ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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

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

it was in contention for my top spot before i realised that "promise" existed but if the entire past decade was turned to dust and all that was left were those two songs i think i'd be satisfied

also it's a decent enough song but did that many people REALLY go to bat for "Blind"?

Wtf at "Atlas"?! This sounds like a Mr. Bungle B side?! It's not completely bad (I like the cartoon vocals and the trancey drums), but I didn't know ILM dug this sort of stuff so much?

"What You Know" was my number 2, behind something that should appear soon enough.

t.i.'s drawl is so genial and menacing and sexy and blazed all at the same time

ilu tip <3 <3 <3

Was assuming, and also hoping, that 1 Thing would take the #1 spot. (Once more, I wish I had gotten off my ass and ranked my singles ballot. For the most part it would have made no difference, but it might have helped 1 Thing.)

it was my #1

I think 1 Thing has a chance of toppling Umbrella, there's just so much joy in that song. Paper Planes might do it too.

i think i should've ranked "still tippin" higher

i would be so happy if Paper Planes were left off by some bizarre ILM oversight

LOADED 44 ON THE LOW WHERE THE CHEESE AT FRESH OFF THE JET TO THE 'JECT WHERE THE GS AT

srs if you don't love this song then there is something wrong with you, you should get checked out for retardation or something

srsly you people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbWll6AUa4

Paper Planes is the second worst song on Kala (rip timbo's talent), I don't get the love. I mean its aiight and all but this high?

Listening to that TI track again and its like the most magnificent steamroller ever.

(ha i just noticed i didn't vote for still tippin and now i'm disgusted with myself.)