ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

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23. Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems (2015)
[520 points / 8 votes]
Previous Placement: 41 in 2015
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I'm embarrassed at how few of these I've actually heard. The playlist will be a good opportunity to catch up.

No, you made the right choice

did you send in a ballot, rob?

I did not, sorry! Mostly cuz I found wrapping my head around a whole decade—especially this one, where I was p deeply engaged with a variety of contemporary music across the whole decade—too daunting. Given some other recent polls I also think "my" ilm constituency has shrunk to negligibility. I know, I know: not voting makes that self-fulfilling, but I prefer to feel less invested and greet each entry with "o i c" rather than making an ass out of myself freaking out about ILM's taste horizons

tbf it's not really "ILM's taste," it's more a quirk of how these polls work and where consensus happens

Everything in this poll is embarrassing.

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22. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing (2012)
[525 points / 10 votes]
Previous Placement: 7 in 2012
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Night Time, Right Time is wonderful.

picks are getting a lil' ilm obvious, but "alright" and "not" both deserve to be here

wonderful tune

lol Moka

crossing fingers in hopes that no 1975 tracks make it

You're saying that you'd love it if they didn't make it?

Boys Problems being this high up makes me optimistic for some other CRJ tracks! Thought she would be practically votesplit out of here. Would kill for that jumper.

You say that like she doesn't have 4 of our top twenty lol

lol thanx rob for calling me an ass!

gathered you hadn’t voted. there were only three dancehall and one soca track nominated anyway (I don’t even think I’m exaggerating). still hoping (against hope perhaps) for the soca one to actually place. “Soco” at number one, soca at two (or the other way around) - we could have had it all, people!

Today’s rundown comes to an end. After seeing these results I have no tears left to cry.

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21. Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry (2018)
[525 points / 10 votes / 1 Nº1 vote]
Previous Placement: 5 in 2018
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I do like this song

So I voted for "Not" from today's tracks. I don't really care for Big Thief except for this track which I love.

For the most part, I'm really enjoying this rollout, lots of tracks I liked at the time that I mostly completely forgot about, nice to hear them again.

the third of my ballot to place fwiw

that’s No T, not Not

My only vote today was "Alright" - a lot of tracks which I think are fine but don't get the love for in today's 20 - hope for more consistency tomorrow.

My criticism of ILM hivemind taste is that a lot of the choices seem theoretically sound, but in reality leave me completely unmoved. No doubt you would all have the same reaction listening to my 50 though.

My only vote today was "Alright" - a lot of tracks which I think are fine but don't get the love for in today's 20 - hope for more consistency tomorrow.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), donderdag 18 augustus 2022 19:40

I have no doubt it will be a very consistent 197520 tracks

I actually want to see people's guesses. It's been implied that surprises lie in store, and none of them happened today, that's for sure

the only African track I can see place after this point is “Akanamali”

lol thanx rob for calling me an ass!

gathered you hadn’t voted. there were only three dancehall and one soca track nominated anyway (I don’t even think I’m exaggerating). still hoping (against hope perhaps) for the soca one to actually place. “Soco” at number one, soca at two (or the other way around) - we could have had it all, people!

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, August 18, 2022 1:27 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

lol sorry, I reread my post before seeing yours and realized it could be (mis)interpreted that way--suffice to say, I am the only ass I had in mind, I swear! (as witnessed on numerous past EOY poll threads)

But yeah Differentology was one of the "wild omissions" I had in mind, though I suppose it could still place. Was Akanamali nominated? I'm a bit surprised that hasn't shown up, but maybe I'm either over- or underestimating its popularity

(lol xpost!)

no Future or Young Thug yet right? honestly this is a weird list, not entirely in a bad way, but odd

My criticism of ILM hivemind taste is that a lot of the choices seem theoretically sound, but in reality leave me completely unmoved. No doubt you would all have the same reaction listening to my 50 though.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

People would hate most of mine but at least it would be fun.

si let’s see your ass on the floor, r diddy!

si = so

Are Pooley or Hold Yuh not gonna place? those were my highest afropop and dancehall picks. I voted for Akanamali but lower on my ballot

Also surely Transgender Dysphoria Blues will pop up right?

i voted for a young thug song at #1, but i'm not holding out hope

Hold Yuh was on the unranked portion of my ballot.

Hope it makes it ;)

xp
I sincerely think everyone has heard my complaints about the lack of geographical & genre diversity before. And yet, people continue liking the music they like, disgusting behavior!

Lifestyle has to place, no...? I suppose Thug could suffer from having an insanely huge catalog

No chance for Pooley

Hold Yuh would be a massively pleasant surprise

There's a handful of songs I voted for that I learned of solely through placing high on previous ILM poll rollouts and that I was certain would show up, but now I'm not so sure.

i voted for a different thug song and a different quan song, but did not vote for "lifestyle" :/

I'm going to guess another Aphex Twin track sneaks in.

I'm taking a wild guess that Black Pumas might be among the remaining choices.

xp I feel you vc: those are the kinds of decisions I didn't want to think about

In terms of things I associate strongly w/ILM that haven't made a showing yet. How do people feel about this stuff in 2022? Duke Dumont and A*M*E - Need U (100%) - Rolling UK dance pop interzone thread. It's been a while for me, but I think I'd still enjoy my personal faves

Also no solo DAWN yet, but she's guaranteed to place in the albums list

I've definitely heard the 2015 tracks results but no memory of this Donnie Trumpets

Voted strongly for a solo DAWN fwiw

fwiw Donnie Trumpet now goes by Nico Segal for obvs reasons

they love the Velvets AND action movies?

well maybe his parents did

Inow I’m imagining DJT having a lightbulb moment while listening to “Sunday Candy” in 2015: ‘Hey, how about I start my own social experiment?’

Maybe after seeing them perform the song at the white house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6vvDV7MCo

It’s a pretty good performance by the way

A best of the decade survey is inevitably going to be both safer and less interestingly quirky than a SOTY one, and have more glaringly offensive omissions. So it's kinda designed to make everyone unhappy. But I'm enjoying it! Just pissed I forgot to vote.