ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

Except for when she covers The xx or dances like she does in the "She Wolf" video. xp

I had no idea that song was by Madonna

31. DIRTY PROJECTORS "Stillness Is the Move" (2009) [352 points, 17 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF6lpM0XM

Oh thank fuck for that (remix).

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

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

They were amazing live--thought there was no way they could pull off those vocals out of the studio but it sounded great.

Consensus is weird. xp

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).

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

More 2009 for ya...

30. BAT FOR LASHES "Daniel" (2009) [355 points, 14 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ

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.

I usually balk at any use of the word 'pretentious' to describe music, but if any music's pretentious, this is (xps to DP)

madonna and jeezy aside, this is a baaaad stretch

ugh @ the dirty projectors' attempt to do indie-mariah placing so far above mariah's actual classic

pot calling the kettle pretentious?

I actually don't mind that particular Bat for Lashes song but if Nocturne by Kate Bush doesn't place in this list then there is something seriously wrong with all of you.

dirty projectors take the most awful parts of music styles and the sum of the awfulness magnifies it by like 10000000000x

i'm a fan of 'daniel', though i think the production and not the singing is my favorite element of it, esp. the timpani rolls and that creepy haunted house organ thing in the chorus

DP sound like they made an executive decision to copy "that there R'n'B music" without ever really having listened to any of it. They seem to have a vague notion that instead of singing the word "I" they have to sing "IIII--iiii--iIIIIII-i-I----I". Real Emperor's New Clothes stuff.

Are we listening to the same music? There's a ton of interesting stuff going on past the vocal flourishes and I don't find those particularly distracting anyway. Maybe it's a thing with people who actually listen to Mariah Carey?

pot calling the kettle pretentious?

well done

29. TAYLOR SWIFT "You Belong With Me" (2008) [359 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw

i'm not on the TS bandwagon but i will concede that song is great

i guess people are taylor swifted out?

Put On >>> all these songs coming after it, except maybe Swift and Madonna.

I voted My President instead of Put On tho :( guess it won't make it.

just completely unmoved to say anything about that last one

obviously that madonna song is great but yeah I didn't know it was madonna!

Glad to see that jeezy place -- hung up is banger of all bangers -- I like stillness but lex v otm -- pretty sure promise will be top 10 tho

i guess people are taylor swifted out?

Maybe the "OMG teenage girls have feelings too!" crowd and the "I don't get what's so special about this globally massive pop music" crew have finally got tired of rehashing the same argument with one another. We live in hope.

Actually that ladytron is a jam. What would lt fans recommend to someone who has only listened to that 1 yt clip?

Any of the first three albums, but in this order: Light & Magic, 604 and then Witching Hour.

28. THE KNIFE "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (2006) [369 points, 20 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617ANIA5Rqs

YES

the first track I absolutely *love* for about 30 positions

Actually that ladytron is a jam. What would lt fans recommend to someone who has only listened to that 1 yt clip?

"seventeen" is their classic single 4eva

jesus that's 5 Knife/Fever Ray tracks you fanboys have gotten on this list so far?

cheers johnny, will try and listen to l&m tonight if its on spotify :)

that animal collection video is beyond shit. i mean fucking hell you make the record that gets fucking everyone talking and can finally break you into a big group and have the big fucking single and you have... that shit for the video? eurgh. it's just ugly and clunky and eurgh.