ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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?

66. JUNIOR BOYS "In the Morning" (2006) [240.5 points, 12 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI-3uRfaSc

Okay, why does the singer's voice keep getting more and more whiny? Was someone squeezing his balls in the studio?

(That was about the Animal Collection song.)

Tuomas what kind of singer does a band have to have for you to like them?

wish i could have used my picks 30-40 to take points away from Animal Collection

"in the morning" is solid A+

yeah it's a total jam

I wish I had just voted for all of the AC for the lulz.

Srsly almost did this myself...

Tuomas what kind of singer does a band have to have for you to like them?

basic competence would be a start? idk i like loads of "weird-sounding" singers, but the voices i object to are just amateurish, where it's clear the singer has no idea what they're doing or how to communicate whatever they're trying to

<3 "in the morning", though not my fav off so this is goodbye

Tuomas what kind of singer does a band have to have for you to like them?

Basically, I like singers who can sing well. Sometimes a vocalist can have a cool trick that makes up for lack of skills, such as with Grace Jones, but I don't think irritating nasal whining or drunken mumbling is such a trick. I like ODB and mumbling is okay in rap, but that's because it's not about singing.

(haha, x-post with Lex)

I like ODB and mumbling is okay in rap, but that's because it's not about singing.

How is AC any more so "about singing" than rap??

Well, clearly they've written a tune with a melody that the vocalist tries to reproduce with his voice. That's not what rappers do.

Junior Boys is nice, but maybe the only reason I prefer it to MGMT is that I haven't heard it as often.

staying well out of this AnCo debate btw

Though to be honest, I don't like whiny rapping that much either, that's why Ghostface is often a bit too much for me.

65. OF MONTREAL "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" (2007) [241.5 points, 10 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2p9fDJsHNo

Junior Boys doesn't sound at all like MGMT, thank god xpost

^^^ Would have voted high for this had I got my tracks ballot in.