ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

good tune
would have voted for Just over Glue myself

Couldn't decide which Bicep track to vote for, so I voted for neither. Thanks other voters!

first one i voted for! brilliant stuff

'Glue' is a banger.

I always go on about how I only really love Tragedy out of the Holter albums, but 'Feel You' is v much hitting the spot for me today.

Not that I can't look them up on my own, but just wanted to point out that these haven't updated for me on the Spotify playlist since New Rules. Is that the case for everyone?

Updating asap

In a bit of a weird emotional state today (basically money worries, nothing profound) and probably listening to 'Feel You' and 'Glue' in succession hasn't really helped, astounding pieces of music as they both are.

The comments on the Glue video are quite the rabbit hole too.

my half-decade splits were 21/29 for tracks and 16/34 for albums, so quite heavy on the second half

Playlist updated!

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92. Mitski - Your Best American Girl (2016)
[309 points / 5 votes]
Previous Placement: 2 in 2016
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"Feel You" is great but one reason why I didn't submit a tracks ballot is so I wouldn't have to do the impossible and select just one track from an album like "Have You in My Wilderness".

If you only listen to one song from the record, though, "Feel You" is a fine choice.

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91. HAIM - Falling (2013)
[309 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 10 in 2013
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Hey, and old song!

(Also, Mitski. I voted for it, still like it, but what's there to say?)

I spent a lot of time with the various Holter nominations but apparently needed that video, just now, to grasp that it should have been on my ballot. Dogs clarify everything.

here's a song that is probably in my top 200 or so songs of the decade but cuts have to be made somewhere.

first song i heard by them, still probably my favorite one

the initial run of haim singles was incredible and this was the best of them

fwiw i don't think there's a noticeable recency bias in the results but i haven't done the maths there or anything yet

would have considered this Mitski song had I not voted for another of hers, stunning fare

i quite liked Townie

this song feels like a "blast from the past" already, time is so fast

"your best american girl" has a great melody, and i probably appreciate the song more now that the "teenage dirtbag" associations have faded from my brain lol. if i voted for anything from that album, it probably would've been the ferocious "crushed little stars."

crazy how mitski has legions of young fans who've probably never even heard "ybag" before.

also forgot how much i liked "feel you" so thanks for the reminder, Voters

"never even heard" is probably an exaggeration, but 2016 me would've been shocked to hear that "i bet on losing dogs" has nearly twice as many streams

ybag? ibold!

major "ybag" alert

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90. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (2014)
[310 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 60 in 2014
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Those early HAIM singles are a masterclass in pop songwriting.

this is still ehhh

Uptown Funk has always left me cold

Well, I was going to 'blech' Haim, but now this has appeared, ewwwww it's a much bigger blech!

Yeah don’t really get the love for Uptown Funk, maybe I’m just numb to its charm after being overexposed to it.

Moving on

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89. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires (2017)
[311 points / 4 votes]
Previous Placement: 57 in 2017
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this was my number one back in 2017. still stunning imo

I stopped listening to HAIM after the first few singles. I really liked them, but played them out and then never jumped back in when the album was released. Listening back now, I really like it, although my favorite was probably Forever. That one might have made my ballot, but it's just been so long since I've thought about them.

Uptown Funk didn't make my ballot, but I can see why people voted for it. Hopefully, its placement is a sign that The Fox (What Does the Fox Say) or Gangnam Style will show up further down the line.

hadn't realised that his wife sings alongside him

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88. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (2010)
[313 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 16 in 2010
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DELIGHTED to see "Shadow" on here

See also: "Teenage Dream"

'couple sings together about how death will them part' could have felt a bit indulgent, but this doesn't

"uptown funk" and th whole nu-school bruno has always felt fairly unnecessary to me. i can go and listen to the gap band right now if i wanted to, why should i have to repeatedly hear a wedding band-style composite of the five best gap band songs?

i also felt that way about amy winehouse vis-a-vis the music that inspired her, but at least with amy there was a world class vocal performance.

this song sounds like adverts

god 2010 was so long ago

https://i.imgur.com/zaXyE2n.jpg
87. Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct (2013)
[316 points / 5 votes]
Previous Placement: 25 in 2013
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I don't hate Uptown Funk, but it doesn't deserve a place in the top 100 tracks of the 2010s.

oh, boom

my #25 and i probably put it too low, which it is also, here. indelible

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86. Purple Mountains - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan (2019)
[316 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 4 in 2019
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“Teenage Dream” feels longer ago than 2010. my vote for a 2010 dance pop song that felt like it might have been from 2007 or something went to Alexis Jordan’s “Happiness” - that one jumped right at my throat from the noms spreadsheet and never let go.

“Teenage Dream” is still pretty damn good, “Bad Liar”, which I liked a lot at the time, pales beside it imo.

btw that Teenage Dream image is glorious! Katy Perry might be interested in buying it!

glad to see that PSB track place, I love it cuz it finally delivers on the promise of that Go West cover some 2+ decades ago

xxp Very good song - though I personally have not been able to listen to Berman's music since his passing.

Was 'Friday' nominated?