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)

I'm going to persevere with Taylor out of respect for democracy, but as of now I utterly don't get it - there's nothing there

which is fine but uh it's not really my thing

k3vin we don't say "rockist" when we have company over

well to me songwriting =/= lyrics, but i think theyre plenty verisimilar and certainly don't get in the way for me

xps

een: that's a simple and fairly weak song but also just a soundtrack single. next album's gonna be the test for her progression

YBWM has mad amazing fills and stuff fwiw, especially the one-note bassline before the last chorus

ok that's very reassuring i want to be able to sail on the taylor boat forever

i still have huge stylistic barriers with any and all pop-country, but damn if the "i remember you/ driving to my house/ in the middle of the night" section isn't some intense shit

ok wait who was the other person who voted for Holy Ghost?

yeah songwriting =/= lyrics but with taylor i'm really being given a limited amount of things to latch onto because i can't be like "well damn that is one fantastic contemporary country production!"

for the record I am the most unabashed dumb popist here so don't drop the R-bomb on me.

I'm not going to argue about Taylor, mainly because I have only heard three of her songs in my life.

infantile lyrics /= bad songwriting. It's a character and she inhabits it reasonably and honestly. I would also like to see her branch out into more sympathetic territory but I'm amazed that she finds a way to so clearly speak to me about attitudes and views that I would otherwise find vapid if they weren't so damn genuine and articulate.

musically it took me A LOT of exposure to come around on Taylor, but I'll fight for her now. Fearless is a slow burner of an album.

"love story" is the most amazingly constructed song -- the last chorus is suuuch a rush

lol who voted for single ladies?

in re YBWM i much prefer the "country pop" production on the album to the "rock" production on the mainstream-radio single. there's not much difference, but i like the little bit of banjo.

is the thread for posting ballots running yet?

hey musically, if you get a chance, can you email me my ballot back?

BrokeNCYDE - Freaxx (1 votes, 19 points)

XD

what i learned from this thread is that soft circle released something this year, damn hisham, learn to publicize

― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:29 PM (10 minutes ago)

XD

They Belong To You: Your ILM 2009 Track of the Year Ballots

ha, good title

"you belong with me" was also the highest-scoring song on the jukebox last year; can't really put it much better than we did then http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=596

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:20 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

not a fan but those do shed some light. (Kogan and Bradley excluded for overreaching and making me want to vomit.)

having to listen to 'you belong with me' in a kinda critical way over and over again bcz of the singles jukebox end-of-year meltdown made me get really irritated by the taylor persona precisely cos i started thinking 'but what about dude's girlfriend - she's got her own music taste and doesn't laugh at his jokes! that's pretty cool! i like her better!'

i wuv taylor, i like how she can make me like her when she's basically singing the female version of the classic "nice guy" complaint, but... after a while it started to wear.

Oh yeah, if it's not too much trouble, I'd like to have my ballot emailed back to me (including albums, if they don't come together).

Thanks!

Email me if you want your ballot, I'll send them tonight

is it just musically at gmail.com?

I'll get that Grooveshark playlist updated when there's time, but I'm just back from seeing JLS and am on a deadline for the review. Great list, thank you musically!

the popular girls look like taylor swift and like taylor swift's music, the nerdy girls don't and don't. i mean, the scenario is cinematic and therefore true, but it's basically backwards.

in summary:
50 -- Royksopp feat Robyn - The Girl and the Robot (8 votes, 88 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (380 in P&J, 68 in p4k)
49 -- Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite (10 votes, 88 points) (18 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
48 -- Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (8 votes, 88.5 points) (50 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
47 -- Electrik Red - So Good (7 votes, 90 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)
46 -- Memory Tapes - Bicycle (7 votes, 95 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (238 in P&J, 46 in p4k)
45 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (8 votes, 95.5 points) (237 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
44 -- Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart (9 votes, 97 points) (117 in P&J, 58 in p4k)
44 -- Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (9 votes, 97 points) (46 in P&J, 24 in p4k)
42 -- Guido - Way U Make Me Feel (8 votes, 97.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)
41 -- Pill - Trap Goin Ham (8 votes, 97.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (128 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
40 -- Big Boi feat. Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas (9 votes, 98.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (22 in P&J, 7 in p4k)
39 -- Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (1 vote, 10.5 points for D. Lissvik Remix) (9 votes, 101.5 points) (97 in P&J, 36 in p4k)
38 -- Florence & the Machine - You Got the Love (Jamie xx Re-Work) (12 votes, 101.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)
37 -- Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Tirsdagsjam (10 votes, 105.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)
36 -- Gucci Mane ft. Plies - Wasted (11 votes, 105.5 points) (100 in P&J, 96 in p4k)
35 -- Crazy Cousinz - Inflation (8 votes, 106 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (455 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
34 -- Washed Out - Feel It All Around (10 votes, 106 points) (44 in P&J, 10 in p4k)
33 -- Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (8 votes, 107 points) (132 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
32 -- Fuzzy Logic feat. Egypt - In The Morning (9 votes, 109 points) (1293 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
31 -- Fever Ray - Seven (3 votes, 23 points for Martyn's Seventh Remix) (11 votes, 111 points) (1601 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
30 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)(11 votes, 114 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (214 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
29 -- House of House - Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets) (11 votes, 114.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (148 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
28 -- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love (9 votes, 116 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (481 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
27 -- Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer (9 votes, 118.5 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (161 in P&J, 100 in p4k)
26 -- The-Dream - Rockin That Shit (9 votes, 122 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (120 in P&J, 90 in p4k)
25 -- Lady Gaga - Paparazzi (13 votes, 127.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (11 in P&J, 83 in p4k)
24 -- Lady Gaga - Poker Face (11 votes, 129 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (13 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
23 -- Girls - Lust for Life (12 votes, 131 points) (8 in P&J, 9 in p4k)
22 -- Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - Blame It (12 votes, 140.5 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (55 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
21 -- Taylor Swift - Love Story (10 votes, 141.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (177 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
20 -- Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys) (13 votes, 144.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (1 in P&J, 44 in p4k)
19 -- Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea (10 votes, 147 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (301 in P&J, 98 in p4k)
18 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (14 votes, 147.5 points) (6 in P&J, 6 in p4k)
17 -- The xx - Crystalised (11 votes, 157.5 points) (33 in P&J, 16 in p4k)
16 -- Maxwell - Pretty Wings (13 votes, 161 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (14 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
15 -- Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (11 votes, 162.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (20 in P&J, 14 in p4k)
14 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt – 9X out of 10 (13 votes, 172 points) (67 in P&J, 33 in p4k)
13 -- Phoenix - 1901 (15 votes, 175 points) (2 in P&J, 3 in p4k)
12 -- Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (13 votes, 176 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (19 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
11 -- The-Dream - Fancy (13 votes, 181.5 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (809 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
10 --The Juan Maclean - One Day (4 votes, 45.5 points for Surkin Remix) (16 votes, 184.5 points) (86 in P&J, DNP in p4k)
09 -- Lily Allen - The Fear (16 votes, 206.5 points, 3 #1 vote/s) (21 in P&J, 31 in p4k)
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)
07 -- Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move (19 votes, 222 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (5 in P&J, 2 in p4k)
06 -- Lindstrom and Christabelle – Baby I Can't Stop (7 votes, 86 points for Aeroplane Remix [#811 in P&J]) (18 votes, 223.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)
05 -- Phoenix - Lisztomania (17 votes, 241.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (9 in P&J, 8 in p4k)
04 -- Animal Collective - My Girls (21 votes, 243.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (3 in P&J, 1 in p4k)
03 -- Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (20 votes, 256 points) (7 in P&J, 39 in p4k)
02 -- Bat for Lashes - Daniel (21 votes, 262 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (16 in P&J, 4 in p4k)
01 -- Pleasure P feat. Flo Rida - Boyfriend #2 (29 votes, 312.5 points, 4 #1 vote/s) (4 in P&J, 7 in p4k)
01 -- Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (24 votes, 267.5 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (10 in P&J, 69 in p4k)

i'd never heard any of the rap stuff or taylor swift before this thread... still reeling with confusion

see, i don't REALLY know enough of the trax yall nominate to vote with a clear conscience, but i did a mock trax ballot and could've gotten daniel to #1

lol @ including the trick #1

When I joined the Singles Jukebox collective, my hope was that the exposure and experience of listening to so much music would give me a better sense of the pop landscape and it has been HELLA effective

i.e. 80% of this is music I'm very familiar with which is something I couldn't have said about last year's poll.

yeah i gotta follow that this year

This was a great thread. Well done, musically.

whatever happened with the end-of-year jukebox matchups?

i did a mock trax ballot and could've gotten daniel to #1

Likewise if Dan had actually voted, I'd assume...

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts27k9hfS1qas9e4o1_500.jpg

it's seattleDOTmaryATgmailDOTcom

Who is Bat for Lashes and how do you people know that song???

if its taylor swift consider my head in need of a scratchin

decent tune & all, and I've done my fair share of singing along to this in my car, but really? As far as country-pop crossover & teen-pop anthems go, yes I agree that this does that sort of thing very well, & Taylor does have a great set of pipes but, for #1, I just don't see it..

Shoulda been Miley!

xp she's a hot girl from the uk who makes some good music? we know it cause it was well-publicized?

musically, you are a gentleman & a scholar. Thanks again for doing this & these sorts of things in general. It's been a blast (& a pleasant diversion from work drudgery & the post-holiday winter blues).

She played Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel and Carson Daly's show, has been reviewed on just about every music website and in every pop/rock leaning magazine. She's had videos featured on Youtube's front page. Charlotte Hatherley was her touring guitaris. I dunno, I guess it could be easy to not know who Bat for Lashes is.

i think the jukebox will eventually resolve but it's just now getting back on the rails for '10 so I'm not stressing the end-of-year thing.

also she owns kia ora iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuL01ZlVOYY

also can i say this has been a terrific list, sooo singular and such a refreshing change to all the other lists, a good reminder of why i'm on this board. huge thx to musically of course, hyped 4 the albums now!

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 6:07 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^ this. really glad it's over, too, i've got 200 pages of the odyssey to read for friday morning and this has been consuming way too much of my time and attention.

had no idea Swift wrote her songs, news to me. doesn't make them any better of course...