ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

(where "this" is "Get Lucky," not Pachanga Boys)

losssstttt track of time…

I will stay seated and eat some more.

Pachanga Boys is a good discovery, although start > end > middle

― imago, Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:23 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

do i agree with the me of 9.5 years ago

probably on this listen-through i'm more willing to let the midsection of the track do its thing as a means to an end, the vocals are very slowly building to something

Having this as a favourite tune, and the walk home from the pub being the exact same length has certainly helped up it for me

yeah this listen through i recant the idea that it sags in the middle, the best thing about it is clearly that build-up to about 10-12 minutes in

Haven't thought about "Time" in, well, a long time, but it really is a perfect encapsulation of the post-peak-Kompakt sound.

Meeting hasn’t started!

Here’s more

https://i.imgur.com/RUTd4YT.jpg
49. School of Seven Bells - I L U (2010)
[407 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
Previous Placement: 14 in 2010
Video

Richard Dawson! The Vile Stuff still gives me goosebumps. Didn't vote for it but glad to see its discordant note landing here amid the sea of hazy pop. xp

Oh but this hazy pop I like.

another incredible tune
Great album too

ugh yeah this is so good

yesssss so glad this made it <3

I'm listening to The Vile Stuff and chuckling at the parallel with Swimming Pools (Drank) which sounds considerably more errr... mystical and disembodied, and definitely won't place (since we're still doing a psychanalysis of ILM before the top 50... joking, we're continuing until the post-mortem).

Oh wow I wasn't sure if this particular SVIIVB song had a dedicated fan base, so I made it my #1 to give it all the help I could. No regrets.

i thought "thinkin bout you" was overrated for years but one night it caught me while i was feeling v vulnerable following a messy split and it got me bawling in my car

*SVIIB

school of sviivb bells

https://i.imgur.com/QrVFW8E.jpg
48. Beyoncé - Love On Top (2011)
[413 points / 6 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
Previous Placement: 83 in 2011
Video

oh awesome, esp given its prior placing

Still Beyonce's best single.

A dividing line between what came before and what followed.

Good song

i guess your opinions on this will in part depend on how obnoxious you think a second keychange is

my feeling is: the obnoxiousness is the point

When I have sex with someone I love, I always use a key change, honey.

cool that the #1 votes kick in halfway thru the rundown

We have a recording of "Blank Space" pre-Martin involvement and it's almost identical

― abcfsk, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Link please? Never heard this.

Link please? Never heard this.

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSo2flkc9VA

Sorry, tried to not embed it

"Love on Top" was the main song I had in mind in terms of "Songs that didn't place in prior polls, but will place in this one".

Not sure what else we have left in regards to that.

Hoping we have a couple more! Moka?

https://i.imgur.com/u1ZiC3i.jpg
47. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen (2015)
[417 points / 10 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
Previous Placement: 2 in 2015
Video

great great song

that fetty wap summer was something else

1738

i remember realising this was actually great years after the event and thus what a fool i had been, sounds better than ever now

Can't believe I was once a detractor of this song; it's so good. Voted for it pretty high.

a classic

let's bring this DN back for one post in tribute to fetty

Thanks, abcfsk, totally forgot about that demo!

Fetty's gf still remixing for Low?

TRAP QUEEN!

https://i.imgur.com/psKymnI.jpg
46. Janelle Monáe ft. Big Boi - Tightrope (2010)
[419 points / 7 votes]
Previous Placement: 8 in 2010
Video

glad this is here, all coming back how classic the video alone is

Not my Janelle pick, but Artist of the Decade for me, for sure.

oh man, forgot how much i loved this song when it came out. i'm usually put off a bit by janelle's theater kid energy, but this one is undeniable.

https://i.imgur.com/5dWuASk.jpg
45. KING - The Greatest (2015)
[425 points / 7 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
Previous Placement: 49 in 2015
Video

i'm usually put off a bit by janelle's theater kid energy, but this one is undeniable

100% this

meanwhile, long may they reign. (actually, how IS that second album coming along)

The retro thing that doesn’t quite work for me with “uptown funk” definitely works in Tightrope.

First time seeing that KING video and it’s amazing

my favourite king song
And the video rules