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)

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!

memory tapes tune has a nice remain in light sorta vibe, with more of a pop bent. (remain in lite?)

so good video really won me over.

day n nit has a great video and an excellent hook but cudi's "rapping" is so bushwah, half-thought and annoying that I just reached critical mass with it. always wanted to hear what someone with a real speedy precise flow like em or even fuckin'tech9 would do with it.

any links to people riding that track that anyone would recommend?

xp: despite everyone describing cudi as a rapper, I've never heard what he does as rapping per se, so that's never bugged me

yeah "day n nite" is not a "rap song" in my mind.

xp rev you might like this paul shirley guy ;)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=4837019

Kid Cudi isn't just a rapper, he's a singer-songwriter.

well he can't SING so I'm not sure what to call it. he's a lousy talker?

45 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (8 votes, 95.5 points) (237 in P&J, DNP in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKjIquR5Bc

I am simply crazy for Bicycle on this album, melody, bass, lushness, movement and texture, all of the requisite elements to make a song great in IMHO. Seriously great stuff. ― twentyfourtracks

Memory Tapes my #2 (behind my favorite AnCo track, which probably won't place).

'hysteric' is kind of ilx canon -- surprised they never put it out as a single

(xpost -- The blurb below YYY belongs with Memory Tapes, obviously.)

I'm more surprised that "Dragon Queen" and "Runaway" weren't singles, tbh.

and i'm most surprised that "skeleton" IS the next single

i love "hysteric" but didn't consider putting it on my ballot

"Bicycle" is pretty good, but I never think of it as the obvious standout track or anything. (I agree with ZS about "Stop Talking.") It's a pretty solid album, IMO.

that is weird, lex! my shortlist would have been the two I mentioned and "Dull Life"

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