ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

haw, taylor swift is this year's fever ray

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― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

well then who will be this year's taylor swift?!

Kanye

;_;

Hey, the pitch of the youtube you linked to for Back to December is wrong / too high

think i have heard two entries (swans/lcd) so far itt cuz 2k10 was all about spacemen 3, 'viva', digital noise, palestrina, russian liturgical music & eldritch hardcore continuum derivations ime :x

There's probably a fair bit of Big Boi to come.

yeah it's 2 high, i searched for the video instead. it has lots of snow.

cmon nakh, i know you liked oneohtrix

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46. JANELLE MONÁE "Cold War" [272 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
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I voted for the APHG track - I missed the old drowned production from his earlier stuff on this album but think he really hits a good pop vein at times. I didn't know the original before the album came out, so it didn't suffer so much from whether he made it his own or not.

and them yeah xxp, kinda edging into diginoise territory tho!

lj is making taylor swift sound interesting

spacemen 3, 'viva', digital noise, palestrina, russian liturgical music & eldritch hardcore continuum derivations ime :x

plz post in the 'what is psychedelic?' thread plz

Hey nakh - you noticed that Bieber placed, right?

Cold War is my favourite Janelle song, she's pretty good at rock music.

haha i missed that xp! awes

Have tried to get into Janelle Monae but for all the crazy outer-space hype it just sounds very ordinary to my ears. Might still try again with it, though.

not one of the better tracks from archandroid, she has a great face though, i could have it blown up huge to fill my living room wall.

was gonna say xp to seandalai

loving this

i think one of my favourite things about "back to december" is how it demonstrates that, for all taylor swift always gets pinned with the fairytale-happy-endings tag, she also believes in unhappy endings and the futility of emotion.

Have tried to get into Janelle Monae but for all the crazy outer-space hype it just sounds very ordinary to my ears.

yeah her album is basically a broadway take on retro rock'n'roll. really not that crazy.

haven't heard anything from Janelle yet...this does hit all the "Hey Ya"/Gnarls buttons, so I can imagine why people would not like this...

this is the best song since bieberslow by a fucking mile

surprised at taylor swift's voice.....expected something more effusive kinda

she sounds like a shrewish 15 yr old rather than a platinum diva

song is kinda gloopy but nice enough

Prefer "Tightrope", "Wondaland" and whatever the Of Montreal collaboration is called to "Cold War".

nakh if you're listening to the linked youtube, it's been pitched up, so that's not really t-swift's voice

...and it's STILL nothing truly special, but can get w/ it, may even grow on me

loved tightrope

this is the best song since bieberslow by a fucking mile

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― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (acoleuthic), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:10 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

srsly lex? meshug

getting mp3 versh now

I thought Swift sounded very sweet-natured in the verses, is that just bcz it was sped up?

omg the ending is noizzzzze :D

i totally buy the hro line on janelle monae:

"why do ppl keep trying to hype her? Seems like a failed mnstrm artist 2 me who has to settle 4 'blog buzz'"

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45. NICOLAS JAAR "WOUH" [274 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
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Oh wow! That's my favourite Nicholas Jaar as well, usually I find his music a bit dry but those chords are so lush.

"blogs" have much lower standards than your avg mnstrmr probably tho xp

"many moons" still easily janelle's best song

nico jaar!!!! i thought he'd suffer from vote-splitting. i voted for "a time for us" but really good to see "wouh" in here.

prefer time for us but still, awesome

hah! my number one!

YES Jaar, voted for that one. Sounds like a subway train rattling through NYC, creepy and cold but kind of life affirming track.

@Cpapa18 shut the fuck up you moron ! why do you want to destroy a beautiful song like this ? eminem and kid cudi or the worst rappers ever man, go listen to some real hip hop like wu tang clan, a tribe called quest, pharcyde, fugees etc. but not kid fuckin cudi !

man this is the shittiest comment i've ever read, go kill yourself

afaik, this is the first time I've ever heard anything by Jaar. This is kinda nice, but it leaves me unsatisfied. I need more buildup/payoff.

I voted for this, such a lovely vibe...I have a nagging feeling with Jaar that his early work (i.e. this) might turn out to be the pinnacle of his output.

i now have 2 votes placing. For a while I thought the only one that would make it was the bieber, lol

I do like the gearshift right around the 5min mark, tho

i like the janelle monae record but it seems like some of the styles she's mining on it (broadway music, 60s psych/folk) are ones that are not at all in vogue right now (or ever?) so its not surprising that it fell by the wayside commercially

i thought you said you voted for swans, AG...?

Naw i checked and i only voted swans on albums ballot

I do like the gearshift right around the 5min mark, tho

I think that's the payoff, the point of all that repeition in the first place, to then hit you with the chord change after you've zoned out for ages.

lol @ LJ referring to Lady Antebellum as "her."

this is awesome! list got goooooood