ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

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

this is from TWO THOUSAND AND THREE! it's not even near this poll's timeframe!

i really loved "never be alone" and have some amazing memories of it. pity justice went on to make more music :(

estelle pulls off "don't like his baggy jeans but i might like what's underneath them" because she's too insouciant to be sexy - she's not presenting herself, she's assessing him with a cool eye and raised eyebrow. it's a bit "i can't be impressed but go on, try anyway". a typical london rudegyal stance. love her <3

wheeeere's Johnny!

xpost to jj but tbf to Tuomas, he never listens to rock music ever. He doesn't like rock music so I wouldn't expect him to know much about it or how it's played. It would be the same if I were to talk about opera or Geir talking about funk.

Yeah but if you regularly turned up in Opera threads going I DON'T GET THIS IT'S SHIT WHY IS THAT LADY SCREAMING? you wd clock up the SBs pretty quick

haha that's true.

tuomas and lex's reactions to stuff they don't like is all part of the charm of ilm poll threads imo

i assume he was joking

No...

or was talking about only his guest appearances?

Mostly, yes.

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

I don't think he's "bad" per se, but he doesn't suit my tastes. I didn't say he's bad, I said he's usually the weak links on the tracks I've heard him on. Speaking mostly about guest appearances b/c I haven't ventured far into his solo work. I heard Trap Musik and King back in the day, didn't really care for either. His rapping style sounds like he's overenunciating everything, like he's a professor giving me a lecture. Just can't stand his delivery at all. Caveat, of course, is that it's all my personal opinion. You guys are welcome to enjoy his stuff, I couldn't care less!

I probably could care less

maybe not

oh funny cuz the way you said "TI is the weak link on most tracks he's on, tbh" made it sound more like fact than opinion, or at least one shared by multiple ppl

don't think it's necessary for anybody to preface every opinion they post on these boards with a "it's just my opinion" for ppl to know it's an opinion

i mean, i don't think anyone's reading ilxor's posts and going, "oh fuck, he has absolute knowledge of reality and is asserting that TI is categorically the weak link on most tracks"

hahaha in the cold light of day and without multiple drinks in me, i might tone down some of the aggro in my post to tuomas up there. still think its an absurd thing to say, but now that im not all drunky i dont actually take it personally. lol at me.

What ksh said.

Also, I don't doubt that I'm in the minority... but since when am I the only person on the planet who doesn't recognize T.I.'s inarguable genius?

you are k3vin k's music guru so he gets upset when you dislike something he likes.

loooooool

the second P4k gives a record a bad score I literally pick up the jewel case and hurl it against the wall and then start sobbing and eventually just fall sleep in the shards of plastic that litter the floor

lol

are there more results today, tomorrow, etc? i'm foaming at the mouth right now and want to know if it's ok to stop

Monday iirc

oh kk i'll stop then

i thought he said he would finish it over the weekend, iirc, but i can hardly blame him for wanting to enjoy his weekend

Not going to be boring. How many days are you doing this over?

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably five. Today thru Friday, and then next Monday and Tuesday.

I fucking love this Chamillionaire track, btw. Too low, imo.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:16 PM (3 days ago)

Unless he said something afterward that I missed, which is possible, ^ this.

You can't spell "enjoy" without "ilx" oh wait.

i think we usually skip the weekends cuz people aren't tethered to their computers during work, but idk -- johnny ain't around i guess

yeah it's totally fine if we don't get any results today, i just remember him saying multiple times that he wanted to do it on the weekend and finish up on the 4th