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. :(
― 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
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.
― 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
His work on the new Kylie album is pretty stellar imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
wasn't feeling the single, but i don't really like kylie anyway, a few of her hits here and there apart
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
'my girls' is one of the few animal collection tracks i really dig
really dislike that video though
― ciderpress, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Pt 2.
can i just...
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Except for when she covers The xx or dances like she does in the "She Wolf" video. xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I had no idea that song was by Madonna
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
31. DIRTY PROJECTORS "Stillness Is the Move" (2009) [352 points, 17 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF6lpM0XM
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh thank fuck for that (remix).
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
as I say every time I hear Dirty Projectors, what the fuck is this boring try-hard shit everyone seems to think is the coolest art-rock going
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, but DP can kiss my ass
still don't really get why that song generates excitement for anyone, i mean i think it's an alright song but i just don't see how i could ever be into it enough to list it as a top song of the year etc
― ciderpress, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
They were amazing live--thought there was no way they could pull off those vocals out of the studio but it sounded great.
― skip, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Consensus is weird. xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
dirty projectors - i kind of just don't understand what this band is for. in fact all the abuse that gets hurled at AC about their singing would be more justified with this band. Their experiments in melismatic singing just doesn't work - especially that fella's voice, which sound comedically bad at points (not the intended effect I'm sure).
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think its sung very well even on the album though, the interesting part of the song to me is the sparseness of arrangement and the 'what is going on, is this in any key at all' harmony
― ciderpress, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
More 2009 for ya...
30. BAT FOR LASHES "Daniel" (2009) [355 points, 14 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I just listened to that Dirty Projectors song for the first time. I kept waiting for the real song to start. Then, suddenly, it was over.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I usually balk at any use of the word 'pretentious' to describe music, but if any music's pretentious, this is (xps to DP)
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 July 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link