ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

this sounds like The Knife on uppers

(a compliment)

nothing too special tho, but yeah totally get why people go mad for it

Think that will be the top 5 and you're not overlooking anything.
xp to ilxor

voted for this robyn track btw. had i ordered my ballot, either "ILU" or "dancing on my own" would've been #1 (impossible decision), but might as well consider that an ilxor #1 fav track of the year-- slays me every time

so ilxor if yr five are correct...this'll be the first time, well, ever, that there won't be a bona fide POP SMASH in the top 5?

mark my words--dream is #1, waka is top 3

like this Robyn song better than the other one...

Yeah ilxor your top 10 was pretty much otm asides maybe those 3 you mention. Weird choices for top 5 tho if those are the correct ones.

this feels like the most ilm of all the ilm lists i've been around for

had i ordered my ballot, either "ILU" or "dancing on my own" would've been #1 (impossible decision)

my #2 & #1 respectively

ooh I like the outro - formulaic but effective

don't see myself going back to it tho - way too emptily beatific - it's pure pop but it's nothing else

I actually preferred "Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do" over this, but not by much.

Would've liked the beat on this to have been a bit more fierce.

I'm sure there must be something we're overlooking here.

this feels like the most ilm of all the ilm lists i've been around for

― call all destroyer

That's because 2010 was a hallmark ILM year. The lack of consensus meant we didn't really disagree on anything. (Well maybe Ke$ha and Sleigh Bells did generate some friction on the first trimester of the year.)

Never heard this Robyn before - doesn't really stand out on first listen.

11-6 feel like the no-brainers of this year, 1-5 probably the ILM-centric curveballs.

If Yamaha is #1 I will punch the air with joy though.

Would've liked the beat on this to have been a bit more fierce.

the weediness of robyn's beats is def one of my main complaints w/her material (tho it's her voice and her boring, clichéd subject matter that i object to more)

had i ordered my ballot, either "ILU" or "dancing on my own" would've been #1 (impossible decision)

my #2 & #1 respectively

― beer, beer, beer (Pillbox), Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:09 PM (1 minute ago)

<333333 best friend

Also, this was the biggest voting turnout the poll has had in many, many years.

WOW, this robyn tune is way, way, way better than the last one! so good, and again with the arpeggiator on endless overdrive, but god i LOVE the way it slaps the clouds of candy along. want to hear this a hundred times in a row. it's funny how we draw our lines, cuz CAD is right to point out that there's some hypocrisy in my defending janelle monae (and this) as joyful "fun" while slagging kesha and katy perry for being vapid. not all funs are created equal, i guess. other people's fun is often intolerable, e.g., bars when sober.

i'm taking the tissue and pissing on the seat, btw

i'll go ahead and predict "yamaha" at #1 -- completely exhilarating & flawless track, one i can see getting to the top spot

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5. ARCADE FIRE "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" [694 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes]
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xxp that's interesting cause you'd think the lurkers would be causing some stuff to shift more?

I didn't vote because I only heard like 3 songs in 2010

borrrrrrrrrrring

Album I found patchy at best. But love love love this track.

didnt like the arcade fire album but this song = A+++ (didnt vote for it tho)

i didn't like The Suburbs much but this was a great song imo

That is a MAJESTIC song and made me wish that girl would put out a solo album that's entirely in that vein. It's all about the key change in the middle.

AF is another band that I've always kind of rankled against...I'll check this out though...

omg this song's tune is basically Indie Rock 101

ooh there's a key change? good

"key change in the middle" is a v promising sign!

first two arcade fire albums are pretty great imo

First time I listen to this Arcade Fire track and it's even worse than I remember the band. Before, at least they had some ideas (that were horribly bad, but still ideas), now they're bad and sound like a million other bands.

damn, sprawl ii is very abba as well, isn't it?

Yeah this sounds like something that lots of people will like (don't mean this in a condescending way). More weirdly 80s-sounding production?

hearing "sprawl ii" for the first time...it sounds pretty much exactly like what this band were doing when i last paid attention to them (their debut). empty bluster that sounds like an indie kid shut-in's idea of what an e rush is like. it's not horrible though, i get why people like it, and the key change is actually good!

yup, i think the album was generic indie-rock, but this toon def. '80s production & groove, really really great

Looking forward to this key change you're all on about.

lex otm to the word

This list is packed with pop and chart stuff, yet it's Arcade Fire who sound the cheesiest?

well i am an indie kid but i have no idea what an e rush feels like. but if it's like this then good.

Ah! That *is* kind of satisfying. I like the synths too, this is like Abba meets the Knife.

guys this is straight 70s production imo

as much as I want to hate Arcade Fire, that seems to be a pretty good song. vaguely reminds me of Heart of Glass, and the lyrics remind me of a certain ILE thread, but it's undeniably catchy and I like how it builds into something kind of majestic, as another poster put it

arcade fire song goes on bloody forever though doesn't it? please end.

would not have bitched if this placed outside the top 20

I'm an indie kid till I die, but I've never got this band. I mean, at all. Ah well.

lex still otm

well i am an indie kid but i have no idea what an e rush feels like. but if it's like this then good.

it's even better lol

didnt like the arcade fire album but this song = A+++ (didnt vote for it tho)

― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i didn't like The Suburbs much but this was a great song imo

― ciderpress, Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

That an Arcade Fire track managed to place so highly in an ILM poll is a testament to how fantastic this particular song is

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