SOMB 2008 Singles of the Year - Voting Thread
#1
Posted 29 November 2008 - 03:24 PM
Singles Lists are due Saturday, December 20. There aren't any exceptions to that. You've got about three weeks, so there shouldn't be any problems with people not having enough notice. Also, let me know when you submit your list if you are interested in writing blurbs for the top 40 singles.
I haven't completely decided on the timeline for the results threads, but I think the singles results will be done over a few days the week of Christmas.
Just to go through the guidelines again:
-You can vote for as few as five 2008 singles or as many as one hundred 2008 singles.
-Singles include:
1. Songs with released 7 or 12", CD, or clearly identified digital singles bearing their name
2. EPs of both 5 songs and 22 minutes less (if either is greater, than it is eligible for the albums list)
3. Songs with a video (assuming not live, and assuming the artist didn't make one for every song on the album)
4. Songs that have charted on any major US or UK chart (except for download)
5. (New this year) Singles released between December 2007 and December 2, 2008. Anything after that should be considered a 2009 release
-Voting for a single can include B-Sides and Remixes of the song on the same vote.
-To submit your list, either post it in the thread or PM it to me. Any list posted in this thread in countdown form will be considered a final list. If you need to make a change once your list is submitted, you can only swap one single out to replace with another. Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.
-2007 vs. 2008 eligibility is broken down as follows--if you can make a case for it being 2008, you can vote for it. So
that includes singles released in your country for the first time in 2008, singles that didn't receive wide exposure or peak on the charts until 2008, or singles that were released in Dec. 2007 and didn't have enough time to sink in before voting last year.
-New this year: Singles that received votes last year that are still eligible for the 2008 poll will carry over 10% of their 2007 total. Looking quickly at last year's post-100 results, no single that was voted for last year will receive more that the equivalent of a #32 vote. This is just an experiment this year and if it doesn't make a difference in the results, it will be forgotten about just like negative votes in 2005.
-Finally, nothing that was on our Top 100 Singles of 2007 list is eligible. You can not, under any circumstances vote for anything that made the top 100 singles last year. So seriously, don't vote for "Paper Planes." Just so you know, these 100 singles are:
1 LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends EP
2 M.I.A. - Paper Planes / Paper Planes (Remix feat. Bun B & Rich Boy)
3 Rihanna - Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z) / Umbrealla (Vndlsm Remix) / Umbrella (Remix feat. Lil' Mama)
4 LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
5 Spoon - The Underdog
6 Justice - D.A.N.C.E. - EP / D.A.N.C.E. (Stuart Price Remix) / D.A.N.C.E. (Benny Blanco and Mos Def mix)
7 UGK - International Players Anthem (I Choose You) (feat. Outkast)
8 Kanye West - Stronger
9 Battles - Atlas
10 Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4, / 1, 2, 3, 4 (Van She Tech Remix)
11 Modest Mouse - Dashboard
12 Arcade Fire - No Cars Go / Surf City Eastern Bloc
13 LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum / North American Scum (Kris Menace Remix)
14 White Stripes, The - Icky Thump / Rag and Bone
15 Klaxons - Golden Skans + (Erol's Ekstra Spektral Remix)
16 Kanye West - Good Life (feat. T-Pain)
17 Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running / Broken Window
18 Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! / It Started With A Mixx
19 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend / Girlfriend (Remix feat. Lil' Mama) / Girlfriend (Mandarin version)
20 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You
21 Animal Collective - Fireworks
22 Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…/…Comes Around / What Goes Around (Remix feat. Rick Ross, Pitbull & Timbaland)
23 Killers, The - Read My Mind / Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix
24 Arcade Fire - Intervention / Calexico - Ocean Of Noise
25 Panda Bear - Bros
26 New Pornographers, The - Myriad Harbor
27 National, The - Mistaken For Strangers
28 Kanye West - Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele)
29 Caribou - Melody Day
30 Bright Eyes - Four Winds
31 My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
32 Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
33 M.I.A. - Jimmy
34 R. Kelly - I'm A Flirt (feat. T-Pain & T.I.) / I'm A Flirt (Klever Remix)
35 Yeasayer - 2080 / Sunrise
36 Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
37 Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothing / Can't Tell Me Nothing (Remix feat. Young Jeezy)
38 Ark, The - Absolutely No Decorum
39 Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…)
40 Feist - My Moon My Man / My Moon My Man (Boyz Noise Remix)
41 Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
42 Jay Reatard - I Know A Place / Don't Let Him Come Back
43 Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know
44 Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
45 Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent / The Bakery / Plastic Tramp / Too Much To Ask
46 M.I.A. - Boyz
47 Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof / Ladies of Cambridge
48 Shins, The - Phantom Limb
49 Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
50 Burial - Ghost Hardware - EP
51 Jens Lekman - Sipping on the Sweet Nectar
52 Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do / Sarah (reworked) / Tahiti
53 Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
54 Animal Collective - Peacebone / Peacebone (Pantha du Prince Remix)
55 Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Day EP
56 Black Kids - Wizard Of Ahhhs - EP
57 Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
58 Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (feat. Akon)
59 M. Ward - To Go Home - EP
60 Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song
61 Hives, The - Tick Tick Boom
62 Soulja Boy - Crank That (Soulja Boy) / Crank That (Travis Barker Remix)
63 My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
64 Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
65 Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
66 Timbaland - Give It To Me (feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake)
67 Peter, Bjorn & John - Object Of My Affection
68 1990s - See You At The Lights / Super Legal / Diabo
69 Deerhunter - Fluorescent Gray - EP
70 Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
71 Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive
72 Chromeo - Bonafied' Lovin (Tough Guys)
73 Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
74 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Isis - EP
75 Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah
76 Mika - Grace Kelly
77 Dan Le Sac vs. Scrobbius Pup - Thou Shalt Always Kill
78 Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
79 Liars - Plaster Casts Of Everything
80 Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
81 Amy Winehouse - Rehab / Rehab (Remix feat. Jay-Z)
82 Wilco - What Light
83 Vampire Weekend - A-Punk / Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa / Oxford Comma
84 Timbaland - The Way I Are (feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.)
85 Cribs, The - Men's Needs + (CSS Remix)
86 National, The - Apartment Story
87 Maximo Park - Our Velocity
88 Blonde Redhead - 23
89 Young Jeezy - Go Getta (feat. R. Kelly)
90 Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts / 2 Hearts (Alan Braxe Remix) / 2 Hearts (Version By Studio)
91 Art Brut - Direct Hit
92 Rich Boy - Throw Some D's (feat. Polow Da Don) / Remixes
93 Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
94 White Stripes, The - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)
95 Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
96 Bjork - Earth Intruders
97 Hold Steady, The - Stuck Between Stations
98 Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso Now Mix)
99 Tegan & Sara - Back of Your Head
100 Menomena - Wet and Rusting
If you're unsure that a song is a single, check rateyourmusic, discogs, or wikipedia. Also, we're had a bunch of single suggestion threads to take a look at for ideas (although I would always double check somewhere else to make sure that it really counts as a single just to be sure).
Also, one last thing I just want to remind everyone about. If there is a single that you're really passionate about but not many others know of it, don't wait until we start the countdown to complain about it not being higher. Use this thread to make sure that everyone else is made aware of it before it is too late to vote.
#2
Posted 29 November 2008 - 05:16 PM
#3
Posted 29 November 2008 - 09:41 PM
#4
Posted 29 November 2008 - 11:28 PM
Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.
its like a group of nerds just get together to self indulge their self, just like sound opinions message board.
#5
Posted 30 November 2008 - 12:44 AM
Also, if you can please format your numbered countdown as ARTIST - RELEASE NAME, that will really help me out when tabbing them.
sorry--fixed
#6
Posted 30 November 2008 - 06:52 AM
If any of these are not eligible please let me know--from what I can see they all qualify
Seems good to me, one of those Metallica singles, "All Nightmare Long", isn't out to Dec 15th, you may want to hold on it until next year but then again you might not. Haven't seen anything about "Evil Urges" being a full single.
#7
Posted 30 November 2008 - 12:51 PM
100 Lightbulb Sun Porcupine Tree
99 Wow Kylie Minogue
98 Dance Wiv Me Dizzee Rascal
97 One Pure Thought Hot Chip
96 A&E Goldfrapp
95 Cloverfield Michael Giacchino
94 Handyman / Wildlife Cheap Time
93 Three Women Stereolab
92 Porcelain Heart Opeth
91 Atoms for Peace / Black Swan Thom Yorke
90 Painted Shut / An Ugly Death Jay Reatard
89 Spiralling Keane
88 Did You Miss Me Lindsey Buckingham
87 Black and Gold Sam Sparro
86 Shut Up and Let Me Go The Ting Tings
85 Young Love / Uber liebe Geld Mystery Jets
84 Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs
83 Cassius Foals
82 Handlebars Flobots
81 Warwick Avenue Duffy
80 Mercy Duffy
79 I'm Outta Time Oasis
78 Great DJ The Ting Tings
77 Statement Boris
76 Supernatural Superserious / Airliner R.E.M.
75 Gebel Barkal Om
74 Couleurs M83
73 American Boy Estelle
72 Schizophrenic Prayer Riverside
71 The Perfect Boy The Cure
70 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie
69 I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You Black Kids
68 Standing Next to Me The Last Shadow Puppets
67 Lost Coastlines Okkervil River
66 Wait for the Summer / Final Path Yeasayer
65 Eraser No Age
64 The Devil PJ Harvey
63 Space and the Woods / Focker Late of the Pier
62 We're Gonna Rise The Breeders
61 I Walk Among You Iced Earth
60 Always Wanting More / You Mean Nothing to Me Jay Reatard
59 Waving Flags British Sea Power
58 Pokusaj Laka
57 Kylie Minogue
56 Give It 2 Me Kylie Minogue
56 Give It 2 Me Madonna
55 Happiness Goldfrapp
54 See Saw / Screaming Hand Jay Reatard
53 Soul on Fire Spiritualized
52 Divine Sébastien Tellier
51 Sex on Fire Kings of Leon
50 The Beginning of the Twist The Futureheads
49 All You Need Is Me Morrissey
48 L.E.S. Artistes Santogold
47
46 The Age of the Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets
45 You Know Me Better / Keep It Loose Róisín Murphy
44 Elvis These New Puritans
43 Love Is Noise The Verve
42 Lovely Allen Holy Fuck
41 The Shock of the Lightning Oasis
40 It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry / Be My Baby Glasvegas
39 Bodysnatchers / House of Cards Radiohead
38 That's How People Grow Up / The Last of the Famous International Playboys Morrissey
37 Pork and Beans Weezer
36 Gobbledigook Sigur Rós
35 Id Engager of Montreal
34 Graveyard Girl M83
33 Violet Hill Coldplay
32 Happy House The Juan Maclean
31 Dancing Choose TV on the Radio
30 Fluorescent Grey / Oh, It's Such a Shame Jay Reatard / Deerhunter
29 The Greatest Man That Ever Lived Weezer
28 I Feel It All Feist
27 Golden Age TV on the Radio
26 Viva la Vida Coldplay
25 Ready for the Floor / Shake a Fist / Bubbles They Bounce Hot Chip
24 A Milli Lil Wayne
23 Electric Feel MGMT
22 Grounds for Divorce Elbow
21 Chemtrails Beck
20 Kids MGMT
19 You Belong Hercules and Love Affair
18
17 The Healer Erykah Badu
16 Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
15 Wild Eyes / My Baby Wants Me Dead Vivian Girls
14 Strange Overtones Brian Eno & David Byrne
13
12 Time to Pretend MGMT
11 Nothing Ever Happened Deerhunter
10 Blind Hercules and Love Affair
9 Lights & Music Cut Copy
8 Machine Gun Portishead
7 White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes
6
5 Nude Radiohead
4 Kim & Jessie M83
3 Jigsaw Falling Into Place Radiohead
2 The Rip Portishead
1 [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PC22Lcxumgk"]Reckoner Radiohead
#8
Posted 30 November 2008 - 01:01 PM
If any of these are not eligible please let me know--from what I can see they all qualify
Seems good to me, one of those Metallica singles, "All Nightmare Long", isn't out to Dec 15th, you may want to hold on it until next year but then again you might not. Haven't seen anything about "Evil Urges" being a full single.
Thanks--I thought I saw an 11/14 release date for ANL? I'm sure I'll be one of the few mooks voting for it anyway, so I'll leave it be.
#9
Posted 30 November 2008 - 02:44 PM
#10
Posted 30 November 2008 - 03:12 PM
1. Radiohead - Reckoner
2. Radiohead - Nude
3. The National - Fake Empire
4. Black Milk - Give the Drummer Sum / The Matrix
5. The Black Keys - Strange Times
6. The Dodos - Fools / Horny Hippies
7. Chester French - She Loves Everybody
8. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
9. The Tallest Man on Earth - Pistol Dreams
10. Q-Tip - Gettin' Up
11. Jake One - Trap Door (feat. MF Doom)
12. The Killers - Human
13. Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
14. Ratatat - Shempi
15. Coldplay - Lost + (Feat. Jay-Z)
16. MGMT - Kids
17. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor / Shake A Fist / Bubbles They Bounce
18. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
19. TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose
20. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
21. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
22. Radiohead - House of Cards
23. Common - Universal Mind Control
24. Lil' Wayne - A Milli
25. Sigur Ros - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
26. Ratatat - Falcon Jab
27. Islands - Creeper
28. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place
29. The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Choose to Give it
30. Amadou and Mariam - Sabali
31. Portishead - The Rip
32. Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite
33. Empire of the Sun - We Are the People
34. Yeasayer - Wait For the Summer / Final Path
35. MGMT - Metanoia
36. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
37. Estelle - American Boy (Feat. Kanye West)
38. Animal Collective - Water Horses EP
39. Yo Majesty - Kryptonite Pussy EP
40. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar
41. Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto / Home Invazion
42. Jake One - The Truth / Trap Door / Hurt U
43. The Black Keys - I Got Mine
44. Santogold - Lights Out
45. Thom Yorke - Black Swan
46. Duffy - Mercy
47. Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
48. Hot Chip - Hold On / Touch Too Much
49. Hercules and Love Affair - You Belong
50. Beck - Gamma Rays
51. Eykah Badu - The Healer
52. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
53. Sebastien Tellier - Divine
54. One Day As a Lion - One Day As a Lion EP
55. Prolyphic and Reanimator - Artist Goes Pop / Survived Another Winter / Salt
56. Lil' Wayne - You Ain't Got Nuthin'
57. Bun-B - That's Gangsta (Feat. Sean Kingston)
58. Kanye West - Heartless
59. Beck - Orphans
60. Islands - The Arm
61. Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
62. Lupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo
63. Booka Shade - Planetary
64. Q-Tip - Move
65. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
66. Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
67. Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
68. Jean Grae - Raise Ya Hands / What's the Buzz
69. MGMT - Time to Pretend
70. Ratatat - Shiller
71. Beck - Chemtrails
72. Shearwater - Rooks / The Rainbow
73. The Killers - Spaceman
74. Jamie Lidell - Another Day
75. The Dodos - Red & Purple
76. The Mars Volta - Candy and a Currant Bun
77. Bon Iver - For Emma
78. Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
79. Invisible - Shapeshifters
80. Santogold - Creator
81. Albert Hammond Jr. - GfC
82. Wale - Nike Boots (The Cliche Lil' Wayne Feature)
83. The Gaslight Anthem - Old White Lincoln
84. Young Jeezy - Put On
85. The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
86. Lil' Wayne - Mr. Carter (Feat. Jay-Z)
87. MGMT - Electric Feel
88. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
89. M83 - Kim & Jessie
90. Portishead - Machine Gun
91. Of Montreal - Id Engager
92. No Age - Eraser
93. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
94. Coldplay - Violet Hill
95. Weezer - Pork and Beans
96. MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
97. Martyn - Natural Selection / Vancouver
98. Cut Copy- Lights & Music
99. The Black Ghosts - I Want Nothing
100. Buff1 - Beat the Speakers Up / Never Fall (Feat. Black Milk)


#11
Posted 01 December 2008 - 02:31 AM

010. Goldfrapp - Happiness

009. The Guillemots - Kriss Kross

008. Kylie Minogue - All I See

007. Goldfrapp - A&E
006. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things

005. Kathleen Edwards - I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory

004. Kylie Minogue - Wow

003. Kanye West - Love Lockdown

002. Fennesz - Saffron Revolution

001. m83 - Kim & Jessie
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Posted 01 December 2008 - 06:02 AM
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Posted 01 December 2008 - 06:55 AM
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Posted 01 December 2008 - 01:36 PM
#18
Posted 01 December 2008 - 02:05 PM
Studio - 2 Hearts
Sybris - Oh Man!
Women - Black Rice (youtube is live)
Mastgrr - Cooking by the Book (A Lil' Bigger Mix)
cant find a youtube for Paavoharju's Kevätrumpu, but it is excellent
i'll post a list when i can figure out which tracks were singles and which were not. indie and self released albums create some problems
"hello i hate your fucking guts fuck you i hate your fucking guts i hate your fucking guts i hate your fucking guts i hate this fucking machine i don't know how the fuck to use it i hate your fucking guts i'm gonna make my own fucking music"
#19
Posted 01 December 2008 - 02:20 PM
(also, I can blurb)
1. Estelle feat. Kanye West- American Boy
2. Duffy- Mercy
3. The Black Kids- I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
4. Weezer- Troublemaker
5. Kanye West- Good Morning
6. Hot Chip- Ready For The Floor
7. Alicia Keys- No One
8. Vampire Weekend- A-Punk
9. The Ting Tings- Shut Up And Let Me Go
10. Panic At The Disco- Nine In The Afternoon
11. Santogold- L.E.S. Artistes
12. The Raconteurs- Salute Your Solution
13. Jamie Lidell- Another Day
14. Beck- Gamma Ray
15. Lupe Fiasco- Superstar
16. Taylor Swift- Our Song
17. Against Me!- Stop
18. The Weakerthans- Tournament Of Hearts
19. Bjork- Declare Independence
20. Leona Lewis- Bleeding Love
21. Kanye West- Love Lockdown
22. Feist- I Feel It All
23. Madonna- 4 Minutes
24. The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound
25. The White Stripes- Conquista
26. Kate Nash- Pumpkin Soup
27. T.I.- Swagga Like Us
28. Rihanna- Breakin' Dishes
29. Kanye West feat. Chris Martin- Homecoming
30. R.E.M.- Supernatural Superserious
31. Sons & Daughters- Darling
32. Tokyo Police Club- Your English Is Good
33. Laura Marling- Ghosts
34. Los Campensinos- Death To Los Campensinos
35. Weezer- The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
36. Jay Reatard- See/Saw
37. Miley Cyrus- 7 Things
38. The Hold Steady- Sequestered In Memphis
39. Neon Neon- I Told Her On Alderaan
40. The Wu-Tang Clan- The Heart Gently Weeps
41. Spoon- Don’t You Evah
42. The Mae Shi- Run To Your Grave
43. Death Cab For Cutie- Cath
44. Beyonce- Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
45. She & Him- Why Do You Let Me Stay Here
46. Nine Inch Nails- Discipline
47. Art Brut- Pump Up The Volume
48. Linkin Park- Shadow Of The Day
49. Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor- You Don't Know Me
50. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
51. TV On The Radio- Dancing Choose
52. Goldfrapp- A&E
53. Coldplay- Viva La Vida
54. Frightened Rabbit- Head Rolls Off
55. Jason Mraz- I'm Yours
56. Weezer- Pork & Beans
57. Gnarls Barkley- Run
58. Jack White & Alicia Keys- Another Way To Die
59. Oasis- The Shock Of The Lightning
60. Death Cab For CutieI Will Possess Your Heart
61. Radiohead- Jigsaw Falling Into Place
62. Portishead- Machine Gun
63. M83- Kim & Jessie
64. Cafe Tacuba- De Acuerdo
65. Paramore- That’s What You Get
66. Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer- Beat It
67. Eddie Vedder- All The Way
68. Katy Perry- Hot & Cold
69. The Killers- Human
Comedy Update!
I've started to run a show called "The Midwest Comedy Showcase". We go on every Thursday (minus holidays) at The Clearwater Theater in West Dundee. Show starts @ 8. Here is our myspace page...
On Friday, 2/27, I will be performing at The Edge Comedy Club in Chicago (777 N. Green St.) for a showcase which will be seen by Eddie Brill, the comic booker for The Late Show With David Letterman. Show starts at 10:30.
#20
Posted 01 December 2008 - 04:15 PM
Paul, question. Air France's "No Way Down" EP is about 22 minutes. It happens to be six tracks with one of those being sort of a little instrumental bumper. I think it makes a lot more sense to look at it as a single/EP, but if this is a hard and fast rule, I guess it could go in albums instead...2. EPs of both 5 songs and 22 minutes less (if either is greater, than it is eligible for the albums list)


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