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I'm amazed - I was sure 'American Boy' was a shoo-in for no.1. First time I've heard it for a while, still a great record

Maybe my #1 vote for "Love in This Club" somehow convinced all the haters, haha.

Kevin K I've come round a bit to "Skeletal Lamping" again...it's a good album to listen to as a whole, but trying to "get" individual tracks is imo maddening and pointless :)

(and yeah, The Fiery Furnaces are mad underrated here)

really miffed "princes" (GANG GANG DANCE) has been passed over

...if it has been

haha good :) that's just what i tell people, i think if a record gives you an 'in' song that you can learn to love, it'll be easier to let your guard down and really engage with the rest of it. that was the first ninety seconds of the album and 'an eluardian instance' for me. but we can talk more about it next week if, lord willin', it places

xpost i would be down for 'princes'; i didnt get into the record until just recently, and princes is fantastic

prev post was xpost to LJ btw

I think what makes me enjoy the album is that I really like plenty of the little bits, and plenty of the transitions between bits. I almost try to forget that it's made of songs, UNLIKE, say, The Fiery Furnaces' albums, whose songs, no matter how complicated, almost always have some sort of decipherable and hermetic narrative.

What about "Swagger Like Us," is that gonna place?

there is no way more people voted for slu than a milli or put on.

Top five:

Happy House
Paper Planes
Blind
Swagger Like Us
Love Story

okay I swear this is my last Santogold post on this thread but this kind of highlights why "Starstruck" is secretly my favorite song on the album:

what's love story?

What about Miley Cyrus, any chance for "See You Again" here???

"Love Story" is Taylor Swift...

swagger like us? wtf

here's a tip for all you miss cleos out there: predict songs for the top 5 that people actually like

danity kane "damaged" is obviously going top 5

na i can't see SLU placing; it's a poll, so it's going to be something that a LOT of people voted for. totally forgot about 'love story', yeah that could find a place. paper planes and blind too

Lady Gaga - "Just Dance"

kill me now

hopefully this means that everyone voted for that idjut boys phil collins re-edit

do-do you.. have a first...aid...kit...handy?

No Dizzee thus far, but there's been a couple of other polls where I've been the only one repping for him so I have no great hopes there. No Coldplay yet either

nobody likes coldplay here

Alicia Keys - "No One"

lol

Jazmine Sullivan?

that's me being crazily optimistic

I think the only thing Dizzee had this year was the Calvin Harris abomination - I can't comprehend a world where that beats Hot Chip let alone A Milli or American Boy.

I wish but no.

xp

Ray J - "Sexy Can I"

na i can't see SLU placing - ya I thought the T.I. singles were pretty lackluster except for NMW, at least compared with King. Hopefully SLU and "Whatever You Like" (that didn't already place, did it?) will be absent.

guys, Battles was #2 in 2007. It'll probably be TV on the Radio or Fleet Foxes or something.

^im sayin

"See You Again" is a really good prediction, no way it's "Love Song."

"Happy House"
"Blind"
"Paper Planes"???
"Do You Mind"?????
"Touch My Body"????
"Yahh Trick Yahhh!!!!!!!"

Donk is going to win this isn't it. :)

Brainwasher, "Atlas" was a fucking phenomenal song with a unique sound that united fans of all sorts of music; an art-rock song that popped, locked and rolled, filling headphones and dancefloors alike while exploring very original musical territory.

Mentioning it in the same sentence as TVOTR or FF is lunk-headed.

Calm down, I actually like "Atlas" (besides the vocals). Just that it being #2 is kind of absurd.

Baseline!
Put a donk on it.
Electro!
Put a donk on it.
Techno!
Put a donk on it.
Ey, thats good that Tony!
Baseline! (Where'd you learn that one)
Put a donk on it.
Electro!
Put a donk on it.
Techno! (Ahh thats sick that mate)
Put a donk on it.
Donk d-donk donk donk donk.

lol xpost

AWWW THAT'S SICK THAT IS

ILX!
Put a donk on it.

okay, i'm about to post #5, any last wild guesses?

Well, maybe TVOTR when they were turning out stuff like "Satellite" or "Young Liars" or even "Province"...but not this cowardly TVOTR

Hmm. I personally wouldn't have had it there, but I think that it's the kind of song that deserves to do well in blanket polls, because it tries to please everyone in as creative a manner as it can.

Bon Iver!
Put a donk on it.

okay, i'm about to post #5, any last wild guesses?

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, February 6, 2009 9:15 PM (9 seconds ago)

still rooting for danity kane "damaged"

or maybe Badu "Honey"!!!

maybe?

Calm down, I actually like "Atlas" (besides the vocals). Just that it being #2 is kind of absurd.

― The Brainwasher, Friday, February 6, 2009 4:14 PM (16 seconds ago)

ya i dunno what was 'absurd' about it, it was an epic, widely known and buzzed about song that did well on many other year end lists. definitely wasn't my #2 song of that year, but that's the nature of lists--a lot of people liked it enough to put it on a ballot

xp rather have 'the cell'!!