ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

lol i know, such shaaade in the image and linking to the lyrics video, it is amazing

(joeks)

and yeah, hearing this song in fucking movie trailers makes me want to rip my hair out

lol @ using the lyric video and not the video video for FU

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― goole, Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^right on! these are the little decisions that separate good poll from great ones!

instead of listening to that fucking dreadful pile of shit again, I just listened to The Age Of Information for the first time. fucking AWESOME.

*whip my hair out

Run from 20 to 16 was completely unimpressive for me. Not because I didn't expect them to place but because they sound like some of the most generic tRacks I've heard on this countdown so far. Not good not bad.

Run from 15 to 11 is great.

It's so hateful, idg the love.

that post was sponsored by the word 'fuck' btw

"Invisible Light" sounds generic to you? "Window Seat" sounds generic to you?

"bodies" is pretty great though. wish it had done well enough to have a shot here. didn't even get an official single release or video.

correction: I actually liked #20.

re: katy b

well, she's from london, of irish heritage, and i first heard her as the vocalist on various uk funky trax - dj ng's "tell me", geeneus' "as i", geeneus' "good life" refix. so many of those vocalists end up just being names featured on other people's records but i guess the time ended up being just right for her to make a commercial breakthrough - "katy on a mission" was one of the more ubiquitous UK pop hits last year. she's not on a major label though - it was the first single released under rinse fm's imprint, a former pirate station that only got its official licence last year.

her songs document really accurately what i consider the "real" experience of clubbing (as opposed to the weird up-in-the-club aesthetic that otherwise dominates pop atm, which is kind of like...what a 15-yr-old who's never been to a club thinks they're like). katy sings about the way the music punches you in the stomach, the encounters w/strangers that are half hostile and half flirtatious, the way you lose yourself in the crowd and the music, the way being on the dancefloor feels comfortable in the end, the dread in the back of your mind of the night ending, the next day when you keep reliving the best moments and just want to do it all over again. and she sings this beautifully and anthemically.

I'd love if there was so much stuff that sounded like those two songs that I could be allowed to be bored by those two songs.

I get how Invisible Light sounds generic (but really fun and joyful with it; plus they give it their own spin) but nobody is making music like Window Seat

i've listened to 'the age of information' like 30 times since i first heard it yesterday

would have been in my top 5 had i heard it before the poll, maybe #1 if it was this fresh in my head

I think FU is a decent single, tho tbh I have been continually baffled at how highly it has been touted in critical circles throughout the year.

Okay, ready to crack open the top 10?

the lex's great explanation there makes me wish i liked katy b's songs. But I was never a clubber so I guess I'll never get it.

CRRRRACK!

but that was a great post by lex

hey thanks a lot lex--will relisten with that in mind

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10. KANYE WEST ft. RICK ROSS, BON IVER, NICKI MINAJ & JAY-Z "Monster" [596 points, 20 votes]
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first things first i'll eat your brains

Katy B's songs are like "Weak Become Heroes" then?

Okay, ready to crack open the top 10?

― Johnny Fever,

But we already got one. It's this one + screencaps:

top ten predictions (would say the first 5 are absolute locks)

the-dream - yamaha
janelle - tightrope
kanye - monster
robyn - dancing on my own
big boi - shutterbugg
ariel pink - round & round
arcade fire - sprawl ii
girl unit - wut
waka flocka - hard in da paint
rihanna - rude boy

would love for a surprise to sneak in there-- maybe "always loved a film"/"scribble" or alicia keys "broken heart".............

― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor),

hey LJ what did you like more abt "Age of Information"? the highly intricate flow or the pop-ambient music?

also AG otm about the lex...poet of the dance club.

i'm not even going to complain about kanye because for real nicki's verse is one of the best couple of minutes i heard in 2010 and if kanye and jay were good for little else last year, they at least provided the stage for nicki to comprehensively murk them

PINK WIG THICK ASS GIVE EM WHIPLASH

Actually, no wait there's 2 songs in there which I'm sure will be replaced by other ones.

Katy B's songs are like "Weak Become Heroes" then?

that's a good comparison point, though she's in the moment, not reminiscing, so she's less sentimental and more...real time. also, it's v definitely a girl's perspective.

only song I had heard off this album...cute indie girl I went to school with (the one who thought MAYA was a sellout, for those of you keeping track) played it for a bunch of us around Christmas...she said she didn't like the album at all, but she wanted me to listen to Minaj: "She becomes twenty different people in, like thirty seconds!"

hey LJ what did you like more abt "Age of Information"? the highly intricate flow or the pop-ambient music?

― last night a Drugs A. Money saved my life (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:23 (3 minutes ago)

lol

the way the music intensified I guess...can't separate the rapping from the synths, they needed each other...beautiful song tho and I rly appreciate what he's saying

if scribble isn't top 5 I will be extremely pissed off.

gonna be very surprised if arcade fire makes this list

me too

hopefully "wile out" makes it

I have a feeling "Goomba Pimpin'" isn't going to place. Shame on you all.

gonna be very surprised if arcade fire doesn't make this list

they only had the one track nominated so no votesplitting

"monster" would have been top 5 for me without jay-z's verse, i think? but i couldn't in all honesty vote for a song that i have to skip a third of every time, even if i always end up playing nicki's verse on loop like 10 times to make up - have it totally off by heart obv

she on a diet but my POCKETS EATING CHEESECAKE!

also, "forget barbie, fuck nicki, sh-she's fake!" is such a great way to discourse on her own realness.

more props to lex on that katy b post. dude can write.

^^^

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9. RIHANNA "Rude Boy" [628 points, 23 votes, 2 first place votes]
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good song, good video

Monster has a good beat and Minaj is indeed quite arresting. That's all I'll say for it. Overlong and coarse, otoh.

Yeah, "Rude Boy" video is amazing.

ur right LJ; message is great. I wz a little rmde at the whole 'evil-Internet' thing at first, but when he asks "why are there still races?" right at the end, it really sends it home...

(xpost abt Lil B)

I love Rihanna but only like this song...

yay

hmmm might miss the rest of the top 10. oh wellz.

the-dream - yamaha
janelle - tightrope
robyn - dancing on my own
big boi - shutterbugg
ariel pink - round & round
arcade fire - sprawl ii
girl unit - wut
waka flocka - hard in da paint

These are the two songs I'm not quite sure they'll make it. I'd figure they'd place much earlier somewhere around 30-40, will be actually surprised if they make it to the top slots.

i think girl unit might be a bit too out there for a bit # of votes? same w/ waka flocka, actually.. but we'll see