ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

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IF YOU SCARED OF THE DARK...u must be white...
JUST ONE DROP...MELANIN...DMT...FUNK...SOUL...JUST ONE DROP!!!

21. FRIENDLY FIRES "Paris (Aeroplane Remix)" (2008) [403.5 points, 18 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUW6i55yBbI

^^^the best (considering my #2 almost certainly won't place ;_; and my #1 will almost certainly be top 5).

awesome song, glad it made it so high

wow, wasn't expecting the "paris" remix to place so high...but it absolutely deserves it.

weird that people are bitching about the inclusion of santigold's l.e.s. artistes on a list that gives high marks to girls and dirty projectors

wouldn't be surprised to see Whispers in the top 20 either.

there is something awkwardly catchy about that dirty projectors song, i can see how its shortcomings are part of the appeal. i find myself listening to it on youtube whenever it comes up on ILM. the beat is such a joke, though; watching them try to dance to it in the video is really embarrassing.

Wednesday

100. NE-YO "Because of You" (2007) [195.5 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
99. DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY "Welcome to Jamrock" (2005) [197 points, 11 votes]
98. CHAMILLIONAIRE ft. KRAYZIE BONE "Ridin'" (2005) [198.5 points, 10 votes]
97. RÓISÍN MURPHY "Overpowered" (2007) [199.5 points, 10 votes]
96. THE KNIFE "Marble House" (2006) [204.5 points, 10 votes]
95. CAMERA OBSCURA "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" (2006) [204.5 points, 11 votes]
94. THE-DREAM "Fancy" (2009) [205.5 points, 8 votes]
93. BIG BOI ft. GUCCI MANE "Shine Blockas" (2009) [206 points, 8 votes]
92. CORTNEY TIDWELL "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects in Space Remix)" (2007) [207.5 points, 10 votes]
91. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "45:33" (2006) [208 points, 10 votes]
90. WASHED OUT "Feel it All Around" (2009) [208.5 points, 10 votes]
89. GIRLS "Lust for Life" (2008) [209 points, 8 votes]
88. LADY GAGA "Paparazzi" (2009) [209 points, 10 votes]
87. ROBYN "Be Mine" (2005) [209 points, 12 votes]
86. THE HOLD STEADY "Stuck Between Stations" (2007) [210.5 points, 8 votes]
85. JACKIE CHAIN ft. JHI ALI "Rollin'" (2008) [212.5 points, 7 votes]
84. FEVER RAY "Seven" (2009) [212.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
83. FUTURE OF THE LEFT "Arming Eritrea" (2009) [213.5 points, 10 votes]
82. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "SexyBack" (2006) [216 points, 9 votes]
81. JOY ORBISON "Hyph Mngo" (2009) [219.5 points, 9 votes]

Thursday

80. YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Zero" (2009) [221.5 points, 9 votes]
79. CHROMATICS "In the City" (2006) [223.5 points, 8 votes]
78. THE FALL "Blindness" (2005) [225.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
77. MAXWELL "Pretty Wings" (2009) [227 points, 9 votes]
76. ÂME "Rej" (2005) [228 points, 10 votes]
75. GHOSTFACE KILLAH "Shakey Dog" (2006) [228 points, 11 votes]
74. MGMT "Time to Pretend" (2007) [228 points, 13 votes]
73. DJ QUIK & KURUPT "9x Outta Ten" (2009) [229.5 points, 10 votes]
72. GANG GANG DANCE "House Jam" (2008) [230.5 points, 11 votes]
71. KANYE WEST "Love Lockdown" (2008) [230.5 points, 12 votes]
70. GRINDERMAN "No Pussy Blues" (2007) [232 points, 9 votes]
69. HOT CHIP "Ready for the Floor" (2008) [237.5 points, 11 votes]
68. THE XX "Crystalised" (2009) [239 points, 12 votes]
67. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "Fireworks" (2007) [240 points, 11 votes]
66. JUNIOR BOYS "In the Morning" (2006) [240.5 points, 12 votes]
65. OF MONTREAL "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" (2007) [241.5 points, 10 votes]
64. FEVER RAY "When I Grow Up" (2009) [243 points, 11 votes]
63. NELLY FURTADO "Maneater" (2006) [243.5 points, 13 votes]
62. KANYE WEST "Can't Tell Me Nothing" (2007) [249.5 points, 15 votes]
61. AMY WINEHOUSE "Rehab" (2006) [250.5 points, 12 votes]

Friday

60. WILEY "Wearing My Rolex" (2008) [252 points, 12 votes]
59. TAYLOR SWIFT "Love Story" (2008) [259 points, 12 votes]
58. KANYE WEST ft. JAMIE FOXX "Gold Digger" (2005) [261.5 points, 12 votes]
57. CIARA ft. LUDACRIS "Oh" (2005) [262.5 points, 11 votes]
56. PANDA BEAR "Bros" (2006) [262.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
55. GWEN STEFANI "Hollaback Girl" (2005) [265.5 points, 12 votes]
54. STUDIO "Out There" (2006) [269.5 points, 12 votes]
53. R. KELLY ft. T.I. & T-PAIN "I'm a Flirt" (2007) [275.5 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
52. RADIOHEAD "Reckoner" (2007) [280 points, 12 votes]
51. PHOENIX "Lisztomania" (2009) [281 points, 17 votes]
50. JUSTICE "D.A.N.C.E." (2007) [282.5 points, 16 votes]
49. MARIAH CAREY "We Belong Together" (2005) [283 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
48. ESTELLE ft. KANYE WEST "American Boy" (2008) [284 points, 12 votes]
47. ERYKAH BADU "The Healer" (2008) [285.5 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
46. KANYE WEST "Flashing Lights" (2007) [288.5 points, 15 votes]
45. MIDLAKE "Roscoe" (2006) [289 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
44. THE GAME ft. 50 CENT "Hate It or Love It" (2005) [293.5 points, 14 votes]
TIE 42. HOT CHIP "Boy From School" (2006) [295.5 points, 13 votes]
TIE 42. BEYONCÉ "Irreplaceable" (2006) [295.5 points, 13 votes]
41. THE KILLERS "When You Were Young" (2006) [296.5 points, 14 votes]

Today...

40. PHOENIX "1901" (2009) [297.5 points, 15 votes]
39. HOT CHIP "Over and Over" (2006) [301 points, 15 votes]
38. RICH BOY "Throw Some D's" (2006) [308 points, 14 votes]
37. TV ON THE RADIO "Wolf Like Me" (2006) [310.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
36. YOUNG JEEZY ft. KANYE WEST "Put On" (2008) [310.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. LADYTRON "Destroy Everything You Touch" (2005) [324.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
34. THE KNIFE "Silent Shout" (2006) [331 points, 19 votes]
33. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "My Girls" (2009) [339.5 points, 13 votes]
32. MADONNA "Hung Up" (2005) [351 points, 16 votes]
31. DIRTY PROJECTORS "Stillness Is the Move" (2009) [352 points, 17 votes]
30. BAT FOR LASHES "Daniel" (2009) [355 points, 14 votes]
29. TAYLOR SWIFT "You Belong With Me" (2008) [359 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
28. THE KNIFE "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (2006) [369 points, 20 votes]
27. MGMT "Kids" (2008) [371.5 points, 17 votes]
26. SANTIGOLD "L.E.S. Artistes" (2008) [372 points, 17 votes]
25. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ft. T.I. "My Love" (2006) [372.5 points, 16 votes]
24. BEYONCÉ "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (2008) [386.5 points, 17 votes]
23. CASSIE "Me & U" (2006) [390 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes]
22. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Someone Great" (2007) [394.5 points, 17 votes]
21. FRIENDLY FIRES "Paris (Aeroplane Remix)" (2008) [403.5 points, 18 votes]

...and the Top 20 comes tomorrow. wah00!

defeated in my attempt to dislike that friendly fires rmx

It's not even really a remix. It's a cover. But it's always been billed as a remix anyway.

don't know the original and just heard the cover/rmx. first third is wonderful (love the clink-clank percussion), so's the back half (love EVERYTHING). which leaves about a minute and a half of thumb-twiddling in the middle, but i gather it's not exactly designed for home listening.

The point where commercial rnb gets so close to early Junior Boys that they're almost touching

Ha, yeah, I put "Me & U" right before "The Equalizer" on my best-of-'06 playlist.

Wasn't nommed (for shame) but this is my fave dance remix (of the few I've heard) that came out in this period:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq5R3qgAms8

would like to know what ppl make of it

love it. a lot of ILX dance stans don't like sally shapiro, though, iirc.

I don't like the original very much but this is a completely different song

you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something
you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something
you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something
you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something
you absolutely have to hear it in HQ...d/l off itunes or something

is that in ref to the track LJ posted or Me & U?

Great work Johnny, this is excellent fun. I'm at 9 from my forty now - picked up some speed today. It's kind of painful every time a 'Paris' or 'My Love' turns up which I didn't vote for, but a great pleasure to discover them again.

My favourite new discovery is Studio 'Hold Me', but the biggest pleasure is 'Hollaback Girl' - I thought it was embarrassingly bad at the time for some reason, but give it a bit of distance and it's actually fantastic.

I can explain a little bit of the 2008/9 bias btw, if that still applies - I get more great music from musically's end-of-years than pretty much any other source, and I've been here 2 or 3 years, so I'm certainly contributing to that.

i'm assuming you mean 'Out There'?

'Out There' is my fav song to appear in the poll. It prob would've been my #1 if i'd voted.

uh, yeah ... like I said, it made a massive impact on me

Tracks I've voted for:

84. FEVER RAY "Seven" (2009) [212.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
78. THE FALL "Blindness" (2005) [225.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
72. GANG GANG DANCE "House Jam" (2008) [230.5 points, 11 votes]
65. OF MONTREAL "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" (2007) [241.5 points, 10 votes]
54. STUDIO "Out There" (2006) [269.5 points, 12 votes]
52. RADIOHEAD "Reckoner" (2007) [280 points, 12 votes]
34. THE KNIFE "Silent Shout" (2006) [331 points, 19 votes]
28. THE KNIFE "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (2006) [369 points, 20 votes]

The only one I've possibly (probably) gotten into the top 100 is "Seven", and I also think "Out There" would be top 20 easily if everyone on ILX had heard it - it's an all-consuming monster that panders to every conceivable taste

So happy that Friendly Fires remix made it - I really like the swell of Kompakt-ish fuzz in the original but the Aeroplane mix just something else. Also it is clearly the best mixtape-for-girls-you-fancy song of the decade, hands down.

If Whispers places I will be so, so happy. Given that I just can't envisage I Feel Space not placing, that would represent a decent haul for the ILM cosmic disco crew.

i thought i hated Of Montreal, i don't remember what've i've heard by them before, but i actually really enjoyed 'The Past is a Grotesque Animal' despite the pretentious lyrics.

I got Hyph Mngo in.

The Radiohead one was another pleasant surprise, I'd written them off long ago but it's pretty lovely. I hate their aesthetic though - it looks like they've spent shedloads on making the video that horrible.

i almost just watched a solo acoustic version on youtube that would've destroyed my appreciation for the song, though.

I've heard the Friendly Fires album and the only song that leapt out at me was Jump In The Pool - am spinning this remix now - it had better slay the o.g.

how long will it take until everyone can guess all the remaining tracks (if not the order)?

ok about halfway in this became goddamn glorious while I wasn't even paying attention - would NARROWLY take the Shapiro remix over it but wow, well done ILX

i really never got 'my love' - challops alert but i don't really love justin as a vocalist though. it's not even in like the top 10% of timbo shit either wrt production, it's a cool song but idk

"me & u" - yes. hear this less and less on the radio but it's a joy each time it comes on. one of r-les's best production jobs, and cassies voice is just a perfect fit - she basically floats above the song, which gives it this trance-y quality for me.

love the dirty projectors but never agreed with the indie consensus that "stillness is the move" was an ~important track~, it's a nice song but doesn't deserve to be anywhere near that high. far worse though are the reactions to the song, as usual - honestly quit fronting like it's anything offensive. i've heard the 'longstreth can't sing' criticism before but still don't get it, his voice is really powerful (in the literal sense) and unique, and it shows live.

ditto basically for that animal collective song, i dig AC in general but my eyes never really have unrolled from all the "now i never liked this band, but THIS song, man this is good!" that went on last year. placed far lower than i assumed it would though, which is fortunate i guess (what's kinda amusing though is the distance ppl place between songs that a bunch of people like enough to vote for - i guess i'm guilty of it too - like a song'll place in the top 40 or whatever and because it's shown up on gorilla vs bear or some other awful site all you see is people acting like their entire families have just been murdered.)

voted for the cassie, rich boy, taylor, & jeezy i think

i assume the final 20 will be made up entirely of the remaining songs from those knife, fever ray, and LCD albums

really love "daniel" too, wish i had voted for that but i ended up rounding out my ballot w/ a few personal faves that weren't even nominated

'My Love' is amazing, hearing it again now I can't believe I left it out. I always thought it would sound cool slowed right down & used as muzak in a sushi restaurant.

Voted for two other JT tracks though which I guess we might see yet.

radiohead have done badly in this poll.

yeah i'm honestly surprised, if every album track from all of karen dershlingerdur's albums makes it you'd think radiohead would have a good shot at getting more than just one

yay, I had assumed 'Paris' was my jam that no one else particularly cared about, having only come across it through downloading all the Aeroplane I could find, so it's nice to see that my loves are ~consensus~.

There's only really In Rainbows from this half of the decade and the track that would probably have finished really high (Nude) wasn't nominated.

That Sally Shapiro remix is really good Louis - not heard it before. I've been sort of expecting I'll Be By Your Side to place in this poll but it seems a bit late now. I find her a bit cloying most of the time, remixes aside, but that one track is amazing - I almost wish she'd never recorded anything else and it had just stood there as this one-off classic.

By the way LJ if that remix and the Aeroplane one really do it for you then you need this compilation immediately.

portishead are getting at LEAST one in here - gonna say both Machine Gun and The Rip, with Machine Gun going top 10

Matt, Miracle is the only Shapiro song I've heard! I listened to the original, didn't like it very much - but I could easily be persuaded to listen to other works of hers. Thank MPx4A for this btw - he played it on a Stylus podcast thingy and I was all 'whaaaa'

ooh neat, ty

'The Rip' is by far the better song, but I wouldn't be surprised if all the Portishead votes have been saved for the albums poll.

oh yeah lack of portishead surprising unless theres a few tracks to place really high. But y'know if fever ray/knife has lots of entries why not shitloads of portishead?

but I wouldn't be surprised if all the Portishead votes have been saved for the albums poll.

on the evidence so far, it doesn't seem like too many people understand the concept of saving votes for their most appropriate poll.

EVERYONE needs that permanent vacation comp imo

I understand it more with the likes of The Knife who have great tracks and dull tracks, but Portishead don't really have peaks and troughs (to me anyway, 'The Rip' excepted)