ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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

I won't give away any spoilers other than to say that a total of 23 first place votes are spent over the course of the top 20 tracks, and #1 has the most of them.

how many dont have a #1 vote?

8 of the 20.

beginning to seriously fear an All My Friends or a Paper Planes #1 - two songs I absolutely and fervently loathe with a visceral passion that eclipses any negative feelings I might bear to the other 98 tracks in this poll

lj maybe "Circle" will be a surprise top 10 entry ;)

29 points down, 375 to go

haha I was listening to Circle earlier and goddamn I said to myself goddamn this shit is real

my predictions for the top 20 that Matt DC didn't cover: "Bad Romance" and "International Player's Anthem"

Yeah I'd originally thought International Player's Anthem, probably deserves to be in there. Bad Romance is the head-slap "oh of course" one.

Okay forget aobut Nocturne placing then...

Outside bets-

Gucci Mane?
Britney?
Dizzee? (Did Pussyole get nommed? Wiley and Dizzee the two biggest sufferers in my votes I guess.)
Another song by The-Dream. Or another 4 songs by The-Dream.

If Wearing My Rolex couldn't crack the top 50 there's no way any Dizzee single will. Britney not appearing in the top 100 at all would certainly be weird...

Wow Roisin made the list! Fucking right!

Still Tippin? I think I could easily damn ilm to hell forever if it doesn't make it over Ridin Dirty as the only Houston hiphop track.

^^^

lex, "promise" will make it, and hopefully top 10

do people still really like 'young folks'?

― ciderpress, Monday, July 5, 2010 4:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like this song, more than stillness is the move even

tbh im not too into a lot of the rap songs here, or theyd be like ... low on my list. 'throw some d's is not my idea of a great rap song, cool beat but i dunno. rich boy is so workmanlike & boring -- hes the ultimate inverse of everyone's stereotype of nas, picks perfect beats but has a clumsy hardheadedness in style

I'm not really into 'Young Folks', but I like the bit that sounds like Shakira.

i don't think a lot of people would disagree about Rich Boy being boring and there's a reason the one song of his everyone loves is the one with a super-memorable Polow verse

yeah i know i just ... have trouble caring about a lot of one-hit wonder rapper dudes these days. popism rules rip

"every freak should have a picture of my dick on they wall" was the "I don't wear tight jeans like the white boys" of its day

did you even vote dude?

no -- i just wanted to hate on this average song & big up 'young folks'

Only six of mine have shown up so far, though there are at least three I expect to see in the top 20 (obvious Burial/Juan Maclean/LCD picks). What has surprised me most is the lack of surprises - we have the big pop hits, the big Pitchfork/GAPDY tracks, the hip-hop tracks (which maybe intersect the "big pop hits" if you're in the US, I don't know), but there's nothing that makes me go "wow that's amazing, how come I never heard that before?". Rej is the closest, I guess.

Oh, and Young Folks wtf - is this seriously going to chart?

I'll be ecstatic if any Air France/Ikonika/Holy Ghost!/Paavoharju make it but I can't see it happening.

shit this also means no fantasia? i can't be the only one who voted for "when i see u"

brainwasher in the house?

"every freak should have a picture of my dick on they wall" was the "I don't wear tight jeans like the white boys" of its day

― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, July 5, 2010 8:04 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

more like the "white girls fun, cuz all them swallow" of its day

i really do think that in general, rich boy is a good but not great rapper, workmanlike who def fails when the production around him is rote -- but the verses are truly great on that song -- he just wrote the verses of his life

because of you as highest ne-yo seems absurd and rong but i guess vote splitting ruined the fun

My guess at what will hit the Top 20:

No Lady Gaga? Just Dance and Bad Romance are still left.

Oops, someone already posted that.

And Poker Face. I'm guessing 2 of the 3 will make it?

Ugh.

i really do think that in general, rich boy is a good but not great rapper, workmanlike who def fails when the production around him is rote -- but the verses are truly great on that song -- he just wrote the verses of his life

― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 5, 2010 8:43 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

more like recycled the one great verse he already had from the "back in the mud" remix

but yeah don't get me started on the rongness of the one Ne-Yo song that made the cut (my ballot had "So Sick" AND "Closer" AND "Miss Independent")

he just wrote the verses of his life

well i don't see what the difference is

99. DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY "Welcome to Jamrock" (2005) [197 points, 11 votes]
97. RÓISÍN MURPHY "Overpowered" (2007) [199.5 points, 10 votes]
94. THE-DREAM "Fancy" (2009) [205.5 points, 8 votes]
89. GIRLS "Lust for Life" (2008) [209 points, 8 votes]
88. LADY GAGA "Paparazzi" (2009) [209 points, 10 votes]
85. JACKIE CHAIN ft. JHI ALI "Rollin'" (2008) [212.5 points, 7 votes]
77. MAXWELL "Pretty Wings" (2009) [227 points, 9 votes]
76. ÂME "Rej" (2005) [228 points, 10 votes]
72. GANG GANG DANCE "House Jam" (2008) [230.5 points, 11 votes]
61. AMY WINEHOUSE "Rehab" (2006) [250.5 points, 12 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]
44. THE GAME ft. 50 CENT "Hate It or Love It" (2005) [293.5 points, 14 votes]

i dig/would vote for these. some stuff i cut is 'album track' kinda shit like '9x outta ten' or 'stuck between statinos'

the difference between hearing that beat and being inspired to jot something down and grabbing some bars he'd already recorded 3 years earlier is all (xpost)

stuck between latinos

if I could nom one track that wasn't on the list it would probably be the Fred Falke remix of Golden Cage. Pretty solid list all things considered though! Discovered some great stuff already.

i dig/would vote for these. some stuff i cut is 'album track' kinda shit like '9x outta ten' or 'stuck between statinos'

― blap...tremendo (deej), Monday, July 5, 2010 9:04 PM (11 minutes ago)

see i have a hard time doing these too, b/c apparently like you i want to shy away from 'album cuts' but going with "lust for life" over "stuck between stations" and "9xs" is really splitting hairs and pretty arbitrary.

not criticizing what you said, just saying i don't know where the line is either really