ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

I was just using it as a historical example. Michael Jackson never really went anywhere between those albums, and they were five years apart. There are some people who released albums five years ago that I don't remember even existing.

yeah, JT is obv far from MJ level but i do think that once you reach a certain plateau where every album is an event with a promotional cycle that lasts for a year or two, it makes sense to take a little more time in between.

24. BEYONCÉ "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (2008) [386.5 points, 17 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY

I Can't believe I missed the start of this count down. I picked the wrong week to be with out internet access.

Even though I'm a huge Hot Chip fan I've always hated Over & Over. Ready For the Floor got my vote.

I'm happy most of last years most popular songs have already placed. I really didn't get any of the love for Animal Collective, Taylor Swift, Phoenix or Dirty Projectors.

I'm shocked there's been no Girls Aloud yet, have they suffered from split voting?

I'm not at all shocked but disappointed that Art Brut haven't made an appearance.

Overall this has been a pretty good list, I'm really looking forward to the albums.

ew single ladies. every time i hear it i dislike it just a little bit more. and i didn't even really care when i first heard it. beyonce can do so much more than this trash.

srs ilx what the hell? there is so, so much better r&b/pop/fucking beyonce singles than this from the past 5 years! how the hell did it beat irreplaceable? smh.

I've heard everything Beyonce's released since the end of Destiny's Child, and "Single Ladies" is still one of my favorites. srsly, it's an OUTSTANDING single that will be treated kindly by history.

"single ladies" isn't even a song to me any more, it's like...a jingle or something

i mean, it's a great pop cultural THING, but just not in the running when it comes to ranking beyoncé songs on actual merit

Sounds about right, it's great but I'm not sure it deserves to be much higher.

Re: Girls Aloud, think its a combination of split voting and general loss of interest. Plus most of the good stuff being pre-2005. Biology is the only one that stands a chance of placing.

i gave a lot of points to biology, imo the only girls aloud single that really deserves it. but what a fantastic track that is. idk if it'll be on the poll though, oh well.

i didn't care for single ladies much either. the video (which was quite an amazing phenomenon) elevated its quality but i still don't think it's that good.

This makes me think of an (ex-) friend talking about her Kindergarten-age daughter going around singing "I'm a single lady, I'm a single lady," which has got to me cute. I don't actually hate that song, but I think it's kind of more shapeless than its given credit for.

i've kinda made my peace with "Single Ladies" and don't dislike it as much as i used to, but i will never stop loving its precursor "Get Me Bodied" a hundred times more

23. CASSIE "Me & U"(2006) [390 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6n3_iCdSEA

LOL

#CASSIEFANCLUB!!!! so happy this is so high up, though had been hoping for some of her unreleased classics to place

that track is awesome! never heard before.

That song is soooooooooooo fucking good -- production is just O_O for all time

the little orch-hit stab is very effective

I listened to this expecting to hate it but it's wormed its way in - and yeah that's the production speaking - lots of elements at cross-purposes, lots of space in the sound

voted me&u. that robot girl slays me.

i meant to download the unreleased stuff back when lex&co started making a fuss but... didn't for some reason. lex- you got a link, or can you at least fill me in on what to look out for, what it sounds like etc.?

i agree re: the stab, that's the best part. that song had some weird extended significance to me since it was one of the first songs i heard when i started paying attention to pop music again. it was a very strange reintroduction to pop for me. looking at my ballot again i'm not sure how/why it got pushed off -- really shoulda voted for it. oh well, looks like it did fine as it is.

Still love this. There are Cassie tracks I love more for Cassie herself (Is It You, Official Girl, Turn The Lights Off) but the production here is just so icy and precise. The point where commercial rnb gets so close to early Junior Boys that they're almost touching, probably without even realising it.

thing i am pissed off most about missing in the voting nom btw is wearing my rolex. would have made my top 5.

louis (and everyone else who's hearing it for the first time), you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something. the production is even more outstanding.

always wanted mnml cassy and r&b cassie to do a collab cuz they're both so sparse, but it'll never happen. but braiden put both of them into his sónar warm-up mix!

22. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Someone Great" (2007) [394.5 points, 17 votes]

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

sam, the pick of the cassie demos that fell down the back of diddy's sofa:

"turn the lights off"
"in love with the dj"
"thirsty"
"2 the morning"
"my house"
"activate"
"summer charm"
"fuck u silly

Can't believe it took this long for James Murphy to appear. I still really like Someone Great but I think I prefer it as a section of 45:33.

45:33 was back at #91, fwiw.

Someone Great isn't awful. It's much, much better than at least one of the LCD Soundsystem songs that will tediously turn up in the Top 10.

I guess this means the saccharine, stupid All My Friends is top 10?

haters gonna hate

I still really like Someone Great but I think I prefer it as a section of 45:33.

― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 19:48 (10 minutes ago)

yeah, still p great tho

I actually prefer it with the vocals/lyrics. I'm not really a "lyrics person," but those make me contemplative, especially when combined with that track.

the trouble is that 45:33's rls predates the single/album version

so it seems more like an inspired use of an acappella than s/thing 'in its own right'

Yeah, I heard 45:33 first as well, but I viewed "Someone Great" as an improvement on/development of an already beautiful theme.

i think that's my favorite lcd track but i voted for a different one for some reason. dumb dumb

Someones Great both as a part of 45:33 and as an actual song.

omg ty lex for sorting my listening for the next hour.