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

Songs that I love, to date: Jimmy, Potential Breakup Song, You! Me! Dancing!
Songs that I like, to date: We're All Going To Die, Murderer, Stronger
Songs that I dislike, to date: Earth Intruders
Songs that I've never heard, to date: The Opposite Of Hallelujah

'You! Me! Dancing!' makes me want to kill puppies and I dislike the Kanye, everything else in here is either pretty good or I've never heard it.

"Stronger" is pretty good, and with a little distance I can admit that not ALL of its success stems from getting "Harder Better Faster Stronger"'s hook to a mass audience and trading on the twenty-year-old cool of Akira. A hell of a lot of it does, but then there's also that great fat synth part running through it; this song has more of a sense of "event" to it than almost anything else that was on the charts this year.

The lyrics still suck though.

I think I said something similar in the thread about the song...it seems to be split between wanting to be a big, glorious event and a "hey ladies!" track, which ultimately takes away from the song.

That split is exactly along the line between the production/video and Kanye's rap, I think...

Threads:

Kanye West (and Daft Punk too) 'Stronger'

THIS IS THE THREAD FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE KANYE TRACK W/ THE HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER SAMPLE

one of the dozen or so alternate mixes of "Stronger" that Kanye did before the official album version had a verse that was much better than anything that made the final cut. still a lame song, though.

Here we go...

42. Von Südenfed - The Rhinohead (68 points, 6 votes, 2 number ones, + 1 vote for Pilooski Remix) (link and Pilooski Rmx)

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7333/1085930gs1.jpg

41. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's (69 points, 5 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Throw_Some_D%27s.jpg

Most obviously, "Throw Some D's" is about accents, in senses both regional and musical. As heavily as Rich Boy leans on his semi-comprehensible dialect, he puts even more emphasis on the first two beats of each measure, springboarding off the already sizable bounce of Polow's track. But that's only on the surface. What the song is truly about is the triumphs and failures of the post-civil rights generation and the American Dream. Rich Boy's new-monied swagger is in simultaneous harmony and discord with the sample's quiet storm pretensions of affluence: he's moving up in the world, but at the expense of how many friends?
-Rodney Greene

hometown hero!

40. Chromatics - Running Up That Hill (69 points, 6 votes) (link)

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4376/chromaticsnightdrivejl9.jpg

one of the few Kate Bush covers that generates the goosebump excitement to the original

I might agree if it sounded like she put any effort into the vocals.

39. M.I.A. - Boyz (69 points, 7 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/MIA_Boyzsing.jpg

"boyz" is probably the number 1 m.i.a. track i feel i should love-- both when i read about it and when i think about its individual elements-- but it really annoys the living hell out of me

this musics M.I.A., I did not hear her. Possibly are these good song to hear to possibly?

possibly why because she sound intersting

I am in agree with that = )

Intersting results so far, that's for sure! Although now that "Boyz" and "Potential Breakup" have both come up, I fear my personal stake in the results is at an end.

38. National - Fake Empire (69 points, 8 votes) (link)

http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q9Yb0xusLec/RvwShgnZEFI/AAAAAAAAADY/0Jad-svsWE0/s1600-h/bf1456401722.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DoK6EFIpL._SS500_.jpg

This is going to suck if I was the only one who wrote blurbs, which it's looking like it might be.

^^the only good national song. the way the unfurl the horns is A+

Boyz is one of the cooler tunes on the M.I.A. album, but not as good as Bird Flu.

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personally i didn't offer to do any blurbs bcuz i was weary of reading blurbs about stuff from last year when the voting/doling out was going on but if musically's got scant blurbs for albums or the rest of the singles i'll write about anything i voted for. email me.

I read the voting instructions super carefully but managed to miss the part about how you have to volunteer to do blurbs while voting, otherwise I totally woulda. but then, I don't expect more than 3 or 4 of the trax I voted for to place.

I will send both of you emails tonight with lists of blurbs you could write. The number of poll-specific blurbs is probably the same as last year, it's just that this time around I couldn't be bothered with searching ILX for blurbs on all the songs like I did last time around. Maybe I'll do it with albums next week, which might be easier.

"that sound wiped" is so much better than "the rhinohead"! but "the rhinohead" is still good...

37. Feist - My Moon My Man (72 points, 5 votes + 2 for Boys Noize Remix) (link and Boys Noize Remix)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3743/o796459qk4.jpg

If the Boys Noize remix is your sound, it's on the Electronation: 5 Years comp mixed by Mason, which is amazing all around.

36. Spoon - The Underdog (72 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9519/gagagagagafv7.jpg

35. Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya (73 points, 7 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Song_4_Mutya_cover.jpg

This should have been Mutya's coronation song as a solo star, and a big fuck you to Amelle and the rest of the 'babes. Unfortunately, it couldn't overcome a truly crap video, Mutya's perch on the lower rungs of the record label marketing ladder, and an album that was trying too hard to turn her into an R&B slow jam princess, when people just wanted to hear her be a Sugababe, just without all the other Sugababes around. She's recently been dropped-excuse me, has decided to part ways with Island Records, but with Song 4 Mutya on her CV, it's definitely not the last we've heard from her.
-musically

34. Radiohead - Reckoner (74 points, 6 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/In_Rainbows_Official_Cover.jpg

33. Lil' Mama - Lip Gloss (75 points, 6 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/LilMama_LipGloss.jpg

Will post more tomorrow!

Its only #42, but I'm happy that The Rhinohead (my #1) made the list. I don't expect many from either my song or album lists to make the ILM list, so to the other 5 of you....Cheers!

Apart from being a solid song, the amazing thing about it is how different it is for both MoM and MeS.

btw...Thanks musically!

Dammit, had a REALLY BRILLIANT response about "Throw Some D's" typed here a few hours ago and lost it somehow... damn...well, the basic thing was that the song really captures this moment of JUST beginning to see one's dreams come true - if he was talking about having a bunch of Cadillacs, or looking back on when he first bought one, I wouldn't care, but he just bought a Cadillac and you can totally hear both the joy and the "fuck you!" of that moment. It's the song's real hook, but the title line does important work too: you become this guy's buddy, along for the first ride in the new Cadillac, and you share in your friend's triumph. "Shit, dude, you should throw some D's on this bitch! The world is your oyster - why not?" It's very well done.

The production backs this up perfectly - it's exultant, but there's an added fuzz or tinniness, giving the veneer of homemade-ness; it's the perfect soundtrack for a rising underdog.

And yes, bravo to musically!

Well said.

Reverend - I wrote a few blurbs as well.

Reckoner = BEST SONG ON RADIOHEAD'S 'IN RAINBOWS'.

Videotape is better, imhfo.

I just realized I wrote "friends" in my Rich Boy blurb where I meant to write "fiends". Oops, oh well.

haha v. curious now what the brilliant throw some ds comment was b/c i like what you wrote in summary

also hope that results arent just 3+ trax off of mia/spoon/radiohead

I've never even heard of a band called Spoon, what's it like?

32. White Stripes - Icky Thump (79 points, 8 votes) (link)

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/527/862530xe2.jpg

31. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (79 points, 10 votes) (link)

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1329/musiccatalog5cr5croisingh5.jpg

30. LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (82 points, 8 votes) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/LCD_Soundsystem_-_Sound_of_Silver.jpg

^didn't vote for this but happy to see it get some shine

29. Britney Spears - Piece Of Me (83 points, 7 votes, 1 number votes) (link)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7066/britneypieceofmecoverxz2.jpg

I hope "gimme more" also makes it.

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.