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

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

vocals on this junior boys are terrible

haha I thought it was just me

a little bit of me is like "are we really at the point where we're having Candy Flip tribute bands?" while listening to this

This Junior Boys track is definitely pleasant but I'm not sure I'll return to it. I like how they seem to take the skin of an 80s pop song and pull and stretch it to fit over a cosmic disco skeleton.

My experience of country music is almost entirely reducible to my Dad's 8-tracks and K Rose from GTA SA.

see now ^that makes it sound awesome! (xp)

you didnt like the GGD song, emil.y? :(

Also, the first two Junior Boys records are great.

"banana ripple" is def supposed to be like an EPIC dance track but the whole thing just feels v pro forma and uninspiring to me

Junior Boys song sounds like its from an awful tv show. Want to blame the terrible singing but it wouldn't be much better instrumental

My experience of country music is almost entirely reducible to the vast majority of the people I knew growing up who listened to it being unrepentant, irredeemable racists. Ironically, between this, the unrepentant racists into classic rock and the unrepentant racists into metal, I eventually ended up being into... industrial music.

the vocals remind me a lot of Kelley Polar - no processing, no reverb, just a guy singing. When it works it ratchets up the emotion and contrasts well with the electronics in the background. But when it doesn't work he can sound seriously awkward. There's a reason most artists slather their vocals in reverb.

Yeah this was the first Junior Boys album I was disappointed by. "Banana Ripple" was the best, but it was a low bar anyway.

they are really good live because they only play the fast tracks and pump up the volume so you can barely hear him singing. Not sure that speaks well of their music in general but I have enjoyed them both times I have seen them in person.

What's their best album then?

"banana ripple" is def supposed to be like an EPIC dance track but the whole thing just feels v pro forma and uninspiring to me

yeah it also feels like a pro forma attempt at making a "junior boys song". i don't really feel any great need for it to exist. which is sad given how great they used to be.

emil.y w/all due respect you don't know jack shit about my taste; oddly enough i don't talk about *everything* i listen to on ilm

I like the second, but most JB fans swear by the first. xp

idk when junior boys vocals crossed the line from charmingly bad to just regular bad

What's their best album then?

first two are essential - last exit = all time classic 4eva, so this is goodbye only slightly beneath it. nothing since then is that great :(

dammit i forgot to vote. looking forward to this regardless

lex and I agreeing shocker!

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TIE-70 - BIG SEAN ft. NICKI MINAJ "Dance (A$$) Remix" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
P&J - 343
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/pn1VGytzXus