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?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
09. BATTLES "Atlas" (2007) [515.5 points, 22 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdUZDPRQMY
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I am talking about that song xp
Ooh, Atlas! QUALITY
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ gratuitous cardiacs zing
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss okay that makes up for ppl voting for the wrong LCD song
Ninth best song of the decade? Are you people insane?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
YES WE ARE INSANE WITH AWESOME DRUMZ
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― calumerio, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
would have definitely been in my top 10. i never tire of it.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(altho there are better songs on the album, particularly "Race-In")
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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?".
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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!"
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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 :(
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp they are absurdly good live, that i will say
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Somebody wake up tuomas
― BEAROTAURDED (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey, can you talk to me now?
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
couldn't get into battles even in 07
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh hi beautiful, haven't seen you in this thread before xpost
― BEAROTAURDED (jjjusten), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Mirrored has not held up well but it sure sounded cool at the time.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
so probably no "i feel space", no "in white rooms", but instead we have...battles. and multiple shitty lcd soundsystem. ugh, ilm.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i bet I Feel Space is still coming.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha a track i voted for in the top 10! (battles)
Lindstrom better make it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted for lindstrom, anyway
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
In White Things was never realistically gonna make it much higher than Rej did. So we have left:
1 ThingCrazyBlindI Feel SpacePaper PlanesUmbrellaWhat You KnowStay FlyHappy House
One of them is gonna have to give and it's probably I Feel Space. Maybe Blind.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the novelty munchkin voices! i think atlas is a fairly deserving track.
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
rip mia/gnarls (hopefully)
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
if Paper Planes doesn't make it I will rejoice
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god please make this end before the WC game starts please
― moullet, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
08. T.I. "What You Know" (2006) [558.5 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHd3tuovgI
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i would be ecstatic if crazy didn't make it!
― exit through the (Tape Store), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
also still sad I couldn't vote for "Bring Em Out" (if I had voted, I mean)
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the novelty munchkin voices! i think atlas is a fairly deserving track.― teledyldonix, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 10:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 10:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 1:39 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Is Happy House that loved? I voted for it but Juan Maclean over all LCD tracks seems strange...
― skip, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
crazy's gonna make it
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"what you know" is such a monster, am in such awe of everything about it. ~fresh off the jet to the 'jects where the Gs at~
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"but if i feel space isn't in this poll we should scrap it and start over."
this
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I just realized "Umbrella" is gonna win this, isn't it? It's a good song, but totally suffers from "Hey Ya" syndrome, i.e. it (plus the remixes and cover versions) has been played so many times at every club/radio station/store/etc I never wanna hear it again. Regarding this, it's the exact opposite of it's 2000-04 counterpart "Crazy in Love", which just got better the more times you heard it.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i was the only person to give What You Know a #1, really?
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm really sad "still tippin'" won't make it
― exit through the (Tape Store), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Tuomas is so so wrong about "Umbrella"!
~fresh off the jet to the 'jects where the Gs at~
Love this line.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally didn't see "I Feel Space" on the noms list, maybe cuz it just feels like it's been around forever. xp
― maciej recognizing trill, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link