bad singing, stupid lyrics, lame kanye verse, good beat that was recycled wholesale from a song released months earlier (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
J0rdan hittin the nail on the head imo
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
most cringeworthy part is the line about how she doesn't like his baggy jeans but might like what's underneath them x_X
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
You cats is no fun.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh yes such failed sexy (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
also i still thing the chorus sounds like the Green Acres theme
failed sexy is one of the worst qualities music can have
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
^ how I feel about Barry White's whole catalogue.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
we are not going to see eye to eye
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i loved that estelle single with sean paul tho -- think it's def in the canon of classic sean paul duets
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 July 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean obviously what is sexy and what is not is totally subjective, but goddamn
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I never really thought of American Boy as a sexy song, but a flirty song.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I like "American Boy" mostly because it's hard for me to resist hip-hop that's so indebted to luxuriant disco.
― jaymc, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it feel really fancy! like how airplane travel used to be glamorous.
anyway i haven't really thought about that song very hard other than i like it
― the reverend dr. william wiggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 July 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Mexico, camp, horns, Zappa, Mr. Bungle (Matos W.K.), Friday, 2 July 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
sure, but that doesn't even slightly change my opinion of it
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i like american boy ok (it kinda wore me down actually) but it would have made more sense in the 80s than the 40s
― call all destroyer, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it reminds me of catch me if you can sorta even though the time periods don't jibe
― the reverend dr. william wiggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 July 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's totally the aesthetic it's going for...it gets maybe 2/3s of the way there
― call all destroyer, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the line about the baggy jeans. most lines about wanting dick are good in my book. in all honesty though it did take me quite a while to warm up to "american boy" but eventually i did realize that it is a very nice track.
my ballot... i have 6/40 so far + 1 other that i nom'd but didn't vote for. it's an absurdly poptimist ballot.
― teledyldonix, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It took me a second to figure out why you were doing it out of 40 instead of 60, but then I realized you were using your ballot instead of the final list as the metric.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ohhhh right. same diff.
― teledyldonix, Friday, 2 July 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't realize midlake was a thing. will give it a go and stop ignorning them/confusing them with clearlake.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Friday, 2 July 2010 19:57 (2 hours ago)
Yes, me too - and monolake also. This reminds me of Iron and Wine for whom I'd have voted, if I'd have voted at all.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Iron & Wine EP w/ Calexico (2005) is unfuckwithable imo
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been meaning to listen to that for five years.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
theres zero other midlake songs i like but i <3 roscoe so much
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Johnny Fever: listen to it ASAP! It's incredible!
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
is it good? i only really like that shepherd's dog album (and i mean really like). the rest is too ellito-smith-y for me.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts
couldnt bring myself to vote for d.a.n.c.e, hollaback girl, or gold digger. they are good songs, but trapped in time for me
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
(also - elliot smith, obv)
man, calexico is one of those bands where i've like EVERYTHING i've heard by them and then i always forget about them and never buy anything, i should correct that asap
isn't "feast of wire" the one to get?
― the reverend dr. william wiggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The Calexico EP and the Woman King EP are both excellent.
xpost
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
In The Reins is SO good. Seriously. I will post YouTubes here: Iron and Wine/Calexico In the Reins
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
okay getting these now.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a "poptimist" list insofar as some of the poptimist tracks are mediocre, but i definitely wouldn't call it a poptmist ballot overall - those last 20 were like a pitchfork list
xps
― youngdel griffith (k3vin k.), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
can I just chime in how much I hate the word "poptimist"?
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
rocksessimist
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not very nice being a fan of "indie" music and being called a pitchforker either. i very rarely read pitchfork.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
dubsteptimist
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
witchhousesessimist
― ksh, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like i have no idea whats in the top 40 other than like ~10 songs maybe
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
if DANCE made it in, will "We Are Your Friends"?
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't it too old? (maybe not, I can't remember.) (also, I probably just gave away the fact that it didn't make this list.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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when you did out of 60 instead of 40 earlier, for a sec i went "hey did the poll organizers get to have longer ballots than the rest of us!?"
― some dude, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
If anything, I would've had a smaller ballot. Less to enter and count.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
johnny - yep apparently it came originally came out in 2003(!) although I remember it being really popular around 06 or something i think.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I LOVED people who submitted ballots with fewer than 40 slots. Especially the one that only voted for a single track (which was "Roscoe," btw).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Johnny c post about dance, gold digger etc v otm
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe thats why there was a lot of 09 tracks -- don't seem so trapped in time
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link