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

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

Sausage rolls are a waste of sausage imho.

I'll keep that in mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't vote for any of his tracks though

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

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

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

2010s Sufjan >>>> 2000s Sufjan

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

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

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

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

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

"Chicago" is a slog tbh

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

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

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

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

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

Sheesh some hot takes about Sufjan Stevens in here

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's an evens key to turn

What does this mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and now, to return to impassive neutrality

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

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

lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is Emily a deep cut?

If you leave it playing too long

Oof

the first cut is the deepest iirc

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

I apologise, comment retracted!

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

Ah, thanks

criticism within reason is encouraged

Also if funny.

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

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

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

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

Updated with this and all the new entries.

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

Good work with the YT playlist btw, Camaraderie!

yes, please!

yes please tt ❤️