Best ILM Tracks Poll Runner-Up

this is t.i. vs. the juan maclean for me

ilm really liked girls aloud huh

This seems like a far better list than the winners to me, gonna throw in for "Call Me Maybe" though, with "What You Now", "No Good Advice", and "Beautiful" lagging a bit behind.

Hard in da Paint followed by Atlas (really? this came second? woah), then the rest...

wow this is a pretty good selection apart from battles. instinct tells me "what you know" - which was probably the worst victim of INJUSTICE, too, didn't it lose to "crazy"? fuck "crazy".

"no good advice", "yeah", "happy house", "hard in da paint", "call me maybe" and "#beautiful" are all 10/10 flawless and important classics as well, obv, but "what you know" is a contender from one of my favourite songs of. all. time.

Don't think I know the TI song. Thought it was the Big Krit track (which I like) at first.

Call me Maybe almost certainly

oh and then i see "what you know" and i get conflicted

ok will probz regret this ordering

1. what you know
2. no good advice
3. hard in da paint
4. #beautiful
5. happy house
6. call me maybe
7. yeah
[insert million-song gap]
8. daniel
9. atlas

Did you leave out Lana Del Rey on purpose? Because lol.

oh fuck

i knew i'd make some mistake. polls make me so anxious

hopefully everyone's still caught up in the lana backlash so it won't affect anyone's decision

"Yeah" is still my favorite LCD track by some margin, and probably in my top five of the 00s. Can't not vote for it here.

So we're just going to try to forget that Lana Del Rey ever existed?

LCD, then Carly Rae and Juan Maclean.

TI towers over the rest.

I voted "Atlas", maybe not the most defensible choice but it always brings a smile to my face

So we're just going to try to forget that Lana Del Rey ever existed?

plz plz let's do this

think I'm picking one of these:

T.I., "What You Know"
Battles, "Atlas"
Bat For Lashes, "Daniel"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"

Lex you left off Biology from your rankings. (Which would be my pick, btw. But I could go for pretty much any of these, save Battles, on any given day.)

well I have to vote Atlas don't I

Happy House
#Beautiful
What You Know
Call Me Maybe
No Good Advice

voted biology

but never will not love what you know, call me maybe & yeah abt equally too

1. atlas
2. biology
3. daniel
4. call me maybe
5. hard in da paint

I'm drawing a complete & total blank on what What You Know was?

Failing that being something awesome I've forgotten, it's got to be Happy House bcz iTunes tells me I've listened to it 200 times now , but every time I think it might be played out & I'm over it, it comes on random & I'm totally just all "launch me into spaaaaaaace!!!!" again.

Waka, by miles and miles and miles

I actually probably would have voted for "Video Games"

Biology. I still love that song.

T.I., "What You Know"

then

Waka Flocka Flame, "Hard in da Paint"
Carly Rae Jepsen, "Call Me Maybe"
Mariah Carey ft. Miguel, "#Beautiful"
LCD Soundsystem, "Yeah"

don't know the rest

battles by a country-mile over the other songs.

Atlas is the only one of these I even remotely want to vote for, which I'm afraid gives off the wrong impression.

Bat For Lashes for totally personal, non-musical reasons

I would have voted for "What You Know" if I were born with a different first name

yeah right, Lashes

Lol

yeah right, Lashes

― pessimishaim (imago), Friday, January 24, 2014 1:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Call me Bat

Votin for ya, Bat

i feel guilty voting for What You Know bcz it was clearly the winner that year and 'crazy' only won for weird probably gerrymandering or corruption related reasons, not fair for the rest of them

oh wait of course i know the TI song. I like it loads.

'what you know'
'yeah'
'happy house'
'biology'
'call me maybe'
'#beautiful'
'atlas'
'no good advice'
'hard in da paint'
'daniel'

yeah, clearly what you know is the winner here
but call me maybe has lasting appeal too

Hhahah would have voted for Video Games if it had been included -- Atlas was such a fun song about sandwiches.

Have you guys listened to "Atlas" lately? Shit has not aged well at all. That being said, "Biology" all the way.

Was Atlas really as far back as 2007? Jeeeezus....

Lex you left off Biology from your rankings. (Which would be my pick, btw. But I could go for pretty much any of these, save Battles, on any given day.)

so i did. never been that keen on "biology" - something quite graceless and clumsy about how it lurches from section to section, though after eight years i don't hate it or anything. it would be ninth, after "video games" in eighth

tbh the presence of "no good advice" which is one of the hardest, no-fucks-given nihilist female working class pop manifestos ever really doesn't show "biology" (which is basically a load of nonsense) in a good light

SHUT YOUR MOUTH BECAUSE YOUR SHIT MIGHT SHOW vs xenomania randomiser burbles, seriously

"no good advice" and "hard in da paint" are basically the same song actually. what are GA doing but going hard in the muthafucking paint, what is waka doing but rejecting society's good advice

'No Good Advice' was only the 2nd GA single and I don't think they ever bettered it.

This is a really strong list but 'Happy House' is one of my favourite things ever, so that.

rock

true, "atlas" isn't even as rock as "still into you"

idk i wasn't questioning its rock bona fides

but let's

lol fever these are the 2nd-placers

ne way didn't vote atlas coz it's rock, voted for it coz it's awesome, and that build-up in the middle is some elementary deconstruction (in reverse) of 'the beat' and its flesh

ok i am a poptimist but i voted for "atlas" sorry y'all

well atlas is a pop song

it's a jingle used to sell cars is what it is

Girls Aloud, "Biology" 9
Girls Aloud, "No Good Advice" 1

apart from the ridiculous winner i find this the most WTF. obviously ilm cares less about girls aloud now than then but of those remaining who do care about girls aloud, nine of them voted for the wrong song by them

I literally (as in literally) have never heard of Girls Aloud and have no idea what it is.

I hang in the dell with my Fitzroy Chili

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNeO5a5tM4s

Not a fan of "Atlas" but I like the line "the singer is a crook", good lyric! I voted T.I.

Atlas is great but annoying at the same time. I used to like mixing bits of 'Sailing on the Seven Seas' by OMD when I played it out. I was DJing a small viking themed quasi illegal outdoor rave and seeing this ancient hippie with a full on massive beard and a viking helmet go berserk to that bit will always stay with me.

But I voted for Waka. I mean that song is so big it dwarves Atlas.

this is the worst poll result i can remember seeing on ilm

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this is the worst poll result i can remember seeing on ilm

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, February 1, 2014 1:02 AM (41 minutes ago)

SO HORRIBLE! 14 PEOPLE HAD THE GODAWFUL TASTE TO VOTE FOR THAT WRETCHED CELL PHONE AD DISGUISED AS A POP SONG

7 guys named Daniel post on ILM? Wow.

I think I even own that Battles record, but I have no memory of what the song sounds like.

I think there are lot of Jeffs too

the song is like "deeda-doota-deeta-doota eat a sandwich/deeta-doota-deeta-doota can of manwich/ with some nice 3 against 2 polyrhythms going on in the drums.

There is only one Dan on ILX, that's quite enough, I can't handle 7 of them.

I could actually get up and take the record down off the shelf and play it, that would be simpler than moaning about it on the interweb, but it really has got to the point where I am so lazy I will look a song up on the internet before I get a CD down off the shelf.

What is my life. I suppose it is the same life where ILM has actually forgotten Girls Aloud.

Snow White and the 7 Dans. I can't cope.

i have no idea what the yelling in all caps about call me maybe is supposed to mean as a response to my post

Every time I try to remember this song, it just turns into Into Our Midst by Walls, and this is going to start to really bother me. Oh god I'm going to have to get out of bed.

Oh, it's *that* song! OK, this is kinda awesome in a quasi-legal Viking rave kinda way (LOL, Essex) but there is no way it's better than Girls Aloud or Happy House.

And Bat For Lashes, oddly, is right next to Battles in my CD collection, so I'm going to listen to that, and try not to imagine seven Dans.

i have no idea what the yelling in all caps about call me maybe is supposed to mean as a response to my post

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, February 1, 2014 2:01 AM (6 minutes ago)

it is a parody of your ludicrous outrage

God this goes on a bit though, doesn't it?

Also, this is barely polyrhythm, it's just a bit of schaffel, really.

Huntingdonshire actually Branwell. Is Huntingdonshire even a place any more? 2007... The past really is a foreign country.

"I was DJing a small quasi legal outdoor rave" is the title of my next footwork opus

Forgot viking theme

atlas is a terrible song and i'm surprised it won a poll on ilm, much less one with some really great songs in it. idk why you think i'm outraged, or why you would even say anything about call me maybe

xposts

Huntingdonshire has not been a county in quite some time!

It just seems like such an Essex shore thing to do. Actually, it sounds more like a totally Norfolk thing to do (complete with burning boat pyre) but Essex is inherently funnier than East Anglia.

For the rec I'm Herts born and raised

I was going to say 80s, but Huntingdonshire was absorbed into Cambridgeshire in, like 1974!

(And how can you forget Viking themed. That's the best part of it. Actually I thought the Viking Rave scene was centred mostly down on the Isle of Wight, but what do I know.)

But yeah def haven't been to a small quasi legal viking themed outdoor rave for a few months now so it's not like they happen all the time or anything.

xp - oh duh, you are right, Atlas just has that shuffle bit, it's the first track on the album that leads into it that has the nice polyrhythms

(Hertfordshire is totally the best shire*.)

((*I may be slightly biased on this))

I am really not enjoying this Bat For Lashes record, though. I loved the first one and played it to death, but i think I played this one twice and put it away.

And yeah, the track before and the track after were polyrhythmic so I could see where you were coming from, Sarahel, but Atlas is pure Schaffel.

After the failure of Huntingdonshire to become a unitary authority, a Huntingdonshire Society was set up to promote awareness of Huntingdonshire as a historic county, and to campaign for its reinstatement as an administrative and ceremonial entity. In 2002 it established an annual "Huntingdonshire Day" on 25 April, the birthday of Oliver Cromwell.

Fuck Huntingdonshire, basically.

xp - it has been a few years since i heard it -- i still like the happy eat a sandwich vocals

Actually, Two Suns has picked up and it's better than I remember it. Just Daniel and the other single that was on after it were terrible. (Destroy any song that has a chorus that goes "My name is (my songwriting alter ego) and I...") Why do I never give second albums enough of a chance? Seems like something lots of us do, given the album results.

The best thing about Battles was watching Ty and not-Ty fingertap guitar while simultaneously playing melodies on synths, that was the best. Aside from that posi memory, I can't remember why I didn't dig that show/their record. Vaguely remember feeling like it was a novelty cartoon version of Laddio Bolocko for the jock crowd? "Eat a sandwich" otm

damn, i never saw this thread, T.I. got robbed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYJGGPBkgs

Girls Aloud, "Biology" 9
Girls Aloud, "No Good Advice" 1

apart from the ridiculous winner i find this the most WTF. obviously ilm cares less about girls aloud now than then but of those remaining who do care about girls aloud, nine of them voted for the wrong song by them

yeah if anything "biology" was in hindsight when girls aloud jumped the shark - when they they started to put too much emphasis on ~wacky~ song structures and lyrical non-sequiturs over and above good songwriting (or at least xenomania becoming too self-aware that was their main draw and running it to the ground with increasingly diminishing returns - basically tangled up onwards). they did the whole crazy song structure shtick much better elsewhere too ("the show", "wake me up") - maybe "biology" got the love because it was so front and centre and obvious with it and by that point british critics were willing to get on board and start taking them seriously? idk but it seems so stitched together. that being said the "WE GIVE IT UP AND THEN THEY TAKE IT AWAY..." section is still such an amazing pop rush.

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_voted_for_the_winner_button-r717a8eb0f20b45b5aff407448f4e5801_x7j12_8byvr_324.jpg

dude - if you hadn't forgotten Lana del Rey, there'd have been one less Atlas vote

Missed this poll but would have gone for Happy House just over Biology. This is a seriously great list of songs though.

Happy House
Biology
Video Games
No Good Advice
Yeah
What You Know
#Beautiful
Hard in da Paint
Call Me Maybe
Daniel
Atlas

This is the greatest poll result ever

Atlas is fantastic, would have been my second choice after Yeah.

7 guys named Daniel post on ILM? Wow.

― Another derivative, mainstream-sounding girl made of beards (Branwell Bell), Saturday, February 1, 2014

ilm daniels forming a mighty army, high up in the misty mountains.