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yeah echoing youtube love over here

The Aeroplane Grace Jones and MGMT remixes are dope too. Will have to seek out more Aeroplane.

friendly fires remix to come as well then, obviously. It really has been the year of Aeroplane.

for some reason I'd managed to avoid hearing of them even tho I've been into quite a bit of similar stuff this year

before I post the last one for today, just something interesting about the top 10. In the past couple of years, this has been the 1-2 point breakdown:

2007

1. Rihanna - Umbrella (334 points)
2. Battles - Atlas (280 points)

2006

1. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (240 points)
2. T.I. - What You Know (172.5 points)

Generally the first place song has beat the second place song by a significant margin. This year, however, the breakdown is:

1. 322.5
2. 314

A few other funky things are goin on with the top 10 but you'll find out about them tomorrow.

2. Battles - Atlas (280 points)

LOL.

what about it?

srsly i was thinking this year wasn't that great but i'm really loving most of this list.

also lol i voted for both the original and aeroplane remix of Friendly Fires - really couldn't decide which one I liked more. I know most people prefers the remix (dreamy vocals, more bliss-out disco) but the original has that sublime breakdown at the end. I hope it does make it on the list but maybe everyone used up their aeroplane votes for the three that are already on here.

Aeroplane were responsible for so many of my favourite tracks this year I didn't think twice re-using them. 8 of my list have already turned up. I'm pretty sure there is now way 8 of my other choices would be in the top 11, which leaves a possible 4 left.

re-using Aeroplane, not the same track several times, obv

I think Brainwasher is lolling at the fact that something that isn't powder-puff R&B/dancepop/chartfluff actually made it into the top 2 tbh

oh wait this is no-hatin' 09, shi-

last one for tonight:

11 - Portishead - Machine Gun
173 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote
11 in P&J, 9 in p4k

Machine Gun is the logical endpoint of their obsession with juxtaposing human frailty with mechanical coldness...The juxtaposition of the drums and the achingly pretty, almost folksy melody in Machine Gun is what makes it work so brilliantly.
- chap

The bit in the middle of Machine Gun when the sub-bass comes in, before the 80s synths, is spine-tingling - not sure if it'll really pick up on a video stream though. I love how inhuman it all sounds.
― Matt DC

wau

lower than expected?

Machine Gun top ten or not?

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

top 5, I'd guess. Maybe even top 3, somewhere in very close proximity to "A Milli."

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:13 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

The year's most popular non-powder-puff R&B/dancepop/chartfluff song nicely tucked away at 11 there, clearing the way for yet another Poptimist Procession :)

(please let me be wrong)

I think "Machine Gun", "Closer", and "Bongo Jam" are my only votes that have shown up.

god forbid anyone like anything populist LJ

Haha! I know, 'tis the way of the world. It'd just be nice to see a bit more recognition for other types of music in these polls.

I think "Machine Gun" did quite well in my own ballot fwiw

Blind, Happy House, A Milli FITE

+ time to pretend, paper planes

"Put On"? Not sure if anyone outside ringtone crew was hugely into that. Too bad we couldn't launch "Rollin'" into the top 50. :-/

oh, "American Boy" will be top 10 obv *shrug*

oh right. i thought it was already listed cause of all the talk upthread.

nah, someone mentioned it and I kinda went off :-/

yeah i noticed. it was my number 2 btw. XD

I haet u.

Or at least you've gone from a <3 to a <2.

;_;

no, nothing against those that like the song XD

lol rev u are having a tough night homie

I know, right?

lower than expected?

Machine Gun top ten or not?

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

top 5, I'd guess. Maybe even top 3, somewhere in very close proximity to "A Milli."

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:13 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ack. shows what I know. It must've been that the "Machine Gun" love contingent on ILX was especially vocal. Great song, whatever the case.

I'm sure the album will be top 5 tho.

Does anybody know if Lily Allen's "The Fear" was nominated? The "nominations" thread is making my browser crash, as soon as I open it... Anyway, I didn't get to vote this time but "The Fear" would've been my # 1.

2009 singles weren't eligible, so no.

Always makes me think of Best acronym in "F.E.A.R." by Ian Brown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fear_(song)

Released December 9, 2008

???

OK, nevermind. That's wrong.

i just checked and it doesnt seem to be in the noms thread. i quite like "chinese" fwiw. bump lily's thread

The Fear was released digitally in December, released in physical form in January.

put on should be top 10...

holding out some hope for "love story" in the top 10, but i really have no idea how broad the taylor swift appreciation is in the electorate.

(but if it's not on the list at all, jeeeeez)

I got into the Taylor Swift album like days after sending in my ballot :(

I voted for "Love Story," for what it's worth.

Do you not read this site?

― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, February 5, 2009 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^my exact reaction to all the "omg i had never heard that song before" people in here. baffling.

But then you might be oblivious to some of the indier and classic rockish threads, eh, Lex? A board divided...

People use ILM in different ways, I think. It's all good.

the theme of 20-11 seems to have been "i like this fine, but really, best of the year?" - the epitome of which is 'ready for the floor'. it's not bad but how little music must you have heard to even consider it in list-making time.

fussing over estelle's voice is the oddest path this thread has taken yet...though perhaps i've just been aware of how she sounds for ages, and how natural it is that someone w/her musical background would sound like that. it's about her casual airy swagger more than her technical chops - still think of her as an MC foremost, singer second.

i've never heard the aeroplane mgmt rmx! (not in position to now.) surely even they can't make it great, surely that is a sow's ear too far.

like 'love lockdown', glad we got it out of the way already. love aeroplane but hope that's it from them.

have resigned myself to the fact that 'i hate this part' isn't going to show up :((((