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

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

here too, being that they're a GA band

Yeah, I guess I meant the whole American South.

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.

Thanks for putting this together, musically

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..

how many votes were cast? 25 votes for number 1? should we even bother next year??

i mean, 25 votes!!! this poll tells us nothing about nothing

i think that means 25 people voted it as their number one, not that 25 people voted for it

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.

aha

If you look at the first post, it says there were 64 ballots cast, to answer that question.

i know but it just seems like there have been way more ballots in the past

not to mention blurbs

looking back at the '05 poll; i guess nothing has changed in terms of # of ballots. i'll shut up now

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.

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...

I wouldn't say it was really, really robbed considering that only like 4 rap songs even placed in this godforsaken poll.

that song is aiiight

Yes, it was very robbed.

YA DIIIIIIIIIIIIG?

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.

burtstantonjim

(Sorry dude, I had to...)

how was 2007 the worst year in the history popular music, when the best pop album of the decade was released that year?

2007 was a'ight. I'm very impressed with 2011 as it happens.