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)

unexpected but awesome

I've been away, so just catching up with this, and just in time ...
Good track, although I didn't vote for it. I really thought Floating Points or Love the Night Away would have made the 50, but can't see them in the top 10, so a bit surprised.

wow, was not expecting but am SO approving of "one day" - it's such a great pop song, my second fav on the album after "the simple life". the album seems to have been forgotten in the EOYs (and it is a touch patchy) but it's fantastic to see its best cuts get recognition.

i gotta pick up that juan maclean album

echoing the not-expecting-but-approving sentiment, really good song & pleasant surprise

pleasant surprise - great single from my favourite album of last year

yeah, I didn't vote for it in the end thinking that DJ Kaos would do better. happy to see it there.

I think it might do OK in the albums poll - I voted for it, anyway. Accusations is my fave track off it, though.

ha!! awesome! another from my ballot

So far, all these have showed:

Azari & III - voted Hungry For The Power, but Reckless does me fine anytime
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Juan Maclean, The - One Day (Surkin mix)
Memory Tapes - voted Stop Talking, but Bicycle is equally great.

Fingers x'd for Lindstrom/Christabelle will be happy.

oh, also voted for the Guido

what the hell is that surkin remix video?

I would've thought that "ecstasy" by jj would have easily made the top 50, but I'm not sure I see it creeping into the top ten at this point..

Wish I'd have voted for 'One Day', dunno why I didn't.

what the hell is that surkin remix video?

i'm sure the youtube comments justify its making

whoa i forgot about "ecstasy"

Thinking back on the all the stuff I didn't vote for I must have been out of my mind.

also, guess ILM not big fans of that Japandroids tune?

i like japandroids but for me they weren't really trax worthy

i think i've only heard that one song but it's pretty great.

i'm not one to 'check out albums' though

I'm generally a fan of Juan Maclean, but I do not get the appeal of that track at all.

then you must be exceptionally general

what the hell is that surkin remix video?

If that wasn't on youtube, I would have expected a bj while they were driving in the car. Very odd video.

I guess. Seems pretty lifeless compared to Happy House or Give Me Every Little Thing though.
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wow that JM track is awesome, hadn't even heard anything from that album yet

i'm not one to 'check out albums' though

― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 10:31 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

dude, do it the album is so much better than "young hearts spark fire" (and i love/voted for that song)

b/w the top then reveal here, the Lost ssn 6 premiere tonight & it being Groundhog Day, I'm not sure if my body and mind can handle this much excitement.

how can one work on a day such as today?

plus the top 100 films of the decade poll might start counting down tomorrow!

the album seems to have been forgotten in the EOYs (and it is a touch patchy)

Probably the biggest omission I've noticed also. It made my year-end top ten list (would've been top 3-5 if I'd bothered ranking the damn thing).

this is going to be the year that everyone realizes the importance of ranking

i gave 'young hearts spark fire' a bunch of pts too..maybe it has a chance? i still doubt it. album will def place

this is going to be the year that everyone realizes the importance of ranking roger

just FYI there are about 60 points between #9 and #1, so any of you who didn't vote should feel very ashamed right now

Number 9?

i still don't get why "mazel tov" is meant to be funny

it's the surprise attack of a mostly minority group, who came from hip hop and probably still code as "urban" to a lot of people, using a phrase outside their tribe that makes it this universal melting pot celebratory moment, and this also demonstrates how this is a phrase reached for in absolute elation. Like was so going for it last night i was saying fuckin mazel tov! you can hear it in the way will.i.am slides up on cuuuUUUUP like it could almost be going somewhere dangerous, then the break, then the perfectly timed "punchline". it's le mot juste.

I guess. Seems pretty lifeless compared to Happy House or Give Me Every Little Thing though.

it is more of a "pop song" than either of those, so idk how that squares with "lifeless" and its certainly synthier (no bass guitar). i think the only problem with it is it feels a bit stilted at times, the arrangement is a bit off. it actually sounds like a radio edit on the album when there should really be a lengthier version with all the different components given more time to flourish, build and blend together. i think there was some vague agreement about this on the JM thread (and also how none of the remixes quite did it justice either), and i think even Juan said himself he wasn't completely satisfied with the arrangement (other tracks on the album have similar probs where you just think 'this is almost perfect but for these slight arrangement niggles e.g. Tonight). i still found it less patchy than any other album i heard last year tho.

b/w the top then reveal here, the Lost ssn 6 premiere tonight & it being Groundhog Day, I'm not sure if my body and mind can handle this much excitement.

And Oscar nominations!

xpost plus the Surkin mix completely reinvigorates it and into something approaching perfection (imo)

*has stroke* xpost

blueski- Yeah, that's probably a more accurate description of what bothers me about One Day. And I do think I just prefer Juan in "trackier" mode. I don't think his strength lies in writing pop songs. Always felt the same way about LCD Soundsystem, who I gave up on long ago.

many xps but eh, I feel like saying something positive about "I Got A Feeling"

really the "MAZEL TOV!" isn't the funny bit IMO, it's the autotuned "L'Chaim!" that gets thrown in on the third go round

I like the way the song just builds and builds and builds and builds right up to the ending; also, I like how the video builds along with until at the end you have people falling out all over the place, ending with them all destroyed and passed out in super vulnerable positions because of how hard they went the previous night. I don't know if the subversion is intentional or not (they sort of make a point of not showing the band as out of control train wrecks) but, especially as you look at this stuff when you're older and remember some of the shit you used to do, it doesn't seem as unambiguously celebratory to me as it did when I first heard it.

Ultimately I just like big-ass stadium bangers; I was down with "Zombie Nation", I was down with "Twilight Zone" and I'm down with BEP. Hell, if you want to go there, I would still rep for Smart Es and Alpha Team if anyone besides me was going to be willing to bring them up.

09 -- Lily Allen - The Fear (16 votes, 206.5 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (21 in P&J, 31 in p4k)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7ziS43YHs

"I don't know what's right and what's real any more" could cover a lot of ground in a discussion about modern anomie and solipsism, and so it's nice to see that wind up in a pop song, I guess. As a tune I find "The Fear" enjoyable, and even the parts of the song that didn't work for me at first, like the lines about people dying to obtain diamonds and how the world isn't about mothers any more, end up fitting in with the song's themes because their vaguely self-righteous, phoney, and didactic tone almost work as a parody. The irony that, while trying to sound deep, Allen still says something cliche and shallow only adds to the song's point about modern superficiality and blurred reality. -Cunga

Yay, it made it!!!!

i should add 'One Day' is relatively fast (tho actually sounds better pitched down a bit, maybe even 10bpm slower) for an actual song like that, and it seems like quite a challenge to make a duet work at that tempo along with the range of hooks and details it does have. trying to think of a Human League song with similar structure and speed but can't!

(stupid labels that still prohibit embeds in NOT GETTING IT SHOCKAH)

i like the "i look at the sun and i look in the mirror..." line in The Fear. SO CLEVARR,

YES!! <3<3<3 this track!

'the fear' is great, and the fact that i associate it with Match of the Day goal of the month nominee clips doesn't work against it.

xxpost - yeah I could really just listen to an album of Lily reciting a phone book & I would be happy.

lol i just got the "sun/mirror" line. btw i'll be the first to say that this still hasn't turned into the indie-fest everyone predicted, so no more whining :)