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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.

it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture
it's a big stupid anthem celebrating/satirising London's vibrant gangsta culture

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It's like saying "Perfect Day" was the best song of 1996 because it was used in that movie.

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.

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.

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.

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AND TAKE YA MONEY

It's like saying "Perfect Day" was the best song of 1996 because it was used in that movie.

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Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year?

Was 1995 pre-buying the league? Because Marseille were pretty great until all that hit.

It's like saying "Perfect Day" was the best song of 1996 because it was used in that movie.

Was it a charting single in several countries? Because if it wasn't, it's not the same thing at all.

Maybe he still thought he was a real Irishman in 1995, and in 1996 he realised he was a fraud?

Was "Perfect Day" also a huge hit that got played on the radio all the time that year? - No, but "Lust For Life" was.

big cas could still do a job at the top level

Paper Planes was only released as a single for the first time this year, I'd say it counts. Andy Townsend.

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.

He has publicly told Giovanni Trappatoni that if the side needs him he'll be available, for all eternity.

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.

Roy Keane on the other hand, said "stick it up yer bollocks, you 2007 cunt".

ILX's two "grandmothers" have suddenly and tragically asked that Paper Planes be voted for

who the heck on ILM hadn't heard "Paper Planes" in 2007?

Um... It's pretty easy not to catch things the first time round, especially if you hold the artist in the special kind of contempt reserved for useful idiots and poshos who think they're succeeding against all odds. Anyway, as others have pointed out it only clicked this last year and, contempt notwithstanding, is a magnificent record. Anyway, it was released as a single in 2008 and therefore meets the rules

There's a huge difference between a song that's a few months old taking on a new popularity (ffs it wasn't even released as a single until December) and song that's something like 20 years old. Is that a tremendously difficult concept?

There was a bunch of reissues on the albums poll (Pacific Ocean Blue for one) - same difference?

I love Kala, but better songs like Bamboo Banga, Boyz and 20 Dollar are invisible in comparison with Paper Planes since Pineapple Express it seems

and slumdog millionaire, ugh.

Likewise, the Vampire Weekend songs have been floating around since the fall of 2007, yet "A-Punk" (and possibly "Oxford Comma") wasn't officially released until the top of 2008.

I guess the real argument is that it placed on the ILM poll two years running. Perhaps we can install a "Paper Planes" clause in the future that will prevent such a thing from happening.

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, February 6, 2009 6:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

By this rationale, could "Bohemian Rhapsody" have been considered in a 1991 poll, or would it have been disqualified b/c it was also a hit the first time around (even though it was a bigger hit the second time)?

Naw, cause then you get things like "Rehab" or "With Every Heartbeat" that scrape in one year on certain demographics and then are consensus picks the next. xp

How many non-singles feature in this top 50? I know National Shite Day is one...

you'd think after years of those robyn/annie albums being part of polls, ilx would have come up with some sort of reasoning for this situation already.

xpost.

i dont think that there needs to be any rules - as i said earlier this is a pretty unique situation

i think the reasoning is, "who gives a shit, if they get votes they're a song of the year"