ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

if you can't say anything nice...

"Mine" is good, but I like "Mean" a little better...

this song -______-

"mine" is okay. certainly catchy enough, but it belongs to a genre of things i don't care for and can't relate to. like the girl version of nickleback. unfortunately, i don't like nickleback, and i'm not a girl, so...

i totally said something nice. cotton eyed joe is an all-time great

'mine' would sound good in the middle of a 40 min block of country tunes, i wouldn't switch it off, but i'm not sure what's particularly special about it.

RE: "Mine"--I like the lyrics alright though: Swift breezes by the "careless man's careful daughter" line, but details like that redeem the singer-songwriter tradition imo...

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59. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "I Can Change" [250 points, 8 votes]
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also lol @ me for not getting yesterday's "best thing that's ever been mean" joke...

i like adult contempo radio soft rock top 40 about as much as anybody on ILM and t-swift is still just dullsville for me, like, even sara bareilles writes better songs than her

I voted for "Home" which probably won't make it... don't have much of a problem with "I Can Change" despite the stupid lyrics. It's no "You Wanted a Hit".

It feels like these two artists have been talked about to death now. I like the occasional Taylor song and a fair bit of LCD Soundsystem pre-this album but I can't imagine being motivated to click on a thread about either any more.

"mine" is ok in that it nicely develops the taylor swift 'character' but it's just kind of weaksauce otherwise imo

still don't get how an adult can listen to the lyrics of a taylor swift song without feeling embarrassed

I've tried but LCD Soundsystem do little for me. Too arch or reserved or something.

LCD is the first of my ballot to show up I think. Just hits the spot for me, I even like the clunky "bad poetry" line!

This was #3 over at Pitchfork btw. Didn't like the new LCD album at all really, can't remember which song this is.

you like Tom Waits, lex?

<3 tom waits - blue valentine and rain dogs are my fav albums by him

RE: "Mine"--I like the lyrics alright though: Swift breezes by the "careless man's careful daughter" line, but details like that redeem the singer-songwriter tradition imo...

yeah - i think another post said very recently here that the genius of the song is that every line builds on the narrator's relationship with her father as well as, and at the same time as, her relationship with her boyfriend.

i never did get round to that lcd soundystem album. it's still sitting there in my itunes, mocking me.

in retrospect I probably should have voted for Home or Dance Yrself Clean, but I think I capitulated to what I thought would be the consensus pick off that album. It's a toss-up which of those three I like the best tbh.

like I Can Change a lot but will always prefer LCD in charged up dark disco mode (ie One Touch)

going in on this lcd

ok, 2 mins in, gonna censor my response for the good of us all, agree to disagree :)

Didn't like the new LCD album at all really, can't remember which song this is.

Same for me.

this is okay, in a kind of pale-wimpy-Technotronic kind of way...

not sure who I'd choose in ts: swift v. murphy

love this lcd dream pop record

still don't get how an adult can listen to the lyrics of a taylor swift song without feeling embarrassed

what kind of lyrics do you like?

wtf @ Technotronic

no fuck it, now nearly 3 1/2 minutes in, this guy, man! he does not let me recompose easily.

Swift breezes by the "careless man's careful daughter" line, but details like that redeem the singer-songwriter tradition imo...

well, it plants her squarely in that tradition, but i don't tknow that it "redeems" it (or that the tradition required redemption in the first place). it's a good line, so's the tossed-off bit about being a "flight risk." not enough to make me love the song though.

^ maybe i misunderstood what you meant, drugs?

can't really deal with LCD, the song is pretty tedious.

there's precisely one good thing about that song, and it's the bouncy synth tone, which he's used about 4787892498 times before

apart from that, it's completely mundane, sorry

Ok I don't hate this by any means, but its existence feels rather redundant. LCD have done much better than this and this has been done much better by others.

Hey, a song I voted for! My favorite out of the LCD Soundsystem songs that got nommed.

Wow, I can't believe I still haven't heard the LCD album yet. The tracks I did hear sounded like poopooweepants though.

then again if this is the best LCD does, that's a pretty sorry showing.

I don't think I've ever heard Taylor Swift before just now. What's good about it? It's like Shania Twain. It's probably quite well-crafted I'm sure, but so's my kitchen table.

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58. GIL SCOTT-HERON "Me and the Devil" [254 points, 10 votes]
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like LCD when they're party starting, rocking beats, less so when murphy's getting all sensitive. not a terrible song, just a dull one.

Ooh cool jpeg. Now to the song, opens ears.

I voted for "Me and the Devil" - it's a standout track on the album, one of the few where the weird 90s production works well imo.

i'm not deep enough to appreciate this song

Swift breezes by the "careless man's careful daughter" line, but details like that redeem the singer-songwriter tradition imo...

well, it plants her squarely in that tradition, but i don't tknow that it "redeems" it (or that the tradition required redemption in the first place). it's a good line, so's the tossed-off bit about being a "flight risk." not enough to make me love the song though.

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no I didn't mean THAT line redeemed an entire tradition, I just meant that's the kind of detail that most singer-songwriters in that tradition will throw out there that makes it worth listening to their records in the first place...

That LCD song is terribly... nothing.

'Me and the Devil' sounds promising, though.

ooh this is rly cool, reminds me of the title-track of The Cure's Pornography :)

vampire girl @ 1:23 OTM

Ok I don't hate this by any means, but its existence feels rather redundant. LCD have done much better than this and this has been done much better by others.

listening for the first time and otm. this is autopilot lcd production and the never-welcome sight of james murphy trying to perform a Proper Song instead of STFUing and just making a club banger WITHOUT SINGING ALL OVER IT.

I like James Murphy when he gets all croony. It's a good changeup from the whole cultural critique, faux-Mark E Smith stuff he does on so many tracks.

people v down on alt electro/synth pop itt

I really like the Gil Scott album, but my only complaint is that there's a lack of actual proper tracks on it. Everything sounds very much like filler. That said I think I did vote for Me & The Devil. Really like the triphop production.

"Me and the Devil" - it's a standout track on the album, one of the few where the weird 90s production works well imo.

I was trying to figure out what bugged me about this record and it is that 90s production. This is way to "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" for me to like at all.