ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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this is Amerie

(actually I really really really like "Videotape" regardless of where I hear it but that whole album was not at all what I wanted given their other 00s albums)

crut that song was a top 10 hit in america fwiw

sup baby

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"Night Falls" was always my favorite Booka Shade track.

i'd like to take an informal straw poll

do yall want me to start the albums results tomorrow or should we take a day off?

day off IMO

Pull the trigger. #100-80 is practically a day off anyway.

start tomorrow

^

#100-80 was one of the best sections of the trax list!

(don't mind when tbh)

(re: albums, all i am concerned about is whether paris will receive any other votes at all, or whether the rest of the world is continuing to lie to itself ;_; )

alright tomorrow it is

i'll try and wake up and start it around noon EST, but much more likely i won't wake up until 1:30

btw there's a three way tie for 100th place

lol that makes me imagine you setting an alarm 2 wake up and post 2 ilx xp

actually wait a load of it is going to be during the incredibly important world cup match isn't it

ooh a 3-way tie for 100th place! awesome

oh ffs we are not letting the fucking football dictate this ARE WE

also lol at pfunkboy handing 39 points to Circle, WE TRIED DUDE :D

Only reason I voted in the tracks poll was because you nominated it. I felt i had to vote for it incase we could sneak it in. I'd loved to have seen the reaction to it here (especially from Tuomas & The Lex)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duuxhRsBx5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6ZJHhYpjkM

I listened to that song again today - good fucking god it rules

really sorry for getting lex's hopes up by nominating "In White Rooms" and then forgetting to vote.

how on Earth did 1 Thing beat Umbrella, the best pop song of the decade? 1 Thing got me very excited in 2005 but Umbrella's just an eternal tune

20 minutes and 45 seconds of 'hang on this isn't Kelly Clarkson any more' xpost

I like "1 Thing," but I don't quite love it because Amerie's vocals strike me as rather nondescript. I get she's deliberately underplaying the emotion to get across a certain tough-girl sex goddess persona, but the delivery ends up sounding like a kind of cookie cutter r&b shout, without much in the way of nuance or feeling. The song is supposed to be about a conflict between sexual and emotional satisfaction, but she doesn't really bother conveying any of the potential pathos of that dilemma, choosing to just strike a sustained note of urgent irritation. Of course, the brilliance of that sample almost makes up for a lot.

It is really fucking depressing to think I've got 40 more years of hearing people reminisce about "Umbrella" ahead of me.

*the brilliance of that sample makes up for a lot.* Don't know what that almost is doing there.

102 Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything 193.5 9 1

That was my number 1. So fucking close.

It is really fucking depressing to think I've got 40 more years of hearing people reminisce about "Umbrella" ahead of me.

― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 5:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol seriously. "when that caribbean android repeated those two nonsense syllables for 50 bars, my heart stopped with joy".

i voted for white rooms.

more angry about the silent majority i hoped would rep relevee [spoiler: never emerged].

#100-80 was one of the best sections of the trax list!

REAL TALK. I almost didn't continue, as I knew it was just going to be a huge disappointment. ;)

more angry about the silent majority i hoped would rep relevee [spoiler: never emerged].

i know right. i really thought "relevee" has a ton of ilm traction ;_;

*had

also lololol at Toilet Door Tits being someone's number one XD

― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 1:56 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

hahahaha was it you

lol that makes me imagine you setting an alarm 2 wake up and post 2 ilx xp

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 5:26 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is exactly it tbh

Lex why all the love for In White Rooms? Mandarine Girl is much better in my opinion, but I doubt it would make my top 100 of the last 5 years…

Enjoyed the poll even though I missed the voting.

great poll, brilliant fun, thanks very much to Johnny F

^^^

yep

Mandarine Girl is better than In White Rooms but the former wasn't nominated. Body Language is better than both, its an actual ubiquitous dance anthem, have an amazing memory of hearing an entire field full of drunk Portuguese people singing it football stadium style.

I love 1 Thing but He Aint Wit Me Now by RICHGIRL beats it at its own game. As does Amerie's own Gotta Work franky. But this is still a victory for the less obvious pick, and for that ILM I salute you.

hahahaha was it you

― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 2:46 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

i would've voted for a lot of the dance stuff that got left off :(

who voted for 'minimoonstar'? i think i nommed that one.

this surprises me: Lil Wayne - Lolipop 27.5 2

I prefer "Lollipop" to "A Milli" (think I said this earlier) but voted for the latter because I knew "Lollipop" was gonna get reamed in this poll. Not a lot of ILM love for that track, unfortunately.

#112 and #135 were the highest positions for tracks i voted for ;_;

102 Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything 193.5 9 1

That was my number 1. So fucking close.

― Fellini.Kuti, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, that was high up on my list. I think this means the album has a good chance to place though :)

why wasnt this nominated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaHMp5kjog

Looks like it's safe to reload this thread again now that I am logged in with images off. My PC was freezing up a lot earlier this afternoon thanks to this.

yeah, have got quite a bit of mileage out of shit and shine these past couple years, esp the epic 1-riff noise jams like TDT. not saying it's really and truly my favorite song or anything, but i knew no one else was gonna vote for it. listening to now, and the tits hold up just fine. would go better with 30 beers, six condoms and a flaming goat's head.

oh rad :D you weren't just voting for the title either! yeah i've written about that song on ILX before - it's absolutely goddamn enormous - one of the most genuinely visceral things i've heard. there's a lot of great detail even within the primal thudding - the craft-within-brutality aesthetic makes for a really nicely rounded piece that requires 15 minutes to fully work you over. and yeah i can only imagine the sort of party where it'd be played

152 Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous 143 7

really shocked this didn't make it honestly - one of timbo's best latter-day production jobs imo

298 J. Holiday - Bed 75 3

;_; horrible showing - who are the other two?

I prefer "Lollipop" to "A Milli" (think I said this earlier) but voted for the latter because I knew "Lollipop" was gonna get reamed in this poll. Not a lot of ILM love for that track, unfortunately.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:05 PM (4 hours ago)

man i don't get this at all, i mean i can understand ordering one's ballot strategically, but voting for something that you wouldn't otherwise, ostensibly just to reward an artist you like? this may be a different phenomenon, but is this what people do when they choose a 'consensus' song from an album when they really want to just vote for the album? this is the worst part of traxx polls tbh