ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

great results so far!

Swans is "bad dream pop"

already better than p&j

oh "strawberry skies" has laurel halo on it - i have some of her solo stuff, it's aight. as is this, feeling it - way different to his stuff as oneohtrix! i love that bassline tethering it down and stopping it becoming to insubstantial, as is the wont of dreampop sometimes

Jordan's jpgs pretty much making this list.

quite like the list so far!! keep surprising me (a little) ILM

games track is ok, very dreamy swirly

swirly house. you heard it here first

synthgaze

SWIRLY HOUSE

Gonna go do some work now...great list so far, my favourites today were Four Tet/Fives/Swans, Four Tet was my only vote to show.

I love OPN but not heard Games yet

haha one of the laurel halo things i have is a cover of lindsay lohan's "something i never had"

Is 'Strawberry Skies' actually meant to riff off Strawberry Switchblade, or is it just me?

i completely missed the boat on the oneohtrix guy i guess, seems like something i'd like but i haven't heard a note yet

3 of my votes have showed so far! yayy

strawberry switchblade is pretty amazing

as a cultural artifact

swirly house

ugh are people ever gonna stop attaching 'house' to stuff when it's really not there in any meaningful sense? guess not

That was joeks.

Oh Strawberry Skies is THIS track, I like it.

Currently listening to Smang It for the first time. Awesome.

If you like this Swans stuff lex, please get hold of Soundtracks for the Blind....heavy music but oh so pretty, Don't discount the Jarboe factor too.

Voted for Games and Crystal Castles. Haven't had much time to check out things i didn't already know, but did listen to the Fives song - nice!

smang it, hasta verdad and love cry definitely the best discoveries for me

hasta LA verdad even

Swans track was my #2, glad it placed and even more glad people are being turned on to it for the first time.

swirly house. you heard it here first

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/Amul-Sundae-Swirl.jpg

I f/w Azari, The Knife, Kelis and Swans.

only 1 of my votes so far (lemme smang it)

looking forward to getting home so i can listen to the ones i haven't heard

oh and to spell it out, the ones i voted for were marina (near bottom of ballot), swans and knife (middle of ballot)

xp looking forward to not having a stonking 3000 word essay to do, so I can devote my full attention to the countdown!

Chapped that no one loves Marina & The Diamonds as much as Rudipherous and I do, but whatever. Glad Javiera Mena placed (I forgot to vote for it). Digging Games. Digging that lex is digging Swans. Favorite thing I hadn't bothered with before today: Diddy-Dirty Money. Thing I could've gone the rest of my life w/o knowing about and been better for it: "Lemme Smang It".

contenderizer & LJ otm--Crystal Castles doesn't really hold up to repeated listens...

favorites so far

Swans
Javiera Mena
The Knife
The Fives
Cassie

stopped reading after #77 because music technically can't get better than that

games representing the chillwave contingent

Dudes, hope you don't mind but I've put together a Spotify playlist in the first post so people can fit it easily. Happy to put any other playlists in there as well.

is games really chillwave, or is it just something we're gonna call 'chillwave' so that the real chillwave will go away?

Spotify is like a piece of delicious candy that people in the U.S. can't grab.

or is it just something we're gonna call 'chillwave' so that the real chillwave will go away?

Yes, I vote we reappropiate the genre tag to some music that's not actually lazy and slapdash.

is games really chillwave

NO

that is definitely chillwave.

lol; actually nm i can hear it

lol i had never heard the games song when i called it "chillwave" btw -- i was judging from the video

we can at least agree that it's a very chillwavey video

tru

reminds me of the theme for some lost mid-90s TV show on Nickelodeon...

how very 'Legends of the Hidden Temple'

Javiera Mena's voice bothers me tbh
plus i dont know spanish so

we can at least agree that it's a very chillwavey video

― wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 24, 2011 1:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

max b didnt place did he

Matt DC: Someone upthread posted a Grooveshark playlist:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Ilmtop77/42692527

& im so chill-wavey

plus i dont know spanish so

...?

i dunno if i heard the song that placed but when i checked javiera out earlier iirc the song i heard was all en espangol?