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

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(Why would it be good if the poll had so many more participants that a track like this would get forgotten?)

I guess it's just very unrepresentative of ILM taste in general, but maybe that's not such a bad thing anyway. (Also, I have no idea, and I assume neither do you, how new this song is. It's quite possibly an older song of his. I don't know how 2006 it really is in that sense. Great music, nonetheless.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I'll alternate albums and tracks. I did fewer tracks today since I started late in the day, so I'll do a bunch on Thursday. I'll start albums tomorrow morning.

These tracks didn't get a lot of votes, but it picks up.

― musically, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link

By the time this poll is finally over, it'll be 2008.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link

ciara at 49 wtf

― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

only 5 votes for ciara = insanity. i'm proud of my first place for her.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link

what you know will win

― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Ciara was second place for me.

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm confused here,
how is it that Ciara only gets 39 points if it was the Lex's 1st place and Tape Store's 2nd? ( 20 + 19 = 39) What happened to the other 3 votes? I was pretty sure "Promise" was going to place high so I put it at number 19.

― danzig, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Another 8 points from me, so that's 49 points right there and there's still one other person.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Who is Ciara?

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link

same question here

― peepee, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link

never diss me for not knowing who david byrne is again, ilm

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link

It's not as if there isn't a link to the song right there.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i had "promise" in the top ten.

― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I messed 'Promise' up, I really have been checking (I promise! hahahaha), now I'll be double checking. Now 'Promise' will make a surprise appearance later in the poll.

― musically, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link

IM THE CHAMP

― gman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link

"Yeah, I messed 'Promise' up, I really have been checking (I promise! hahahaha), now I'll be double checking. Now 'Promise' will make a surprise appearance later in the poll."

This is all a conspiracy to keep hannah montana off the list.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

(but the sonority he hits around 2:10 reminds me of early Sonic Youth and post-Branca no wave in a way Ha, now that I listen to that bit I know exactly what you're talking about.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Thanks, RS! "La Tasifir" is quite beautiful.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 3 May 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link

wow...lil wayne shooter is amazing....if i knew about it before this list i would definately have voted for it...it's incredible

― gman, Thursday, 3 May 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Five songs in and only one made it onto the Rolling 2006 Best Singles Thread

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Way xpost--

Who put out that Oud collection? I need it.

― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 3 May 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I think it's Enja Records. I had to order it from a German distributor.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 3 May 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

To recap, with corrections:

50. Ahmed Fathi - La Tisafir
49. The Field - Over The Ice
48. Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Shooter
47. Arthur Russell - Springfield (DFA Remix
46. Ghostface Killah - The Champ

Okay...

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

45. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
(41.5 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/45.JPG

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link

44. Islands - Swans (Life After Death)
(43 points, 3 votes)

via Myspace

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/swans.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link

43. TV On the Radio - I Was a Lover
(43 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/wasalover.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

42. Grizzly Bear - Knife
(43.5 points, 3 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/knife.jpg

Other ILXors said...

All this to say nothing of "Knife". Of which, if I were to say something, I'd probably say, HOLY CRAP, THAT'S GREAT!!! (But I'd make it more literate-sounding, and use fewer exclamation points.) Anyway, it's up there with the best songs of the year.
-fuckfuckingfuckedfucker

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

I got their first two albums around the same time and for a week or so I was telling people that "I really like the new album, but there's one song off their first album that I like a lot called 'the knife'"

Besides just basic confusion/incompetence, I think this might be because it sounds just a little bit different from the rest of the record to me, what with the doo wop and all (though it sounds even less like the first album to be sure).

Anyway, if by "thoughts" you meant "pointless anecdotes" . . .

― Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link

41. Scott Walker - Jesse
(43.5 points, 4 votes)

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/jesse.jpg

Other ILXors said...

Its almost like he's reaching for a point of sublime horror, "in the dream i'm crawling around on my hands and knees..."
-gek-opel

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link

45. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

Like most of the album, the music here is relentlessly sunny Motown-inspired guitar pop with lyrics that hint of darkness and occasional awkwardnesses that redeem themselves by revealing unvarnished emotions.

― o. nate, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

40. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
(44 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/supermassive.jpg

Who would have thought fusing together 80s Queen, Ennio Morricone in his spaghetti Western mode, and surf rock guitar would have produced one of the most jaw-dropping rock singles in years? Muse, apparently. It's probably best experienced with the crazy futuristic western video, but the song conjures up enough imagery and grandeur on its own even without visual accompaniment. Don't waste your time, or time will waste you.
-Jeff Treppel

Radiohead were never able to do sexy. The songs here are already their own JLC remixes in of themselves.
-danzig

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Sigh, pretend you don't see those blurbs.

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link

oh wow... I guess that means 2 muse singles in the top 40. who would've thought?

― danzig, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP pretend you never saw it!!

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

39. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues are Still Blue
(45 points, 3 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/blues.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

38. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
(46.5 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/welcome.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link

37. Marit Larsen - Don't Save Me
(47.5 points, 3 votes, 1 number one)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/dontsaveme.jpg

And... ta da!... the first single from the forthcoming MARIT LARSEN album is now out in Norway, and the video is streamed on her Website. And I don't immediately have the words to describe it, really. It's cute and fun, probably more cute than anything we've talked about yet on this thread. But it's not teenpop. It's... I don't know... pop carnival young woman cabaret? Jingle? The song is called "Don't Save Me" and the words seem to be about ending a relationship, but the mood isn't "I'll break you" but rather "I'll wash that relationship right out of my hair." I like it. Maybe a lot.
-Frank Kogan

"Don't Save Me" is awesome and I'd put it all on Marit's shoulders. The way she sings it, phrases it - I'm willing to contemplate the possibility that "Don't turn the truth around/It reads the same way upside down" isn't the greatest lyric ever, but the way she sort of... there's not a word for it, but if there was it'd be in between snarl and smirk and snigger and sneer - the way she does that anyway, her voice gets redoubled for the punchline - fuckin' awesome. "House! Of! Cards!" And the way she lets "Don't you dare" out of her mouth, the last little "r" sound, I swear that when I sing along to that it makes the taste buds on the tongue ripple apart like velcro hooks gently unlacing themselves... it's rather bloody remarkable, really.
-William Bloody Swygart[/quote]

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link

36. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
(47.5 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/lloyd.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

A crazy girlpoptastic block of songs to round out the day coming later.

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry Mary. Can't wait for crazygirlpoptastic block to save us from the camera obscura overload.

― danzig, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link

"If we too simple, then y'all don't get the basics."

See, the problem with checking these things out is that I might find out that I like something I wouldn't expect to like. (How can I not like all those Revolver-esque sounds on that track though? But I don't mind the rapping either, really.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Another thing I like about the video itself is that it seems a lot more genuinely fun than 99% of the recent rap videos of seen.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link

okay, here we go:

35. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
(48.5 points, 5 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/rehab.jpg

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link

34. Sugababes - Red Dress
(49.5 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

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Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

and again...

34. Sugababes - Red Dress
(49.5 points, 4 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/reddress.jpg

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link

33. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh
(49.5 points, 5 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/somethingkinda.jpg

ILXors said...

'something kinda ooooh' is a total monster, i really underrated it at the time because it seemed like retreading old ground, when in actual fact it was the equivalent of britney's 'stronger' - the same template but harder faster stronger better.
-lex pretend

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link

32. Lily Allen - Smile
(49.5 points, 7 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/smile.jpg

ILXors said...

I think that "Smile" song on the mixtape is even better, a lovely summer jam. Old bluebeat tune plus cheeky cockernee singing works for me.
-Jeff W

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link

And finally...

31. Kleerup (feat. Robyn) - With Every Heartbeat
(50 points, 5 votes)

via Youtube

http://ilx2006music.googlepages.com/withevery.jpg

ILXors said...

"With Every Heartbeat" is a chilly electro-ballad on which Robyn sounds scarily like Kate Bush - and I mean scarily. Musically it's in Anneli Drecker territory, lachrymose string sections and squeaky clean zoloft synthesiser arpeggios, it sounds large and emotional more than tuneful.
-Tim Finney

Thoughts?

― musically, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link

32. Lily Allen - Smile

Perhaps the best "Pass the Dutchie" rip-off ever. She makes it look so easy.

― o. nate, Thursday, 3 May 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

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Asterisks, RS?

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link

My ballot:

1. Lil Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Shooter
2. Midlake - Roscoe
3. Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
4. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
5. Beyonce - Ring The Alarm (Freemasons Club Mix)
6. Snook - Snook, Svett Och Tårar
7. Calle 13 - !Atrévete Te, Te!
8. Hot Chip - Over And Over
9. Jamelia - Beware Of The Dog
10. Nelly Furtado - No Hay Igual
11. Coldplay - Talk (Thin White Duke Mix)
12. Omarion - Icebox
13. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself
14. The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
15. Rihanna - Unfaithful
16. Robbie Williams - Lovelight
17. Cham feat. Akon - Ghetto Story, Chapter 3
18. Escort - Starlight
19. Ciara - Promise
20. Amy Winehouse - Rehab

― danzig, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

That was for things I was willing to try to write a blurb for. (In the unlikely event. . .)

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not one who loves tons of songs each year, so my list is only the ones I wouldn't want to be without. Lot's of other stuff I enjoy hearing on mixes or on the radio, but wouldn't particularly miss if they weren't around.

1.Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
2.Turbulence - Notorious*
3.Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
4.Marit Larsen - Don't Save Me
5.Muse - Knights of Cydonia
6.Coup - We Are The Ones

* I know it was out earlier in Jamaica (2005?), but became widely available last year which was when I was able to get a copy.

Beyonce's "Ring The Alarm" was my pick for worst single. If it had been a remake of the Tenor Saw song instead of poorly done histrionics things might have been different.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't imagine not being able to fill the songs list. There have to be another 20-50 songs I'm really pissed I couldn't include.

I hated "Ring the Alarm" at first too. You have to listen to it really LOUD for it to make sense.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Can I mention how much I despise "Young Folks"? Yeah, the drumbeat is good, but it's a pure garden variety funk beat. Then I get to thinking that the whistle hook is the most anoying thing ever. But then come the most snively indie boy vocals in the world. Is the girl going to be better? No. She's just as bad, if not worse. And the video confirms my suspicions that everyone involved has Downs Sydrome.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

the reverend dollarstore on 'young folks'; i don't think i voted for a worst song but if i had it would have been that twee retarded piece of shit. and i haven't even seen the video, i'll file that under DO NOT WANT.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I should play that "Ring The Alarm" really loud (the Tenor Saw song, no problem)? It find it rather grating at low volumes, and can't really picture it getting better louder.

I could have filled my list with other songs I liked, but those were just the ones I truly loved. I find myself obsessing over a smaller selection of things after sampling the great hordes of stuff, and it is that small selection I want to recognize for lists like this.

I also like to impose silly rules; in this case, no singles off albums if I really like more than one track, thus no T.I. or Nelly Furtado.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm agreeing with Lex and The Reverend here - "Young Folks" doesn't coalesce into anything I want to hear. "Amsterdam", on the other hand, totally works for me, though I can't explain why.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link

the reverend dollarstore on 'young folks'; i don't think i voted for a worst song but if i had it would have been that twee retarded piece of shit.

OTM

― groovemaaan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Plz explain your 'dollarstore' usage, because you're totally confusing me...I mean, I get the nature of it, but I don't get why you used it where you used it. THX!

― Tape Store, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link

And BTW, I hate the TVOTR album except for those two songs, which both are awesome...In general, TVOTR is better in theory than in practice; those ("I Was a Lover" and "Wolf Like Me") are the only two songs where they really live up to my expectations...off that album, at least

― Tape Store, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i'd have thought that 'ring the alarm' loud would have just emphasised its screechiness! i loved it on first listen but i suspect that if anything helps one appreciate it, it's the mental video.

"dollarstore" = variant of on the money, right? i dunno.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Well, yeah, the video, too.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

i just rewatched the video. WOW

― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link

ahhhhh...I always thought it was an insult (dollar store = place where there's a lot of cheap junk).

― Tape Store, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

I like the sound of "Reverend Dollarstore", really sleezyish.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

my list. YES GLAD TO BE PART OF THE PROBLEM FUCK OFF

Singles:
1. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
2. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
3. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues are Still Blue
4. Antena - Camino Del Sol (Joakim remix)
5. Beyonce - Check On It
6. Lucky Lucky Pigeons - Who Smells Marshmallows?
7. Field - Over The Ice
8. T.I. - What You Know
9. Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
10. Divine Comedy - A Lady of A Certain Age
11. Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
12. Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop - Punkrocker
13. Clipse - Trill
14. Sally Shapiro - I'll Be by your Side
15. Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
16. John Legend - Heaven
17. Calle 13 - La Jirafa
18. Pussycat Dolls ft Snoop Dogg - Buttonz
19. El Perro del Mar - God Knows(You Gotta Give to Get)
20. Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle

Top 5 singles I'm sad I forgot to nominate:
Andrew W.K. - I Came For You
Tum Tum - Caprice Muzik
Ercola ft. Annie - Follow Me (RMX)(might be 2007 i dunno)
Darkel - At the End of the Sky
Rose Melberg - The Orchard

― tremendoid, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

oh yeah

Bottom 5 Singles:
Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
Chamillionaire - Ridin' Dirty
Clipse - Wamp Wamp
the 2 shit Girl Talk songs on the nominated list.

― tremendoid, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Reverend dollarstore does have a nice ring to it.

― Tape Store, Saturday, 12 May 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Much better than being a "Dollarstore Reverend"; I would say that is an insult, as opposed to sounding like a character in a Flashman novel.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Also can I mention how happy I am that Aint No Other Man didn't make the list? It's a total void of ideas masquerading as a pop song (ie Big Voice plus Big Drums, do we sound like Amerie yet, will this do?)

― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link

(Okay that argument may undermine my impassioned defence of Earth Intruders, but whatever)

― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i thought she was trying to sound more like Aretha than Amerie. it was okay.

― blueski, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't understand the appeal of "My Love" at ALL. The Ibiza Is Burning mix of it is ace though.

― musically, Sunday, 13 May 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link

4. Antena - Camino Del Sol (Joakim remix)

Fucking good call.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 May 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

My ballot:

1 Chamillionaire - Ridin'
2 Uffie - Pop the Glock
3 Cassie - Me & U
4 simian mobile disco - hustler
5 Phoenix - Consolation Prizes
6 Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
7 Cat Power - The Greatest
8 Uffie - Ready to Uff
9 Justin Timberlake feat. T.I. - My Love
10 Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg - Dick in a Box
11 Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
12 Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
13 Christian Falk feat Robyn and Ola Salo - Dream On
14 Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
15 Phoenix - Long Distance Call
16 Klaxons - Magick
17 Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
18 Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir
19 Knife - Silent Shout
20 Lily Allen - Knock ‘Em Out

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm kind of mad at myself for not voting for "Dick in a box", but two Timberlake songs was enough.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe Simian Mobile Disco - "Hustler" & Kelis "bossy" didn't place!! actually, i cant believe 'move along' either but I'm less shocked.

I would've voted Beyonce's Irreplaceable as a most hated had it occurred to me.

seems to skew somewhat british to me, esp in the placements 30 and over..

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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