'He ain't nothing but a Poll Rigger' - It's the ILM 2005 Tracks of the year

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I actually really like the "Mr Brightside" remix! I haven't heard the original, mind. It could be the original that's secretly doing it for me underneath all the synth cumulus clouds. But it's so pretty! And the chorus so aching! Mind you he's pretty good generally at recontextualising vocals so that they're suggestive of a quite different original song.
-- Tim Finney March 15th, 2005 11:15 AM.

I strongly prefer the JLC dub mix myself.

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I really like the contrast between the sweet, girlish pop voice and the smackdown hip hop bragging, with its dirty lines about coming in your mouth. It reminds me of various other things I love - perhaps most obviously Annie, Missy, Betty Boo.

I kind of thought her voice might get wearingly cloying after a while when I first heard her, but that hasn't happened at all. It also has a funny and fresh ending.

Is Robyn going to make it this time? I hope so.

Martin Skidmore

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Konichiwa Bitches is perfect.

What on earth would improve it? An ODB, Ludacris, Missy Elliot guest verse??

fandango August 22nd, 2005 10:16 AM.

The bit at the end of 'Konichiwa Bitches' where she pretends to forget the last word of every line is one of the finest bypass-the-brain-it's-an-awesome-pop-device moments in living memory.

baboon2004 January 8th, 2006 4:17 AM.

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I like Mike Jones' as a persona, a hungry, on the grind, serious yet funny, using his shortcomings to his advantage, that strained, rough-textured, melodically raw and blunted voice, he's very much an interesting character. And it comes across in his songs.
deej. April 22nd, 2005 6:56 PM.

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worst single = Walk On or Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own or Elevation
Sociah T Azzahole June 30th, 2005 12:02 PM.

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own is maybe the best song U2 have ever done.
Marcello Carlin June 30th, 2005 12:02 PM.

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"Do You Want To" plays the part of a brilliant sequel – the band's second "Take Me Out", and proof that success hasn't made them any less relevant or exciting.  "DYWT" starts out with another disconcerting intro, but instead of boiling down to a violent groove like "Take Me Out", it jumps right into a full-on dance-pop-rock attack of guitar, synth, hi-hat and doo-doos.  The band proceeds to not only make fun of themselves, or make fun of would-be critics, but (stick with me here) make fun of themselves making fun of people making fun of Franz Ferdinand (especially clear in the video, where they mockingly trash an overdone parody of their infamous chateau parties).  To seal the deal, halfway through the song the band says, "You want 'Take Me Out'?  FINE!" and plays that riff during the break (the Erol Alkan-sampled one), right before leaping back into some of the deadliest death-disco they've ever played.  Franz: 2; haters: 0.    
Peter Lansky

the non-grouping of remixes and originals means that the original MB could still be to come, right?

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I find myself with some technical difficulties at this point. I want to listen to this track before I write this blurb, but every time I try to listen to it I end up looping it for like an hour, raving around my flat, and becoming very very tempted to fill my face with pills and go out raving. Aptly for a song on the theme of THE FLASHLIGHTS! AND THE EXPLOSIONS!, it's the explosions which matter most: the two astounding breaks, cutting up and stretching out Karin Dreijer's voice - poised, as ever, right on the knife-edge of ecstasy and woe - so that it is all that matters in the entire world, each time catapulting the buzz and click of those five notes into something even harder, bassier, spasm-inducing than before.
The Lex

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I think, for me, this one actually has everything the original had and more, like even the quiet bit is more deftly produced, something about the way the strings well up in the breakdown is so much more affecting, and I did like the original alot but it was a bit of a used style I thought, the Trentemoller one has this really weird dramatic, almost cinematic feel to the breakdown, which I didn't get in the original so much, good and all as it was.
(then it has a ridiculously ott pay off!)

Ronan October 25th, 2005 2:20 PM.

hey mike, U2 voters REPRAZENT! i listened to it while putting my list together the other week and, er, i sniffled.

hey, hang on, i wrote a blurb about it too, actually. hem-hem-hem :)

It should read...

U2
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't beat the ones you know. pluck at my heartstrings, edge. Lift me to the sky. Give me a break in the middle eight, then soar with meto the edge of heaven.

Trust me, i don't even like U2 all that much. but if this doesn't move you even slightly, you're dead inside.

Royksopps points were 50.5 from 4 voters.

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Annecdote. February 2003. The fifth anniversary of Wavelength, a popular weekly indie showcase in Toronto, remains semi-legendary to this day. Before the gig started, I spent a healthy chunk of time trying to explain the genius of local act Polmo Polpo to a few unsuspecting friends. It was difficult to communicate the sound of Wolfgang Voigt-inflected minimal techno with string samples and shoegaze-y guitar to people who had never heard anything remotely similar to it. In the end, Polmo Polpo threw the entire club for a loop by playing but one track (as per his norm) -- a head-nodding twenty-minute disco-funk number with no apparent beginning or end. I felt like the boy who cried wolf. The legendary part came immediately after, as five hundred brains were fried by a scorching set from prog metallers Rockets Red Glare.

Two years later, Polmo Polpo decided to release that Arthur Russell cover after all. Rockets Red Glare have long since imploded. Meanwhile, at a gig this past summer, a spectacular live version of "Kiss Me Again and Again" (lasting more than thirty minutes) convinced me that Polmo Polpo and I both needed to grow into the song a little bit.
Barry Bruner

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Has there been an act that had such an obvious short expiry date as
Tatu? Gimmick, scandal, the talent probably all elsewhere, a long gap
after the debut - guaranteed to vanish, surely. All About Us is a great bravado title for the comeback, but surely it would be hopeless? No. The singing is a little stronger and more confident, the production like before is about as restrained as Jim Steinman, and it's another neat tune using the two voices wonderfully well (apart from a saggy near-operatic segment three quarters of the way through). Still the best faux-lesbian Russian pop duo we have ever had.
Martin Skidmore

My lips are sealed, but Dan, don't shoot the messenger.

that royksopp cover is beautiful...might be able to account for all 4 of its votes (me too!)

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It is purest froth and it is the most colourful thing they have ever done, and the least self-consciously 'classy'. It might be my single-of-year, I will give it 42 plays and then see.

If "Milkshake" was all attack then this is the sustain/release chunk, and you could slot them together and have one fantastic full-bodied track, but in isolation from one another they are both doubly unusual and extraordinary. Especially this. You can hear them SMILING.
The Lex August 11th, 2005 12:53 PM.

There's a bit in "Push the Button" (the bit starting from the line "I've been waiting patiently...") that sort of makes me want to burst into a verse of Tina Turner's "The Best."
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
brittle-lemon August 11th, 2005 2:50 PM.

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It's like I'm driving some ridiculously fast car way in the future on a highway through a perfectly lovely (and artificially-preserved) field. I'm still not convinced about the second M83 album being any good, but this song hooked me right away and is a great combination of beauty and adrenaline.

Maciej Kasperowicz

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), January 9th, 2006 5:44 PM.
hah i was thinking this.

FYI i am Peter Lansky, though this is my posting name on ILM.. not that anyone cares

-- deej.. (clublonel...), January 9th, 2006 8:26 PM. (later)

I'll have more fun the rest of the way because all my top tracks have been listed ... no more nailbiting for me!

Hahahahhahahah.

Hahhahahahaha.

Hahahah.

Oh boy.

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seriously - how'd you come up with 60%

It's a long time, if ever, since this was a predominantly British board.

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Without doubt the most exuberant thing Saint Etienne have recorded since Nothing can stop us. Like that, it sounds ready made for Kylie to cover and Sarah Cracknell is at her most Kylieesque here. Playful and coquettish, 'let's have some fun tonight, an innocent request or something more? The joy is in the nerve tingling excitement of discovery. Mystifyingly overlooked as a single, Stars above us transforms a good album into a great album by virtue of providing a joyous sense of love and community in contrast to the bittersweet tales of atomised society which surround it.

Billy Dods

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"Stars Above Us" is fucking instant.
Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) June 25th, 2005 6:30 AM.

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"DARE" is one of those songs that shouldn't work when you map it out on paper. An ancient synth line percolates, Shawn Ryder whines a bit, Damon Albarn sings the chorus (as Noodle instead of 2D for once), the drums stop and start, and every once in a while there's that "UHH". There aren't any verses, there's no bridge, there's hardly any structure or progression at all. But all the pieces somehow add up to much more than the sum of its parts, creating this addictive, hypnotic groove that makes for undeniable ass-shaking. I should have gotten sick of this track after a week, but it's the only song from this year that's been in constant rotation on my iTunes since I first heard it.
sovietpanda

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"Dare" blew my head up in the pub last night. Whoever said Shaun ruins it wants to lay off the PCP for a bit.
Amity Wong December 7th, 2005 1:11 PM.

"Dare" sounds amazing when heard indistinctly, blaring out of a nearby building, or out of a radio in the next room, but I don't like it that much when I hear it and pay attention.
edward o December 7th, 2005 1:23 PM.

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A lot was made of the old-school, dread-locked, one-drop style of this sublime chant. Translation: Raw as hell.
Joe Schoech

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The idea that "Ooh La La" is some kind of weak link in the Goldfrapp chain seems like the strangest notion ever now. I don't just grudgingly admire this record, I love&adore it.
Alex in Doncaster August 29th, 2005 11:29 PM.

Yeah, I don't really get the hate for "Ooh La La", it's at least as good as "Train" and much better than "Strict Machine" - which I didn't get into at all (not bad, just no hook) and I suspect its popularity was mostly due to it's use in that ad.
Spencer Chow August 29th, 2005 11:36 PM.

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John steers the would-be anthem of American high school students everywhere away from cliche by affirming the promise of the chorus with a propulsive backbeat. "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me"... Who can't relate to this song?
David Maher

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This Year" might be the song of the year.
Alfred Soto June 1st, 2005 3:18 AM.

i heard the mountain goats once.

Stick with it, you may like some of the stuff to come. Such as...

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Not the track where M.I.A most explicitly evoked the shadow of war, struggle, insurgency, firearms and other topics on which you probably read more words last year than there were people who actually bought ‘Arular’. This is the one that *sounds* like it’s marching off to battle. Taking a production by Brazil’s baile funk king DJ Marlboro as a starting point (hence the quasi-shoutout “Brazil, quieten down, I need to make a sound!”), Diplo tapes together some desert-dry Atari drumbeats and a militaristic trumpet that practically makes you want to walk eight miles down a country road being bellowed at by a psychopath in a suit. Cheeringly, Maya Arulpragasam’s voice only serves to undermine this.
DJ Mencap

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Bucky Done Gone is such a Baile Funk rip-off, but it is a freaking great one.
Michael F Gill January 21st, 2005 4:06 AM.

I'm blasting "Bucky Done Gun" in my headphones all the time, and my office chair is now doing the electric booty.
donut debonair April 5th, 2005 12:09 AM.

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I'm absolutely loving Booka Shade's 'Mandarine Girl' at the moment, it complete kills on the dancefloor!
Chewshabadoo June 29th, 2005 3:07 PM.

Mandarine girl, of course. never heard a casio pan-pipe patch sound so seductive..
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Anybody who wants to argue that m.i.a. isn't an interesting singer
should listen to "pull up the people" about 47 times. at 2:30 she starts
this cycle where she sings one chorus off (or behind) the beat and then
sings the next one right back on top of it. for some strange reason it
reminds me of steve reich's phase work, her vocals grind up against and
match with the beats at intervals in the exact same way.
mark p January 17th, 2005 4:25 AM.

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Holy crap, i just heard this on portland, oregon's godawful commercial
R&B station and it is fucking BINOCULARS. the first great song of 2005!
(ok, i know it's an 04 track, i don't care.)
i love, love, love that organ - jesus, it sounds like lawrence or sten
or someone - and i love the way those low toms don't quite resolve down
as much as you want them to (unless it sounds differently on a car with
proper sub-bass, of course).
plus the fucker is SLOW, even though it probably cooks along at about
120 or so, it's got that half-time feel. it's so strange and mournful,
for such sassy lyrics. this is genius. now i just want to hear some
electrohouse remixes...
philip Sherburne January 1st, 2005 9:46 PM.

DAMN, how good is this track? Dark as a funeral pyre, yet sexy as hell.
I guess we are going to have to wait on the album, but I hope this track
doesn't turn out to be an anomaly.
Michael F Gill January 9th, 2005 5:55 AM.

Too many witty responses to make...must...choose...one... D:

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This song sounds like Death from Above 1979 and I like it. There's not much else to it. The guitar sound makes me want to march around. The best White Stripes single to date.
David Maher.

The White Stripes nudge forward in time from 1970 to 1973 with this punchu glam explosion. Meg's the star of the show here; she often gets slated for her drumming but when the high hats come in it's one of the most exhilarating things in 'modern' rock. Short of getting Suzi Quatro out of retirement it's difficult to see how it could be improved.
Billy Dods

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This song sounds like Death from Above 1979 and I like it. There's not much else to it. The guitar sound makes me want to march around. The best White Stripes single to date.
David Maher.

The White Stripes nudge forward in time from 1970 to 1973 with this punchy glam explosion. Meg's the star of the show here; she often gets slated for her drumming but when the high hats come in it's one of the most exhilarating things in 'modern' rock. Short of getting Suzi Quatro out of retirement it's difficult to see how it could be improved.
Billy Dods

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I'm a tad underwhelmed by My Friend Dario on the first couple of listens - I mean, its alright, but it doesn't really kick in properly and its all a bit, well, Primal Scream, isn't it?
Matt DC February 10th, 2005 9:09 AM.

The other slightly frustrating thing about MFD is that there's this new bassline that comes in right at the end and you think its going to build up again from there and it just doesn't.

(I'm totally sold on this track now, though)
Matt DC March 11th, 2005 9:22 AM.

"my friend dario" is Eliminator era ZZTop. the car theme. the lock "real" drum rhythm. the riffage. hell yeah.
andrew m. March 16th, 2005 5:56 PM.

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I was annoyed by this song when I first heard it sometime in February or March. I forget why. It probably had something to do with my expectations of hype surrounding the album, dismissing Antony for having too heavily-crafted a backstory/shtick (imagine, to some people being transgender is actually more than just a "shtick"!!), or possibly thinking there was too much vibratto in his voice. Either way, as it is with most great music, I was converted by actually listening to the song. And of course at its heart this song is really quite unassuming. Like the man singing it, the song just wants someone to love it. And it's hard not to get pulled in by that soaring, truly otherworldly ending, which is a bridge to something other than solid ground.
David Maher

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Listen to "Hope there's Someone" again. It's about mortality. Fucking plants and animals can relate to that: everything and everybody dies, and most worry about that fact from time to time. It's not an expression of identity politics, it's frankly one of the most basic "universal" (cough, barf) tropes ever.
Drew Daniel January 4th, 2006 10:41 PM.

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The original "Lose Control" is not a suggestion. It is an order to "get out of control" barked by Scoop, spit by Missy, and tauntingly crooned by Ciara, while the persistent, maddening, ascending loop drives you crazy until you really do Lose Control (and start seeing Tommy Lee dancing like a Muppet).
Jacques Lu Cont (a.k.a. Stuart Price a.k.a. Thin White Duke etc.) takes a different approach on his remix (first brought to my attention by one Clap Clap Blog). He extracts the line "HYPNOTIC ROBOTIC ROCK YOUR BODY" from Missy's original vocals and, brilliantly, loops it so it becomes exactly what it says it is: a mechanized, repetitive, hypnotizing loop that does nothing but make you move. The beat creeps in slowly in typical JLC style, the loop eventually drops down a frightening octave and Missy comes in with more authority than ever thought possible, while the absence of the irritating original sample makes the shouted back ups that much more invigorating. Then in comes Ciara.
Ohhh boy, Ciara. Her voice becomes powerfully sexy with the new beat, and there is a hundred times more chemistry in her edited-in trade-offs with Missy than in the original. By the time the shouted "MUSIC MAKE YOU LOSE CONTROL" fades in (a sample which actually began the original), it's no longer a command. You realize you don't have a choice: you've already lost control.
It's not over. The beat gives way to a spacey yet driven mid-section, where Missy spits pure insanity. She gets to the original "hypnotic robotic" line and it seems revelatory, only to have the song move on to the following line for a new loop. As everything slowly fades back in, the hit really does seem "automatic." It feels like Pet Sounds for the new century. The beat drops in a final time and nothing else matters. Control lost.
sovietpanda

26. Missy Elliott feat. Ciara and Fatman Scoop - Lose Control
(70.5 points, 7 votes)

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omg 'Lose Control' is like '1 2 Step' turned inside out, it is AMAZING and made me start dancing with like proper moves and everything before the first verse was over. MUSICMAKEYOULOSECONTROL MUSICMAKEYOULOSECONTROL! And omg the false ending!
The Lex April 18th, 2005 9:40 PM.

Loose Control' is what I've been waiting for from Timbaland for a long time, for him to go full on electro instead of just hinting at it or teasing us with it at the end of songs. This track is gonna make rubble outta the dancefloor. There's so much to love: the "MUSIC MAKES YOU LOOSE CONTROL" sample reminiscent of LRD, Missy's tighter rhymes, Ciara sorta rapping, the ad libs by Fat Man Scoop to flesh out the beat so the track doesn't go completely into dance music territory, the obvious sample....I'm lovin it.
modernaire, I wanna be April 20th, 2005 6:55 AM.

I just love how crisp and clean "Clear" is. "Lose Control" is pretty sweaty and aggressive. I like "Clear" better, but I guess I only appreciate "Lose Control" for its ability to translate the "futurism funkiess" of "Clear" but significantly alter its intensity.
fizzcaraldo January 2nd, 2006 11:20 AM.

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I certainly didn't think that Spoon was gonna make one of the best strutting songs of the year, and I like Spoon a bunch. This is great though, and I think by far the best song from Gimme Fiction. It's wonderfully restrained, with the keyboard parts, when they come in, quietly in the background of the song, but obviously important. I really like the way it sounds like it's tearing apart at the end.
Maciej Kasperowicz

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i turn my camera on" is the best song on this album.

britt's falsetto, jerky off beat, awesome lyrics.
cutty February 17th, 2005 10:52 PM.

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Oh wow, single of the year, this song is fucking amazing! one listen and it's embedded in my head.

also Rachel is slowly becoming an unlikely mistress of Spoken Word Bits - following on from 'big platform boots' in the "Some Girls" extended version, we now have the most polite "could you turn the track down a little bit, please?" ever.

Oh, and surf guitar. oh, surf guitar. oh.
The Lex February 15th, 2005 9:49 PM.

hmm .. a little too sickly sweet for me.

but the spoken part is indeed lovely and an obvious take on 'lets start the record' a la Annie.
mark e February 16th, 2005 3:17 PM.

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10 Dollar is great! That acid noise!
Matt DC January 26th, 2005 10:04 PM.

The "heys" in 10 Dollar always make me think of Krusty the Clown.
Jordan March 2nd, 2005 3:19 PM.

If any of them (haters)walked into a club and heard "10 Dollar" blasting I guarantee that they would immediately start dancing and then try to figure out who it was.
Spencer Chow March 9th, 2005 9:35 PM.

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I spent a good part of last summer driving around with my radio tuned to WGCI, Chicago's Home for Hip Hop and R&B, waiting for the newest chapter to come on and then checking ILM after I got home, to see if maybe it had leaked or something. Through chapter twelve, so ridiculous, so wonderful. I think "Go ahead and climax, just let go of my leg!" is my favorite line, but there are certainly a lot of em to choose from.
Maciej Kasperowicz

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y'know, it's kind of amazing that noone else ever realized this is the perfect way to get the public interested in a concept album/story-opera type record -- make it a multi-part storyline with cliffhangers, and release each part one at a time. I mean, this wouldn't be nearly as exciting if he just hid it on an album for people to hear for the first time all at once.
Al May 13th, 2005 8:27 PM.

think what's compelling about all this is not really the storyline itself, which is ridiculous and lame, but just the overthetop bonkers way that r. kelly believes in it and delivers it and really makes this into this Total Media Event or something. like OH SHIT PART SIXTEEN OF R KELLY'S "TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET" and the whole deadpan/tortured syntax aspect of the lyrics etc.
Amateur(ist) May 13th, 2005 9:28 PM.

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Holy fuck this song is the bomb. I mean... it's wtf, amazing, creepy and cool, and I think I could even dance to it. Obscene phone call comparison totally otm. "Drop It Like It's Hot" as performed by your stalker, Lil Jon.
I don't think it's all that misogynistic, it's just sexual!
The Lex January 9th, 2005 12:37 PM.

I'm a prude with sexual hangups and I think "Wait" is the most boring Ying Yang Twins single ever. Don Yute's "Row Da Boat," featuring and dominated by the Ying Yang Twins, was my favorite single of 2004, however, and in it the Twins express admirable open-mindedness, viz. "I ain't set on no big booty/You can gimme a little tooty booty/I'm cool wi' dat."
Frank Kogan June 21st, 2005 9:10 PM.

The whisper song isnt the nicest song in the world. its not the worst though. apart from the use of the word bitch, and the way its all about the man and the girl as a fuck toy. those things aside, the song is fantastic.
titchyschneider June 21st, 2005 9:14 PM.

I didn't like "wait" cos the whispering comes thru the speakers as this constant high-frequency ssssss. and it was kind of dull. but i agree with frank; "wait" was also a big letdown; me and my brother was huge and booming and very funny, "wait" is none of those things.
g e o f f June 21st, 2005 9:20 PM.

Cool to see "Wait" get some love.

If Body Language doesn't make this list I will be very upset.

'10 dollar' is the argument against all those people who say MIA doesn't have great pop songs to back the hype up. HEY HEY HEY HEY. UH-UH-UH-UH HEY HEY.

(I'm not holding out much hope here, seeing as my favourites in this list so far placed at 50 and 45.)

i was annoyed initially then i remembered that the other people who vote in lists are probably completely lame american college indie kids who don't do things like go out and dance to amazing electro. which is their loss.

...or, like me, just don't think that "Washing Up" is that good.

I think american college indie kids have a somewhat different idea of what "amazing electro" is frankly. Songs, not "dance music" so much.

The way you present your simultaneous enmity and sympathy for these lame american college indie kids, powerfully expresses the the complex, contradictory feelings that you (and indeed, the entire nation) harbor towards Washing Up. Whatever that is.

"i met someone last night who'd either heard of you or knew you, tim! (i don't remember which.) he's called mikey and is from melbourne. "

Everyone in Melbourne either knows me or claims to. (mikey? I'm not sure. I know several Michaels but not aware of any being over in the UK)

haha tim. this mikey is going out with one of my friends but is going back to melbourne in a few months, he's ace.

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Hounds of Love would've been my #1 pick for 2004 but because it picked up as a single in 2005 (and coupled with the fact I didn't submit a list last year) means it counts for 2005. Many pop-punk covers of older hit songs have emerged in the last couple of years but usually they are of the recent Green Day/Blink-182 trend and come off as either too ironic or too forced. The Futureheads managed to cover Hounds of Love and have it walk the line between paying a straight tribute to the original and making it a song that could be silly and fun. The great use of call-and-response vocals are maybe the biggest trait they share with their producer Andy Gill's Gang of Four next to the angular guitars but the former especially is put to use extremely well. The way the song builds up and eventually takes everything up a note during the final chorus is identical to something the Who would do in '66 and is overwhelming. No song even comes close to taking up so much time of mine over the past year.
Conrad Flynn

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Ninety seconds of "angular post-punk" cliche, then suddenly it explodes into a rousing singalong matched by few in what can be a pretty grey genre.
Hayden Nicholls

I have finally heard this: the first time I have heard them, I think.
It reminds me of 60-Foot Dolls.

It also feels like a track on some old NME charity record in which indie rock act is sent into the studio for a cheap day to record a cover of an old song, and comes out with an unimaginative arrangement, a kind of bog-standard default setting (turn on the amps, here are the chords, OK, play for 4 minutes, mix it, give it to NME, the kids approve of the sentiment).

I'm not sure I can understand it getting any higher praise than that.

-- the futurefox (pinefo...), March 16th, 2005.

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other ilxors said:

It's catchy like anthrax.
Hurting July 20th, 2005 12:05 AM.

I love the way it's simultaneously absolutely fucking wild and out of control, but also so tightly structured - the bridge and then the amazing "zumbale mambo pa que mi gata prenda lo motores" bit with the beat galloping back into prominence behind it all, christ, such a massive rush.
The Lex July 20th, 2005 12:08 AM.

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Ciara's apparent strategy of trying to find the barest minimum of sound with which she could still get totally crunk was evident from the start, but 'Oh' pushed the template further and harder than anyone could have expected, slowing the tempo to a 70bpm crawl round the club punctuated by whiplash beats and slo-mo stabbing synths. She herself is even more exquisite than usual: restrained and unruffled in the face of synths so cavernous they could swallow her whole, constantly flirting with subsuming herself in them but always pulling back and rising back through again. Riding the beat like she's taming a wild animal - "we keep it gutter you should know / gettin' crunk up in the club, we gets low" delivered slow and with a vice-like control - you can virtually hear that Ciara has time to wet her lips between each line. This song is a genius pinnacle of human achievement.
The Lex

other ilxors said:

Another thing I love about this song is how well the vocals are thought out, i.e. the spaces where she doesn't sing give the song so much character. the pauses that occasionally pop up in the chorus ("................ round here we ridin' slow") really stand out.

also, I love the way that the verse and chorus complement each other. I love how elements of the chorus are incorporated into the verse. it's just so perfect.
aaron d.g. August 12th, 2005 12:12 AM.

this song's so fucking southern summer; i've definitely seen people dancing to it but it's been uptempoed, with that one hook, the one that sounds like it's coming from three streets over, being reserved for the 'ok turn off half the lights and like it's dramatic moment' (aka 'stop - hammer time'). classic obv - bubblecrunk that works like g-funk.
j blount August 12th, 2005 2:08 AM.

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other ilxors said:

"Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" = the Fall's "I Feel Voxish" right down to the harmonic guitar scrapes.
miccio April 26th, 2005 6:55 PM.

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So good, you could forgive that horrible "My Sharona"-biting Annie remix. SPACE DISCO TO RULE IN THE '06.
Hayden Nicholls

other ilxors said:

Lindstrom - "I Feel Space" is just so wonderful.
Spencer Chow August 23rd, 2005 11:03 PM

I'm putting money on a top five of 1 Thing, Since U Been Gone, Be Mine, Hung Up and Gold Digger, in any order.

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A world away from the dreamy reverie of earlier releases, the newly stripped down band produce a stripped down sound. Urgent enough to flirt with the dancefloor, they remain cool and mysterious, electroclash even. Otherworldly enough to be number one in some alternate universe.
Billy Dods

13, Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc
(92.5, 6)

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other ilxors said:

I like it, me!
Momus March 28th, 2005 8:54 PM.

I'm kinda worried about what sort of state of mind I will be in in the possible future in which this song doesn't sound a thousand kinds of awesome anymore.

And somehow, it's not even NEARLY my favorite song on the album (today, that honor goes to "Dare").
nickalicious July 29th, 2005 4:51 PM.

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Comment:

A couple of drums shake and rattle to gleefully greet the morning. A bird flutters, moving to, then behind the beat, squawking and cooing.
Sundar Submaranian

other ilxors said

My Doorbell" hits my ears as a splendid twist on early '70s pop OR the poor stepbaby of Wings' "Let 'Em In"
ubx June 8th, 2005 7:20 PM.

I suspect that they will not have a real doorbell to accompany "My Doorbell" either.
Marcello Carlin July 29th, 2005 12:25 PM.

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other ilxors said:

"Tribulations" - Moroder via Fischerspooner
via MIAMI BASS!
Stupornaut April 26th, 2005 10:56 PM

also, I've heard most of these tracks, and I've heard of all of the artists, but WHO THE FUCK IS DADDY YANKEE!??

"Since U Been Gone"
"Be Mine"
"1 Thing"
"Hate it or Love It"
"Stay Fly"
"Gold Digger"
"Hung Up"

Maybe?:

"Mr. Brightside"
"Signs"
"Hollaback Girl"
"I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)"
"Biology" / "Long Hot Summer"
"Banquet"
"We Belong Together"
"Destroy Everything You Touch"

...unless it be an island nation off the coast of France.
-- deej.. (clublonel...), January 17th, 2006.

aka Paradise.

The Pinefox on The Futureheads is TOTALLY on the money.

Actually, I agree with Dr Bill's six, with Signs, Hollaback Girl and Biology making up the ten. I had an earlier hunch that Bloc Party's So Here We Are might be the obligatory surprise indie inclusion almost certainly not.

Or that big chunk of land France itself is on.

Anyway, I was not familiar with Daddy Yankee before just now, when I downloaded and played it. Cool song (not as good as "Negotiate with love", obv)

that futureheads cover is a fucking abomination. it's kate bush being DESECRATED!

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The thing that makes this maybe the best single of the year, rather than
simply another really good pop single, is, for me, the use of strings -
the percussive bowing - achieving the same inexorable, almost
intimidating quality that Kate Bush struck on around the time of the
Hounds Of Love album. Add in all the other many good qualities, the
plaintive strain as Robyn stretches for the chorus fitting the emotion
perfectly, the beautiful image evoked from the opening line, and all the
other lines evoking the feelings of loss and heartbreak with economy and
precision (the spoken part is a masterpiece of fine judgement in this
regard), and we have what I think is a genuine pop classic.
Martin Skidmore.

other ilxors said:

I like how people are comparing "Be Mine" to "Heartbeat" and "Toxic" - it sounds like neither, but it sort of does sound like one strained through the other.
I love it love it love it.
Tim Finney May 24th, 2005 2:24 PM.

She really gets Kate Bush-y by the time she starts really nailing the chorus about 2/3 of the way thru it (Robyn, I mean) -- lovely
Tracer Hand November 11th, 2005 11:38 PM.

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Comment:

Dre and 50 offer rap fanboy The Game twenty fingers, miraculously boosting him to deathless heights.
Joe Schoech

other ilxors said:
great song. my #2 single of the year so far. not sure yet if Cool & Dre deserve to be the next big producers but this song makes a good case for it. especially that bassline. and the video is maybe the only rap video by Saline Project that really works (god that new Young Buck video is crap, though).
Al March 21st, 2005 7:37 PM.

"Hate It Or Love It" is my favorite song of this year by far. I can't imagine anything overtaking it either. My friend and I have discussed how the song's opening is absolutely perfect, with the opening sample and horns, then 50's first couple of lines, then the bassline. It's flawless, and I've probably listened to this song at least three or four times a day since I first heard it about a month ago.
Roadkill Bingo March 21st, 2005 8:15 PM.

Wow, this means basically everyone who voted for this put it in their top five.

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Comment:

Icy synth-poppers thaw out a bit and beef up their sound. (Don't mention shoegaze.)
Hayden Nicholls.

other ilxors said:

wow i listened to the track fluxblog just posted ("destroy everything you touch"), and first two-three spins i wasn't really feeling it, so i moved on, and it just came up again on itunes, and WOW did that hook sneak up on me and grab me by the neck. perpetua's right, if this shit isnt a hit in the uk (or somewhere) there's something wrong with the world.
swvl July 12th, 2005 5:25 AM.

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other ilxors said:

Arrggh!!! I just heard "Golddigger"....and....fuck.....I really like it. I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!
Alex in NYC August 19th, 2005 5:25 PM.

I can't think of a single performer since the beginning of this century that has bored me as mercilessly as Kanye West*... AND I FUCKING LOVE "GOLDIGGER"!!! It was running neck and neck with "Stay Fly" (3-6, 8Ball/ MJG, Young Buck) as my own personal single of the year, but this just takes it. Kudos, Mr. West.
*I should mention that I'm only familiar w/ his singles. I'm sure someone could point me to some excellent production work or album tracks by the man. Oh, and "Through the Wire" was pretty ok, too.
Will(iam) August 23rd, 2005 10:46 PM.

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Comment:
One could interpret "Hollaback Girl" through its
myriad of influences, but that's missing the point;
the joy in "Hollaback Girl" is a visceral one. The
take-home slogan "This shit is bananas/
B-A-N-A-N-A-S!'" is more about the fun in actually
spelling out loud a word with repeating letters than
anything else. Targeted toward the Myspacing
mall-hopping teenager set, never has a song so vividly
capture the feeling of listening to the marching band
at some surreal high school pep rally -except replace
Sousa with the Neptunes and throw in a vaguely
positive message about not being a "Hollaback girl";
an ambiguously-defined term. Gwen, head cheerleader at
this pep rally, may start off a little obnoxiously
perky, but give her a chance and she'll eventually win
over even the most unenthused.
Stephen Chang

other ilxors said:

both are classic. I can't hate on either.
But 'Hollaback Girl' wins, just because it's so... utterly compulsive, even more than 'Lose My Breath'. When Annie DJed at Cargo last week, she segued into it from 'Heart Of Glass' and a) the place went nuts, and b) some drunken fool stumbled into the bags and drinks in the middle of our dancing ring, thereby spilling the entire bottle of wine Anna-Marie and I were sharing, but because 'Hollaback Girl' was playing I didn't mind at all!
also: 'Hollaback Girl' is more fun to dance to. It's kind of tough to keep up to 'Lose My Breath' unless you're in top form, and while I appreciate that that's the point, I sometimes want to keep my breath but just stomp my feet, wave my arms and shout along.
The Lex March 30th, 2005 8:07 PM.

"Hollback Girl" is the type of tune that were I a sadistic prison warden, I would play it in round-the-clock, high volume, seemingly endless airrings at uncooperative convicts in order to break their spirits and eliminate their will to live.
Alex in NYC May 21st, 2005 11:31 AM.

that perverse guitar triad & horn drone are the pith of the song (and the neptunes are responsible for that aren't they?) but then her singing in that jocular way is just like saying "I'm not afraid of death" [death=that plaintive triad & drone])
It's one of the most affecting songs I've ever heard.
sdfj May 21st, 2005 6:10 PM.

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other ilxors said:

Madonna has saved pop! Again! Phew! "Hung Up" : the only pop masterpiece single of '05 :( :) :P :D
Pvt. Dave Goes October 20th, 2005 6:58 PM.

This thread is to ILX what "Hung Up" is to Madonna; a reprise of all the clichés which you either love or loathe depending on, well, how you feel about ILX / Madonna. And so we hear, from ILX, the scuttling of a crowd of popist feet, the sound of this record being put already into year-end lists, some sexism/ageism scuffles, and a Ned Raggett Andrew Sullivan quote (what, again?). From Madonna, meanwhile, we hear some Donna Summer and Abba references, the sweeping filter trick she learnt from Mirwais, and a lament about the passing of time turned into vaguely cod-feminist petulance-as-empowerment.
Momus October 31st, 2005 12:28 PM.

Last night I saw this song on TotP. I don't know how it goes, it was not memorable enough for me to remember it, yet. Maybe I will one day, but I have still only heard it the once.

I think I liked the way that the video was 80s retro by an 80s icon, but perhaps I am wrong and it is not; but that's how it looked to me and it did something for me.

I am glad that Madonna is at #1, rather than someone I hate or have not heard of.
the bellefox November 21st, 2005 6:35 PM.

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other ilxors said:

Anyone?

3.-Biology
2.-Since U Been Gone
1.-One Thing

I'll go with "Signs," just because I know ILM flipped for it when it was released, even if that has waned somewhat since.

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Comment:

A pop song that rocks double hard,
you've probably all heard it, and you've heard it even if you haven't heard
it: I was blind, I can see, you hurt me, you're gone, so now - I realize - I
can finally breathe and I've got all my life to live and all my love to
give, la di da! OK, but notice that Kelly and Max and Luke have managed to
roughen up the sound without losing its sweetness. And this may bode well:
Remember, Alanis had had to switch gears when she went from disco dolly to
tough singer-songwriter chick. But so far Kelly can keep or even increase
the sweet stuff as she "grows" into adult contemporary; as can Marion Raven
as she "grows" into Alanis and Joni; as can Ashlee and Lindsay and Hilary as
they "grow" into whatever they grow into. The usual assumption is that sugar
and spice is for the little girls and then you get over it, but actually Max
Martin had started in heavy metal and jumped to the candy from there, and
the candy was never mere candy anyway - it never is; the teenies take it
seriously from the get-go, even if you don't.

Go to Kelly's album and several tracks on she's doing a love-is-the-drug
my-love-for-you-is-toxic song (called "Addicted," appropriately enough) that
is more flat-out pained and less "comically in perspective" than you get
from Sheryl or Britney: "It's like you're a leech, sucking the life from
me/It's like I can't breathe without you inside of me." She co-wrote this
one. "Since U Been Gone" claims she can breathe for the first time, but maybe she can't. Serious business.

Frank Kogan

other ilxors said:

i dont get the love for since u been gone at all :\

"Since U Been Gone" = "Toxic 2005"

Except this time, the song is actually good.
billstevejim July 12th, 2005 5:45 AM.

"Since U Been Gone" is a love-letter to songwriters.
The Ghost of Dan Perry June 29th, 2005 7:26 PM.

I am surprised there's only room for two now out of Helena, We Belong Together and 1 Thing.

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Comment:

I have never seen an episode of American Idol. In fact, I avoid it like the plague. I do my best not to watch any reality TV, so I definitely have never seen any British reality TV. I have no idea who Girls Aloud are (and I probably would have never even heard of them if not for ILM). But I do not care who Girls Aloud are. I don't care what country they're from, or how they got together, or why they're making music, or how many records they've sold. All I want to know is [BUM BUH DA BAH BUM] "WHY DON'T YOU FOOL ME, FEED ME, SAY YOU NEED ME, WITHOUT WICKED GAMES?" And that's kind of the point, innit?
sovietpanda

other ilxors said:

Like all the best Girls aloud songs (No Good Advice, Sound of the Underground, Love Machine), Biology brings a cocaine-like warmness to my teeths. Guess it has something to do with the multi-layered ad-lib -and I hope there will be an extended version for this one.
snowballing October 16th, 2005 5:03 PM.

inally heard this. it's ok. i expect more of our girls though.

'the show' = three choruses welded together
'biology' = three bridges sellotaped together

also, irritating guitar jangle which is far too busy and far too fast

also, sounds a bit like franz ferdinand :(
The Lex November 16th, 2005 12:07 PM.

i think that's why it's kind of brilliant

kelly clarkpwned.

1. Coldplay - Speed of Sound
(400, points, 20 votes, 20 number ones)

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Comment:

Coldplay excel themselves with their blend of melodic and sensitive indie guitar rock. The finest band since Crowded House and The Beatles, this is their Sergeant Peppers, much better than the rap and r'n'b rubbish which people pretend to like on ILM.
Geir Honeygro

1. Amerie - 1 thing
(348 points, 25 votes, 6 number ones)

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Comments:

You don’t hear anywhere near as much “hey dude have you heard the new shit by [name of famous and acclaimed r’n’b producer, probably Timbaland, here]? It’s totally out there! It could almost be [name of less famous, less acclaimed electronica producer here]!” any more. This is more or less a good thing. For a start, it makes it easier to confidently proclaim ‘1 Thing’, the first single off Amerie’s second album, r’n’b’s high point of 2005. No triumph of future-viewing beat advancement, this – it’s based around a Meters sample, dammit – ‘1 Thing’ makes remarkably individual, squirming, celebratory sound from a relatively simple guitar-and-drums base. No-one tried to piece together a similar rhythm this year (the rest of Amerie’s album included), more’s the pity. No-one sang over the top like this either – a voice jumping for joy and practically used as a rhythm instrument itself.
DJ Mencap

I still don't really know who Amerie is, but the most resonant of this
records many triumphs is the suggestion of new organic shapes for our
future funk. There's an abundance of space and friction where we might
expect the requisite right angles and digital vertebrae. And the
vocals, delirious incantations that almost seem to mock the pop song
as an adequate vehicle for such intense sexual yearning. I heard this
over the PA system at Target and I swear I saw the speakers catch
fire.
Adam Levine

other ilxors said:

I didn't know it was the same cat who did the Beyonce tune. Yeah thats really obvious though. I just can't say enough about all the vocals in there. I love the part where it sounds like she's saying "gobble gobble gobble" and of course that part in the middle where they layer the vocals and make some really cool chords out of all the harmonies. Gene Yuss.
Johnny Badlees March 8th, 2005 12:13 AM.

Single of the year. I love this song so much - the little guitar stabs and the "DING DONG DING DONG DING!"
I can't quite put my finger on what makes it so great - maybe how it seems like there's a Jay-Z-style guest verse right around the corner, but it never actually comes? (The Juelz Santana remix isn't bad, but I'll take the original every time.)
Amerie is so good. I have no problems with a scenario in which this song is "Crazy in Love"-level inescapable.
Daniel Cohen March 8th, 2005 7:03 AM.

This song is fantastic and all but I don't get why everyone's jizzing all over the production - what makes this special is HER. Take Amerie off the track and what you have is so DJ Shadow-by-numbers that you could put it on that Quannum album and no one would notice.
Matt DC March 13th, 2005 10:46 PM.

Yes, this song is gorgeous and wonderful.
The Ghost of Dan Perry March 23rd, 2005 4:12 AM.

Also, agreed re: track is nothing without her

Ladies be runnin' it

-- jed

snap! Maybe this high placing partly proves my point that Girls Aloud really aren't connecting like they're imagined to with a lot of their other (pop-by-committee that goes on TOO LONG to fit all the cleverness in, ending up unnatural & prefabricated somehow) singles?

"One Thing" is a worthy (I didn't used to like it much) if unspectacular winner I suppose.

Here's the top 100, at the weekend I'll list all 760 songs.

100 Art Brut - Good Weekend 28 5
99 Jamie Lidell - Multiply 28 3
98 MFA - The difference it makes 28.5 2
96 Wolf Parade - Shine a light 29 2
96 MANDY vs Booka Shade - Body Language 29 2
95 Rachel Stevens - Nothing good about this goodbye 29 2
94 Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday 29.5 2
93 M83 - Don't save us from the flames (Superpitcher mix) 29.5 2
92 Pharrell Williams - Can I Have It Like That 29.5 3
90 Stars - Ageless Beauty 30 4
90 Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned... 30 4
86 The Game - Put you on the game 30.5 2 1
86 Saint Etienne - Milkbottle Symphony 30.5 2 1
86 Kate Bush - Nocturne 30.5 2 1
86 Bjork - Who is it (Vitalic remix) 30.5 2 1
84 Rachel Stevens - So Good 31 2
84 Hot Chip - Over and over b/w Just like we breakdown(DFA rmx) 31 2
83 Nine Inch Nails - Only 31 2 1
82 Depeche Mode - Precious 31.5 3 1
81 Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha 32 2
80 Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind 33 3
79 Gorillaz - Dare (DFA remix) 34.5 3
78 Hold Steady - Your little hood rat friend 35 2
77 Okkervill River - For real 35 3
75 Daft Punk - Technologic (Basement Jaxx mix) 36 3
75 Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer 36 3
73 Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy 37 2
73 Ladytron - All the way 37 2
71 Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle 37 3
71 Annie - Heartbeat (Alan Braxe Mix) 37 3
70 Patrick Wolf - The Libertine 37 2 1
69 Bloc Party - So here we are 38 3
68 Daft Punk - Human After All 38 4
66 Kanye West feat Cam'ron and Consequence - Gone 38 2 1
66 Broadcast - Michael A Grammar 38 2 1
64 Rachel Stevens - Funny how 39 2 1
64 Legendary KO - George Bush don't care about black people 39 2 1
63 Animal Collective - Grass 40 4 1
62 Annie - Heartbeat 41 4
60 Lady Sovereign - Random 42.5 4
60 Fannypack - 718 42.5 4
59 Rachel Stevens - I Said Never Again (But Here We Are) 43 4
58 MFa - The difference it makes (Superpitcher mix) 44 3
57 Lady Sovereign - 9-5 44 3 1
56 Hard-Fi - Hard to beat 44 4 1
54 Feist - Inside and out 45 3
54 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 45 3
53 My Chemical Romance - Helena 45 3 1
52 Isolee - Schrapnell 45.5 4 1
51 Mariah Carey - We belong together 46 3 1
50 Killers - Mr Brightside (Thin white duke mix) 47.5 4
49 Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches* 48 4 0
48 Mike Jones - Still Tipping (Feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall) 49.5 6 0
47 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to 50 7
46 U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own 50 3
45 Royksopp - What else is there ? (Trentemoller mix) 50.5 4
44 Polmo Polpo - Kiss me again and again 51 3
43 Tatu - All about us 53 4 1
42 Sugababes - Push the button 54.5 5
41 m83 - Don't save us from the flames 55 6
40 Saint Etienne - Stars above us* 56 3
39 Gorillaz - Dare 59.5 5
38 Damein Jr. Gong Marley - Welcome to Jamrock 60 4 1
37 Basement Jaxx - Oh my Gosh 61.5 6
36 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La 63.5 6
35 MIA - Bucky done gun 65 64.5 5
34 Mountain Goats - This year 65 4
33 Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl 66.5 5 1
32 MIA - Pull up the people 68 5
31 Tori Alamaze - Don't Cha 68.5 5
30 White Stripes - Blue Orchid 68.5 6
29 Vitalic - My Friend Dario 69.5 8
28 Antony & The Johnsons - Hope there's someone 70 5
26 Missy Elliott - Lose Control 70.5 8
27 Missy Elliott - Lose Control (JLC mix) 70.5 5
25 Spoon - I Turn my camera on 71 6
24 Rachel Stevens - Negotiate With Love 75 9
23 MIA - 10 Dollar* 76 8
22 R Kelly - Trapped in the closet 78.5 5
21 Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper song) 78.5 11
20 Futureheads - Hounds of love 80 6 1
19 Maximo Park - Apply some pressure 80.5 8 2
18 Daddy Yankee and Lil' John - Gasolina 81.5 6 1
17 Ciara - Oh feat. Ludacris 83.5 9 1
16 LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing at my house 84 9
15 Lindstrom - I feel space 88 9
14 Broadcast - America's Boy 92 8 1
13 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 92.5 7
12 White Stripes - My Doorbell 93 9
11 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations 97.5 8
10 Robyn - Be Mine 102 9
9 Game and 50 Cent - Hate it or love it 114 7 1
8 Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch 118.5 9
7 Kanye West - Gold Digger feat. Jamie Foxx 123 12
6 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl 139.5 14 1
5 Madonna - Hung Up 149.5 14
4 Three Six Mafia - Stay Fly 181 14
3 Kelly Clarkson - Since u been gone 183 13 2
2 Girls Aloud - Biology 235.5 16 3
1 Amerie - 1 thing 348 25 6

You are all on crack.

People did go nuts about this when it was first released, right? I don't think I'm totally nuts on this one.

I like "1 Thing" but I think her vocals are the weakest part on it. I'm sure I'm on my own here, but she sounds like J-Lo to me (which makes me wonder why there aren't more people liking "Get Right" which sounds similar). Beyoncé would've killed this.

There was a thread about it, if that counts.

(blows hard IMO, but YMMV).

(bing? bong?)

Anyone who disagrees with me should be killed.

1) there is nothing wrong with sounding like j-lo, 2) as proved on 'get right' which is also great, 3) except amerie doesn't sound like j-lo! at all!

why do people love 'hate it or love it' so much? i mean, i like it, it's a pretty good song, but it's not even the best game OR fiddy song of the year ('dreams' and 'just a lil bit' respectively).

the fact that js loves 'biology' PROVES that it is nothing less than an indie single and therefore undeserving of a place on any singles list. best girls aloud single from chemistry so far is 'see the day'.

Secondly, this is a Not Bad At All top 100 (far better than the albums list is currently shaping up). I'm very happy with the #1 and #2 and nine other songs I voted for made the 100. Sugababes at only #42 is a travesty though.

Nitpicking but poss. important query to Billy re the Stats: I gave 10.5 points to Kanye's "Gone", which is recorded as receiving 38 points in total from just two votes cast, including one first place vote. That doesn't add up. Either it got 30.5 points or you've not counted my vote. I left off the "feat Cam'ron and Consequence" bit, so maybe you didn't realise it was the same track?

A lot better!

I, too, wanna thank Billy. I nominate him to be hired by ILM to take care of all of our charts, full time!

i find ILM's love for girls aloud inexplicable - they're okay, nothing more, nothing less - but hey, i'm an ageing indie kid and i don't give a fuck. over the next couple of weeks i intend to go through this list and do some downloading: there's a lot i either didn't hear, didn't notice or didn't pay enough attention to.

and billy, you rock. superb work.

but then 'touch' > 'baby boy' > '1 thing' > 'work it out' > 'crazy in love'

Admittedly, Beyonce's beat is catchier by an order of magnitude and Beyonce's delivery is, for lack of a better word, more "sophisticated" (Amerie is maybe a high-school senior or college freshman while Beyonce is stomping down the streets of Manhattan on her way back to the office); when I balance out all of the factors both songs end up coming out at the same awesome level.

(xpost: "Work It Out" is a steaming bag of sick! WTF?)

(maybe what i am trying to say is that actually i prefer lil jon's production to rich harrison's)

'work it out' is AWESOME! it's like someone took a song of the potential magnitude of 'crazy in love' and reduced it to its bones

Exactly! "Work It Out" is the forgotten, bleached carcass of an infinitely superior song.

According to Wikipedia, Jennifer Lopez did want this song - Sony had shelved it for a year and didn't want to release it as the single, apparently because they thought it sounded too unusual and was therefore 'risky'. It may have only been the leaking of the track against the record company's wishes that saved Amerie from a Tori Alamaze / Pussycat Dolls situation.

Exactly! "Work It Out" is the forgotten, bleached carcass of an infinitely superior song.

but it makes it something of a headfuck - it's a song which seems as if it should naturally be played on proper instruments, but it's not and is this weird off-shoot of electro-r&b which was never pursued anywhere else. also: more space for beyoncé to holler.

listening to 'baby boy' again it's the second verse which really sends it stratospheric - beyoncé seems utterly consumed by the idea of this basement party

Yes. It was the moment where she began to irredeemably suck harder than a space-aged Hoover prototype.

'jenny from the block'
'if you had my love'
'play'
'get right'
'love don't cost a thing'

i can't recall any more

"Jenny From Tha Block" = brill.

ILM mafia have got it in for Jenny, is all. The wrongheads.

"Waiting for the Night" is really annoying, but I kind of got worn down after hearing it a lot and began to tolerate it.

The rest can FUCK RIGHT OFF.

I hope that clears things up for everyone.

-- Dan (My "Controversial" J.Lo Stance) Perry

I too am controversial :(

If you've heard the sample before well... she didn't add much put it that way. Xtina did more with Redman ffs.

I don't understand this. Avril - unlike Alanis* - was never marketed as a disco dolly, hence didn't have to switch images. She was singer-songwriter-w/-loud-guitar from the get-go. I only know the singles from the second album, and I guess they're not as pop-pretty as the two biggies from the first; but her image was never (merely) pop-pretty to begin with. (And the first album has a lot that sounds loud and dark.)

*In case you don't know, Jagged Little Pill was Alanis's third album.

Hahahaha

I'm just surprised at how seriously 'Since U Been Gone' and Clarkson have been taken by so many American critics and this reminded me of the popularity of 'Sk8er Boi' and doesn't seem to be suggesting anything near as 'dark' or 'edgy' as how Morrisette and 'Jagged Little Pill' sounded or were marketed. I know AM started off even fluffier than Clarkson and I do get the comparison in that respect. But I can't see Clarkson's career following in the same way to the point where she'll really resemble Morrisette more than Lavigne with her big radio pop rock where the angst is just seen as cute (nobody thought Alanis was cute/hott - did they?). Then again Alanis ended up going quite light and boppy again (Hands Clean etc.), and I can see KC doing something like that, although her voice is surely too generic to pull it off? Surely Clarkson's appeal is that she IS pop-pretty (more than Avril) but this is blended with the tepid rock chick thing that worked briefly for Pink, but then she had a lot more sass too. Sorry if I'm missing things here.

Yeah I must admit I didn't really get into 'The Witching Hour' and think they've been on a bit of a descent since '604' despite surely improving on a technical basis since then. 'Destroy...' is okay but they could've definitely put more PSB-style drama into the proceedings (I was thinking more like 'I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give Anymore' which might serve as a useful precedent and guide for that sort of thing) and made it more epic, especially as it could well be their last single.

I think "Get Right" is fantastic. "Jenny From The Block" is awkward as fuck, bad transitions, melodic sample bitten from a better song ("Watch Out Now"). That said, its pretty OK.

As for why American rock critics take Kelly Clarkson seriously. Well, you know, we're a strange bunch. In the past we've taken Britney Spears and Ricky Martin and the Backstreet Boys seriously, too. And our taking a performer seriously isn't predicated on their being dark. (That said, something tells me you've never heard Pink's "Numb" or Avril's "Unwanted" or Kelly Clarkson's "Addicted.")

Oh I know, though in the main none of them were taken as seriously as Morrisette was at her peak were they? Or maybe the attitude to Pop there really is different to the UK (e.g. James Blunt is automatically taken more seriously here than Girls Aloud - that's what I was getting at there). But yes I was missing your point.

1) I'm Real (Remix) ft. Ja Rule (Murder Inc's fluffy commerical highpoint? The interplay b/w the two was delicious. And Lex I'm disappointed that you don't R-E-C-O-G-N-I-Z-E that Ashanti did some awesome stuff on her first album - though to be fair t'was all album tracks. Search "Voodoo" and "Rescue Me" now!).

2) Play (actually possibly even better than the above, although it has slightly less sentimental value for me. Sterling Clover loves this one and rightly so - the best Prince rip-off done by an actually-charting R&B/pop star in the last five years? i.e. excluding Teedra Moses).

3) Jenny From The Block (totally unworkable as a song, but great to dance to and something of a fearsome challenge as a karaoke number - the vocal melody is actually incredibly hard to remember and replicate!)

4) Waiting For Tonight (this and "Let's Get Loud" are beloved of teh gays. This one is far superior obv)

5) Get Right (There's something kinda awkward about the verse/chorus construction of all three of Harrison's big club hits, but this one probably struggles harder and falls shorter in its attemtps to gel and cohere - still it's kinda irresistible, and the video clip straddles that awesome/awful divide so confidently)

6) Ain't It Funny (don't you just love it when this comes on the radio?)

No it isn't!

tim i will search those ashanti tracks although i definitely don't share the 'i'm real' love! partly because ja rule's voice irritates me beyond belief but i did find everything else about it very bland.

759 Forward Russia! - Thirteen 1 1 0
758 Raveonettes - Love in a trashcan 1 1 0
757 Ada - I Love Asphalt 1 1 0
756 Ashlee Simpson - Coming back for more 1 1 0
755 Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E 1 1 0
754 Black Mountain - Faulty Times 1 1 0
753 Deerhoof - After Me The Deluge 1 1 0
752 Destinys Child -Girl 1 1 0
751 Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road (Manasseh mix) 1 1 0
750 Gorillaz - Dirty Harry 1 1 0
749 Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl 1 1 0
748 Holy Fuck - Tone Bank Jungle 1 1 0
747 John Doe - Mama don't 1 1 0
746 Keren Ann - For you and I 1 1 0
745 LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator 1 1 0
744 Matthew Johnson - Marionette (Live edit) 1 1 0
743 Mayer/Aguayo 1 1 0
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741 Ninja High School - Jam Band Death Cult 1 1 0
740 Quack Quack - You've won a prize 1 1 0
739 Rex The Dog - Frequency 1 1 0
738 Sleater-Kinney - Let's call it love 1 1 0
737 Smog - The well 1 1 0
736 Solasso - Hypnotise 1 1 0
735 Sophie Rimheden - Can you save me 1 1 0
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732 The Go Team - Bottle Rocket 1 1 0
731 Tocotronic - Aber Hier Leben, Nein Danke 1 1 0
730 Tom Vek - If you want 1 1 0
729 Tony Yayo - So Seductive 1 1 0
728 Tunng - Pioneers 1 1 0
727 Ying Yang Twins - Shake feat. Pitbull 1 1 0
726 Billy Joe Shaver - Try and Try again 1 1 0
725 Adam Green - Emily 2 1 0
724 André Herman Düne - Everyday Bliss 2 1 0
723 Boards of Canada - Hey Saturday Sun 2 1 0
722 Boy Least Likely to - Be Gentle with me 2 1 0
721 Break 3000 - Flash A 2 1 0
720 Cassidy - I'm a hustla 2 1 0
719 Ce'Cile ft KC Jockey - Gwaan Hype 2 1 0
718 Charlotte Church - Crazy chick 2 1 0
717 Chris TT - Tony's heart 2 1 0
716 CocoRosie - Armageddon 2 1 0
715 Colder - Wrong baby 2 1 0
714 D4L - Laffy Taffy 2 1 0
713 Editors - Bullets 2 1 0
712 Excepter - Interplay: Your House 2 1 0
711 Fiery Furnaces - Single again 2 1 0
710 Flii Stylz - Rize 2 1 0
709 High on Fir - Come down Hessian 2 1 0
708 Junior Senior - Take my time 2 1 0
707 Keren Ann - Midi Dans le Salon De la Duches 2 1 0
706 Kinski - Wives of Artie Shaw 2 1 0
705 Mattafix - Big City Life 2 1 0
704 Natalie - Goin' Crazy 2 1 0
703 Partysquad - Wat wil je doen? 2 1 0
702 Paul Wall feat. Big Pokey - Sittin' sidewayz 2 1 0
701 Robbie Williams - Make me pure 2 1 0
700 Roots Manuva - Collosal Insight 2 1 0
699 Sa Ra Creative Partners - Divine 2 1 0
698 Wedding Present - Interstate 5 2 1 0
697 Billy Joe Shaver -The real deal 2 1 0
696 Boards of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat 3 1 0
695 BRMC - Shuffle your feet 3 1 0
694 Circle - Teraskylpy 3 1 0
693 Coral - In the morning 3 1 0
692 Danger Doom - Sofa King 3 1 0
691 Excepter - Interplay: Back Room 3 1 0
690 Feist - When I was a young girl 3 1 0
689 Guilemots - I saw such things in my sleep 3 1 0
688 Jeffrey Lewis - Don't be upset 3 1 0
687 Jens Lekman - A sweet summers night on hammer Hill 3 1 0
686 John Legend - Ordinary People 3 1 0
685 Keren Ann - La Forme et LeFond 3 1 0
684 Killers - Somebody told me 3 1 0
683 Ladytron - Sugar 3 1 0
682 Living Things - March in daylight 3 1 0
681 Magda - 48 Hour Crack in my bass 3 1 0
680 Mr. Lee G and Ghislan P - They Wanna Know (whisper edit) 3 1 0
679 Patrick Wolf - Tristian 3 1 0
678 Petey Pablo ft Rasheeda - Vibrate 3 1 0
677 R Kelly - Happy Summertime 3 1 0
676 Rachel Stevens - I will be there 3 1 0
675 Research - The way you used to smile 3 1 0
674 Roll Deep - When I'm Ere 3 1 0
673 Sharon Jones - Natural born lover 3 1 0
672 Shitmat - Vengeance of the Whitehawk townies 3 1 0
671 Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight 3 1 0
670 Sleater-Kinney - Night Light 3 1 0
669 The Diskettes - 12345 3 1 0
668 Billy Joe Shaver - Live Forever 3 1 0
667 Editors - Munich 4 1 0
666 Benjamin Zephaniah - Rong Radio Station 4 1 0
665 Black Mountain - Druganaut 4 1 0
664 Bloc Party - The Pioneers (M83 remix) 4 1 0
663 Bruce Springsteen - The Hitter 4 1 0
662 Cardigans - I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer 4 1 0
661 Coldplay - Talk 4 1 0
660 Darkness - Is it just me 4 1 0
659 David Sylvian - The Only daughter (Ryoji Ikeda remix) 4 1 0
658 Decomposure - Disconnect 4 1 0
657 Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance 4 1 0
656 Fred Everything - Friday (Trentemoller mix) 4 1 0
655 Justus Kohncke - Elan 4 1 0
654 Kanye West - Drive slow 4 1 0
653 Keren Ann - One day without 4 1 0
652 Konono no 1 - Paradison 4 1 0
651 Kus - Lekker Ding 4 1 0
650 Lemon Jelly - Stay with you 4 1 0
649 Low - California 4 1 0
648 Matthew Johnson - Return of the zombie bikers 4 1 0
647 Missy Elliot - On and on 4 1 0
646 Mules - Polly-O 4 1 0
645 My My - Serpentine 4 1 0
644 Robbie Williams - Tripping 4 1 0
643 Roisin Murphy - If we're in love 4 1 0
642 Saul Williams - Black Stacey 4 1 0
641 Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers 4 1 0
640 Spinto Band - Did I tell you? 4 1 0
639 Stereophonics - Dakota 4 1 0
638 Tatu - Perfect Enemy 4 1 0
637 Trisha Yearwood - River of you 4 1 0
636 Tweet - Turn da lights off (feat Missy Elliot) 4 1 0
635 Weezer - Perfect situation 4 1 0
634 James McMurtry - We can't make it here 4 1 0
633 Akron Family - Running, returning 5 1 0
632 Andre Kraml - Safari 5 1 0
631 Antony & The Johnsons - For today I am a Boy 5 1 0
630 Ashanti - Only U 5 1 0
629 Autolux - Here comes everybody 5 1 0
628 Calvin Johnson - Rabbit Blood 5 1 0
627 Chicken Lips - Sweet Cow (Lindstrom mix) 5 1 0
626 Decemberists - We both go down together 5 1 0
625 Digitalism - Zdarlight 5 1 0
624 Fountains of Wayne - Maureen 5 1 0
623 Gene Serene & John Downfall - I can do anything 5 1 0
622 Geto Boys - I tried 5 1 0
621 Gorillaz - Kids with guns 5 1 0
620 Huggabroomstik - Vincenzo 5 1 0
619 Jeans Team - Oh Bauer 5 1 0
618 Juan Maclean - Give me every little thing 5 1 0
617 Keren Ann - Chelsea Burns 5 1 0
616 Laura Cantrell - Letters 5 1 0
615 Lil' Kim - Lighters up 5 1 0
614 M Ward - I'll be your bird 5 1 0
613 Madonna - Future lovers 5 1 0
612 Nathalie Nordness - Cars and boys 5 1 0
611 Nathan Fake - Dinamo 5 1 0
610 New Order - Temptation (Secret Machines remix) 5 1 0
609 New Pornographers - Sing me Spanish Techno 5 1 0
608 Night and City of Broken Promises - Accumulation of correspondence 5 1 0
607 Saint Etienne - Teenage Winter 5 1 0
606 Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl 5 1 0
605 Starsailor - Four to the floor 5 1 0
604 Hope Partlow - Cold 5 1 0
603 Bees - Chicken Payback 6 1 0
602 Carl Craig - Sandstorm 6 1 0
601 Coldplay - X and Y 6 1 0
600 Gang of Four - Natural's not in it (Ladytron remodel) 6 1 0
599 GZA vs DJ Muggs - Smothered Mate 6 1 0
598 Hold Steady - Banging Camp 6 1 0
597 Kaiser Chiefs - Oh my God 6 1 0
596 Kelley Polar - Here in the night 6 1 0
595 Linus Loves - The Victoria Principle ep 6 1 0
594 MIA - Hombre 6 1 0
593 Mitchell Brothers - Harvey Nichs 6 1 0
592 Nathan Fake - Coheed (Michael Mayer mix) 6 1 0
591 Nine Horses - Darkest Bird 6 1 0
590 Paul McCartney - At the mercy 6 1 0
589 Pelican - March into the sea 6 1 0
588 Princess Superstar - My Machine (Jr Sanchez remix) 6 1 0
587 Roisin Murphy - Leaving the city 6 1 0
586 Roll Deep - The Avenue 6 1 0
585 roots manuva - awfully deep 6 1 0
584 Sleater-Kinney - Entertain 6 1 0
583 Soltero - Hands up 6 1 0
582 Sons & Daughters - Dance me in 6 1 0
581 Spirit Catcher - Key generator 6 1 0
580 Tompaulin - Useless 6 1 0
579 Verbalicious - Don't play nice 6 1 0
578 Hope Partlow - It's too late 6 1 0
577 King Biscuit Time - C I am 7 1 0
576 Annie - Helpless fool for love (Patrick Wolf remix) 7 1 0
575 Argy - Love Dose (Luciano remix) 7 1 0
574 Books - Be good to them always 7 1 0
573 Casting Couch - Flying Machine 7 1 0
572 Clyde Carson - Soul Glo 7 1 0
571 Cowboy Troy - I play Chicken (With the train) 7 1 0
570 Great Lake Swimmers - Moving pictures, Silent Films 7 1 0
569 Half Man Half Biscuit - Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo 7 1 0
568 Junior Senior - Itch you can't scratch 7 1 0
567 Kanye West - Heard 'Em say 7 1 0
566 Lightning Bolt- Bizarro Bike 7 1 0
565 Mariah Carey - We belong together (Peter Rauhofer mix) 7 1 0
564 Maximo Park - Now I'm all over the shop 7 1 0
563 Moby - Love should 7 1 0
562 Mountain Goats - Dance music 7 1 0
561 Nada Surf - Blankest year 7 1 0
560 Patrick Wolf - This weather 7 1 0
559 Public Enemy - Hell No we ain't all right 7 1 0
558 Roisin Murphy - Sow into you 7 2 0
557 Roman Flugel - Gehts Noch 7 1 0
556 Ryan Teague - Prelude I 7 1 0
555 Saint Etienne - The Birdman of EC1 7 1 0
554 Spoon - I summon you 7 1 0
553 Supersystem - Born into the world 7 1 0
552 Teenage Fanclub-slow fade pictures 7 1 0
551 Hope Partlow - Girlfriend 7 1 0
550 African Head Charge - Run come see 8 1 0
549 Athlete - Wires 8 1 0
548 Beanie Siegel feat. Melissa - Feel it in the air 8 1 0
547 Broadcast - Black Cat 8 1 0
546 Broken Family Band - Happy days are here again 8 1 0
545 Chemical Brothers - Marvo Ging 8 1 0
544 CocoRosie - Noah's Ark 8 1 0
543 Daso - Daybreak 8 1 0
542 Death from Above 1979 - Black History Month 8 1 0
541 Depeche Mode - Precious (SM's Holier than thou reproach) 8 1 0
540 Destinys Child - Lose my breath 8 1 0
539 Four Tet - Smile around the face 8 1 0
538 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl (Diplo remix) 8 1 0
537 Kubichek - Nightjoy 8 1 0
536 Lindsey Lohan - I live for this day 8 1 0
535 Mark Owen - Believe in the boogie 8 1 0
534 Mylo - Drop the Pressure (Rex the Dog mix) 8 1 0
533 New Order - Turn 8 1 0
532 New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call 8 1 0
531 Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren 8 2 0
530 Pay TV - Refrain Refrain 8 1 0
529 R Kelly - In the kitchen (remix) 8 1 0
528 Robyn - Bum like you 8 1 0
527 Ruff Sqwad - Underground 8 1 0
526 Spoon - Sister Jack 8 3 0
525 Stereolab - Kyberneticka Babicka 8 1 0
524 System of a Down - Hypnotize 8 1 0
523 Tiger Saw - Postcards and letters 8 1 0
522 Trama - Praise God 8 1 0
521 White Stripes - Denial twist 8 1 0
520 Z-Ro feat Paul Wall & Lil' Flip - From the South 8 1 0
519 Hope Partlow - Like we are 8 1 0
518 50 Cent - Candy Shop 9 1 0
517 Bloc Party - Like eating glass 9 1 0
516 Captain Kids - Snapshots 9 1 0
515 Click Five - Just the girl 9 1 0
514 Cliff Richard - What car 9 1 0
513 Destra - Independent Ladies 9 1 0
512 Kano - Reload it (High contrast mix) 9 1 0
511 Kano feat. Demon & Wiley - Mic Fight 9 1 0
510 karin filipsson & mont ventoux - 'your daft punk records' 9 1 0
509 Les Visiteurs - Snoops acid drop 9 1 0
508 Lifelike Kris menace - Discopolis 9 1 0
507 Lucksmiths - Fiction 9 1 0
506 Madonna - Sorry 9 1 0
505 Matias Aguayo - De Papel 9 1 0
504 Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beast For Thee 9 1 0
503 Michael Mayer - Lovefood/slow 9 1 0
502 Neil Diamond - Hell yeah 9 1 0
501 Nemesi - Cosmica (Lindstrom mix) 9 1 0
500 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Operator 9 1 0
499 Shortwave Set - Is it any wonder? 9 1 0
498 Shortwave Set - Your Room 9 1 0
497 Soviettes - Multiply and divide 9 1 0
496 Sugababes - Ace reject 9 1 0
495 T-Pain - I'm sprung 9 1 0
494 Trentemoller - Sunstroke 9 1 0
493 White Stripes - Blue Orchid (High Contrast Remix) 9 1 0
492 Wighnomy Bros - Pele Bloss 9 1 0
491 Yann Tiersen - Kala 9 1 0
490 Annie - Happy without you 9 1 0
489 Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I love you less and less 10 1 0
488 Amerie feat Ti - Touch (remix) 10 1 0
487 Cassy - Night to remember 10 1 0
486 Cecille w Jacques Lu Cont - Na Na Na 10 1 0
485 Chemical Brothers - Shake break bounce 10 1 0
484 Dancing DJ's vs Roxette - Fading like a flower 10 1 0
483 Dengue Fever - Tip my canoe 10 1 0
482 Fall - What about us 10 1 0
481 Gui Boratto - Arquipelago 10 1 0
480 GZA vs DJ Muggs feat. Raekwon - Destruction of a guard 10 1 0
479 Juliet - Avalon 10 1 0
478 Keren Ann - Greatest you can fine 10 1 0
477 Keyshia Cole - I should have cheated 10 1 0
476 Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch (Hot Chip mix) 10 1 0
475 LCD Soundsystem - Thrills 10 1 0
474 LCD Soundsystem - Too much love 10 1 0
473 Maximo Park - The Coast is always changing 10 1 0
472 Mint Condition - Luxury Brown 10 1 0
471 Mountain Goats - Lion's teeth 10 1 0
470 mr suitcase - while we're learning to forget 10 1 0
469 Natasha Bedingfield - These words 10 1 0
468 Of Montreal - Oslo in the Summertime 10 1 0
467 Outrageous Cherry - Unless 10 1 0
466 PAJO - Let Me Bleed 10 1 0
465 Rachel Stevens - Dumb Dumb 10 1 0
464 Rammstein - Keine Lust (Blackstrobe Mix) 10 1 0
463 Rob Thomas - Lonely no more 10 1 0
462 Robyn - Who's that girl 10 1 0
461 Soulwax - E-Talking (Rex the Dog mix) 10 1 0
460 Tri-Lambs - Mungo 10 1 0
459 Turbonegro - All my friends are dead 10 1 0
458 White Stripes - Forever for her (is over for me) 10 1 0
457 Annie - Anniemal 10 1 0
456 Clipse - Zen feat. Ab-liva and Sandman 10.5 1 0
455 The Killers - Mister Brightside (JLC mix) 10.5 1 0
454 Tiga - Louder than a bomb 10.5 1 0
453 Lopazz - Blood 10.5 1 0
452 Felix Da Housecat - tweek 10.5 1 0
451 Fischerspooner - Just let go (Thin white duke mix) 10.5 1 0
450 Hell - Follow you (Eulberg mix) 10.5 1 0
449 Alex Storm - What's the point 10.5 1 0
448 Animal Collective - Bees 10.5 1 0
447 Annie - Heartbeat (Maurice Fulton mix) 10.5 1 0
446 Big Boi feat Big Gee & Bun B - 808 10.5 1 0
445 Burst - Immateria 10.5 1 0
444 Caribou - Brahminy Kite 10.5 1 0
443 Daft Punk -Robot Rock 10.5 1 0
442 Dark Tranquility - Lost to apathy 10.5 1 0
441 Death from Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan's Love from Below re-edit) 10.5 1 0
440 Fischerspooner - Just let go 10.5 1 0
439 Girls Aloud - See the day 10.5 1 0
438 Goldfrapp - Number 1 (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke club remix) 10.5 1 0
437 ILikeTrains - A Rook house for Bobby 10.5 1 0
436 Jammer feat. Wiley, D Double E, Kano And Goodz - Destruction VIP 10.5 1 0
435 Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction 10.5 1 0
434 Juan Maclean - Tito's way (Reverso 68 mix) 10.5 1 0
433 Kate Bush - Bertie 10.5 1 0
432 Mew - Apocalypso 10.5 1 0
431 Missy Elliott - Can't Stop 10.5 1 0
430 Mu - Tigerbastard 10.5 1 0
429 My Morning Jacket - Gideon 10.5 1 0
428 Radio Dept - Deliverance 10.5 1 0
427 Richard Davis - Bring me closer 10.5 1 0
426 Riverside - Second life syndrome 10.5 1 0
425 Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Glorious 10.5 1 0
424 Scenario Rock - Skitzo Dancer (Justice remiz) 10.5 1 0
423 Sebastian - Dolami 10.5 1 0
422 Shy Child - Sunshine 10.5 1 0
421 Stereolab - Interlock 10.5 1 0
420 Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm 10.5 1 0
419 Sugababes - Red Dress 10.5 1 0
418 Tom Vek - Nothing but Green lights (Phones Madchester '90 remix) 10.5 1 0
417 Ulver - Christmas 10.5 1 0
416 Vitalic - Repair machines 10.5 1 0
415 Wilderness - End of Freedom 10.5 1 0
414 Baxendale - I built this city 11 1 0
413 Bloc Party - She's hearing voices 11 1 0
412 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon tidal wave of young blood 11 1 0
411 Coldplay - Fix you 11 1 0
410 Constantines - Love in fear 11 1 0
409 Cranebuilders - Public Space 11 2 0
408 Decemberists - Mariner's revenge song 11 1 0
407 Dirty on Purpose - Girls & Sunshine 11 1 0
406 Fall out Boy - Sugar, we're going down 11 2 0
405 Field Music - You decide 11 1 0
404 Foxy Brown feat. Sizzla - Come fly with me 11 1 0
403 Fursaxa - Karma 11 1 0
402 Goldfrapp - Number 1 11 1 0
401 Jaga Jazzist - Oslo Skyline 11 1 0
400 Jason Forrest & Laura Cantrell - Nightclothes and headphones 11 1 0
399 Keren Ann - Que N'ai-Je? 11 1 0
398 Kills - The Good Ones 11 1 0
397 Konono no 1 - Lufala Ndongo 11 1 0
396 Matias Aguayo - So in love 11 1 0
395 MIA - Galang 11 2 0
394 Mylo - Into my arms 11 1 0
393 New Pornographers - Use it 11 1 0
392 Of Montreal - So begins our Abalee 11 1 0
391 Robyn - Crash And Burn Girl 11 2 0
390 Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - How long do I have to wait for you 11 1 0
389 Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster 11 1 0
388 Spoon - The Delicate Place 11 1 0
387 Sugababes - 2 Hearts 11 1 0
386 Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighomy's Polarzipper remix) 11 1 0
385 Venetian Snares - Hajnal 11 1 0
384 Vico C - Tu Corazon Ya No Aguanta Pela 11 1 0
383 Annie - Helpless fool for love 11 1 0
382 Amit - Re-order 12 1 0
381 Andre Krami - Safari (James Holden remi) 12 1 0
380 Animal Collective - Purple Bottle 12 2 0
379 Archer Prewitt - Cheap rhyme 12 1 0
378 Au Revoir Simone - Through The Backyards 12 1 0
377 Beck - Girl 12 1 0
376 Black Mountain - Don't run our hearts around 12 1 0
375 Boards of Canada - Peacock Trail 12 1 0
374 Coldplay - Speed of sound 12 2 0
373 Cranebuilders - Radio 12 1 0
372 Girls Aloud - Models 12 1 0
371 Goldfrapp - Ride a white horse 12 1 0
370 Gruff Rhys - Gwn mi win 12 1 0
369 Kevin Blechdom - Love you from the heart 12 1 0
368 Kill The Vultures - The Vultures 12 1 0
367 Lovebites - You broke my heart 12 1 0
366 Mayito Rivera - Negrito Bailador 12 1 0
365 Miranda Lambert - Kerosene 12 1 0
364 Mystery Jets - Alas Agnes 12 1 0
363 Paul McCartney -This never happened before 12 1 0
362 Regina Spektor - Your Honor 12 1 0
361 Royksopp - Only This Moment (Alan Braxe mix) 12 1 0
360 Shakira - La Tortura 12 1 0
359 Strokes - Juicebox 12 2 0
358 Talib Kweli - Ms Hill 12 1 0
357 Tom Vek - I ain't saying my goodbyes 12 1 0
356 Vitalic - U and I 12 1 0
355 Young Jeezy - Go Crazy 12 1 0
354 Annie - Always too late 12 1 0
353 1 Up - Yeahdancetomyrecordbitch 13 1 0
352 Akon - Mr Lonely 13 1 0
351 Bananarama - Look on the floor 13 1 0
350 Bob Mould - (Shine your) Light love hope 13 1 0
349 Calle 13 - Se Vale To-To 13 1 0
348 Daft Punk - The prime time of your life 13 1 0
347 Deana Carter - The girl you left me for 13 1 0
346 Devendra Banhart - Little Boys 13 1 0
345 Girls Aloud - Swinging London Town 13 1 0
344 Go-Betweens - Statue 13 1 0
343 Green Day - Holiday 13 1 0
342 Helen Love - Debbie loves Joey 13 1 0
341 Japanther - The Gravy 13 1 0
340 John Tejada - Paranoia 13 1 0
339 Lady Sovereign - Hoodie 13 2 0
338 Lady Sovereign - Hoodie (Basement Jaxx radio edit) 13 1 0
337 Lady Sovereign - Random (Menta mix) 13 1 0
336 LCD Soundsystem - Movement 13 1 0
335 Lindstrom - I feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y remix) 13 1 0
334 Low - Pissing 13 1 0
333 Of Montreal - Forecast Fascist Futures 13 2 0
332 Of Montreal - Requiem for OMM 13 1 0
331 Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gebrunn 13 1 0
330 Paul McCartney - Riding to Vanity Fair 13 1 0
329 Rihanna - Pon de Replay 13 1 0
328 Russian Futurists - Why you gotta do that 13 1 0
327 Ryan Adams - A kiss before I go 13 1 0
326 Sleep Archive - Research 13 1 0
325 Snoop Dogg ft Justin Timberlake - Signs 13 1 0
324 Voice of the Seven Woods - An hour before dawn 13 1 0
323 We are Scientists - Nobody moves 13 1 0
322 Annie - Chewing gum 13 1 0
321 !!! - Take Ecstacy with me 14 3 0
320 Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power out) 14 2 0
319 Bloc Party - Two more years 14 1 0
318 Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo 14 1 0
317 Bonnie "Prince" Billy + Matt Sweeney - I Gave You 14 1 0
316 Boris - Ibitsu 14 1 0
315 Brakes - All night disco party 14 1 0
314 Bright Eyes - Lua 14 1 0
313 David Banner - Play 14 1 0
312 Dieter Schmidt - Morse cide from the cold war 14 1 0
311 Go-Betweens - Lavender 14 1 0
310 Juelz Santana - Mic Check (1,2) 14 1 0
309 Killers - Mr Brightside 14 1 0
308 Kronos Quartet/Asha Bhosle - Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke) 14 1 0
307 Lopazz - Blood (Tiefschwarz remix) 14 1 0
306 Love As Laughter - Idol Worship! Idol Worship! 14 1 0
305 Magnet - Hold on 14 1 0
304 Mountain Goats - Love, love love 14 1 0
303 Richard Hawley - I sleep alone 14 1 0
302 Sinead O'Connor - Curly locks 14 1 0
301 T Waters - Throw'd off 14 1 0
300 TimTim - Bell Lane 14 1 0
299 UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Comfort Me, I've Lost My Heart 14 1 0
298 wir sind helden - Nur Ein Wort 14 1 0
297 Witchcraft - Chylde Of Fire 14 1 0
296 Lady Sovereign - The Battle 14 1 0
295 Animal Collective feat. Vashti Bunyan - I remember learning how to dive 15 1 0
294 Bjork - Storm 15 1 0
293 Black Dice - Smiling Off (Luomo Mix) 15 2 0
292 Books - An animated description of Mr Maps 15 1 0
291 Brendan Benson - Spit it out 15 1 0
290 Christian Vogel - 1968, Holes 15 1 0
289 Coheed and Cambria - The suffering 15 1 0
288 Compactrisk - Drop it like it's Huey 15 1 0
287 De jeugd van tegenwoordig - Watskeburt 15 1 0
286 Doves - Snowden 15 1 0
285 Einmusick - Jittery heritage 15 1 0
284 Emilliana Torini - Serenade 15 1 0
283 Futureheads - Area 15 1 0
282 Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Gonzales mix) 15 1 0
281 Killers - All these things I've done 15 1 0
280 Kills - Love is a deserter 15 1 0
279 Lali Puna - Micronomic(Boom Bip Remix) 15 1 0
278 Laura Veirs - Spelunking 15 1 0
277 LCD Soundsystem - Your City's a sucker 15 2 0
276 Long Blondes - Appropriation (By any other name) 15 2 0
275 Los Super Elegantes - Dance 15 1 0
274 Low - On the edge of 15 1 0
273 Luciano - Octagonal 15 1 0
272 Mike Jones – Still Tippin Feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall (Diplo Remix) 15 1 0
271 New Pornographers - These are the fables 15 2 0
270 Nina Nastasia - Bird of Cuzco 15 1 0
269 N'Klabe - I love salsa 15 1 0
268 Robert Post - Got none 15 1 0
267 Tatu - Cosmos (Outer Space) 15 1 0
266 Greg Osby: "Diode Emissions 15 1 0
265 50 Cent - Just a lil' bit 16 1 0
264 Ashlee Simpson - I am me 16 1 0
263 Colleen - Bubbles which on the water swim 16 1 0
262 Death From Above 1979 - Blood on our hands (Justice remix) 16 1 0
261 Depeche Mode - Suffer well 16 1 0
260 Devendra Banhart - Korean Dogwood 16 1 0
259 DJ Shadow ft. Turf Talk & Keak Da Sneak - 3 Freaks 16 1 0
258 Ellen Allien - Washing Machine is speaking 16 1 0
257 Go! Team - Ladyflash 16 1 0
256 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (Tiefschwarz mix) 16 1 0
255 Gorillaz - O Green world 16 1 0
254 Jackson and his Computer Band - Hard Tits 16 1 0
253 Kathleen Edwards - Back to me 16 1 0
252 Lady Sovereign - Boys will be Girls 16 1 0
251 Malcolm Middleton - Choir 16 1 0
250 Mario - Let me love you 16 1 0
249 MIA - Fire Fire 16 1 0
248 Out Hud - One life to leave 16 2 0
247 Pipettes - It hurts 2 C U dance so well 16 1 0
246 Regina Spektor - Us 16 1 0
245 Revelations - You're the loser 16 1 0
244 Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso 16 1 0
243 Rich Boy - Get to poppin' (Remix feat Pitbull) 16 1 0
242 Search & Destroy - Desperate measures 16 1 0
241 Spinto Band - O Mandy 16 1 0
240 Sweetlight - Abusator (Blackstrobe remix) 16 1 0
239 The Futureheads - Hounds of Love 16 1 0
238 Theo Parrish - Falling up (Carl Craig mix) 16 1 0
237 Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga's Na Na Na remix) 16 1 0
236 Vitalic - The past 16 1 0
235 Voltio with Calle 13 - Ojalai 16 1 0
234 Dixie Chicks with Robert Randolph: "I Hope" 16 1 0
233 Tiefschwarz - Issst 16.5 2 0
232 Annie - The wedding 17 1 0
231 Ashlee Simpson - La La 17 1 0
230 Daddy Yankee and Lil' John - Gasolina (DJ Buddha remix) 17 1 0
229 Electrelane - Suitcase 17 1 0
228 Fall - I can hear the grass grow 17 1 0
227 Fiery Furnaces - Here comes the summer 17 1 0
226 Fountains of Wayne - Always love 17 1 0
225 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to (Erol's Glam racket mix) 17 1 0
224 Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax mix) 17 1 0
223 Hilary Duff - Wake up 17 1 0
222 Howard Hughes - The Guest 17 1 0
221 I Self Devine - Ice Cold 17 1 0
220 Jackson & His Computer Band - Fast Life 17 1 0
219 Juelz Santana - There it go (The Whistle song) 17 1 0
218 Kode9 & Space Ape - Kingstown 17 1 0
217 Lady Sovereign - Ch Ching 17 2 0
216 Liz Phair Got My Own Thing 17 1 0
215 Maximo Park - Going missing 17 1 0
214 Mitchell Brothers - Routine Check 17 1 0
213 Paul McCartney - A certain softness 17 1 0
212 Tom Vek - C-C (You set the fire in me) 17 2 0
211 Voxtrot - The Start of something 17 1 0
210 Wolf Parade - I'll believ in anything 17 1 0
209 Cobra Verde - So long Marianne 17 1 0
208 Royksopp - what else is there? (JLC mix) 17.5 2 0
207 Beck - Broken Drum (Boards of Canada remix) 18 2 0
206 Big Business - Eastern Romantic 18 1 0
205 Cesar Pedroso - Del Trabajo A La Casa 18 1 0
204 Ciara feat Missy Elliot - 1,2 Step 18 1 0
203 Datarock - Fa fa fa 18 1 0
202 Diane Cluck - Just as I should Be 18 1 0
201 Ellen Allien - She is with me 18 1 0
200 Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor put your boots on 18 3 0
199 Gwen Stefani - Cool 18 1 0
198 Jim Noir - Computer Song 18 1 0
197 Kent - Dom Som Forvasn 18 1 0
196 Kim-Lian - Teenage Superstar 18 1 0
195 Low - Monkey 18 1 0
194 Million Dead - Living the dream 18 1 0
193 Modeselektor - Dancing Box 18 1 0
192 Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg remix) 18 1 0
191 New Order - Krafty 18 3 0
190 Noze - Kitchen 18 1 0
189 Richard Hawley - Coles Corner 18 1 0
188 Skream - Request Line 18 1 0
187 Slagmalsklubben - His morning promenade 18 1 0
186 Spoon - Two sides of Monseiur Valentin 18 1 0
185 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Mountains made of steam 18 1 0
184 Cobra Verde - I feel love 18 1 0
183 Rakes - Retreat 19 1 0
182 Atmosphere - Pour me another 19 1 0
181 Blues Explosion - Mars, Arizona (DFA remix) 19 1 0
180 Bob Sinclair - Love Generation 19 1 0
179 Coldplay - what if? 19 1 0
178 Dierks Bentley - Lot of leavin' left to do 19 1 0
177 Duoteque - Drug Queen 19 1 0
176 Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 19 1 0
175 Foo Fighters - Best of you 19 1 0
174 Forward Russia! - Seven 19 1 0
173 Gledhill - Good times ahead 19 1 0
172 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 19 1 0
171 Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves 19 1 0
170 Herman Düne - You Could Be A Model, Goodbye 19 1 0
169 Jaga Jazzist - All I know is tonight 19 1 0
168 John Cale - Perfect 19 1 0
167 Lightning Bolt- Captain Caveman 19 1 0
166 M83 - Teen Angst 19 2 0
165 MIA - Sunshowers 19 1 0
164 Mountain Goats - Song for Dennis Brown 19 1 0
163 Rich Boy - Get to poppin' 19 1 0
162 Robyn - Handle me 19 1 0
161 Shola Ama - With U 19 1 0
160 Kentucky Headhunters - Chug-A-Lug 19 1 0
159 MIA - Amazon 19.5 2 0
158 Cranebuilders - Trouble is 20 1 1
157 Frames - Locusts 20 1 1
156 Human Television - Saw you walking by 20 1 1
155 Joy Zipper - 1 20 1 1
154 Kelis - Get along without you (Fake ID mix) 20 1 1
153 M83 - Lower your eyelids to die with the sun 20 1 1
152 Morane - Electric Pilot Girl (Club version) 20 1 1
151 Mu - Out of Breach 20 1 1
150 Oasis - Who putthe weight of the world on my shoulders 20 1 1
149 Of Montreal - The Party's crashing us 20 1 1
148 Phoebe Kreutz - Bull Run Beer Run 20 1 1
147 Royksopp - what else is there? 20 3 0
146 Ryan Adams - Let it ride 20 1 1
145 Sway - Up your speed 20 2 0
144 System of a Down - BYOB 20 1 1
143 Tusia Beridze - Wound 20 1 1
142 Yann Tiersen - Mary 20 1 1
141 Kentucky Headhunters - Like A Rolling Stone 20 1 1
140 Depeche Mode - Lilian 20.5 2 0
139 Amerie - One thing (Slik mix) 21 2 0
138 Baxendale - I built this city (Michael Mayer mix) 21 2 1
137 Clientele - Since K got over me 21 3 0
136 Isolee - My Hi-Matic 21 2 0
135 Jackson & His Computer Band - Rock on 21 2 0
134 Kelly Osbourne - One word 21 4 0
133 Ladytron - International Dateline 21 2 0
132 Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viasquez 21 2 0
131 Electrelane - Bells 22 2 0
130 Juan Maclean - Dance with me 22 2 0
129 M83 - Teen Angst (Luciano Mix) 22 2 0
128 QOTSA - Little Sister 22 2 0
127 Young Jeezy - My Hood 22 2 0
126 Juliet - Avalon (JLC mix) 22.5 3 0
125 Bikstok Rogsystem - Cigar 23 2 1
124 Broken Social Scene - 7-4 Shorelines 23 2 0
123 Doves - Black and White town 23 2 1
122 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Lindstrom mix) 23 3 0
121 Kanye West - Diamonds from Sierra leone (feat Jay Z) 23.5 2 0
120 Big Boi Presents… - Kryptonite 23.5 2 0
119 Black Mountain - No hits 24 2 0
118 Daft Punk - Make love 24 2 0
117 Royksopp - Only This Moment 24 2 0
116 Shakira - Don't bother 24 2 0
115 Bloc Party - Helicopter 25 2 1
114 Imogen Heap - Hide and seek 25 3 0
113 Kylie Minogue - Made of glass 25 2 0
112 My Morning Jacket - Off the record 25 2 0
111 Saint Etienne - Side Streets 25 2 0
110 Out Hud - It's for you 26 3 0
109 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago 26 2 0
108 Arctic Monkeys - I bet that she looks good on the dancefloor 27 2 0
107 Art Brut - Emily Kane 27 2 0
106 Clor - Love and pain 27 2 0
105 X-Press 2 (Feat. Kurt Wagner) - Give it 27 2 0
104 Kate Bush - King of the mountain 27.5 2 0
103 Sigur Ros - Glosoli 27.5 2 0
102 Art Brut - Good Weekend 28 5 0
101 Geiger - Cocain-e 28 2 0
100 Girls Aloud - Wild Horses 28 2 0
99 Jamie Lidell - Multiply 28 3 0
98 MFA - The difference it makes 28.5 2 0
97 MANDY vs Booka Shade - Body Language 29 2 0
96 Rachel Stevens - Nothing good about this goodbye 29 2 1
95 Wolf Parade - Shine a light 29 2 0
94 Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday 29.5 2 0
93 Pharrell Williams - Can I Have It Like That 29.5 3 0
92 M83 - Don't save us from the flames (Superpitcher mix) 29.5 2 0
91 Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned... 30 4 0
90 Stars - Ageless Beauty 30 4 0
89 Bjork - Who is it (Vitalic remix) 30.5 2 1
88 Kate Bush - Nocturne 30.5 2 1
87 Saint Etienne - Milkbottle Symphony 30.5 2 1
86 The Game - Put you on the game 30.5 2 1
85 Hot Chip - Over and over b/w Just like we (breakdown) DFA remix 31 2 0
84 Nine Inch Nails - Only 31 2 1
83 Rachel Stevens - So Good 31 2 0
82 Depeche Mode - Precious 31.5 3 1
81 Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha 32 2 0
80 Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind 33 3 0
79 Gorillaz - Dare (DFA remix) 34.5 3 0
78 Hold Steady - Your little hood rat friend 35 2 0
77 Okkervill River - For real 35 3 0
76 Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer 36 3 0
75 Daft Punk - Technologic (Basement Jaxx mix) 36 3 0
74 Annie - Heartbeat (Alan Braxe Mix) 37 3 0
73 Ladytron - All the way 37 2 0
72 Patrick Wolf - The Libertine 37 2 1
71 Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle 37 3 0
70 Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy 37 2 0
69 Bloc Party - So here we are 38 3 0
68 Broadcast - Michael A Grammar 38 2 1
67 Daft Punk - Human After All 38 4 0
66 Rachel Stevens - Funny how 39 2 1
65 Legendary KO - George Bush don't care about black people 39 2 1
64 Animal Collective - Grass 40 4 1
63 Annie - Heartbeat 41 4 0
62 Lady Sovereign - Random 42.5 4 0
61 Fannypack - 718 42.5 4 0
60 Rachel Stevens - I Said Never Again (But Here We Are) 43 4 0
59 MFa - The difference it makes (Superpitcher mix) 44 3 0
58 Lady Sovereign - 9-5 44 3 1
57 Hard-Fi - Hard to beat 44 4 1
56 Feist - Inside and out 45 3 0
55 Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) 45 3 0
54 My Chemical Romance - Helena 45 3 1
53 Isolee - Schrapnell 45.5 4 1
52 Mariah Carey - We belong together 46 3 1
51 Killers - Mr Brightside (Thin white duke mix) 47.5 4 1
50 Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches* 48 4 0
49 Kanye West feat Cam'ron and Consequence - Gone 48.5 3 1
48 Mike Jones - Still Tipping (Feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall) 49.5 6 0
47 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to 50 7 0
46 U2 - Sometimes you can't make it on your own 50 3 0
45 Royksopp - What else is there ? (Trentemoller mix) 50.5 4 0
44 Polmo Polpo - Kiss me again and again 51 3 0
43 Tatu - All about us 53 4 1
42 Sugababes - Push the button 54.5 5 0
41 m83 - Don't save us from the flames 55 6 0
40 Saint Etienne - Stars above us* 56 3 0
39 Gorillaz - Dare 59.5 5 0
38 Damein Jr. Gong Marley - Welcome to Jamrock 60 4 1
37 Basement Jaxx - Oh my Gosh 61.5 6 0
36 Goldfrapp - Ooh La La 63.5 6 0
35 MIA - Bucky done gun 65 5 0
34 Mountain Goats - This year 65 4 0
33 Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl 66.5 5 1
32 MIA - Pull up the people 68 5 0
31 Tori Alamaze - Don't Cha 68.5 5 0
30 White Stripes - Blue Orchid 68.5 6 0
29 Vitalic - My Friend Dario 69.5 8 0
28 Antony & The Johnsons - Hope there's someone 70 5 0
27 Missy Elliott - Lose Control 70.5 8 0
26 Missy Elliott - Lose Control (JLC mix) 70.5 5 0
25 Spoon - I Turn my camera on 71 6 0
24 Rachel Stevens - Negotiate With Love 75 9 0
23 MIA - 10 Dollar* 76 8 0
22 R Kelly - Trapped in the closet 78.5 5 0
21 Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper song) 78.5 11 0
20 Futureheads - Hounds of love 80 6 1
19 Maximo Park - Apply some pressure 80.5 8 2
18 Daddy Yankee and Lil' John - Gasolina 81.5 6 1
17 Ciara - Oh feat. Ludacris 83.5 9 1
16 LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing at my house 84 9 0
15 Lindstrom - I feel space 88 9 0
14 Broadcast - America's Boy 92 8 1
13 Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 92.5 7 0
12 White Stripes - My Doorbell 93 9 0
11 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations 97.5 8 0
10 Robyn - Be Mine 102 9 0
9 Game and 50 Cent - Hate it or love it 114 7 1
8 Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch 118.5 9 0
7 Kanye West - Gold Digger feat. Jamie Foxx 123 12 0
6 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback girl 139.5 14 1
5 Madonna - Hung Up 149.5 14 0
4 Three Six Mafia - Stay Fly 181 14 0
3 Kelly Clarkson - Since u been gone 183 13 2
2 Girls Aloud - Biology 235.5 16 3
1 Amerie - 1 thing 348 25 6

Also surprised that "Pon de Replay" had only one superfan.

And I was delighted that I wasn't the only one to vote for an Ashlee song, and that a couple of people voted for "Put You on the Game," and that I wasn't the only one to vote for "Get to Poppin'." Let's hear it for Timbo.

(Also, I saw a Web post that said the sample was from Toto la Momposina - La Verdolaga.)

As a matter of fact, I seem to remember Rich Boy's own Web site crediting "Get to Poppin" to Timbaland. However, when I go back there now, there's no longer any info under "news."

(and to head off the question, yeah the beat is the same on the remix as the original.)

-- fandango (...), January 19th, 2006.

hahaha

You could say the exact same thing for the Kills, too. Jaysus!

E.g., this from a wayne&wax mixtape tracklist:

timbaland - get to poppin' (instrumental)

And sometimes I'll see "Rich Boy f. Timbaland 'When Niggaz Get to Poppin" and sometimes I'll see "Attitude f. Rich Boy 'When Niggaz Get to Poppin' (prod. Timbaland)." Maybe what happened is Timbaland used the Afro-Colombian (or whatever) sample on an instrumental track, and Rich Boy did a rap on that version, and then Kidd took the same sample and made it a different track, and Rich Boy did a rap on that one too, and that's the one that became single. Just guessing.

By the way, the sample is both eerie and funky, the not due to hocus-pocus wispiness but due to some full-bodiedness... er, I don't know what to say... full-bodied yet ghostly? No, not ghostly, just soul-catching, somehow, esp. with these beats, with toms.

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