ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

Never heard of Javiera Mena! Very nice - it's a little too slickly finished for what would normally be my taste, but that seems to be kind of the point.

"love cry" is a lot better than i remembered it being!! love when the main beat finally drops.

javiera mena is another that i heard once, for the jukebox, and didn't thinka great deal of. i guess i should go back to it too.

blueski otm

Also, ILX not piling on the hipster-girl moustache-wearing thing in the video? What's happened to you guys?

four tet doesn't do monstrous climax

that's what she said O_O

She washed it off and the song got good. Fitting metaphor.

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this song could sound great remixed

not crazy about the mena album tho i like it fine. (i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context)

I didn't hear "Love Cry" until I got the album so had no hesitation putting it at #3 on my ballot this year. It's so brilliantly paced, the way it introduces new ideas gradually - kinda like a Lindstrom track in that regard.

Also voted for "Skydiver" (my #7). I love the refrain, the way the synth/vocal phrases move against the beat. Those who say the song is weak should listen again.

If more than 2 other things on my short tracks ballot make it, I'll be very surprised. But v. happy about these two.

not crazy about the mena album tho i like it fine. (i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context)

oh hold up she's a lekman associate - maybe that's why i didn't like her first time round and maybe why i perhaps shouldn't go back to her. h8 that dude.

i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context

Jens Lekman is involved??? Damn - I had high hopes for the album but I hate hate hate Lekman.

lol xp

well, he's on one track

yup listening back and all i can hear now is the twee. can't deal, soz.

don't know if these are any good but here are some hasta la verdad remixes i found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDXHaoThsU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyD9xfSFyc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSIzu60-QI&feature=related

sorry if they are not what youre looking for

^^ lex otm. lekman is annoyingly twee imo

aww shit...how do you not embed youtubes?

http://i54.tinypic.com/jts8sk.jpg
62. SWANS "No Words/No Thoughts" [248 points, 7 votes, one first place vote]
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my favorite on the album is probably "luz de piedra de luna", when the piano kicks some life into the song in the chorus

[url] tags

Glad this placed too ("Hasta La Verdad"). Love it.

haha what/who is swans?

YESSSSSSSSS

*AMAZING* song, I await ur reactions with glee

Excellent! Don't dissociate it from the album enough to vote for it as a track but nice to see it here.

Swans! My first vote to place. Happily surprised.

i used [url]s....you mean the [url=]link title stuff?

haha what/who is swans?

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 24, 2011 2:02 PM (37 seconds ago)

Never stop, you!

see ilxor told ya id vote swans

I assume this ain't t' Swans who did "Holy Money" and stuff in the 80s?

i had no idea who/what swans were either -- i assume that's the right dude in the photo \(o_O)/

i used [url]s....you mean the [url=]link title stuff?

yes. Sorry.

it is
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Serious question LJ. Do you like anything shorter than 9 mins long? Hm, admittedly this is a very promising start.

sick swans jpg!!!

I assume this ain't t' Swans who did "Holy Money" and stuff in the 80s?

That would be an incorrect assumption.

so far the poll has been loads of dreamhousepop and three (good to awesome) 9+ minute monsters :D

loool xposts

there's a singlemindedness to swans that i feel like alt-universe lex would love.

loving this song

maybe lex would like Swans when Jarboe was a member

this sounds like what i recall mogwai sounded like, when some people i knew in university tried to get me into them :/

Okay so this is really really good. Will have to check the album.

oh wow, thx

whatever next, Foetus?

Mogwai have always been much more cookie-cutter quiet/loud/quiet than Swans ever were (and about 1000% less interesting)

I must try to stop shaking my head at lex or I'll permanently damage my neck.

But YEAH, glad to see Swans in here.

skip to 4 minutes in lex tbh

I forgot to nominate Foetus' 'O Putrid Sun' :( ah well, gave the album a ton of points

the next song, i believe, is chillwave

i probably would've started using the term 'dream house' eventually but can't now louis has

it will also be our last track of the day

actually i really like the whooshing noises, like a rollercoaster into a black hole. christ, that's the sort of thing LJ would type.

church bells always good, too - one of my favourite hip-hop trax atm has church bells for a beat