Are We Having Fun Yet? ILM's Top 100 Tracks Of The 00's

Who's ready?

We'll do 10 now, 10 tomorrow, then hopefully 20 on subsequent days this week. Not entirely sure about timings, except to say it'll probably be quite late in the UK and afternoon -> evening for our American audience. Other timezones: deal as best you can idk

Spotify has provided, and we may take: PLAYLIST

Yessss

terrified tbh

oh shit I'm not ready

never mind, carry on

Ok, let's go. 100 voters exactly, which is fitting...

...except there are 101 songs! Because this happened:

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100.
Dead Prez
Hip-Hop
460 points
9 votes
0 FPVs

100.
Spoon
Everything Hits At Once
460 points
9 votes
0 FPVs

Good start.

Images courtesy of tangenttangent btw

Thanks, tt!

Thanks for doing this imago, tangent and seandalai! Epic undertaking.

I didn't do a tracks poll but am here to be schooled.

great images!

love the logo, tt!

trying to compile a 00s albums melted my brane so a tracks ballot was beyond me tbh. intrigued to see the results though!

Haha thanks. I've tried to source most of the images from the video for the track, if it had one.

Results vmic so far. Woo!

Love the images tt

would anyone object to my making a youtube playlist?

Yay, starting strong with good tracks! Thanks to everyone doing the rollout, the images are great!

this is an outrage!

Ahhhh hell yes to these images tt! <3

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99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs

Strong nostalgic vibes so far, even more so than I expected.

can we enable <marquee> tags for just this poll thread

Yesss! That's a good idea actually. I need another 90 or so just like it.

One thing I realised while putting together my ballot was that for most of the 00s (after 2002 or so) I was off in my own listening world characterised by headphones and reissues and music not playing much of a role in my social life. I didn't land on ILX until 2010. I have never knowingly heard anything by: Spoon, The National, Wilco and I'm sure I've ~~heard~~ the Arcade Fire but I wouldn't recognise any particular song.

I thought I didn't know this dead prez song, but it's in that cinema advert with the man driving his daughter to school. Surprisingly, that's not ruining the song for me.

I'll be interested to know ILM's noughties taste because I genuinely have no idea.

Good memory: When 2ManyDjs played Roskilde in 2007, ten seconds into 9/5, the sound went out and we could only hear the monitors. But everyone was so excited about what was to come, that we didn't really care, and when it turned into Eple, the crowd when crazy anyway. Everyone was jumping up and down and singing along. We were making so much noise, in fact, that nobody could hear the music from the monitors over our own singing, so when the brothers then mixed away into another song, the crowd just kept on singing Eple, making them very confused.

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98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

Whoa, too low

xxp except almost all of my noughties picks were tied up in fairly strong memories and there’s some artists I’ve never gone near for that reason. There’s going to be lots I haven’t heard during the periods I was checked out

top blingee tribute work, tt

Thank you! I was saddened to learn it had closed down, but relieved that there are still many sites like it out there.

Try Again was one of the last painful cuts from my ballot, which I now regret.

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97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs

I didn't vote tracks but Hip Hop and Try Again are legit two of my favorite songs so wd so far!!

Xpost such a great use of that Numan sample

Re: "hip hop" - there was kind of a rap nostalgia going on the '00s. See also - Jurassic 5, Missy Elliot's "under construction"

(Some of the most amazing sounding bass on both those tracks though -- xpost to self)

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96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

The first 🤷‍♂️ for me so far. I have no political idea what this is.

lol where did "political" come from? Autofill mishap.

ja das ist sehr nett

I spent most of the 00s out of the UK and missed out on loads of music, so a few tracks so far are new to me, think I only know one Spoon track for example and hadn't even heard of Dead Prez.

That track is the giraffes necklace

Ooh, this is quite nice!

The video for the Jürgen Paape track is great

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95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

Jürgen Paape track is lovely, never heard it before

we need a resolution is perhaps the song i most regret snubbing

Is the thread name a Nickelback reference??

I thought it was a Party Down reference

#teamnickelback

These five words in my head

A song that really did kind of define the 00s, in all their bloody grimness. I expect it will place high.

Chris Moyles played that song every half an hour during my stint as a temp in a miserable office where they had radio 1 on all the time.

Yay more Aaliyah!

am i supposed to change (my ballot)? are you (the pollrunner) supposed to change (my ballot)?

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94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs

that is about the best song by the f@cking strokes...

glad hip hop barely made the cut! i think i agonized about where to place it on my ballot and lol if i had gone one lower it wouldn't be here so that's cool. i won the poll!

I like “fuck the cops” way better than “hip hop” but glad to see the prez... didn’t Kanye have something to do with the drums on “hip hop” or am I imagining things?

drums/beat whatever

wait no I’m thinking of “they schools”, not “fuck the cops”. Been awhile!

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93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs

i think kanye did a remix of 'hip hop'

I hope a third Aaliyah track places because that'll be the one I voted for.

I like the bit in the Strokes' song when they sing 'I'm not like that'. I'm sure there must be a musical reason for it.

Listen, I've been drinking

Whoa, too low

there is no such thing as too low in this poll where we could only select 50 songs from the most thrilling decade for singles in recorded history

Thrilled to see two of my favourite songs ever placing, even if it is at #93 and #96.

Good stuff all around so far (except maybe Spoon).

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92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

^^^this remix did pretty well for itself!

love this! voted for three so far, the Relevee remix, Aaliyah (Try Again) and Jürgen Paape

these are great images, tangenttangent and imago!

rereading I see that tangenttangent made the images/gifs, they are perfect for this poll

Last one for tonight coming up soon!

I like that So Weit Wie Noch Nie video, also the one for Eple which I had never seen before

This next one is the first with that magical 150-point first place vote you've all had the chance to hand out...

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91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

That concludes the activities for tonight. Suggestions, comments and reactions, proceed. I'll also post a recap in a moment...

nice so far!

We Need a Resolution was the first track to place with a #1 vote though

Lol, how did I miss that?

We Need A Resolution to check our facts carefully

Voted Eple and B. Jaxx. Couldn’t decide between the two Aaliyah songs and in the end voted for neither; figured they would do all right without my help but it was a close run thing in the end!

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

hadn't heard "relevee (carl craig remix)" before and it rules so already greatly enjoying this rollout

Glad to see Spoon make this poll, knew they would do well on the albums side but unsure about the tracks side.

100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs

Thanks to this thread I've now heard Spoon! idgi

2/10 today voted for the Paape and Delia & Gavin

xp I've heard too much Spoon. idgi either

Let me assure everyone Spoon is great if you get it

idgi

They're perfectly adequate.

I get it and it's my one placement so far.

great songs with beautiful melodies and amazing lyrics

So boring

“Amazing” now there’s an adjective you don’t hear everyday

ok

"Hard to Explain" did make my long list but not the final cut. Probably the only Strokes song I care about.

favorite Spoon is Inside Out from 2014 album They Want My Soul

This could potentially be the Spoon song most worth "getting", at least ime:

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i like hard to explain, but i'm always disappointed when julian starts singing instead of christina aguilera

Excellent Party Down reference title!

Interesting start to the poll. Very heavy on the first few years of the decade.

I gave Aaliyah a good amount of points in albums, but didn't end up finding room for any of her singles. I'm happy to see any of them place.

I'm somewhere in the middle with Spoon. I've cooled on them a bit in recent years, especially as the last two albums were fairly average. They had a great run in the 2000s though. Everything Hits At Once is one of the reasons why they were far ahead of so many other guitar bands in that era. It's such a beautiful melody and their production was always immaculate. Even on their weaker albums, they still sound so good.

I really should have voted for something by The Strokes. I still get a lot from Hard To Explain after all this time.

I get this is a 2000s poll, but the fact that "Are we having fun yet?" is considered a Party Down thing and not a Zippy the Pinhead thing is extremely tilting to me.

Huh, I had no idea about the Nickelback reference. Kind of ruins it for me a bit.

Ah! This is a great start! I love or like most of these songs, I think the only one I don’t care about and even find annoying is “where’s your head at?”, and I do like a lot other Basement Jaxx singles from this album. It’s certainly fun but obnoxiously so.

I really like this Destroyer song.

Ha, I kind of hate that Basement Jaxx song because that commercial it was in was always on that year. (Doritos?)

Great roll-out so far - the images are great!

Ha, I kind of hate that Basement Jaxx song because that commercial it was in was always on that year. (Doritos?)

― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r)

Yeah, it's one of the few singles from their peak era that I never really need to hear again. The Gary Numan sample was pretty clever, but it got old very quickly and I often skip it when listening to Rooty. Hopefully Romeo is still to come.

Voted “Breakaway”

Didn't vote for anything that appeared today though like KP I gave lots of points to Aaliyah in albums. And like ufo I had fun discovering #92.

Definitely things to like in the Los Campesinos. Saved that one.

oh yeah, you me dancing is super joyful and also the easiest song ever to play on the guitar

I get this is a 2000s poll, but the fact that "Are we having fun yet?" is considered a Party Down thing and not a Zippy the Pinhead thing is extremely tilting to me.

yeah, see the end of the last thread - I forgot that there was a reference to Zippy in Party Down at all

That Jürgen Paape image is super cool.

sometimes spoon works for me and sometimes not, and everything hits at once all works and feels really immaculately put together. i did go back and listen to girls can tell during the voting and i had a pretty meh reaction to the rest of it.

thought about voting for bay of pigs, which i love, but i really associate it with the 2010s since it was on kaputt, and i felt weird about voting for something so long and meandering on a tracks poll.

i like some spoon but have never understood why "everything hits at once" is so beloved and won the spoon poll. it's fine but not really a standout to me

i can understand how some might find "where's your head at?" to be impossibly annoying due to overexposure but i've managed to avoid that, probably just by being young enough. i still really enjoy it and almost voted for it but went with "romeo" (also considered "lucky star", they had a pretty great run of singles at the time)

Lucky Star is brilliant, as are Good Luck and Plug It In. I still think Kish Kash is their best album.

yeah i was surprised when revisiting them for this poll just how much i preferred Kish Kash to Rooty, i thought it'd be much harder to pick between them

That Spoon poll made no sense at all to me.

Several xposts

"everything hits at once" is good but "the beast and dragon adored" is the better opener

I was too late to vote, but I definitely was gonna give points to hiphop and ymd. I couldn't decide on an aaliyah song and was gonna just vote for the album. It's such a shame it has been made to rot by the guy who owns the rights to the album being rereleased/on streaming sites.

Happy that Los Campesinos placed as it was a last minute addition to my poll. Don't have too much indie in my tracks list but this is the kind I like, ragged and joyful.

oh hey, the rollout. had you! me! dancing! fairly high, big shoutout to the first place voter

"Bay of Pigs" made my list. Great start so far.

Carl Craig's remix of "Relevee" was my #2, sad to see it place so low. Other than that, the results so far are great, I also voted for "Hip Hop", "So Weit Wie Noch Nie", and "We Need a Resolution". I hated "Where's Your Head At" back in the day for its "edgy" rock sound, but presumably there are better Basement Jaxx tracks still to come.

Wondering where I'd heard that Jürgen Paape song before and just realised it was on the Erlend Øye DJ Kicks mix where he sings over the instrumental tracks.

Already two songs I would have voted for (Los Campesinos/Basement Jaxx) if I had noticed them on the nominations list. Imagine there'll be quite a few more

Since nobody raised any objections I've made a youtube playlist and will keep it updated.

Nothing I've voted for so far (think Eple was lost in the last cut?) but loving it all so far anyway. The destroyer track is my favourite thing I hadn't heard so far. Oh, and EP version of The Modern Age is better than Hard To Explain, sorry.

Imago, a small request - would it be possible (and appropriate) to append the year of release to the placements? I find myself wanting to check the dates for chronological context. I know I can look 'em up but maybe others would find it helpful as well. Thanks!

just to be a pedant, this is the Bay of Pigs in the YT playlist is the Kaputt version, this one is the aughts version. (about 2mins longer than the Kaputt version)

Frogot to vote, cos I'm a total eejit

absolutely killer selections so far though

another pedantic wish for lazy gits like me. would it be possible to add a youtube link to the tracks? that would be nice.

Great results so far! Nothing from my ballot but some where I voted for the parent album.

RE: Spoon, I don't know if 'Everything Hits at Once' is still my favourite song by them but definitely it encapsulates what they do very well - great melody and arrangement, that nice sort of slinky, minor-key feel. Love the vibraphone too.

Loving the images, especially the Jürgen Paape one. Great song too of course but I hope it's not the only Kompakt track to place.

will try to provide youtube links and years from here on

Try Again had my vote, with the added pleasure of knowing it gives its sample to Sister Bettina.

Where's Your Head At? hasn't aged well for me either and although it introduced me to the Numan track it sampled I'm more likely to listen to the latter these days. Think I voted for Breakaway too though (my favourite track on Rooty).

So Weit Wie Noch Nie too low!

excited btw! and loving the graphics, thank you tt and thanks imago and seandalai for putting it all together

I voted Hip Hop, Eple, SWWNN and Relevee remix iirc in my lame unweighted too-lazy-to-rank-things ballot so I'm enjoying the rollout so far but if those are all down here I might not see much else from my ballot later on. That's OK though, there were a few big pop hits I chopped off my ballot because I figured they'd get enough votes from other people (and just a few I loved too much to chop). Does feel like there'll be some surprises ahead...

(yeah, loved WYHA? at the time, still like the intro but get tired of the rest of the song quickly now and would also rather listen to the Numan these days)

thanks imago / sean for being pollstars!
tt - these images rule :D
only one new to me is revelee - superb track this
what wonderful nostalgia - don't think i have had any of mine appear, forgot to vote for "so weit"!

i only have 6 more with graphics prepared as tt is choosing a very thorough and time-intensive method (and is out working atm) - i think i will post them before i head out to work, and hopefully amadeus will have produced by later this evening. mediocrities, i am your patron saint!

also it's like night in america rn so i'll give it an hour or two before resuming

*yawns, stretches*

Two things I voted for! I'd already forgot I voted for Where's Your Head At, but I do love it. The other one was So Weit Wie Noch Nie, which is both a lovely song, and pretty seminal with it's placements on both Total 3 and Erlend Øyes DJ Kicks.

Wouldn't it be much smarter if we did it all while the Americans slept, and then we could spent the rest of the day making fun of them?

So far Bay of Pigs, which was my #2, is the only song on my list to place. It's one of those songs that I had no idea if it would place, since I could see many thinking of it as a 2010s track if they were first exposed to it via Kaputt. But its initial release in 2009 is heavily associated with my memories of that time, which is why I still think of it as a 2000s track.

Almost had Eple on there, but ended up taking it off.

Also, I will forever associate the phrase "Are We Having Fun Yet?" with some kids motivational poster that was either in my room or friend's room in the 90s, of which I can't remember the contents.

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+9
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+8

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90. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River - 492 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs

Released Y2K+2

also it's like night in america rn so i'll give it an hour or two before resuming

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I loved that Los Campesinos! track back in the day. I hadn't listened to it in a good few years and had forgotten how frantic and life-affirming it was. Great song. Bay of Pigs is magnificent.

I loved that Campesinos song, and often put it on at parties when I was drunk and wanted to dance with someone, and that long intro always killed the party :) Still love it.

i still fondly remember hearing "you! me! dancing!" for the first time. such a wondrously joyful riff

I'm into these results! We Need A Resolution and Where's Your Head At? are my only votes so far, but You! Me! Dancing!, Relevee and So Weit Wie Noch Nie were all on my longlist. Voted for a different Royksopp track.

I don't remember if I voted for any JT songs but if I did it would prob have been this one.

I wasn’t really familiar with that Los Campesinos song before this poll! Suffice to say, it’s my favourite thing in the rollout so far.

For me, Cry Me A River is indelibly tied to when we went on our confirmation retreat to a monastery. We would listen to JT in our rooms, and then have to try and mimic Gregorian chanting for four hours.

It's almost like 00's UK indie has more to offer than many had thought!

Blasphemy! He was raised Southern Baptist.

xp

The next artist isn't on Spotify! I really will have to remember the Youtube link...

I like cry me a river but I hope it’s not the only JT song that places...

I couldn't vibe with Los Campesinos at the time, and I still can't now </curmudgeon> Fave thing here that was off my radar then is the Royksopp, so I must at least kinda know how to have a good time.

Lol xp

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89. Joanna Newsom - Emily - 494 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6

choob

Woo! Joanna Newsom is one of those artists where I wish I had nominated some tracks because Sawdust & Dianonds and Bridges and Balloons would've gotten my votes over this, but I ended up voting for this instead, lovely track.

Btw I went on a non-confirmation retreat but it was to a place where they woke us up by playing The Bartender & the Thief over the intercom and there was hot water for seven minutes a day. JT would have been a massive improvement.

Not that my disgusting opinion matters but my viscera puke up Joanna Newsom's voice as soon as it reaches my ears and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.

Yes! love this. I remember being completely transfixed the day it leaked.

god i haven't listened to Emily for years. I think my favourite off the album was the one about the bear though.

I like jmm’s post as a response to the previous one.

Despite an abiding love of harpsichord, I remain undecided about Joanna Newsom.

Voted for Cry Me a River, both a masterpiece of texture and a masterpiece of pettiness

gyac, what kind of retreat was that?! Stereophonics and water rationing sounds bleak.

Going back a bit, You! Me! Dancing reminds me of a very specific point in my life. It reminds me of being surrounded by great friendsand having a really great time in general.

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88. Sugababes - Overload - 498 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K

'the choob'

That Joanna Newsom track is the first track in this poll that Im not familiar with but then again, I always found her music a bit too precious tbh

Oh nice, "Emily" is the first thing from my ballot to place. Still feels epic.

Wooooo! This was my #2 vote! I have listened to this song solidly from the day it was released. What an odd and dark sound for a girl group, I thought then, and it remains so. It’s so spare and cool but effortlessly catchy and I adore Siobhan’s short-lived vocal performance for Sugababes with its weird estuary inflections. It’s like the best pop song ever.

there were lot of incredible sugababes singles to choose between and i ended up going with "freak like me" but i'm very glad to see this place

Hi! I'm here!

Yesss voted for Overload. Agreed, Sugababes had so many incredible tracks but this stood out to me at the time and still sounds amazing all these years later.

Overload still sounds so fresh and mysterious. It's crazy to think it's almost 20 years old. They were such a great band for the first four albums, but then it started getting silly with all the line-up changes and sadly the quality of the music suffered.

I was the #1 for "You! Me! Dancing!." Soundtrack for a birthday party my class threw me last year (unlisted setting).

I'm loving how many of these tracks so far are ones I cut from my shortlist of 110, think I counted 4 now.

I never checked out Destroyer (lumped them in with other indie bands I don’t care for like... Spoon lol) but this Bay of Pigs track is quite good.

wld've been in my top 10 if i'd voted

still kicking myself for not nominating ghosts for the album poll

gyac, what kind of retreat was that?! Stereophonics and water rationing sounds bleak.

went for push the button to my brothers aghast - this is a tune tho

My sister went on one of these catholic retreats and the song was Scar Tissue

Wow, I've never heard Overload. Really catchy.

*"overload" wld've etc

My sister went on one of these catholic retreats and the song was Scar Tissue

Voted sugababes partly cos it's a great song and partly cos when they happened to come in the shop I was working in they refused to sign any copies of their album because the picture of them on the cover " didn't do them justice" which as excuses go is p good.

I was the #1 for "You! Me! Dancing!." Soundtrack for a birthday party my class threw me last year (unlisted setting).

― clemenza, Monday, October 14, 2019 4:03 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What a loveable bunch!

Overload is class but again I hope it’s not the only one of theirs that features 🙃

i think i speak for us all when i say that i am dead at clemenza's video/explanation

also we need to find a way for gareth campesinos to see that

That video is wonderful! I would watch a full 8-hour documentary of that.

I was gonna vote Push the Button cos it's pretty unique but changed back to Overload final draft cos what a debut single and what an attitude it exudes

also I too love Overload and it was a very late cut for me, glad it made it nonetheless

omg, clemenza's class! That is the sweetest video.

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87. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - 502 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5

choobster

I was the #1 for "You! Me! Dancing!." Soundtrack for a birthday party my class threw me last year (unlisted setting).

― clemenza, Monday, October 14, 2019 4:03 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

<3 <3 <3

had emily at no. 3, was first newsom i ever heard. one of the incredible first listens of my life

good to know this poll's credibility is assured

I didn't vote for any Newsom but Ys made a big impression on me at the time and if I was going to pick a standout track 'Emily' would be it.

omg, clemenza's class! That is the sweetest video.

OTM.

And I'm listening on free Spotify so I'll make allowances but omg the sound of "Cry Me a River" is not holding up.

man does this song take me back to college

Little Miss Sunshine may have ruined this for me.

Huh I've heard all of #100-94 and then none of the next six save JT. Welp, my work playlist for tomorrow is sorted

IMO "Chicago" loses a lot of its impact when listened outside the context of the album. On it's own it kinda sounds like it's trying too hard for a big, sweeping sound, but within Illinois, everything else has been building up to it.

I am thinking to post another 1 now, and 5 later. Does that sound acceptable?

More pls

its neat that a concept album about the state of Illinois saves its biggest punch for that song, I thought that was really cool

I have images down to 83. Shall I just go to there and see what we can cook up later? In case we have a busy day later in the week it might be good to go as far as possible...

sounds good lj

I vote for not rushing it.

btw tt can you check your fb messages please?

I voted for Chicago. Soaring strings and singing about mistakes is a winning formula. The notion of being in love with the illusion of somewhere based on the emotional connections enjoyed there always seemed so romantic and amazing to me when I would hear this whilst unpacking 60 crates of Christmas books.

Will check, Neechy!

Okay. This next one has the highest enthusiasm score in the entire rollout. Few of you voted for this, but those who did, you LOVED it

Maybe even still do!

xps My boy was born to Push the Button. Like a total ponce, I'd taken Eno and SoTL with me but in the madness 'what music?!' was waaaay down the list. The registrar chose - by default - and it was so fucking perfect I'm tearing up thinking about it.

And Clemenza, good to be reminded it's the best job in the world. That video is awesome.

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86. Lethal Bizzle ft. Fumin, D Double E, Jamakabi, Flow Dan, Demon, Forcer, Neeko, Napper, Ozzie B - Pow (Forward Riddim) - 503 points - 6 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+4

powchoob

I have images down to 83. Shall I just go to there and see what we can cook up later? In case we have a busy day later in the week it might be good to go as far as possible...

Oh, this one! If I'd remembered how great it was I'd have given it a vote.

Oh yeah, Pow! Extremely good, should probably have voted

Still hope to see another track which samples Pow! place.

this is well good yeah

Voted 'pow' too. Great tune. Mad at myself for not him nominating kano's "reload it" which gets me almost as amped as ' pow' does and I am not a person prone to ampage.

coming up: the second of three ties

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84 Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+4

84 Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

choob choob!

love the images

Oh, the Johnny Boy is from the Y2K of our Lord +6

Yay, Johnny Boy. Love it so much and came close to being my #1.

This is a very fitting tie in that I love them both and didnt vote for either

Think I put La Ritournelle at #3, such a stunningly beautiful piece of music

Johnny Boy song is good, but the song title is so twee that I remember it as worse than it is lol

La Ritournelle is one of my many regrets, I blame the fact that I mostly looked through old playlists for my inspiration and that was a later discovery for me

i think it's fair to say that we should feel relieved about anything that made it into the poll - the competition being so intense

enjoying the tellier!

there is going to be 1 more track then a big old break for arguments, cheers, naysaying and such

no, don't it that way! but thanks for doing it all the same! (though nothing really matters)

etc

real internet voice: this is awesome imago! for real, thanks for doing it, really looking forward to the rest of the rollout. love the images t_t!

yay I voted for the Johnny Boy song, I find it genuinely anthemic

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83. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - 507 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2

over the choobwaves

also genuinely anthemic

dream about meeeeee

Yeah, my corny ass voted for this.

I don't know if that's the first two-time producer or not: "Anthems" and "You! Me! Dancing!" are both Toronto's Dave Newfeld.

Is a corny ass vote similar to a butt dial?

xp

(can't you come back?)

I don't know a lot of these. I was into Broken Social Scene but have never heard of this song.

wow i admit that i don't know a lot of these, but based on some cursory listening there's a reason why i retreated into noise and techno for much of the decade— a lot of stuff that sounds very meh to me.

like that Los Campesinos track is the sort of thing i'd genuinely like, and then the bells come in and i need to turn it off.

Substitute 'classical' for 'noise and techno' and we're on the same wavelength.

La Ritournelle is lovely though

oh god yeah i do know this BSS song... Or is it because it reminds me of something else?

Subsitute sausage rolls

oops wrong message board

you're in charge for the next few hours, boss

and yet

xp

Sausage rolls are a waste of sausage imho.

I don't know a lot of these. I was into Broken Social Scene but have never heard of this song.

this tells me that you have not heard the only great BSS album

I’m loving the rollout so far but feel like my favorite songs of the decade will all be in the bottom 50 if they appear at all.

None of mine have showed up so far but I'm sure that's because everyone else has voted correctly and my votes will all show up in the top 50

Yeah, my corny ass voted for this.

― Simon H., Monday, October 14, 2019 11:58 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

so so same. first of my list to place I think.

The only two songs I hadn’t head before is Overload and Pow. I did not expect the Sugababes one to sound like this, reminds me of Beck. I like this.

I don’t know about Lethal Bizzle, I never quite got into grime and I’m definitely not starting in my mid 30’s.

Kinda worried that hip-hop is gonna get the shaft in this here poll (bluntly titled track #100 aside)

Of course not. UGK, Clipse, Outkast, Kanye, T.I., Nas, Jay Z and even Eminem have a chance of making it over Dead Prez.

Love a lot of the other big Grime staples but 'Pow' never did it for me compared to numerous Ruff Sqwad and Rolldeep and co. efforts plus hits like More Fire Crew's 'Oi'.

Sausage rolls are a waste of sausage imho.

I'll keep that in mind.

It only took 13 years but I finally listened to the Johnny Boy track with the funny title. It's pretty good!

Me yesterday: Man, a ton of stone cold classics just barely got in.

Me today: *sees Sufjan Stevens - Chicago* Remove Bookmark from this Thread

Me yesterday: Man, a ton of stone cold classics just barely got in.

Me today: *sees Sufjan Stevens - Chicago* Remove Bookmark from this Thread

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, October 14, 2019 9:41 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly had similar reaction. i thought he was precious bullshit when i was 19, can't really understand how anyone could like that dreck.

I liked a lot of precious bullshit music in the 2000s but never bothered with Sufjan

Sufjan is definitely precious bullshit, but he's precious bullshit with good melodies and fun arrangements

I didn't vote for any of his tracks though

Of course not. UGK, Clipse, Outkast, Kanye, T.I., Nas, Jay Z and even Eminem have a chance of making it over Dead Prez.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 14 October 2019 16:33 (thirty-six minutes ago) link

i didn't literally mean that no more rap songs would place in this poll

2010s Sufjan >>>> 2000s Sufjan

I didn’t care for the Sufjan tracks that got nominated and I find the song Chicago slightly obnoxious - safe from the verses. The album itself is also disappointingly his more celebrated one from the 00’s when Seven Swans is where it’s at.

I would’ve easily voted for songs like: “for the widows in paradise...”, “all the trees in the field...”, “the dress looks nice on you”, “to be alone with you”, “in the devil’s territory”, “sister” or “a good man is hard to find”.

I loved Broken Social Scene but never really saw 'Anthems...' as a standout track, I mean I get why people like it (I think) but it just doesn't do much for me. In the end I voted for two tracks involving BSS members but nothing actually by them - '7/4 (Shoreline)' nearly made the cut.

7/4 shoreline is still my fav BSS song too.

i voted for sufjan in the albums poll, but not for illinoise

"Chicago" is a slog tbh

I’m the opposite on “Anthems...”, on first listens I thought the album was good for the variety of styles in it - although the production could’ve been way better - but the only song I found beautiful was Anthems.

7/4 shoreline is amazing too I concur. But, my favorite song on that album is Superconnected. 7/4 is close behind.

"Emily" also my first vote to place, I also voted it #3 though could've been my #1.

Woo! Joanna Newsom is one of those artists where I wish I had nominated some tracks because Sawdust & Dianonds and Bridges and Balloons would've gotten my votes over this, but I ended up voting for this instead, lovely track.

This too, though my POO from Ys is "Only Skin."

Sheesh some hot takes about Sufjan Stevens in here

I made a series of mixes themed around the Chinese zodiac and in every one used a bit of Sufjan Stevens' Enjoy Your Rabbit, so he's now the most used artist in my mixes though I never really listen to him.

I can see "Anthems.." being the consensus pick - given the competition it's a huge feat it's even here! "Lover's spit" would be my second, but YFIIP has at least four or five anthemic songs tbh. Great record that I had to cut from my album ballot

lover's spit is a grand and beautiful power ballad completely undercut by the lyrics

Personally, I love the pettiness and vulgarity of Lover's Spit and how it interacts with the other aspects of the song.

Disagree! The juxtaposition of the grand and beautiful waltz with the nasty lyrics makes it for me imo. xp

lover's spit is a grand and beautiful power ballad completely undercut made by the lyrics

There's an evens key to turn

What does this mean?

I've never heard of Johnny Boy before but I kind of love this song.

So happy to see La Ritournelle make it. It was in my top five. When I was travelling in New Zealand and Australia in 2008, I bought an iPod just before I left but didn't get it ready in time. A month in, my mum sent it to me when it was fully loaded. My brother (who posts on here too) helped fill it up with my music and some things he thought I'd enjoy (still remember the first time Arnold Schwarzenegger by Wesley Willis popped up on shuffle!). La Ritournelle was one of the songs he put on there and I fell in love with it instantly. I listened to it over and over as it sound-tracked by time in Australia where I met my wife. When I listen to it now, it takes me right back to that wonderful time. It's such a magical song and the climax with the strings leading into the brief appearance of his vocals is one of my favourite moments in music ever. It's a shame he's so underrated beyond this one song. I gave his album Sexuality a lot of points too.

Love that Johnny Boy single too. I was disappointed that nothing on their album came close to it.

I've never heard of Johnny Boy and I can't work out what kind of music "You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve" could be while also being acceptable to ILM. Gonna preserve the mystery for a bit but will check it out when I get home later.

ilx conditioned to vote for anything with the Be My Baby intro iirc

So I should admit that I never listened to a whole BSS album (although I saw them once). I voted for "7/4 (Shoreline)". This is pretty different; I think I'll need to listen a couple more times.

as negativity is to be encouraged: the bss track is the first thing in the rollout that i really can't get with, but i do understand its anthemic qualities

and now, to return to impassive neutrality

ilx conditioned to vote for anything with the Be My Baby intro iirc

― imago, Monday, October 14, 2019 11:17 AM

lol

Seriously, though, does "evens key" mean something in British English?

Kinda worried that hip-hop is gonna get the shaft in this here poll (bluntly titled track #100 aside)

― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, October 14, 2019 11:30 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if more people voted for a Joanna Newsom deep cut than for “Knuck If You Buck” then this board is cancelled

xpost apparently it's a type of key used to wind up old clocks, but yeah in the context of the song makes little sense.

i almost voted for la ritournelle as the last song but then i found another track a little closer to my heart which will place as well i suppose. it was clear la ritournelle would place but i would have thought that it made the top 40. besides that nothing from my ballot has been in the countdown yet. if five songs place in the end it will be a lot, i guess.

How is Emily a deep cut?

If you leave it playing too long

Oof

the first cut is the deepest iirc

Can we, for one list year end thread, not shit on other people’s favorite songs? We get it, some of you don’t like ‘indie’.

I apologise, comment retracted!

xpost apparently it's a type of key used to wind up old clocks, but yeah in the context of the song makes little sense.

Ah, thanks

criticism within reason is encouraged

Also if funny.

We get it, some of you don’t like ‘indie’.

I don't like all kinds of stuff, thankyouverymuch!

just to be a pedant, this is the Bay of Pigs in the YT playlist is the Kaputt version, this one is the aughts version. (about 2mins longer than the Kaputt version)

― Simon H., Monday, October 14, 2019 9:50 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Updated with this and all the new entries.

Would anyone care to hear some more nominations shortly? I (like saer) have been granted temporary poll rites in imago’s absence and can roll out a few until he returns at like 10.30pm GMT.

Good work with the YT playlist btw, Camaraderie!

yes, please!

yes please tt ❤️

xxp I would like to, yes.

yt playlist is zero work, we should save the thanks for pollrunners. I was wondering why people liked the images so much yesterday then opened it on desktop this morning and saw that they are animated and v cool, so anyone else who is on flagging, check it.

Thirded TT!

Okay, here goes... Really hope this works

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82. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - 507 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1

I… Jimmy Choob

this is the only song by this band I know but it can't deny it rules ass.

the greatest band of all time

The Middle definitely was on my list. Its corny as hell but I love it.

Thanks to the many poll runners btw, you are doing an amazing job.

I did not vote for Jimmy Eat World on the tracks list because I voted for it on the albums list. Plus which, the best song on the album ("A Praise Chorus") was not nominated.

i’m losing my mind just a little

I like Jimmy Eat World plenty, but this song wore out from overplay for me, so I didn't vote for it in the end. It's still great though.

I loved the theory cooked up a year or two ago (on Twitter) that this was actually a bisexual realization anthem. Even if it wasn't intentional, it fits like a glove.

I loved the theory cooked up a year or two ago (on Twitter) that this was actually a bisexual realization anthem

this is like how the internet is convinced that "mr. brightside" is extremely bisexual. pretty into this form of critical overreach

Also I still remember Pow coming on at the first rave I ever went to, when I was about 16/17. I didnt really get what was going on, people didnt really seem to be enjoying themselves, the DJ was just playing a bland mix of house and the last knocking of garage, losing attention and then POW! Everyone went fucking mental. It was beautiful

this is like how the internet is convinced that "mr. brightside" is extremely bisexual. pretty into this form of critical overreach

Didn't it have something to do with Rufus Wainwright, or am I conflating theories? Anyway, I like that reading of The Middle.

Another one coming up shortly.

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just bi

i never knew "The Middle" was by Jimmy Eat World until today, but have heard it in many places and situations and have always been very into it. it actually makes me weirdly wistful.

Such a perfect song

Best guitar solo of the decade? Probably

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81. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - 515 points - 8 votes - 1 FPVs - Y2K+6

ChOob

What a glorious thing this track is.

90-81 way more boring than 101-91... I hope the indie batch of the poll is over now.

my number one. does something to my soul. don't really have the words for it

for the most part, i'm with Tuomas. i entered the decade as an indie kid who came to that scene through SY and punk, and by 2004, i was bored and went full noise dude and techno head.

Yasss Lloyd <3

Hmm, this latest song actually has a pretty sweet string arrangement, but it's ruined by the "cool", impassive & laconic singing. Why can't indie kids have emotions?

I hope the indie batch of the poll is over now.

I shouldn't really rise to this, but as someone whose ballot is like 90% unimpassive indie, I can't deal with it. It shouldn't really need to be said, but the indie in this poll so far does not even slightly represent the breadth of indie.

Why can't indie kids have emotions?

Why can't indie kids have emotions?

;_;

Camera Obscura's 'My Maudlin Career' is one of the best songs ever, but I'm guessing it won't show up.

We're talking about 'indie' as if it still were 2003 though right?

As someone whose ballot was pop/hip hop/and 0% indie, I think that this is such a boring discussion and we don’t actually need 200 replies crying about indie > hoping for one of my faves to make an appearance so I can talk about it

Lloyd is not impassive.

Tbf 2003 is a year polled here, but it increasingly weirds me out reading such singular statements on "indie", in 2019.

Or, more succinct: Gyac otm.

yeah I genuinely like the Camera Obscura track but there's so much more to indie than what often breaks the surface in these polls. but as I said, all carping is welcome, as is all counter-carping

the indie in this poll so far does not even slightly represent the breadth of indie.

lol the vocals on this song are nowhere near impassive

This is the first track so far that I voted for. It's really good.

I don't know why anybody would expect the 100-80 portion of this poll to represent 'the breadth of indie'. It's just 20 songs, many of which are not indie.

Voted only for “Pow” in this stretch. Was good to hear it again.

exactly. it can't represent the breadth of any genre. i do understand the grumbling from non-indieheads a little as it has predominated so far but hey huge spoiler here there will be stretches where it doesn't

Those hoping that there won’t be more indie on the list better have stuffed the ballot box lol

so far today, even

I loved the woman's face throughout the Camera Obscura video

otm. there hasn't been one indie song yet which i liked. and my ballot was quite indie lopsided too.

Same here, though I do like the Camera Obscura (which I shortlisted).

Maybe Tuomas called the singing on "Lloyd" impassive because he watched the video?

I found the experience of actually picking the songs enormously nostalgic - it’s a time in my life that spans a lot of my major life experiences and a lot of the songs I picked have deep meaning to me or are entwined with specific memories in a way that later stuff just isn’t. It reminded me of when I was moving to the UK and when I finished my leaving cert(!) and when I was depressed and on the verge of dropping out of university and of a mix SV made me and of a million other experiences in between. I’ve really enjoyed remembering and listening to all these songs all over again, including some I haven’t listened to in at least a decade. Tl; dr thank you for doing this!

exactly. it can't represent the breadth of any genre. i do understand the grumbling from non-indieheads a little as it has predominated so far but hey huge spoiler here there will be stretches where it doesn't

I’m probably the only person who thinks this, but the best Camera Obscura song is “Away With Murder”

Didn't one of the girls in Camera Obscura die? I always feel weird listening to stuff made in the (reasonably) present day made by people who aren't alive anymore.

I voted for the Exploding Hearts album, though, so I'm an enigma.

Really delighted to see Camera Obscura in here. One of the few artists that made my albums and tracks lists. They're a rare band that have never made anything approaching a weak album.

Maybe you're thinking Broadcast?

Looked it up. Carey Lander died in 2015.

lol the vocals on this song are nowhere near impassive

gyac otm re: the extent of the nostalgic listening experience entailed in this poll.

Carey Lander, who joined in 2002, passed away in 2015.

90-81 way more boring than 101-91... I hope the indie batch of the poll is over now.

― Tuomas, Monday, 14 October 2019 21:40 (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

HOUSE!

Last one until imago gets home coming up...

Yeah, listening back to everything was a joyous and bewildering trip back to teenage years and young adulthood. My taste has diversified as you'd expect but it's great how much of that stuff I still love. I guess it's coded in by now.

great roll-out really enjoying this. Grumbling is boring unless it's by saer cos that rules.

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80. Aaliyah - Rock the Boat - 516 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1

BoatVid.exe

Well, they are compared to the vocal music I listen to (dance, jazz, soul, classical, etc), though I guess within "indie" they might be considered to be quite lively; I know little about the genre or its aesthetic conventions. To me it's just a bummer that whenever in polls like these I try to listen to a song in this style, and it first it may sound enjoyable, it's always ruined by the dispassionate "whatever" vocals.
― Tuomas, Monday, October 14, 2019 4:06 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The song is about wallowing in a fog of lovesick depression, not sure how fiery, histrionic vocals would make any sense in context.

Surprised this is higher than Try Again and We Need a Resolution. Great song, as are all the songs on that perfect album.

First one I voted for!

And from the way things have been going, almost surely the last.

This image doesn't sit right?

I know what you mean

Guys, it's Tuomas. He's been doing this on every poll roll out since 2003

Based on the way the poll is going, there’s gonna be an Aaliyah song every 7-8 spots

xps

I had to check the facts of the plane accident again. It wasn't over water. However, they'd just shot this video for Rock The Boat, so... xps

Eep, sorry guys. I was just riffing on the water theme of the video, I had no idea of any implication.

Try Again still my favourite Aaliyah track, but I'm enjoying getting to know these other ones more.

I too just checked, she didn't crash into the water. I think we can all safely and in good faith assume the image isn't in any way related to that.

I know little about the genre or its aesthetic conventions

:)

I thought people were just sensitive to the ripple emerging from her nostril.

I know little about the genre or its aesthetic conventions

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79. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 526 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K

Grainyfootage.wmv

Simply perfect.

hold on, i thought it was just going to be 10 more today?

this whole EP is beautiful

We are adopting a 'do as much as possible while we can' policy

Nice. I nommed the EP for the albums poll but ended up not voting for it out of pedantry. By far my favourite thing they've ever done.

This track really stood out in the nominations playlist. So lovely.

Rock The Boat is my least favourite song off that album but I never like soft cod reggae on r&b records.

We'll probably go down to 78 and do a top 77 in time-honoured fashion from tomorrow :)

that ep is my favorite listen on flights. the first song on my ballot to make it. i never get tired of it despite its' sonority.

ended up just voting for the track and something else from them for albums, but it is one of my favorite records of theirs

IABPOITC the EP is my favourite thing BOC ever did, but IABPOITC is only my third-favourite track on it.

I always felt that "Amo Bishop Roden" is the real classic on the EP, it pushes the BOC m00d a little bit further than most of their tracks.

Agreed.

The real reason we're going to 78 of course is that I couldn't go 2 days without something I voted for placing

Spoiler: it's indie. Note the lack of emotion!

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78. Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - 523 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7

choobing at a swedish festival

Nice. I nommed the EP for the albums poll but ended up not voting for it out of pedantry. By far my favourite thing they've ever done.

― pomenitul, Monday, October 14, 2019 11:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Completely agree. And I love most of their stuff! There just isn't an album of theirs that comes close to this EP, in terms of singularity, cohesiveness. It's probably one of the best EP's of all time.

awwww at clemenza's video. Tuomas has been grumbling about indie vocals on here twice as long as those kids have been alive!

<3 of Montreal so much. Most of the nominated tracks felt equally deserving, so I just couldn't decide in the end. Very relieved this made it anyway. Completely iconic, and mesmerising live.

I had a very hard time deciding whether to vote for the album or this track.

that Of Montreal track is so great!

I voted for a different album of theirs, but wasn't going to pass this one up. Extracts the maximum possible tension, pathos and horror from its neverending, everascending chord sequence, as Barnes' incredible vocal and lyrical performance intensifies and the guitars and synths play merry havoc about him...

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+9
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+8
90. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River - 492 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
89. Joanna Newsom - Emily - 494 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
88. Sugababes - Overload - 498 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
87. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - 502 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5
86. Lethal Bizzle ft. Fumin, D Double E, Jamakabi, Flow Dan, Demon, Forcer, Neeko, Napper, Ozzie B - Pow (Forward Riddim) - 503 points - 6 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+4
84 Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+4
84 Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
83. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - 507 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
82. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - 507 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
81. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - 515 points - 8 votes - 1 FPVs - Y2K+6
80. Aaliyah - Rock the Boat - 516 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
79. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 526 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
78. Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - 523 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7

xp the lyrics to that are something else

a lyric so good i polled it: THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL

lol "We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic" was the one I was going to quote but every line is good

and I love the building intensity

I honestly have no idea where to start with Of Montreal (what album I mean), but this track is really doing it for me rn.

hissing fauna is a good place to start imo.

was a late cut for me.

on the albums poll

his awesome ear for melody is grandly employed in the ornamental instrumentation, it all comes together so well

I agree with vc, LBI - Hissing Fauna's definitely a super-strong starting point. High octane track after track!

yes

Paralytic Stalks, anyone? Anyone? Just me?

just you

I like Paralytic Stalks a lot too but Satanic Panic in the Attic was my introduction to oM and remains my favourite.

Oh man, this song. I forgot just how raw this is.

ty tt!

i votes Hissing Fauna very high in my albums ballot but somehow missed this song when doing tracks.

the hissing fauna song i return to most is 'a sentence of sorts in kongsvinger,' a first-ballot entry in the 'oppressively cheerful music, depressing lyrics' hall of fame. no denying the power of 'grotesque animal' as the album's centerpiece, though.

Literally run out of drink right now so better move fast, I ain't gunna speak to anyone for the next 3 days

Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - loved this at the time, was it really from this decade? My memory is fucked
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - meh whayever
Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points -the bland inanity of the time, actually sounding decent right now
Aaliyah - Try Again - far too low, I guess INAR split the vote
Basement Jaxx - Nah, the gimmicky one, they did so much better
Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - ALL TIME CLASSIC
Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - how the fuck are these BOTH so low?
The Strokes - Hard to Explain - ...prolly their best? like half that album is awesome, half is disposable, but this ranks in first caregory
Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - cannae be doing with that imago idea of length of song correlates to quality of song, but cmon this is great
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - ALL TIME OBV
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - as a LC! fanboy obviously happy with any appearance, I was aware this is the one people are into, adverts and such,yeah cool whatever
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River - decent
Joanna Newsom - Emily - eh
Sugababes - Overload - love it, prolly the one I would've picked, the wobbly wikkawikka one
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - dunno like
Lethal Bizzle ft. Fumin, D Double E, Jamakabi, Flow Dan, Demon, Forcer, Neeko, Napper, Ozzie B - Pow (Forward Riddim) - BANGER, will nae doubt play this when The Kids are round this weekend, not that they'll care...
Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle - Love this man, voted for him in Eurovision whatever year that was
Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - Classic 7", heroically underwhelming LP but this is the song list so Fuck Yes
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - that self titled album was the one that we shrugged our shoulders at, but is this from the better one we backtracked to? Not replaying now to check, but I'm guessing this is decent
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - look I never particularly cared about this sorta bisnes at the the time but this is UNDENIABLE, a mix cd perennial (yeah still mix cds here, WANNA FIGHT?) I know all these songs mean different shit to different folk but this song has surely saved more actual lives than anything else here, and singlehandedly invalidates any "too much indie" nonsense, it is important
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - I used to wear a shirt with "I LIKED THEM BETTER WHEN THAT ONE FUD WAS IN THE BAND" but cmon this is great
Aaliyah - Rock the Boat - baffling to me that this is so much higher than those other two
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - they did so much better earlier and later and eh at the same time but I ain't complaining
Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - I always forget where I'm at with this boy, I know that early shit was clearly superseded, then they got worse but fuck knows where this falls in my personal chronology with this band

sorry for nonsense, been drinking, stopping now goodnight x

Emily is my favorite track from today, didn't vote for it though because it seems like just a fragment of a much greater piece

“rock the boat” is way too fucking low

amazing that all three Aaliyah tracks that were nominated have placed though

"chicago" is fine and i get that it was effectively the single, but the real standout on illinois is "the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!" and as was said upthread, 10s sufjan >>> 00s sufjan

hadn't heard "la ritournelle" before, it's a pleasant groove but then doesn't do much to justify its length

really should have voted for "anthems for a seventeen year old girl", glad to see it show up

i have never liked "the middle", it's not dreadful but also not particularly satisfying as far as this sort of power-pop goes idk?

i guess aaliyah got heavily vote-split, i couldn't even manage to choose which to vote for so just settled on only voting for the album

is there a spotify playlist for this?

it's in the first post

hadn't heard "la ritournelle" before, it's a pleasant groove but then doesn't do much to justify its length

I like Chicago and agree with the comment that it expresses the wonder of being in love with a new place. It also feels like the centerpiece of the album

Seven Swans is my favorite of his

i already liked illinois at the time but its grown on me a ton since relative to his others

i have never liked "the middle", it's not dreadful but also not particularly satisfying as far as this sort of power-pop goes idk?

I love, and voted for, "Sweetness" but "The Middle" always felt a bit trite, even patronizing, to me, although I feel bad saying that after some of these posts.

I never listened to the British Camera Obscura before (although I like the San Diego band). This song is not bad.

I actually don't know if I ever listened to this BoC EP, although I like them a lot, know all their albums, and voted for other things by them. I don't know of anything by them that I dislike and I certainly don't dislike this. Atmospheric and a little eerie.

I forgot that I had this Of Montreal album in my iTunes library. Not an unpleasant reminder at all. It's making me think a little bit of Wire now, I think?

I'm probably from the very small minority that preferred Of Montreal's earlier stuff. I was a fan from Cherry Peel through Aldhil's Arboretum and then kind of lost interest around the same time Pitchfork started noticing them.

I voted for "The Middle" though less for any particular meaningfulness of the lyrics than for the urgency of the hooks and the freshness of the melody.

The right Aaliyah came out on top tbqfh. That "Rock the Boat" placed will no doubt be the high point of this rollout.

I've been quietly following along so far. Here's where I say 'yay!' for "Hard to Explain" (the only Strokes I want to hear these days) and "La Ritournelle", which seem to be the only ones I helped to secure a place.

Not entirely sure if I'd heard what Broken Social Scene or Spoon actually sounded like before! So that was...informative, at least.

"The Middle" is a great song but I think I've literally heard it more than any other song from that decade, between owning the album, radio play, karaoke, my band covering it, etc. No urge to listen to it anymore. Even if I wanted to hear it, I think I can replay every second in my head

Lyrics are definitely trite but as o. nate says that's not the real appeal

the hissing fauna song i return to most is 'a sentence of sorts in kongsvinger'

I get a little choked up just thinking about that song. Hissing Fauna was a shocking record.

Updated yt playlist

Wanted to echo thanks for the poll and YouTube playlist. Most of this stuff I don't know, even though I paid more attention to new music in the '00s than I did in the '90s. I'm working my way through the YouTube playlist, which is a lot more interesting than my ballot was (I largely went "okay, here are my favorite artists, and these are my favorite nominated songs by them...").

Question for anyone who was paying attention: to what extent did music videos matter during this era, and how were people exposed to them? I have the sense that MTV had largely already stopped showing videos by 2000. Come 2006, I assume YouTube became the dominant platform but I'm not sure if there was a particular moment beforehand where television became less important than the web for exposure. (The Directors Label DVDs, which mostly covered '90s videos, meant a lot to me because I missed most of that stuff when it was originally aired; it's hard to imagine a DVD compilation meaning as much now, however well assembled.)

Music videos pretty much didn't matter at all except for some of the pop songs at the very beginning of the decade, "Fell In Love With a Girl", and "Here It Goes Again"

even after main MTV stopped showing videos they had like 7 other channels that did, plus there were like twenty others?

Rose-tinted memories of The Box channel where you could dial and request videos - pretty big until YouTube kicked in. Incessant ringtones adverts though.

I remember watching MTV Select a lot during the early part of the decade - Wikipedia tells me it was cancelled the day before September 11.

Also European top 20, which was useful for introducing me to stuff I wouldn’t get exposed to otherwise. Stopped watching MTV c2003 but apparently this kept going til 2009?!

Mostly the late night shows that showed Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Add N to X etc.

I was living in a house in Prague with MTV Europe and nothing to do around the end of 2005.

There was:
* The worst dregs of mtv reality shows like My Super Sweet Sixteen, best was Pimp My Ride
* Endless ringtone adverts
* A playlist of about 5 music videos which would be updated weekly. I remember Madonna's Hung Up, Bloodhound Gang's Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss and Wir Sin Helden's Wenn Es Passiert (which was very good now I think about it) being on a lot.

Oh and My Humps, that was on heavy rotation for a month.

Also I still remember Pow coming on at the first rave I ever went to, when I was about 16/17. I didnt really get what was going on, people didnt really seem to be enjoying themselves, the DJ was just playing a bland mix of house and the last knocking of garage, losing attention and then POW! Everyone went fucking mental. It was beautiful
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 14 October 2019 21:23 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Pow was banned from a lot of clubs back in the day because people were going a bit too mental when it came on

2004 was the year we got a Freeview box and I was finally able to watch music video channels, which consisted mainly of The Box and Kerrang! TV. I watched these non-stop for two years until I moved out, oblivious to the idea that music videos were declining in importance. Then I got super into the Director’s Label DVDs mentioned upthread - I still think about those all the time. Jonathan Glazer’s was the best one. My Super Sweet Sixteen also excellent.

I was living in a house in Prague with MTV Europe and nothing to do around the end of 2005.

There was:
* The worst dregs of mtv reality shows like My Super Sweet Sixteen, best was Pimp My Ride
* Endless ringtone adverts
* A playlist of about 5 music videos which would be updated weekly. I remember Madonna's Hung Up, Bloodhound Gang's Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss and Wir Sin Helden's Wenn Es Passiert (which was very good now I think about it) being on a lot.

Jonathan Hellion Mumble's synopsis mostly otm for me but

Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points -the bland inanity of the time, actually sounding decent right now

happy to call everything else Röyksopp ever did "bland inanity" ("Poor Leno" makes me positively itchy, though it has a nice video) but I do love this one, mainly for the giddy modulation when the loop/chord progression suddenly dips downward in the uh middle 8 or whatever it is

(waits for music theory types to tell me this makes no sense and that actually it's a very boring progression and I must be simple in the head to like it)

like Ritournelle a lot but didn't vote for it, love the BoC track and the whole EP, prob my favourite thing they ever did and I lent it to someone and didn't get it back, hrmm

right, psyched for today!

I like the instrumental part of Poor Leno, could really do without the singing though. Shores of Easy from 2011 is great setting off on a journey music.

Good to see Of Montreal, it was my number 3!

btw, shouldn't the last two tracks be switched? BoC has more points.

Of all the songs that have made it so far, I’ve only seen the music videos by JT, Aaliyah, Sugababes and Basement Jaxx I think.

Music video artists I associate most with the 00s: Justin Timberlake/NSYNC/BSB, Missy Elliott, Daft Punk, Madonna, OK GO, My Chemical Romance, Britney Spears, The White Stripes and the Chemical Brothers. Loved those Directors Label DVD comps too.

Music video shows that played late at night and YouTube were my main sources of exposure, MTV basically stopped playing them after the TRL era. Didn’t pay much attention to the form again until getting into Kpop this decade where the videos are totally essential to the experience.

Oh! Sorry, BoC has 516 points. A mere typo!

Poor Leno is like the second or third best song on Melody AM

Those Jimmy Eat World and Of Montreal songs are actually awesome. JEW especially

Keep thinking BoC is “Blue Öyster Cult”. Though I guess that would be “BÖC”

TS: Telephasic Workshop vs. Workshop of the Telescopes

Right!

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+9
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+8
90. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River - 492 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
89. Joanna Newsom - Emily - 494 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
88. Sugababes - Overload - 498 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
87. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - 502 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5
86. Lethal Bizzle ft. Fumin, D Double E, Jamakabi, Flow Dan, Demon, Forcer, Neeko, Napper, Ozzie B - Pow (Forward Riddim) - 503 points - 6 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+4
84 Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+4
84 Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
83. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - 507 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
82. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - 507 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
81. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - 515 points - 8 votes - 1 FPVs - Y2K+6
80. Aaliyah - Rock the Boat - 516 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
79. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 516 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
78. Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - 523 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7

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77. Ciara - Promise - 525 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6

I put this at #3

also too low, but it was too low on my own ballot

also the second song to place from my ballot after "rock the boat," guessing that's going to happen to me a lot today

goddammit here's the choob

also the second song to place from my ballot after "rock the boat," guessing that's going to happen to me a lot today

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:17 AM (six minutes ago)

the first vaporwave track to place!
years before its time

lol i can imagine a vaporwave version

This was one of the last songs I cut from my ballot and I still regret cutting it, so I'm glad to see it place anyways.

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76. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With a Girl - 525 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1

it choobs repeating

Also, not that it matters but that Johnny Boy song is from 2004. It even made Pitchfork's Top Singles list that year. Are you going based on when the album it was on was released?

Maybe? I forget tbh. Will amend on the next summary

Anyways, I'm not the biggest Stripes fan but this song is great. It was #2 on my ballot.

I bought the album for this song iirc

didn't vote for stripes on either ballot, which is probably a betrayal of my teenaged self, but the voting process did start me listening to 'i smell a rat' again, which is fun.

I bought the album for this song iirc

― jmm, Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:53 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same! and i listened to white blood cells the other week, still a v solid record

this next one was by far my biggest discovery of the nominations

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75. Life Without Buildings - The Leanover - 526 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1

ifichoobyou

Oh man, this is beyond classic. Talk about a band that should never have broken up...

I voted for this!!

still a v solid record

xp I think I like about half of it, would have to relisten. The singles are killer.

tt has tbf tried to get me into them before, but i needed to be caught unawares. this song came up on trackslist shuffle, baffled me, annoyed me, and then smacked me right in what the kids call 'the feels', where it remains. in my top ten

looking in your EYES!

also an amazing example of musical alchemy - the elements wouldn't work alone but together they're perfect

This was on my longlist, but I thought "this is liked enough on ILM that it doesn't need my vote"

The Leanover was in my top 5. I'm certain I had heard it precisely once before this poll but the whole album captivated me in the last month.

might be an hour until the next one due to work btw

unless i take a sneaky toilet break, which tbf I can

Dumb question I guess, but where do the Y2K totals come from? I think I missed that.

Year of release :)

The last 2 consecutive tracks on this list were both in my top 10 which of course means TOO LOW but I guess I should be happy that they placed at all.

just catching up now (who's idea was it to start this on Canadian thanksgiving?), voted for Destroyer and I the of Montreal song. Both are great, the destroyer might actually be the best Destroyer track, though looking at my ballot I voted for another one even higher.

The of Montreal track is epic in a way this kind of indie-ish music rarely manages to be.

This is right on the line of 'shit, jittery, ADHD annoying and my god, transcendental' for me. I basically think it's extraordinary but on the wrong day, I have to turn it off almost immediately.

voted for this and the album

Wow, amazing vocals. I don't know why I haven't listened to this band.

xp ADHD is doing some quite unpleasant work in that clause! I hope it makes sense as a reference and isn't too insensitive.

I didn't vote for The Leanover as I went with the album instead. They're such a perfect band.

Fallujah street Fallujah street

incredible band, incredible album, didn't make any of my lists lol

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74. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping - 538 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8

choober

This would've ranked high on my tracks ballot had I made one.

hurrah!

Dreamiest tune.

I better listen to this if the three of you love it so much.

yep another vote of mine, this is one of her "hits" and has a lovely, submerged, woozy quality to it, I'm a sucker for buried melodies

damn I voted for this too!!!

Her new album under the Nivhek moniker is quite good btw, albeit on the more ambient end of her aesthetic.

missed this entirely until just now; gonna catch up.

My #4!

that hook! four of my top six placed now

So, who wants multiple FPVs?

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73. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun - 538 points - 8 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+4

choobz on the radio

Didn’t vote for this but remember seeing them live fondly. Great track.

Fucksake. tt texted me the gifs but c&p'd the wrong one for 73. Which means I don't have it at all. You'll just have to imagine it

It's a tie anyway.

Anyway I love this song. Didn't vote for it (would have voted for Young Liars the track) but it is electrifying in a way that a lot of oft-feted hipster indie of the time isn't

More voters breaks a tie

Ah I see.

Unfair imo.

young liars ep is probably peak tvotr imo.

i did vote for dear science, but that felt like a totally different band.

revisiting TVOTR was one of the highlights of putting together my ballots. I guess it's just a function of them having not put out a lot of music in the past 8 years or so but I feel like they've been unduly forgotten, they should definitely be esteemed on the same level as the other indie titans of this era like Spoon, Vampire Weekend, The National.

Ah I see.

Not sure I do. Do they not have eight votes each?

more first place votes?

^^^

i was just watching something that used TVOTR's 'mr. grieves' cover in the soundtrack, but i can't remember what.

TVotR and Grouper are top 20 of the 00’s for me.

Staring at the Sun a top 5 song about orgasm

self xxp

it was righteous gemstones!

Stuck in the middle of an intractable work assignment right now and "The Middle" is speaking to my soul

I really like the sounds on this Ciara track. I can see the vapourwave comparison!

Like the White Stripes song well enough but I really clicked with them with their next two albums. Wow, this Life Without Buildings song, though!

OTM about the vocals being amazing

I knew it was good, but had forgotten how great Staring At The Sun is. thanks, voters

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72. Annie - Chewing Gum - 539 points - 9 votes - 1FPV - Y2K+4

does your choobing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight

lmao what a perfect image for this song

I think Annie might have been the only artist to get two spots on my tracks list. Chewing Gum hasn't lost any of its charm in the last 15 years.

great list so far. none of my votes have shown up yet, but a few where I voted for a different song by the artist and a few from my long list (Promise, The Middle and Fell in Love With a Girl).

I've only listened my way down to Emily so far, but my favourite discoveries are:

the Jurgen Paape song, which I feel like is similar to Royksopp song except it has more of a payoff. The Royksopp left me cold in the end, I wanted the extra two minutes.

Hip Hop is really great, hadn't ever listen to Dead Prez before but i'll have to now. I figured they were just another run of the mill group of conscious rappers but this was not what I expected at all. The lyrics are interesting of course but the delivery is perfect.

I didn't care for the Destroyer song, I think the title track from Rubies is way better in terms of really long Destroyer songs, this one felt knitted together but a few stitches were dropped in between.

so glad to get this track out the way so early, lol

Wanted to like the Annie song but I can hear the seams of its construction a bit too distinctly

My favorite discovery so far is that Sebastien Tellier track. Can't believe I've never heard that before. (he needs to work on his album covers though)
Most WTF is Lethal Bizzle.

you mean that as in 'WTF this is great' obv

ILM was like Annie's street team for a while there. The song is OK, never got what the big deal was

voted two annies too! think my first vote to place :)

Cant think of anyone more old ilm than Annie

Chewing Gum is great but I voted for a different Annie track. Happy to see The Leanover place as well (another one that didn't quite make my ballot), in retrospect it's what I wish more of the early-'00s post-punk revival stuff was like.

Honestly no complaints about this stretch - I'm not a fan of TVotR or the White Stripes but I do like the songs by them that have placed.

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71. Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope) - 540 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1

land of hope and choob

totally forgot about this dude

Best music video of the decade

witness!! voted for this. but low res video upload is horrible, try this one

I always preferred Dreamy Days, but this is such an awesome single and video combination. Happy to see it on the list.

Any chance of MC Pitman turning up

This is a good run! And I forgot about Annie, good track - also remember liking the Mylo remix with an acidy breakdown...

xp was just thinking about "witness the pitness" as I was listening. don't think we nominated pitman, for shame.

do the different pic fonts have any special attributes for genres or years?

80-71: only voted for White Stripes. Pondered including Ciara for a while but it was a late cut in the end.

iirc they are chosen for appropriateness xp

Haven't had anything in this run but very happy to see Annie and Roots Manuva place. Even happier to have discovered the Roots Manuva video, no spoiler but the three legged race had me in stitches.

Witness is iconic and the video is brilliant

before i decide how many more to do tonight can ilm please promise not to die at 5pm est as happened yesterday lol

hahaha love this track

Witness is one of the greatest songs ever. If this is people's first time hearing Roots, he had some great albums too. Awfully Deep is as good as any rap record made in the decade.

Life Without Buildings is fantastic. I just can't understand why I'd never heard of this before. That would have been so my thing in 2001. Just forked out for a copy of the album! Great find.

I listened to the whole of Run Come Save Me the other day and it was still really fun

If I'd got my tracks shit together I'd have voted for All Things to All Men - Roots' track with the Cinematic Orchestra. Witness also fantastic.

Also the subject of one of the most hilarious / hilariously wrong Pitchfork reviews. Who gives a fuck about "ten pints of bitter?" :)

life without buildings sounds like a 1980 post-punk track. but weirdly enough i don't like that track at all though i love post-punk. there is something very annoying to it, additionally the singing is too repetive.

fell in love with a girl was the second of my songs that placed. probably my fave by the white stripes.

we starting on old-ilx royalty now

calling the leanover out for being lyrically repetitive is akin to calling out daft punk for using synths

Wtf @ that pitchfork review

Also the subject of one of the most hilarious / hilariously wrong Pitchfork reviews. Who gives a fuck about "ten pints of bitter?" :)

― dorsalstop

Wow, that's such a pathetic review.

stunned that anyone would actually sit down and write something so shit and wrong, let alone publish it

whenever people openly pine for the old days of pfork i think of reviews like that

Speaking of useless reviews, here's what the NME had to say about Life Without Buildings back in 2001

https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-nme-4076

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70. The New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant - 545 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K

choob twenty times before you swallow

i was just thinking that it was about time for the new pornos to place

not the New Pornos I voted for but nice to see anyway. my challopsy take is this is one of my least favorite Neko vocals

I hadn't heard Mass Romantic when "Letter from an Occupant" exploded like a mail bomb out of my speakers.

i hope "all for swinging you around" also places because the only copy of the video on youtube is also ridiculously degraded and compressed and i feel like we've got a theme going here

Neko Case...is in the New Pornographers. This is a fact we all knew.

It's a good song but definitely not a good Neko showcase. My NP pick was "The Laws Have Changed."

So many memories w/ "Letter from an Occupant" - my first year as a PhD student, i.e. a lot of doing very little in an office or lab for most of the day, trading mp3s with people. I was obsessed with this song and would play it all day. I will have discovered it a year, maybe almost two, after it first came out, probably via fluxblog.

Bleeding Heart Show would have been my pick but this is great.

Omfg I feel genuinely bad for omitting that Roots Manuva track off my ballot. That shit was one of my favorite tracks of the decade... damn.

I have Annie on my albums ballot, but my favorite singles of hers weren't nominated, so I neglected to place this on my tracks ballot.

Nice to see Beautiful Place make it but if Dayvan Cowboy and the utterly brilliant cLOUDDEAD Boards remix don't make it, y'all weak

left new pornos off the tracks ballot because picking just one was too hard. mass romantic was very high on my albums ballot.

letters is probably my 4th or 5th fav song on the album, tbh. not that it isn't great, but the title track, slow descent, and others are just as titanically awesome

My NP pick was "The Laws Have Changed."

I was torn between that song and this but then ended up just giving them a load of album points instead. Love this song though, so many hooks.

Bleeding Heart Show would have been my pick but this is great.

― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski)

My pick.

bleeding heart show was the most-played NP song on my itunes, it's either that one, mass romantic, or sing me spanish techno that take the cake for me

"sing me spanish techno" is a stack of perfect hooks

I think I voted for My Rights Versus Yours.

yeah spanish techno is the one but i'd just vote the album (and i think i did)

Its fun seeing people (re)discover Life Without Buildings. What a band!

Interesting one I'd never heard (or even heard of) is Johnny Boy.

<3 sing me spanish techno :)

I also remember the feeling of hearing "Letter from an Occupant" burst like a comet out of my crappy computer speakers 18+ years ago. I've enjoyed plenty of other NP songs but nothing matches it for me.

never heard 'Pow (Forward)' before. crazy track.

Was that "funny" Pitchfork review of Run Come Save Me written by ILX's very own hardman Ethan? And if it was, how did people react to it here back in the day?

Omfg I feel genuinely bad for omitting that Roots Manuva track off my ballot. That shit was one of my favorite tracks of the decade... damn.

+1

Completely missed it on the tracks list

"sing me spanish techno" is a stack of perfect hooks

― american bradass (BradNelson), T

This album breaks down my power pop resistance.

letters from an occupant is a classic new pornos lyric, one with a meaning so obscure to me that they might as well be singing in tagalog.

The tension in the New Pornos is Case's kind of vocalizing requiring clarity.

they generally do a good job of arranging case's songs in a less cluttered way that fits that

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69. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space - 549 points - 12 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6

in space no-one can hear you choob

lower than i expected, but then again i didn't vote for it

a last minute cut from my top 50 iirc. 50 was awfully brutal for tracks imo

do the different pic fonts have any special attributes for genres or years?

― nxd, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:19 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I wish this were the case. Alas, I have no proper preview function on the web app I'm using, so in reality it's 'whatever font fits size-wise and looks vaguely genre/tone appropriate enough inside a frustration window of about six different font attempts'. Maybe I will be super meta for the albums rollout.

Just realised the Life Without Buildings track quotes a Robert Wyatt lyric "I like you mostly late at night"

Are you all up for taking this late and going down to 61? Because we potentially are. I want to cultivate a sort of party spirit for this section and a late-night rundown could be just the ticket idk

I just got off work here on the US east coast, so bring it on!

cant recall my votes but fucking love i feel space so much

Are you all up for taking this late and going down to 61? Because we potentially are. I want to cultivate a sort of party spirit for this section and a late-night rundown could be just the ticket idk

nice

Spacing out 77 through 70 (all the images tt'd made) while we've both been out working all day has been painful, think we just about didn't lose everyone (a losing streak! a losing streak!). Will hopefully be coming along at a more rollicking pace now

Total ear candy. I would have gone for "Let's Practise".

love I Feel Space! it's still my favorite Lindstrøm track

i like a couple of the more recent ones like closing shot more but it holds up

this is usually the point in these countdowns where I realize that pretty much none of my tracks are gonna place