ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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)

15 of my votes have made it and i'm pretty confident that another 14 (maybe 15) of them will show up in the top 20

Eh? I'll be pleased if I get to 13 or 14 in total - there isn't a poll yet has ended as I thought it might.

if i get 3 or 4 of my picks included then that would be a record for ilm trax polls for me. But it's not really something to complain about, but i cant help being surprised by the lack of radiohead, i dont see anything else by them placing. Portishead I'm sure will get 2 entries tomorrow.
Wonder how much crossover there will be with the tracks & albums poll.

My guess at what will hit the Top 20:

Amerie - 1 Thing
Battles - Atlas
Burial - Archangel
Ciara - Promise
DJ Quik and Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)
Girls Aloud - Biology
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
Kate Bush - Nocturne
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Lindstrom - I Feel Space
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Portishead - The Rip
Rihanna - Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)
T.I. - What You Know
the juan maclean - happy house
Three 6 Mafia featuring Young Buck and 8Ball & MJG - Stay Fly

And one other, probably a bit indie-friendly dance track (I'll Be By Your Side/Whispers/Way Out/Saturn Strobe/some cobblers by M83)

Actually there are loads more that could make it. I think I'm being optimistic about Young Folks not appearing.

eh my feeling would be that even people who initially liked Young Folks will be sick to death of it by now?

I'm torn between wanting to see I Feel Space up high and wanting it to directly follow Paris, as I've developed a bit of a Pavlovian need for when I listen to the latter.

do people still really like 'young folks'?

i definitely don't think kate bush will place - aerial almost certainly will, but it seems very far away (in time and in sound), i'm not sure anyone will bother isolating any track from it. (do this poll in 2013 and you'd probably see the same effect w/r/t third).

not sure about burial or quik & kurupt either. or ciara tbh, "promise" won't get nearly the same number of casual voters as "oh".

fucking gnarls barkley! just cuz a song is that popular doesn't mean it's anything special!

if "i feel space" places, why not "in white rooms" or "way out"?

still holding out a forlorn hope for "ihre persönliche glücksmelodie"...

o whoops you already mentioned "way out"

um, "relevee"? maybe? that was hugely popular at the time iirc

any chance of a pure "wtf this track is amazing but didnt think enough ilxors had heard of it for it to place" entry in the top 20?

"With Every Heartbeat" and "Fake Empire"

that's not my answer to that question, lol

if "i feel space" places, why not "in white rooms" or "way out"?

Because the Lindstrom fan club is the biggest and most vocal, and Lindstrom always does well in these things, and he only has one track in there, and Booka Shade/Ellen Allien don't. Not sure about Kate Bush but there's only one track in the poll and people might unite behind it.

I don't like Crazy at all but ffs of course it's going to place. If Cassie can make this then Promise is definitely gonna be in there.

I forgot North American Scum, which is in with a chance as well.

I really think 'Nocturn' should place, but it was my nomination and iirc was done pretty late on, so I don't have high hopes for it sadly.

I forgot North American Scum, which is in with a chance as well.

no, no chance at all.

so annoyed i missed my chance to vote

no chance for that but what about Tribulations?

so annoyed i missed my chance to vote

― plax (ico),

T, you say that just about every poll :)

i think i'll scratch off "fake empire," seeing how low it placed in the 07 poll