***Put Ya Hands Up for the 2006 ILX TRACKS POLL RESULTS***

Ridin' was ROBBED.

Okay, so...

Maneater
Promiscuous Girl
My Love
Crazy
What You Know
Over & Over?
Ain't No Other Man?
Kick Push?
SOS?
Pull Shapes?
Smile?
Bullshmindie?

i really hope for "trill"

I'm pulling for Zeigeist!!

...and i guess it's too late for relevée now ;(

"Ridin'" was my #1 :(

15. Beyonce – Irreplaceable

People actually liked this song?

no, but robots on ILX did

9. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
(90.5 points, 8 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

"Kick Push" has just come out over here - achieving the astonishing feat of making me temporarily enthusiastic about the notion of a "golden age" hip hop revival. At least while it's playing, anyway.
-Tim Finney

Call me nostalgic for Native Tongues-style funkiness, but I bought "Kick Push" from iTunes after only very, very randomly catching the video (once) on TV. A lot of so-called backpacker business forgets to engage the "fun" button, but this doesn't.
-Tantrum The Cat

9. Knife - Silent Shout
(90.5 points, 8 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

I think Silent Shout sounds impressive right away, but it doesn't sound really good until after you get to know it.
-Matthew C Perpetua

8. Lily Allen - LDN
(94.5 points, 9 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

LDN is the happiest song about pimps and crack whores and old ladies being mugged ever.
-StanM

7. Junior Boys - In the Morning
(96 points, 8 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

its the most dramatic track, the most immediate, the most punchy drum wise (meatier) its everything a single ought to be... all the breaths as percussion almost R'n'B allusions, the subtle palm muted rock instrumentation running along with the synth arpeggio... the lyric is a load of nothing, true but it still works brilliantly as some kind of re-imagined 80s pop that actually sounds nothing like anything made in the 80s... a simulacrum that's actually completely contemporaneous...
-gekoppel

wooo

6. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
(98 points, 9 votes, 1 number one)

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Other ILXors said...

i just saw the promiscuous boy video and nelly furtado amazingly looks SEXY in it! i really like the song, neither timbaland nor nelly seem like promiscuous ppl at all, theyre both kind of nerdy and i like them. i have no idea why theyre pretending to be promiscous! is it to downplay the intensity of their attraction?! it is a song worth talking about you dull/bitter clowns - fuck you and your jaded vaudeville act!
...
i shd add that i really like how promiscuous girl keeps the slightly mystical 'world music' rocks & hills vibe of that annoying worthy album that nelly did last time, just enough that it sez 'THIS IS NELLY' but leaves out 'and check out how wholesome i am', and then those synths in the chorus are so melancholy, its so much more of a love song than a promiscuity song.
-karri miback

damn that cover is UGLY... great song though

only one #1!!! screw 'ridin'(on my worst list thx to my gym's broken record of a PA system) this was the crime of the century. Promiscuous is the best single of the last two years at least.

I'm done with this list. MUSICALLY! you've been great, hurry up.

the five spots left can no way in hell save this sorryass list

Okay, I've dragged this out too long. And I want to finish albums today too! I had trouble finding blurbs for some of these so please furnish your thoughts on any/all.

5. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
(108 points, 9 votes, 1 number one)

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If the rest of the Lily Allen tracks lived up to "LDN" I'd be her #1 fan. "Smile" was great the first time and tarnished fast, but "LDN" will be stuck in my head when I'm forty and I won't mind a bit. The "Steal My Sunshine" of 2006.

4. Hot Chip - Over And Over
(112.5 points, 9 votes)

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xpost is this that song where she says "al fresco"? precocious ninnyhead shite, how DARE you bring Len's good name into this. i mean, it was ok.

3. Justin Timberlake - My Love
(168.5 points, 13 points)

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you should solicit negative blurbs next time, I've got a million of em'. hatcha!

2. T.I. - What You Know
(172.5, 12 votes, 1 number one)

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It's all about the rise and fall of that mammoth synth riff, swaggering lazily along and steamrolling everything in its path without even trying; the rise and fall of TI's unmistakeable flow, those irresistible Georgia inflections alternately tough, amused, silly, deadly serious, and at every point just too damn good to bother with such minor concerns as pausing to breathe; the rise and fall of your feet in time to the beat, convinced for four minutes that they're the feet of a king who owns the whole neighbourhood, just as the supreme 'What You Know' owned 2006. So confidence-instilling that it should be prescribed to neurotics, this is the sound of total triumph.
-lex pretend

WHATEVER WILL BE #1??

1. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
(240 points, 17 vote, 3 number ones)

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Other ILXors said...

Easy prediction : Crazy will be a massive mainstream hit
-snowballing

no fucking chance whatsoever.
-banana squad

i like the cover

BOOOOOO (and I even started that Gnarls thread out of excitement, but talk about overplaying a song...). (nice work, though, musically!)

I was hoping one of the Calle 13 singles would make an appearance here somewhere.

results = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(but, big props to poll-master "musically"!)

yes, bad news never felt so good

xxpost thanks for nominating the calle 13, I voted for one of them. Biggest surprise: no Kleerup/Robyn, totally good totally ilm

The Kleerup/Robyn song was #31.

oh yeah, being lazy ctrl f

haha i read that blurb already too i'm losing it

O RLY @ Gnarls

My ballot....

TRACKS:
1 E-40 - Tell Me When To Go
2 Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog
3 Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
4 Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
5 Killer Mike - That's Life
6 Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned
7 Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
8 Calle 13 - La Jirafa
9 T.I. - What You Know
10 Beyonce - Irreplaceable
11 My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
12 Cassie - Me & U
13 Ciara - Promise
14 Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
15 Beyonce - Get Me Bodied
16 Justin Timberlake - My Love
17 Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle
18 Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House
19 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
20 panic! at the disco - i write sins not tragedies

I'm pulling for Zeigeist!!

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:18 (Yesterday)

;_;

"What You Know" was totally my #2 though.

Im so f'in sick of that Gnarls Barkley song.

Search: musically
Destroy: the voters

I mean, seriously - "Crazy"? I realize that in a poll like this you're torn between rating a song based on its initial impact and rating it based on a few months of hindsight, but I tend towards the "hindsight" camp myself and in hindsight "Crazy" is really annoying and thin. Actually, wait. I thought that in the first place. I thought it was overplayed the second time I heard it at the disco, but even on the twentieth such occasion there were throngs of people gleefully exclaiming when they heard that familiar repetitious whomp. I don't really know what else to compare the thing to except some malodorous cross between "Flat Beat" and "Connected" except with a guy doing some sort of keening-mewling atonal crap on top. GUYS. THIS SONG IS ANNOYING. AUGH.

^ OTM

the chorus goes absolutely nowhere.

"Crazy" is great, however much people may be sick of it.

47. Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Shooter
(40 points, 2 votes, 2 number ones)

I think it is significant that "Shooter" wins in the enthusiasm/passion stakes - average points = perfect 20. And it placed pretty low because not many people had heard of it.

Also, shocking that "Maneater," "SOS," "Pull Shapes" and Escort's "Starlight" are missing from here.

Disappointing that other than the Ahmad Fathi wtf, there are no non-English language tracks. Calle 13 people! You all should go and seek out Snook.

Also, The Reverend: I heart you for voting for "Get Me Bodied"

watching the video for "Shooter" - I remember seeing this on MTVU, I'd forgotten about it. The little tinkly electric piano part is great, but I'm not sure I'd rank this song.

"crazy" is insipid.

I wonder if my first place vote would have gotten "Mac 10 Handle" into the top-50

but i didn't vote

"Shooter" is different, I guess.

Could Wayne not get the real JT to guest on his track or something?

i heard crazy way after all the 'omg crazy' nonsense so i'll give it the benefit of the doubt and consider it 'tainted'. i don't think it would have cracked my top 25 in any case.