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

so what's left? (sorry to be all spoilsportish)

Flashing Lights
Atlas
Rehab
I'm a Flirt
(redacted)
No Pussy Blues
D.A.N.C.E.
Int'l Player's Anthem
Someone Great
Paper Planes
Umbrella
All My Friends

????????

Yeah, I wasn't even aware that "Sweet Escape" was well-liked.

can't tell me nothing?

there's probably some dance tracks we're forgetting and/or don't know about that could slip into the top 10. something by the field maybe

"Can't Tell Me Nothing" wasn't nominated.

hm

you probably have 8 or 9 of the top 12 on that list

i have no idea what this means

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

I explained it a bit above confusingly when I did the Idolator and VV polls...basically, I determined where their top 10 songs placed in this poll (for example, their #1 song was our #5 song, their #2 song was our #16 song, and so on) and then averaged the placements (5+16....divided by the number of songs). If this poll and the other poll in question shared the same top 10, the average would be 5.5, so the closer the average is to that, the closer their top 10 "relates" to ours.

i'm betting all my friends or paper planes take it

for example, their #1 song was our #5 song

this is 'all my friends'

i think it's 'umbrella'

Those were just arbitrary numbers as an example, I wasn't referring to one poll in particular.

sweet escape got robbed.

With Every Heartbeat still to come, I hope.

it was my #1 iirc, but it's also like 2 years old.

With Every Heartbeat will definitely be in there. I'd say around the #10 mark.

Also, 1234 will be in there. Was 'Nude' nominated? Probably more Radiohead in there somewhere.

"All I Need" is the only other nommed 'head. I can't see it placing. As for 1,2,3,4. I actually have my doubts. Of course, now that I've said that, I'll end up yelling "THIS IS NOT ILM" at the screen when it takes top place.

no love for 'remember love' - noze? :'(

buy u a drank or kiss kiss maybe? actually i am holding out hope for yeasayer - 2080 too

Here we go, the top #12 tracks of 2007 as voted by ILM:

12. Amy Winehouse - Rehab (129 points, 11 votes, #35 in 2006) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Amy_Winehouse_-_Rehab.jpg

uck.

I second that 'uck.'

Thirded.

I had never heard of Aly & AJ before looking at this, so I checked their wikipedia and found this tidbit:

In an interview with Blender magazine, the two expressed their disbelief in the theory of evolution, with the interviewer asking what their thoughts were. When asked if they accepted evolution, AJ responded, "No," and Aly responded, "Are they teaching that in schools now?" When told that it had been taught for the last quarter of the century, she replied, “I think that’s kind of disrespectful, anything that has to do with anybody’s beliefs on religion, that should stay out of the classroom. I mean, I think people should be able to pray in school, if people were into that. Everybody should just do their own gig", and AJ added "Evolution is silly. Monkeys? Um, no."

stingy you should look up Prussian Blue.

^^ thought this was 'dabug' posting for a sec

Old news, stingy.

Back to Rehab:
48.5 points, 5 votes + 129 points, 11 votes

(assuming no double counting. also may have been a diff. voting/scoring system last year)

Anyway, I'm one of those who thought "Rehab" was merely OK as at 31.12.06 but felt quite passionately about it as a song one year on. The various cover versions and pastiches that popped up in '07 helped.

The voting system for last year was largely the same, although unranked votes this time around were 10 pts, while last year they were the more mathematically fair 10.5 pts. Why that changed, I'm not all that sure.

hooray for cortney & ewan. pity it was only 14, it was easily the best record of last year.

11. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great (151 points, 11 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Someone_great_cover.jpg

10. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat (157 points, 11 votes, 1 number one vote, #31 in 2006) (link)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4292/witheveryheartbeatji6df5.jpg

DEAD ON.

they're both still high quality

I hadn't heard that song before now.

"With Every Heartbeat" blurbs, btw:

See, the ILM Hype Kru *does* get it right sometimes.
-Matt DC

Where most ballads take delight in grand gestures and displays, "With Every Heartbeat" revels in its own formlessness. Robyn, on the other hand, has no time or cause for revelry, charting what she thinks is a bee-line to the deadening refrain. But that path is fraught with obstacles. She wants to make it better, she doesn't want to look back. She doesn't know. And then there are those ancient, creaking forests of strings in her way. _They_ know. They know how she feels.
-The Reverend

the original video captures the song so much better

9. Feist - 1,2,3,4 (162 points, 13 votes + 1 for Van She Technologic Mix) (link and Van She Technologic Mix)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/1234Feist.jpg

I hate that song

I've still not heard it properly. Only the snippets from the advert.

yay to With Every Heartbeat

but if Atlas isn't in the top 9 im going to be upset

8. UGK feat. Outkast - International Player's Anthem (I Choose You) (165 points, 12 votes, 2 number one votes) (link)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1526/ugk28undergroundkingz29pz7.jpg

What’s most striking about rap’s undoubted collaboration of 2007 isn’t how great it is (that was, let’s be honest, expected), but how right it feels, as if the two legendary duos involved had been recording together for years. And what’s most surprising is that the real star might be the beat: the way DJ Paul and Juicy J loop the Willie Hutch sample to near orgasmic proportions at the end of Andre’s verse only to drop it out for a second so they can usher in the nose-breaking bass that plays the perfect counterpart to Pimp C’s defensive snarl; the way they chop up the drums so they can tag-along with Bun’s stuttering opening bars, and the way the bass steadily hums behind Big Boi’s verse while we wonder whether or not he’s going to stumble over his honed slur. The rapping, though: Andre flipping his paisley collar up at the idea of rapping with any sort of cadence, yet still delivering the song’s best punchline (“Then I CC’d every girl that I see-see ‘round town”); Pimp, the hardened romantic, still managing to get in shots at unnamed haters; Bun flipping his rhyme scheme three times and then delivering some bashful common sense(“What’s a ho with no pimp?/And what’s a pimp with no ho?”), and Big Boi, who’d be the icing on the cake if it didn’t—perfectly—sound like he was rapping with it in his mouth.
-J0rdan S

http://a454.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/81/l_2a23f7ada8a49fd8537612d587000795.jpg

7. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (170 points, 14 votes, 3 number one votes) (link)

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/8004/nopussyblueslu9kz1.jpg

the most primal scream of them all. the history of rock and roll distilled into one twitching, thrusting thrash. really, why did he bother with an album?
-Grimly Fiendish

6. R. Kelly - I'm A Flirt (171 points, 13 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/I%27m_a_flirt.jpg

I really have missed out this year. Also kicking myself for investing an hour in The Good the Bad and the Queen when obviously the side project of choice for 2007 was Grinderman.

5. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (178 points, 14 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5980/justicedancehz0ub9.jpg

4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (249 points, 18 votes, 2 number one votes) (link)

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7949/881654fg8.jpg

phew

disappointed animal collective didn't make the cut, but seeing as i voted for all of the (presumed) top 3 not too disappointed.

3. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (278 points, 21 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7192/miapaperplanescoverch3fr8.jpg