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)

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.

on second listen think this is winning me over

42 -- Guido - Way U Make Me Feel (8 votes, 97.5 points) (DNP in P&J, DNP in p4k)

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

i like the Joker & Ginz remix of 'Raindrops' (tho really only in a 'it's Joker & Ginz remixing so gonna vaguely approve until i get too bored of their formula' way)

starting to hear fever ray vocals over that Guido track which...works for me thx

Nice to see the Guido place. This was one of many tracks that I didn't get around to checking out until the last minute and grew on me just in time to make my ballot.

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.

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:16 PM Bookmark

even if everything else in that article is eyeroll-worthy, the quote you pulled is otm

also, if you're so worried about whether cornballs like some of the same things you do, that's your sweat, not mine

Really digging the Guido track, which was totally off my radar until now.

that Guido song is great, first time i heard it.

Guido: Yes! (first thing so far from ballot)