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)

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"

"you complete me"? seriously?

"dull life" is definitely the most underrated track off it's blitz - my immediate favourite and that hasn't changed, yet it rarely gets mentioned compared to "hysteric" or the singles

hey it's a great song but doesnt belong on a tracks ballot for the exact reason you prob are reacting to it, it's not a single and doesnt work as one

xp

I've said this before but the "Dull Life"/"Shame and Fortune"/"Runaway" section is my favorite part of the album; I often play that sequence in isolation as if it were an encapsulated EP.

ha those are prob my 3 least fav songs on the album >_<

am i alone in thinking "hysteric" is basically a u2 song? or is that the appeal?

the shifts and transitions in mood on "dull life" are so awesome

"the beast that i lie beneath - is coming in!"

ok maybe YYYs lyrics don't take well to being typed out but it sounds excellent

similarly the "all fortune on the floor" bit

Karen is really great at delivering lyrics

yeah she had me at hello

I had noooo idea ilm liked the yyys so much. guess I never clicked on a yyys thread?

the video that musically posted at the top of the thread is actually really dope! better than like half the songs it samples

yeah it's amazing. the guy has done them for other years but none of them were as good as the 2009 one.

"dull life" is definitely the most underrated track off it's blitz - my immediate favourite and that hasn't changed

Hey me too!

yeah my favourite thing on the album after Heads Will Roll

i hate the DJ Earworm because i hate almost all of the songs on it, yrs hatey g

the next two were ties for #44:

44 -- Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart (9 votes, 97 points) (117 in P&J, 58 in p4k)

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

I will say that "If I Had A Heart" is one of the best album openers ever recorded. -HI DERE

44 -- Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (9 votes, 97 points) (46 in P&J, 24 in p4k)

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

nothing i voted for yet...

^^ me neither, but the last two were outliers on my list.

"Raindrops" is nice and all but the Yoko Ono track is really the standout. Having said that, there are better tracks on Electrik Red's album than "So Good", yet I still tactically voted for "So Good." It worked :)

so good is the only one i considered so far but i didn't vote for it obv

"So Good" and the Fever Ray are the only things I like so far. :( The YYY is okay except for the unfortunate jerry maguire chorus. Never heard her sing like that before, like soft but not dying, like she could sing country. Kind of amazed that Animal Collective sounds like that, just some hippy dippy stuff with some modern sounds splattered in? Nah.

something about "raindrops" makes me think of flight of the conchords. it's good, but it's such a type -- genus basement jaxxus -- that it could be send-up.

all the songs i like here are from terrific parent albums that i voted for instead, and none are my no 1 choice on the album

Never heard her sing like that before, like soft but not dying, like she could sing country

The country-adjacent-ness of Hysteric really stand out in the Acoustic Version from the Deluxe Edition of It's Blitz, which adds a counter-melody on the fiddle. And yeah, I know it's the same thing as a violin, but it codes "fiddle" in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssewwKzI2Rk

woa, yes, on the hook there, and suddenly the hook is much easier to take in the simple arrangement where the melody carries everything. But barring the hook and coda, the og arrangement is still nicer i think, with the singer pitching amid the guitars just marred by that one lyric. thanks for that.