ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

^yes this song (and album) was the first thing I've really liked by them in a long time

Voted for Of Montreal, absolutely relentless track that still feels like it could go on for 10 more minutes. The subtle rhythms and little gaps he uses in the vocals are great--"the passsst is a grotes....que animal" for some lines then he's right on top of the beat on others. They put on an amazingly tight live show too.

really great lyrics too

Curious what all the AnCo are too long/can't sing crowd will say about this. Not that there aren't differences here, but...

well i don't like of montreal either so

Also, is it just me or is Tuomas turning into Geir somewhat?

― emil.y,

In this thread its been the lex who he has been agreeing with. I even asked Tuomas a question and the lex answered! lol

I like ODB and mumbling is okay in rap

worst geir ever

well, cuz it was a point i'd made too!

don't like of montreal either

xp

64. FEVER RAY "When I Grow Up" (2009) [243 points, 11 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M

(^ one of my favorite videos in years. Martin de Thurah can't create enough things, imo.)

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

I find this sentiment almost completely insupportable, tbh.

I know , Lex. It was just funny!

Voted for this Fever Ray track. Incredible.

^ pitchfork hipster

Very nice. warming up to Fever Ray--I think i found it to be genuinely too unsettling at first.

booming post imo xp

love this fever ray track.

(just a reminder, HI DERE didnt vote so the low placing for this is also his fault)

man no pussy blues is so heavy :)

63. NELLY FURTADO "Maneater" (2006) [243.5 points, 13 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLolag3YSYU

This song never gets old. I've probably listened to it 500 times in the last four years.

ok see now i hate the fuck out of that song xpost hahaha whoops

i rate "fireworks" as the canon animal collective song, altho i did not vote for it

imo "maneater" is far, far inferior to "promiscuous" and "say it right"

maneater is inferior to say it right, but i like it a lot more than promiscuous

that makes five songs so far that have made it...awesome!

imo all the big singles from that album are boring and i only really fuck with "no hay igual" and "all good things" -- but i totally realize i am chilling alone in challop canyon there

Five for me too.

maneater placing better than sexyback seems weird to me

imo "maneater" is far, far inferior to "promiscuous" and "say it right"

― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:38 AM Bookmark

^^^

still don't get fever ray at alllll

My favorite Nelly Furtado song from 2006 was relegated to b-side status: "Undercover"

But since it was on the "Maneater" single, that was one of my favorite one-two punches of the year.

say it right >>> no hay igual >>> promiscuous >>> maneater

but i still really like "maneater"! that grinding bass. the verses are better than the chorus.

Voted for this Fever Ray track as well. Such a great slow burn. Unlike with some artists, who wear their influences on their sleeves (e.g. Gaga, LCD, The-Dream), I enjoy hearing subtle allusions to other work on this track; KDA really doesn't sound like anyone else. The intro synth chords sort of recall George Michael's Father Figure to me; and some of her melodies bring to mind Kate Bush or an introverted Cyndi Lauper (especially on Seven).

?! The chorus is an explosion of cyborg sex awesomeness! xp

xxp i don't know...i also love the grinding bass on the verses (actually it kinda reminds me of The Fall), but that's a killer chorus, and I love how the verses and chorus are subtly out-of-sync with each other...it's a thrilling track!!!

Maneater is definitely the song that made me get into that album...and then she dropped Say It Right, and it was all over...

there was a better "when i grow up" that was released b/w 05-09 but i don't htink it was nominated

oh i like the chorus, i just LOVE the verses - they feel so taut and tense, about to pounce

xps

xp not true! i voted for it

and i think nom'd it

"Maneater" didn't even place in the 2006 poll! "Sexyback" was #11.

62. KANYE WEST "Can't Tell Me Nothing" (2007) [249.5 points, 15 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSpCf8-AE94

Catching up - that Jackie Chain song is wonderful, going to be my song of the summer I suspect.

Never really agreed with the drunken mumbling thing on MES, yes he does that, but he also does crisp-as-a-poppadom stuff, flow very much like ODB imo, can hold up a rhythm and then dive down in to it, smear all over it and then give it a kick up the backside. Anyhow, mustn't go on. (popularit of anco is a mystery to me, mind).

many xposts.

xp Loose>>>>>>>>>>>>the stuff I've heard from FutureSex/LoveSounds...I mean, I voted for four Nelly Furtado tracks, and no Timberlake tracks, and that's slightly bogus...I SHOULD have voted for What Goes Around and Love Stoned, but still, to these ears, Nelly's stuff with Timbaland is way cooler than Justin's.

ugh we're going to get every nominated Kanye track in this list aren't we

I only voted for one, and not either of the tracks that have shown. (Only artists I voted for two tracks from were Beyonce and Lil Wayne.)

that's a well-placed 'ugh', some dude...

Would probably have voted for both of the Kanyes that have shown up and none of the others. But there'll be at least one more to come, I bet.

i don't think i voted for "can't tell me nothing" but it's hold up really well imo

it has one of the weakest sloppiest lamest most poorly assembled beats i've ever heard on a hit rap song, it's just so ungainly and awkward

the MIDI organ, the choppy vocal sample with the cheap-sounding filter, the way the ride cymbal hits are practically louder than the snare, it's an unlistenable mess

That Kanye is ok (Love Lockdown is ugh) but it sounds completely obvious in 2010. Lol at Will Oldham though.