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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'!!

I am seriously not ruling out a block vote for Put A Donk On It - it would only take two or three people voting it #1 to propel it into the top five.

If people listened to "Rise Rice," it could have been top 5, but no one listened to "Rise Rice"

Happy House, Blind, Paper Planes and Oxford Comma seem obvious, but I have no idea what the fifth one will be. I can't see Damaged, Touch My Body, Womanizer or Need U Bad placing higher than the last few entries so I'm guessing "The Golden Age" or some other indie schmindie.

Well, the only other unmentioned track that I gave significant points to was Nu Brand Flexx, but I doubt they're in the top five

Wasn't "Paper Planes" on last years list? Shouldn't it be ineligible?!?

yeah, i don't want "paper planes" on here...

Maybe Sam Sparro?

most of the people that would vote for a song like that don't like that song

5 - Portishead - The Rip
214.5 points, 16 votes, 1 #1 vote
163 in P&J, 69 in p4k

"The Rip" is not getting as much love as it should. A song of two perfect halves.
― Ned Raggett

It's the standout favorite for me. The looooooooong held vocal note is so great, and I love the simple, imperfect drums. The song is only about 4 1/2 minutes but it feels like it's 2.
― Z S

oh

dammit I srsly was going to call this

maybe we could create an annual paper planes top 5 spot and make it the best 51 trax of the year

woh

Get a good pair of headphones and listen to "Rise Rice," everyone! http://krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab/

Not my favourite on the album at all, but pleased to see the top 10 hegemony broken.

yeah I don't mind that being top 5, though my faves on the album are "Silence," "We Carry On" & "Small"

(If The Rip and Machine Gun swapped places, I'd be happier, basically)

My favourites on the album are "Small", "Machine Gun" and "Threads".

A song of two perfect halves.

Ned Raggett, wordsmith. (and correct!)

xpost yeah, ned's comment is beyond perfect, considering no-one was considering it placing.

(urgh to myself.)

that Tv On the Radio thing is actually really nice. I would never have bothered to listen to them, only knew that Staring at the Sun song before and a girl I used to live with decided they were cool and was really into them.

their 1st EP and Album are excellent. Otherwise..... (though 'Family Tree' is nice)

I think I voted for the Portishead track

Actually, listening to it now, it's really really quite a beautiful song, if maybe a LITTLE peremptory for my personal inclinations.

Brainwasher, I'd say the 2nd album actually has some really good songs, and is better than the 1st (if not the EP).

o_O & "The Rip" with placing so high, esp. above "Machine Gun," but I'll take it!

(it being The Rip)

ok, yeah, this is sounding so beautiful on these headphones...

Its sorta like the boy version of that Scarlett Johannson album,

joeks, although I really loved that album.

I can't really fault The Rip placing in the top five, although I completely overlooked it as well. Just listened to it again and it is beyond gorgeous.

Scarlett album better place...

I think The Rip becomes even more stunning if you haven't heard it for a while, as a few of us have just discovered.

so the portishead album is gonna be number one then

no new amerykah is

If I'd thought about this tactically, I'd have put Third wayyyy higher up my poll tbh

If The-Dream is number one, ILX has my heart

ha, it might place depending on who voted

Yes, that's quite beautiful. I'm surprised it placed so high, it's not the kind of track you usually get a consensus around.

my ballot even

I've never heard the portishead album

I forgot to vote

i always forget that people liked other songs on that album more than 'machine gun'