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

glad hip hop barely made the cut! i think i agonized about where to place it on my ballot and lol if i had gone one lower it wouldn't be here so that's cool. i won the poll!

I like “fuck the cops” way better than “hip hop” but glad to see the prez... didn’t Kanye have something to do with the drums on “hip hop” or am I imagining things?

drums/beat whatever

wait no I’m thinking of “they schools”, not “fuck the cops”. Been awhile!

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93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs

i think kanye did a remix of 'hip hop'

I hope a third Aaliyah track places because that'll be the one I voted for.

I like the bit in the Strokes' song when they sing 'I'm not like that'. I'm sure there must be a musical reason for it.

Listen, I've been drinking

Whoa, too low

there is no such thing as too low in this poll where we could only select 50 songs from the most thrilling decade for singles in recorded history

Thrilled to see two of my favourite songs ever placing, even if it is at #93 and #96.

Good stuff all around so far (except maybe Spoon).

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92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs

^^^this remix did pretty well for itself!

love this! voted for three so far, the Relevee remix, Aaliyah (Try Again) and Jürgen Paape

these are great images, tangenttangent and imago!

rereading I see that tangenttangent made the images/gifs, they are perfect for this poll

Last one for tonight coming up soon!

I like that So Weit Wie Noch Nie video, also the one for Eple which I had never seen before

This next one is the first with that magical 150-point first place vote you've all had the chance to hand out...

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91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

That concludes the activities for tonight. Suggestions, comments and reactions, proceed. I'll also post a recap in a moment...

nice so far!

We Need a Resolution was the first track to place with a #1 vote though

Lol, how did I miss that?

We Need A Resolution to check our facts carefully

Voted Eple and B. Jaxx. Couldn’t decide between the two Aaliyah songs and in the end voted for neither; figured they would do all right without my help but it was a close run thing in the end!

100. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
100. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once - 460 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
99. Röyksopp - Eple - 465 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
98. Aaliyah - Try Again - 466 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
97. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? - 466 points - 11 votes - 0 FPVs
96. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie - 472 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
95. Aaliyah ft. Timbaland - We Need a Resolution - 480 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV
94. The Strokes - Hard to Explain - 480 points - 9 votes - 0 FPVs
93. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs - 485 points - 7 votes - 0 FPVs
92. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix) - 485 points - 8 votes - 0 FPVs
91. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - 485 points - 8 votes - 1 FPV

hadn't heard "relevee (carl craig remix)" before and it rules so already greatly enjoying this rollout

Glad to see Spoon make this poll, knew they would do well on the albums side but unsure about the tracks side.

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

Thanks to this thread I've now heard Spoon! idgi

2/10 today voted for the Paape and Delia & Gavin

xp I've heard too much Spoon. idgi either

Let me assure everyone Spoon is great if you get it

idgi

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:

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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.