ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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

i would be ecstatic if crazy didn't make it!

also still sad I couldn't vote for "Bring Em Out" (if I had voted, I mean)

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

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.

― 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...

crazy's gonna make it

"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~

"but if i feel space isn't in this poll we should scrap it and start over."

this

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.

i was the only person to give What You Know a #1, really?

i'm really sad "still tippin'" won't make it

Tuomas is so so wrong about "Umbrella"!

~fresh off the jet to the 'jects where the Gs at~

Love this line.

Totally didn't see "I Feel Space" on the noms list, maybe cuz it just feels like it's been around forever. xp