ILM Tracks Polls POLLED

Amerie. Hands down.

amerie, easily.

Urgh, none of them.

careful, you're in the popists' den, and they're armed with glowsticks

missy or rihanna altho i still cant help but dig 212

went with my heart, voted 'umbrella'

yeah definitely 1 thing for me

this list isn't crazy inspiring... voted "umbrella" but it could also be "toxic"

careful, you're in the popists' den, and they're armed with glowsticks

― imago, Friday, January 25, 2013 12:48 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahahaha!!

lol j0rd did you see that we were neighbors on the tracks list -_-

does ILM still love Gnarls Barkley?

if u like all of these fuck u, if you like none of these lol at u

lol j0rd did you see that we were neighbors on the tracks list -_-

― 乒乓, Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:50 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

daps

tempted by "work it" actually

will have to relisten to them all obv

Toxic is good, lols denied

lol j0rd did you see that we were neighbors on the tracks list -_-

― 乒乓, Friday, 25 January 2013 00:50 (1 minute ago)

lol at u

obv would have voted for burial if it had placed

The worst sticks out badly here.

yeah wtf is hercules & love affair

2003 would have been milkshake or......?

ignition (remix) surely!

yeah

didnt someone do a belated 2003 pseudo-poll im sure this was at least mooted at some point

We do this every year, right?

(not a reply to NHdS)

1 Thing it is, but I still like Toxic, Crazy, and You Belong to Me.

if u like all of these fuck u, if you like none of these lol at u

― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, January 25, 2013 12:51 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL all you like, I'm already HAVING the last laugh!

Amerie. Toxic just behind, but I expect it to garner maybe half the votes.

It's a tossup between the last three for me.

Kind of interesting how halfway through ILM departs from the rest of the world and sets course for its own planet in the cosmos.

Any of the first four. After that I'd rather not hear any of them again.

Going "Work It" because it needs some love.

a thing

yeah this is roughly like

http://i.imgur.com/ueU1AQh.gif

imo

212, easy. Imma ruin you cunt.

can someone assemble a spotify list of these tracks

imma rouen you caen

Amerie, "1 Thing"
Azealia Banks, "212"
Missy Elliott, "Work It"
Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"
Britney Spears, "Toxic"
Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"
Rihanna, "Umbrella"
Girl Unit, "Wut"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me"

"Umbrella" and "Crazy" my least favorite songs.

The Frankie Knuckles remix of "Blind" has become one of my perennials, so I might vote for it over "212" and "Work It."

Blind
Work It
Inspector Norse
1 Thing
Toxic
You Belong With Me

gtfo with taylor swift for once and for all i mean jesus

still love p much all these tracks

1. Missy Elliott, "Work It" - easily #1
2. Britney Spears, "Toxic" - flawless production
3. Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy" - why not?
4. Amerie, "1 Thing" - almost forgot about this one...
4. Rihanna - Umbrella
6. Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse" - such good vibes
6. Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind" - great rhythm and bass section on this track
...
8. Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me"
9. Girl Unit, "Wut" - wut. baffled.
10. Azealia Banks, "212" - ugh

Like most of these. I didn't get "Wut" two years ago and still don't. And I've always thought "Toxic" was a mess. Have to go with "Work It" in the end.

yeah wut definitely the worst of these, but still dope

"work it" is the best for me

"Inspector Norse" at the moment, "1 Thing" or "Work It" normally. Don't like "Umbrella," really don't like "Crazy." Don't think I know three of these.

"Wut" winning was a travesty. I blame lex for momentarily throwing the ilm hivemind out of orbit by pop-stanning for a dirge.

"Umbrella" for me. "Work It" and "1 Thing" both very close behind.

I thought "Happy House" had won its year.
Anyway it's "Blind" for me, with "Work It" as runner up.

"wut" beat "hard in da paint," which would look really bizarre in this group

the wut/hard in da paint one-two might have been my favourite ilm result of all time - it made our list look so distinct without sacrificing the fact that they were populist classics of their genres. was that the year everyone was bemoaning the lack of decent chart pop to vote for? the travesty is "crazy" beating "what you know", what the fuck was everyone thinking.

anyway i think

1. WORK IT - missy is a legend of our time and this def falls into her (very long) imperial phase
2. UMBRELLA - jesus i played this so incessantly in 2007; the only one of these that actually has no rivals for the extent it dominated its year
3. 1 THING - crazy in love plus
4. YOU BELONG WITH ME - only about the 5th best song on its parent album, not even the best single, but still 10/10 classic because that's how great t-swift is. my favourite secret gay anthem of the past decade
5. TOXIC - only about the 6th best song on its parent album, not even the best single, i still maintain you can't dance to it, but still 10/10 headrush
6. WUT - pure beauty, still
7. 212 - shouldn't let azealia's inability to make another decent song make me forget how banging this is, how well it goes down at house parties etc
8. BLIND - it doesn't feel like a year-defining #1 but it's still excellent (we're still in 10/10 territory here), the bassline is one of the best of the past decade for sure
9. INSPECTOR NORSE - v pleased about it placing #1 this year but really there are several balearic anthems from the past few years i feel way more attached to. but like 9/10
10. CRAZY - incredibly boring then, incredibly boring now, the fact that it beat "what you know" only increases my contempt for it

"Wut" still blows my mind every time I hear it

the wut/hard in da paint one-two might have been my favourite ilm result of all time

srsly!

"wut" is very one trick to me. it's a nice trick but eh

"toxic" is one of the best pop productions of the last 2 decades

think I'm voting for Missy tho cause I was playing it a bunch the other day and it's still the most fun thing ever

"wut" is very one trick to me. it's a nice trick but eh

― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are so many things going on tho! there are like seven different hooks

songs on in the zone that are better than toxic: everytime, showdown, outrageous, brave new girl, early mornin, the answer, breathe on me, (i got that) boom boom

#deepbritneyalbumcuts

"work it" is an amazing song but prob not even in my top 10 missy singles... in general i think this is a pretty underwhelming group of songs

all of them are pretty great in the grand scheme but there's only a few i'd still be excited to hear

i should listen to that album

as much as i love "212" and "video games" i definitely feel like last year got it the wrong way round putting them at 1 and 2, relegating "super bass" and "countdown" to 3 and 4

definitely

the #3 & #4 albums > the top two, too

xp you definitely should. "(i got that) boom boom" features the ying yang twins, "outrageous" features r kelly, and "brave new girl" is like if daft punk ever wrote a pop song

"everytime" is britney's best ever song though. well apart from everything on blackout obv

ugh i forgot about last year's album results, any of 2/3/4 should have beaten 1. most of the 77 should have beaten 1.

if either "super bass" or "countdown" had won last year it would have had my vote here unhesitatingly

I just revisited the whole 2011 tracks thread from beginning to end while listening to the playlist. I could be biased because I ran the thing that year, but it was the most quality eoy poll that's ever taken place on ilm. So many cool discoveries, lots of variety in the results, a fantastic top 10 (minus Kreayshawn, and maybe M83).

This year's was fun too (BRING IN THE KATZ!), but it seemed like there were fewer surprises.

the top 2 last year was a travesty. i love "212"... i have no idea how "super bass" or "countdown" didn't win smh

Several people admitted to leaving "Countdown" off their ballots because they voted for 4 in the album poll, which is o_O to me.

adorn *snif*

Yeah, as much as I love the top 2 (songs I actually ranked on my mixed ballot), I suspect "Adorn" (which I left unranked) will be the track we look back on later and all lament not winning (many people already do).

Several people admitted to leaving "Countdown" off their ballots because they voted for 4 in the album poll, which is o_O to me.

tbh "countdown" placing as highly as it did considering the beyoncé vote-splitting that went on was a testament to its power. beyoncé only lost because lesser girls like azealia and lana couldn't back their big hits up ;_; not B's fault she's overflowing with genius ;_;

it's my fault, it was only #3 on my ballot too ;_; (xp)

'toxic' and '1 thing' are both majestic. Could not choose btw them.

If I'd have voted last year, I would've made sure my ballot had every single from 4 on it except "Countdown."

Voted Rihanna (the only song of hers I've ever really loved) - otherwise it would have been "212"

"You Belong With Me" is my fav song of the decade, so that, over "Umbrella", my second fav song of the decade

I only vote for Rihanna singles that start with the letter http://www.emoticonswallpapers.com/avatar/logos/Superman-Logo.jpg

Blind, ahead of 1 Thing - very possibly because I recently heard the source of the 1 Thing sample and it's thrown my critical faculties all out.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Went with Blind

http://i.imgur.com/j5W4rQB.png

Girl Unit, "Wut"
Azealia Banks, "212"
Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"

WTF are these???

shhhh nobody tell him

this thread needs youtubes to help a noob out

just re-listened to "wut" for the first time prob since the poll results 2 years ago and i maybe hate it slightly less but definitely still hate it

"Wut" is terrible

I should admit that a good bit of my rejection of "Inspector Norse" is misplaced "Wut" rage; I at least get why ppl are into "Inspector Norse"

"Wut" is terrible
just re-listened to "wut" for the first time prob since the poll results 2 years ago and i maybe hate it slightly less but definitely still hate it

It is terrible, but unlike gr8080, I think I actually hate it more now than 2 years ago.

OK after one listen each on various YouTubes:

"Wut": trippy techno bonkers. groovy!
"212": THE WORST RAPPER EVER. She sounds like such a brat. Like M.I.A. but worse. Just awful.
"Inspector Norse": Started out with a groovy DFA dance thing going on, but the music video kept having the guy talk over it, so I didn't really get the full effect.

"Wut" > "Inspector Norse" > "212"

Out of the last 3, "212" is my favorite.

flagging all posts by "Wut"-haters obv

I don't even like Waka all that much, but I'd rather "Hard in da Paint" had won.

OK now I'm digging "Inspector Norse." This is really great.

now that I think of it, "Wut" has probably recentered my taste in dance music more than any other track in the past few years

tim f and mr snrub otm

"Wut" is dance music?

yeah, if you dance like Lurch

haha

smh at u all

I mean, I taught dance classes professionally for 5-6 years, LOLLLLOOLLOL if you think I dance like Lurch.

there really aren't enough L's and O's in combination for that

My sisters' dance recitals taught me that you can technically dance jazz-funk to "Tiptoe Thru the Tulips" and Starlight Express tunes.

snrub you should listen to the non-video version of Norse

http://youtu.be/ebjXsc0UjdQ

lol seriously fuck you. I seriously doubt there's anyone on ILX who's a better dancer than me. xp

"wut" isn't dance music, its "on drugs in a crowded dark room" music

which doesn't equate bad, just sayin'

If I knew how to do needlepoint, I'd put this on a throw pillow and mail it to you, Rev. <3 xp

*siiiiigh*

anyone who thinks it isn't dance music is stupid and I don't even really fuck with drugs like that

I mean, I am not a trained dancer and I can dance to anything, even "Wut"

that doesn't change my opinion that dancing to "Wut" is not anything I would ever want to do, in fact the entire time I would be annoyed and wishing someone would change the song to something that wasn't bad

You'd have to be the greatest dancer in the world to make "Wut" work on a dance floor.

oh no, it's not 4x4! what do my legs do?

Note: I don't hate "Wut." It's just soooo not One Way or Kerri Chandler or MAW or SoHo or Braxe or Jaxxy or

Actually, I think it is in 4/4, but seems ashamed of it.

4x4 as in four-to-the-floor

http://i47.tinypic.com/2qibrdf.jpg

of course it's in fucking 4/4 time xp

"night slugs" is such a perfect name for a party that would spawn something like "wut"

Still don't care for "Wut", but the handclaps are metronomic in 4/4.

this girl must have burnt like, a dozen calories here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp6Rc2sYnKA

Would be cool to see her do a waltz to the song.

oh no, it's not 4x4! what do my legs do?

haha I hope this isn't directed towards me, the dude who is breakbeat/jungle/d&b 24/7

I don't hate "Wut" I just think it's silly that it won the poll.

Also I think I was predestined to be a bit eye-rolly at its entire conceit because it felt like it was taking this idea that grime had had just in passing (see Low Deep's "Straight Flush"; Skepta's "Serious Thugs") and then beating it with a bat until all its limbs fell off.

I also see that there's not that much distinction between "Wut" and the slower parts of Tropical 2 which was far and away my favourite album of 2011, but the former just seems so much more hamfisted to me.

Its a nadir of one sort:

http://i48.tinypic.com/10ynj4n.jpg

!!!

graphspergers

hahahahaha that is like the ILM version of this

"crazy" has a faster bpm than "1 thing"?!?!

"you belong with me" has the second fastest bpm of all of these?!

"1 thing" for sure. sounds fresh and invigorating every time i hear it.

i like about half of these songs.

"1 Thing" and "Inspector Norse" are the only ones I would want to hear right now.

yeah, i think the fact that i could still listen to "1 thing" on repeat is a reflection of how well it's held up. the stuff i don't care for on that list ranges from bland (Taylor) to offensive (Britney).

most of these kinda meh

inspector norse
work it
toxic
1 thing
212
blind (never heard this)
you belong with me (never heard this)
wut
crazy
umbrella

1 Thing.

Taylor is shit. Sorry for the cheap shot. That is all.

70bpm = 140bpm, just saying

1-10:

Amerie, "1 Thing"
Girl Unit, "Wut"
Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"
Azealia Banks, "212"
Rihanna, "Umbrella"
Missy Elliott, "Work It"
Britney Spears, "Toxic"
Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"

A couple of these have definitely suffered from overexposure but the only one I don't particularly like is 'Blind', just can't deal with Antony's voice.

People who don't like Wut need to get new ears

equal 1st:
Missy Elliott, "Work It"
Britney Spears, "Toxic"
Amerie, "1 Thing"
Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"
Azealia Banks, "212"

6: Todd Terje, "Inspector Norse"

7: Girl Unit, "Wut"

equal 8:
Rihanna, "Umbrella"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"

You Belong To Me I guess 10 but Taylor doesn't rly work for me

Work It
1 Thing
Wut (it's just like dancing to Stay Fly or whatever)
Norse
212
...
Blind (for the Club and FK mixes not so much the tepid original)
Toxic
Crazy
Umbrella
...
...
...
You Belong With Squee

Kind of interesting how halfway through ILM departs from the rest of the world and sets course for its own planet in the cosmos

This stands out for me too. The first half up to Umbrella are boxes of tricks, but to my mind from then on we've settled for tracks that do one thing really well. Blind's somewhere in the middle

What's happened, is it fragmentation?

- ilm changing and becoming larger - more posters who don't subscribe to the poptimism of early days
- pop changing for the worse circa 2008 - between then and now, what even were the ubiquitous equivalents of the 2002-07 winners? in 2010 the poll thread was full of people bemoaning the state of chart pop
- bit of luck - "call me maybe" was second this year, only takes a few voters who forgot/remembered to change that. ditto "super bass" last year, but "212" and "video games" were actually big hits, bigger than eg the beyoncé song that came 4th
- would argue that t-swift has more in common with the 2002-07 winners really

Things like 212 manage to consolidate and crossover genre and taste gaps while still sounding "new", that's why it was popular.

inspector norse easy, it's the one furthest into the realm of music i listen to without ilm context/coloring

'blind' is a really weird winner in retrospect

I love everything about "Blind" and I can't think of another song Antony sings on that I haven't detested

yeah i don't HATE antony's voice but i usually cannot get with it, but it works amazingly on "blind"

you belong with me (never heard this)

how is this possible

it's pretty isolated down in the mine

"you belong with me" wasn't very big in the uk

i know for a fact that coal has heard both it and "blind" though

1 Thing > Work It > Inspector Norse = Umbrella = Toxic >>> Blind >>> Wut >>> 212 >>>>>> You Belong With Me >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crazy

pvmic and all but I still fucking love "Crazy"

Played them both - recognize Blind, no recollection of having heard You Belong With Me, may have read about it

it was omnipresent in the US, still is

i still hate "Toxic"

for me:

Work It > 1 Thing > Crazy >>>>>>>>>> Toxic = Umbrella > Inspector Norse >>>>>>>>>>> 212 > Wut >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>(add about 3000 more >s) You Belong With Me

isn't it about time to end the pretend taylor swift is a genius era of ilm

that song is still better than 'wut' tho, which seems like it only would have value for torturing prisoners or something

You Belong With Me is the only one I don't know too well.

i don't care for taylor swift much but "you belong with me" is my fucking jam

Wut is the one that I think really didn't deserve to win its poll, I don't like Gnarls Barkley or Taylor Swift very much but at least they were massive pop hits that lots of people evidently liked.

Man Wut is super cool, easily top 3

"blind" and "inspector norse" aren't exactly massive pop hits

xp

No, but they at least act like they are.

Blind and Inspector Norse are way better though.

If we'd done this in 2003 then Hey Ya would definitely have won, with Milkshake in 2nd place maybe.

I think that's true.

interesting that the two instrumental winners are also the only two non-american winners

wonder (but not that much tbh) what is most likely to win in future out of

- vocal hit from outside US
- instrumental dance track from US
- any rock or guitar-led song at all

i still maintain you can't dance to it,

crazy, i have totally successfully danced to "toxic," many times

lol i didn't even pay attention to the 2010 poll. insane that "wut" won, tim describing it as a dirge is otm but it's an enjoyable dirge

true it's not awful or anything

I love everything about "Blind" and I can't think of another song Antony sings on that I haven't detested

do you hate the other Antony songs on the album?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

stronger showing for todd terje than i'd've expected

he's fresh in our minds

toxic 4 jesus

yeah i suspect if you did this in 1-2 years he'd be much lower down.

still all of these songs are 10/10

edit: except for crazy

Man, I don't think I'll ever get ''1 Thing''...I sort of missed it when it was a hit, caught up later, it's definitely COOL, I like the 'gobble gobble gobble' sounds and the general feeling of instability, but better than 'Toxic' and 'Umbrella'...? What am I missing exactly? It's just kind of, you know, a song.

do you hate the other Antony songs on the album?

I never heard the whole album

lol these results, I guess "Toxic" has not aged well for ppl

sad for "toxic" but it really had to be "1 Thing". The original is wonderfully commanding but I love the chillaxed siik remix too. real sad for amerie's career which seems to be forever in the doldrums. Am giving up hope of ever seeing the release of Cymatika Vol. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8UFAsOY7w

I guess I should listen to this "1 Thing" song huh

omg crut

it fucking bangs and is so great that no one really thought Amerie could top it, consequently killing her career stone dead

p much

I did like a few songs on the next two albums, though.

i think i actually like "take control" more than "1 thing" these days? i go back to it a lot more

and "1 thing" was never that much better than "why don't we fall in love"

pretty much any track on Because I Love It > 1 Thing. And 1 Thing is superamazing.

y'all realize I said that ppl latched onto "1 Thing" so hard that they didn't give her subsequent music a chance, not that she never released anything as good as "1 Thing" after that, right

1 thing is a stone cold classic, but this is my amerie deep cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxt04fsqYA

my deepest amerie deep cut is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEO805O76qM

which got LEFT OFF touch ;_; ;_;

"why don't we fall in love (richcraft remix)" = "need you tonight" > everything else

I never heard the whole album

you should! he's not in full-on Blind disco diva mode on the other songs*, but does use the same kind of song-sensitive approach, not warbling in Johnsons mode. and the album is a big warm nostalgic house/disco hug.

* he's lead on three or four, BV on one or two

so it there going to be an album version of this poll? Will Miguel walk it?

i heard the "because i love it" batsignal, it is the most fantastic record

like her career was only killed stone dead cause that album wasn't properly released or promoted in the US

i heard the "because i love it" batsignal, it is the most fantastic record

so it there going to be an album version of this poll? Will Miguel walk it?

― danzig, Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:30 PM (1 hour ago)

kaputt, obv

best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clh3_Tt1PbU

"Crazy Wonderful" otm

love her vocals obv, but its a crime that no instrumental version of that beat exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeD1OPiehuo

always loved the beat on this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupIf18R1cE

what's that ethan post where he wants all the ameries

who the heck are they?

― djmartian, Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:23 PM Bookmark

ILM Albums Polls POLLED

xp oh wau i had no idea that was actually mclaren. they did very little to it!

lol i guess ILM is right to ignore this but finally found it

ILM top 10 singles of 2003

01. Outkast 'Hey Ya' (31 pts)
02. Girls Aloud 'No Good Advice' (26)
03. R Kelly 'Ignition Remix' (24)
04. Beyonce ft Jay-Z 'Crazy In Love' (20)
05. Dizzee Rascal 'I Luv U' (17)
06. Lumidee 'Never Leave You' (15)
07. Kelis 'Milkshake' (13)
08. Basement Jaxx 'Good Luck' (10)
09. !!! 'Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story)' (9)
10. 50 Cent 'In Da Club' (9)

in

i'd like to do a 'tunes of the year' poll now

Hahaha I remember that poll. Hey Ya and Kid A won their respective polls and made the whole exercise kind of hilarious.

Srsly though if you replaced 'Good Luck' with 'Romeo' and the !!! song with 'House of Jealous Lovers' that would be a pretty good summation of the first half of the 00s for me.

haha i really like that 2003 top ten :/

order should've been

1. never leave you
2. i luv u
3. milkshake
4. crazy in love
5. no good advice
6. in da club
7. good luck
[all above are 10/10 classics; massive gap now]
8. ignition remix [so weak]
9. hey ya [still never want to hear this again though it's not strictly awful i guess]
10. me and giuliani [who cares]

ignition (remix) isn't just the best out of that 10 - its better than all the other poll winners too

what song is that guitar sampled from in "take control"?? it is fucking killing me that i can't think of it.

Tom Ze

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/57125/Amerie-Take%20Control_Tom%20Z%C3%A9-Jimmy%20Renda-se/

ahhh, thank you, that's better. i could hear snatches of the vocals in my head and it was driving me crazy. great song.

wow I can't believe I didn't know Amerie sang "Why Don't We Fall in Love"

Ha! I would've never found that! Glad we have a semi-official record of ILM's tastes in 2003, though.