ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

i like this a lot better than anything I'd heard on the first Burial album, actually (except maybe 'Night Bus')

looming larger every year

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I agree with davek - this is all about the vocals. The rest is a bit by-the-numbers.

ogmor, who's that?

yeah that's very true, the piano chords go nowhere, ditto the beat, but the vox fx are cool

what are the best tracks to hear nicki rapping? not trading verses w celebrities, not singing, not working around shitty will.i.am hooks or whatever, just straight hard spitting.

itty bitty piggy, beam me up scotty, keys under palm trees, did it on em, higher than a kite, grindin', blow ya mind, muny, catch me.

best guest verses = kanye west "monster", trey songz "bottoms up", mya "ponytail", ricky blaze "feel free", gyptian "hold yuh", cassie "fuck u silly", diddy/dirty money "hello good morning", lil wayne/beyoncé "sweet dreams", robin thicke "shakin it 4 daddy", gucci mane "shopaholic"

a couple of those are still to come, i predict

drake remix is nice! not my favorite thing in the world, but nice and dreamy. whooda thunkit

and ty, lex

xp-sean, its dj screw

oh yeah and nicki's own "massive attack" for the rapping and lloyd's "take it off" as another superb guest spot

xp - right, should have guessed.

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53. LADY ANTEBELLUM "Need You Now" [262 points, 11 votes]
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I liked that deadboy utube you linked Lex

This must get in on some kind of technicality? xp

yeah, i thought this was from last year? i put "our kind of love" in my year-end list this year

year year year year year

whoa was not expecting lady antebellum - i guess i think of it as wholly 2009. it's an amazing song though.

fucksake they created another taylor swift

the deadboy thing is like "maybes" 2010 but i maybe liked maybes more

I mean, it's not from the very end of 2009...it goes back a ways.

haha j/k but this ain't my thing

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh this is horrible. Puke puke puke.

Come back Taylor, all is forgiven.

it crossed over to pop radio in february/march 2010 though, so i guess that's why ppl voted for it (including me)

beautiful song

It would be better if it wasn't a duet.

I am sure if I could listen to it objectively I would maybe not hate it, but it is now and probably will forever be "that one song they play at work ALLLLL THE TIME w/ the awful guitar solo at the end"

Oh God, there's a guitar solo coming?

if you like "need you now", you should check out sunny sweeney's "from a table away", which i doubt will place (but might next year, lol)

also, 'lady antebellum' - christ

Sorry 11 people, I don't get it.

Come to think of it, the more you listen to the Drake, the more the pacing starts to make sense...it's meant to be kind of startling in its subtlety.

No feeling Antebellum at all. What a reaction from the followers here..

Guitar solo = very George Harrison-ish

not really feeling this one as much, sorry

Taylor Swift is much better...

fwiw it was only after the jukebox reviews of "need you now" - http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1640 - that i actually had my curiosity piqued. idk, even if you don't like it surely you can hear the MASSIVE HOOK? and duh it's sentimental - i think it's heartbreaking, actually; they really bring that situation to life.

Sorry 11 people, I don't get it.

I'm sad to say that I've felt that way about a lot of the tracks so far. Starting to suspect that my ears are broken or I've drunk too much of the corny indie koolaid.

there's also a tim f thread on lady antebellum somewhere - maybe this song made his countdown last year?

can see why lady antebellum song would be a hit, but it ain't my thing. guy is fucking awful. and is she ripping off alan parsons project's "eye in the sky" just a little on the chorus? if the song was half as evocative as that, i'd like it. but it isn't. a turd.

Yeah, this sounds to me like the kind of song that will still be in (some sectors of) the public consciousness in 25 years' time. That hook is massive.

I find it overproduced and mawkish. But it does sound like a "hit song" fwiw.

"need you now" is sublime when it actually is 1am and you're a little drunk

i just need you now to turn this song off

yeah, I was ready to hate this song during the country cheese verse buildup but that chorus is fantastic.

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52. BEACH HOUSE "Zebra" [266 points, 9 votes]
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Sharpen your knives folks

"need you now" is sublime when it actually is 1am and you're a little drunk

Yeah, I can see that maybe.

yeah def. hearing echoes of APP in the Lady Antebellum...

whatever, Zebra kicks ass!

But it does sound like a "hit song" fwiw.

yeh but from 1992

Every Beach House CD should have Julee Cruise - Falling Into The Night put in as an intentional factory error.

Voted for this. The standout track on the album I think. Just lovely.