ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

the only girls aloud keeper from 05-09 is obv "whole lotta history"

stronger reminds me of like empire state of mind or something where it had huge mainstream crossover appeal 2 ppl who barely follow pop/rnb music...like a friend of mine, when it was out, commented 2 me abt it being srsly inspirational 2 her

i thought "biology" sucked at the time, though, and it still sucks - what a total mess of a song it is.

^ this. I hate that Girls Aloud couldn't really be represented otherwise, but "Biology" is garbage.

while i'm happy to see someone rep for 'whole lotta history' (probably their only good ballad imo), lex (and johnny) you are insane.

xposts

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

it seems people HAVE forgotten about the sugababes though, when it comes to british girl groups who used to set the pace then fell off spectacularly - their infinitely superior "ace reject" was in the noms list, it never had a hope of placing though. if you haven't heard it, you should.

sugababes were ALWAYS better than girls aloud, and it was never even close. (mis-teeq were obviously better than both, ;_; sacrificed on the altar of victoria beckham's solo career)

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

Haha HANGUPs.

lol their dancing is awful in that vid

the first few times i heard "biology" i was kind of offended by the muddy waters thing so i didn't really give it a chance for a while. but now i love it.

Sugababes had many amazing singles, but they had almost as many absolutely dreadful ones. Also I think WWTNS -> Chemistry -> Tangled Up are, barring 2 or 3 tracks, pretty fantastic.

Both GA and the Sugababes are WELL past their sell-by date as is that entire aesthetic but it was fucking brilliant up until a point that is only *just* within the remit of this poll. If anything the Sugababes fell off even harder if their recent stuff is anything to go by but who cares really.

lol strongers existence.

biology is a jam, the whole album is <3 4eva. If you like that you really should check the Rachel Stevens album Come And Get It. I know she may be as dull in person as a Sam Allardyce team but that album is poss the best pop record of the decade, Blackout withstanding.

it's also partly cuz cheryl cole has somehow become one of the most insufferable ubiquitous celebrities around i'm never quite sure about the extent to which people buy the ridiculous "nation's sweetheart" thing she tries to craft ham-fistedly around herself.

Sugababes were much better 00-04.

Girls Aloud's rubbish dancing has always been charming. "We are too drunk or busy being wags to learn routines, lets just do some silly hand gestures" (later stolen by beyonce.)

RIP Cheryl btw. What Ashley can't kill, malaria sure can.

ahoy ahoy OTM xpost

shouldn't let Out of Control (despite a couple of great tracks) and Cheryl's ubiquity/dreams of breaking US with bland R&B pop ruin the glory days.