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

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."

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)

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.

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

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

i still like soulja boy throw some ds better

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

4 lcd soundsystem tracks, hahaha

that's nuts, isn't it?

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.

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.

"Big Shit Poppin'" = average T.I. album track. It's probably his weakest single since "Let's Get Away".

That's not to say it's bad, it's not, just that it doesn't work as a single, really.

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 shit poppin was boring

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

i like this cover!

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.

Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan still my #1.

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)

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.

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.

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.

of montreal pretty famous here for ages