ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

i didn't really like never again. i liked sober though. and irvine.

Since You Been Gone - do not enjoy this song at all. It sounds like P!nk at her most obtuse.

11. KLEERUP ft. ROBYN "With Every Heartbeat" (2007) [461.5 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfLvZCdT9g

^^^^^^^ yes

It's the best Robyn track by an absolute mile but I am amazed to see that placing so high.

so fucking gorgeous, and the way it never actually climaxes brings this incredible tension to the lyrics that really makes the song transcendant

I love how this song keeps building and building and never resolves. Normally that would drive me insane, but in this case I credit it for that because it makes me want to keep listening to it.

"Since U Been Gone" was my #1, and no song's placement this high up makes me happier than that of my #2, "Promise." i barely even like any other Ciara songs, but that one's absolutely perfect.

Lady Gaga - Kinda good, don't get how it makes the top 20 esp when Blackout-era Britney hasen't made the list at all.

Burial - If the rest of dubstep sounded like this I'd fucking love it. It sounds like I'm drowning, which is how heartbreak and being alone should sound.

Will listen to the Ciara now. Feel bad about how behind I've got on R&B in the past 5 years.

yeah, best Robyn track by a mile, with no tonic in sight. Pretty cool.

not trying to be "that guy" but the lyrics to "With Every Heartbeat" slay me:

Maybe we could make it all right
We could make it better sometime
Maybe we could make it happen baby
We could keep trying
but things will never change
So I don’t look back
Still I’m dying with every step I take
But I don’t look back
Just a little, little bit better
Good enough to waste some time
Tell me would it make you happy baby
We could keep trying
but things will never change
So I don’t look back
Still I’m dying with every step I take
But I don’t look back
We could keep trying
but things will never change
So I don’t look back
Still I’m dying with every step I take
But I don’t look back
And it hurts with every heartbeat

wow, i'm absolutely shocked that with every heartbeat placed so high! after be mine placed so low i was afraid it wouldn't even place (i was the one who gave it the #1 vote btw). the chord right after the first "and it hurts with every heartbeat" gives me chills without fail.

it absolutely would have been on my ballot had I voted

Promise is so good! And its on the same album as Like A Boy? Is the rest of the album as good as those two tracks?

#
xEmilayeex
2 weeks ago 25
Damn, I sure miss back in '06-'07 when we had nice songs like this . [Example: "Irreplaceable - Beyonce" "With you - Chris Brown" "Promise Ring - Tiffany Evans" "Unfaithful - Rihanna"]. Now all we got is "Tik Tok - Ke$ha" and "Oh Lets Do it - Waka Flock Flame" . I miss the REAL MUSIC! <3 .

Promise is so good! And its on the same album as Like A Boy? Is the rest of the album as good as those two tracks?

it's a great album - i also love "c.r.u.s.h.", "bang it up", "get up", "i proceed", "get in, fit in" off it...

I prefer "Be Mine!" to "With Every Heartbeat," but both are great.

Is the rest of the album as good as those two tracks?

No but there are some decent ones on there though.

Robyn and Kelly both tug at the heart strings. I don't think Gaga has that sincerity yet and compared I think its even more obvious she's not top20 worthy yet. Still think the natural progression in her lolindustry career is to go away for 10 years and make her classic tho.

Gaga's biggest problem is that she is entirely incoherent unless she's talking about partying, so it's relatively difficult for her to evoke an emotional response aside from brattiness. (Sometimes, though, that works really well in her favor a la "Telephone".)

burial kind of sounds like witch house

"witch house" kind of sounds like burial.

sry, can't bring myself to leave out the scare quotes

ilxors, I present your TOP TEN...

10. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "All My Friends" (2007) [488 points, 19 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXp1TQPf2pY

Faster.

WTF

fuck all 19 of you, this song is straight up garbage

cmon you knew that was coming

next please

goddammit if I'd voted, that wouldn't have made the top 10

btw that girls aloud song is an utter fucking snooze, speaking of wtf

god, i know. only brits care about GA right?

I can't remember even how All My Friends goes, even though I've heard SOS quite a few times. When LCD is good, he's really good - but he's yet to release an album that I'd say is consistent enough for me to want to give it classic status. Closest thing is 45:33.

repping for All My Friends. would have been in my top 5 had I voted.

I'm not a brit and I deeply care about GA. All My Friends, however, is anonymity defined.

Ah, just listened to "All My Friends" - it's the boring one from Sound Of Silver isn't it? many better tracks than that on the album.

I'm actually happy it's not higher than #10.

the only track off sound of silver i have any time for is "get innocuous", surprised that never makes it into these polls

love 45:33, hate hate hate SOS

xpost yeah, that track is great. possibly the best one on there, i agree.

fuck all 19 of you, this song is straight up garbage

― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:11 (4 minutes ago)

next please

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:11 (4 minutes ago)

Yeah, I always thought All My Friends was one of the weakest of all James Murphy's singles so far. It's just kind of flat and blech. No emotional pull, no musical accomplishment to it.

It was neck-and-neck with "Someone Great" for a really long time during voting, then it kind of pulled away victorious near the end. I cried inside.

"Get Innocuous!" is great, but "Someone Great" is the true masterpiece; the ambiguity of whether it's about the end of a relationship or a miscarriage totally makes that song.

no emotional pull? really?

btw i agree get innocuous and someone great are both better but whattre you gonna do

loads of emotional pull in All My Friends. also Someone Great is about his father dying, isn't it?

no emotional pull? really?

More when John Cale covers it, I guess. In its original form, though, it's James Murphy on autopilot.

that youtube of GA sounded really poor quality; it may not be ur thing, but a snooze seems a weird reactino

Someone Great is a real earworm for me. I can never get the tune out my head. I think I prefer it on 45:33 though.