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)

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