Best Track On NME's 2008 Best Tracks Of The Year List?

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
47 Portishead Machine Gun	14
18 Hercules and Love Affair Blind	14
8 MIA Paper Planes	10
37 Wiley Wearing My Rolex	9
24 Santagold LES Artistes	4
17 Spiritualized Soul on Fire	4
5 MGMT Electric Feel	4
4 MGMT Time To Pretend	4
42 Late Of The Pier Focker	4
29 DJ Mujava Township Funk	2
31 Laura Marling Ghosts	2
36 Little Boots Stuck on Repeat	2
50 Maria, Ida Oh My God	2
3 Mystery Jets Two Doors Down	2
34 Late Of The Pier Space An The Woods	1
32 Black Kids I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You	1
25 Mystery Jets Young Love	1
41 Dizzee Rascal Dance Wiv Me	1
22 The Last Shadow Puppets Standing Next To Me	1
20 Chairlift Bruises	1
10 Vampire Weekend A-Punk	1
38 Sam Sparro Black & Gold	1
14 Florence and The Machine Kiss With A Fist	1
15 Ladyhawke Paris Is Burning	1
16 Oasis The Shock of The Lightning	1
39 Vampire Weekend Oxford Comma	0
40 Heartbreak We're Back	0
6 Metronomy Heartbreaker	0
2 Glasvegas Geraldine	0
43 Glasvegas It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes ME Cry	0
7 Friendly Fires Paris Is Burning	0
49 Glasvegas Flowers and Football Tops	0
46 Mogwai Batcat	0
1 MGMT Kids	0
48 Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Dig!! Lazarus, Dig!!!	0
45 Crystal Castles Crimewave	0
9 Kings of Leon Sex On Fire	0
21 TV on the Radio Golden Age	0
19 Oasis I'm Out of Time	0
23 Fucked Up Year of The Pig	0
27 The Last Shadow Puppets The Age of The Understatement	0
28 Elbow Grounds For Divorce	0
13 Elbow One Day Like This	0
30 Florence and The Machine Dog Days Are Over	0
12 Hot Chip Ready For The Floor	0
26 Amazing Baby Head Dress	0
33 Vampire Weekend Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa	0
11 The Verve Love Is Noise	0
35 Ladyhawke Back of The Van	0
44 Crystal Castles Courtship Dating	0

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

And again, Portishead.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:21 (seventeen years ago)

wtf at 3 MGMT songs in the top 5.

― ianmaxwell, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)

i like about 23 of these

― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

holy fuck its sam sparro!

still think mgmt are a less funny flight of the concords

― straightola, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

oh missed blind.

― straightola, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

Portishead, with honourable mentions to MIA, Santogold and Nick Cave. Predictably a mostly horrible list.

― chap, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

'Wearing My Rolex'

Surprised by how *little* of this I've heard actually, pretty much all these tracks will inevitably be described as "unavoidable" by someone somewhere

― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)

"Wearing My Rolex"

This was the year when even the wussiest palest indie rock I fucked with no longer had any crossover with the NME. No "International xTweecorex Underground", no credibility.

― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

whither the mezzaterra

― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)

Did the NME even fuck with HMHB during their brief period as the brutes of C86?

― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

um, in what way?

Tried to anoy them, no.

Give them much coverage and praise, yeah.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:49 (seventeen years ago)

Great: 6
Good: 17
OK: 7
Meh: 4
Not Heard: 16

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

Gone for the Chairlift track.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

Paper Planes, a ringer from 2007

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Space and the Woods or Focker? How am I supposed to decide? Toss a coin? Give a toss?

Does the world really need that many MGMT singles? Honestly...

― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

FOCKER!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

I had a sock puppet vote for each, but I do actually think that FOCKER is the better track. Do I have a third sock puppet? I have a funny feeling I might. I can no longer keep track.

I'm going to have a wank and if I fap on Sam Eastgate, I'll vote FOCKER and if I fap on Sam Potter, I'll vote Space and the Woods*.

*I am obviously joking. This is obviously anatomically impossible for me, as a female.

― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

A fair few of these are decent - two way fite between Rolex and Blind for me though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I HAVE THE CARROT CAKE FOR LUNCH!!!!

― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

stop eating carrot cake all the time

― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

focker is 30 seconds shorter than space and the woods = win. (whitesnake is unbelievably shorter at just under 3 mins- it lasts aaaages in my head)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

i don't even care any more, but i just have so much...pity and contempt for people with taste like that.

('rolex' duhhh)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

were you ever one of "those people?"

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

Get you, Dennis Norden.

― straight outta Easter Compton (aldo), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

it's easily paper planes, but uh, where are the pop songs?

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

rolex

― you brought me home to this funky house (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

But but but I LIIIKE carrot cake, it's the only mind-altering drug I get to take any more.

I did recently find a video of the keyboard player from LOTP, eating carrot cake, up a tree, and spouting bollocks about the apocalypse, which only made me love them more.

But, erm, yes, I think FOCKER seems to do even MORE in 30 seconds less, so it is WINRAR.

I understand this list even less than the albums list. What is the point of MGMT? What, I ask of you, is the point of Glasvegas? I didn't even get the point of Santogold, and that was one of those albums that *should* have had my name all over it. What am I failing to see?

― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

What's the point of anything when we're all going to die anyway?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

Oh don't start me on that when I'm on carrot cake comedown.

I mean, what is it in this musics that makes people want to listen to it? But, yeah, de gustibus, etc. I guess it's just weird that it's such a non-pop singles list. But it isn't singles any more, is it, it's just random tracks for download.

― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

nme wants to get down wiv der kidz

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 December 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

nme more wants to get down with the industry!

― Mark G, Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:41 (seventeen years ago)

List needs more Blackout Crew.

― NickB, Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:19 (seventeen years ago)

'Blind' must win this... so I voted for "LES Artistes"

― zeus, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:09 (seventeen years ago)

Those MGMT records have been more ubiquitous than most actual pop singles this year.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

I've heard (and can recall) maybe four of these. Dizzee ahead of Sam Sparro.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

i dont even remember hearing that oasis song

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 12 December 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

wiley's a vote-getting guy and she knows it

― BLAP BLAP (Roberto Spiralli) (sic), Friday, 12 December 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

I am v. close to being in the Wiley pile, but I went wet: Two Doors Down. yes, retro 80s semi-indie pop (tho' not lol retro I think), but I just really like it.
So when that has a vote, that's this by-and-large lurker.

― woofwoofwoof, Friday, 12 December 2008 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

nme is lame

― billstevejim, Friday, 12 December 2008 06:20 (seventeen years ago)

OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO RIGHT

― Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Friday, 12 December 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

truth bomb

― k3vin k., Friday, 12 December 2008 06:41 (seventeen years ago)

Young Love. E.R.O.L.

― elgolfo, Friday, 12 December 2008 07:46 (seventeen years ago)

It's kind of remarkable how every year for the past few years, the NME year-end lists consistantly make the previous year seem terrible.. at least since 2006.

I mean.. "Two Doors Down" is okay, but seriously? #3?? There are about 10 songs on Made In The Dark that are better than "Ready For The Floor." The Last Shadow Puppets are terrible. etc etc

― billstevejim, Saturday, 13 December 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

MACHINE GUN!

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

less than 2 hours

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

TIE!

Kinda surprised at some that got no votes here.

― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

Portishead doing well pleases me

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

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