ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

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?

Voted for Swans. Discoveries - Diddy, Vampire Weekend, Javiera Mena.

Yeah, she doesn't do it in ingles.

regardless, ws'11 for sure

Voted for the Crystal Castles and The Knife (both atypical for their albums). Azari/Tensnake remix missed my ballot. Enjoyed the The Fives a lot.

Tomorrow in a Year is largely a reticent electroacoustic/contemporary composition album with few highlights, but it suited a walk across the Vieux Carre in a warm rainstorm well when it came out. "Colouring of Pigeons" reminds me a lot of the Laurie Anderson album Mister Heartbreak.

at one time I probably could have translated the phrase 'hasta la verdad' for deej, but somehow the brain rot has become irreversible

I think the production on "Hasta La Verdad", especially around the choruses, is very Jellybean-era Madonna.

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?

Yes, it is.

I was just trying to get you to fill in why the song's being in Spanish is an impediment to your appreciation of it.

its never til these threads that i realize theres like a half of ilx that i never interact w/ on threads & seem to operate entirely outside of the threads i read -- those just discovering the fives, diddy, etc

in the absence of lamp i thought i got to be chief chillwave correspondent. why do u think i had him banned?

lol @ already having about 700 posts on just the first 17 tracks. This thread will be gigantic.

déjeme smang él muchacha, rotura violenta él y golpéelo

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

how very 'Legends of the Hidden Temple'

youve just described the chillwave aesthetic

this is pretty cool actually -- sounds like something off 'italians do it better'

otm, although I think I may be liking this even more than the IDIB tracks I've heard, definitely a winner.

already better than p&j

P&J top 61-77 tracks, fyi:

61 Spoon, "Written in Reverse"
62 My Chemical Romance, "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)"
63 Wiz Khalifa, "Black and Yellow"
64 Sleigh Bells, "Infinity Guitars"
65 Lady Antebellum, "Need You Now"
66 Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me"
67 Taio Cruz, "Dynamite"
68 M.I.A., "Xxxo"
69 James Blake, "I Only Know (What I Know Now)"
70 Rihanna, "Only Girl (In the World)"
71 Gorillaz, "On Melancholy Hill"
72 The-Dream, "Yamaha"
73 Die Antwoord, "Enter the Ninja"
74 Mavis Staples, "You Are Not Alone"
75 Eminem, "Not Afraid"
76 Belle and Sebastian, "I Didn't See It Coming"
77 Jónsi, "Go Do"

I was just trying to get you to fill in why the song's being in Spanish is an impediment to your appreciation of it.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Monday, January 24, 2011 1:42 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well i feel like im missing out on a big portion of what it is about
i guess i put up w/ that w/ jorge ben but a) she is no jorge ben b) i just assume he is always talking about sex which someone confirmed for me once

its never til these threads that i realize theres like a half of ilx that i never interact w/ on threads & seem to operate entirely outside of the threads i read -- those just discovering the fives, diddy, etc

― challopian youtubes (deej), Monday, January 24, 2011 2:42 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

i wz just thinking of that--lol lots of ilxors had never heard of the swans before this list, where that was like the one song I actually had (only partially) heard before today...

loving strawberry skies! one of my favorite things on the list so far, which maybe just says i grew up in the 80s. johnny fever OTM about the jellybean-madonna production, though a little diffuse and hazy (chillwave giveaway).

speaking of the persistence of the 80s, i wish i liked the swans track but don't. never been a fan, tbh.

nothing i voted for has placed yet.

also if Enter the Ninja makes this countdown I will fall out of chair w laughter

i'm with deej - obv this is entirely me, not the song, but the language barrier almost always stops me loving foreign-language pop (that i don't understand, anyway - i can usually get the broad thrust of it in french, and for some reason with spanish rap it doesn't matter).

i'm w/ lex & deej

well i feel like im missing out on a big portion of what it is about

Shrug. Shit sounds good.

yeah, I'm a sucker for all this 80s nostalgia crap.

xxxpost

so glad The Fives made it to the top 77, having nominated them and placed them as my #3 and all

and Games generally are considered chillwave, I had another track of theirs in my ballot -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bjdMPlZaDo

lol didnt mean to embed, a mod could disembed this one <hangs head in shame>

think the production on "Hasta La Verdad", especially around the choruses, is very Jellybean-era Madonna.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 2:41 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

^this is what I like about it

Shrug. Shit sounds good.

lyrics are kind of inextricably bound up with "sounding good" for me

alright that other Games track, "Everything is Working" sounds very chillwave to me

johnny fever OTM about the jellybean-madonna production, though a little diffuse and hazy (chillwave giveaway)

I was talking about Javiera Mena, but I guess it applies a little to Games too.

might have voted for, had i been keeping up:

AZARI & III "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake remix)"
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS "Shampain"
THE FIVES ft. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)"
THE KNIFE "Colouring of Pigeons"
FOUR TET "Love Cry"
GAMES "Strawberry Skies"

games is probably the only shoe-in. maybe the fives? rest are more iffy, have to let em settle in first.

ilxor I'm wondering how many of those p&j 61-77 is going to be in the ILX top 20...thinking Taio Cruz, MIA, maybe The-Dream

to paraphrase a classic quote out of context anyone who isnt voting 'lemme smang it' in their theoretical new lists is lying to themselves & to god

I was talking about Javiera Mena, but I guess it applies a little to Games too.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 11:50 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

jeez, i'd say it applies way more to that games track. it's all blurred and half erased, in the style, but would otherwise slot in fine on 80s MTV, between lucky star and smalltown boy or something

xp MIA will be nowhere near the Trax top 10. Possibly /\/\/\Y/\ has a decent chance in albums..

the language barrier almost always stops me loving foreign-language pop

Depends on the language for me. I listen to a ton of Swedish and French music that I don't understand at all, and some Espanol stuff in lesser numbers. If the songs are good, though, I don't care if I can't properly sing along.

I am still baffled by 'Lemme Smang It' but I'm sure it will grow on me eventually. About to check out the stuff I haven't heard.

I think maybe I put Taylor Swift's "Mean" as my #1? can't remember, dashed off a ballot on the run last week. I thought at first that "Mean" would be a country smash since on the album it's the most trad country-ish song but I wonder if its triumphant foreshadowing of big city life is gonna fly with country radio programmers.

SLICK'S BACK BABY

and Games generally are considered chillwave

more because people prefer to define chillwave by the nebulous 80s aesthetic rather than specific sounds or musical aspects tho i think. also it depends on the track (but never gonna win that argument).

xxp Yeah, "Mean" kind of has a bluegrass feel, doesn't it.

^i'd agree with that...think the Games song V79 posted is much more chillwave-sounding (& better)

xp: blueski