― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
232 pts, 12 votes Boards of Canada – “Turquoise Hexagon S 232 pts, 10 votes, 1 first place Blur - "For Tomorrow 228 pts, 14 votes, 1 first place Beltram - "Energy Flash" 225 pts, 15 votes, 1 first place Gin Blossoms Hey Jealousy 223 pts, 12 votes Souls of Mis "93' Til Infinity" - Souls of Mischief 220 pts, 19 votes Radiohead - "Airbag" 220 pts, 11 votes Yo La Tengo - "Tom Courtenay" 219 pts, 13 votes Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy 215 pts, 14 votes Betty Boo - “Where Are You Baby?” 214 pts, 11 votes galaxie 500 'fourth of july'
also, "Chime" clocked in with 8 votes, 105 points. nowhere near the runners-up to the runners-up, unfortunately.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
cuz once you see some hottie doing the running man to some c-level new jack swing cut yr life is CHANGED
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
18 of mine made it in, and my #1 made #1, so I can't really complain. I am very surprised that No Scrubs and Mmmbop didn't make it, though, less so about most of the others. Who has the most typically ILM taste, as measured by getting most of their picks in? And the least? I think 25 is the top and 5 the bottom so far cited.
Great work, Gear!
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never heard neither "Regret" nor "Cannonball", by the way.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
225 pts, 15 votes, 1 first placeGin Blossoms Hey Jealousy
Crikey. Energy Flash only three votes better than Hey Jealousy. You can't blame that one on the British contingent.
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
How come "Poison" wasn't nominated, anyway? Was that the one that Roxy was pushing for? I seriously think that could've gone top 40.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
someone earlier mentioned "cannonball" as an indie fuxor song, and based on who plays it, sure. but musically it's pure contrived over-the-top pop. if kylie did it instead it would've been no. 1!
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I voted for "Just for a Second"
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I really must hear 'Hey Jealousy'. The talk of it intrigues me.
Ah, it was all worth it.
Curious, of the "Hey Jealousy" haters out there, when was the last time you heard the song?
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm a little bit disappointed with the results in that the great majority of my favorites didn't place, and those that did were really quite low. Still, a very cool top ten--and much less obvious than I expected.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
also
200 pts, 12 votes, 1 first place ginuwine "Pony",
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Though I'm a bit surprised Blackstreet gets #11 and Ginuwine doesn't make it at all, yeah.
― The GOod Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
This is quite something! You manage to maintain superiority regardless of whether it makes the poll. Seriously, that's rad work.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm going to finish working on it this weekend and I'll get to posting it in a week or so.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link