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

They're perfectly adequate.

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

great songs with beautiful melodies and amazing lyrics

So boring

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

ok

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

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

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

https://youtu.be/1z0CNm_It_g

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

Excellent Party Down reference title!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I really like this Destroyer song.

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

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

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

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

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

Voted “Breakaway”

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

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

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

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

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

That Jürgen Paape image is super cool.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That Spoon poll made no sense at all to me.

Several xposts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frogot to vote, cos I'm a total eejit

absolutely killer selections so far though

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

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

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

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

will try to provide youtube links and years from here on

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

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

So Weit Wie Noch Nie too low!

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

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

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

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