ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

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ok, 'window seat' is the best track on this poll i hadn't know about

fucking yes

The LCD album is just a bit dull, and I *loved* Sound of Silver and the early singles.

lol Window Seat was a pretty big deal over here LJ

The LCD album is just a bit dull, and I *loved* Sound of Silver and the early singles.

My position too.

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17. SCISSOR SISTERS "Invisible Light" [438 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes]
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ehhh here's a youtube for erykah's "jump up in the air and stay there", the amazing psychedelic trailer single for the album that never made it on. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK / WE ON THE CEILING STUCK

Seems like a lot of backlash against the P4k canon (except for Caribou).

yeah, see the P&J 2010 thread for much (much) more detail

my #1!!!

Window Seat video was a big deal...

is this song from 1987?

Is that the one with Ian McKellen on it? That's alright that one. Didn't expect it to place at all though.

The LCD album is just a bit dull, and I *loved* Sound of Silver and the early singles.

My position too.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:58 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

3rd. feels so throwaway which is a quality I hate.

Good man, ddave.

It wasn't my #1, but I sure as hell campaigned to get people voting for it.

preferring amerykah pt ii so is dumb imo

― flopson, Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:55 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf

Also is that the first song with more than one #1 vote?

it sounds like a less-tasteful love and rockets

see, I think the new LCD is more consistent than SOS (even tho comes remotely close to "All My Friends"). I do think it is better than their debut LP.

Early singles comp. will always be the standard-bearer.

*nothing comes remotely..

early singles comp aside, i think This is Happening is their best album.

Also is that the first song with more than one #1 vote?

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:01 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kesha iirc

Another one I voted for - it's like a dream meeting of The Juan Maclean and Ace of Base.

omg chord-change at the end of invisible light chorus :D

Yung Humma has two #1's as well.

early singles comp aside, i think This is Happening is their best album.

Me too.

didn't "lemme smang it" also have two #1s

Early singles comp. will always be the standard-bearer.

yeah - i love so many LCD singles but kinda hate all their proper albums.

this scissor sisters track is pretty good - i thought "i don't feel like dancing", which is one of my least fav songs maybe EVER, had put me off them for good, and i avoided them last year, but this pretty much does what i liked about them in the first place. synth breakdown at 3mins pushes my buttons. is the whole album in this vein?

luv invisible light, i described it to friends as pink floyd + the beegees + ace of base + LORD OF THE RINGS

so glad to see "invisible light" show up! welcome to the pleasure dome...

also the ooouhhhs at the end sound like AnCo o_O

that's quite a video

frankie goes to hollywood album being the other obvious ingredient in "invisible light"

oh nvm i should read the posts ppl write before me

top 20 has begun rly well sans lcd :)

listening to that other erykah track now, it's rly good. need to listen to her more tbh

contenderizer are you working on a longer "consideration" post about musical cilantro?

LJ you may want to look away for the next one...

I haven't heard Scissor Sisters for 4 years or so. I don't remember them sounding this good. Wow. I actually like this. V surprised.

will not say a word xp

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16. KATY PERRY "Teenage Dream" [438 points, 15 votes]
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saw scissor sisters live in 2004 or so, it was ~ahem~..... not enjoyable

:)

Sounds like the Pet Shop Boys to me. I mean that as a good thing.
xp re Scissor Sisters

Decent song, way overrated. She doesn't deserve to be on any list bcz of "California Girl" and "Fireworks" quite frankly.

i liked this katy perry track when it first hit, but wore out fast. lex otm about her voice being rly rly grating & annoying

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btw while the scissor sister's video is amazing, the cut of the song is a little awkward, here's the album version hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rloqlzn2EEg

I first heard about LCD when they first came out from p4k...the whole self-referential hipster "songs about other bands" thing that they shared with Art Brut I thought was a very unappealing direction for 'indie' or w/e + it was an early indication that the whole thing wz running out of steam, so I ignored it...later on ILM & other places I saw that Sounds of Silver & "All My Friends" were topping the '07 list. "All My Friends" is a pretty decent song: it's kind of Lethem-y, and I kind of hate Lethem, but still...I kind of thought though the idea of that song being the best of any year wz p ridiculous.

I still want to hear Sounds of Silver solely on the basis that it did so well on the ILM half-decade albums poll. but yeah I tend (possibly wrongly) to interpret ranking LCD as a shortcut around listening/thinking...

that said, I wd feel disingenuous slagging off Dance Yrself Clean (a dece tune in its entirety) and not Invisible Light...

Scissors Sister track is solid.

Is this one of the deals that was mentioned way up thread where because of Copyright concerns the vocal is pitched wrong? Or is this how Katy Perry sounds? I'm finding it unremarkable but maybe it needs repeat listens.

Invisible Light reminds me a little of Shampain...lots of Frankie in it, but some of the ABBA influence that others detected in Marina.

I like it alright.