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

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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I hope "gimme more" also makes it.

I am going to be devastated if T.I. doesn't make this list.

What T.I. from this year you think gon make it? "Big Shit Poppin"?

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

-- J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah thank god someone's voting for lcd soundsystem

"Big Shit Poppin'" was the only thing by T.I. that was nominated, besides "I'm A Flirt": http://ilx2007poll.googlepages.com/home

28. Gwen Stefani Ft Akon - The Sweet Escape (84 points, 6 votes, 1 number one vote) (link)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Gwen_Stefani_-_The_Sweet_Escape.jpg

27. Radiohead - 15 Step (84 points, 8 votes) (link)

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

'sweet escape' seems 3 years old to me

seriously!

so far only 1 of my trax has been on the list so far (murderer) but i can bet there will be at least 2 more...although im liking this list so far...a few i had never heard before so far like We're All Going To Die and Overpowerd

I could have sworn ILM was too cool for Radiohead.

Radiohead - In Rainbows
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26. Studio - Out There (87 points, 9 votes, 1 number votes) (link)

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^depending on who voted this could sneak into the top 10 in albums

i forget whether i voted for it now

this list is ghey

Thanks Reverend, Johnny Crunch. I think in hindsight that my original post was about the same thing but with more words and hence probably worse. So...here's to screwing things up on the Internet!

"Sweet Escape" is good for A-Kon's hooting and chortling, but everything Gwen, everything Gwen...I don't think so. I like the idea of a song from the perspective of someone who kinda wishes they could be sweet, but can't really be fucked to accomplish it, but it's weirdly at odds with the hook, which seems to be about actually being sweet. That could be a productive tension, but somehow I just don't buy into it on this one.

Count me with those hoping for GIMME MAWR to top the mysterious "Piece of Me," which I've never heard of before. Is it good?

Not really. Al in Bmore used the word "inert" to describe it, and I can't come up with one more accurate. "Gimme More" is the better of the two, at any rate.

Piece of Me is the best thing from Blackout...the remixes are all aces too. The Boz and Lo mix (bascially an alt mix as it's done by the original's producers) is the best, but the Tiesto and Bimbo Jones mixes are worth checking out too.