ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

phoenix are fun as hell, lex just doesn't like white boys

Phoenix dotted the first tracks poll too. It's Never Been Like That just kind of fell underappreciated in between the two.

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

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?

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?

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.

38. RICH BOY "Throw Some D's" (2006) [308 points, 14 votes]

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

NUMBER ONE BANGER

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

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

ridin with no tints so the motherfuckers know it's me

^^this is like my favorite line ever

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

okay, be back later after some more zzzzs.

Yeah I find TV On The Radio pretty Zzzz too.

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.

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.

this list seems a bit ass-backwards at this point

this list seems a bit ass-backwards at this point

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.

Early start! I am just waking up over here.

you guys realize "Wolf Like Me" is actually "Rebel Yell" by Billy Idol rite

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love '1901' and 'throw some d's' (mob-town represent!)

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.

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

^^^ Anthem. Also, pretty much the only worthwhile thing to have come out of Kanye's whiny butthurt overentitled autotune waaahmbulance phase.

that's prob my favourite rap song of this period

so massive

35. LADYTRON "Destroy Everything You Touch" (2005) [324.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M5Ue0x3b6c

YAY young jeezy, such a huge tune
WTF ladytron? this is a poll of the second half of the decade, right?

it came out in 2005 and is a great song. a "huge tune" just as much as jeezy's

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.

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.

05 was a pretty power house year - this is the top 10 from that yrs poll:

1. Amerie - 1 Thing
2. Girls Aloud - Biology
3. Kelly Clarkson - Since U been gone
4. Three Six Mafia feat. Young Buck, Eightball & MJG - Stay Fly
5. Madonna - Hung Up
6. Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl
7. Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
8. Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch
9. The Game feat. 50 Cent - Hate it or love it
10. Robyn - Be Mine

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.

...which was 10 years ago, I guess. God, where did all those years go?

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34. THE KNIFE "Silent Shout" (2006) [331 points, 19 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxqeRMoYA5g

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)

So, basically the results of this poll can be grouped to three categories:

1) American rap/rnb
2) Synth pop/new wave influenced dance music
3) Soft indie rock

Wasn't there anything else going on in 05-09?

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).

nope I believe that was all, those years were very streamlined

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.

Sorry, I meant to write "American mainstream rap/rnb".

(It wasn't TDK iirc but it was a night at Canvas)

Tuomas, just be grateful these results have shunned emo entirely.

if that's a spoiler that My Chemical Romance have been snubbed then ;_;

I guess so, but so far the results of this poll have been narrower genre-wise than in any other decade poll. Don't get me wrong, I like mainstream rap and rnb and some of the synth pop stuff, but it'd be nice too something else too.

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The unexploded bomb in this list is Young Folks. Hopefully we can get it out of the way as quickly as possible.