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

Who's ready?

We'll do 10 now, 10 tomorrow, then hopefully 20 on subsequent days this week. Not entirely sure about timings, except to say it'll probably be quite late in the UK and afternoon -> evening for our American audience. Other timezones: deal as best you can idk

Spotify has provided, and we may take: PLAYLIST

Yessss

terrified tbh

oh shit I'm not ready

never mind, carry on

Ok, let's go. 100 voters exactly, which is fitting...

...except there are 101 songs! Because this happened:

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100.
Dead Prez
Hip-Hop
460 points
9 votes
0 FPVs

100.
Spoon
Everything Hits At Once
460 points
9 votes
0 FPVs

Good start.

Images courtesy of tangenttangent btw

Thanks, tt!

Thanks for doing this imago, tangent and seandalai! Epic undertaking.

I didn't do a tracks poll but am here to be schooled.

great images!

love the logo, tt!

trying to compile a 00s albums melted my brane so a tracks ballot was beyond me tbh. intrigued to see the results though!

Haha thanks. I've tried to source most of the images from the video for the track, if it had one.

Results vmic so far. Woo!

Love the images tt

would anyone object to my making a youtube playlist?

Yay, starting strong with good tracks! Thanks to everyone doing the rollout, the images are great!

this is an outrage!

Ahhhh hell yes to these images tt! <3

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99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs

Strong nostalgic vibes so far, even more so than I expected.

can we enable <marquee> tags for just this poll thread

Yesss! That's a good idea actually. I need another 90 or so just like it.

One thing I realised while putting together my ballot was that for most of the 00s (after 2002 or so) I was off in my own listening world characterised by headphones and reissues and music not playing much of a role in my social life. I didn't land on ILX until 2010. I have never knowingly heard anything by: Spoon, The National, Wilco and I'm sure I've ~~heard~~ the Arcade Fire but I wouldn't recognise any particular song.

I thought I didn't know this dead prez song, but it's in that cinema advert with the man driving his daughter to school. Surprisingly, that's not ruining the song for me.

I'll be interested to know ILM's noughties taste because I genuinely have no idea.

Good memory: When 2ManyDjs played Roskilde in 2007, ten seconds into 9/5, the sound went out and we could only hear the monitors. But everyone was so excited about what was to come, that we didn't really care, and when it turned into Eple, the crowd when crazy anyway. Everyone was jumping up and down and singing along. We were making so much noise, in fact, that nobody could hear the music from the monitors over our own singing, so when the brothers then mixed away into another song, the crowd just kept on singing Eple, making them very confused.

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98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

Whoa, too low

xxp except almost all of my noughties picks were tied up in fairly strong memories and there’s some artists I’ve never gone near for that reason. There’s going to be lots I haven’t heard during the periods I was checked out

top blingee tribute work, tt

Thank you! I was saddened to learn it had closed down, but relieved that there are still many sites like it out there.

Try Again was one of the last painful cuts from my ballot, which I now regret.

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97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs

I didn't vote tracks but Hip Hop and Try Again are legit two of my favorite songs so wd so far!!

Xpost such a great use of that Numan sample

Re: "hip hop" - there was kind of a rap nostalgia going on the '00s. See also - Jurassic 5, Missy Elliot's "under construction"

(Some of the most amazing sounding bass on both those tracks though -- xpost to self)

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96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

The first 🤷‍♂️ for me so far. I have no political idea what this is.

lol where did "political" come from? Autofill mishap.

ja das ist sehr nett

I spent most of the 00s out of the UK and missed out on loads of music, so a few tracks so far are new to me, think I only know one Spoon track for example and hadn't even heard of Dead Prez.

That track is the giraffes necklace

Ooh, this is quite nice!

The video for the Jürgen Paape track is great

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95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

Jürgen Paape track is lovely, never heard it before

we need a resolution is perhaps the song i most regret snubbing

Is the thread name a Nickelback reference??

I thought it was a Party Down reference

#teamnickelback

I enjoyed the Broadcast song pretty well and may come back. Some nice 60s + Stereolab feels. I haven't heard this Knife song in years and this is a pleasant revisit; only thing I ever bought by them was Tomorrow in a Year but I do enjoy their songs when I hear them. MIA and Juan Maclean I didn't really have a strong opinion about so far and I'm obv too drunk to sit through Annie (both "Crazy" and "Chop Suey" obv preferable - to a lot of things, tbh) so skipped ahead to the Knife. I've never actually heard this Amerie song before, I don't think. It's not the kind of thing I listen to a lot but the hook is memorable. Getting more into it on the second listen.

Thanks to imago/tt!

Really thought Silver Screen Shower Scene (Thin White Duke Mix) would do well, or at least place! Still good, but also it's emblamatic of a certain type of 'indie' dance party of the time and one of a handful of things I'd rescue from association with electroclash debacle. I guess Emerge was the stand-in.

I went with Rippin Kittin as my Ms K guest vocal pick. Thought that more likely to place too, but no it’s @ 295 or something. Surprised Emerge did so well but voted for that too.

Thanks for collecting all the gifs in a single link tt, they were A+.

if I'd remembered to vote, I'd have probably included some Streets.

it would be interesting to compare the countdown to some of the ILM EOYs of the time - see what was rated back then that has dropped off now etc..

"Farewell Transmission" is friggin... good.

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33: I was never drawn in by any LCDS songs I heard before but this is actually pretty satisfying and impressively well-constructed. Goes to a lot of places but flows well and it all makes sense. Reminiscent of minimalist music at moments.

I had heard Silent Shout a couple times years ago but didn't really like it so I'd never listened to anything else of The Knife's but my god Heartbeats is amazing. Where have I gone so wrong with my life I haven't heard this yet.

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+9
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+8
90. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River - 492 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
89. Joanna Newsom - Emily - 494 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
88. Sugababes - Overload - 498 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
87. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - 502 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5
86. Lethal Bizzle ft. Fumin, D Double E, Jamakabi, Flow Dan, Demon, Forcer, Neeko, Napper, Ozzie B - Pow (Forward Riddim) - 503 points - 6 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+4
84 Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+4
84 Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - 505 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
83. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - 507 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
82. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle - 507 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
81. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - 515 points - 8 votes - 1 FPVs - Y2K+6
80. Aaliyah - Rock the Boat - 516 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
79. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 516 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
78. Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal - 523 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7
77. Ciara - Promise - 525 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
76. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With a Girl - 525 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
75. Life Without Buildings - The Leanover - 526 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
74. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping - 538 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
73. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun - 538 points - 8 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+4
72. Annie - Chewing Gum - 539 points - 9 votes - 1FPV - Y2K+4
71. Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope) - 540 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
70. The New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant - 545 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
69. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space - 549 points - 12 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
68. Perfume - Polyrhythm - 554 points - 9 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+8
67. All Saints - Pure Shores - 556 points - 10 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K
66. Andrew WK - Party Hard - 562 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
65. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy - 563 points - 10 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5
64. Outkast - Ms. Jackson - 568 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
63. Portishead - Machine Gun - 570 points - 12 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
62. Belle and Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo - 573 points of which 170 are for the Avalanches remix - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+3
61. Gillian Welch - Revelator - 584 points - 10 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
60. Dntel - (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan - 585 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
59. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind - 587 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
58. Studio - Out There - 589 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
57. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist - 595 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
55. MGMT - Time to Pretend - 597 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7
55. Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch - 597 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+5
54. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 - 605 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+6
53. T.I. - What You Know - 607 points - 12 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
52. Booka Shade - In White Rooms - 608 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
51. Phoenix - Too Young - 611 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
50. The Avalanches - Since I Left You - 625 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
49. Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers - 631 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
48. Luomo - Tessio - 639 points - 10 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
47. Rihanna - Umbrella - 652 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7
46. Robyn With Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat - 663 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
45. Kelis - Milkshake - 664 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+3
44. Jay-Z - Big Pimpin' - 667 points - 10 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K
43. Beyoncé - Crazy in Love - 677 points - 16 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+3
42. Basement Jaxx - Romeo - 684 points - 15 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
41. UGK ft. Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem - 695 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7
40. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out - 709.0 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+4
39. Portishead - The Rip - 723 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
38. Bat for Lashes - Daniel - 726 points - 11 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+9
37. The Knife - Silent Shout - 728 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+6
36. Radiohead - Pyramid Song - 732 points - 12 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
35. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends - 735 points - 12 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+7
34. Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission - 743 points - 9 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+3
33. The Killers - Mr Brightside (Thin White Duke Remix) - 748 points (of which 339 for the original) - 16 votes - 0 FPVs -Y2K+5
32. Cassie - Me & U - 749 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+5
31. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah - Crass Version - 762 points - 11 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+5
30. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head - 767 points - 17 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
29. Britney Spears - Toxic - 781 points - 12 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+3
28. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great - 782 points - 13 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+7
27. Fischerspooner - Emerge - 783 points - 11 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+1
26. Björk - Pagan Poetry - 783 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
25. Radiohead - Idioteque - 795 points - 12 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K
24. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) - 797 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+8
23. LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge - 798 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
22. Girls Aloud - Biology - 822 points - 13 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+5
21. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects In Space mix) - 837 points - 15 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+9
20. Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly - 863 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+5
19. Battles - Atlas - 889 points - 14 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+7
18. M.O.P. - Ante Up - 908 points - 14 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
17. Daft Punk - One More Time - 980 points - 18 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K
16. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers - 990 points - 15 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+2
15. Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U - 1027 points - 19 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+3
14. Burial - Archangel - 1033 points - 18 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+7
13. OutKast - Hey Ya! - 1099 points - 19 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+3
12. Missy Elliott - Work It - 1106 points - 19 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+2
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps - 1231 points - 22 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+3
10. Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight - 1232 points - 18 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+1
9. The Juan Maclean - Happy House - 1284 points - 17 votes - 3 FPVs - Y2K+9
8. OutKast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) - 1381 points - 21 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K
7. Broadcast - Come On Let's Go - 1409 points - 20 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K
6. M.I.A. - Paper Planes - 1421 points (of which 131 to the Diplo remix) - 25 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+7
5. Annie - Heartbeat - 1432 points - 21 votes - 2 FPVs - Y2K+4
4. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On - 1511 points - 25 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
3. Daft Punk - Digital Love - 1582 points - 23 votes - 0 FPVs - Y2K+1
2. The Knife - Heartbeats - 1861 points (of which 378 to the Rex The Dog remix) - 31 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+3
1. Amerie - 1 Thing - 2034 points - 31 votes - 1 FPV - Y2K+5

the party may be over but i ain't stopping!

Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers very nice. has this been sampled? feel like i've heard some of those vocals elsewhere before, or i may just be imagining it or mistaking it for another garage track.
Luomo - Tessio subtle, kinda lovely
Rihanna - Umbrella i actually didn't especially like this song at first! thought the titular metaphor + repeated "eh"s were silly and that rihanna wasn't commanding enough of a presence to 'deserve' having been launched into the upper echelons of pop stardom. but i gave in and eventually it became a fave for me and a few friends to dance to. my favorite thing about it is the way the synth chord progression changes up for the final iteration of the chorus, you can briefly feel the darkness and danger she vows to protect you from and subsequently the elation and relief to have emerged from the other side
Robyn With Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat an amazing song that i will always regard fondly. what robyn obviously tried to recreate w/ "dancing my own", a song so unfortunately overrated that people actually tried voting for it here even tho it didn't exist yet in this decade. the chord that sounds after she first delivers the title line always gets me. also enjoy the tong & spoon wonderland remix for the section that completely isolates the string harmonies
Kelis - Milkshake good fun but is it really that great? for me not really
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin' not sure if this is my favorite jay-z single -- tho tbh i've never been a tremendous fan of his -- but this track has really memorable contributions from all involved. the production may be the most iconic thing about it to the point where i'm always surprised by how many lines i remember front to back from the verses
Beyoncé - Crazy in Love lol
Basement Jaxx - Romeo it's fine really but honestly no idea why ppl seem to think this is that great
UGK ft. Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem yeah definitely a classic. andre's part is so moving and uplifting lol i always feel corny for getting emotional at it. i notice that "fairy" is edited out in the youtube posting which reminds me that i'm still dumb/immature enough to enjoy mishearing that line as "you a ferret"
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out i liked this song for being somewhat more fun than much of the revivalist rock of the time but the idea of it being some kind of towering classic was always absurd and i quite disliked some of this band's other music
Portishead - The Rip never really did much for me tho i guess i can see why others like it so much
Bat for Lashes - Daniel now this is a song. on paper it seems like such an odd angle to take on young, idealistic conceptions of love, but it's also so effortlessly likable. the kind of lyric that sends me into morose contemplation of the times in my life when reality upended my naïve fantasies + how it's still so hard to let go of the fantasy. so odd to me that the artist has described the song as 'simple', as if writing a song this good is easy just because the end product has, i guess, accessible melodies? also beautifully arranged -- the reappearance of that pizzicato line as the rest of the instrumentation falls away is perfect. a+! (i have actually felt like crying at times while watching the hug at the end of the video)
The Knife - Silent Shout there are like four better tracks than this on the same album... but what an album
Radiohead - Pyramid Song pretty good for a radiohead song i guess
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends i thought people had let go of the once-fashionable idea of this being a big emotional moment for this act and by extension the entirety of music in general but i guess not
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission hmm not for me
The Killers - Mr Brightside (Thin White Duke Remix) okay so this is nice but i am not down with it being the best and/or definitive version of the song. sorry :( my fav jacques lu cont remix (among those i've heard) is his version of gwen's "what you waiting for?" which turns a clever but also semi-annoying track into a masterpiece. anyway within the past couple of years i heard my cousin laugh about having heard an 'edm' version of "mr. brightside" at a gym and i couldn't help but wonder if it was this version that he was disrespecting, lol
Cassie - Me & U this was definitely an important record in my life. after having disengaged from most current music for a good few years i turned on mtv one night to see what was going on and this was one of the first things to appear. the sleekness, the combination of cassie's overt sexiness and the delicateness of her vocal, it was actually quite unnerving to me initially and i was a little astonished that this was where music had headed! on some level i suspect my reaction was unchecked misogyny but anyway, i eventually acclimated to our new reality and understood that things were pretty okay this way. my brother's girlfriend at the time had this as her myspace background music for a long while
LCD Soundsystem - Yeah - ass Version zzz zzz zzz zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz zzz zzz zzz-zzz-zzz-zzz zzz
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head this set the blueprint for a style of danceable pop music that didn't properly take hold in the usa, tho of course this song itself went the full distance because it's so undeniable. when attempting to explain what i liked about it i used to default to the standard not-quite-correct things you'd read on a wikipedia article and see repeated endlessly in list blurbs b/c apparently everyone else is also too lazy to think of why they actually like canonized records without checking over each others' shoulders (something about how it feels whispered/intimate but also announced to the whole world or w/e). i think i reached some sort of complete, personal understanding of this record's greatness hearing it while walking around an ikea with a fella i was seeing at the time, both of us stoned off our asses
Britney Spears - Toxic lol. i remember seeing a girl at the middle school talent show dancing to this and i didn't even realize it was by britney. i would have laughed had someone informed me that adults were already busy declaring it a generation-definingly excellent pop song
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great an actually great lcd soundsystem song
Fischerspooner - Emerge beep boop beep boop beep boop

LCD may have had the most number of songs in this poll, but Timbaland had the biggest impact with production credits on six tracks in the top 100. Which is quite right really, I can't think of anyone else who had as much influence on pop in the 00s.

... and half his great work was in the previous decade.

I’m inviting trolling by saying this but I think one of the pieces of writing I am proudest of was a capsule for “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” back when Pitchfork did its 00s list.

The Thin White Duke remix of Mr. Brightside has aged like a tuna fish sandwich left in the sun.

My favorite remix of "with every heartbeat" is the Rory Philips one, I might even prefer it over the original one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PkNtla-8o

Björk - Pagan Poetry odd but gripping. ended too soon. one day i will actually dive further into her body of work
Radiohead - Idioteque i was ready to shit on this like i do everything by radiohead but i actually enjoy this. this is how highly rated a radiohead tune needs to be in order to be listenable. i like what's going on with the percussion in the back half. well done radiohead
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) i like this whenever i hear it but forget all about it within seconds of it ending. i heard it in a hip overpriced coffeeshop a few months back and thought "isn't this that friendly fires remix" but had to shazam to be sure. ppl who pretend this is the only worthwhile thing with friendly fires' name on it are sad and wrong
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge insufferable
Girls Aloud - Biology a total thrill, so much going on but so immediately inviting
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects In Space mix) completely astonishing. i first heard this when i was new to ilm reading the countdown to the 05-09 poll, where iirc it barely placed. i think it was the first among a few records i found thru ilm that basically opened up a new world of dance music to me. i've played it in the presence of a handful of friends and acquaintances, none of whom have responded with the raves this track should elicit -- a reminder that most friends and acquaintances have shit taste. last several minutes following the enormous climax are necessary btw
Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly iconic, also excellent production
Battles - Atlas gimmicky but i still like it
M.O.P. - Ante Up delivery is unique and immediately commands attention but generally don't think there's much special abt the song, can't help but wonder if they have plenty of other tunes just as strong
Daft Punk - One More Time i think the first daft punk song i heard, shortly after the success of dance gimmicks like eiffel 65 signaled the possibility of adding a proper club anthem to top 40's rotation every once in a while. still my favorite daft punk tune. romanthony's vocals are so uplifting and the lyrics are wonderful too
The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers abominable
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U didn't hear this until years later after i'd heard other generally lesser dizzee rascal tunes. pretty tremendous
Burial - Archangel wtf zzz
OutKast - Hey Ya! deserved its utterly complete conquest of the musical world
Missy Elliott - Work It glad it missed the top 10 since it was immediately thought to be a shoo-in. however i do love this song. i remember the girls at a middle school mixer getting on the tables and dancing to it which seemed a bit scandalous
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps without a doubt one of the most overrated songs in history
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight shocked this placed at all, much less this high/higher than the usually indomitable "can't get you out of my head". not complaining at all tho! really a wonderful blissful tune, you can really feel the stars coming out etc.
The Juan Maclean - Happy House dfa could be good... launch me into spaaaaaace
OutKast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) i respect this more than i actually want to listen to it but it's also hard to deny how good it is
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go no idea what this is. nice enough but haven't the slightest idea what about it warrants any placement at all much less this high
M.I.A. - Paper Planes great in its way + i'm glad it became a mainstream hit but it's also much less interesting than a large number of other m.i.a. singles (incl from the same album) and i feel like ppl need to be reminded that the reason it was a hit was literally a stoner comedy trailer
Annie - Heartbeat i was gonna lauch into a rant about how 15 years later apparently poptimism amounted to little more than remembering a couple of twee-adjacent fluffy tunes by annie while tossing aside and forgetting scores of brilliant singles that actually pushed pop-as-populism forward in part by actually fighting their way into the popular consciousness. but this is better than i remember it being and the arrangement is fairly lovely
Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On in retrospect it seems so weird that a song sounding like this was as big as it was but at the time it seemed completely natural, like we'd been waiting for this forever and it was only a matter of time. missy had always had personality for lightyears and it shines thru amazingly here
Daft Punk - Digital Love too high? lol. however it's a definitely a great track and as mentioned a million times the guitar solo is ace. if there was gonna be another daft punk song placing other than "one more time" i'm glad it was this one
The Knife - Heartbeats unsure why this song continues to be thought of as being so great. it's nice but not very inventive and even as a straightforward pop tune it doesn't offer that much. sorry but the incessant hype has been wrong on this one for ages.
Amerie - 1 Thing i wish this result weren't so predictable. great song but also overrated to a degree i previously thought impossible

as usual the upper reaches of the results tend to be the least interesting part especially since they're so predictable that everyone can start placing bets and be somewhat right. overall the poll was good but honestly the results compared to more contemporary ilm polls and other broad canonization exercises like pazz/jop should lay to rest the myth that poptimism remains alive here, or anywhere else, regardless of how much we handwring about it every time a bad thinkpiece appears on the internet following a positive beyoncé review. the truth is that we too find most pop, including the hits that we were holding up as shining beacons of populist progress at the time, to be entirely disposable. can you imagine telling those stylus magazine people after "promiscuous" came out and their contingent collectively freaked out about it that 'well actually the most poptimist place on the internet 13 years from now will officially determine that it wasn't even among the top 100 for the decade :)'? or that the only act apparently immune from suffering the convenient scapegoat of 'vote-splitting' would be fucking lcd soundsystem? sad!

the joke result of system of a down placing so high would honestly have been the poll's biggest triumph but of course it was fake :(

i was gonna lauch into a rant about how 15 years later apparently poptimism amounted to little more than remembering a couple of twee-adjacent fluffy tunes by annie while tossing aside and forgetting scores of brilliant singles that actually pushed pop-as-populism forward in part by actually fighting their way into the popular consciousness

This x 1,000

forgetting scores of brilliant singles that actually pushed pop-as-populism forward in part by actually fighting their way into the popular consciousness

what do you have in mind? (so I can try and shoot this down before my lunchbreak ends...)

Was Brandy’s “What About Us” nominated? That was an aggressively modernist pop track.

What About Us still sounds like the future. Pretty sure I voted for it.

I should’ve voted for it. Guess I overlooked it on the nominations.

What About Us is so great, but I gave Talk About Our Love my Brandy vote.

i *wanted* to vote for "what about us"!!! again, only fifty places

terrified tbh

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, October 13, 2019 8:52 PM (one week ago)

I'm still terrified now that the results are in... and I didn't even participate

I'm listening on Spotify and have wrote 1-20 words for each song. I might post my opinions on html playground

lol go for it!

i once had a dream that I ran to heaven on a treadmill and a full orchestra playing "Stay High" was marking the way
this is your annual reminder that DJ Paul has an Oscar

don’t get Jon Stewart started

I thought "What About Us" had a shot but it only got 3 votes (including mine). It feels like one of those roads not taken for popular music

It was on my list when it was hovering around 70 to 80 songs, but not much beyond that. Brutal cutting stuff down.

I scrolled up from the end and assumed that was someone's ballot - over half of the -149 list are considerably better than 70% of the top ten, WTF.

So 1 Thing is #1 and there are two Missy Elliots in the top 12 but my top vote to Let me blow ya mind did not suffice to make it crack the top 100 ? Y'all don't know what's good.

we fought that good shit in our ear

There were some errors with the spacetime continuum and the post office, same old story they said

I only voted for 3 records because knowing more than 3 records is for people who correct you're grammar innit

1) Buffalo, USA, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s

Voted for the wrong DarandLand track but who cares, it all happens in midfield for hydrated ballers

2) Miillwall, UK, 2002

The Fish Brothers And Eastend - We All Shout The Millwall Song. No record of this on the internet. Never heard it. The stuff dreams are made of, don't wake up offside

3) Rhyl/Paris 2001

is a secret

how much cred does this gain you?

cred is outlawed by canton overseer

Feeling that one

Oops that was supposed to go on the other thread not the results thread, sorry!

Huh, we should prolly do the 2010s this sooner or later.

it'll be great whenever someone gets around to running it

just noticed Losing My Religion is in place of Losing My Edge on the Spotify playlist

My favourite discovery from this poll was the Johnny Boy song. Love that song!

just noticed Losing My Religion is in place of Losing My Edge on the Spotify playlist

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 10 May 2021 09:06 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

o no woops

I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought mandolins

i heard...you and your band...laughing

― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Friday, 18 October 2019 15:03 (one year ago) link

Ha!

i was there in the corner, i was there in the spotlight

still think the 10s need to digest a little more before we do 'em

My favourite discovery from this poll was the Johnny Boy song. Love that song!

This might actually be true for me too.