ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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

32. MADONNA "Hung Up" (2005) [351 points, 16 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwb9jOVRtU

Unstoppable dancefloor monster. Even now.

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

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.

waaaaaay better than D.A.N.C.E

voted for hung up, the whole album is still killer.

I think it's one of her very best singles, one of the top five of her career. It was #6 on my ballot.

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

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.

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 :(

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.

jacques lu cont : madonna :: samson : delilah

His work on the new Kylie album is pretty stellar imo.

wasn't feeling the single, but i don't really like kylie anyway, a few of her hits here and there apart

'my girls' is one of the few animal collection tracks i really dig

really dislike that video though

Pt 2.

can i just...

THROW THROW SOME DDDDDDDDDDDDDs ON THAT BITCH

that is all.

Hips Don't Lie is one of those tracks that by all accounts should be in here somewhere. And yet I don't see it, because for a globally massive pop star Shakira never seems to be mentioned very much on ILM.

"hips don't lie" was never an OMG sort of track even by her standards - didn't sound like anything special at first, but it did sneak under my skin over the course of that summer and i have a lot of affection for it. but not so much that i voted for it.