Was "Shawty Is Da Sh*!" nominated, or is that considered 2007?
― Dan S, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
it is super duper 2007
― some dude, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
4 - Friendly Fires - Paris236.5 points, 20 votes(14 votes, 163.5 points for Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoire Simone)359/360 (Aeroplane Remix) in P&J, 95 (Aeroplane Remix) in p4k
Aeroplane Remix
have you heard the friendly fires remix? surely it's like the best end-of-night close your eyes and smile tune ever. i got the dj in the place i work to play it on friday night when the place was empty and i swear i was getting rushes while cleaning down the bar!-or something
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
swagger like us? wtf― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:01 PMhere's a tip for all you miss cleos out there: predict songs for the top 5 that people actually like― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:01 PM
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:01 PM
here's a tip for all you miss cleos out there: predict songs for the top 5 that people actually like
Huh? Wait, what did you say? Whaaaaat? Speak up!
i feel like ilm consensus stuff is gonna get beat out by lurkers voting in bon iver― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:44 PMand im not using bon iver as a strawman either - im pretty sure every song from his album was nominated― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:45 PMguys there is gonna be a bon iver track in the top 5 probably 3. every single one of his songs was nominated― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 2:33 PMbtw i mean there is gonna be a bon iver in the top 5 probably top 3, not 3 bon iver tracks in the top 5― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 2:33 PM
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:44 PM
and im not using bon iver as a strawman either - im pretty sure every song from his album was nominated
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:45 PM
guys there is gonna be a bon iver track in the top 5 probably 3. every single one of his songs was nominated
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 2:33 PM
btw i mean there is gonna be a bon iver in the top 5 probably top 3, not 3 bon iver tracks in the top 5
Oh, sorry Miss Cleo, I couldn't hear you over all the Bon Iver predictions you were tossing out a few hours ago. So sorry about that...
― ilxor, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
so basically people are voting for the aeroplane remix rite? because the original.............
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
omg im so smart
― rent, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
the breakdown's there bw
― rent, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Blind, Happy House, Paper Planes?
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm listening to the Aeroplane version of Paris for the first time and loving it but... this is more of a cover version than a remix isn't it?
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
dull as dishwater
― whatever, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Did most of the people who voted the original really mean the remix. I heard it for the first time yesterday after playing the remix to death. It really is a pile of shit though.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually prefer the original, but I like busy percussion.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I like this, never crossed my mind to vote for it, though. Sounds a bit like Sophie Ellis Bextor to mine ears
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The original really makes me wanna punch that guy. Also, the girl on the remix is great, and probably relevant to whatever people were saying about Air France.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
both are great but i like the og better - the rush in the chorus is so great
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
"Let's write about promising to take someone to Paris." "Yes, the cowbell will work really well with that lyrical idea."
― whatever, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Considering ILM had no thread about Friendly Fires at all until I started one in December, that is placing astonishingly high. It's probably artificially high seeing as they're conflated votes for two completely different records, the Aeroplane/Au Revoir Simone version is a cover really.
That said, I love both versions unreservedly. The original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s, the swell in the chorus really fits with the total unabashed excitement in the lyrics. "One day we're gonna live in Paris... you'll find me that French boy I'll find you that French girl... and every night we'll watch the stars coming out for us" and then there's that huge Kompakt rush in the chorus - it totally fits with that feeling of "yes I'm going to do something fucking exciting!"
And the Aeroplane remix is just the best fake Saint Etienne song ever, and it has that big Balearic payoff in the second half.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha the original on its own wouldn't even have placed in the top 50.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
he original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s
^^^ otm.
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
(the*)
Yeah totally - I love it when things you learn on a thread make you go back and listen to a record in a completely different way. Like, I hadn't even noticed the Kompakt influence but it's really there. I'm not used to 00s indie dance records sounding this expansive. When you listen to the Rapture or Hot Chip the sound is always endearingly ramshackle, and there's a sense of a "hey this is cool noise" approach to electronics.
Where Friendly Fires differ is there's a sense that they really appreciate why certain sounds in techno work the way they do - I'm thinking of the second half of Lovesick in particular, and the whole of Ex Lover. Also those huge pads on Jump In The Pool and Paris sound like they're consciously trying to recreate the "ahhhhhhhhhhh" feeling you get when you hear the lusher Kompakt stuff played on a huge sound system at 5am, except tethered to this tight punk-funk song structure with clattering drums and cowbells and whistles.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:27 (2 months ago)
^^^ OTM
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
"Happy House" in the top 3! Holy shit!
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
it's infinitely better than "paper planes" but i'd def be aight with it finishing #2 behind it
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
You're gonna be really disappointed when you see Put A Donk On It Oxford Comma in there instead.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
3 - MIA - Paper Planes253.5 points, 22 votes, 2 #1 votes(6 votes, 48 points for DFA Remix)1 in P&J
DFA Remix
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
o rly
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
It's 2008's highest climber, up two places to #3
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: "Paris" - Never heard either version of it until now. I like the original OK, especially the "Kompact chorus" & the "busy drums," but that Aeroplane remix? Whew man, I am in love.
It's a great song and all, but PP is soooooo last year.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think "Paper Planes" is going to place. I figure "Blind" will be #1 anyway. It will be interesting to see which of "Happy House" and "Oxford Comma" takes the #2 spot, though, or if there's a surprise upset.
haha well scratch that xps
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
probably would have been #1 this year if it hadn't placed last year.
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
DFA remix of PP is so :-/
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
oxford comma is not placing i guess?
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
or are we just fanboying "happy house"? I WONDER
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking bullshit that this was allowed to poll if it finished in the top 5 last year
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It's sort of been this year's anthem though, I mean, out there in the real world.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah seriously. this sets a bad precedent
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 6 February 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
nah not really, it's a pretty unique situation. i doubt that "blind" is gonna be in the billboard top 5 next year
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like Tony Cascarino playing for Ireland.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
tony cascarino circa 1995
Do you not read this site?
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, February 5, 2009 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^my exact reaction to all the "omg i had never heard that song before" people in here. baffling.
― lex pretend, Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i have heard of talking heads but never heard a song by them. i don't even know what kind of music they make. i don't really see how i'm supposed to automatically be aware of any of this.
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― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
You know who Tony Cascarino is???
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost)
lolz xpost
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
haha no it's a los campesinos lyric :/
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
the frankie knuckles version of Blind is also much better than the orig
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The Hercules Club Mix is better than both.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
loool @ jaymc
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, listening to it now, it's shit
like, get a tune that doesn't base itself on a piss-weak 8-bar loop for 3 minutes, ditch the crappy, corny, crass guns'n'money samples, get rid of the annoying voice, use a beat that isn't soporific, and basically stop making music
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
some EMD here but Knuckles >> OG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the boring boring Club Mix
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Anthony Guy ("Tony") Cascarino (born 1 September 1962 in St Paul's Cray, Orpington, Kent, England) is a former association football player. He made his name as a striker for various British and French football clubs and for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
Cascarino was born in England but represented the Republic of Ireland, qualifying through his Irish grandfather. However, he later revealed that his mother told him in 1996 that she was adopted and therefore no blood relative to the grandfather. Cascarino said in his autobiography: "I didn't qualify for Ireland. I was a fraud. A fake Irishman". However, through the adoption his mother gained the right to Irish citizenship and therefore he was indeed eligible.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link