^^ worst message board Laurel & Hardy ever
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
amen to that
― The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
48. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah (61 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/294513.jpg
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
M.I.A. - Jimmy
I would have voted for this, but I restricted myself to only one track vote per artist.
― o. nate, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
where are the pictures
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i forgot to vote in this, oh well
What other pictures were you expecting?
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for putting together this poll, musically, don't mind the whiners who demand visual aids.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 25 February 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i'm only seeing the reposted Aly&AJ pic, but no matter
― blueski, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
You don't see the other two photos? I'm hotlinking RYM photos, but I didn't think that would be a problem...
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i had the jens album in my top 5 but 'the opposite of hallelujah' is one of my least favorite songs on the album
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 February 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't believe jimmy is at 50....guessing some form of paper planes will show up much higher on this list
― gman, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
really don't get the love for 'Jimmy'. not that it's bad, just no big deal.
― blueski, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Jens_Lekman_-_The_Opposite_of_Hallelujah.jpg
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
And #47...
47. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (61 points, 7 votes) (link)
http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/youmedancing300.jpg
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't like any of the tracks mentioned thus far :-(
― stephen, Monday, 25 February 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
woohoo. it's begun! I'm hoping for no more M.I.A.
― danzig, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
So many other better songs on that album.
― W4LTER, Monday, 25 February 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, two songs like so far (i don't expect any i voted for to appear)
― electricsound, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
*I* like
― electricsound, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Los Campesinos yay!
― maciej recognizing trill, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― stephen, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
if Aly & AJ keep popping up we might be on our way to e)
― gman, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
how about
f) all of these polls end of looking the same
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
very excited that this has finally started, just not excited about the songs so far.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
44. Low - Murderer (64 points, 5 votes) (Free download via MySpace)
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3418/308410vu6.jpg
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
43. Kanye West - Stronger (67 points, 5 votes) (link)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/KW-Stronger.jpg
Surprise?
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
YES i'm so happy "Murderer" made the cut! GREAT SONG
― stephen, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
murderer is great. i like the single art too I had never seen that.
― gman, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
'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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
hometown hero!
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
40. Chromatics - Running Up That Hill (69 points, 6 votes) (link)
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4376/chromaticsnightdrivejl9.jpg
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the few Kate Bush covers that generates the goosebump excitement to the original
― zaxxon25, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I might agree if it sounded like she put any effort into the vocals.
― lou, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
39. M.I.A. - Boyz (69 points, 7 votes) (link)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/MIA_Boyzsing.jpg
― musically, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"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
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
this musics M.I.A., I did not hear her. Possibly are these good song to hear to possibly?
― Klaus Krück, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 2 March 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Big Shit Poppin'" = average T.I. album track. It's probably his weakest single since "Let's Get Away".
― The Reverend, Sunday, 2 March 2008 09:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That's not to say it's bad, it's not, just that it doesn't work as a single, really.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 2 March 2008 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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 HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
big shit poppin was boring
― deej, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i like this cover!
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan still my #1.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Matt DC, Sunday, 2 March 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― maciej recognizing trill, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
of montreal pretty famous here for ages
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
here too, being that they're a GA band
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I meant the whole American South.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dan S, Monday, 3 March 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for putting this together, musically
― Jeff W, Monday, 3 March 2008 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it seems this is the case with most people. It's just my own opinion..
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
how many votes were cast? 25 votes for number 1? should we even bother next year??
― winston, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, 25 votes!!! this poll tells us nothing about nothing
― winston, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i think that means 25 people voted it as their number one, not that 25 people voted for it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
aha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
If you look at the first post, it says there were 64 ballots cast, to answer that question.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i know but it just seems like there have been way more ballots in the past
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
not to mention blurbs
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
looking back at the '05 poll; i guess nothing has changed in terms of # of ballots. i'll shut up now
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― musically, Thursday, 6 March 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't say it was really, really robbed considering that only like 4 rap songs even placed in this godforsaken poll.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
that song is aiiight
― tremendoid, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, it was very robbed.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
YA DIIIIIIIIIIIIG?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
burtstantonjim
(Sorry dude, I had to...)
― don't quixote me on that (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
how was 2007 the worst year in the history popular music, when the best pop album of the decade was released that year?
― prego, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
2007 was a'ight. I'm very impressed with 2011 as it happens.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link