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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.

1 - Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
322.5 points, 31 votes, 1 #1 vote
(6 votes, 42 points for Frankie Knuckles Remix)
7 in P&J, 1 in p4k

Frankie Knuckles Remix

OK, I've listened to "Blind" 20 times today. It's the harmonies on that "I feel blind" that get me each time (something that gets lost in the Frankie Knuckles remix), and the beat right after that where the horns come in and I imagine all the dry ice around the dance floor going whoooosh and all the shirts coming off.
― Eazy

"blind" when played in a club (and preferably the "club mix") just sounds like it has come from outer space. the vocal makes me feel how i imagine it would be to be on opium. so warm inside!
― stirmonster

i know im just jockin but that frankie knuckles remix with antony makes me want to go down on dudes, in a good way
― max

TS: Original vs Knuckles remix. I'm generationally pre-disposed to side with the smoooooth dad-house of the latter...
― mike t-diva

I think (maybe with some time, to echo arguments made elsewhere on ilm these days) that knuckles remix might stand out as one of the better things to come out of H&LA. in context, it's proper garage, done like no other nowadays. it's lush, the production is both restrained and faultless. and I agree that tune is impossibly catchy!
- blunt

trying to fight "paper planes" as the crit song of 08 is futile guys

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.

^^this is not actually a profound revelation, like, in the slightest, it's a feeling which is barely important enough to mention in passing on a livejournal, let alone have a pop song about

I'm still kinda weirded out about "The Rip"'s placement and people preferring anything on that album to "Machine Gun" in general.

the final score:

50 - Flo Rida - Low (69.5 points, 7 votes)
49 - Air France - No Excuses (70 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
48 - Kleerup Feat. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed (73.5 points, 7 votes; 3 votes, 29.5 points for Mikael's Cello Version)
47 - Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns (In The Celestial City) (74 points, 7 votes)
46 - The Bug - Poison Dart feat. Warrior Queen (75.5 points, 7 votes)
45 - Katy Perry - Hot N Cold (76 points, 7 votes)
44 - Crazy Cousinz - Bongo Jam (77 points, 6 votes)
43 - MGMT - Kids (82 points, 9 votes)
42 - TV On The Radio - Family Tree (83 points, 6 votes)
41 - T.I. - No Matter What (83.5 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote, )
40 - Cassie - Official Girl (83.5 points, 6 votes, 2 #1 votes)
39 - Matias Aguayo - Minimal (84 points, 7 votes, 4 votes; 51.5 points for DJ Koze Maxi Version)
38 - Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day (86 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote)
37 - Lil Wayne - Got Money (Ft. T-Pain) (90.5 points, 7 votes)
36 - Ting Tings, The - That's Not My Name (91.5 points, 8 votes)
35 - Rihanna - Disturbia (92 points, 9 votes)
34 - Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - Lollipop (94 points, 8 votes)
33 - Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home (97 points, 10 votes; 3 votes, 23 points for Prins Thomas Edit)
32 - Goldfrapp - A & E (98 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote)
31 - Ne-Yo - Closer (98.5 points, 10 votes)
30 - Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened (101.5 points, 10 votes)
29 - Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (102.5 points, 8 votes)
28 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (106 points, 8 votes)
27 - Alphabeat - Fascination (111 points, 7 votes, 2 #1 votes)
26 - Ida Maria - Oh My God (116 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote)
25 - Erykah Badu - The Healer (117 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote)
24 - Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (120.5 points, 12 votes)
23 - Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (121 points, 11 votes)
22 - T.I. Feat. Rihanna - Live Your Life (123.5 points, 10 votes)
21 - Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep (135 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote)
20 - Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air (139 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
19 - Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (142 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote; 7 votes, 81.5 points for Aeroplane Remix)
18 - M83 - Kim & Jessie (142.5 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote)
17 - Kanye West - Love Lockdown (144 points, 12 votes)
16 - Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (144.5 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
15 - MGMT - Electric Feel (151 points, 12 votes; 2 votes, 27.5 points for Aeroplane Remix)
14 - Aeroplane feat. Kathy Diamond - Whispers (158 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote)
13 - Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (161.5 points, 16 votes)
12 - Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (171.5 points, 15 votes)
11 - Portishead - Machine Gun (173 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote)
10 - Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On (174.5 points, 15 votes)
9 - Wiley - Wearing My Rolex (187.5 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote)
8 - MGMT - Time To Pretend (203 points, 15 votes, 3 #1 votes)
7 - Lil Wayne - A Milli (203.5 points, 19 votes, 1 #1 vote)
6 - Estelle Feat. Kanye West - American Boy (209.5 points, 19 votes, 1 #1 vote)
5 - Portishead - The Rip (214.5 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote)
4 - Friendly Fires - Paris (236.5 points, 20 votes; 14 votes, 163.5 points for Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoire Simone; highest placer without a 1st place vote)
3 - MIA - Paper Planes (253.5 points, 22 votes, 2 #1 votes; 6 votes, 48 points for DFA Remix)
2 - Juan Maclean, The - Happy House (314 points, 22 votes, 8 #1 votes)
1 - Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (322.5 points, 31 votes, 1 #1 vote; 6 votes, 42 points for Frankie Knuckles Remix)

Hahahaha worth it for the Max quote alone.

I repeat: out of interest, how many of those WEREN'T singles?

I'm still kinda weirded out about "The Rip"'s placement and people preferring anything on that album to "Machine Gun" in general.

― The Reverend (rev), Friday, February 6, 2009 11:52 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dittz. my favourite off the album was 'we carry on', and i fully expect it to place justifiably high in the albums poll, but it seems...odd to nominate/vote for tracks separately. it's a coherent body of work and pulling it apart makes as much sense as pulling the erykah or lindstrom albums apart into their constituent parts, and maybe misses the point somewhat