Good tune
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Yesss, thank you Dawson voters! Amazing track.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
hey here's one I voted for (though Cool For The Summer was on my long list as well), i like a lot of the songs from peasant but i think voted for the album instead but this song stands on its on. I don't quite understand why I like Richard Dawson but can't ever get into Bjork since they seem like they came at similar stuff from different angles.
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Problem Child is amazing and definitely on my longlist. TVS, Nothing Important and [another song] were basically all jostling for one spot very, very high up my ballot. Which did I choose? Ooooh etc.
TVS is great for so many reasons, but I urge people to hear the full 16-minute version that keeps the intro intact; it's a pretty glorious piece of world-building of its own right. And then the rest is bildungsroman into the swirling drunken abyss of eternity
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Ogre would have had an equal claim if nominated too
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
My first acquaintance with "The Vile Stuff." Good stuff.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
Also, no chance that any of the Reputation tracks place? Haven't looked back at that year's poll but thought "Delicate" and "Gorgeous" had a chance.
The only Reputation track that was nominated was "Getaway Car", which could still place.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
i can't listen to richard dawson for too long (and i can't think of him without thinking of the god delusion guy), but he's certainly memorable.
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
When I saw Cool for the Summer on the noms list, that's when I realized that I had forgotten to nominate Confident. I much prefer that Demi Lovato song.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
God, glad it's that low, at least
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
fun fact, you too can write lyrics to the vile stuff with this handy formula: 1 extremely british-sounding name + 1 bodily function + 1 act of violence + 1 obscure location in the british commonwealth
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
+ 1 apostle!
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
I'm always against instating a max-placements-per-artist rule for the yearly polls but am wondering if it might have made this decade one more interesting. Just feel like a thousand more songs by Taylor/Haim/Destroyer/1975 will ruin me.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wohxvX5.jpg54. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (2011)[387 points / 8 votes]Previous Placement: 2 in 2011Video
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
never liked this song, but i can still remember all the lyrics. so i guess that's a point for lana
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
Boy, did I just not get LDR in 2011. Still not a "Video Games" fan but I cried uncle in 2017.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
"Blank Space" or "Style," which similar to "Cool for the Summer" feel more like the Martin formula grafted onto an artist.
We have a recording of "Blank Space" pre-Martin involvement and it's almost identical
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
Just feel like a thousand more songs by Taylor/Haim/Destroyer/1975 will ruin me.
In regards to the first three artists, I think we only have like two songs at most from each that could possibly still place.
The 1975, on the other hand, could make up the entire Top 10.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
"style" also doesn't really sound like a typical max martin song to me. martin does a lot of things but he usually doesn't do nu-disco
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
I think of LDR as the Quentin Tarantino of music. Eminently problematic Los Angeles goofball who has somehow tapped into something that by all rights should be pastiche but if it hits for you, it really hits.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
not a bad comparison, especially as LDR seems more inspired by film and TV than actual music
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
astonished she hasn't really launched an acting career yet (or has she)
https://i.imgur.com/gcIfrWK.jpg53. Paramore - Still Into You (2013)[395 points / 7 votes]Previous Placement: 3 in 2013Video
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
martin does a lot of things but he usually doesn't do nu-disco
I think you're forgetting his work with The Weeknd.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
this feels like the first genuine TOO LOW of the poll, even though i didn't vote for it or consider voting for it. it is surely ilx-canonical
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Karaoke heaven.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Insanely joyful song. Hope the album makes up for this lowly placement.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
This was my number 2, and yes it does feel too low.
On the other hand, if "Ain't It Fun" out places it, I'll still be happy.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Haha I actually like this one. Nice hooky uptempo song and one of the few recent chart pop songs I can think of about staying with someone over the long term.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
The only thing that kind of taints this song for me is the reality that Hailey Williams is no longer in a relationship with the subject of the song.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
― MarkoP, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:53 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he wasn't responsible for the disco-iest songs on starboy, and "can't feel my face" and "blinding lights" take more inspiration to post-disco pop, though i guess i'm probably splitting hairs there.
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
On July 1, 2017, the couple formally announced that they had separated due to Gilbert's repeated infidelity
only music is forever
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
voted for "still into you," such a banger
:( xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
I was also thinking of "Take My Breath" and some of the stuff from his latest album as well. But yes, we might just be splitting hairs over the subtle differences between nu-disco and post-disco.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
But is this nu disco?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hbreln8.jpg52. Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now (2019)[399 points / 7 votes]Previous Placement: 15 in 2019Video
i don’t really think that the fact that they’re not together anymore hurts the song. there are hints throughout the song that they have a very passionate, rocky kind of love that doesn’t make sense to a lot of people on their lives
it encapsulates that blurry line between lustful infatuation and a lasting kind of love, and how one can often be confused for the other
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
good post
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Still Into You is still fantastic, expected it to challenge for top ten tbh
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/51tMpMp.jpg51. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You (2012)[405 points / 5 votes]Previous Placement: 23 in 2012Video
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
that must be the highest points per vote so far
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
he looks great, fab screenshot.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
"don't start now" is fine, not best of decade material imo. i do think it's cool that the big hook is in the pre-chorus, not the chorus
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
I have a meeting in 10 mins and I’ll hopefully be back in an hour or so to resume polling duties.
Here’s a track that I voted highly for and love that it made it.
We all need to take some time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1UrlQcD.jpg50. Pachanga Boys - Time (2011)[406 points / 6 votes / 2 Nº1 votes]Previous Placement: 12 in 2012Video
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
yayMy number one vote
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
Glad to see everyone's taking the full fifteen mins to enjoy again
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
i'm about halfway thru
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
6 people amped for the wedding dance floor
― Indexed, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 8:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was one of the six, I feel like "fills the wedding dance floor with people of all ages" is one of the central virtues that Truly Great Pop can possess, I will keep voting for this and "Celebration" and "I Gotta Feeling" until the end of time and no one can stop me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link