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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'

musically can i still vote plz

yes, yes, yes, Brainwasher should vote!

you always forget to vote

lol @ Brainwasher not voting but thinking "Damaged" could still place

The-Dream will place, I can feel it.

hold on - place in singles????

Albums.

oh

not even nommed in the singles although I would've given Falsetto a very high vote if it were.

oh, there's no doubt it will PLACE in albums, i just want it top ten.

I'm liking The Rip more on each run through. Also, I can't think of anything else to compare it to. I'm hearing snatches of Joan Baez, Kraftwerk and Philip Glass in there, but it's not exactly derivative

It sounds like Broadcast

and Neu

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rofl

the next is the highest placer to not receive a #1 note

note = vote

Was "Shawty Is Da Sh*!" nominated, or is that considered 2007?

it is super duper 2007

4 - Friendly Fires - Paris
236.5 points, 20 votes
(14 votes, 163.5 points for Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoire Simone)
359/360 (Aeroplane Remix) in P&J, 95 (Aeroplane Remix) in p4k

Aeroplane Remix

have you heard the friendly fires remix? surely it's like the best end-of-night close your eyes and smile tune ever. i got the dj in the place i work to play it on friday night when the place was empty and i swear i was getting rushes while cleaning down the bar!
-or something

swagger like us? wtf

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:01 PM

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

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:01 PM

Huh? Wait, what did you say? Whaaaaat? Speak up!

i feel like ilm consensus stuff is gonna get beat out by lurkers voting in bon iver

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:44 PM

and im not using bon iver as a strawman either - im pretty sure every song from his album was nominated

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 12:45 PM

guys there is gonna be a bon iver track in the top 5 probably 3. every single one of his songs was nominated

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 2:33 PM

btw i mean there is gonna be a bon iver in the top 5 probably top 3, not 3 bon iver tracks in the top 5

― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 6, 2009 2:33 PM

Oh, sorry Miss Cleo, I couldn't hear you over all the Bon Iver predictions you were tossing out a few hours ago. So sorry about that...

so basically people are voting for the aeroplane remix rite? because the original.............

omg im so smart

the breakdown's there bw

Blind, Happy House, Paper Planes?

I'm listening to the Aeroplane version of Paris for the first time and loving it but... this is more of a cover version than a remix isn't it?

dull as dishwater

Did most of the people who voted the original really mean the remix. I heard it for the first time yesterday after playing the remix to death. It really is a pile of shit though.

I actually prefer the original, but I like busy percussion.

I like this, never crossed my mind to vote for it, though. Sounds a bit like Sophie Ellis Bextor to mine ears

The original really makes me wanna punch that guy. Also, the girl on the remix is great, and probably relevant to whatever people were saying about Air France.

both are great but i like the og better - the rush in the chorus is so great

"Let's write about promising to take someone to Paris." "Yes, the cowbell will work really well with that lyrical idea."

Considering ILM had no thread about Friendly Fires at all until I started one in December, that is placing astonishingly high. It's probably artificially high seeing as they're conflated votes for two completely different records, the Aeroplane/Au Revoir Simone version is a cover really.

That said, I love both versions unreservedly. The original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s, the swell in the chorus really fits with the total unabashed excitement in the lyrics. "One day we're gonna live in Paris... you'll find me that French boy I'll find you that French girl... and every night we'll watch the stars coming out for us" and then there's that huge Kompakt rush in the chorus - it totally fits with that feeling of "yes I'm going to do something fucking exciting!"

And the Aeroplane remix is just the best fake Saint Etienne song ever, and it has that big Balearic payoff in the second half.

Haha the original on its own wouldn't even have placed in the top 50.

he original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s

^^^ otm.

(the*)

Yeah totally - I love it when things you learn on a thread make you go back and listen to a record in a completely different way. Like, I hadn't even noticed the Kompakt influence but it's really there. I'm not used to 00s indie dance records sounding this expansive. When you listen to the Rapture or Hot Chip the sound is always endearingly ramshackle, and there's a sense of a "hey this is cool noise" approach to electronics.

Where Friendly Fires differ is there's a sense that they really appreciate why certain sounds in techno work the way they do - I'm thinking of the second half of Lovesick in particular, and the whole of Ex Lover. Also those huge pads on Jump In The Pool and Paris sound like they're consciously trying to recreate the "ahhhhhhhhhhh" feeling you get when you hear the lusher Kompakt stuff played on a huge sound system at 5am, except tethered to this tight punk-funk song structure with clattering drums and cowbells and whistles.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:27 (2 months ago)

^^^ OTM

"Happy House" in the top 3! Holy shit!

it's infinitely better than "paper planes" but i'd def be aight with it finishing #2 behind it

You're gonna be really disappointed when you see Put A Donk On It Oxford Comma in there instead.

3 - MIA - Paper Planes
253.5 points, 22 votes, 2 #1 votes
(6 votes, 48 points for DFA Remix)
1 in P&J

DFA Remix

o rly

It's 2008's highest climber, up two places to #3

Re: "Paris" - Never heard either version of it until now. I like the original OK, especially the "Kompact chorus" & the "busy drums," but that Aeroplane remix? Whew man, I am in love.

It's a great song and all, but PP is soooooo last year.

I don't think "Paper Planes" is going to place. I figure "Blind" will be #1 anyway. It will be interesting to see which of "Happy House" and "Oxford Comma" takes the #2 spot, though, or if there's a surprise upset.

haha well scratch that xps

probably would have been #1 this year if it hadn't placed last year.

DFA remix of PP is so :-/