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

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

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/947699.jpg

musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link

musically, check yr email

The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow that is surprisingly low.

Matt DC, Monday, 25 February 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

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

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/973877.jpg

musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link

needs images for aesthetic purposes i think
lol @ waffles jab tho

J0rdan S., Monday, 25 February 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link

are there gonna be 3+ m.i.a. singles on here?

J0rdan S., Monday, 25 February 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link

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

musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I would have waffles with all this white girls.

The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link

The image at rateyourmusic isn't showing up on their site either...I've seen this happen randomly, especially on the Cover Connections threads.

musically, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link

eww, I didn't mean I would have waffles with Aly & AJ (no rolling teenpop)

The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link

^^ban this lex sockpuppet

J0rdan S., Monday, 25 February 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link

^^ban this person without reading comprehension

The Reverend, Monday, 25 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

^^ 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

The Brainwasher, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

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*

omar little, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Chocolate Rain is better than all these songs.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, February 29, 2008 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^^Seriously

Dom Passantino, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

With Every Heartbeat is better than all these songs

later arpeggiator, Saturday, 1 March 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I call hijinks -- no Electrelane! Surely because best song ever "Saturday" was mistakenly (but cutely) nominated as "Caturday."

Leee, Saturday, 1 March 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Not great in my books. Only 3 or 4 I voted for.

Musically: Will you list #s 51-150?
(That's usually where most of the gems are)

peepee, Saturday, 1 March 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

btw...

Atlas isn't even the second best song offa the Battles album,
yet its way better than Umbrella, which includes a good idea,
but ain't a good song.

peepee, Saturday, 1 March 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not going to provide the # of votes something received or the # of number one votes since that's massively time-consuming, but if you're particularly interested in something, I can give you the stats on it.

56 points Amerie - Take Control
55 points Britney Spears - Gimme More
55 points Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks
54 points Eluvium - Indoor Swimming At The Space Station
52 points Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri
52 points Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
52 points White stripes - you don't know what love is
52 points T2 Ft Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken
52 points Cassie - Is It You?
51 points 50 Cent - Ayo Technology
51 points LCD Soundsystem - Us V Them
50 points Animal Collective - Fireworks
50 points T-Pain - Buy U A Drank

49 points Beyonce - Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)
48 points A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head
48 points Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
47 points Black Lips - Katrina
46 points Fantasia - When I See U (Polow Da Don Remix Feat Young Jeezy)
46 points Crime Mob - Circles
45 points Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
45 points Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
45 points Dude & Nem - Watch My Feet
45 points Ricardo Villalobos - Primer Encuentro Latino Americano
45 points Four Seasons/Pilooski - Beggin'
44 points Electrelane - The Greater Times
44 points Hot Chip - Shake A Fist
42 points Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Villalobos Remix)
41 points Klaxons - Golden Skans
40 points Faze Action - In The Trees (C2 Remix)
40 points Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
40 points Animal Collective - For Reverend Green

39 points Radiohead - All I Need
39 points Axwell - I Found U (Remode)
38 points Unklejam - What Am I Fighting For?
38 points Lindstrøm - Breakfast In Heaven
38 points T.I. - Big Shit Poppin (Do It)
37 points Amerie - Crazy/Wonderful
37 points Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian
37 points Deerhoof - 81
37 points Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
36 points Neil Young - Ordinary People
36 points Casa De Leones - No Te Veo
36 points Calle 13 Feat. Mala Rodriguez - Mala Suerte Con El 13
36 points Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive
35 points Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
35 points 50 Cent - I Get Money
35 points Maximo Park - Our Velocity
35 points Sugababes - About You Now
34 points Britney Spears - Get Naked (I Got A Plan)
34 points Pharaohe Monch - Let's Go
34 points Voxtrot - Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives
34 points Bloc Party - Flux
33 points P. Diddy Feat. Keyshia Cole - Last Night
33 points Super Furry Animals - Carbon dating
33 points Cut Off Your Hands - Still Fond
32 points Kelley Polar - Chrysanthemum
32 points Tracey Thorn - It's All True
32 points Dan Le Sac - Thou Shalt Always Kill
32 points Dinosaur Jr - Almost Ready
32 points New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
31 points Sebastian Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
31 points Mistah F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It
30 points Paramore - Misery Business
30 points Shellac - The End Of Radio
30 points Mason Vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
30 points Electrelane - Caturday
30 points Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Shackleton Remix)
30 points Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder

29 points Take That - Shine
29 points Alex Gaudino Ft. Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria
29 points DJ Khalid - We Takin' Over
29 points Junior Boys - FM (Tensnake Remix)
29 points Sophie Ellis-Bextor - If You Go
29 points Liars - Freak Out
29 points Pole - Warum
28 points Audio Club - Sumthin' Serious
28 points Robert Wyatt - A Beautiful War
28 points Apples In Stereo - Same Old Drag
27 points Bruce Springsteen - Long walk home
27 points White Stripes - Bone Broke
27 points Will.I.Am - I Got It From My Mama
27 points Motiivi Tuntematon - I Don't Feel Good (When You're Not Around)
27 points Jesu - Storm Comin' In
27 points Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
27 points Of Montreal - No Conclusion
27 points Go! Team - Keys To The City
27 points Justin Timberlake - Summer Love
26 points Bat for Lashes - What's a girl to do
26 points Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's
26 points Digitalism - Pogo (On The Road To Paris Version)
25 points Pierces - Boring
25 points Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
24 points High On Fire - Rumors Of War
24 points Union Of Knives - Evil Has Never
24 points A Mountain Of One - People Without Love
23 points Vampire Weekend - Wolcott
22 points Dizzee Rascal - Where's Da G's
22 points Emma Pollack - Adrenaline
22 points R. Kelly - Same Girl
22 points Gorilla Zoe - Hood Nigga
22 points M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga
22 points Fall Out Boy - Thks 4 Th Mmrs
21 points Kings Of Leon - Fans
21 points Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or A Maybe
20 points LCD Soundsystem - Freak Out/Starry Eyes
20 points Megan Rochell - My Mistake
20 points Trans Am - 4,738 Regrets
20 points Stopstarts - Mentor / Diamondless
20 points Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance
20 points National - Apartment Story
20 points Swizz Beatz - It's Me Bitches
20 points Caribou - Niobe
20 points Tokyo Jihen - Metro
20 points Jurgen Paape - Fruity Loops #2
20 points M.I.A. - $20 / 20 Dollar
20 points Rufus Wainwright - Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)
20 points Feeding Fingers - Fireflies Make Us Sick
20 points Lindstrøm - The Contemporary Fix
20 points Junior Boys - The Equalizer
20 points Young Jeezy - Go Getta
20 points TEPR - Minuit Jacuzzi (Data Remix)
20 points White Stripes - Little Cream Soda

19 points Tokyo Jihen - Osca
19 points Holy Ghost! - Hold On
19 points Feist - Intuition
19 points Kanye West - Flashing Lights
19 points Avalanches - Ray Of Zdarlight
19 points Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig Remix)
19 points Natasha - Hey Hey Hey
19 points M83 - By The Kiss
19 points Solomun & Stimming - Feuervogel
19 points Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
19 points Stylofone - Nighttime
19 points Maximo Park - Books From Boxes
19 points Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
19 points Dream - Shawty Is A Ten
19 points Jay Z - Ignorant Shit
19 points Colleen - Sun Against My Eyes
19 points Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
19 points Sorcerer - Divers Do It Deeper
19 points Ame - Balandine
19 points Map Of Africa - Map Of Africa + Ely Cathedral
18 points Lifelike - So Electric
18 points Clientele - These Days Nothing But Sunshine
18 points Talib Kweli Feat. Sizzla - Hostile Gospel Pt. 2 (Deliver Me)
18 points Mapei - Date Rape
18 points Tokyo Jihen - Kaban No Nakami
18 points Lauryn Hill - Lose Myself
18 points Fedde Le Grand V Ida Corr - Let Me Think About It
18 points Guns N' Roses - Madagascar
18 points Freemasons Feat. Baily Tzuke - Uninvited
18 points Pleasure - Uptown
18 points Hatchback - Carefree Highway
18 points Kubichek! - Stutter
18 points Polly Scattergood - Nitrogen Pink
18 points Nightcats - Inside
18 points Pharoahe Monch - Desire
17 points Field - Silent
17 points Daddy Yankee - Ella Me Levanto
17 points Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You
17 points Bloc Party - Where is Home (Burial remix)
17 points Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
17 points Christophe Willem - Double Je
17 points Wu-Tang Clan Feat. Sunny Valentine - Gun Will Go
17 points Dears - You And I Are A Gang Of Losers
17 points Lawrence - Pond
16 points Pull Tiger Tail - Let's Lightning
16 points Moving Oos - Romancer
16 points Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Nummer Fire En
16 points Clientele - Bookshop Casanova
16 points Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
16 points Keyshia Cole F/ Missy Elliott And Lil Kim - Let It Go
16 points Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
16 points A Mountain Of One - Brown Piano
16 points Animal Collective - Peacebone
16 points Von Sudenfed - Family Feud
16 points Jordan Pruitt - Over It
15 points Chungking - Love Is Here To Stay
15 points Tony Allen - Ole (Moritz Von Oswald Remix)
15 points Booka Shade - Numbers
15 points Kelly Rowland F/ Eve - Like This
15 points P. Diddy Feat. Christina Aguilera - Tell Me (Switch Remix)
15 points Cirez D - Teaser (Deadmau5 Remix Version 1)
15 points Nejo Y Dalmata - Algo Musical
15 points Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor
15 points Hatchback - White Diamond
15 points Aly & AJ - Blush
15 points Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better
15 points Mathew Jonson - Stop
15 points Playaz Circle F/ Lil Wayne - Duffle Bag Boy
15 points Adam K & Soha - Twilight
14 points Joell Ortiz - Brooklyn Bullshit
14 points Prince - The One U Wanna C
14 points Martin Landsky - Let Me Dance (Sebo K Remix)
14 points Arms - Whirring
14 points Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
14 points Wu-Tang Clan Feat. Dexter Wiggle - Unpredictable
14 points Ashley Tisdale - Be Good To Me
14 points Wisin Y Yandel - Sexy Movimiento
13 points Modest Mouse - Dashboard
13 points Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
13 points Dan Deacon - Wham City
13 points Hilary Duff - Outside of You
13 points Miley Cyrus - See You Again
13 points Parts & Labor - The Gold We're Digging
13 points Usher F/ Ludacris - Dat Girl Right There
13 points Anthony Cuz - Empece A Llorar
13 points Metro Area - Read My Mind
12 points Ashley Tisdale - Goin' Crazy
12 points Built to Spill - They Got Away
12 points Lea Shores - Guillotine
12 points Apparat - Holdon
12 points Trunk Boiz - Scraper Bike
12 points Simon Baker - Plastik
12 points Enrique Iglesias - Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)
12 points King Boy Pato - Raspberry Jersey Mashup
12 points Eve - Tambourine
12 points Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read The Letter
12 points Deadmau5 - Not Exactly
12 points Daddy Yankee - En Sus Marcas Listos Fuera
12 points Justus Kohncke - Feuerland
11 points Thomas Fehlmann - TRNTTF
11 points Concretes - Kids
11 points Art Brut - Direct Hit
11 points Young Knives - Terra Firma
11 points Of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da
11 points Gallego - Imaginate
11 points Mechanical Bride - Umbrella
11 points Peter & The Wolf - Safe Travels
11 points Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
11 points Babyshambles - Delivery
10 points Runaway - Shadows
10 points Strawberry Whiplash - Who's In Your Dreams
10 points Dan Deacon - Trippy Green Skull
10 points Antena - Joppo & Eno (Pink Alert Rerub)
10 points John C. Reilly - Royal Jelly
10 points Deerhunter - Cryptograms
10 points Beanie Siegel Feat. R Kelly - All The Above
10 points Jay-Z F/ Nas - Success
10 points Kotey Extra Band feat.Chaz Jankel - Sooner or Later
10 points Tinariwen - Matadjem Yinmixan
10 points Glass Candy - Miss Broadway
10 points California Snow Story - Suddenly Everything Happens
10 points Still Going - Still Going Theme
10 points Hercules & Love Affair - Classique #2
10 points Mary Weiss - Cry About The Radio
10 points Société Des Admirateurs - Eurograce
10 points Gallego - Pegao, Pegao
10 points Beck - Phone's Dead (Re-edit by Arthur Blackbeard)
10 points Rod Thomas - Your Love Is A Tease
10 points DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Remix)
10 points Z-Ro - I'm A Murderah (Ft. Pimp C & Spice 1)
10 points Swan Lake - All Fires
10 points Club 8 - Heaven
10 points Working For A Nuclear Free City - Nancy Adam Susan
10 points Spoon - Ghost of You Lingers
10 points Dubfire - Roadkill
10 points Saint Etienne & Annie - This Is Tomorrow
10 points Tunng - Bullets (Max Tundra Remix)
10 points Club 8 - Whatever You Want
10 points Prodigy Feat. Alchemist & Un Pacino - White America
10 points Noze - Remember Love
10 points Spoon - Black Like Me
10 points Dusty Kid - Kore

9 points Bag Raiders - Fun Punch
9 points Freemasons - Rain Down Love
9 points Salem Al-Fakir - Dream Girl
9 points Pase Rock - Sexy MF
9 points Bloody Beetroots - Bluto Fuck Popeye
9 points Julieta Venegas Feat. Dante Spinetta - Primer Dia
9 points Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
9 points Ghosts - Stay The Night
9 points Lavender Diamond - In Heaven There Is No Light
9 points Kubichek! - Method Acting
9 points Kelly Clarkson - Never again
8 points Girls Aloud - Black Jacks
8 points Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies
8 points Jason Isbell - Dress Blues
8 points Buckethead - Carpal Tunnel Slug
8 points Natasha Bedingfield - Not Givin' Up
6 points Lethal Bizzle - Police On My Back
6 points Commix - Be True
6 points Pepe Deluxé - The Mischief Of Cloud 6
6 points Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call
6 points Times New Viking - Teenage Lust!
5 points Trusme - W.A.R.
5 points Uffie - First Love
5 points Rosie Thomas - Much Farther To Go
5 points My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
5 points Chris Brown With T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
5 points Gym Class Heroes - Clothes Off!
5 points Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
4 points Pissed Jeans - Secret Admirer
4 points Lee Douglas - New York Story
4 points Supermayer - The Art of Letting Go (Ewan's The Art Of Getting Low Dub)
3 points Robin Thicke - Lost Without U
3 points Gwen Stefani - 4 In The Morning (Thin White Duke Mix)
3 points New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
3 points Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
3 points LG - Cuchi Cuchi
2 points Ciara - Like A Boy
2 points Santogold - Creator
2 points Yelle - A Cause Des Garcons
2 points Jordan Pruitt - Jump To The Rhythm
1 points Dollyrots - Because I'm Awesome
1 points Siobhan Donaghy - Don't Give It Up (Carl Craig Dub)
1 points Britney Spears - Radar

musically, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link

yay to With Every Heartbeat and UGK, other than their shows i think i'm still immune to lcd soundsystem, i just don't get it for the most part.

thanks to whoever voted for trunk boiz

tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link

i still like soulja boy throw some ds better

tremendoid, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link

i thought "he keeps me alive" would do better. love that song.

tremendoid, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link

4 lcd soundsystem tracks, hahaha

omar little, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link

that's nuts, isn't it?

tremendoid, Sunday, 2 March 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm happy other people voted for "Get Me Bodied (Extended Version)," thought I would be the only one on that.

I'm kinda surprised "I Get Money" did so poorly.

maciej recognizing trill, Sunday, 2 March 2008 01:05 (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

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

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

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..

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

three years pass...

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


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