Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

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the top 10 really gets weird here as all ilm trax lists usually do but this list holds up really well imo

she wolf is great! so is the fear!

lol i like how the joke #1 was included in yr impressions and i enjoy the story about ppl only going to see bat for lashes b/c soul ii soul was raining out

I like everything in that Top 10 apart from She Wolf and discovered some great tunes (House of House, Darkstar) via this poll. For good or ill (it was probably less interesting), one of the last years that the ILX poll reflected a consensus around certain big songs rather than the different passions of several competing constituencies.

there's so much stuff in that countdown that i'm like 'wow! what a great year' and equally just about the same amount where i'm thinking 'fuck that noise, thank god those days are behind us'.

i like 'she wolf' but that is crazy high. it's useful as a reminder of 'o right, ppl were really excited about that record' (i know i was and i doubt i've listened to it since 2010). i'm fine w/ phoenix but two in the top 13 is a bit much. gaga really really underrated. some of these entries are effective as 'yep, that was 2009' but i'm kinda surprised to see them either here at all (kid cudi, 'empire state') or so high ('i gotta feeling').

It's missing about four tracks, but here's a spotify playlist I just built for this.
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/7tdXBe4UajU8tJsO7L32g8
giving it a try now.

My biggest takeaway from this list was The-Dream, who I'd totally missed up to that point. I also went and bought that Yeah Yeah Yeahs album and I still think it's pretty good!

Agreed that Gaga is undervalued here - possibly suffered from those being big big hits early in 2009, so that by voting time even their boosters were kind of sick of them. And for ILM at that point I think she still had this whiff of 'performer of ordinary songs who drops eye-rolling references to art, what's the big deal?' Thing was that those two tracks, and most of Fame Monster, were extraordinary songs, but I'm sure that was a problem on this ballot...

"Poker Face" is not an extraordinary song, unless you mean "extraordinarily dumb"

nah there was alot of skepticism toward her and alot of ppl didn't get or accept her at all until 'bad romance' or even 'telephone'. i was one of those who sniffed 'well she's no madonna i can tell you that!' and sniffed that her idea of art was an 8th grader's and she wasn't bringing the underground into the mainstream, she wasn't really subverting the mainstream - she's no madonna! - but in retrospect that run is up there w/ anyone from this century, i'd put her imperial phase up there w/ missy elliot's or whoever.

"Poker Face" is not an extraordinary song, unless you mean "extraordinarily dumb"

yeah. it's catchy, tho! and as we all know, catchy songs and chart success are the only true measure of music's quality.

i had forgotten that robyn track; it's fucking great

I still love Lobo. can't listen to it in english tho.

― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. I'm p sure the rule of thumb with any Shakira song that exists in dual-language versions is fuck the English version.

kid cudi being on here sure ain't any less embarrassing now than it was then

I still like that song. *kanye shrug*

this thread belongs in the thread title hall of fame

Zero and Heads Will Roll are p cool but I was totally bored w that album. Imo New Young Pony Club's The Optimist from the following year did a p great job of synthesizing a lot of the strengths of Its Blitz and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (another LP w severe dropoff after track 2) and improving upon it probably 200%

(tho Tahita Bulmer as frontwoman is not quite as inviting as Karen O; still think she's a better songwriter, and production on The Optimist is fantastic. Last year's NYPC album as well)

kid cudi being on here sure ain't any less embarrassing now than it was then

― k3vin k., Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:18 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still like that song. *kanye shrug*

― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:08 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah that song's a banger, altho the crookers remix is still >>

Zero and Heads Will Roll are p cool but I was totally bored w that album.

These are the two songs I play the least off of this album, along with "Soft Shock" and "Skeletons". The stretch from "Dull Life" through "Dragon Queen" is all-time great IMO.

Maybe I should say that "Paparazzi" and "Poker Face" are "out of the ordinary" rather than extraordinary. 7's and 8's rather than 10s. I think both have pretty interesting, original conceits touching on the gap between seductions/relationships as-felt vs. as-performed, and they still sound pretty good. I know ILX generally does not go for RedOne, but "Paparazzi" is pretty massive/moody. Not sure there are many other 2009 pop singles I'd rate higher. "Halo" maybe? "Party in the USA" for different kinda reasons.

redone wasn't involved in "paparazzi"

right - just wrote that sentence kind of confusingly. Meant to kind of say, on the one hand the RedOne song, on the other hand Paparazzi.

Paparazzi is likely my favorite Gaga song

So the other night "Bicycle" came up in one of my playlists and it was like ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Like at the time it just sounded like some pleasant background music to me but now I like, can't stop listening to it, and the whole album. Fuck, man. Good call, ILX.

That song had greater longevity than I thought it would. Still A+.

Is there a place I can see all the EOY lists at a glance? We should post the results at the top of each old thread really.

this thread? The ILX List of Lists

idk how much stuff it actually has in it