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Well, it seems this dilemma has been sorted out. On to number two then..

2 - The Pogues feat. Kirstie McCall - Fairytale In New York
336.5 points, 40 votes, 3 #1 votes

http://www.youtube.com/v/3VVuZIIB2hC0&hl=en

save the lolwinners for #1

lol "Auld Lang Syne" for #1?

Jeff Buckley's got it locked.

put a donk on it

okay, u guys earned it:

2 - Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
314 points, 22 votes, 8 #1 votes
37 in P&J, 20 in p4k

Happy House - the Juan Maclean

notice the number of #1 votes...nothing comes close (including the #1 song)

now time will be alloted for joek winners

SO EXCELLENT

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/24/rocket_launch.jpg

too bad the youtube is only like 40% of the song

don't really get the love for this

-_-

Yeah, older Juan Maclean stuff really towers over this. *shrug*

The only thing Juan did (that I've heard) before "Happy House" within a nautical mile of it is "Give Me Every Little Thing"

1 - Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
486 points, 35 votes, 15 #1 votes
1 in P&J, 1 in p4k

Okay I'm still a bit nonplussed by the love for Happy House but mad props to ILM for a totally unpredictable top five. Give Me Every Little Thing is way better though.

lol @ that pause moment

So #1 pretty much has to be A Milli, right? Meaning Oxford Comma got the snub.

has a joke number 1 ever been funny?

THIS SEX IS ON FIRE

a milli already placed

"A Milli" was #7. It's "Blind". "Oxford Comma" got the snub.

Oh, duh. I missed it.

Yeah, "Blind" it is.

1 - Melis'a Morgan - Do Me Baby
10000000000.75 points, 100000000 votes, 150 #1 votes
1 in P&J, 1 in p4k

Hoping the Frankie Knuckles remix, which I nommed and voted for, does well.

JF, I think he's referring to an act of coitus whilst being literally set ablaze.

has a joke number 1 ever been funny?

― caek

joke #1s are classic

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@Pillbox: I just like writing that chorus in all caps. It's almost as dumb as ARE WE HUMAN OR ARE WE DANCER

1 - Soulja Boy - YAHHH!!!
394 points, 43 votes, 4 #1s
1 in P&J, 1 in p4k

STANDING ON THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS

mad props to ILM for a totally unpredictable top five

Oh come the fuck on. #s 5 and arguably 4, maybe. Everyone knew what the top 3 was gonna be.

Wasn't everyone saying A Milli really recently?

But order is everything.

I wouldn't have put Happy House anywhere near the top ten at the start of this list.

And having just heard (half of) it, I wouldn't have even remembered I'd heard it come January.

I certainly wouldn't have predicted Noah and the Whale's glorious victory.

Will have to double back and think about a lot of these, and I've never really sat down to figure out why I love "Paper Planes" so much. But "Time To Pretend" deserves its place here. Cunga identifies the territory of its excellence but doesn't quite nail whey I love it so much...

The other thing Hoffer mentioned was that being a kid in the post-sixties Western world meant that you were simultaneously and unprecedentedly sheltered AND jaded to the world's pleasures and sins. [...] As it turns out the pampered and well-off children of the Western world were also victims of a world where disintegrating values left them out in the cold with nowhere to go but inwards, into the world of solipsism and status updates.

To me the issue isn't so much being stuck in a meaningless contemporary world, etc., but living in this artificially extended childhood with the knowledge that that's what it is. Going to shows, getting cool haircuts, meeting girls, and whirling around bonfires on the beach, all full of joy and beauty but also knowing that sooner or later you're going to graduate and have to "get jobs at offices and wake up for the morning commute." That line could have been a disaffected sneer, a hope-I-die-before-I-get-old moment, but there's a great sadness in teh performance; even as they say they're choosing their life of inane rock and roll adventure over the morning commute, they seem painfully aware a) that the rock and roll thing has its own miseries, and b) that they most likely WILL end up getting jobs at offices. The song's not a manifesto for debauchery, it's a lament for the end of youth.

Of course, I'm 27 and under the growing impression that grad school has not been a temporary interruption in the bohemian idyll of 23, but a sobering preview of where the rest of all this is going. So I may be reading a lot into this. But it's a damn good song, deserving not only of its place on this countdown but of its success in the market at large; clearly these guys struck a chord.

(P.S. If I had remembered to nominate "Yahhh!" it would have been #1 on my ballot.)

You haven't been launched into spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayce tho. xxp

xxxpost: What if you'd listened to it on December 31?

lol i have had a boozy lunch and got to the airport and this still isn't done with!!!

not as bad as i thought it would be but ehhhhhhh

I used to be a DFA loyalist, until they started giving me a reason not to be. Out of all the stuff they've ever released/produced, I'd put "Happy House" in the bottom 10%.

xpost to myself: another exploratory stab at grand rock critic pronouncement undermined by "the" -> "teh"...

omg you are reading far too much into that nothingy mgmt song

also

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, February 6, 2009 11:00 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^exactly

We're fated to lex pretend.

Oh for 2007, when ILM was collectively amped for things that I liked, such as Studio or Caribou

Pillbox, it's actually so forgettable I couldn't tell you how it goes now, 10 minutes after hearing it. One of the linked videos was Aphex Twin's XTAL and I've got that stuck in my head instead :)

since it's pretty obvs I guess I'll post the number 1 now, I have a list of all the placers and all the tracks that received a vote and I'll post those as well.