ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

still holding out hope for Trap Goin Ham

oh paper planes. i mean it's a really good track. but still i don't think it should be this high. on kala alone there were like 4 better songs, including "boyz" which is my fav m.i.a. single

i don't even like "boyz" but "bamboo banga", "bird flu" and "hussel" are all way way above "paper planes"

"Hussel" sux, dude.

I think part of the mass appeal of "Paper Planes" has to do with the sample it's based around. I mean, I'm not saying everyone is a big stan of "Straight to Hell," but it's a legitimately pleasing sound. On top of that, "Paper Planes" is right catchy.

still holding out hope for Trap Goin Ham

― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 20:33 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think this would be the greatest achievement in ilm history; even better than the animal collection rickroll.

I voted for 'Trap' but yeah no chance it appears.

I think part of the mass appeal of "Paper Planes" has to do with the sample it's based around. I mean, I'm not saying everyone is a big stan of "Straight to Hell," but it's a legitimately pleasing sound. On top of that, "Paper Planes" is right catchy.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 3:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh god no not this again, please no, anything but this

"hussel" is definitely the best track m.i.a.'s ever done.

i still have no idea which bit of "paper planes" is the clash sample, lol

noooooooooooo

can we just not talk about this again, please? honestly

Yeah, I didn't mean to initiate SAMPLE WARZ '10, but that bit of "Straight to Hell" is a goddamn fine sample.

"Paper Planes" is not the best song on Kala but I like it and I'm glad it did well.

xp to Rev: get yer ears checked son, "Hussel" is hotness (although best track on the album honors is a tossup between "Bamboo Banger" and "$20")

anyway, paper planes is fantastic, head and shoulders above anything else on kala. strikes me as the kind of album that people buy for the single and aren't exactly disappointed with, but...

white ppl responsible for an asian chick ever making good music, The Sun states.

ooooookay...before this devolves, I'd better put up #2.

Btw should '1 Thing' beat 'Umbrella' by less than 40 pts then I accept responsibility seeing as I gave it 40pts and 'Umbrella' zero.

pandemic deserves high fives.

02. RIHANNA ft. JAY-Z "Umbrella" (2007) [974.5 points, 41 votes, 3 first place votes]

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

wow -- really did not think "1 thing" was gonna win

anyway, paper planes is fantastic, head and shoulders above anything else on kala. strikes me as the kind of album that people buy for the single and aren't exactly disappointed with, but...

no it fucking isn't

I mean, it's head and shoulders above "Jimmy", "The Turn" and "Mango Pickle Down River" but so is everything else on the album, including the dubious Timbaland song

in the full decade list can we man up and just pick one or two the-dream songs because that guy got killed by vote splitting

best part of umbrella is the drum sound imo

also "Umbrella" is still mad overrated although Rihanna gets a big "yesssssssssssssssssssssss" for the video

lol garageband

also holy shit @ the points jump between these

if jay-z wasn't on it umbrella would be the best.

umbrella is a jam but i'm always surprised that it's considered like a universal jam.

yeah points jump is crazy -- nothing like that in the albums poll

it's pretty easy to remove jay-z from the track

people always trash Jay's verse on that but I feel like the song is totally bolstered by having that as its intro and i kind of like how he fits every possible rain pun possible into those 8 bars

Isn't there a Jay-Zless remix of the tune?

(x-post)

jay is tolerable--i hardly ever remember that he's there unless i actually listen to the song

i think at the time people were rightfully like "this verse sucks!" cuz it was still sort of at the point where a jay-z guest verse (let alone to open the song) was some sort of event song, but in reality it's pretty much just okay and doesn't affect the song at all

Its not a terrible verse but it just seems like the first part of his downfall.

Rihanna is ONLY 22? Fucking hell I have done nothing with my life and yet her career is p much perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2177pHMT0

But yeah, apparently "Umbrella" has a wide universal appeal, because this rather crappy cover version was a big hit too (in Finland and Germany at least).

i think there is some unspoken rule that umbrella has to be considered amazing by everyone on earth (except my father) and that's why it placed so high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pfG6j-cuw

Embedding disabled because Youtube loves us, I'm guessing.

it's like if you went 35 seconds forward

i thought the jay verse sucked at the time and it kind of does, but i've made my peace with it now, and probably wouldn't choose to listen to any of the jay-less versions of "umbrella" over the original

i liked how rihanna added an extra syllable to umbrella - um-ber-ell-a - and then lil mama added a fifth syllable in her remix - um-bub-er-ell-a - and i kept waiting for someone to add a sixth but no one was man enough :(

"umbrella" really is just insanely massive

both "Don't Stop The Music" and "Disturbia" are better; this is basically just as bad as "Unfaithful"

I think "Umbrella" is probably the last super-massive-mega-huge-worldwide single we've seen, and it's three years old now. I really have no idea where (or who) the next one will come from, but it's probably not this year.

Bad Romance felt a bit like that.

"viva la vida"

J Fever otm. "umbrella" was prob the most overplayed radio hit of the last five years, everyone i know got incredibly sick of it.

terius told me he originally wrote "umbrella" with britney in mind, as a mother singing to her children; though iirc he did tell different stories to different journalists about that song

i'm never sick of "umbrella"