"Now That's What I Call ILX" (comp # whatever: we cover/mutilate/remix the POP HITS of the day)

buzzband sensations with npr/starbucks mojo, etc.

OK, I would like to do this.

jaymc maybe we can collabo on something if you're interested, this sounds fun but i am very very out of touch with the pop hits of the day.

or you can just tell me which song i should do

There's this little song called "Friday" you might be interested in.

Hmmm, maybe! I need to think about what kind of cover I would even want to do.

For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_top_10_singles_in_2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_top_10_singles_in_2011

I was wondering who would be the first to call Friday

nelly had a top 10 hit in 2010?!?!?

i had no idea

it wasn't very good

i always underestimate how many big hits i know, most of those seem at least superficially familiar

There's a lot of overlap with the US charts but anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_10_singles_in_2010_%28UK%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_10_singles_in_2011_%28UK%29

Right now I am leaning toward a klezmer interpretation of "DJ Got Us Falling in Love."

you're on your own, buddy

I'm calling Rihanna's 'S&M'.

I think if I tried most of these songs I would come off like a poor man's Pomplamoose.

OR those white people who did the "Boyz N the Hood" cover.

i'm considering doing this

Quick way out of this would be to grab the Amen break off the net, spend 3 mins on Garageband and do a Pendulum cover.

i might have to take on "e.t."

or the "keep on dancing 'til the world ends" song from the new britney album. feelin' a pre-apocalyptic/cross-planetary voib.

also i know "stereo love" is from 2009 but it's getting HELLA radio play in my neck of the woods. someone please do it, for meee?

If I had any skills at all, I would do "I Like It". Call Barack and Michelle let 'em know that it's on.

xp Yeah, I think that should count. It peaked in the U.S. in January 2011.

dibs on "Like A G6"

I'm gonna regret this, but I'm calling one of the Katy B singles.

Think I'm going to go for "Broken Record" rather than "Lights On" for the simple reason that, um, I can't toast to save my life. Unless someone else wants to do the Ms Dynamite bits for me as a collaboration?

(Kareny B. Tregaskin?)

You'd do a pretty good 'Broken Record' I think! Or for that matter most of them, but yeah maybe not 'Lights On'.

Looking forward to hearing this. Unless someone does 'Do It Like A Dude'.

...unless I got Ned to do the toasting bits on Lights On! ha hahaha.

omg please yes

Nedding with the lights on

want to do this so bad

tentative dibs on "what's my name" (no drakin)

Ragga Raggett toasting

kinda want to do "firework" cuz I think those absurdly terrible lyrics would be fun to sing, but I dunno if I actually have the range for it

(then again, neither does katy perry)

excellent point.

xp All you'd have to really do is shout.

oh, speaking of the dreaded pomplamoose (upthread), who's going to do the hyundai jingle?

nobody doing "being a dickhead's cool"?

looks like we filled that slot actually

ah ok.

maybe i could actually finish the 'rolling in the deep' remix i started for this

What's the deadline, gbjbr?

oy. weekend after memorial day?

Translation into English, please?

june 5?

Soft deadline, with hard deadline St Swithin's Day?

too far out. hard deadline is june 12, no lollygagging allowed. you've already got a month and a half!

Wholly tempted to try covering Friday as A Silver Mt Zion

Who's going to take on Whip My Hair?

aw dammit i was thinking about 'what's my name'. m bison, let me know if you change your mind!

would love to have at least 10 songs; we have 7 right now.

oh dang I completely slept on this. I can bang something out tomorrow, so count me in!

I can do another song if you like, but you gotta give me another weekend. I was thinking about doing a Britney track next, though it's one of the album tracks off the latest album so I don't know if that counts within the remit tho I'm sure the album sold a bazillion copies even if it wasn't a single?

OMG, someone just gave me the idea of doing a Britney song in Cornish...

http://audioboo.fm/boos/428062

I mean, obviously not that track (and I'd like to think I can sing slightly better than that) but as a concept! Do want!

if i can get some kind of recording set up working, I will do this for 21st Aug.

sure, do an album track. "singles" are slippery concept these days.

Cool, thanks, will do.

my contribution: http://ifile.it/qjlz3ev

I'm down to do another, what's been taken?

i've received "s&m," "tik tok," "till the world ends," "dj got us fallin in love," "firework," "unthinkable," "6 foot 7 foot" -- other track ideas are purely conceptual at this point.

received "broken record" too.

Sorry, I've bitten off more than I can chew this month, and I'm not going to get a chance to contribute any more tracks.

I guess I'll send in my "Sure Thing" remix when I have time.

can we wrap this up around labor day? last call for submissions/completions.

labor day in the u.s. = september 5.

Is anyone else doing 'Swagger Jagger'? If not, I'd like to have a go.

maybe now that there's a new ilx comp in the works, this one should be released?

yeah I really didn't get anywhere with this. I'd like to hear what other people came up with though.

Agreed.

What's the new comp?

new comp: ILX pre-covers LULU -- the Lou Reed/Metallica album
(the deadline of which is Oct 10th)

(also, I'd really like to hear "Now That's What I Call ILX")

i promise i'll finish this up this weekend and get it out soon. i started a new job a few weeks ago and shit's been hectic.

anyone want to make some pretty artwork once i post the final tracklist?

so here's this:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MFR9H7BC

it may be our shortest comp yet!

Yay!

I feel bad complaining, but I can't stand untagged mp3s.

shit, blame itunes, it said it made id3 tags.

Maybe I don't use itunes is the problem?

i'll re-up tonight with proper tags.

NEW LINK

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M1RHG2WH

Listening to this now and it's amazing!
Thanks to get bent for organising this.

thx jbr

worth the wait

great job, everyone.

really liked kate's track

bernard is our finest interpreter of modern song, looking forward to his covers album

kinda hate my own contrib but whatevs

your contrib is loads of fun!

i made a page: http://grannykart.com/now-ilx/

cool. i will try and remember to download this when i'm not at work. looking forward to it. i had fun making mine.

Heard it this morning, it's truly great.

Mind you, at one point I did think "whoa, spotify ads?"

spotify ads?

I'll explain:

I recorded a bunch of Kraftwerk tracks onto minidisc from Spotify, back when I didn't have the Premium service. On playback, I had to edit out all the damn commercials. One of which was Ke$ha's "tik tok" featuring that very segment.

Good album, wd everyone! Gonna single out Scare Quotes's contribution as particularly +. :)

aw thanks dude

bernard is our finest interpreter of modern song, looking forward to his covers album

still need to listen to the comp; I sorta lost track/didn't realize it had come out!

the phrase "in a frozen lake eating frozen cake" goes thru my head at least once a month

i got a request to put this up again:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4epqd3

yissss

Grannykart page is still there, but the megaupload links are gorn.

My "Six Foot Seven Foot" "cover" (really more a remix of the banana boat song) is one of my favorite ILX comp submissions.