ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

really hope lip gloss makes it

Something tells me "The Whisper Song" isn't making the top 100 :'(

this is not 1990-1994 poll xp

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If I Feel Space isn't on this list I'm going to be annoyed I didn't vote.

2006:
10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
8. Lily Allen - LDN
5. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

lol 2006 ilm.

stuff I voted for that's placed so far:

98. CHAMILLIONAIRE ft. KRAYZIE BONE "Ridin'" (2005) [198.5 points, 10 votes]
77. MAXWELL "Pretty Wings" (2009) [227 points, 9 votes]
53. R. KELLY ft. T.I. & T-PAIN "I'm a Flirt" (2007) [275.5 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
49. MARIAH CAREY "We Belong Together" (2005) [283 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
46. KANYE WEST "Flashing Lights" (2007) [288.5 points, 15 votes]
44. THE GAME ft. 50 CENT "Hate It or Love It" (2005) [293.5 points, 14 votes]
42. BEYONCÉ "Irreplaceable" (2006) [295.5 points, 13 votes]
41. THE KILLERS "When You Were Young" (2006) [296.5 points, 14 votes]
38. RICH BOY "Throw Some D's" (2006) [308 points, 14 votes]
36. YOUNG JEEZY ft. KANYE WEST "Put On" (2008) [310.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
25. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ft. T.I. "My Love" (2006) [372.5 points, 16 votes]

Favourite runs so far:

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]

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]

i would really like "bossy" to place, but im not confident

also, no t.i., right? are "whatever you like" & "what you know" both top-20? seems unlikely

what you know is top 5 is my guess, whatever you like won't make it

Yeah I'd go with that. I've never heard Whatever You Like referred to as a best-of-decade contender.

I voted for all the "wrong" songs it seems, from a tactical point of view. Wrong T.I., wrong Cassie, wrong Beyoncé, wrong Gwen, wrong Ne-Yo ... :(

it's pretty insane that the only Lil Wayne track of any kind from the past 5 years that'll be on this list is "A Milli"

everyone voted for the wrong gwen as far as i'm concerned. except the people who voted for "cool" which won't make it :(

didn't vote for any lil wayne in the end, would have gone for shooter or tie my hands if i did. lol thicke fan i guess.

TA DAH! YOUR TOP 20!

OOH BOY

20. LIL WAYNE "A Milli" (2008) [407.5 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTF6N7EWzOA

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yay! :)

whoa thought that would be a LOT higher. nonetheless, another of my votes down!

also wow the vote totals got really high

20 seems about right, I didn't really see it as a top 10 contender seeing as it only got to about number 8 in its year end poll.

I think it's one of the few rap records of the last few years that I know all the words to.

i did think it would be higher than this tbh but nonetheless happy

oh and by "vote totals" i meant "point totals" gosh i'm dumb

"A Milli" basically justifies Lil Wayne for me; I'm very hot and cold on his other stuff but everything about that track is perfection.

19. UGK ft. OUTKAST "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)" (2007) [411 points, 18 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMIbA34MT8

the only Wayne on my ballot was "We Takin' Over" and "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" but on the real this list should've had at least as many of his songs as it did Kanye's

FAR too much Kanye on this list for my liking. Can't be arguing with International Players Anthem though, terrific record, even taking Andre 3000's verse into account.

songs on my ballot that made it:

88. LADY GAGA "Paparazzi" (2009) [209 points, 10 votes]
78. THE FALL "Blindness" (2005) [225.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
68. THE XX "Crystalised" (2009) [239 points, 12 votes]
65. OF MONTREAL "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" (2007) [241.5 points, 10 votes]
63. NELLY FURTADO "Maneater" (2006) [243.5 points, 13 votes]
52. RADIOHEAD "Reckoner" (2007) [280 points, 12 votes]
47. ERYKAH BADU "The Healer" (2008) [285.5 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
(^my #1 vote!)
40. PHOENIX "1901" (2009) [297.5 points, 15 votes]
31. DIRTY PROJECTORS "Stillness Is the Move" (2009) [352 points, 17 votes]
30. BAT FOR LASHES "Daniel" (2009) [355 points, 14 votes]
27. MGMT "Kids" (2008) [371.5 points, 17 votes]

song that didn't make it, and it kind of bums me out:

BORIS, "I Just Abandoned My-Self"

song that I really hopes makes the top 20:

NELLY FURTADO, "Say It Right"

(yeah plus Kanye sux...the fact that Stronger & All My Friends are shoe-ins really depresses me...)

I voted Lollipop instead of A Milli, but I'm way glad to see Weezy finally show up in this poll.... :D

"Stronger" is so not gonna make it

i voted "stuntin like my daddy" too, that really should've made it somewhere!

"int'l players anthem" is kind of overrated imo...love ugk but that's not a standout in their discography at all for me.

Yeah, I was going to post Stronger's actual points/vote total to make you feel better, DAM, but thought better of it. some dude is right, though... it wasn't even close to making it.

lol stronger is a shoe-in?? xpost

What is wrong with three stacks verse on IPA?

xposts Thank God!

I'm trying to figure out who in their right mind who would pick "Stronger" over "Gold Digger" and the only answer I'm coming up with is "people who have never heard 'Gold Digger'"

yeah pretty much. "stronger" is fucking dire imo.

I like it well enough but it never would have made my ballot; "Gold Digger" would have, though.

I love IPA and Andre's verse but this poll was and is otm: Most exasperating Andre 3000 line on UGK's "International Player's Anthem"

18. GIRLS ALOUD "Biology" (2005) [411.5 points, 16 votes, 2 first place votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPtP4t2J1k

xposts cool...I remember "Stronger" making the top of SPIN's end-of-year singles list the year it came out, and thought, "How the hell did deaf people get jobs reviewing music?"

this is a good stretch of tracks

(ps sorry for the derail...never heard girlz aloud)

deserves to be higher imo. still great to see ya'll have neva 4gotten.

wow, actually kinda shocked that got so high. great song though! there's something undeniable about the production during the chorus. well and the chorus in general.

That's the only Girls Aloud record from the second half of the decade that deserves to be anywhere near this poll and it's still great.

girls aloud are another "wtf was i thinking" from the early part of this decade - what a dreadful band they became, and in such a way that it infected all the old good stuff, because everything awful about them post-chemistry was already present in them. i thought "biology" sucked at the time, though, and it still sucks - what a total mess of a song it is.