ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

bomb anyone who voted for "young folks"

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

Oh whoops! I forgot there was one that had a better shot than any other. But yeah, consider it spoiled. :(

This aint a list it's an arms race...

I guess there's at least one dubstep tune yet to come? Can't imagine that Burial hit song not making it...

that Burial hit song

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.

but if it had metal or country or noise or IDM or emo or skiffle you would still complain! Especially if said tracks contained guitar.

This aint a list it's an arms race...

I kept being sad with every ballot to come in which didn't feature a vote for that song. It wasn't even the highest rated Fall Out Boy track. :(

yeah i just looked at the 2000-2004 list and it didnt really look any more varied than this one

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33. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "My Girls" (2009) [339.5 points, 13 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

that Burial hit song

Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about. I don't know the title, but it goes something like "LOVING ME HOLDING ME LOVING ME HOLDING ME...". All my electronic music loving friends were playing it all the time a year or two ago.

yes i think i know the one

33. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "My Girls" (2009) [339.5 points, 13 votes]

Oh thank fuck for that.

'Archangel' is definitely going to place.

Ladytron 2005-2009 >>>>>>> Ladytron 2000-2004. Seriously, it's not even close.

is there much point in discussing the animal collective at this point?

No. Want the next one?

i guess i was being facetious in questioning burial's popularity/relevance to ppl