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

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!

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

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

http://youtu.be/pn1VGytzXus

none of them are all that amazing but there's a really nice greatest hits spread across the four of them.

WAIKIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

yeah lex otm here

i think last exit was my #1 on the 00's poll/??

Damn, I forgot to vote for the JB album :(

Oh, and also for Rebecca Black's 'Friday' ;_;

So basically when they said So This Is Goodbye, we should have taken them at their word. xps

excellent screenshot emphasising nicki above sean

Drugs: Gang Gang track is alright, but it doesn't blow my mind.

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

Okay, that's fair enough, and to be honest I feel like my snark was a bit much in those posts, so I am sorry about that. However, you frequently do dismiss whole genres with as much disdain and ignorance as 'I like all music except rap and country' people.

yes! this barely managed to squeeze onto my ballot iirc

these lyrics are horrible...I see how people can appreciate the wordplay but wow.

yeah i threw this on my ballot, been on repeat for much of the last few months

i did nicki's verse on stage at a terrible piano bar about a month ago, it was probably the highlight of my yr

YOU FUCKING LITTLE WHORES FUCKING UP MY DECORS
COULDN'T GET MICHAEL KORS IF YOU WAS FUCKING MICHAEL KORS

<3 <3 <3 it's like nicki minaj doing a dj assault song

Only 7 votes for "A$$" in the end? About 7 ppl nominated it between the two threads IIRC!

Re: Junior Boys

Last Exit is the most interesting and the best imo, at least it was at the time, with the whole combination of 2-step and Timbaland-style triple-kicks in an indie-electronica format. Johnny Dark was part of it for this one. Really fit into the general vibe of ILXOR as well, along with early music blogosphere. Nick Kilroy is part of this story as well.

So This Is Goodbye is somehow more consistent, but less adventurous. Still great though.

YES! Something I voted for.

Hahaha, I was totally thinking of DJ Assault during that song. But I prefer his stuff. I dunno, even Nicki's bit didn't appeal to me there, and I like her a lot.

"Dance (A$$) Remix" is still flat-out hot garbage in every possible way imaginable

So This Is Goodbye is probably one of the five best albums of the last ten year, Last Exit isn't far behind.

I like the latest two Junior Boys albums but they just set the standard too high with the first two albums.

Agree with some of the comments about Gang Gang Dance, I had three of their songs on my long list but just couldn't decide between them so ended up bumping the album a little higher instead.

i am at work so i am just kinda grabbing listens when i can but the problem with that pistol annies song is that its a boring by the numbers lifeless plod done by fairly average singers that know all the right twangy country tropes to hit + faux lyrical empowerment through money grabs. its fucking dire.

plz note: yes i do have open ears for country but this is not any good

haha ty jjj

I'm sorta with jjj on this.