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
if that's a spoiler that My Chemical Romance have been snubbed then ;_;
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
(x-post)
The unexploded bomb in this list is Young Folks. Hopefully we can get it out of the way as quickly as possible.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
bomb anyone who voted for "young folks"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh whoops! I forgot there was one that had a better shot than any other. But yeah, consider it spoiled. :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This aint a list it's an arms race...
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess there's at least one dubstep tune yet to come? Can't imagine that Burial hit song not making it...
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
that Burial hit song
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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. :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i just looked at the 2000-2004 list and it didnt really look any more varied than this one
― just sayin, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost)
33. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "My Girls" (2009) [339.5 points, 13 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yes i think i know the one
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh thank fuck for that.
'Archangel' is definitely going to place.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ladytron 2005-2009 >>>>>>> Ladytron 2000-2004. Seriously, it's not even close.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
is there much point in discussing the animal collective at this point?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
No. Want the next one?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i was being facetious in questioning burial's popularity/relevance to ppl
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
32. MADONNA "Hung Up" (2005) [351 points, 16 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwb9jOVRtU
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Unstoppable dancefloor monster. Even now.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the closest thing she's got to an unstoppable dancefloor monster in the last 5 years but there are songs from any other 5-year period of her career that stomp all over it
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - I voted for a bunch of Hyperdubby stuff (one answer to Tuomas' "anything else happen 2005-9" question) but I guess Archangel is the only likely appearance at this stage.
Also, Hung Up = one of the best dance-pop tunes of the period (along with D.A.N.C.E.), so yeah.
― seandalai, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
waaaaaay better than D.A.N.C.E
― just sayin, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
voted for hung up, the whole album is still killer.
― skip, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's one of her very best singles, one of the top five of her career. It was #6 on my ballot.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
obv "hung up" is waaaaay better than "d.a.n.c.e." and it's total classic - even half a decade on the beat sounds HUGE
glad it beat the animal collection
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I hated "Hung Up" first (don't like the Abba sample at all), but after dancing to it enough times in gay clubs I learned to love it.
Pretty much the same thing happened with "Hips Don't Lie", except that the slow romance took place at one particular straight club. Didn't like it at all when I first heard it, but ended up giving it 34 points in this poll.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Hung Up is also the moment when, after an amazing run of remixes, Jacques Lu Cont at the peak of his powers stood at the summit of proper pop music and made an honest-to-god anthem.
And then decide he'd rather spend the next five years pissing about with chancers like Frankmusik and Keane :(
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad "My Girls" didn't make it any higher. I'd much rather see something from Feels or Prospect Hummer make it than anything on MPP or Strawberry Jam. Especially this song which doesn't have a great deal of interesting stuff going on and quite an annoying lyric.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
jacques lu cont : madonna :: samson : delilah
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link