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

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.

?

They're a great band, but sort of got indulgent when it came time to make their first album. Hoping they pull back a little for the second.

That track veers dangerously close to the landfill for me.

Joy Formidable seems entirely ignorable to me

:(

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

TIE-70 - JUNIOR BOYS "Banana Ripple" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
P&J - 226
Pitchfork - 85

http://youtu.be/8CFAatTMGfU

"Joy Formidable seems entirely ignorable to me"

yeah, liked this album and then never listened to it again.

Ah Junior Boys!

Didn't vote for this, but it's entirely appropriate for the ILXOR end of year list.

that's how i was with the joy formidable album but i listened to "whirring" aaaaaaaall year

first thing i voted for to show up i think

didn't vote for this either but would have made a top 35 or 40 - great summation of their sad vocals + happy dance background aesthetic. Too many tracks on the album were too sad IMO.

def Joy Formidable do the 90s nostalgia better than, say, Yuck; big part of the appeal of "Whirring" is that it feels like it wander onto the radio station from some 90s Taco Bell or Target "modern rock" compilation CD

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

#ilikeallkindsofmusicexceptrapandcountry

― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Monday, January 23, 2012 3:37 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You do realise that country music can exist without being cloying and down-home, right?

Also, lol at the guy with probably the narrowest tastes on ilx besides Geir bemoaning someone else *possibly* not liking a style of music.

(I am so far completely uninspired by any of this list. Ah well.)

vocals on this junior boys are terrible

lex has narrow taste?

i forgot junior boys released an album this year. it wasn't any more exciting than their last one :(

people who don't pay attention to my taste think it's narrow, i'm used to this ;)

I've been on ilx for ten years. You *do* have narrow taste. Oh no, wait, sorry, you quite like Tom Waits? WOW ECLECTIC.

i'm kinda liking the JB song so far. This is not what I expected from them for sure...

Really wasn't feeling any Junior Boys stuff this year. Banana Ripple was probably the best thing on the album but generally it feels like their time has passed now.

i heard this junior boys song a long time ago but it quickly receded from my memory