ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

"ruh ruh like a dungeon dragon" -- is this actually the chorus??

Yeah! Brilliant, isn't it?

roman's revenge is effin brilliant. helps make up for that ke$ha shit. eminem verse almost kills it though...

Yeah! Brilliant, isn't it?

― emil.y, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:10 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark

hell yah

she loves her english accent doesn't she :P

liked that

Also her 'English' accent on "come on" makes me lol

this isn't bad mind. not bad at all! altho the drums are rly weak

No way bro

not the word I'd use but whatever

I've only heard one Nicki Minaj track, and that's "Bottoms Up". I fucking love it though. Will I like the other stuff?

you'll love her larger-than-life, character-driven rap stuff where she plays around with accents and voices and generally tries to top her own insanity every time out, and hate her autotuned pop trax.

Yeah, I'm not a massive fan of the Eminem bit, but at least it's not Drake. And NM more than makes up for it.

And I ADORE the terrible English accent.

"we r who we r" is one of my favorite singles of the year -- the final two choruses are a great payoff & generally I now consider this to be Luke's masterpiece

co-sign this

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:00 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is total sacrilege to me

roman's revenge is effin brilliant. helps make up for that ke$ha shit. eminem verse almost kills it though...

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― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:10 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm

i really don't enjoy eminem's presence on that track at all, haven't heard the wayne version yet

Ugh. The 20 year old Busta call out is the only thing about that I'd ever want to hear again. Well, I guess the mediocre accent and keyboard combo at the end that reminded me of Queen's "Flash" was mildly amusing. Ugh.

snare part is weird, not bad, but ... odd. never quite in step, tinny and thin. i don't dislike it, but idgi.

i'm a get me some nicki minaj now. lex's description has me intrigued.

Really there needs to be a version where Nicki takes down a succession of male rappers one after the other.

i love how she strings out PLEEEEEeeeeeeaAAASSSSeeeeeeeeeee

the eminem verses have their moments - i love the start of his first, "a lil drop of candy paint drips off the frame", and the way he reworks the chorus - "go on, make that face, scrunch it up at me / show me the target so i can LUNGE AND ATTACK IT". he totally falls off the beat in the middle of the first verse though, trying to get too many words in (doesn't help that those words are mostly "slut") and, yeah, homophobia in his second.

Lol ship I had to get you back on the sacrilege tip after saying Sara b writes better songs than Taylor swift

think the snare is meant to sound trashy maybe? don't have an enormous problem with it

Also it actively pisses me off that they play the outro on the radio

i'm a get me some nicki minaj now. lex's description has me intrigued.

she has a couple of threads here - in one or both there are posts with her best guest verses (you won't like her own album at all bar this, "did it on em" and the bonus trax)

^will be checking this stuff out

ok, cool.

i'm a get me some nicki minaj now. lex's description has me intrigued.

Do yourself a favor and watch her music videos instead of just listening to her songs. Start with "Check It Out"

Really there needs to be a version where Nicki takes down a succession of male rappers one after the other.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:14 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

YES

you might want to mute "check it out" tho :/

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55. JUSTIN BIEBER "U Smile (Ambient Version)" [256 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
Youtube

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Omg.

The slowed down by 800% version placed? Okay, that's pretty awesome. Well done, ilx.

Hell yeah!

Hah!

i wonder if "massive attack" will place? dog latin you should check that out...as good as the video is, go for one of the explicit versions just to, y'know, hear half the words

wow 2011 = great year for dream-pop

o_0

The Youtube clip is just an edit btw - the full 20+ minutes version seems to have been taken down from Soundcloud.

I didn't even know it was nominated (was never going to have Bieber in my shortlist), but I had I clocked that I might have voted for it too. Avant-garde!

post number 54 in 40 minutes imo

looool this is probably the most appropriate potential use of 'dream pop' ever

YAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNN

So wait is it literally just the original turned into an ambient track by slowing it down to a ridiculous degree?

and, yeah, homophobia in his second.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

I don't know how anyone can just toss this off....the lyrical content is a dealbreaker for me.

There *are* full versions on Youtube, split into parts. The last 10 minutes, from the middle-eight onward, are the best bit

Re-listening to this...it is crazy gorgeous.

barring a TNP interjection, that will be my highest vote to place :)

So is this any better than any other track slowed down this much?

So wait is it literally just the original turned into an ambient track by slowing it down to a ridiculous degree?

Yes. It's kind of generic (there are 50,000 Youtubes of slowed-down pop tracks now) but it wins by being lovely and extremely listenable.

It's better than Gimme Pizza Slow anyway.

So is this any better than any other track slowed down this much?

― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 17:26 (23 seconds ago)

you should know about cutting your losses; you conscionably voted for that LCD Soundsystem song

btw everyone should listen to that sped-up Tik Tok I posted upthread

Really don't know what that's supposed to mean...

I mean there's a point at which one says 'ok fine, this is my favourite' and sometimes that point falls quite quickly :P

just giving ya shit, it's nothin' rly, live and let dreampop