40. PHOENIX "1901" (2009) [297.5 points, 15 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL548cHH3OY
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
happy to literally burn thru phoenix tbh
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i love phoenix and i think ppl overrate the fuck out of WAP compared to 'it's never been like that' but "1901" and "lisztomania" are utter classics -- two of the best rock singles of the past few years
― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 July 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
and haha for some reason i only just realised that "irreplaceable" placed?! what a great song - i also directo people to the sun-kissed reggae-lilt of the kyaal remix
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:24 (thirteen years ago) link
phoenix are fun as hell, lex just doesn't like white boys
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Phoenix dotted the first tracks poll too. It's Never Been Like That just kind of fell underappreciated in between the two.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
39. HOT CHIP "Over and Over" (2006) [301 points, 15 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2n8CDPuZjg
song seems ages old to me -- out of their big singles, "over and over" is def my least favorite
― hand of darragh (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Phoenix always seem to be capable of writing the perfect pop song but never quite get there, they're such a frustrating band... I listened to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and it just seemed to be a bit too much of a mess, production and vocal-wise. Difficult to shake the feeling that all those songs could be better.
I get the same feeling with Hot Chip but at least with Hot Chip it feels like part of the charm. They come across as people who really understand house music, more than any of their contemporaries, but can't QUITE recreate it, or have no interest in recreating it.
Still, Over & Over feels like one of the pivotal British pop records of the past 10 years - it still gets an amazing dancefloor reaction and, more than anything by the Klaxons or whoever, it feels like the bridge between early 00s Brit indie (guitar fundamentalism + skinny jeans + awful Libertines ripoffs) and the late 00s (generally being okay with beats and dancing and synths and girls).
There's gonna be a massive glut of LCD Soundsystem singles coming up, isn't there?
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
They come across as people who really understand house music, more than any of their contemporaries, but can't QUITE recreate it, or have no interest in recreating it.
kinda reconciled this on the recent record, no?
― hand of darragh (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Not really - that last record has grown on me massively but still feels like Hot Chip approximating house/funky/whatever. They're always going to look and sound like outsiders and I'm okay with that.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
38. RICH BOY "Throw Some D's" (2006) [308 points, 14 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudIZbCRq_c
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
NUMBER ONE BANGER
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't dislike hot chip (though the new album really suxxx) but they're so over-praised, no way should even their best songs be anywhere near a list like this. maybe the erol alkan remix of "boy from school", but that's it.
"throw some ds", good good
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
such a joyous song -- everything is perfect... beat is like polow chopped up sunshine, rich boy writes the verses of his life, sample in the chorus is the most fun thing to yell along with, polow comes in with a verse that is like totally "this is a producer rapping" but in the best and most funny way possible, brings the perfect levity to the song
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 July 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ridin with no tints so the motherfuckers know it's me
^^this is like my favorite line ever
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 July 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
37. TV ON THE RADIO "Wolf Like Me" (2006) [310.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-xRk6llh4
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
okay, be back later after some more zzzzs.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I find TV On The Radio pretty Zzzz too.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually like 'em, but I've heard "Wolf Like Me" about 100 times too many. Check back with me in five years to see if I'm ready to hear it again yet.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Feeling you on that one. Great song, definitely burnt out on it though. Not even close to the best thing they've done though, tbh. Could grab a handful of songs from Dear Science that eclipse it easily.
― ksh, Monday, 5 July 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this list seems a bit ass-backwards at this point
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno, it's a bit short on things I really *love* at the moment. I'm not looking at this list and thinking "OMG the late 00s were amazing and this proves it". So plenty of potential at the top.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Early start! I am just waking up over here.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 5 July 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys realize "Wolf Like Me" is actually "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol rite
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, May 1, 2010 2:29 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― thank to john hancock, benjiam franklin (crüt), Monday, 5 July 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
love '1901' and 'throw some d's' (mob-town represent!)
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 5 July 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
thought "Throw Some D's" should be higher, then realized we are getting pretty high up at this point.
people should be glad to know that this thread finally motivated me to turn off images so that I wouldn't have to bitch about YouTube-heavy threads anymore.
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, 5 July 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
36. YOUNG JEEZY ft. KANYE WEST "Put On" (2008) [310.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aEImx74gLA
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ Anthem. Also, pretty much the only worthwhile thing to have come out of Kanye's whiny butthurt overentitled autotune waaahmbulance phase.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that's prob my favourite rap song of this period
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
so massive
― just sayin, Monday, 5 July 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
35. LADYTRON "Destroy Everything You Touch" (2005) [324.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M5Ue0x3b6c
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
YAY young jeezy, such a huge tuneWTF ladytron? this is a poll of the second half of the decade, right?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it came out in 2005 and is a great song. a "huge tune" just as much as jeezy's
― thank to john hancock, benjiam franklin (crüt), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this Ladytron song seems ancient to me, probably because I haven't listened to them since this album. I skipped Velocifero because I heard one of the songs in advance and thought it was terrible enough for me to turn my back to a band I once loved.
But anyway, yeah... Ladytron's very closely tied to the decade's first half for me.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The Ladytron tune is otherwise nice, but why the heck electric guitars? It would sound much better with the sort clinical synth pop sound they used to have when I last heard them.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
05 was a pretty power house year - this is the top 10 from that yrs poll:
1. Amerie - 1 Thing2. Girls Aloud - Biology3. Kelly Clarkson - Since U been gone4. Three Six Mafia feat. Young Buck, Eightball & MJG - Stay Fly5. Madonna - Hung Up6. Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl7. Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger8. Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch9. The Game feat. 50 Cent - Hate it or love it10. Robyn - Be Mine
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
really wonder if biology is gonna place, i hope so & i voted for it
yeah it's not a bad song or anything but i imagine i'd have been much more taken with it in the early 00s, as i was with "seventeen" - to me ladytron hit upon a sound that was very tied to a time, did it really well and then never updated it or changed, ever.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
...which was 10 years ago, I guess. God, where did all those years go?
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(xxx-pst)
34. THE KNIFE "Silent Shout" (2006) [331 points, 19 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxqeRMoYA5g
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my finest clubbing memories of the past half decade was hearing someone (i forget who! maybe holden?) mix "silent shout" into "rej" at the last TDK (RIP)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
So, basically the results of this poll can be grouped to three categories:
1) American rap/rnb2) Synth pop/new wave influenced dance music3) Soft indie rock
Wasn't there anything else going on in 05-09?
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I was listening to Smile bootlegs, Confessions on a Dance Floor, and Sufjan Stevens in 2005 and missed this Ladytron track--pretty good stuff though like others have said, very of its time (or behind the times, even then).
― skip, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
nope I believe that was all, those years were very streamlined
― lil' (Z S), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Having looked at the original list I've managed to whittle it down to, erm, another 95 that might conceivably place. Including most of that 2005 list.
Lex - that Rej into Silent Shout segue was our very own JD Twictch/Stirmonster, I believe. Amazing.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, I meant to write "American mainstream rap/rnb".
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
(It wasn't TDK iirc but it was a night at Canvas)
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Tuomas, just be grateful these results have shunned emo entirely.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link