ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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?

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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"

yeah now that summer is over it is easy to love again, like hey ya or crazy in love are now.

I never got sick of "Hey Ya!" or "Crazy In Love"

I didn't either. And I could listen to Umbrella, Hey Ya and Crazy In Love another 2,000 times each and still not be sick of them.

O_o i can't relate

it's always the case, after you cane an anthem like that 5m times in one summer you get sick of it and can't listen to it for at least a year, maybe two, and then rediscovering it is always such a joyous moment in your lifelong relationship with that song.

never did rediscover "hey ya" though, think i actively dislike it now

No Lindstrom....this is wack

Whack?

01. AMERIE "1 Thing" (2005) [1,114.5 points, 43 votes, 5 first place votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqVg_23otg

were there a bunch of lindstrom tracks nominated? i can't believe he didn't make it unless there was massive vote splitting

"1 Thing" still brilliant.

he'll be all over the albums results, i'm sure xp

xxp <3<3<3

love those drums

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

― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 3:50 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was post-Kingdom Come fyi

i really didn't know that ppl like "1 thing" that much!

would it beat "crazy in love" in a heads up poll?

Surely everyone can agree on I Feel Space though.

were there a bunch of lindstrom tracks nominated? i can't believe he didn't make it unless there was massive vote splitting

ilm dance heads have NOT been representing, in the light of the full results i'm more astonished that "rej" placed than "i feel space", "in white rooms", "ihre persönliche glücksmelodie", "way out" etc didn't - sure you've got dancey sounds all over the place but it seems ilm 2010 needs them presented in pop song form

i would vote for "1 thing" over "crazy in love"

tho i would also vote for "baby boy" over "crazy in love", which isn't a standout beyoncé single for me

"1 Thing" still brilliant.

― maciej recognizing trill, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:06 PM (1 minute ago)

incredibly otm display name

assuming your name is maciej

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 Thing

was it? oh, my bad jay-z, you sucked before then.

amerie is a #1 i think everyone can enjoy. even geir if he still exists, maybe.

johnny you are awesome and if we ever meet i will buy you a drink. jordan when does the album one start?

so is 'touch' garbage? i don't even think it was nominated (the album)

I knew this list would be very short on mainstream rock radio hits, but it's kinda cracking me up that alongside the predictable MGMT and Phoenix songs is the Killers' "When You Were Young," love that song.

lindstrom fans are very serious abt the feeling of space

Touch has a few great tracks but it's probably the weakest of Amerie's first 3 albums, or at least definitely the one that flows the least like an album

well, i can start the albums one tomorrow

i was gonna wait and see if this thread is still raging tomorrow -- if so i'll wait a day -- if it's died down by tomorrow afternoon (EST) i'll start it