OK, it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture, whatever. It's got the sophistication of a boiled egg and I hate it.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
boo hiss at M.I.A. voters. I'll forgive those that voted for "With Every Heartbeat" and "Rehab" as being unaware the first time around - but who the heck on ILM hadn't heard "Paper Planes" in 2007?
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
lol Matt, what I'm saying is that one or two here and there upon a particularly cutting lyric really can work, but using it as a chorus is shit.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
YO DAWG WE HERD YOU LIKE CHALLOPS
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like saying "Perfect Day" was the best song of 1996 because it was used in that movie.
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I hadn't, btw xps. This is in fact the first time I've knowingly heard it.
Rev, sometimes I toss off a deliberately facile line as a means of flippant dismissal. This was one of those times.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
not everything can be easily delimited by calendar year.
^^^otm
It's not even arguable that this song reached its peak outside of small knowledgeable circles in 2007. Its year was 2008.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm typically impartial at best when it comes to guns n' cash samples, but for some reason I really like them in "Paper Planes," not for their symbolic import, but for their musical quality. I cannot explain this.
I really like the beat & (especially) the bassline in the DFA remix, but the vocals lose their "open air" quality and being synched with the tight pace makes the whole ordeal a little too claustrophobic for my tastes.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ALL I WANNA DO IS
http://www.fmft.net/David%20Cameron%20Hoodie%20Gun%20Picture.jpghttp://www.fmft.net/David%20Cameron%20Hoodie%20Gun%20Picture.jpghttp://www.fmft.net/David%20Cameron%20Hoodie%20Gun%20Picture.jpghttp://www.fmft.net/David%20Cameron%20Hoodie%20Gun%20Picture.jpg
AND TAKE YA MONEY
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
― danzig, Friday, February 6, 2009 3:02 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year?
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Was 1995 pre-buying the league? Because Marseille were pretty great until all that hit.
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it a charting single in several countries? Because if it wasn't, it's not the same thing at all.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe he still thought he was a real Irishman in 1995, and in 1996 he realised he was a fraud?
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year? - No, but "Lust For Life" was.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
big cas could still do a job at the top level
― Local Garda, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Paper Planes was only released as a single for the first time this year, I'd say it counts. Andy Townsend.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year? - so much so they did a charity version of it the next year.
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
He has publicly told Giovanni Trappatoni that if the side needs him he'll be available, for all eternity.
― Local Garda, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Again, the public at large didn't give two shits about "Lust for Life" until 1996 and, if it was re-released as a physical single at the time, it would've probably been eligible for consideration.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Roy Keane on the other hand, said "stick it up yer bollocks, you 2007 cunt".
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
ILX's two "grandmothers" have suddenly and tragically asked that Paper Planes be voted for
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
who the heck on ILM hadn't heard "Paper Planes" in 2007?
Um... It's pretty easy not to catch things the first time round, especially if you hold the artist in the special kind of contempt reserved for useful idiots and poshos who think they're succeeding against all odds. Anyway, as others have pointed out it only clicked this last year and, contempt notwithstanding, is a magnificent record. Anyway, it was released as a single in 2008 and therefore meets the rules
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a huge difference between a song that's a few months old taking on a new popularity (ffs it wasn't even released as a single until December) and song that's something like 20 years old. Is that a tremendously difficult concept?
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a bunch of reissues on the albums poll (Pacific Ocean Blue for one) - same difference?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Kala, but better songs like Bamboo Banga, Boyz and 20 Dollar are invisible in comparison with Paper Planes since Pineapple Express it seems
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
and slumdog millionaire, ugh.
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Likewise, the Vampire Weekend songs have been floating around since the fall of 2007, yet "A-Punk" (and possibly "Oxford Comma") wasn't officially released until the top of 2008.
I guess the real argument is that it placed on the ILM poll two years running. Perhaps we can install a "Paper Planes" clause in the future that will prevent such a thing from happening.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, February 6, 2009 6:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
By this rationale, could "Bohemian Rhapsody" have been considered in a 1991 poll, or would it have been disqualified b/c it was also a hit the first time around (even though it was a bigger hit the second time)?
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Naw, cause then you get things like "Rehab" or "With Every Heartbeat" that scrape in one year on certain demographics and then are consensus picks the next. xp
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
How many non-singles feature in this top 50? I know National Shite Day is one...
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
you'd think after years of those robyn/annie albums being part of polls, ilx would have come up with some sort of reasoning for this situation already.
xpost.
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont think that there needs to be any rules - as i said earlier this is a pretty unique situation
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the reasoning is, "who gives a shit, if they get votes they're a song of the year"
― caek, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't expect "Paper Planes" to place, but I'm certainly not mad that it did.
caek otm
Would laugh my arse off if Brother Sport is next though.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Good point. If enough people had voted up "Lust for Life," maybe it should have ranked (had we done a poll in 1996). There was reason behind it. If it ranked in 2008, it would just be WTF.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, it seems this dilemma has been sorted out. On to number two then..
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
2 - The Pogues feat. Kirstie McCall - Fairytale In New York336.5 points, 40 votes, 3 #1 votes
http://www.youtube.com/v/3VVuZIIB2hC0&hl=en
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
save the lolwinners for #1
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
lol "Auld Lang Syne" for #1?
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff Buckley's got it locked.
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
put a donk on it
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, u guys earned it:
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
2 - Juan Maclean, The - Happy House314 points, 22 votes, 8 #1 votes37 in P&J, 20 in p4k
Happy House - the Juan Maclean
notice the number of #1 votes...nothing comes close (including the #1 song)
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
now time will be alloted for joek winners
SO EXCELLENT
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/24/rocket_launch.jpg
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link