ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

gecs song aged like shit #toMe

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42. Rihanna feat. Drake - Work (2016)
[430 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 6 in 2016
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think I have to accept that I will never get 100 gecs at this stage.

Also fairly sure I'm the only one around here who thinks AG Cook >> SOPHIE >>>>>>>>>>>> gecs

I’m with you on that ranking

I mean, going by my voting, I'm with you on that, except add Harle several >>>s to. The left of all of them

i've grown to like a lot of hyperpop but i still do not buy what 100 gecs sells

there's not much redeeming about "money machine" imo. annoying music designed to appeal to annoying people.

Last one for the day.

I hope you have mildly enjoyed today’s countdown. Tune in tomorrow for some more.

Much better songs on that Rihanna album.

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41. Charlotte Adigéry - High Lights (2019)
[434 points / 8 votes]
Previous Placement: 59 in 2019
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that is why it is good though xps

oh HELL YES, voted for this high, incredible song

case in point lol

sorry, couldn't resist

yes!

Much better songs on that Rihanna album.

There’s better songs on that Rihanna album but ILM loves Drake.

Really not feeling much in today's tranche.

After a hazy start, really enjoyed today's selection

From today’s run I voted for FKA Twigs, Charlotte Adigery, Pachanga Boys and Destroyer.

I don’t get 100gecs but I don’t mind that sort of memecore or whatever they call that sort of sound getting a mention on a 2010s countdown

From today, Frank Ocean and SVIIB we're in the ranked portion of my ballot. Happy I could help push them higher up. Voted for Charlotte Adigéry in the unranked portion.

Maybe FKA Twigs too. Seems like I'd have voted for her as well.

Like everything she does, "High Lights" is ridiculously cool.

"Work" was top 10 on my ballot and still sounds so fresh to my ears.

Didn’t know that SVIIB song was that well liked on ILM. Would have considered voting for it. Was obsessed with it back then and that whole brand of synth-y shoegaze / dreampop revival at the beginning of the decade

From the 2010 rollout:

"I L U" is probably the most emotional a song made me get all last year. The "I loved you" line is so much better than "I love you" would be.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:32 PM

otm, the past tense slays me.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:35

I don’t remember “Trap Queen” being this good.

Good job ilm

i'm like hey wassup hello

After averaging three per day I only got two today, tho some others were on my expanded list

My Daft Punk dilemma regarding "Get Lucky." I was not going to vote for it but since I ran the DP poll this year I felt a duty to place it.

Looking over the results, so far, I see I'm part of the problem.

i'd never heard "Time" (Pachanga Boys) before the poll and holy shit what a track.

Just don't look up the other songs on that single.

so high i played "thunder scat" instead of "time" and ruined the sunrise vibe

The duality of drugs

ha!

ah man I should've voted for that SVIIB track, kind of forgot about it. Open Your Eyes almost made the cut but never got round to a relisten of ILU

100 gecs in 2 weeks

Ha, was going to say exactly this!

money machine was my #4 and thrilled to be annoying enough to enjoy it. For me it's such an emblematic bookend between the decades; really feels equally the last song of the 10s and the first of the 20s.

Don't get me wrong, I totally get why people hate it or don't get it, but pop punk made even more maximalist and blown-out and experimental is heaven to me.

I just like that initial blurt of lyrics, so brilliantly scabrous lol

the video's pretty good, too

Feel like nobody's articulated the brilliance of the Adigery song - perhaps it speaks for itself, but there's something so unusual, playful, committed and uncalculating about it all, it is a totally fresh brew which conveys defiance within a rigged world through both the strange catchiness of the music and the haunting poetry of the lyrics. Pop In Opposition, folks.

In that sense it also feels like the start of the 2020s

Oh yeah, voted for Adigéry too. Today has been fantastic

Where is the recap?

voted for 4 from today - Frank Ocean’s Thinkin Bout You, which was high on my list, and also Cool For the Summer, Trap Queen and Money Machine

I completely forgot about Time, but it is a good track

didn’t vote for Get Lucky in the Daft Punk poll, but it doesn’t seem out of place here

Today felt more distinctively ILM - less risk of mistaking it for idk Paste Magazine's 2010s rundown. Even the obvious hits are ones the board talked about a lot (video gaaaaymes).

wrt Thinkin Bout You, I like the contrast in tone between the verses, which are juvenile and playful (although ultimately revealing hurt), and the falsetto chorus, which is more sober and serious

and the whole thing reined in by the saturnine synths

here's the recap

101. Jack Ü (Skrillex and Diplo) with Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now [302 points / 5 votes]
100. Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia [302 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
99. Chromatics - Shadow [303 points / 4 votes]
98. Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn [304 points / 6 votes]
97. Dua Lipa - New Rules [305 points / 9 votes]
96. Selena Gomez - Bad Liar [306 points / 6 votes]
95. Låpsley - Operator (DJ Koze's Disco Edit) [307 points / 7 votes]
94. Julia Holter - Feel You [308 points / 5 votes]
93. Bicep - Glue [308 points / 7 votes]
92. Mitski - Your Best American Girl [309 points / 5 votes]
91. HAIM - Falling [309 points / 6 votes]
90. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk [310 points / 6 votes]
89. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires [311 points / 4 votes]
88. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream [313 points / 6 votes]
87. Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct [316 points / 5 votes]
86. Purple Mountains - Snow Is Falling In Manhattan [316 points / 6 votes]
85. HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind [321 points / 5 votes]
84. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) [322 points / 5 votes]
83. Tove Styrke - Ego [324 points / 4 votes]
82. Weyes Blood - Andromeda [327 points / 5 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
81. Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It [329 points / 5 votes]

80. Frank Ocean - Pyramids [329 points / 8 votes]
79. Games - Strawberry Skies [332 points / 6 votes]
78. Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses [332 points / 7 votes]
77. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms [333 points / 9 votes]
76. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee [337 points / 6 votes]
75. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass [337 points / 9 votes]
74. Amel Larrieux - I Do Take [339 points / 6 votes]
73. KING - Hey (Extended Mix) [346 points / 6 votes]
72. Taylor Swift - Blank Space [353 points / 6 votes]
71. Róisín Murphy - Incapable [354 points / 7 votes]
70. Taylor Swift - All Too Well [355 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
69. CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share [355 points / 7 votes]
68. Aphex Twin - XMAS_EVET10 [120​]​[​thanaton3 mix] [356 points / 5 votes]
67. Paramore - Hard Times [356 points / 6 votes]
66. Charli XCX - SuperLove [357 points / 5 votes]
65. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments [357 points / 6 votes]
64. M83 - Midnight City [363 points / 7 votes]
63. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me [364 points / 7 votes]
62. Classixx ft. Nancy Whang - All You're Waiting For [366 points / 7 votes]
61. Björk - Stonemilker [374 points / 8 votes]

60. Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker [375 points / 6 votes]
59. Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky [377 points / 6 votes]
58. Taylor Swift - Style [378 points / 8 votes]
57. Hatchie - Stay With Me [382 points / 7 votes]
56. Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer [383 points / 8 votes]
55. Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff [386 points / 6 votes]
54. Lana Del Rey - Video Games [387 points / 8 votes]
53. Paramore - Still Into You [395 points / 7 votes]
52. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now [399 points / 7 votes]
51. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You [405 points / 5 votes]
50. Pachanga Boys - Time [406 points / 6 votes / 2 Nº1 votes]
49. School of Seven Bells - I L U [407 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
48. Beyoncé - Love On Top [413 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
47. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen [417 points / 10 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
46. Janelle Monáe ft. Big Boi - Tightrope [419 points / 7 votes]
45. KING - The Greatest [425 points / 7 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
43. FKA twigs - Two Weeks [426 points / 8 votes]
43. 100 gecs - money machine [426 points / 8 votes]
42. Rihanna ft. Drake - Work [430 points / 6 votes]
41. Charlotte Adigéry - High Lights [434 points / 8 votes]

"work" is totally brilliant, even drake's presence can't ruin it. relentlessly hooky & there's this gradual build in intensity the whole time

High Lights is incredible yes yes

With Casey Kasem Top 40 all but left I do wonder how many surprises we'll have left