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

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

as if 'umbrella' isn't gonna be #1

as if 'Atlas' isn't gonna be #2

Oh God don't let Battles beat Rihanna.

Dudes, Battles sucks.

2. Battles - Atlas (280 points, 21 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9049/782490sp6.jpg

This song was sweeet live

yah it was

This song band was sweeet live

-- W4LTER, Friday, February 29, 2008 4:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

SOMB list >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this one.

I think everyone knows that the #1 song will be, no use in drawing it out...

1. Leon Jackson - When You Believe (592 points, 70 votes, 8 number one votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/When_You_Believe_%28Leon_Jackson%29.jpg

1. Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain (312 points, 25 votes, 3 number one votes) (link)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/1024051258_c31fa1c4de.jpg

musically be getting the joke posts in before me

^^this song was sweet live

so glad battles beat fucking umbrella

oh wait

goddammit ilm

BIG LOSE

the rubbishness of the rest of the top ten kind of undermines the jokes bruv.

1. Rihanna - Umbrella (334 points, 25 votes, 2 number one votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Rihanna-jay-z-umbrella.jpg

While I hope Rihanna doesn’t go to bed every night without thanking whomever that she ended up with this track instead of Mary J. et al, the real twist of fate in the whole thing is that she elevates it as much as it elevates her. She doesn’t let the hammering drums or the revving synths swallow her, and for as much as she gets ragged on for being a quote unquote cyborg, she sings the song like I think it was meant to be sung: confident instead of empathetic. Who knows what it would have become in the hands of those who passed on it, but it’s to Rihanna’s credit that if we heard it sung by any of those divas named, it wouldn’t sound better, or more right.
-J0rdan S

thx chav

i miss lex, he would've written a better blurb than that.

>>>>>>>>>>>>

i think this magnificent, gorgeous single deserves its own thread. massive drums, dramatic high-end, growling bass which sounds like engines revving up, gorgeous us-against-the-world lyrics ("i took an oath, i'mma stick it out 'til the end" - aaahhh), and an aboslutely massive crashing powerballad tune. i've played it about 95854944 times in a row since i first heard it. early contender for single of the year!
-- lex pretend, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 3:20 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

ilm=OTM

damn what an eclectic list

brainwasher, please feel free to find another board.

lol OOOOH.

ugh

i think your hunger for blurbs from that d-bag can be sated at poptimists, BW

brainwasher is an awesome poster