We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year?

Eddie Vedder, “My City of Ruins (Live from the Kennedy Center Honors)”

Nice -- I could see this working.

lol @ the idea that *last year* was when u should start paying attention to dj quik

how is that even implied by dude's post -- must u be a total dick abt everything

samosa what's this pastor troy bet i bust remix you speak of?

fuck sorry playboy tre is what i meant to type.

in no order...

Delorean - Stay Close
Watch Out for Rockets - Lift Off Cloud Controller
Hari & Aino - entire EP
Juan MacLean - Feel So Good
White Fence - Mr. Adams
Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain
Quasi - Bye Bye Blackbird
Apples in Stereo - No Vacation
Radio Dept - Heaven's on Fire, even with that dumb introduction
Caribou - Kaili
Serena Maneesh - Blow Yr Brains in the Mourning Rain
Ariel Pink - Round & Round
Sambassadeur - Days
Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind
Kesha - Tik Tok (really)
most of the Lindstrom & Christabelle album
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Golden Bug - Flamingo
LCD - Home
Pipettes - Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra - That Hat

Juan MacLean - Feel So Good
Radio Dept - Heaven's on Fire, even with that dumb introduction
Caribou - Kaili

Ought to add these tunes to my list, I'm playing the hell out of them. Agree that "Kaili" is one of the high points of the Caribou album.

Forgot Class Actress's "Let Me Take You Out". "Adolescent Heart" has the most amazing neo-Nena buildup in the verse before the bottom completely falls out of the chorus. If they had just repeated that chord progression!

Radio pop sucks this year, obv.

1. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
2. Ciara feat. Ludacris - Ride
3. Rihanna - Rude Boy
4. Yelawolf feat. Bun B - Good to Go
5. Cassie - Skydiver
6. Sleigh Bells - Tell Em
7. Zinc feat. Ms Dynamite - Wile Out
8. Corinne Bailey-Rae - I'd Do It All Again
9. Natalia Kills - Activate My Heart
10. Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
11. Erykah Badu - Window Seat
12. M.I.A. - Born Free
13. Michael Buble - I Just Haven't Met You Yet
14. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
15. Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - Baby

if we're getting all indie album tracks in here then "white hinterland - icarus" is in my top five

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4fYlsf-Es

how is that even implied by dude's post -- must u be a total dick abt everything

― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, May 7, 2010 10:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

bcuz dude implies is ***so last year*** to be paying attention to dj quik in 2010 which is like ... what the fuck?

yeah that's not at all what he was saying

2010 and all its portent seems to be largely retreading last year's territory what with all the gagas and dj quiks etc.

― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

what else does this mean

i think he's talking about music, not people who pay attention to i -- but idk, it's dog latin, who really cares, is kind of what we should be taking away from this

it*

if i cant diss dog latin i dont know if i want to ilx any more

haha

how does referring to people who had great or notable records in 2009 as "last year's territory" imply that that was also the time to start paying attention to said artists? i mean one was a newer artist, one wasn't, but you pretty much read something into it that wasn't there is all.

"how does referring to people who had great or notable records in 2009 as "last year's territory" imply that that was also the time to start paying attention to said artists?"

cant believe yr asking this but

1. dl implies that talking about quik sounds like last year retread
2. quik has had a career for so long that implying that we should associate quik with '09 makes no sense unless
3. you think quik just showed up as a worthwhile artist in 2009

this was the logic for my tossed off comment, which isnt exactly particularly nuanced but makes sense dude, jeez

he was just saying he wants to be excited about 2010 records by people that didn't just drop records he liked in 2009. he used 2 random examples, and since one of them was on the master list of a dozen or so rappers that any mention of on ilx causes you to show up and hulk out, here we are.

'hulk out' really

Wow! This year has been a real corker for singles! Several fantastic labels have taken to sort of specializing in ye olde vinyl 7" joints, and the result has been tres groovy. Smith Westerns, El Jesus de Magico, Dum Dum Girls, Melted Sunglasses, Girls at Dawn, Broken Water, Blank Dogs, Woven Bones, Haunted George - all kinds of terrific stuff from all over the musical map. If yr interested try Google. I don't recall all the titles.

― ImprovSpirit,

Ok, that sucks mister. You come back at tell us the name of the songs you're referring to.

Rooney - I Can't Get Enough
just crashed my top ten, I think

zinc ft. ms dynamite - wile out
monica - blackberry

hold on, this is gonna turn in to the other "favorite music of 2010" thread

Jowell & Randy - Goodbye [bears some relation to "No Te Veo"]

Great year so far!

1. Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blu Remix)
2. Shy Child - Dark Destiny
3. Devine Collective - People Keep Dancing
4. Funkystepz - Lovers
5. Drake - Shut It Down
6. Marcus Cabral & Shux - A Lifetime Groove
7. Ruby Suns - Cranberry
8. Yelawolf - Pop The Trunk
9. Devine Collective - House Girls Part 8
10. Ward 21 & Tifa - High Come Down
11. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
12. Rudimental - Midnight Affair
13. T2 - Better Off As Friends (Lil' Silva Remix)
14. J Stalin - Money On The Way
15. Sabrina Washington - OMG (Ill Blu Remix)
16. Naughty Raver - Drama
17. Funkystepz - Hurricane Riddim
18. Ciara ft. Ludacris - Ride
19. Yeasayer - I Remember
20. Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Princess Nyah Remix)
21. Emvee - Windrush Riddim
22. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
23. Roll Deep - Good Times (Ill Blu Remix)
24. Big Boi - Shutterbug
25. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
26. Screama & Farah - Kiss Me
27. Shawnna - Nappy Boys
28. Taylor Swift - Today Was A Fairtytale
29. Ne-Yo - Drinks Up
30. Sensato Del Patio - Watagatapitusberry (Remix)
31. Damian Marley & Nas - As We Enter
32. Marcus Nasty & Bassboy - Let's Get Nasty
33. Rich Boy - Go Crazy
34. Devine Collective - Touch Her In The Morning
35. Chris Sorbello - So Lonely

Cults - Go Outside
Eli Escobar - Oslo
Four Tet - Sing
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
jj feat. Lil Wayne - My Way
Janelle Monae - Tight Rope
Javelin - Oh Centra
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Pawel - Dawn

Mostly culled from albums that I mostly love but:

Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Against Me - White Crosses
Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
Beach House - Zebra
Eminem - Despicable
Erykah Badu - Turn Me Away (Get Munny)
The Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky
Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish, Rhinestone Eyes, other stuff!
jj - Let Go
Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke
Motion City Soundtrack - Her Words Destroyed My Planet
The Radio Dept - Heaven on Fire
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun
Hadag Nahash - Shir Nehama

melted sunglasses are rad, i didn't know they had a single out this year

wow i need to hear the ill blu remix of craig david

you could dance to it on a cruise

that would be ideal

Putting it at the top of my list was a post-midnight impulse decision last night but it is very good, rather like an R&B version of their 321 remix. I'll upload it to the funky thread when I'm home.

it's on youtube

I need to catch up on the funky thread, which I have not read at all this year. Unfortunately, my sound card is not working. :(

jj-My Way
The Tallest Man on Earth-King of Spain
Titus Andronicus-Theme from "Cheers"
HEALTH-USA BOYS
Ariel Pink-Round and Round
The National-Afraid of Everyone
Future Islands-In The Fall
Zola Jesus-Night
Baths-Maximalist
Yeasayer-Ambling Alp
Wolf Parade-Ghost Pressure
Flying Lotus-...And the World Laughs With You

I should note how much my listening in the past month has been cribbed from Lex's quarterly report. And while on the topic, Shawnna's "Nappy Boys" should be higher up my list than it appears above.

yeah, great song

now they wanna try me like i'm in the illuminati!

glad to hear it tim.

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

No rankings!

Marcos Cabral & Shux - Life Time Groove (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit)
Devine Collective - Tribal Daydream
Tensnake - Coma Cat
Ginz & Kool Money Kwame - Wet Wipe Riddim
Grace Jones - Love You to Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Joker - Tron
Pangaea - Why
Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me
Yeasayer - One
Ciara - Ride + most of the leaks from the album...
Addictive - Bad Girl (Champion Remix)
Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blue Remix)
Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk
Emvee - Windrush Riddim
Funkystepz - For U
Geiom - Sugar Coated Lover
Lil Silva - Against Yaself (the vocal version of "Different" , as well if it's 2010)
Roska - I Need Love
Roll Deep - Good Time (Ill Blu Remix)
Furious Funky - Paris Riddim
Screama - Kiss
Illmana - Kiss You

exciting year!

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

^^^^^^^^^^^

Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk

What's this?

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

Tim, it's from his new EP "Wonderful"...three new (?) tracks plus Anthem Hype Dub for some reason. It's a pretty solid release, no vocals, but pretty exciting all the same.

Tim, check your FB.

yo where do I read lex's quarterly report?

We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year? ;)

yo hit me with the stupid stick ;_;

Has Tim heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRXRvShQlWE
yet

BoA - Possibility
Quadron - Slippin'
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Popnoname - Hello Gorgeous
Jaga Jazzist - Bananfluer Overalt
Lindstrom & Christabelle - High & Low
Joanna Newsom - '81
Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo
Usher - Mars vs. Venus
Gorillaz - Stylo
Thomas Fehlmann - Permanent Touch
The Bird & The Bee - Heard It On The Radio
Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
Cassie - Sky Diver
Lonelady - Marble