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)

In years to come people will look back and feel foolish for not having recognised its world-beating classicness earlier.

nah

what don't you like about it again steve?

Tim I was actually torn between Hey Playa and Inflation for #1 but I knew you'd be putting the latter in the top spot and I thought that might give it the push it needed to make the list. Given only Bongo Jam made it last year I thought here might be some major UK funky vote-splitting. Wonder who else voted it #1?

Steve makes it his business to not like the funky he's supposed to like.

Think the reason Inflation is so great is that it's got a tempo and momentum that's just total peak time, especially the rising xylophones that correspond with the "wind up and wind up and wind up" in the Aidonia version. I could totally imagine it working in straight up commercial house sets and even in trance sets if need be. It's got a sort of homespun euphoric e-transcendence feel that you don't get much of in funky.

Steve makes it his business to not like the funkymusic he's supposed to like.

to not like the funky he's supposed to like

to not like the funky everyone else likes is more accurate i guess :) but i don't hate it, just don't see the big fuss (i don't really like xylo/marimba as a lead instrument and it may just come down to that).

i don't really like xylo/marimba as a lead instrument

!!!! You are dead to me now.

i long for saxophone to replace it

were there any big Inflation imitators last year? as in instrumentals with extended solos going for epic vibes?

if sax solos had been big this year i BET you'd have complained about them as well

it's tough being a critic

xxp Kentphonik, "Sunday Showers"

it's ok, not nearly as energetic as "Inflation"

That predates "Inflation" though, yeah?

Funkystepz's "Sounds In Moruga" is a "Sunday Showers" imitator, which is a shame 'cos those guys would probably do an excellent "Inflation" imitation.

oh, I only heard it afterwards, but I guess it prob is it's on the mix disc from Volumes: One, which iirc came out around the same time as the "Funky Anthem" single

"sunday showers" originally came out in 2007 - it's an old house cut that found a new lease of life w/the emergence of funky (same with blackcoffee's "you turn me on") (and i guess similar to how "who's afraid of detroit" kept, and still keeps, popping up on funky comps and in funky sets)

Some of funky's canonical old house is so random, like, ultra nate's "love's the only drug" - great track, but why that and not other diva house??

wowie wowie, listening to "Baby Can't Stop" for the first time now and it is A++. Is this on the same Lindstrom album as Tirsdagsjam from further up in the poll? I'm totally digging both of them at this point, would buy such a record.

No, it's on lindstrom & christabelle (aka solale) - real life is no cool - different album, very different in feel.

Aeroplane remix >>>>>>> original

A lot of stuff from this thread is growing on me now that I just have it in a playlist and it's coming around unbidden - "Shine Blockas" for example is sounding really really nice. Thanks once again to musically and the group at large, I say this over and over again but this is such a great way to discover some new shit. Somehow way more reliable and interesting than say the P4K list, which many years ago would have served the same role for me...

Still kinda bewildered that no Fuck Buttons track ended up here , but guess we all had our favoured tracks. Assume it'll be the albums top50 - which starts tomorrow?

Inflation was my #1, repped for it upthread. List goes a bit crap towards the top but some great stuff on here, Lemonade the only thing I really thought shld have made it.

kinda glad there's no fuck buttons on this list

woulda liked to have seen surf solar

Fuck Buttons vote probably mad split, given how consistent the album is maybe there was just no consensus on the best track. I'd expect it to go top 10 in the albums poll, maybe even top 5.

I might be completely wrong about this, but Inflation reminds me of Township Funk by DJ Mujava.

wowie wowie, listening to "Baby Can't Stop" for the first time now and it is A++. Is this on the same Lindstrom album as Tirsdagsjam from further up in the poll? I'm totally digging both of them at this point, would buy such a record.

― Doctor Casino

No, it's on lindstrom & christabelle (aka solale) - real life is no cool - different album, very different in feel.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC)

also Tirsdagsjam isn't from any album

And can we not take the "If you don't like this, you must not get out much" line? Nice strawman there.

ironically enough i never go out AT ALL, yet "I Gotta Feeling" was my number one (i think. Musically?). (hey, maybe it works better if you have to imagine the party in yr head like. but what do i know.)

It totally sounds more like some idealized party than an actual party.

^^^and that's largely what makes it so fucking great imo.

heh, a party song for people who don't party. i'd be tempted to go w/that but it's patently not true. it's a party song who don't party how i like to party, which tbh is the best way of partying.

insert *for people somewhere, bleh

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BEP track just sounds tacky in every single way - like someone just loaded a bunch of samples into Redrum and pressed play. Strange for a band who should sound polished to a shine.

I'm aware that some people on ILX/Singles Jukebox like her, so I'm not surprised she's appearing in this poll; apart from that, I know she played the same room here that I've been to to see Art Brut, the Reels, and the bassist from Pink Floyd do stand-up.

turns out that this week she played a 21,000 seater sports arena here, lol 2008

heh, a party song for people who don't party

OTM x100. Scientific proof below.

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

tombot?

I honestly don't believe I have ever seen anything dorkier in my entire life.

status update on the Albums?

I will start tomorrow, yeah I suck but w/e you get what you pay for!

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"I Gotta Feeling" : parties :: "Empire State of Mind" : New York

haha

"Empire State of Mind" : New York :: "I Got a Crush..." : Obama

I have to feeling
That tonight's going to be a good night

Albums have started!

50 -- Royksopp feat Robyn - The Girl and the Robot -pointless
49 -- Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite -depressing to remember
48 -- Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes - not v good
47 -- Electrik Red - So Good - v good
46 -- Memory Tapes - Bicycle sounds apalling
45 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric ???
44 -- Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart - this girl i used to live with that was always borrowing cameras and taking pictures of herself when stoned liked the knife she also stole my ice cream. i did not live with her in 2009 so i don't know if she liked this song.
44 -- Basement Jaxx - Raindrops - don't remember this at all
42 -- Guido - Way U Make Me Feel - hate the title
41 -- Pill - Trap Goin Ham - ?
40 -- Big Boi feat. Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas - dont know this
39 -- Fever Ray - When I Grow Up - this was definitely on my itunes and i can hum it.
38 -- Florence & the Machine - You Got the Love (Jamie xx Re-Work) i remember really liking this but its actually only ok
37 -- Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Tirsdagsjam never heard
36 -- Gucci Mane ft. Plies - Wasted -??? i think plies is a rubbish rapper name
35 -- Crazy Cousinz - Inflation - deflation, implosion, matter becomes something that existed before matter
34 -- Washed Out - Feel It All Around - i have always found this to be a pretty unlovely song
33 -- Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa - this is a real novelty youtube hit at christmas.
32 -- Fuzzy Logic feat. Egypt - In The Morning - i have no idea what this is
31 -- Fever Ray - Seven -I had this on my iTunes but i cant remember how it goes.
30 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt - I got a friend really into this album but i don't know if i really bothered to listen to it more than once.
29 -- House of House - Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets) - i loved this and my main memory of it is listening to it on headphones while working in the stockroom of a chocolate shop i worked in and where i would literally eat so many chocolates every day.
28 -- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love - there is a video of azari and iii playing at xoyo on youtube where you can see me dancing in the front row
27 -- Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer - good clean fun
26 -- The-Dream - Rockin That Shit - so fun
25 -- Lady Gaga - Paparazzi - ghastly
24 -- Lady Gaga - Poker Face - dismal
23 -- Girls - Lust for Life - this doesn't interest me but i know what it is
22 -- Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - Blame It - boringly dumb
21 -- Taylor Swift - Love Story - most teenage girls write genuinely more interesting poetry than this
20 -- Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys) my boyfriend swore blind at me that he remembers hearing this song in the 80s in dublin but i looked it up on wikipedia and his is definitly wrong. i also hate it.
19 -- Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea - i don't know what this is but it is obviously for people who are active with the socialist society at their university
18 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero - pretty pointless
17 -- The xx - Crystalised - i will still listen to this
16 -- Maxwell - Pretty Wings - i can't hum this but once when i was stoned i made a track on garageband with the piano from the beginning of this and a bit of MIA vocals
15 -- Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo - I heard this almost every time i went dancing at this point but this says as much about the clubs i was going to at the time
14 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt – i have definitely listened to this but i literally only remember the name
13 -- Phoenix - 1901 - i listened to this a lot and i have no idea why looking back
12 -- Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling - was this at some point used ironically in a drink driving ad?
11 -- The-Dream - Fancy - this is still amazing
10 --The Juan Maclean - One Day - idk
09 -- Lily Allen - The Fear - i dont recall this song specifically but lily allen should obviously be killed
08 -- Shakira - She Wolf - i don't remember exactly how it went but it did have this insane video fo shakira dancing in a cage right?
07 -- Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move - lol
06 -- Lindstrom and Christabelle – Baby I Can't Stop - this is amazing
05 -- Phoenix - Lisztomania - the guys voice is annoying and the production is boring
04 -- Animal Collective - My Girls - haha so rubbish
03 -- Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - annoying
02 -- Bat for Lashes - Daniel - i went to a festival once where soul ii soul were playing on the main stage and it was sunnyish but immediately as they came on stage it suddenly turned to torrential rain and literally everybody who had waited for them to come on ran in the direction of the tents and the first tend was a p small tent where bat for lashes was just finishing her set and it went from empty to full and it seemed really funny but i can't remember anything specific about her music now.
01 -- Pleasure P feat. Flo Rida - Boyfriend #2 - no idea
01 -- Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me - hahaha i can almost hear this in my head but not quite. taylor swift is not really a very interesting songwriter or pop cultural presence imo.

YYY's "Zero" is great as hell, dude.

Oh shit, five years since GAPDY?!?!