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

And again, Portishead.

wtf at 3 MGMT songs in the top 5.

i like about 23 of these

holy fuck its sam sparro!

still think mgmt are a less funny flight of the concords

oh missed blind.

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

'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

"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.

whither the mezzaterra

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

um, in what way?

Tried to anoy them, no.

Give them much coverage and praise, yeah.

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

Gone for the Chairlift track.

Paper Planes, a ringer from 2007

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...

FOCKER!

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.

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

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

stop eating carrot cake all the time

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)

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

('rolex' duhhh)

were you ever one of "those people?"

Get you, Dennis Norden.

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

rolex

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?

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

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.

nme wants to get down wiv der kidz

nme more wants to get down with the industry!

List needs more Blackout Crew.

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

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

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

i dont even remember hearing that oasis song

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

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.

nme is lame

OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO RIGHT

truth bomb

Young Love. E.R.O.L.

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

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Kinda surprised at some that got no votes here.

Portishead doing well pleases me