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I actually prefer the original, but I like busy percussion.

I like this, never crossed my mind to vote for it, though. Sounds a bit like Sophie Ellis Bextor to mine ears

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.

both are great but i like the og better - the rush in the chorus is so great

"Let's write about promising to take someone to Paris." "Yes, the cowbell will work really well with that lyrical idea."

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.

Haha the original on its own wouldn't even have placed in the top 50.

he original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s

^^^ otm.

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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

"Happy House" in the top 3! Holy shit!

it's infinitely better than "paper planes" but i'd def be aight with it finishing #2 behind it

You're gonna be really disappointed when you see Put A Donk On It Oxford Comma in there instead.

3 - MIA - Paper Planes
253.5 points, 22 votes, 2 #1 votes
(6 votes, 48 points for DFA Remix)
1 in P&J

DFA Remix

o rly

It's 2008's highest climber, up two places to #3

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.

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

probably would have been #1 this year if it hadn't placed last year.

DFA remix of PP is so :-/

oxford comma is not placing i guess?

or are we just fanboying "happy house"? I WONDER

fucking bullshit that this was allowed to poll if it finished in the top 5 last year

It's sort of been this year's anthem though, I mean, out there in the real world.

yeah seriously. this sets a bad precedent

nah not really, it's a pretty unique situation. i doubt that "blind" is gonna be in the billboard top 5 next year

It's like Tony Cascarino playing for Ireland.

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.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, September 6, 2006 5:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You know who Tony Cascarino is???

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lolz xpost

haha no it's a los campesinos lyric :/

the frankie knuckles version of Blind is also much better than the orig

The Hercules Club Mix is better than both.

loool @ jaymc

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

some EMD here but Knuckles >> OG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the boring boring Club Mix

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.

Paper Planes was technically released and was a critical darling in 2007 but 2008 was its year. not everything can be easily delimited by calendar year. also, consider songs that have multiple releases, or peak in different regions of the world at different.

He has become something of a cult figure and was referenced in the song "All Your Kayfabe Friends" by Welsh band Los Campesinos! where the singer tells that "You asked if I'd be anyone from history / Fact or fiction, dead or alive / I said I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995."

1995 is a weird year to pick

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Am I doing a good enough job at relieving the unbearable tension?

lj, I'm not even that big a fan of PP but way to get completely blindsided by the entire point of the song

You can do those kind of samples well. MIA's are just pointless gimackry, once they've come the first time they fall predictably on the beat every time that "chorus" comes round (which is the same as the "verse")

Yeah I prefer my gunshot and cash register samples in 12/8.

OK, it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture, whatever. It's got the sophistication of a boiled egg and I hate it.

boo hiss at M.I.A. voters. I'll forgive those that voted for "With Every Heartbeat" and "Rehab" as being unaware the first time around - but who the heck on ILM hadn't heard "Paper Planes" in 2007?

lol Matt, what I'm saying is that one or two here and there upon a particularly cutting lyric really can work, but using it as a chorus is shit.