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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.

― 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?

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"

^^^^

I didn't expect "Paper Planes" to place, but I'm certainly not mad that it did.

caek otm

Would laugh my arse off if Brother Sport is next though.

Good point. If enough people had voted up "Lust for Life," maybe it should have ranked (had we done a poll in 1996). There was reason behind it. If it ranked in 2008, it would just be WTF.

Well, it seems this dilemma has been sorted out. On to number two then..

2 - The Pogues feat. Kirstie McCall - Fairytale In New York
336.5 points, 40 votes, 3 #1 votes

http://www.youtube.com/v/3VVuZIIB2hC0&hl=en

save the lolwinners for #1

lol "Auld Lang Syne" for #1?

Jeff Buckley's got it locked.

put a donk on it

okay, u guys earned it:

2 - Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
314 points, 22 votes, 8 #1 votes
37 in P&J, 20 in p4k

Happy House - the Juan Maclean

notice the number of #1 votes...nothing comes close (including the #1 song)

now time will be alloted for joek winners

SO EXCELLENT

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too bad the youtube is only like 40% of the song

don't really get the love for this

-_-

Yeah, older Juan Maclean stuff really towers over this. *shrug*

The only thing Juan did (that I've heard) before "Happy House" within a nautical mile of it is "Give Me Every Little Thing"

1 - Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
486 points, 35 votes, 15 #1 votes
1 in P&J, 1 in p4k

Okay I'm still a bit nonplussed by the love for Happy House but mad props to ILM for a totally unpredictable top five. Give Me Every Little Thing is way better though.

lol @ that pause moment

So #1 pretty much has to be A Milli, right? Meaning Oxford Comma got the snub.