on the evidence so far, it doesn't seem like too many people understand the concept of saving votes for their most appropriate poll.
EVERYONE needs that permanent vacation comp imo
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I understand it more with the likes of The Knife who have great tracks and dull tracks, but Portishead don't really have peaks and troughs (to me anyway, 'The Rip' excepted)
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
15 of my votes have made it and i'm pretty confident that another 14 (maybe 15) of them will show up in the top 20
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh? I'll be pleased if I get to 13 or 14 in total - there isn't a poll yet has ended as I thought it might.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
if i get 3 or 4 of my picks included then that would be a record for ilm trax polls for me. But it's not really something to complain about, but i cant help being surprised by the lack of radiohead, i dont see anything else by them placing. Portishead I'm sure will get 2 entries tomorrow.Wonder how much crossover there will be with the tracks & albums poll.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
My guess at what will hit the Top 20:
Amerie - 1 ThingBattles - AtlasBurial - ArchangelCiara - PromiseDJ Quik and Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)Girls Aloud - BiologyGnarls Barkley - CrazyHercules and Love Affair - BlindKate Bush - NocturneKelly Clarkson - Since U Been GoneLCD Soundsystem - All My FriendsLil Wayne - A MilliLindstrom - I Feel SpaceM.I.A. - Paper PlanesPortishead - The RipRihanna - Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)T.I. - What You Knowthe juan maclean - happy houseThree 6 Mafia featuring Young Buck and 8Ball & MJG - Stay Fly
And one other, probably a bit indie-friendly dance track (I'll Be By Your Side/Whispers/Way Out/Saturn Strobe/some cobblers by M83)
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually there are loads more that could make it. I think I'm being optimistic about Young Folks not appearing.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
eh my feeling would be that even people who initially liked Young Folks will be sick to death of it by now?
I'm torn between wanting to see I Feel Space up high and wanting it to directly follow Paris, as I've developed a bit of a Pavlovian need for when I listen to the latter.
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
do people still really like 'young folks'?
― ciderpress, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i definitely don't think kate bush will place - aerial almost certainly will, but it seems very far away (in time and in sound), i'm not sure anyone will bother isolating any track from it. (do this poll in 2013 and you'd probably see the same effect w/r/t third).
not sure about burial or quik & kurupt either. or ciara tbh, "promise" won't get nearly the same number of casual voters as "oh".
fucking gnarls barkley! just cuz a song is that popular doesn't mean it's anything special!
if "i feel space" places, why not "in white rooms" or "way out"?
still holding out a forlorn hope for "ihre persönliche glücksmelodie"...
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
o whoops you already mentioned "way out"
um, "relevee"? maybe? that was hugely popular at the time iirc
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
any chance of a pure "wtf this track is amazing but didnt think enough ilxors had heard of it for it to place" entry in the top 20?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"With Every Heartbeat" and "Fake Empire"
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not my answer to that question, lol
Because the Lindstrom fan club is the biggest and most vocal, and Lindstrom always does well in these things, and he only has one track in there, and Booka Shade/Ellen Allien don't. Not sure about Kate Bush but there's only one track in the poll and people might unite behind it.
I don't like Crazy at all but ffs of course it's going to place. If Cassie can make this then Promise is definitely gonna be in there.
I forgot North American Scum, which is in with a chance as well.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I really think 'Nocturn' should place, but it was my nomination and iirc was done pretty late on, so I don't have high hopes for it sadly.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
no, no chance at all.
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
so annoyed i missed my chance to vote
― plax (ico), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
no chance for that but what about Tribulations?
― ciderpress, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
so annoyed i missed my chance to vote― plax (ico),
― plax (ico),
T, you say that just about every poll :)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i'll scratch off "fake empire," seeing how low it placed in the 07 poll
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I won't give away any spoilers other than to say that a total of 23 first place votes are spent over the course of the top 20 tracks, and #1 has the most of them.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
how many dont have a #1 vote?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
8 of the 20.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 July 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
beginning to seriously fear an All My Friends or a Paper Planes #1 - two songs I absolutely and fervently loathe with a visceral passion that eclipses any negative feelings I might bear to the other 98 tracks in this poll
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lj maybe "Circle" will be a surprise top 10 entry ;)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
29 points down, 375 to go
haha I was listening to Circle earlier and goddamn I said to myself goddamn this shit is real
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Monday, 5 July 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
my predictions for the top 20 that Matt DC didn't cover: "Bad Romance" and "International Player's Anthem"
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I'd originally thought International Player's Anthem, probably deserves to be in there. Bad Romance is the head-slap "oh of course" one.
Okay forget aobut Nocturne placing then...
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Outside bets-
Gucci Mane?Britney?Dizzee? (Did Pussyole get nommed? Wiley and Dizzee the two biggest sufferers in my votes I guess.)Another song by The-Dream. Or another 4 songs by The-Dream.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
If Wearing My Rolex couldn't crack the top 50 there's no way any Dizzee single will. Britney not appearing in the top 100 at all would certainly be weird...
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow Roisin made the list! Fucking right!
― rennavate, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Still Tippin? I think I could easily damn ilm to hell forever if it doesn't make it over Ridin Dirty as the only Houston hiphop track.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lex, "promise" will make it, and hopefully top 10
― we hold these goofs to be self-permabanned (k3vin k.), Monday, 5 July 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― ciderpress, Monday, July 5, 2010 4:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i like this song, more than stillness is the move even
― blap...tremendo (deej), Monday, 5 July 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh im not too into a lot of the rap songs here, or theyd be like ... low on my list. 'throw some d's is not my idea of a great rap song, cool beat but i dunno. rich boy is so workmanlike & boring -- hes the ultimate inverse of everyone's stereotype of nas, picks perfect beats but has a clumsy hardheadedness in style
― blap...tremendo (deej), Monday, 5 July 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not really into 'Young Folks', but I like the bit that sounds like Shakira.
― emil.y, Monday, 5 July 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think a lot of people would disagree about Rich Boy being boring and there's a reason the one song of his everyone loves is the one with a super-memorable Polow verse
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i know i just ... have trouble caring about a lot of one-hit wonder rapper dudes these days. popism rules rip
― blap...tremendo (deej), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"every freak should have a picture of my dick on they wall" was the "I don't wear tight jeans like the white boys" of its day
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
did you even vote dude?
no -- i just wanted to hate on this average song & big up 'young folks'
― blap...tremendo (deej), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Only six of mine have shown up so far, though there are at least three I expect to see in the top 20 (obvious Burial/Juan Maclean/LCD picks). What has surprised me most is the lack of surprises - we have the big pop hits, the big Pitchfork/GAPDY tracks, the hip-hop tracks (which maybe intersect the "big pop hits" if you're in the US, I don't know), but there's nothing that makes me go "wow that's amazing, how come I never heard that before?". Rej is the closest, I guess.
Oh, and Young Folks wtf - is this seriously going to chart?
― seandalai, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll be ecstatic if any Air France/Ikonika/Holy Ghost!/Paavoharju make it but I can't see it happening.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
shit this also means no fantasia? i can't be the only one who voted for "when i see u"
― we hold these goofs to be self-permabanned (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
brainwasher in the house?
― we hold these goofs to be self-permabanned (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
― kind of trill and very self-righteous (some dude), Monday, July 5, 2010 8:04 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
more like the "white girls fun, cuz all them swallow" of its day
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i really do think that in general, rich boy is a good but not great rapper, workmanlike who def fails when the production around him is rote -- but the verses are truly great on that song -- he just wrote the verses of his life
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link