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)

(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 :)

how many chickens u got then?

"the fear" is great, totally won me over to lily as a former hater

YESSSS!!!

I liked Lily's first album/singles, but LOVED the second album and all its singles. Sometimes I get so fanned-out I feel like one of those girls screaming for The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

i had never heard the ciara remix of Blame It! It's an improvement!

did y'all hear her anti-war TROOF BOMB 'Kabul Shit'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spTtXaR3vAI

"the fear" is great, totally won me over to lily as a former hater

Yup, me too. I think this was my #1.

same here

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

not to harp on, but i think this tenuously connects to my feeling about the break before mazel tov, it's the moment when your drunk friend is either gonna hit you or hug you, and if you're not jewish then mazel tov is such a dumbsillyperfect resolution of that, i mean c'mon lex, it's such a loved-up thing to say!

since i've been on an annoying pop kick, wanna counter by repping once again for Future of the Left upthread, that track is incendiary and i don't feel like enough people have listened to it.

if anything "mazel tov" seems a bit try-hard to me, it's a bit...i got her...GROCERY BAG

really gald to see the fear make it - i am also in the crowd that was totally converted by her second album, and that song is great.

trying to decide whether to throw in my extremely unlikely prediction for one of the top 8 spots that no one else seems to have thought of

"the fear" is great, totally won me over to lily as a former hater

Yup, me too. I think this was my #1.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:23 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

same here

― one boob is free with one (daavid), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:26 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Thirded.

oh what the hell: so unless a very certain block of peeps just didnt vote in this, i'm baffled by wrong not making the top 50

oh yeah btw, I never voted in this

^_^

holdin' out for 'Prom Queen' still

i think dan is helping me break down the mystery

I know a lot of people were down on this year's Junior Boys album, but I'm surprised Hazel didn't crack the top 50 trax (I don't see it coming up in the top 8, anyway).

Hazel is v good and so is its Ewan P remix. don't think Begone Dull Care was really a step down from So This Is Goodbye either.

Yeah, I like Begone Dull Care as well, but we seem to be a vocal minority.

08 -- Peter Andre - Behind Close Doors (14 votes, 212 points, 5 #1 vote/s) (134 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWuz2jm2WU

I'm not even going to make up a blurb for this. -a hoy hoy
Melodic music by white dudes is like a big willy in my bum. -Geir Hongro
Some other non blurb using ridiculous words no-one has heard before. -l0u1s jagg3r

Quit fucking around and save that before #1 gets here.

xxpostz: voted for Jnr Boys in my album and trax (choosing Bits & Pieces), but would be surprised if it showed.

Expecting someting Fuck Buttons, Bats for Lash, and Lindstrom / Christabelle and obv My Girls will be #1

xpost: Petr Andre - get the fuck....

if anything "mazel tov" seems a bit try-hard to me, it's a bit...i got her...GROCERY BAG

lol yes i had this exact thought myself, but once out of a hip hop context they make it make sense narratively to me, i mean the song is all about being out with friends and feeling good about that so it's not coincidence that the "punchline" is reaching out to who filled your cup and to the whole world. like i wrote about one possible narrative above, which may be projecting or reaching, but i think probably hi dere is right and that the whole song has this subtext or tension where things could go wrong, but they don't, and i think people relate to that.

"i gotta feeling" is the hope, isn't it

Yeah, I like Begone Dull Care as well, but we seem to be a vocal minority.

well its OK, is what i'm sayin. didn't make my top 20 tho.

08 -- Shakira - She Wolf (7 votes, 88.5 points for Loba (#356 in P&J)) (17 votes, 216 points) (56 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=booKP974B0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ssrLSheg4

"Loba is so much better in Spanish. I can see that awkwardness is part of her appeal, but I like her awkward and charming, not awkward and silly. She's good, and this is a disco stomper." -Ismael Klata

idk as drinking, partying songs of 09, gimme "drink in my cup" any day over BEPs

xp god "she wolf" is overrated

Best thing about She Wolf is the video.

anyone predicting indie domination of top ten not feelin so smart right now..

Well, there's still 7 more to go.

And there's only one legit rap track in the top 20 so far (because fuck a BEP).

i love that shakira exists

("In the NA" never had a chance... *sadface*)

yeah, i can get down to / get with that Shakira track more than any BEP

(of course another way it makes sense dramatically is the pause for pouring)

i love that shakira exists

me too, but neither version of "she wolf" does much for me.

i kind of feel that the way people go on about "she wolf", it should be one of those irresistible pop songs that i crave to hear over and over again, on loop for an hour, but months on i'm still stuck in the "eh, don't mind this when it comes on" stage.

nb i do <3 shakira of course, my fav shakira song is "underneath your clothes" by miles

I like her Timbaland song a little more but "She Wolf" is fun enough for me.

also yes she is smokin' hot and that totally biases me towards the appreciation of her music

my fav shakira song is "underneath your clothes" by miles

pretty much all the singles from that album trump her subsequent english-language singles, imo. i'm not a big "hips don't lie" fan either (partly because of ugh-wyclef).

"objection (tango)" <3 <3 <3

i think...i feel her voice just works better with more, uh, organic arrangements?

like i buy her more as a kooky folkie rather than some sort of disco diva

just to clarify, cuz I'm dense: she wolf represents votes cast for 'she wolf' AND 'loba', right?