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.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, September 6, 2006 5:18 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 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
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.
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
1995 is a weird year to pick
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Am I doing a good enough job at relieving the unbearable tension?
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
lj, I'm not even that big a fan of PP but way to get completely blindsided by the entire point of the song
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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")
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I prefer my gunshot and cash register samples in 12/8.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
YO DAWG WE HERD YOU LIKE CHALLOPS
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like saying "Perfect Day" was the best song of 1996 because it was used in that movie.
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I hadn't, btw xps. This is in fact the first time I've knowingly heard it.
Rev, sometimes I toss off a deliberately facile line as a means of flippant dismissal. This was one of those times.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
not everything can be easily delimited by calendar year.
^^^otm
It's not even arguable that this song reached its peak outside of small knowledgeable circles in 2007. Its year was 2008.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm typically impartial at best when it comes to guns n' cash samples, but for some reason I really like them in "Paper Planes," not for their symbolic import, but for their musical quality. I cannot explain this.
I really like the beat & (especially) the bassline in the DFA remix, but the vocals lose their "open air" quality and being synched with the tight pace makes the whole ordeal a little too claustrophobic for my tastes.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ALL I WANNA DO IS
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AND TAKE YA MONEY
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
― danzig, Friday, February 6, 2009 3:02 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year?
― The Reverend (rev), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Was 1995 pre-buying the league? Because Marseille were pretty great until all that hit.
― . (a hoy hoy), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it a charting single in several countries? Because if it wasn't, it's not the same thing at all.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe he still thought he was a real Irishman in 1995, and in 1996 he realised he was a fraud?
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year? - No, but "Lust For Life" was.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
big cas could still do a job at the top level
― Local Garda, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Paper Planes was only released as a single for the first time this year, I'd say it counts. Andy Townsend.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Friday, 6 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year? - so much so they did a charity version of it the next year.
― danzig, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
He has publicly told Giovanni Trappatoni that if the side needs him he'll be available, for all eternity.
― Local Garda, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Again, the public at large didn't give two shits about "Lust for Life" until 1996 and, if it was re-released as a physical single at the time, it would've probably been eligible for consideration.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link