ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

Exciting!

so is 7 votes, lol

i shouldn't have done this during the nfc title game

multitasking is a bitch

222 points, 7 votes, #77 - amazing

amazing song too!

good song imo

good start, great song

I "Ass on the Floor" one of the songs they did on SNL? I like this.

Wait are you gonna just be posting jpgs or doing text too? Coz for those on zing it's gonna be v inconvenient

all downhill from here guys

i love that synth arpeggio that comes in the last time through after diddy's little rap buildup bit

Wait nvm

i like "ass on the floor" because it tells people to get their ass on the floor

^^^

how many points was #1 place again?

they did "ass on the floor" on snl but it sounded kinda terrible

listening to aotf for the first time and wow, it turns out swiss beatz shouldnt have been written off years ago?

#1 had nearly 1,000 points

that jpg is a bit witch house

dawn and kalenna really shine here imo, one of their best vocals on the album - love the way their verses pivot around various uses of the word "motherfucker". i said this in the album thread but the switch up from "now i'm drunker than a motherfucker, tryna find my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the first to "got me madder than a motherfucker, tryna fight my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the second SLAYS

great tune, prob my fav production job from 2010

rofl @ whiney's first post itt

'ass on the floor' music video really appropriate song for today. it's like 8 degrees outside.

Jordan, sorry I meant the individual ballot vote #1, not the collective #1

listening to aotf for the first time and wow, it turns out swiss beatz shouldnt have been written off years ago?

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:34 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

swizz beatz has been like consistently amazing for like the last 8 years, u goof

i will be linking to youtubes instead of embedding them

maybe a cool thing would be to set up a youtube playlist linked at the top of the thread, just add each track to it after they're posted here. but otoh anyone could do this (inc me) so no big deal.

xp - 50 points for a #1 vote.

not expecting to like this track but it's pretty damn good.

Since Touch It, On To The Next One, Gucci Time - dude has been lames for more than a minute

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76. VAMPIRE WEEKEND "Giving Up the Gun" [222 points, 10 votes, one first place vote]
Youtube

lol

and those are the breaks i can remember - so many things i listened to and forgot while they were still playing

most straightforward song on that album; it's dece but that's as far as i would go

How many points per track for an unranked ballot Sean?

26

I had successfully managed to fool myself into pretending that VW album doesn't exist, thanks ILM

whose #1?

'Ass on the Floor' really does not impel me to get my ass on the floor. Similarly, 'Giving Up the Gun' does not impel me to lay down my firearms.

lol @ tennis photo. Great job w. the jpeg formatting!

only 50 points? rip the chances of my #1 turning up.

is that... rza in the vw video or have i spent so much of my time listening to the wu that i'm seeing things?

i didn't vote for singles but if I had, despite loving the album to pieces, vampire weekend would not have appeared. they're one of these bands i get as album artists way more than singles artists (and especially re giving up the gun which is way more than the sum of its parts in the context of the album and so much less on its own). i guess this means that we can still expect white sky + cousins to place, too.

It is rza yes

'giving up the gun' is not an imperative like 'ass on the floor' fyi xxxxp

Show me where I said it was.

vampire money "gun on the floor"

Give your ass up and put the gun on the floor.

Since Touch It, On To The Next One, Gucci Time - dude has been lames for more than a minute

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 10:38 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these songs are all horrible but hes had good songs on & off for the past decade +

lol. song is kinda boring and i'm not a vampire weekend h8r

I think Lil Jon is in that video also iirc

"giving up the gun" is an amazing song, i'm surprised it didn't place higher tbh

joe jonas is also in the video & jake gyllenhal

24. KANYE WEST ft. DWELE "Power" [410 points, 15 votes]
this is one of the points on the kanye record where the album rock undertones break through to the surface for a bit. though listening to this makes me wonder if we don't give kanye enough credit as a rapper anymore, he goes hard for the first 2 verses, but then the asshole line and the obama line are such a stinkers that they're all you remember.

the brilliant thing abt the single version is that u don't hear those terrible lines or despair at the song going on for too long coz it beats you up and leaves like an awesome thing

the age of information is unbelievably stellar. would have been on my ballot. just a transcendentally perfect musical moment, yall

think all the lyrics to that song are pretty great.

It's been interesting reading these rundowns and guessing at their author before you get to the bottom.

and it has a middle eight! more rap songs should.

ha yeah man when this first popped up i was like 'damn i love the bridge!'

ciderpress v often otm in that rundown

Night Slugs and affiliates remind me aesthetically of the more open-eared side of that breakbeat scene, Stanton Warriors and the like. Also some of the rhythms aren't entirely dissimilar. Wut is a total outlier here because most other NS stuff doesn't actually sound like it, including his other single IRL (which I hate). And a magazine like Jockey Slut would have been all over Night Slugs.

Well Stanton Warriors was who I was thinking of. Pretty sure I'm on record somewhere comparing Night Slugs to early Stanton Warriors (which is very complimentary in my book) about 2 years ago.

Though I don't think there's much of a binary b/w Stanton Warriors and Plump DJs.

Also does this make James Blake the new Hybrid?

Who is the BT of dubstep/uk bass?

the single edit of "Power" has all the same verses and is roughly the same length as the album version iirc?

40. GUCCI MANE "Lemonade" [300 points, 10 votes]
i have yet to dive into gucci's back catalog but i do like this song a lot, it's so singularly focused line by line on the titular theme where most rappers would indulge in going off on tangents.

lol welcome to gucci land, it's so icey

"i wish i could figure out which ILM thread stuff like this gets discussed on since there's always a few great dance tracks that place in the yearend lists that i haven't heard of at all. "

^^^this. feel like we should almost have a directory of whats going on in threads but it would just end up in some lame conversation of whether a description of a thread was 100% accurate or 95% accurate that lasts 600 posts, has ilxor pick up 4 sb and deej and whiney go further down a rabbit hole

Official ILM thread of mad TENSNAKE love for 2010 and beyond

Who is the BT of dubstep/uk bass?

Hmmm? Rusko? Or is he the dubstep Tiesto?

Also does this make James Blake the new Hybrid?

Joking I hope. Bits of the Magnetic Man album reminded me of Hybrid though - Flying into Tokyo recalled every not-quite-convincing self-conscious crossover dance album since 1995.

No joke, first Layo & Bushwacka album was the bomb.

Holy shit, that is exactly what Magnetic Man reminds me of! Thanks for putting that into words.

Official ILM thread of mad TENSNAKE love for 2010 and beyond

Not that that was one of the dance tracks I particularly liked, but I think I assumed Tensnake was metal or something.

Official ILM thread of mad WHITESNAKE love for 2010 and beyond

xpost I mean that Hybrid = big, bombastic, straining for epic sweep, box-ticking guest-vox eclecticism whereas Blake = restrained, intimate, trying to do one thing well. Whether you like Blake or not, they seem like opposites to me.

I like L&B though.

Sorry Dorian, i agree with you, I just wanted to throw some love to a breakbeat album lest the whole conversation get a bit nu skool lolz.

I spoke too soon, onto the fourth track of the TEF album and it is really great.

dang, wrong thread.

Ha, yeah, sorry. Far too earnest of me there. I did not expect to have had two exchanges with you about breakbeat garage in 2011 I must say.

ok, i had been ignoring this entire ilm poll thing but i just read the bottom chunk of this thread. deej, what was that other thread where people gave you a bunch of dubstep etc tracks to listen to?

I think it was mainly lex who listed some suggestions further upthread:

ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

oh, i remember:

chicago juke: dj nate, dj rashad, leatherface aka kaptain cadillac, dj roc &c &c

Oh, sorry- I misunderstood.

i feel kinda torn between the tim/lex camp and deej in these threads, because on one hand i like this music, but on the other i don't care about its danceability at all. it's not that i don't care about dancing or don't go to clubs - i just don't hear this music in u.s. clubs (and honestly, i'm not sure i'd want to).

but whatever, i've always gravitated to music that has a serious body component but also works (or more likely is designed for) off the dancefloor. i like "wut" a lot, but not as a club tune, and not as much as some other 2010 uk stuff. a lot of the other night slugs stuff is pretty boring to me (aside from one or two cool elements in every track), but it's also obvious that it's geared for the club (not in that it's danceable, just in the structures, sounds, production). maybe i'm representing deej's idm-nerd strawman, but i'm good with that.

btw i am curious what the actual dancing looks like in uk clubs, especially with some of the more syncopated tracks.

fwiw i dont have a problem w/ 'idm nerd' / easy listening electronica (and thats not a pejorative use of easy listening) its the way its interpreted in dance music that i have trouble w

it does feel like the gap between club music and what might have been considered idm 10 or 15 years ago is getting smaller all the time, which i find exciting but i totally understand why it bothers you.

I think the issue is that a lot of "idm" stuff was done by people who played raves or dancefloors in europe/uk, but we never had that in the US and it was mostly consumed by nerdbeards.

So as an american, I might hear something and think "ohh this is nerdbeard music" but to someone in the UK it just sounds like someone riffing on dancefloor styles.

We're perceiving a further level of disconnect

that sounds otm

My experience with IDM in the US during the 90s and early 2000s was that it was largely beatless and abstract and didn't inspire a whole lot of dancing. It didn't really find its way into too many well-attended clubs or raves.

I know I kind of hated on "Wut" earlier but now I can't stop listening to it.

"Wut" has terrible vocals

smh no dissing k michelle's voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa-CA1Mx5Kk

Heard Mine in Appleby's just now: still sounds great.

if you like "need you now", you should check out sunny sweeney's "from a table away", which i doubt will place (but might next year, lol)

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:50 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

"from a table away" is one of the songs of the year for me tbh. as i have mentioned on other threads, i have a good amount of 'involuntary' exposure to mainstream country radio, and in that context, this song absolutely glows...

wiki says that it peaked in the charts in Jan...that means it's fair game, right?

It is imo.