ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2011 (Los resultados!)

Huh, I kind of thought "Bizness" would be in the top 20.

my reaction to the tuneyards album was that practically every other song on it was much much much better than "Bizness"

Wow this is great! The first time I've actually voted. I feel so 'invested' ;)

Into it so far, especially Gomez. tUnE-yArDs and this particular Gang Gang Dance record never really clicked with me, but they're still fine. I like 'em well enough

So basically tUnE-yArDs is this year's entry in the "does inexplicably well on P&J poll depsite it seeming like most people hate it" indie album stakes?

hmm i don't really like "who says". my fav selena gomez song is still "naturally"

i get what ppl hear in tune-yards & feel like i could get into it if i wasnt so viscerally repulsed by certain aspects of it

yeah i guess - i was actually anticipating hearing the album b/c of what i'd read, and then i put it on and it was just so...everything i hate in one package, some primary school child banging pots and pans together. DNW

otoh the thing i've heard ppl champion it for, the bellowing & general total unrestraint, is what repulses me the most. at the time same if it were at all toned down it would probably mute the appeal for most fans, the music wouldnt be as remarkable if it werent as unshy/embarassing but it would also be less painful to endure.

also i remember thinking some of the tune-yards lyrics ("gangsta", probably) were KIND OF DUBIOUS but this was ages ago and i can't remember the details (and don't intend to return to the album to find out)

i think when i heard it praised i thought it would be along the lines of...gang gang dance, actually. that kind of ambitious, huge-sounding fusion. it wasn't at all :(

yeah i guess - i was actually anticipating hearing the album b/c of what i'd read, and then i put it on and it was just so...everything i hate in one package, some primary school child banging pots and pans together.

haha okay dude, the shit going on is significantly more complicated than that, particularly all of the looped arpeggio/hocket stuff in the background

I mean, technically all of that shit is massively on point and mad impressive, I just spend about 70% of the time disliking the main instrument

Another case of "I voted for the album". Video for this is great though.

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I think tUnE-yArDs will definitely suffer from vote splitting on the tracks side. I think I voted for "You Yes You."

Video makes me feel that Tuneyards chick is leader of some strange cult. Which makes me v nervous.

the whole vibe I get is some sort of imposing Hare Krishna/Sesame Street amalgamation

Hadn't heard the GGD or Pistol Annie's until now. Won't bother hearing them again.

tUnE-yArDs are this year's Micachu and the Shapes.

haha that's kind of OTM from what I remember of Micachu

she's much better than that

ha I had wanted to hear Micachu, and now I'm not so sure

also i remember thinking some of the tune-yards lyrics ("gangsta", probably) were KIND OF DUBIOUS

Not to say this excuses anything, but in interviews she seems fairly self-aware about this.

Also re "children's music": she used to be a puppeteer.

That "Who Says" song is rank btw. In my opinion.

i liked the micachu album better than tuneyards i think

agree that this is this years micachu but disagree that it's better, imo much worse

listening to tuneyards i feel like i'm in a room at a party when someone youtube dj's obnoxious dubstep or a guy with acoustic guitar getting too into it. like you politey try to ignore it but inside you're reeling at their painful lack of self-awareness, embarrassed for them.

Pistol Annies, definitely not popular here. It was met with repulsion from my girlfriend, 'ergh, stop being so down-home'...

lol

ugh i'd forgotten micachu existed. both unlistenable

re: tune-yards, not pistol annies :(

Pistol Annies, definitely not popular here. It was met with repulsion from my girlfriend, 'ergh, stop being so down-home'...

#ilikeallkindsofmusicexceptrapandcountry

if it were at all toned down it would probably mute the appeal for most fans, the music wouldnt be as remarkable if it werent as unshy/embarassing
Absolutely. And Dan is also right about the effort that's gone into the structure of the music. The only time the album trips up and becomes willfully obtuse is "Riotriot". Lots more to say but I'll save it I think until when we get to the albums rundown.

Johnny, bravo, images look smashing! Looking forward to this!

thinking about tuneyards i almost convinced myself that i like music thats more poised/restrained but then i realized, like, i love "mother" and early boredoms and other cathartic or ott singing so that must not be it. compared to john lennon tuneyards shounds like she's singing with loud headphones on, like you can acknowledge that its ecstatic but you also don't feel that you should be privy to it, like walking in on someone masturbating vigorously

responses to tune-yards on ilx generally leave me looking for a thread about projection to c&p them onto tbh

tUnE-yArDs and Pistol Annies were both cases of albums that were too solid front-to-back for me to vote for one single.

If I did, it would have been for either 'You Yes You' or 'Powa', and 'Housewife's Prayer' probably.

that was an xpost with flopson's post btw

http://i.imgur.com/AQj4i.jpg

73 - MOGWAI "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)" (189 Points, 5 Votes)
P&J - DNP
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/eoVRxNmcDSo

lol flopson your descriptions of tuneyards are just killing me, so otm tho

...like walking in on someone masturbating vigorously

lol

this is the first one i haven't heard yet, time to START LISTENING

huh mogwai were still making music in 2011? genuinely had no idea

I dunno. 'w h o k i l l' feels like such a personal album, even as Merril's gone *bigger* with her production and whatever. But again, albums discussion.

Bizness is a bit oversung at moments, but generally quite good.

re: Selena Gomez, Naturally > Who Says > Love You Like a Love Song

Mogwai are still a thing?

"the singing mountain" seems a very unmogwailike title

The music, unfortunately, is very mogwailike.

I have a lot of residual goodwill towards Mogwai, despite having ignored them for the last 10 years. Going to check this out now...

xp thomp: maybe that is a good point? tuneyards is definitely pretty close to the ilm trolling ideal. though if i made terrible music and accused everyone who didnt like it of perverse unconscious psychological motives, people would think i'm an asshole

5 people still care about Mogwai. I don't know who they are, but I applaud the commitment.

"San Pedro" is a nice track off the new album.

23 minutes long? Isn't there like a radio version of this Mogwai song?

This is a good Mogwai song, didn't vote for it though. Its not actually even on the 2011 album proper, came as a bonus disc with it. iirc, it was tied into an art exhibit somehow.

lmao