Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

(and sorry dudes about the only stuff on here i really much like, i am obv not wired to accurately process crazy cousinz or that fuzzy logic thing)

xpost: well until today i thought i liked most of them? also i see what you are doing there you scamp

no i see what you mean _Rudipherous_, and reverend too. it's like the sort of first-person narrative that had the first wave of gangsta rappers trying to reject that label for "reality rap" with tracks a sort of embedded reportage. like chuck d saw the lineage from PE to NWA. but there is exhilaration in it, he's not going to lie down and die, he's going to get money, so throws himself into it headlong. it's complicated.

there was a thread where people were talking about his real name, suddenly realised i had no idea and had to wikipedia it. that thread also taught me that this one old pj harvey song is actually a dylan cover :(

OK, I hate Dylan as much as the next guy (and thought that his placement on this poll was a joke, since I've heard nothing but derision for that Xmas album, even among Dylan stans), but this is ridic. The name of the song is "Highway 61 Revisited"!!!

pretty sure lex got all these reactions in the first thread.

is that a sort of cajun thing that's the basis of the dylan track? sounds like shane mcgowan to me.

lol jaymc + all these reactions are otm tho

Sounds more like tom-waits-cum-klezmer music to me. xp

(but yeah, it's equally zydeco-ish)

just to be clear i had heard of this bob dylan fellow

xps: ehhh, it seems only natural that the lower reaches will be filled with relative minority concerns. wait for the top places for the big consensus picks.

jj apparently has not been reading the funky house thread

whoops

we will make you a uk funky fan yet ;)

hahaha once again the ilx trax poll makes me certain that i am from space and just a visitor on your 2009 planet

― srsly? im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (jjjusten)

had you heard more than one of these songs? then you have me beat.

Thanks musically. I love nearly all of these songs. You chose good.

"IN THE MORNING" and the martyn remix of "seven" getting recognition!!!! ilx ilu, this is making me v satisfied - i'm not even sure whether i voted for half the stuff i love that's come up so far but it's so good to see it place. this list is ridiculously strong and honestly puts all the other polls to shame.

lol @ three fever ray tracks placing though - love the album but on its poll thread everyone seemed to be like "man, too difficult to isolate one, it works best as an ALBUM" so this is kind of unexpected

fever ray more like zzzzz ray amirite

I'm guilty of voting for a Fever Ray single (I think, iirc), but seeing three of them in the bottom 20 is kind of ridiculous.

The one vid I played so far is that Dylan one.

Is his hair alright?

And why was that guy smashing the place up?

You should check out some of the other songs Mark. You might like the Memory Tapes one?

I know, I should...

the way everything's structured on Inflation is exquisite, working on that snare while those strings and whoops build&then perfect deployment of that xylophone (2009 has been the best ever year for synth xylophone&this is the peak). feels like a breakthrough, stylistically, or at least an awesome detour, i've never heard funky w/that space and tension before, and also it's banging. worthy of anyone's time.

^OTM Inflation blew me away...UK Funky might just have a new fan.

:-)

no less than three anco album trax on this list, calling it now dorks

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:20 PM

you meant Fever Ray, right

well both probably, plus phoenix and YYYs with at least two as well

the way everything's structured on Inflation is exquisite, working on that snare while those strings and whoops build&then perfect deployment of that xylophone (2009 has been the best ever year for synth xylophone&this is the peak). feels like a breakthrough, stylistically, or at least an awesome detour, i've never heard funky w/that space and tension before, and also it's banging. worthy of anyone's time.

― ogmor, Friday, January 29, 2010 2:26 AM (5 hours ago)

you should check out this 30 year old ditty which that part immediately reminded me of when i first heard Inflation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJHqR6PqDV4

2009 has been the best ever year for synth xylophone

I love this quote. Hoping that 2010 can build on that success!

40 (Big Boi) - Second listen, remains pleasant - I think I'll walk around today and see if it ends up popping into my head all the time (which "Raindrops," "Hysteric," and "Trap Goin Ham" have all pulled off so far). I might DL this and keep it in rotation.

39 (Fever Ray) - Oh no, the wookies have been overthrown by a tribe of elvish Vikings mourning their lost loves from the mountaintops! And conducting freaky seances in suburban backyards, apparently. Actually this is much better than the goofy chanting one. Wouldn't mind a full record of this going on in the background, but since the chanting is apparently the killer, high-energy first track on the album I might be SOL.

38 (Florence, Machine, and Jamie xx Re-Work?) - I bet this sounds great on less shitty speakers. Right now feels a bit empty on the bass end. But a nice enough thing, I like the parts when the remix people are fucking with it more, the main singing stuff is a little too off-the-shelf soulful for me. I bet Fergie could do a good cover of this.

37 (Lindstroem & Prins Thomas) - By this time I'm super suspicious of anything where an O has a slashy line through it - shit never works out - but this is groovy! My copy has a glitch though, somebody took out the lead vocal that's clearly supposed to be here. I keep waiting for "Fresh" Prins Thomas to start dropping some Norwegian science but no. Don't get me wrong, this is fucking great music but if there's nothing to sing along to I can't figure what use to put this to. Ahh fuck, this is pretty good. The other tracks on Myspace aren't quite as killer but, whatever. Do y'all think I'll be able to find this at the record store?

36 (Gucci Mane) - Not quite getting this one. Pretty sluggish. Don't know why Blink-182 gets crucified for imagined red cups between takes and these guys can actually have them in the video and nothing bad happens. I mean I guess it's a pisstake of a frat party or something but there's not a lot going on here.

30 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)(11 votes, 114 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (214 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kI5zc9JDgg

o sweet!

Don't get me wrong, this is fucking great music but if there's nothing to sing along to I can't figure what use to put this to.

o_O

Wouldn't mind a full record of this going on in the background, but since the chanting is apparently the killer, high-energy first track on the album I might be SOL.

I would consider drastically readjusting your preconceived notions here.

pretty cool to see that show up, since I like it way more than the one that tends to get more EOY list love, "9X Outta 10." can't remember if I voted for it or some other BlaQKout cut, though. xpost

that's cool. i went for "9 x outta 10," but i'd be happy for them both to make it. i didn't love that album overall the way some people did, but the highlights are pretty high.

HEY PLAYA :D

i have more affection for "hey playa", more admiration for "9xs", and a lot of the time default to "watcha wan do" or "ohh!" instead.

i let all the quik and kurupt singles pass in favor of pushing that for best album, but i do love me some hey playa

nice tune & all (& I voted for a different DJQ/K track) but the trad satin "Compton" cap & jheri curl look suited DJ Quik a lot better than the beach-bum thing he's got going on in that video.

awesome song of course, i bet "9x outta 10" is really high as well

29 -- House of House - Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets) (11 votes, 114.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (148 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2qXAifCMnk

love that track, so epic

also how in god's name did it take so long for someone to use "house of house" as a band name

Very happy to see House of House (my #2) make it. Are there any dance tracks anyone expects to see in the rest of the list, tho? Hyph Mngo maybe?

almost certainly. and i'd be surprised if a joker track didn't get on as well.

Yeah, the bobbins massive seems to be pwning this poll.

DJ Quik & Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)(11 votes

o take a bow you fine ladies and gentlemen

still kicking as a potential #1 on the singles jukebox countdown as well, when and if that finishes

the trad satin "Compton" cap & jheri curl look suited DJ Quik a lot better than the beach-bum thing he's got going on in that video

right, on a fuckin' camel. stop living in the past, man.

28 -- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love (9 votes, 116 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (481 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6T3I_Zskfs