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- dunno why i'm still surprised at the amount of love 'lollipop' gets vis à vis a) wayne's output overall b) wayne's output in 2009 c) hip-hop in 2009, but it's definitely perplexing - i don't dislike it at all but c'mon, really?
- cosine those repping for the og 'minimal' above the missing-the-point koze rmx
- 'disturbia' is merely ok - rihanna never needs to be autotuned ever again but the lyrics are great & the hook is undeniable; lol @ dumb-dumb-de-dumb, dumb-dumb-de-dumb-dumb though, it's funny cuz it's true
- 'official girl' is INCREDIBLE, i expended maybe more words on cassie than any other artist in 2008, so no more here
- ting tings ughhhhh, how can you

I am merely loving how wondrously sore-thumb the HMHB song is and will continue to be in this poll

- dunno why i'm still surprised at the amount of love 'lollipop' gets vis à vis a) wayne's output overall b) wayne's output in 2009 c) hip-hop in 2009, but it's definitely perplexing - i don't dislike it at all but c'mon, really?

yeah word -- as a fan of plenty of autotune/ringtone singles, that's one that is just way too long and doesn't have much of a hook, don't hate it so much as i don't get it.

oh yeah i forgot to slag off the HMHB song and what i assume was the bloc-voting borne out of terrible taste to get it here in the 1st place

xp

yeah it's just wayne jumping on a bandwagon in a really rote way - a good bandwagon but 'lollipop' has been done so many times, often better. and yeah god SO UNNECESSARILY LONG

if anything "Lollipop" really made me go back and appreciate "Sensual Seduction" a lot more

32 - Goldfrapp - A & E
98 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote
50 in P&J, 73 in p4k

please everyone, hold your comments about goldfrapp!

31 - Ne-Yo - Closer
98.5 points, 10 votes
25 in P&J

closer = R&B single of the year.
― titchyschneiderMk2

Guess it would have made more sense to vote for this instead of "Single". I burnt out on it by the end of the year though.

man you know i love you guys but thank god we are only on #31.

damn, "closer" is a great song, but i'd definitely take "single" or "mad" over it. hope those two didnt suffer from vote-splitting. YOTG was my car soundtrack for the second part of the winter

Completely forgot to vote for "Mad", damn.

anyway, that's it for today. don't have anything much to say about #30, but it's in Pitchfork's top 10. see you tomorrow.

miss independent is the best of them all

'Put A Donk On It' isn't going to be in this list is it? Damn you HMHB crew for not putting your comedy block vote to better use.

I was waiting for the Enigma remix - 'Put A Monk On It'

if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it

donk was my #1 fyi

please everyone, hold your comments about goldfrapp!

Considering A&E kinda snuck on to the end of my tracks list, I'm delighted to see it get some love. I still can't make up my mind about Goldfrapp in general, but there's something about that last album -- or at least a couple of tracks on it -- that really gets to me.

I'd never heard that Kelley Polar song before (or indeed anything by him) and it's excellent. Thanks ILM.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:06 (Yesterday)

for real? i'm amazed you've managed to somehow avoid him all this time

I've just never bothered to seek any out and it's not exactly ubiquitous in day-to-day life.

Apart from Me & U, Cassie's appeal for me at least is how she seems situated in the Venn intersection between fembot and teen-movie character. It reminds me of something Tim F said about Person Pitch on another thread, its less of a lack of depth, more a glistening variety of surfaces. Its an aesthetic that's all about surface and their impenetrability. Its a seductive mirage of a song, better without Wayne because its more compact, wonderfully free of spontaneity (replaced instead with the thrill of how everything just clicks together so satisfyingly). I'll admit I'm a sucker for really minimal pop music and so this is out the door, round the corner for me.

I've just never bothered to seek any out and it's not exactly ubiquitous in day-to-day life.

― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Wednesday, February 4, 2009 11:54 AM (1 hour ago)

I highly recommend you seek out his mental Italo cover of Magic Dance (from the Labyrinth OST) in Italian. Good way to get into him I think. Also really addictive.

http://hypem.com/track/567577/Kelley+Polar-Magic+Dance

damn, "closer" is a great song, but i'd definitely take "single" or "mad" over it.

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 4, 2009 4:14 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^yes, for sure.

nothing else on the kelley polar album grabbed me as much as 'entropy reigns'...it wasn't bad, but that song overshadows the rest somewhat.

i find it really weird that a lindstrom track placed. it seems to miss the point somewhat.

this is awesome, thanks musically

i will never understand what y'all see in "Mad."

i will never understand how anyone could prefer anything else on YOTG to "Closer."

oh, btw, Musically, you are a goddess amongst mere mortals here.

first line of "minimal" is i think "these people don't dance, people don't dance" - at least that's how i've always heard it. and i don't care if the koze version "misses the point," i'd still rather listen to it than the og

??? The Koze version bores the shit out of me, I love the original

The Koze version is good in a sort of fake Alan Braxe & Fred Falke way but the original has all that awesome percussion and swanee whistle noises and so forth, it's so much more kinetic.

Kinda sounds like he's saying "clubber don't dance," especially the second time around.

Yeah, that's what I've always heard.

all the lyrics for it I sing in my head are totally wrong: "scooby don't dance scooby don't dance, cos that music got no blues, got no balls only acid pumpin' pumpin' pumpin'"

thanks everyone for the kind words. glad to see people are enjoying this!

30 - Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
101.5 points, 10 votes
59 in P&J, 6 in p4k

only song from that album that i really dug.

29 - Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
102.5 points, 8 votes
195 in P&J, 24 in p4k

I'll be fucked if "House Jam" isn't the best song I heard all of last year.
-ilxor

shit i must have missed the voting thread for this completely! i've been looking like once a week and never saw it

28 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
106 points, 8 votes
10 in P&J, 2 in p4k

A friend of mine pointed out how much this song sounds like something Ron Burgandy and friends might sing in three-part-harmony in an Anchorman scene. I already enjoyed the song but now I can't unsee Will Ferrell lip-syncing this, which made it even better in its surreal way.
-cunga

i've been avoiding fleet foxes knowing that they'd bore me but i didn't think it would be that bad. it's just so... pointless and dull. i know i've listen to my share of boring indie music and if i'd heard that a couple years ago i might have loved it though.

"white winter hymnal" is really the song that justifies them

a chilling thought

^imo

alex you might like the sheek louch remix

i agree it's their best song by a really wide margin but i really hate them. i can't even talk rationally about it really

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"really really really" etc *rolls eyes*

ya dude y u hate them so much - they are pretty inoffensive sonically and morally and there are plenty of other bands who're just as hyped as them

i think they have moral issues, claiming they'd never sign with a subsidiary with a major when they already have and all.