Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

"So Good" and the Fever Ray are the only things I like so far. :( The YYY is okay except for the unfortunate jerry maguire chorus. Never heard her sing like that before, like soft but not dying, like she could sing country. Kind of amazed that Animal Collective sounds like that, just some hippy dippy stuff with some modern sounds splattered in? Nah.

something about "raindrops" makes me think of flight of the conchords. it's good, but it's such a type -- genus basement jaxxus -- that it could be send-up.

all the songs i like here are from terrific parent albums that i voted for instead, and none are my no 1 choice on the album

Never heard her sing like that before, like soft but not dying, like she could sing country

The country-adjacent-ness of Hysteric really stand out in the Acoustic Version from the Deluxe Edition of It's Blitz, which adds a counter-melody on the fiddle. And yeah, I know it's the same thing as a violin, but it codes "fiddle" in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssewwKzI2Rk

woa, yes, on the hook there, and suddenly the hook is much easier to take in the simple arrangement where the melody carries everything. But barring the hook and coda, the og arrangement is still nicer i think, with the singer pitching amid the guitars just marred by that one lyric. thanks for that.

on second listen think this is winning me over

42 -- Guido - Way U Make Me Feel (8 votes, 97.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYHbIXsLPcU

i like the Joker & Ginz remix of 'Raindrops' (tho really only in a 'it's Joker & Ginz remixing so gonna vaguely approve until i get too bored of their formula' way)

starting to hear fever ray vocals over that Guido track which...works for me thx

Nice to see the Guido place. This was one of many tracks that I didn't get around to checking out until the last minute and grew on me just in time to make my ballot.

xp rev you might like this paul shirley guy ;)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=4837019

Kid Cudi isn't just a rapper, he's a singer-songwriter.

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:16 PM Bookmark

even if everything else in that article is eyeroll-worthy, the quote you pulled is otm

also, if you're so worried about whether cornballs like some of the same things you do, that's your sweat, not mine

Really digging the Guido track, which was totally off my radar until now.

that Guido song is great, first time i heard it.

Guido: Yes! (first thing so far from ballot)

nothing i voted for yet

speak of the devil:

41 -- Pill - Trap Goin Ham (8 votes, 97.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (128 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42Wxd-_drg

"trap goin ham" is a fuckin anthem ―k3vin k.

THEY SAY YOU DOIN BASEBALL NUMBAS

Love that Guido, first timer here. I can only find one other single. What else is there?

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/43/l_5c8ebaea3f1e45efa4155948aa168f04.jpg

i would've voted for 'Beautiful Complication' and almost voted 'Way U Make Me Feel'. i think pill was #21 for me.
still none of my picks yet.
Guido - lovely lovely lovely (rolling post-dubstep/Purple Wow Sound thread for 2010)

Post-dubstep? I actually almost made a post asking what that Guido track was as far as genre niche. (And, it's pleasant and everything, nothing I would have voted for but no surprise there.)

as discussed on that thread, EVERYBODY is stumbling around for a genre name there.

i did vote for trap going ham in p+j; can't remember why i didn't for the ilx poll

Guido is "purple-music"

i voted for pill in the albums poll. trap go ham would place in a top 40 or so if i made it, happy it placed

nice lil string there

the video that musically posted at the top of the thread is actually really dope! better than like half the songs it samples

― waka shame (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:46 PM (5 hours ago)

it's suuuper sappy but besides that it's actually...really inspired! and i hate mashups

ohhhh man i love these threads! This year I am resolved to actually take the time to listen to all the youtubes, as invariably like 95% of this is shit I've never heard and it can be really interesting (for me). Thanks as always to musically. Here comes mass blurbing of shit I just heard for the first time, so I can laugh at myself years from now.

50 (Royksopp) - eh - - listened to this earlier today, can't remember anything about it

49 (Kid Cudi) - Forksclovetofu OTM. Wake me up when the guy singing the song wakes up.

48 (Animal Collective) - nice overall sound, lyrics seem promising, gawd the effect on that guy's voice is really annoying though! I should check out this band more.

47 (Elektrik Red) - OK, this is nice. Kind of wanders all over the place but I like that. Not the best hook I've ever heard but great beat - could def. have a great time dancing to this.

46 (Memory Tapes) - not as soporific as Kid Cudi. If this was playing in a record store I'd ask what it was and then immediately forget. Seems to go interesting places as it meanders along but not really my kinda thing.

45 (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) - hey, this is nice! Probably the nicest-sounding thing I've heard by this band - I eventually warmed up to "Maps" and have a soft spot for "Gold Lion" but this is a better use of their bag of tricks I think. If Gold Lion was them realizing they should sound more like an alt-rock band covering "Play That Funky Music White Boy," this is them realizing they should sound more like Coldplay and I'm sold - great fucking chorus.

44a (Fever Ray) - i was with them on the big orbiting evil synth sounds but is this a comedy band? why do their vocals sound like Gregorian monks going on about Wookies? Next please.

44b (Basement Jaxx) - oh hell yeah! This is really cool. I should check these guys out more, I've liked basically everything I've heard by them and the chorus on this is just killer, closest thing I've heard from a non-mashup artist (I think?) to the Girl Talk payoff of a bunch of shit banging together to release your favorite song for the hook.

42 (Guido) - that there's a discussion over which sub-post-genre this belongs to is probably a sign that this isn't for me - I always stumble on these acts which as far as my brain is concerned get filed under Electronic. I like the synth sounds in this but I lose touch quickly when there's no vocals. I would probably get a lot more done if I liked music like this more. Toe-tapper though.

41 (Pill) - really liking this. Did he just say he's got pies flying at the sky?! I appreciate how the mix NEVER lets up, there's always this tension-inducing layer of buried yelling and stuff underneath the plinky-plonky sounds which are under the dude rambling about pies and the intermittent Beastie Boys sample. I genuinely have no clue what any of this is about but I'm feeling it.

i'm white btw

lol Gregorian monks going on about Wookies

Enigma's difficult second album iirc

it's "pies flying out the spot" and he is referring to the sale of illegal drugs but you can pretend he's discussing pastry if you want. i sometimes do.

a couple reactions to DC's reactions: i think the casual vibe of the Kid Cudi's vocals go perfectly with music, the flatness and simplicity of his delivery highlights the music, whereas more aggressive or bombastic vocals would put the focus on his "rapping" and wouldn't serve the song as well imo (though this just might be my predilection for dance music over rap talking.) can't even begin to see the appeal of that Basement Jaxx song. you should give Fever Ray's album a chance, i think that song is a bizarre choice as a single as it doesn't make much sense to me separated from the album; i'm gonna go ahead and predict that her album will top the ILX album poll or come close.

I think I would sort of give the Kid Cudi thing a pass if the hook had a little more going on. Not my sorta thing overall, I guess - too laid-back for me to find anywhere to exist in the song. (But I do prefer rap talking to dance music so maybe this guy is just a good litmus test for that.)

Nice to see the Guido place. This was one of many tracks that I didn't get around to checking out until the last minute and grew on me just in time to make my ballot.

― Not brilliant, but nice enough (lou), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:27 (7 hours ago) Permalink

always forget that one of my favourite parts of these threads is seeing the reactions of people who didn't hear these songs before! guido and pill, my first two votes, great tracks.

"way u make me feel" was the b-side of "orchestral lab", which is just as beautiful - have pretty much always listened to them back to back. guido's got such a strong sense of melody and ability to evoke emotion. not gonna clutter up this thread w/youtubes but if you like that, definitely check out "orchestral lab", "cat in the window" (knife sharp strings), "beautiful complication" as mentioned earlier and this excellent article on guido's little bristol scene.

oh yeah for anyone hearing "so good" for the first time off that youtube clip, the best thing about the album version is how much swearier it is. "i thought i wouldn't really give a fuck / but now a bitch all in love" = line of the year.

really like that fever ray track - easily the best tune on the album too. was never a knife fan, so it took me a while to check FR out. glad I did.

second-best thing so far is kid cudi, but I too find the vocals really dreary and have to tune him out.

not much beyond that tickles me, but trap goin' ham is pretty forthright.

holy shit, that Guido track

^ i know!! so superlative that it's kinda right that no one really knows what to call it / genre it should be.

Love seeing that Guido track in there.

"Trap Goin Ham" is severely depressing.

I think I voted for "Summertime Clothes" and "Raindrops," glad to see those place (though the latter should really be top 20 material...).

Any suggestions as to what "Trap Goin Ham" is *about*? I remember when this first popped up on ILX, but I forgot to follow up on it. Now that it appeared on this list, I have been listening to & enjoying it, but I can't make out a lot of the lyrics, save for the recurring "flying pies" theme. Could this really be a celebration of keeping ones community well-stocked with various foodstuffs, disguised as a coke-rap anthem, or is the store just a front (or metaphor) for the usual assortment of illicit activities? We got yams, dammit?

Er, that was supposed to read: We got yams, dammit!

You tell us, PILLbox.

lol

Yeah, I'm kinda with Pillbox. I kinda like the idea of a rap song just about how they're more or less breaking even running this convenience store. Baloney meat! Hostess Fruit Pies! Step right up, folks!

In my search for answers, I came across this, a captivating account of the filming of the Trap Goin Ham video shoot.

uh, just the "video shoot," not the "filming of the video shoot."