ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

no way will this year's top 3 be better than last yr's

ahh

01 -- Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (24 votes, 267.5 points, 2 #1 vote/s) (10 in P&J, 69 in p4k)

classic post from jed_ tho

music for wee lassies, is that what we've come to?

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:03 (11 months ago)

hah xp too late i opened it

lonely drunk ppl pining for sex, idk seems easy to see to me

i like need you now alright, altho i've been way overexposed to it & am a bit numb to its charms. loved it at first tho. nothing to get or not, mechanistically it's pure affect w/ a good hook take it or leave it

or, what k3vin said

that guitar wail is pretty cool, yeah

no way will this year's top 3 be better than last yr's

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.)

cant be worse you mean?

every verse is orchestrated a little differently, it's really fleetwood mac-y (as sh@kedown said), the m-f tradeoff + harmonies are great for the material, the two lead guitars comment really well on the vocals, it's big and emotional and well put together

nb i'm not a pop-country dude by any stretch

ha this thread moves fast, that's about "need you now"

I think this year's selection is already quite a bit better... and I'm one of the complainers!

Yeah, I'm not sure I can add more to what K3vin said -- except that I esp. like the deployment of pedal steel.

today had some gems but yesterday was historically dire imo xp

ur rong AG, Daniel is fkkin awesome, and Bad Romance is up there...

though if Window Seat makes top 3 I wd like this year's more

k3vin is this you?

http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/keller.html

no one's gonna take issue with that comment that portishead owe their careers to sade????

lol must've powerscrolled past that

k3vin is this you?

http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/keller.html

― last night a Drugs A. Money saved my life (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 4:09 PM (2 minutes ago)

i wish i could get a 7.5 from scaruffi!

"powerscrolled"!

xp lol!

i really like rev's "dynamite" post upthread. it's true like, ever part is a hook strong enough to be the anchor of its own song. also really like how loud & heavy the house piano is, the stabs are so sharp and chunky, and really guide the song through each part so deliberately, definitely gives it more of an epic scope. i feel like ppl who have yet to realize its undeniable power just need to consider the possibility of it being a jam & then it will be immediately apparent, like when someone solves a riddle & you can't imagine how you could have possibly ever not known it

i hit the floor cause thats my
plans plans plans plans

thnx for the explanations dudes, i guess lady antebellum just aint 4 me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFx0MMqb48

^classic pre-"need you now"

& yeesh goole its not like i dont explain in pretty detailed terms why i like things when other folks ask about them

i still can't believe they thought lady antebellum was a good name, i'm like table is the table with j.stalin on that one

Tru. I got plenty of explanation about "Smang It" when I asked for it, but still idgi. xp

ok fair enough!

schlocky isn't wrong anyway...

xp to deej

i really like rev's "dynamite" post upthread. it's true like, ever part is a hook strong enough to be the anchor of its own song. also really like how loud & heavy the house piano is, the stabs are so sharp and chunky, and really guide the song through each part so deliberately, definitely gives it more of an epic scope.

this is good

ok i just listened to 'age of information' for the first time and holy shit goosebumps

how did i miss this until now

i still can't believe they thought lady antebellum was a good name, i'm like table is the table with j.stalin on that one

― zvookster, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 3:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha otm forgot about that

i still can't believe they thought lady antebellum was a good name

It may not be good, but it definitely strikes a chord with housewives who read Southern Living and watch Paula Deen.

like i heard a ton of other lil b tracks but this is head and shoulders above

the lil b-ness of it is basically that super-honest confessional style, just wedded to traditional west coast underground rap

taio cruz's "dynamite" is def my fav dr. luke vomit-house joint -- pretty much cuz it sounds like an akon song

― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:22 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also the melody is pretty obvious (not that all dr. luke's stuff isn't) but the "whoa-oh-oh"ing seems more appropriate since the song just feels... a bit bigger, fuller, more housey than kesha, flo rida, katy p etc

& taio cruz obv doesn't have a "good" voice by any means but he doesn't sound like he's being strangled when he does it

― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 8, 2010 3:24 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark

this is what i originally posted about "dynamite"

I can't really complain about "Dynamite"--in 2007 my song of the year was Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls"

Dynamite resembles Akon/Kingston in much the same way I think Cold War resembles Gnarls Barkley

i still can't believe they thought lady antebellum was a good name

I'll be honest, when I first heard the name, I thought it was a R&B diva inspired by the work of Kara Walker.

I've listened to "Pass Out" three times in a row now and I think I'd like to revise my earlier statement that "Frisky" is the superior song. I'd put them neck and neck, actually.

JF, can you email my ballot to me?

going to be on an airplane tomorrow but will be very surprised if Tightrope doesn't win...so congrats Tightrope

Sure...coming thru ilx mail

while i was out:

kanye - "power"
love this song to death. feel i should duck while saying that, but i do i do i do. like it even more than "monster", which i like a lot. love the rapping, the beat, the crimson sample, the weird production, the facepalm jokes, everything. if the rest of MBDTF were even half this good, i'd have voted for it in albums. but no.

sade - "soldier of love"
sorry not have kept up, cuz i loved sade once upon a time. while i enjoyed hearing her voice again, this song struck me as sadly hookless and staid. maybe it will grow on me? and maybe it exists more to be respected than loved.

ke$ha - "tik tok"
an obvious hit, can totally see why otherwise sensible people might love it, but her snarky, painted-on kookiness works my last nerve. it's like listening to someone else's crazy party through the wall. at 3am.

joanna newsom - "good intentions pc"
yeah, okay, i dunno. probably the best track on the album, fwiw. i'm happy for those who like to have to hear it.

i like dynamite more than any akon song. although i really like the new akon/mj single. do you like that one j0rdan

i have not heard it

"and maybe it exists more to be respected than loved. "

nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCCnxBos10

I'll be honest, when I first heard the name, I thought it was a R&B diva inspired by the work of Kara Walker.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:34 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol, i made the same mental connection when i first heard the name. didn't think it was literally inspired, but i expected an R&B diva, and couldn't help thinking of kara.

an R&B diva inspired by the work of kara walking would (might) be amazing, btw. somebody should be taking notes.

i was 100% sure lady antebellum was pretentious pop-punk

voted for that joanna newsom track btw! asked a friend to show me some album highlights and when that one came up I was basically all 'whoa that one is AWESOME' and whaddaya know, it's done well for itself

still haven't heard even 1/3 of the album (ffs newsom, 45 minutes is your length), but that song kills it

So psyched for the inevitable Volebeats run in the top 20.

super surprised to see it place and stoked too cause it's yeah the only song i can really take from that rec but i love the heck out of it (#didn't vote/#no unicorn)

I can't sometimes get past a singer's voice if the songs are strong enough and I'm determined to do it, but Joanna Newsom is never going to be someone I can handle.