ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

ty johnny, jordan, everybody

77. DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Ass on the Floor" [222 points, 7 votes]
75. AZARI & III "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake remix)" [228 points, 8 votes]
70. THE FIVES ft. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)" [236 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
69. YUNG HUMMA ft. FLYNT FLO$$Y "Lemme Smang It" [236 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
68. RICK ROSS ft. STYLES P "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" [238 points, 12 votes]
(TIE) 64. KELIS "Acapella" [242 points, 9 votes]
58. GIL SCOTT-HERON "Me and the Devil" [254 points, 10 votes]
54. DRAKE "Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)" [260 points, 10 votes]
51. GAYNGS "The Gaudy Side of Town" [266 points, 13 votes]
(TIE) 48. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI "Bright Lit Blue Skies" [270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
41. LADY GAGA ft. BEYONCÉ "Telephone" [294 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

i fuxx w these
havent heard jaar yet tho

sort of feel u don't really need to have an opinion on gaga because lots of other people have opinions and some of them are probably right, so the sum of human wisdom is not really advanced by someone who doesn't care that much about gaga feeling obliged to formulate an opinion, especially if they have to exagerrate its valency in an attempt to make it more of a talking point

applies to most other popstars of gaga level

Yeah, there's a lot of participation in this thread, but if everyone who actually voted was here to talk about their votes, we'd be up to 6,000 posts by now. xps

multiple appearances:

taylor swift (3 - fever tay)
rihanna (2 - once as lead artist + featured on "all of the lights")
cassie (2 - once as lead artist + sampled on "love cry")
alicia keys (2 - featured on "fireworks" and "all of the lights", even if uncredited here)

also, two separate artists who use $ instead of s in their names

77. DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Ass on the Floor" [222 points, 7 votes]
61. GAMES "Strawberry Skies" [250 points, 7 votes]
44. CARIBOU "Odessa" [278 points, 11 votes]

^added to the itunes

xp - Participation is good though! And people bringing opposing opinions to the board, as long as they don't start shouting at each other.

Oh, I agree. Re-reading my post, it sounds like I was discouraging more posting. I wasn't. I'd love if this thread had 6,000 posts right now.

don't forget drake in multiple appearances!

jk

thread has about as much traffic as feasible before every post requires six xposts before sending and nobody reads any of them

73. TAYLOR SWIFT "Mean" [232 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
70. THE FIVES ft. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)" [236 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
67. THE KNIFE "Colouring of Pigeons" [242 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
66. CASSIE "Skydiver" [242 points, 8 votes]
63. JAVIERA MENA "Hasta La Verdad" [244 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
62. SWANS "No Words/No Thoughts" [248 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
58. GIL SCOTT-HERON "Me and the Devil" [254 points, 10 votes]
(TIE) 56. NICKI MINAJ ft. EMINEM "Roman's Revenge" [254 points, 11 votes]
55. JUSTIN BIEBER "U Smile (Ambient Version)" [256 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
54. DRAKE "Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)" [260 points, 10 votes]
44. CARIBOU "Odessa" [278 points, 11 votes]

thread's been good to us so far...
(TIE) 48. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI "Bright Lit Blue Skies" [270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
46. JANELLE MONÁE "Cold War" [272 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

lol time to go...

great!:

THE FIVES ft. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)"
GAMES "Strawberry Skies"
NICKI MINAJ ft. EMINEM "Roman's Revenge"
CARIBOU "Odessa"
LADY GAGA ft. BEYONCÉ "Telephone"

good, or at least interesting:

DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Ass on the Floor"
AZARI & III "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake remix)"
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS "Shampain"
YUNG HUMMA ft. FLYNT FLO$$Y "Lemme Smang It"
THE KNIFE "Colouring of Pigeons"
FOUR TET "Love Cry"
GIL SCOTT-HERON "Me and the Devil"
JUSTIN BIEBER "U Smile (Ambient Version)"
DRAKE "Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)"
GAYNGS "The Gaudy Side of Town"
NICOLAS JAAR "WOUH"

but yeah, D.A.M. otm

everything i liked id already heard except for the knife but that was only okay

sorry if this has already been talked about but didn't ILX play a huge part in making the bieber slowed down 800% thing go viral?

don't think so

it got a bit of coverage in the ile jbiebz thread, but it was already a story iirc

had 2m+ views/dls on soundcloud before it was taken offline

I'm going to dig into the tracks I haven't heard yet when I get home tonight, but I'm surprised how nothing I've voted for has shown up yet!

xpost: iirc max posted it to gawker before most other blogs had?

seems to have been posted to reddit before max' gawker post

nice to think max probably helped (as well as getting my streetview glitch discovery into the wall street journal's religion column) but i'd guess it was going viral anyway

reddit and 4chan are the origin of most viral happenings these days

When I started the ILE thread on Ted Williams, it was just because one of my friends from Columbus had posted the youtube in my facebook feed. I didn't realize until an hour or so later that it was big doings.

cunga posted it to ILX 1 day before reddit RIP Justin Bieber

i remember cunga saying his friend made it? but i cant find the post

"All of the Lights"? you fucking chumps.

hardly the worst thing in the list so far

http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/d1y2t/hey_rmusic_i_took_justin_biebers_u_smile_and/

16th aug, ilx 17th aug

ha i guess the timestamp will be 16th for both for you tho

something's wrong, I hold my head

xpost: yeah that's prob why.

still remember Cunga saying he knew dude who made it

Love that song, but that's the least intriguing screencap of the video.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ha, yeah -- hon i liked the screncap a lot cuz of the colors/"come with me" part at the bottom, but i feel you -- had to keep it SFW

Thought for a second you were calling me "hon."

yeah me too lol

ditto

to answer nakh's question, and generally any that y'all might have wrt the screencaps

if the song had an official video, i took a cap from that (two exceptions so far iirc are the fives which i didn't realize even had a video & beach house which had a bad chillwavey video w/o the two in it) & secondly if the artist appears in the video, i tried to make a point to include the artist (w/ a few of them i think, like the gil scott heron one, i just liked something else in the video or the parts w/ the artist were boring) -- if there was no video or if the video was done in a way that made it hard to fit all the text in, i grabbed a photo off flickr or something

w/ the el guincho one i wanted to include him in it but his parts were either boring/didn't leave enough room for text so i just went w/ the globe one cuz it had lots of space + i thought it was cool

love your graphics work, shug

cosign

anyway i liked today's results

re gayngs, i don't think that lex has it right about them -- maybe there are ppl that praise them for being r&b w/o praising 'real' r&b but a. i don't think it's THAT r&B (reminds me more, moodwise, of like quiet village) & also i think that the guys in the band have a sincere admiration for the kinda music that they're doing there

love your graphics work, shug

― omar little, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i can't decide whether to assume the character of dale gribble or john redcorn here

i thought for a second you were calling him "shrug."

i think the hot chip album is very underrated & i think it's their best & it gets me emotionally quite often, but i don't think "one life stand" is the best track from it

Gayngs is str8 bullshit but that track is fucking awesome

also was really happy to see deadboy show up -- really a novel idea there: take drake outta the drake -- i like that dude found one dope loop & just rides it out

also i said this in some thread (i think it was WUT) that the firework sounds at the beginning/end of the track, despite being a. a pretty obv tactic and b. taken right from the OG drake track, are a great effect -- there's something emotional & poignant about it when combined w/ the re-work

xp to gr80 ^^^basically how i break it down 2 an extent

i like that one tim posted about too ok

"cry" is awesome

also i said this in some thread (i think it was WUT) that the firework sounds at the beginning/end of the track, despite being a. a pretty obv tactic and b. taken right from the OG drake track, are a great effect -- there's something emotional & poignant about it when combined w/ the re-work

this kind of bothers me for the same reason Mark McGuire's field recordings of his 5-year-old birfday parties bother me. its a dirty trick using nostalgia to pull our heartstrings

did you like "adventureland" -- the firework part in that remix hits that same note for me

oh also, "telephone" is pretty good but "alejandro" is ten times better

"All of the Lights"? you fucking chumps.

― trv kvnt (some dude), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:10 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

hardly the worst thing in the list so far

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:15 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

actually...

yeah i gotta say one of the more disappointing things for me at EOY time this year was seeing "Telephone" so totally eclipse "Alejandro" in most lists and polls

starting to thing that im the most ilx hivemind person, i only hadnt heard two of these before. of these i hate one and like the other a lot.