ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

ALL MY FRIENDS IS A SHITTY ORBITAL RIP-OFF

NEXT PLZ

TOO MUCH LOVE would be a better vote

There's emotional pull, but it is pulling on emotions I really don't care about.

xp: um, "All My Friends" has a lot of problems but none of them involve Orbital; are you actually deaf and that's why you like Cardiacs so much?

This next track was the early #1 I talked about in the voting thread. It held the spot by a pretty large margin early on, until lots of votes began coming in. It's also the only song in the top 10 to have never fallen out of the top 10 through all 100+ ballots. I didn't even expect it to be in the top 20 before voting began, but hey...what the hell do I know?

like, there are a bunch of New Order touchstones there but nothing Orbital-related unless you are talking about one specific song on Snivilization that sounds nothing like anything else they've done...

09. BATTLES "Atlas" (2007) [515.5 points, 22 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdUZDPRQMY

I am talking about that song xp

Ooh, Atlas! QUALITY

lol @ gratuitous cardiacs zing

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss okay that makes up for ppl voting for the wrong LCD song

Ninth best song of the decade? Are you people insane?

YES WE ARE INSANE WITH AWESOME DRUMZ

All My Friends is a beery singalong tune and OK on those terms, though the end is a bit like being hectored by a highschool Bono.

wow i mean i like battles but that is crazy high and even i would concede atlas might not sound as good as it did in 07

would have definitely been in my top 10. i never tire of it.

Atlas! What a tune!

I once mixed it into "Sailing On THe Seven Seas" by OMD for a joke at an outdoor viking-themed rave.

(altho there are better songs on the album, particularly "Race-In")

Atlas was fun at the time in an "ooh novelty munchkin voices" way but it feels way more stuck in its time than almost anything else here.

it does the whole art-rock-dance build-up/breakdown really sweetly - it's a very good template, a big idea boiled down to its essence

my favourite is Rainbow, also yeah Race-In and TIJ

And yeah, to qualify, All My Friends is very New Order as well but it specifically rips off Kein Trink Wasser something rotten AND makes it shitty

Didn't vote, but Atlas is one of the most important tunes of recent times for me. It's a bit overplayed now, but when that album came out and I went to Primavera, it did feel momentous occassion. They kept getting moved about the timeslots and eventually played at 3AM, but it was the only question anyone was hearing that night was "when are Battles playing?".

The first few times I heard "Atlas" I though "why are people so worked up over this song?" and then I played it through headphones and went "OHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Either 'I Feel Space' isn't going to make this or there's going to be another truly astonishing omission from the top eight. Poor Lindstrom :(

xp they are absurdly good live, that i will say

i've liked or loved a vast majority of this poll (dirty projectors, anco being notable exceptions), but if i feel space isn't in this poll we should scrap it and start over.

Somebody wake up tuomas

oh hey, can you talk to me now?

couldn't get into battles even in 07

Oh hi beautiful, haven't seen you in this thread before xpost

Mirrored has not held up well but it sure sounded cool at the time.

so probably no "i feel space", no "in white rooms", but instead we have...battles. and multiple shitty lcd soundsystem. ugh, ilm.

i bet I Feel Space is still coming.

hahaha a track i voted for in the top 10! (battles)

Lindstrom better make it.

i voted for lindstrom, anyway

In White Things was never realistically gonna make it much higher than Rej did. So we have left:

1 Thing
Crazy
Blind
I Feel Space
Paper Planes
Umbrella
What You Know
Stay Fly
Happy House

One of them is gonna have to give and it's probably I Feel Space. Maybe Blind.

i love the novelty munchkin voices! i think atlas is a fairly deserving track.

rip mia/gnarls (hopefully)

if Paper Planes doesn't make it I will rejoice

oh god please make this end before the WC game starts please

08. T.I. "What You Know" (2006) [558.5 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHd3tuovgI

well we all know "Umbrella" is going to be #1 and I will be shocked and amazed if "Crazy" makes it because I don't think anyone besides me still likes it