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)

"Empire State of Mind" : New York :: "I Got a Crush..." : Obama

I have to feeling
That tonight's going to be a good night

Albums have started!

50 -- Royksopp feat Robyn - The Girl and the Robot -pointless
49 -- Kid Cudi – Day ‘n’ Nite -depressing to remember
48 -- Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes - not v good
47 -- Electrik Red - So Good - v good
46 -- Memory Tapes - Bicycle sounds apalling
45 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric ???
44 -- Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart - this girl i used to live with that was always borrowing cameras and taking pictures of herself when stoned liked the knife she also stole my ice cream. i did not live with her in 2009 so i don't know if she liked this song.
44 -- Basement Jaxx - Raindrops - don't remember this at all
42 -- Guido - Way U Make Me Feel - hate the title
41 -- Pill - Trap Goin Ham - ?
40 -- Big Boi feat. Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas - dont know this
39 -- Fever Ray - When I Grow Up - this was definitely on my itunes and i can hum it.
38 -- Florence & the Machine - You Got the Love (Jamie xx Re-Work) i remember really liking this but its actually only ok
37 -- Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Tirsdagsjam never heard
36 -- Gucci Mane ft. Plies - Wasted -??? i think plies is a rubbish rapper name
35 -- Crazy Cousinz - Inflation - deflation, implosion, matter becomes something that existed before matter
34 -- Washed Out - Feel It All Around - i have always found this to be a pretty unlovely song
33 -- Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa - this is a real novelty youtube hit at christmas.
32 -- Fuzzy Logic feat. Egypt - In The Morning - i have no idea what this is
31 -- Fever Ray - Seven -I had this on my iTunes but i cant remember how it goes.
30 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt - I got a friend really into this album but i don't know if i really bothered to listen to it more than once.
29 -- House of House - Rushing to Paradise (Walkin' These Streets) - i loved this and my main memory of it is listening to it on headphones while working in the stockroom of a chocolate shop i worked in and where i would literally eat so many chocolates every day.
28 -- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love - there is a video of azari and iii playing at xoyo on youtube where you can see me dancing in the front row
27 -- Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer - good clean fun
26 -- The-Dream - Rockin That Shit - so fun
25 -- Lady Gaga - Paparazzi - ghastly
24 -- Lady Gaga - Poker Face - dismal
23 -- Girls - Lust for Life - this doesn't interest me but i know what it is
22 -- Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - Blame It - boringly dumb
21 -- Taylor Swift - Love Story - most teenage girls write genuinely more interesting poetry than this
20 -- Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys) my boyfriend swore blind at me that he remembers hearing this song in the 80s in dublin but i looked it up on wikipedia and his is definitly wrong. i also hate it.
19 -- Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea - i don't know what this is but it is obviously for people who are active with the socialist society at their university
18 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero - pretty pointless
17 -- The xx - Crystalised - i will still listen to this
16 -- Maxwell - Pretty Wings - i can't hum this but once when i was stoned i made a track on garageband with the piano from the beginning of this and a bit of MIA vocals
15 -- Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo - I heard this almost every time i went dancing at this point but this says as much about the clubs i was going to at the time
14 -- DJ Quik & Kurupt – i have definitely listened to this but i literally only remember the name
13 -- Phoenix - 1901 - i listened to this a lot and i have no idea why looking back
12 -- Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling - was this at some point used ironically in a drink driving ad?
11 -- The-Dream - Fancy - this is still amazing
10 --The Juan Maclean - One Day - idk
09 -- Lily Allen - The Fear - i dont recall this song specifically but lily allen should obviously be killed
08 -- Shakira - She Wolf - i don't remember exactly how it went but it did have this insane video fo shakira dancing in a cage right?
07 -- Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move - lol
06 -- Lindstrom and Christabelle – Baby I Can't Stop - this is amazing
05 -- Phoenix - Lisztomania - the guys voice is annoying and the production is boring
04 -- Animal Collective - My Girls - haha so rubbish
03 -- Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - annoying
02 -- Bat for Lashes - Daniel - i went to a festival once where soul ii soul were playing on the main stage and it was sunnyish but immediately as they came on stage it suddenly turned to torrential rain and literally everybody who had waited for them to come on ran in the direction of the tents and the first tend was a p small tent where bat for lashes was just finishing her set and it went from empty to full and it seemed really funny but i can't remember anything specific about her music now.
01 -- Pleasure P feat. Flo Rida - Boyfriend #2 - no idea
01 -- Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me - hahaha i can almost hear this in my head but not quite. taylor swift is not really a very interesting songwriter or pop cultural presence imo.

YYY's "Zero" is great as hell, dude.

Oh shit, five years since GAPDY?!?!

i forgot how much ILM overrated "She Wolf"

people looooooved it at the time. lily allen's racist ass in the top 10 is the real shocker to me, though i recall that even i was kind of won over by that song

22 -- Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - Blame It - boringly dumb
21 -- Taylor Swift - Love Story - most teenage girls write genuinely more interesting poetry than this

these 2 comments are just

...insane

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

really miss 2009 ilx tbh

ilx gapdy oral history

the top 10 really gets weird here as all ilm trax lists usually do but this list holds up really well imo

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