Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

49 -- Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite (10 votes, 88 points) (18 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDfSZ_6f4U

i like "day n nite." it sounds like early phil collins, or some other early '80s new wave noir. ― tipsy mothra

i like "day n nite." it sounds like early phil collins, or some other early '80s new wave noir.

Yeah that's the first time I've heard it, and the two things the tune reminded me of were Spandau Ballet's 'To Cut A Long Story Short' and Kim Wilde's 'View From A Bridge'.

i was about to otm that quote when i realized it was by me...

this is like two years old??

but not actually "released" (and charted) until '09.

Pitchfork actually placed this in their top 500 songs of the '00s (the Crookers remix, that is), and then ditched it when it came to the end of the year.

i think this is the first time i've actually heard Day n Nite, i wish i hadn't been inundated with inane remixes of it b/c the original is actually pretty sweet.

Yup. I was going to say something along those same lines.

I didn't vote :( Gonna need to say a couple hail mary's. Or do the athiest equiv. Such just lots of masterbation and then eat an ice cream I guess.

i dunno how i never listened to that robyn/royksopp song before. it is great.

Royksopp and Robyn was my number one by a long way. I'd rate it more than anything either of them have done separately which is saying a lot.

48 -- Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (8 votes, 88.5 points) (50 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8

I just want to be the first to say that "Summertime Clothes" is gonna be the jam to pwn all jams on this album. ― Whiney G. Weingarten

i want to go out this summer and hear "summertime clothes" being played from people's car radios -samosa gibreel

^^^ this actually happened! also danced to 'my girls' at a party on a rooftop.

im not an anco fanboy but even i know that the live version of "summertime clothes" that they were playing circa "strawberry jam" is so much better

closest thing to a second decent song on that album. my girls is great obv.

no less than three anco album trax on this list, calling it now dorks

didn't Brother Sport place fairly high on the 2008 list? That might cancel out its presence on this one.

yeah no way brother sport tops summertime clothes. my girls top 5 easy.

wow that royksopp track is great, i hadn't heard it until now

Don't think BroSport was nommed. x-post

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Musically rox

wow that royksopp track is great, i hadn't heard it until now

<3 this, but voted for "This Must Be It," which I can't really see making this list if TGATR eked its way in at #50. Ya'll who are new to the 09 'sopp would be well-served to check out that one as well.

glad to see Cudi squeaked in, awesome thread title btw

i didn't vote for that Royskopp, but it would've made a top 40 for me.

So excited this is starting, and off to a great start IMO. Thanks again Musically!

50 is awesome but I just heard it v recently. Voted for 49 and 48!

psyched!

47 -- Electrik Red - So Good (7 votes, 90 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXd4a3paWM

their new single "So Good" sounds like "Pop Life" by Prince as covered by Kelis -The Brainwasher

<3 video

On first listen, that Animal Collective song needs more drums badly! Still good, though.

ooh shit damn - good going for an act whose trax are gonna be soooo split

five or so years ago, that röyksopp/robyn track would've probably been a shoe-in for the top 10 - am really glad the the constituency of ilm has changed to move away from scandopop-fetishising

wow that royksopp track is great, i hadn't heard it until now

<3 this, but voted for "This Must Be It," which I can't really see making this list if TGATR eked its way in at #50. Ya'll who are new to the 09 'sopp would be well-served to check out that one as well.

I bailed out on them with 'The Understanding' and totally missed this and blow me 'Junior' is fab.

xp the scando-pop 5 years ago was better

46 -- Memory Tapes - Bicycle (7 votes, 95 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (238 in P&J, 46 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EgbtNMcdwM

e red are surprisingly innocent looking in that video. so adorable and goofy. great haircut, too.

that memory tapes is pretty okay they seemed like the kinda thing that would totally suck ass so i never bothered checking them out

Can't pay my rent, cause all my money's spent
but thats OK, cause I'm glo-fli

the one glo-fi song that i dug 100% was "feel it all around" -- it was the one joint of all of them that actually evoked summertime stonedness or w/e they were going for. and the rest of the EP was cool cuz it sounded pretty much like cut copy

Wow. I REALLY like this "Bicycle" song. The guitar sounds like Disco Inferno.

i think i voted that #1, i forget

that memory tapes is pretty okay they seemed like the kinda thing that would totally suck ass so i never bothered checking them out

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:03 PM Bookmark

same here. kinda sounds like mgmt, yeah?

eh -- mgmt is way (consciously) bigger (and better)

I love that Memory Tapes song. Have heard that the album is a bit patchy - is that true?

album is alright, this is the best song on it for sure

Woah- no way, Memory Tapes album is righteously great.

From this thread: Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

"Stop Talking" is the fucking jam of all time. It's one of those songs that sounds like 4 different choruses, bouncing back and forth from one to the other. One of them just sounds like straight up italo disco, not a revival or impersonation, it just sounds like you found it in the racks and it's a secret gem.

― The World's Biggest Christ (Z S), Thursday, 8 October 2009 03:22 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

"Stop Talking" so so great on so many levels!

― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 13:18 (2 months ago) Bookmark

For me, it's totally the atmospherics, the dreamy textural stuff. I mean, my favourite moment is about 4:50 in Graphics, where the drum machine goes into New Order mode and that weird echoey NOISE goes off like an alarm as all the fuzzy sounds tinkle all around like wind-up birds gone wrong.

― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:25 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Trainer-squeak hooks, disco, big earnest 80s vibe, especially in the vocals, that shine& the lightness in the rhythm; the rhythm is so different and flat on those bands. Only heard a handful of stuff by each but I would never have thought about them in the same sense as Stop Talking.

― ogmor, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:05 (2 months ago) Bookmark

well there you have it

Ah okay, I hadn't seen that thread. Thanks!

saw Memory Tapes last week and they were okay - don't know the album well enough yet - occasionally brilliant but seemed to cut their set short for no apparent reason and didn't say anything to the crowd oh well. Bicycle is fucking great.

blueski, did you see them at The Luminaire or at The Social? I saw them at the Social and thought, for a guy who pretty much hates going out and is a bit of recluse, inspite of the sprightlyness of his music - they did a solid job.

i mean i've not heard mgmt i like half as much xp

luminaire. played and sang well enough but no crowd interaction or whatever.

that was the first time i heard Memory Tapes and that song is indeed great.

glad this thing is finally off the ground!

she wolf is great! so is the fear!

lol i like how the joke #1 was included in yr impressions and i enjoy the story about ppl only going to see bat for lashes b/c soul ii soul was raining out

I like everything in that Top 10 apart from She Wolf and discovered some great tunes (House of House, Darkstar) via this poll. For good or ill (it was probably less interesting), one of the last years that the ILX poll reflected a consensus around certain big songs rather than the different passions of several competing constituencies.

there's so much stuff in that countdown that i'm like 'wow! what a great year' and equally just about the same amount where i'm thinking 'fuck that noise, thank god those days are behind us'.

i like 'she wolf' but that is crazy high. it's useful as a reminder of 'o right, ppl were really excited about that record' (i know i was and i doubt i've listened to it since 2010). i'm fine w/ phoenix but two in the top 13 is a bit much. gaga really really underrated. some of these entries are effective as 'yep, that was 2009' but i'm kinda surprised to see them either here at all (kid cudi, 'empire state') or so high ('i gotta feeling').

It's missing about four tracks, but here's a spotify playlist I just built for this.
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/7tdXBe4UajU8tJsO7L32g8
giving it a try now.

My biggest takeaway from this list was The-Dream, who I'd totally missed up to that point. I also went and bought that Yeah Yeah Yeahs album and I still think it's pretty good!

Agreed that Gaga is undervalued here - possibly suffered from those being big big hits early in 2009, so that by voting time even their boosters were kind of sick of them. And for ILM at that point I think she still had this whiff of 'performer of ordinary songs who drops eye-rolling references to art, what's the big deal?' Thing was that those two tracks, and most of Fame Monster, were extraordinary songs, but I'm sure that was a problem on this ballot...

"Poker Face" is not an extraordinary song, unless you mean "extraordinarily dumb"

nah there was alot of skepticism toward her and alot of ppl didn't get or accept her at all until 'bad romance' or even 'telephone'. i was one of those who sniffed 'well she's no madonna i can tell you that!' and sniffed that her idea of art was an 8th grader's and she wasn't bringing the underground into the mainstream, she wasn't really subverting the mainstream - she's no madonna! - but in retrospect that run is up there w/ anyone from this century, i'd put her imperial phase up there w/ missy elliot's or whoever.

"Poker Face" is not an extraordinary song, unless you mean "extraordinarily dumb"

yeah. it's catchy, tho! and as we all know, catchy songs and chart success are the only true measure of music's quality.

i had forgotten that robyn track; it's fucking great

I still love Lobo. can't listen to it in english tho.

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. I'm p sure the rule of thumb with any Shakira song that exists in dual-language versions is fuck the English version.

kid cudi being on here sure ain't any less embarrassing now than it was then

I still like that song. *kanye shrug*

this thread belongs in the thread title hall of fame

Zero and Heads Will Roll are p cool but I was totally bored w that album. Imo New Young Pony Club's The Optimist from the following year did a p great job of synthesizing a lot of the strengths of Its Blitz and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (another LP w severe dropoff after track 2) and improving upon it probably 200%

(tho Tahita Bulmer as frontwoman is not quite as inviting as Karen O; still think she's a better songwriter, and production on The Optimist is fantastic. Last year's NYPC album as well)

kid cudi being on here sure ain't any less embarrassing now than it was then

― k3vin k., Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:18 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still like that song. *kanye shrug*

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:08 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah that song's a banger, altho the crookers remix is still >>

Zero and Heads Will Roll are p cool but I was totally bored w that album.

These are the two songs I play the least off of this album, along with "Soft Shock" and "Skeletons". The stretch from "Dull Life" through "Dragon Queen" is all-time great IMO.

Maybe I should say that "Paparazzi" and "Poker Face" are "out of the ordinary" rather than extraordinary. 7's and 8's rather than 10s. I think both have pretty interesting, original conceits touching on the gap between seductions/relationships as-felt vs. as-performed, and they still sound pretty good. I know ILX generally does not go for RedOne, but "Paparazzi" is pretty massive/moody. Not sure there are many other 2009 pop singles I'd rate higher. "Halo" maybe? "Party in the USA" for different kinda reasons.

redone wasn't involved in "paparazzi"

right - just wrote that sentence kind of confusingly. Meant to kind of say, on the one hand the RedOne song, on the other hand Paparazzi.

Paparazzi is likely my favorite Gaga song

So the other night "Bicycle" came up in one of my playlists and it was like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Like at the time it just sounded like some pleasant background music to me but now I like, can't stop listening to it, and the whole album. Fuck, man. Good call, ILX.

That song had greater longevity than I thought it would. Still A+.

Is there a place I can see all the EOY lists at a glance? We should post the results at the top of each old thread really.

this thread? The ILX List of Lists

idk how much stuff it actually has in it