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

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

In case you couldn't tell, that's it for tracks; albums are coming up next week. Please send any blurbs in if you haven't already and wanted to write something. I'll post a complete list of tracks that received votes with point totals later today.

Chocolate Rain is better than all these songs.

it's not that i even like atlas that much, just really wanted something to beat umbrella

It wasn't even close!

Listening to this Battles thing for the first time now and what I'm struck by more than anything (except maybe that fabulous Alien ductwork reverb) is how the beat is so perfectly lifted from "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson.

Hey, this is a pretty good song!

I really like the trick it plays where, by being so dedicatedly weird and gnashy and freaky the whole time, it actually takes you completely by surprise when it drops in a snatch of really clear, bright, melodic playing near the end. It ends up being the weirdest thing in the song!

"Song 4 Mutya" is pleasant enough...presumably this is a UK ilxor thing? I still can't tell a Sugababe from a Spice Girl so who cares what I think? It's nice but, can anyone chime in with why they think it's so fabulous? Musically's blurb puts it into context nicely, but is there an argument for this song? Aside from "It sounds like 'Material Girl'"?

where the fuck is Soulja Boy on this list anyway?

There's a sense of urgency in "Song 4 Mutya" when the song builds up to the chorus, where Mutya's inner voice is both sonically and lyrically challenging her visceral reaction, and they go back and forth to the point where Mutya has to yell to reclaim the chorus for herself, but in the end they join up and overlap and it clicks and snaps the chorus shut. If you don't find the chorus exciting then the whole song is pointless for the listener.

Also, the cover art is my favorite...I bought the 12" remix disc from Amoeba just to put on my wall.

Yeah, that is great cover art.

Listening to this Battles thing for the first time now and what I'm struck by more than anything (except maybe that fabulous Alien ductwork reverb) is how the beat is so perfectly lifted from "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson.

Hey, this is a pretty good song!

-- Doctor Casino, Friday, February 29, 2008 7:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

6. Battles, "Atlas" (Warp) (50 votes)
Brittany and Alex: (immediately) "The beautiful people, the beautiful people."
Brittany: It is! It totally is.
Michael: It's not.
Brittany: I hate to disagree with you, Michael. I didn't know Marilyn Manson was still making records. (vocals come in) They're singing it backwards; they're putting in subliminal satanic messages. We could do a ouija board to this.

musically you should get the e-boy book for more of the same isometric pixel art...altho maybe not as it's going for £150 second hand on amazon wtf

Chocolate Rain is better than all these songs.

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

^^^^Seriously

With Every Heartbeat is better than all these songs

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