: Cut Copy, who are similarly inexcusable.

Rollin' has been the nicest surprise of this poll

I guess I'm now officially an anal-reticent dweeb. Love Hot Chip, liked the first Cut Copy album (tolerated the second).

how do you like that stuff and think the Joy Orbison track is horrible???

A musical past rooted in things like Depeche Mode, ('80s) Pet Shop Boys and New Order I guess.

68. THE XX "Crystalised" (2009) [239 points, 12 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pib8eYDSFEI

I have the same '80s loves, yet despise Hot Chip/Cut Copy and love the Joy Orbison track. Go figure!

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Voted for the xx, this track. It's a good one.

I can't remember if I voted "Crystalised" as my #1 in the 2009 tracks poll earlier this year or not, but I probably did. I still love it, but I don't listen to it obsessively like I did 6 or 8 months ago.

I much prefer "Islands". Actually, "Crystalised" might be my least favourite track on that album.

Conversely, it's about the only track on the album I ended up loving (besides the instrumental that starts the album).

I have avoided hearing the xx until now. Here goes...

"Islands" and "Shelter" equal it IMO. "Intro" is pretty much my clear favorite on the album though.

"Intro" is straight-up Seventeen Seconds-era Cure style.

Okay, guys... get your torches and pitchforks ready...

67. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "Fireworks" (2007) [240 points, 11 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvr09J7KK4

should I listen to this before swearing vengeance upon everyone who voted for it?

No. Go with your gut.

huh so thats what the xx sounds like

haha wait, you'd never heard them before?

i cant talk to you with that username

jesus christ

Wait, people actually listen to the xx??

HOW the fuck do ppl listen to anco

this is like the worst song i've ever heard

Hippie drum circle gone so, so bad.

"My Girls" is great and, as I explore more of their catalog, it's becoming clearer to me that it's awesomeness is a total accident.

like the apostrophe in my last post

think those of us in the anti-AnCo camp are in for some pain.

also HI DERE totally OTM

Ha! I will out myself. I proudly voted for 'Fireworks'. #2 in my ballot if iirc(39pts). So yeah it's my fault. Love this sooooo much.

MY GOD THIS HASN'T FINISHED YET

hahahah rejected post by me from 2 minutes ago

I'll 'fess up: I voted for this AC track. And no others.

Animal Collective kind of makes me want to remove my eardrums just in case.

a 7-minute animal collective track is a brand new circle of hell all in itself

UGH that band need beheading

Good news is AC probably won't hit Top 5-10 in this poll, simply due to what's likely to be an insane amount of vote splitting btw eight individual tracks (if I recall correctly).

the albums list otoh...

if the US military had been aware of AC, they'd have found it ideal torturing music imo, and they wouldn't even have needed to turn it up. or even play it on loop.

I only managed 20 tracks. I wish I had just voted for all of the AC for the lulz. So be grateful ilm!

Still love Fireworks, didn't vote for it or any of their well-known tracks though...in a giddy rush of non-tactical voting, I gave 38 and 37 points to Animal Collective-related obscurities which won't be troubling HI DERE or the other horrible haters.

Was surprised by the xx there - I expected them to sound more interesting than that. People should just listen to New Order instead.

Never heard Animal Collective before, but that tune sounds like a folk song that should've been accompanied only by some acoustic guitar strumming only. Why did they add those awful cymbal clashes and other crap on the background?