ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

breakdown by year so far:
2005: 10
2006: 17
2007: 17
2008: 9
2009: 20

i love the knife and fever ray but i'd be interested to see how many voters had pretty much the same artists on both albums and tracks ballots - i tried to avoid that, really; always think it's better to rep for tracks which don't necessarily have a worthy parent album, or a parent album at all

We Share Our Mothers Health still sounds terrific, as does the Trentemoller remix that amps everything up to ridiculous levels. I might listen to it on the way home actually.

(I wonder if What Else Is There will place, incidentally... the Trentemoller remix is another insanely bombastic classic and the JLC fake filter disco version is just pure euphoria).

2005 is gonna have a load right at the top end, I can feel it.

WSOMH and Seven are the only two nominated that I really, REALLY wanted to see. Although I think I tossed Silent Shout a point or two as well.

trentemøller remix of "what else is there?" had better place!!!!!! ditto "in white rooms" and "way out" #ravememories

We share our mothers health is really amazing -- only kindergarten song I really love

Also don't get people (unless it was lex obv :D) calling dirty projectors too srs or whatever. they are one of the few current bands who just seem like they having a bunch of infectious fun times.

I'm Not Done is my favourite of all the pre-Darwin-opera Knifey things though - wish I'd nommed it

This video still creeps me right the fuck out...

27. MGMT "Kids" (2008) [371.5 points, 17 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI

and btw has anyone ever gif'd the lamur in the stillness video? this seems like it should be quite an important gif when needed.

hang on wait I try not to be a pedant but were you trying to spell llama there

the top end of the list has a hell of a redemption job on its hands right now

stop being such corny indie fuxx, ilm, that shit is for LOSERS. are you losers?!

ha, i was. my bad, i don't think i've ever had to spell the word before.

fuckkk i'd totally forgotten abt 'what else is there'! would have def voted for it

i love the knife and fever ray but i'd be interested to see how many voters had pretty much the same artists on both albums and tracks ballots - i tried to avoid that, really; always think it's better to rep for tracks which don't necessarily have a worthy parent album, or a parent album at all

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yeah i'd be curious about that, too -- 17/40 of my tracks ballot are by people who are also on my albums ballot, although only 8 of those songs are actually from the albums I voted for.

Only voted for 2 tracks from my 40 albums.

yay wsomh! also i'm glad you belong with me didn't place AS ridiculously highly as it might have. it's a good song but it would have felt strange to see it in the top 10 or something.

we share our mothers health is my fav knife/fever ray track, i love it, still didnt make my top 40

and JF, check your ILM poll gmail, I sent in a nomination for first-place track vote...

Kids IS pretty epic -- aeroplane electric feel rmx is best mgmt song tho

skip, you can't mix a ballot between ranked and unranked (or, in this case, give one track a "ranked" amount of first place points and then the remainder of your tracks the allotted "unranked" points). It's all or nothing. I gave every one of your votes 20.5 points because it was specified as an unranked ballot. xp

i just checked and i voted 9/40 tracks from my 40 albums (2 of which were indeed fever ray / the knife)

26. SANTIGOLD "L.E.S. Artistes" (2008) [372 points, 17 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCeZzW54a2o

The fuck

lol i like that song! didn't vote for it tho

wow that's a silly video

I love this song. It was #15 on my own ballot.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyby7pa0J81qzxzwwo1_500.gif

its a good song and a fun video but 40 spots was not enough for santigold to come anywhere close to getting a vote from me.

25. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ft. T.I. "My Love" (2006) [372.5 points, 16 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQv9_RQUJY

bout fucking time!

oh what a godly track <3333333333

You would rather it have come sooner/lower?

Okay now things are getting good...

Good spot for that

i wouldn't necessarily have a problem with it being lower, i'm just relieved to have another popular song i voted for show up.

when's he going to have another album? Feels like FS/LS was forever ago.

I wish he would make up his mind between acting and music. Right now he's just squandering his talent on taking bit roles and writing songs/taking cameo spots re: music. There was a five year gap between Thriller and Bad, though, so maybe he'll have something in 2011.

he's done a TON of writing and guesting the last few years (although for the most part I don't care for his output there), I think that's just how he chooses to make music these days and isn't in a rush to get to the next long album/tour cycle.

what does the gap between thriller and bad have anything to do with jt's career?................. like literally my ellipsis could never be too long

it's weird, when "my love" first came out i didn't care that much for t.i. suddenly popping up like he does. now, it's his verse that gets me weak at the knees, much more than justin's.

there's a great quentin harris remix of it, not on youtube.

agree that "l.e.s. artistes" is a terrific song that isn't terrific enough to be near a list like this.