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Ordered:

B-52's, The - Eyes Wide Open
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
Randy Newman - Feels Like Home
Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan (Richard X Mix)
Torche - Amnesian
Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
Kleerup Ft. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed
MIA - Paper Planes
School Of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
Portishead - The Rip
Q-Tip - Gettin' Up
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
Goldfrapp - A & E
Lambchop - Natl Talk Like A Pirate Day
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Al Green - Lay It Down
Guns N' Roses - Better

TRAX (not ordered):
Ne-Yo - Closer
John Legend F/ Andre 3000 - Green Light
Young Jeezy - Circulate
Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air
Sara Bareilles - Love Song
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad
Erykah Badu - Soldier
Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000
Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Pink - So What
Hot Stylz F/ Yung Joc - Lookin' Boy
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Donk
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Cherish - Killa (Feat. Yung Joc)
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Usher - Trading Places
Trina Ft. Killer Mike - Look Back At Me
Ryan Leslie - Addiction Remix (Ft/ Cassie And Fabolous)
Guns N' Roses - Better

Listening to this "Blind" for the first time now and...huh. Seems definitely not intended for me. Not that it's hostile or something - I just mean that while I don't know anything about dance (?) music, some of the other dance (?) things on this thread managed to prick up my ears, whereas this just kind of slips by. Just weird to find that in a #1, oh well.

(Not saying that it has to check off my personal boxes to be good, just that I'd sort of expected the top ten to be nothing but crossover hits appealing to all segments of ILM, or something.)

Tracks, not ordered:

Cure, The - Underneath The Stars
Erykah Badu - Soldier
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Hercules And Love Affair - You Belong
Jamie Lidell - Another Day
Kanye West - Heartless
Kanye West - Love Lockdown
Lil Wayne - Got Money
Lil Wayne Feat. Static Major - Lollipop
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Mountain Goats, The - Sax Rohmer #1
Portishead - Machine Gun
Portishead - We Carry On
Rihanna - Disturbia
Rihanna - Rehab
Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
T.I. Feat. Rihanna - Live Your Life
Taylor Swift - Love Story

Also... I would have voted for these, had I connected with them in time for the poll like I do now:

49 - Air France - No Excuses (70 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
46 - The Bug - Poison Dart feat. Warrior Queen (75.5 points, 7 votes)
33 - Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home (97 points, 10 votes; 3 votes, 23 points for Prins Thomas Edit)
27 - Alphabeat - Fascination (111 points, 7 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2 - Juan Maclean, The - Happy House (314 points, 22 votes, 8 #1 votes)

Great work Musically. Having done one of the polls a few years ago I know how much work goes into it and I think you had about 30 more ballots than when I did it.

Discovered a few things which I'll have to check out now, most shockingly 'Happy House', didn't rate them much when they surfaced a few years ago so ignored this when it came out. Will have to see what all the fuss is about.

I just want to add my appreciation for musically. Great poll, can't wait for the next one!

musically, thanks for all the work. looking forward to the albums poll.

Yeah, great job on dis poll. Here's my ordered ballot. Happy I wasn't the only one on the Mole song and the Rubies remix.

Usher - Love In The Club
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Dop - I'm Just A Man
Cassie - Official Girl
Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
Rubies - Room Without A Key (Studio Version)
Bug, The - Poison Dart (Ft/ Warrior Queen)
Aeroplane - Whispers
Paleface W/ Kyla - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)
Mole, The - Baby, You're The One
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat
Ryan Leslie - Addiction Remix (Ft/ Cassie And Fabolous)
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Solange Knowles - I Decided Pt. 1
T.I. Feat. Rihanna - Live Your Life
Lil Wayne - A Milli

Musically thanks again for doing this, and doing this so good!

I agree, that was awesome.

lololol (ordered):

Volcano - Palimpsests
Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day
Late Of The Pier - The Enemy Are The Future
Esoteric - Circle
Chap, The - Proper Rock
Youthmovies - Surtsey
Thomas White - The Silence Stops Tonight
Torche - Amnesian
Shit And Shine - Toilet Door Tits
Virgin Passages - This Is Not The End Of The World Again
Late Of The Pier - Focker
M83 - Couleurs
Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Lou
Portishead - Machine Gun
TV On The Radio - Halfway Home
M83 - Graveyard Girl
Fall, The - 50 Year Old Man
Portishead - The Rip
Portishead - We Carry On
Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists

I think I need to hear a bit more R&B/dancepop, y'all need to hear a bit more alt/experimental rock, yah, deal?

46.5 - Pussycat Dolls - I Hate This Part
37.5 - Teedra Moses - So Kool
32 - Wookie Ft Ny - Falling Again
21 - Trina Ft. Killer Mike - Look Back At Me

^^^heyyyy who was with me on these ones? show your faces so i can give u a hi-5 <3

eight points from me for "I Hate This Part". hopefully i'm gonna go see them live in a few weeks time!

btw big thank you for all this to musically from a semi-lurker

i definitely voted for "Look Back At Me," was really happy to see it got nominated

ordered, I had to reach a bit for some of these cause I am much more of an album person than a track person...

Fall, The - 50 Year Old Man
Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns
El Guincho - Palmitos Park
MIA - Paper Planes
Bjork - Earth Intruders (Xxxhchange Remix)
Fall, The - Wolf Kidult Man
Paavoharju - Uskallan
Portishead - Machine Gun
Fall, The - Taurig
Stereolab - Three Women
Wire - One Of Us
David Byrne And Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Bug, The - Poison Dart (Ft/ Warrior Queen)
Beck - Gamma Ray
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens
Portishead - The Rip
Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
Wire - Perspex Icon
MIA - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
B-52's, The - Eyes Wide Open

in retrospect I should have placed that B-52s track much higher.

My ballot (ordered):

Air France - No Excuses
MGMT - Electric Feel
TV On The Radio - Family Tree
Anoraak - Nightdrive With You
Chris Brown - With You
Portishead - The Rip
Cut Copy - So Haunted
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
Kanye West - Love Lockdown
Audion - Billy Says Go
TV On The Radio - Golden Age
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo <------- never heard of this before someone made the case for it in the voting thread
Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (Aeroplane Rmx)
Portishead - Machine Gun
Wolfgang Gartner - Circles
High Places - From Stardust To Sentience <-------- disappointed this didn't place higher
TV On The Radio - Halfway Home


I nominated Benga, 26 Basslines, and then forgot to vote for it.

& would definitely have voted for Alphabeat, Fascination, if I'd heard it in time.

Nice "Paris" mix by Justus Kohncke...

nice

the #1 vote for "A Milli" was me btw :)

I was the #1 for Ida Maria. I can see myself still listening to that song in 10 years.

1. Musically: huge, huge respect.

2. Anyone who said anything even remotely like "wau wau wau why can't everyone like the same music as me s'not fair" and has failed to appreciate that ILM is a broad church of sometimes impressively diverse opinion: respect withdrawn, at least temporarily.

3. My list (ordered):

Temper Trap, The - Sweet Disposition
Kylie Minogue - The One
Mountain Goats, The - San Bernadino
Jesu - Farewell (Alternative Version)
MGMT - Time To Pretend
TV On The Radio - Family Tree
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Friendly Fires - Paris (Feat. Au Revoir Simone)(Aeroplane Remix)
Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud
TV On The Radio - Halfway Home
Fall, The - 50 Year Old Man
M83 - Couleurs
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Ting Tings, The - That's Not My Name
Portishead - Machine Gun
Wire - One Of Us
M83 - We Own The Sky
David Byrne And Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Sigur Ros - Ara Batur
Goldfrapp - A & E

this is what i turned in

(ordered)
TRAX
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
Grind Mode - I'm So High
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Hood Headlinaz F/ Jackie Chain & Jhi-Ali - Rollin'
Chris Brown - Forever
Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists

Kanye West - Love Lockdown
T-Pain Ft. Chris Brown - Freeze
Wiley - If You're Going Out I'm Going Out Too
Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
Ne-Yo - Closer
T-Pain - Chopped N Skrewed
Young Jeezy - Circulate
T-Pain - Can't Believe It
Ciara - Echo
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad

yeah musically, this was really great!

here's my ordered list (statistical outlier = me)

Coyote - Too Hard (Aeroplane Mix)
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep
Erykah Badu - The Cell
Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns
Beck - Gamma Ray
Jamie Lloyd - May I? (Quarion Mix)
Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better
Luomo Ft. Sascha Ring Aka Apparat - Love You All
Barbara Morgenstern - Come To Berlin (Telefon Tel Aviv Mix)
Ricardo Villalobos - Minimoonstar (Shackleton Remix)
Omar-S - Psychotic Photosynthesis
Syclops - Where's Jason's K?
Cassy - April
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
My My - Everybody's Talkin
Dirk Leyers - Alma
Matias Aguayo - Minimal
Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (Aeroplane Rmx)
Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
Oracy - Hold Me
Richard Bartz - Diamond Girl

I've just looked back on the 2007 list and this one was way better.

^yeah

eight points from me for "I Hate This Part". hopefully i'm gonna go see them live in a few weeks time!

they are GREAT live. nicole is a force of nature.

i definitely voted for "Look Back At Me," was really happy to see it got nominated

it was ages before i realised it was basically trina's 'a milli' - not consciously i don't think, but they work in exactly the same way, a sparse beat which is barely there and totally extra at the same time, which just magnifies trina/wayne spitting o_0 weirdness.

also regretting not voting for brandy's '1st & love' now

the friendly fires aeroplane remix was a great recent revelation which i may well have voted for had i heard it in time - avoided it as hated the original but it's SO GOOOOD

yeah luckily it's nothing like the original at all.

exactly. it really should have been voted as a separate track. best find due to this poll for me by far.

yeah i had not even heard of that track before this thread, and when i listened to it, i jsut thought "hm this is like a slightly above-average DFA track". then i found out it actually was a slightly above average (imo) DFA track. apparently there was more to/of the song though?

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― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Friday, February 6, 2009 7:16 PM Bookmark

Yes, the whole song is 13 minutes long and has a couple whole distinct movements to it that aren't in the youtube video. If it didn't have those other parts it would just be a really good DFA track, but with them it is WAU.

i will track the full vers down

hang on what 13 mins?? i've been listening to a 9-min one all year, maybe this is why it's like my 30th favourite track and not 1st. 13 minutes! show me!

ill upload it and hit you two on last.fm

and me please?

The streaming 12 minute version can be found here (wow, quick Google search, imagine that!):

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/49152-the-juan-maclean-happy-house-stream

Also, here:

http://www.prefixmag.com/media/the-juan-maclean/happy-house/17681/

The 9-minute version that surfaced first was cut out of a mix. There's a whole nother section that didn't get used in that mix.

The full-length version is also available as a full track on Last.fm. I know because I listened to it earlier this evening. It bored me shitless.

Actually, no: there was one interesting bit towards the end when the bass got slightly evil. But, y'know, that still left 11'30" of tedium.

I truly think most of Juan's debut album is better than "Happy House," which is nice but in no way exceptional or terrific.

I'd also take three or four songs on the Hercules album before I'd pick "Blind" as the go-to track. But that's Internet era consensus for you...

Sorry to braek hart, Rev, but the four minutes of Happy House posted above actually made me not want to track down the other 8, it just seems so mundane

(but I can probably be fairly accused of having little ear for what makes a great house track)

thankig u in advance j0rdan, u a bro. ill pick it up when i get back tonight

Thanks Jordan!

np

Bits of it remind me of what I liked about Tide-era Matthew Dear, but not as much.

Tracks (ordered)
Cassie - Official Girl
Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air
David Archuleta - Crush
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Colby O'Donis - What You Got(Ft Akon)
Mahjongg - Rise Rice
Rihanna - Rehab
Lil Mama - L.I.F.E.
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Cherish - Killa (Feat. Yung Joc)
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Paleface W/ Kyla - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)
Kleerup Feat. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed (Mikael's Cello Version)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
MGMT - Kids