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

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.