**********Just the trax, ma'am: THE ILX 2007 POLL RESULTS, part 1**********

^^ worst message board Laurel & Hardy ever

amen to that

48. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah (61 points, 5 votes, 1
number one vote) (link)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/294513.jpg

M.I.A. - Jimmy

I would have voted for this, but I restricted myself to only one track vote per artist.

where are the pictures

i forgot to vote in this, oh well

What other pictures were you expecting?

thanks for putting together this poll, musically, don't mind the whiners who demand visual aids.

yeah i'm only seeing the reposted Aly&AJ pic, but no matter

You don't see the other two photos? I'm hotlinking RYM photos, but I didn't think that would be a problem...

i had the jens album in my top 5 but 'the opposite of hallelujah' is one of my least favorite songs on the album

i can't believe jimmy is at 50....guessing some form of paper planes will show up much higher on this list

really don't get the love for 'Jimmy'. not that it's bad, just no big deal.

Lesson learned: do not use RYM images. Here are the results so far, with images visible (?):

50. M.I.A. - Jimmy (58 points, 5 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/MIA_Jimmyofficialcover.jpg/200px-MIA_Jimmyofficialcover.jpg

49. Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song (58 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Potential.jpg

48. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah (61 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Jens_Lekman_-_The_Opposite_of_Hallelujah.jpg

And #47...

47. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (61 points, 7 votes) (link)

http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/youmedancing300.jpg

i don't like any of the tracks mentioned thus far :-(

woohoo. it's begun! I'm hoping for no more M.I.A.

46. Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going To Die (62 points, 5 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/We%27re_All_Going_To_Die.jpg

So many other better songs on that album.

Come on people, how's about a little positivity? Someone must have voted for these.

45. Björk - Earth Intruders (62 points, 6 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Earthintruderscover.jpg

wow, two songs like so far (i don't expect any i voted for to appear)

*I* like

Los Campesinos yay!

the dreaded question is: will the ILM album poll results most closely resemble...

a) Pazz + Jop
b) Idolator
c) Pitchfork
d) Stylus
e) none of the above

if Aly & AJ keep popping up we might be on our way to e)

how about

f) all of these polls end of looking the same

end up*

I actually crosschecked the top 10 with Idolator's and Pazz & Jop's top 10...I figured that if our top 10 songs have an average ranking of 5.5 ((10+9+...+2+1)/10=5.5), I can determine the average ranking of Idolator's and Pazz & Jop's top 10 with respect to ours and see which one has the closer correlation (hardly scientific, I know). Now each of their top 10 tracks have the same track that was not even in our poll at all (Young Folks), so I averaged their top 9s with respect to ours and it turns out that...they were both the exact same. The average ranking of their top 10 songs in our poll is 8.7 for both. So do with that knowledge what you will. I should do the same w/ p4k and Stylus.

very excited that this has finally started, just not excited about the songs so far.

44. Low - Murderer (64 points, 5 votes) (Free download via MySpace)

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3418/308410vu6.jpg

43. Kanye West - Stronger (67 points, 5 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/KW-Stronger.jpg

Surprise?

Well, there was a lot of Kanye single vote-splitting in other polls, and even here with only 2 options, I could see "Flashing Lights" doing better than "Stronger" w/ people on this board.

It's a bit dead here now, so I'll make that one the last for today, and take the list down to 31 tomorrow.

YES i'm so happy "Murderer" made the cut! GREAT SONG

murderer is great. i like the single art too I had never seen that.

Songs that I love, to date: Jimmy, Potential Breakup Song, You! Me! Dancing!
Songs that I like, to date: We're All Going To Die, Murderer, Stronger
Songs that I dislike, to date: Earth Intruders
Songs that I've never heard, to date: The Opposite Of Hallelujah

'You! Me! Dancing!' makes me want to kill puppies and I dislike the Kanye, everything else in here is either pretty good or I've never heard it.

"Stronger" is pretty good, and with a little distance I can admit that not ALL of its success stems from getting "Harder Better Faster Stronger"'s hook to a mass audience and trading on the twenty-year-old cool of Akira. A hell of a lot of it does, but then there's also that great fat synth part running through it; this song has more of a sense of "event" to it than almost anything else that was on the charts this year.

The lyrics still suck though.

I think I said something similar in the thread about the song...it seems to be split between wanting to be a big, glorious event and a "hey ladies!" track, which ultimately takes away from the song.

That split is exactly along the line between the production/video and Kanye's rap, I think...

Threads:

Kanye West (and Daft Punk too) 'Stronger'

THIS IS THE THREAD FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE KANYE TRACK W/ THE HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER SAMPLE

one of the dozen or so alternate mixes of "Stronger" that Kanye did before the official album version had a verse that was much better than anything that made the final cut. still a lame song, though.

Here we go...

42. Von Südenfed - The Rhinohead (68 points, 6 votes, 2 number ones, + 1 vote for Pilooski Remix) (link and Pilooski Rmx)

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7333/1085930gs1.jpg

41. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's (69 points, 5 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Throw_Some_D%27s.jpg

Most obviously, "Throw Some D's" is about accents, in senses both regional and musical. As heavily as Rich Boy leans on his semi-comprehensible dialect, he puts even more emphasis on the first two beats of each measure, springboarding off the already sizable bounce of Polow's track. But that's only on the surface. What the song is truly about is the triumphs and failures of the post-civil rights generation and the American Dream. Rich Boy's new-monied swagger is in simultaneous harmony and discord with the sample's quiet storm pretensions of affluence: he's moving up in the world, but at the expense of how many friends?
-Rodney Greene

hometown hero!

40. Chromatics - Running Up That Hill (69 points, 6 votes) (link)

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4376/chromaticsnightdrivejl9.jpg

one of the few Kate Bush covers that generates the goosebump excitement to the original

I might agree if it sounded like she put any effort into the vocals.

39. M.I.A. - Boyz (69 points, 7 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/MIA_Boyzsing.jpg

"boyz" is probably the number 1 m.i.a. track i feel i should love-- both when i read about it and when i think about its individual elements-- but it really annoys the living hell out of me

this musics M.I.A., I did not hear her. Possibly are these good song to hear to possibly?

I really like "With Every Heartbeat," thx ILM.

Still can't believe people didn't like "Big Shit Poppin." Especially compared to fucking Of Montreal.

"Big Shit Poppin'" = average T.I. album track. It's probably his weakest single since "Let's Get Away".

That's not to say it's bad, it's not, just that it doesn't work as a single, really.

i disagree. that hook is anthemic, man. and the way he hits so many of those lines right on point, effortlessly ('whether in miami...underwear', 'errywhere the strap be,' we do it for a month or two') really make it work for me.

big shit poppin was boring

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/We%27re_All_Going_To_Die.jpg

i like this cover!

Were there really 50 solid albums from 2007? You know like how Juno says "do me a solid?" I don't mean it like that. I mean that none of the tracks get skipped over, because every song is good. In Rainbows, and Kala, and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga were prob my favs of this year, and I normally skip around 3 tracks on each of these.

Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan still my #1.

Who the fuck are Of Montreal anyway? One of those bands you never hear anything about ever, until they're suddenly top 10 in the Pitchfork poll? See also The National.

(Nb - this may be a British thing)

Of Montreal put out 2 really good records in '04 and '05 that were pretty much ignored in terms of critical acceptance, but then people realized they fucked up and decided to make up for it by backing their next record which was merely "okay" in comparison. This happens all the time to indie bands. It also happened to Weezer when The Green Album was released.

I'm gonna completely disagree with that, as I couldn't really see what the fuss was about until this record, which I really like.

Also, going by both memory and the Metacritic pages, I'm not quite sure where you're getting that thing about the last two records being critically ignored.

Those 2 records were well-reviewed initially, but did not appear in "best of the year" lists as often as Hissing Fauna.. those lists usually grab more people's attention that a few random positive write-ups. This was somehow the record that Rolling Stone, SPIN and Pitchfork enjoyed enough to include it in their favorites of 2007.. which would have been more justly applied to Satanic and Sunlandic. Just my own opinion.

Also pretty much everyone I know IRL who has heard Hissing Fauna thinks "Grotesque Animal" is the worst thing on it.

of montreal pretty famous here for ages

here too, being that they're a GA band

Yeah, I guess I meant the whole American South.

I think "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" is one of the best tracks on that album. It's the centerpiece. The record wouldn't be whole without it.

I also had the experience that maciej describes...couldn't see the appeal of that band until this album.

Thanks for putting this together, musically

I think "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" is one of the best tracks on that album. It's the centerpiece. The record wouldn't be whole without it.

I also had the experience that maciej describes...couldn't see the appeal of that band until this album.

Yeah, it seems this is the case with most people. It's just my own opinion..

how many votes were cast? 25 votes for number 1? should we even bother next year??

i mean, 25 votes!!! this poll tells us nothing about nothing

i think that means 25 people voted it as their number one, not that 25 people voted for it

25 people voted for it. 2 people voted for it as their number one.

winston, no one's claiming that this poll includes a huge sample set or that this poll is anything resembling definitive. I don't know what you are expecting, but feel free to lower those expectations to a more reasonable level.

aha

If you look at the first post, it says there were 64 ballots cast, to answer that question.

i know but it just seems like there have been way more ballots in the past

not to mention blurbs

looking back at the '05 poll; i guess nothing has changed in terms of # of ballots. i'll shut up now

Fewer blurbs because I didn't have time to search ILX using the world's crappiest search function for 100+ choice quotes that may or may not even exist. And compared to just about every other poll this is Zogby stuff.

Listening to "Watch My Feet" right now and can't help but feel like it was really, really robbed in this thing. I don't think I voted for it, mind you, but...

I wouldn't say it was really, really robbed considering that only like 4 rap songs even placed in this godforsaken poll.

that song is aiiight

Yes, it was very robbed.

YA DIIIIIIIIIIIIG?

2007 was the worst year in the history of popular music.
― billstevejim, Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:35 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

I still stand by this.

burtstantonjim

(Sorry dude, I had to...)

how was 2007 the worst year in the history popular music, when the best pop album of the decade was released that year?

2007 was a'ight. I'm very impressed with 2011 as it happens.