ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

I never really thought of American Boy as a sexy song, but a flirty song.

Yep.

sure, but that doesn't even slightly change my opinion of it

i like american boy ok (it kinda wore me down actually) but it would have made more sense in the 80s than the 40s

it reminds me of catch me if you can sorta even though the time periods don't jibe

yeah that's totally the aesthetic it's going for...it gets maybe 2/3s of the way there

i love the line about the baggy jeans. most lines about wanting dick are good in my book. in all honesty though it did take me quite a while to warm up to "american boy" but eventually i did realize that it is a very nice track.

my ballot... i have 6/40 so far + 1 other that i nom'd but didn't vote for. it's an absurdly poptimist ballot.

It took me a second to figure out why you were doing it out of 40 instead of 60, but then I realized you were using your ballot instead of the final list as the metric.

ohhhh right. same diff.

didn't realize midlake was a thing. will give it a go and stop ignorning them/confusing them with clearlake.

― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 2 July 2010 19:57 (2 hours ago)

Yes, me too - and monolake also. This reminds me of Iron and Wine for whom I'd have voted, if I'd have voted at all.

Iron & Wine EP w/ Calexico (2005) is unfuckwithable imo

I've been meaning to listen to that for five years.

theres zero other midlake songs i like but i <3 roscoe so much

Johnny Fever: listen to it ASAP! It's incredible!

is it good? i only really like that shepherd's dog album (and i mean really like). the rest is too ellito-smith-y for me.

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couldnt bring myself to vote for d.a.n.c.e, hollaback girl, or gold digger. they are good songs, but trapped in time for me

(also - elliot smith, obv)

man, calexico is one of those bands where i've like EVERYTHING i've heard by them and then i always forget about them and never buy anything, i should correct that asap

isn't "feast of wire" the one to get?

The Calexico EP and the Woman King EP are both excellent.

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In The Reins is SO good. Seriously. I will post YouTubes here: Iron and Wine/Calexico In the Reins

okay getting these now.

this is a "poptimist" list insofar as some of the poptimist tracks are mediocre, but i definitely wouldn't call it a poptmist ballot overall - those last 20 were like a pitchfork list

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can I just chime in how much I hate the word "poptimist"?

rocksessimist

it's not very nice being a fan of "indie" music and being called a pitchforker either. i very rarely read pitchfork.

dubsteptimist

witchhousesessimist

i feel like i have no idea whats in the top 40 other than like ~10 songs maybe

if DANCE made it in, will "We Are Your Friends"?

Isn't it too old? (maybe not, I can't remember.) (also, I probably just gave away the fact that it didn't make this list.)

It took me a second to figure out why you were doing it out of 40 instead of 60, but then I realized you were using your ballot instead of the final list as the metric.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, July 2, 2010 6:49 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when you did out of 60 instead of 40 earlier, for a sec i went "hey did the poll organizers get to have longer ballots than the rest of us!?"

If anything, I would've had a smaller ballot. Less to enter and count.

johnny - yep apparently it came originally came out in 2003(!) although I remember it being really popular around 06 or something i think.

I LOVED people who submitted ballots with fewer than 40 slots. Especially the one that only voted for a single track (which was "Roscoe," btw).

Johnny c post about dance, gold digger etc v otm

Maybe thats why there was a lot of 09 tracks -- don't seem so trapped in time

I've been making periodic mixes since the middle of 2007 that I keep on my iPod and listen to all the time, so all my favorites for the past three years seem as current to me as something I just heard yesterday. That said, going back to things like Hollaback Girl and Gold Digger are pleasant rediscoveries. For something to be trapped in time for me, it has to be very distinctly of its time...which is why I never listen to a bunch of the clanging, banging indie rock that dominated my mid-to-late 1990s. I don't miss it often, and almost never go back to it.

there are songs from 3-5 years ago that i LOVED at the time but were just kinda minor hits that didn't get played anywhere after their initial release, that i liked enough to put on year-end lists but don't really remember enough (or expect anyone else to remember, if i still like them) to put them on my ballot.

late on this because i was busy today, but "lisztomania" makes me want to hang myself

wouldnt that be iancurtisomania

Re Calexico I think The Black Light is still my favourite.

no "mack a bitch" isn't a great song or anything, just thought someone woulda posted it amid all the "OH MY LORD THAT MAN IS SAYING BITCH AND HO *DOES SIGN OF CROSS*" purely for trolling purposes

Okay, I've been out tonight, but this is so clearly directed at me that I have to respond. In fact, this is the opposite of what happened - what happened was that lex went OH MY LORD THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING FEY AND AFFECTED THEY ARE CHILD MOLESTERS, and then immediately suggested that misogyny was fine as it was an outlet for sublimated sexuality. While I have little time for either, I know I would rather be around people who aren't just out and out dicks to me simply because of my gender.

T.I. is the weak link on most tracks he's on, tbh.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, July 2, 2010 9:35 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

goddamn you to hell

i assume he was joking, or was talking about only his guest appearances? otherwise i don't even wanna know

never even joke about that

thinking t.i. is a bad rapper goes beyond just contrarianism

Beyond Contrarianism would be a good title for the stephen ilxor stand up album

"beyond contrarianism: my world of young people" is a bestseller waiting to be written

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ok so moving way back into the past and responding to the tuomas statement that the fall (blindness version) bandwise can't functionally play their instruments - i rarely do this, and i am open to a lot of interpretations about what "musicianship" means - but if this is your reaction, you literally know NOTHING about uh playing an instrument. i will chalk up our differences on singing to personal tastes, but dude. calling out these dudes as some inept whatever is srsly the stupidest criticism ever. you have no idea what you are talking about, stop embarrassing yerself.