GALLERY OF ALL IMAGES
77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"73 KING "Mister Chameleon"72 KATIE GATELY "Pivot"71 ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour "Somos Sur"70 USHER "Good Kisser"69 NICKI MINAJ "Anaconda"68 DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo 67 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again"66 SHAKIRA "Empire" 65 ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny" 64 DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones63 CARIBOU "Silver" 62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666"61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"
60 MARK RONSON "Uptown Funk" Ft Bruno Mars59 JENNIFER LOPEZ "I Luh Ya Papi" Ft French Montana 58 AGAINST ME! "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" 57 NICKI MINAJ "Boss Ass Bitch" ft. PTAF56 HAIM "If I Could Change Your Mind"55 MIGOS "YRN" Ft. Young Thug54 ALVVAYS "Archie, Marry Me" 53 SPOON "Inside Out"52 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Sugah Daddy"51 FKA TWIGS "Pendulum"50 QT "Hey QT" 49 KATY PERRY "Dark Horse" Ft. Juicy J48 JESSIE WARE "Champagne Kisses"47 ILOVEMAKONNEN "Club Going Up On A Tuesday"46 RITA ORA "I Will Never Let You Down" 45 APHEX TWIN "Minipops 67 [120.2] (source field mix)"44 TODD TERJE "Delorean Dynamite"43 KATY B "Crying For No Reason"42 SHAMIR "On The Regular" 41 JAVIERA MENA "Otra Era"
40 GURU "Pooley"39 39 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Prayer"38 TKAY MAIDZA "U-Huh"37 PHANTOGRAM "Fall In Love"36 YOUNG THUG "Stoner" 35 SHIFT K37 "Touch"34 INDIANA "Solo Dancing"33 TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off"32 BECKY G "Shower"31 THE WAR ON DRUGS "Red Eyes"30 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Monument"29 DEJ LOAF "Try Me"28 HODGSON "Babylon System27 JESSIE WARE "Tough Love" 26 KIRA ISABELLA "Quarterback"25 T.I. "About The Money" Ft. Young Thug24 OWEN PALLETT "The Riverbed"23 TAYLOR SWIFT "Out of the Woods"22 YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover"21 CHARLI XCX "Boom Clap"
20 DJ SNAKE & LIL JON "Turn Down For What"19 CARIBOU "Can't Do Without You"18 BOBBY SHMURDA "Hot Nigga"17 MERIDIAN DAN - "German Whip"16 TOVE LO "Habits (Stay High)"15 SKEPTA "That's Not Me"14 RICHARD DAWSON "The Vile Stuff"13 FUTURE "Move That Dope"12 KIESZA "Hideaway"11 RAE SREMMURD "No Type"10 VIC MENSA "Down On My Luck"9 SOFI DE LA TORRE "Vermillion"8 TAYLOR SWIFT "Blank Space"7 CLEAN BANDIT "Rather Be"6 TAYLOR SWIFT "Style"5 RICH GANG "Lifestyle" 4 FUTURE ISLANDS "Seasons (Waiting On You)"3 RAE SREMMURD "No Flex Zone"2 FKA TWIGS "Two Weeks"1 TINASHE "2 On"
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Wow @ the graphics
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
gr80 for prez
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Grady you did a fantastic roll out, the photos, the presence: thank you, you are an A+ dude <3
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
brilliant year - thanks gr8080
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
YES STATS ZONE: ILM 2014 Tracks Poll Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Meditation
― seandalai, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
For real 'Mustard on the beat' was the most exciting sound in 2014 and it deserves its place right at the top here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
is there a compiled list of youtube links
i need to go thru and give my hot takes tonight
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
i'm guessing seandalai will link to the full list in a few, but here's 78-100:
78 St. Vincent - Digital Witness79 Schoolboy Q ft. Jay Rock - Los Awesome80 Jessie J ft. Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang81 drake - 0 to 100 / the catch up82 Javiera Mena - La Joya83 Vince Staples - Hands Up84 Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!!85 A.G. Cook - Beautiful86 Lana Del Rey - West Coast87 Lil B - No Black Person Is Ugly88 Jeremih ft. YG - Don't Tell 'Em89 Annie - Russian Kiss89 One Direction - Change Your Ticket91 Run The Jewels ft. Zack de la Rocha - Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)92 Charli XCX - Doing It93 Snootie Wild - Made Me94 Jack J - Something (On My Mind)95 Moodymann ft. Andrés - Lyk U Used 296 Sharon Van Etten - Your Love is Killing Me97 Beep Dee - From Above98 The Juan Maclean - The Sun Will Never Set on Our Love99 Nils Frahm - Says100 D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Really Love
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Graphics were beautiful. Really appreciate how much care goes into this.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
"2 On" would have been #2 last year. #4 (!) in 2012.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
very nice job grad dawg!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
thanks everyone, i had a lot of fun, couldnt do it w/o seandalai and all 131 voters either obvs
― gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
"2 on" is like on the rarefied plane of genuinely sexy music, up there with like, "pony"
― flopson, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Wow. I love Aquarius but find it hard to pick a highlight, think I might have voted for Bet tbh. Voted for a different twigs too. But this is a super hot one-two regardless.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Also Tinashe is such an effortlessly cool vocalist, nothing about this tries too hard except maybe that Schoolboy Q verse and I'm fond of that due to what DJ Q does to it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
sry i did not vote for stiches (or at all) after u bugged me on chat
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
awesome #1. i expected twigs to take it.
yeah the schoolboy verse is def a bit out of place, although it does include "money money money weed fashion."
― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
gr80 is the best
― goole, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Awwwww fuck. I REALLY should not have forgotten to vote for "Los Awesome".
― The Reverend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
xxp were there fewer ballots this year though? or are the points just more widely distributed
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
please sign my change.org to have forks add treasure & hookah to the spotify.
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
the most underrated thing about "2 on" is that each part is sung in a different melody so it's like the entire song is just a string of choruses
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
i swapped something that i would've been the lone voter for for stitches bc grady asked me
can someone email me my ballot?
― flopson, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
"Bang Bang" was the highest-scoring track involving Ariana Grande???
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
the bass drop on "2 on" is the endorphin rush of the year
― flopson, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
otm
a quality shared by the best songs
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
My guess is 2014 was so good for singles that the consensus was more spread than usual.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Great job running this guys.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Great stuff grady (and seandalai) great graphics too
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
my thoughts & prayers are with anyone who doesn't like "german whip"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:08 PM (2 hours ago)
for me it's just a classic case of being less than the sum of its parts. the beat is actually really hot, his flow is pretty good, the lyrics are...eh, but there's a corniness that just hangs over it that i can't shake. it feels like a weird al song or something. plus the guest verses aren't all that great
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
"2 on" is the song that has made me most mad at myself for not having subs in my car in a long while
― goole, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
thanks to our lovely pollrunners!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
but there's a corniness that just hangs over it that i can't shake
well it's british rap music
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
mad props to gr8080 for putting in that work
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Los Awesome just missed out
― xelab, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I can get down with #78-#100 a lot more, and surprise surprise I voted for #78!
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Also who was the one person who voted Tinashe at number one? They should win a prize.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Swift – "Blank Space" – A bit drippy, not a patch on "Out of the Woods", but not half bad. Really does sound like "Starbucks lovers" tho.
Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne – "Rather Be" – Horrid. Never heard this before, not at all happy to have broken that winning streak.
Taylor Swift – "Style" – Much, much better! Fucking monster tune. Not sure it tops "Out of the Woods", but a damn close second if not. Brad OTM: <3 guitar.
Rich Gang ft. Young Thug & c. – "Lifestyle" – First YT track I heard, still on board, though I’m starting to realize that a little goes a long (long) way.
Future Islands – "Seasons" – I know I promised vitriol earlier, but I don't really hate this song. The chorus is massive and the vocals sufficiently soulful to carry it. Indie only by (weird) association. Just sounds like retro-80s pop to me.
Rae Sraemmurd – "No Flex Zone" – "No Type" wuz robbed.
FKA Twigs – "Two Weeks" – Oh hell yeah.
Tinashe – "2 On" – Would rather have seen Twigs take it, but no complaints.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the rollout, gr8080!
― campreverb, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
We seem to have snubbed: “Queen”, “Chandelier”, “Never Catch Me”, and “i”Congrats to ILX for snubbing: "Happy", “Fancy”, “Problem”, and “All About that Bass”.
Stellar rollout, gr8080!
― excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
v psyched neither "queen" nor "chandelier" placed tbh
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
amazing job gr80, johnny fever, seandalai!!
― dyl, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
two weeks is still like the most insane song, so intense
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Also, I'm impressed ILM managed to hold Swift out of the top 5.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Top 102 on Spotify is complete:http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/57m9LpUGkWDzGOiIgNsTeR
here's what's missing:
94 Jack J - Something (On My Mind)87 Lil B - No Black Person Is Ugly85 A.G. Cook - Beautiful61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"*57 NICKI MINAJ "Boss Ass Bitch" ft. PTAF (posted PTAF version)94 Jack J - Something (On My Mind)55 MIGOS "YRN" Ft. Young Thug50 QT "Hey QT" *33 TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off"*23 TAYLOR SWIFT "Out of the Woods"*15 SKEPTA "That's Not Me" (added remix which seems more or less the same)10 VIC MENSA "Down On My Luck"*8 TAYLOR SWIFT "Blank Space"*6 TAYLOR SWIFT "Style"
All Taylor Tracks have cover placeholders
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
how are the rae sraemmurd kids 20 and 22 btw, they sound like babies
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
101 + 102 honorary
maaaaaan, i really, really wish some of those 78-100 tracks would've placed, would've made this list way more interesting.
i would've voted for '2 on' but i didn't because i wanted to punish it for having that awful schoolboy q verse on it
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Was sure this morning that Queen would've been in the top 20, but by the time we got to 10 I stopped looking for it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link