ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

smoke all night, sleep all day
that's gon be the american way

judging southern rap songs on your first listen via a youtube is kinda fucking lame, imo

also the "mary jaaaane" verse

Ok, the "fly-y-y-y" bit is catchy, but the I've always found the sort of ratatatat synth hi-hat tick like used in this tune kinda irritating, and by 2005 it was way overdone already.

omg we're @ the top 5

OMG I KNOW RIGHT!?1

05. THE JUAN MACLEAN "Happy House" (2008) [681.5 points, 27 votes, 2 first place votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zVKnweTSDs

Yes! This song >>>> every LCD song.

3 minutes of Happy House is not nearly enough!

Well the full-length version does anyway.

xp!

I actually like the video, so I posted the edit. The full-length version for people not familiar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzbYWQbUmE

wait isnt the full length like 11 minutes?

that's certainly not the full length either

yeah

judging southern rap songs on your first listen via a youtube is kinda fucking lame, imo

― hobbes, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 2:26 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kind of avoiding clicking on any of the songs here i haven't heard in part because i know i'd start trolling this thread pretty damn fast

All I have is the 12 plus minute version.

Yeah? I think maybe you're right. I haven't listened to that version in a long time though, so I forgot.

the 3 min version is the single edit, that 5 min version is the one that leaked out before the full one was even released iirc

Anyway, that's all that's on youtube (that I saw)

next!

five min version is frustrating cuz it cuts off arbitrarily just as it gets going :(

Alright, but I have to run out to the store for a bit. I'll be back soon, I hope, because if I get in a crash and I die, you'll just have to eternally wonder which three songs took the top of the poll and how they were ordered...

04. GNARLS BARKLEY "Crazy" (2006) [724.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w

wack

horribly ominous post :(
xp

Oh yay, glad I was wrong

now theres a song i hate

ugh, "crazy", such a boring song

still hate everything about that song. the vocals, the boring-ass beat, the boring-ass predictable progression. and of course, the lyrics.

Oh no. I mean...cultural phenomenon certainly, but just so....eh. Everyone involved has done far better.

i think it's clearly a classic, not like i want to hear it anymore but yeah

and btw danger mouse has not ever done "far better"

wow the point distances between consecutive songs now are getting enormous.

at least there's no Gorillaz tracks to come or I'd really hate this top 10.
Lex, you will agree with me on that too I'm sure!

so, top three are 1 Thing, Umbrella, and Paper Planes?

i think it's clearly a classic, not like i want to hear it anymore but yeah

― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:53 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's a lot of first place votes to come, unless people didn't rank their ballots

Ugh. I should quit now then.

I don't like anything else Gnarls Barkley's done, but "Crazy" is still dope. The bass sample is some deep shit, and Cee-Lo's little laugh is a cool moment mid-song. But I agree that Cee-Lo's done better things on his own ("Glockappella"!), not sure about Danger Mouse though.

and btw danger mouse has not ever done "far better"

― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:53 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://hudopuika.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ghettopoplife.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxVVmze4J-g

Yay for "Happy House", my number one!

ha actually both non-gb ceelo/dm songs >>>> gnarls barkley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCMCiokExJk&feature=related

love crazy to death, stan forever. amazing track, so deep and haunting, timeless vocal, will still sound great 50 years from now. like several DM & jem tunes almost as much (what u sittin on, ghetto pop life).

speaking of beyonce, how come no one did put a thug on it? seems like a missed opportunity...

The only problem with Crazy was that it was super overplayed.

Still tippin was 04 u goofs

it didn't chart until 2005

now i'm trying to remember who it was that rhymed gnarls barkley with charles barkley as if it was a coincedence that they sounded similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yDXm9cZ7aA

IMO this tune is better than "Crazy" or pretty much any rap tune on this poll, but unfortunately the album it's on came out in summer 2004, so it was ineligible here. (Though that didn't stop "Still Tippin'", apparently.)

I am still holding on to ridiculous hopes that Paper Planes doesn't make it.

i'm just holding out hopes that it doesn't win