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

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

Wow @ that background image for the Mogwai YouTube vid.

is this the Mogwai track that LJ was big-upping?

mogwai made a record last year? lol ilm

http://i.imgur.com/Gy66Q.jpg

72 - THE JOY FORMIDABLE "Whirring" (189 Points, 8 Votes)
P&J - 33
Pitchfork - 68

http://youtu.be/a2BUEzdjfpY

(p sure I voted for this track in 2010, if not 2009...but not this overlong version that was re-recorded for the album. double bass drum, gtfo.)

I quite like the Mogwai song, but it's very restrained (so far?)...

xp - I have no idea what this one is

Joy ForMIDable?

Mogwai was my #2 and for the record the only Mogwai track to be found on my computer, the closing track on the only mogwai album I've ever heard so no commitment from me JF. Love this track tho.

Last track on Joy Formidable is my favourite but I voted for the album rather than any tracks off it.

next year i'm totally going to register 5 lurker accounts & sneak some punk singles into the top 77

luv this song so much

Drugs A Money - Yeah LJ loves that track

Six songs in and still only female singers so far.

ha at 23 mins I figured he probably would; he did tell me the one time I talked with him this year that he thought Mogwai and Wilco released the best stuff they'd ever done

"Whirring" is great, and I probably should've voted for it; it was crazy how the Formidables cross over into a larger alt-rock audience

also (to NickB): majority of both albums and traxx ballots iirc were either no singers or female singers

both MY albums & traxx ballots

man I always forget that I really, really like Mogwai

The Mogwai track is actually the music for an art installation involving a singing mountain, isn't it? I really like the general drift of it anyway.

Joy Formidable was like a can of beer someone left and you drank a bit by mistake

had not heard the joy formidable before,but that track was pretty good

Still can't quite see what it is that the Joy Formidable are doing that e.g. AC Acoustics or whatever Evening Sessions band didn't do in the 90s.