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

haha ty jjj

I'm sorta with jjj on this.

i think it helped a lot that i could only find a version with no video, just the dense lyrics paraded in front of me.

I was forced because of where I worked to listen to country music radio for the greater part of the past six months. There's a lot to hate in country music even now, and DJP your impressions are not off at all, but it's definitely this experience that made me rank something like Sunny Sweeney's "From a Table Away" (which was top 3 for me but probably will not place) as a luminous masterpiece in songwriting.

That being said, the country radio station did not play a single Pistol Annies song the entire time I listened, which had me flummoxed until I actually listened to the album. The station I was listening to was def pushing a family-friendly, God-fearing, good people message, and Pistol Annies blasts through that. I actually think the down-homey-ness and the hewing to Nashville conventions makes the album sound tougher: less pretentious, gives it the illusion of rawness. Definitely it helps align the album with the 'outlaw country' tradition...

emil.y, I honestly think of "Hell on Heels" to be kind of a tokenist pick; it's the first song of the album, and though it works as a pop single, it functions within the album as sort of a program piece, an introductory gesture. If you want to find the punk in the album, check out "Housewife's Prayer" which sounds like a resigned sigh, but lyrically is a frustrated whelp of pyromaniac desire from the very heart of conventional domesticity. It's a stellar example as to why my country radio station wouldn't touch the album, and absolutely one of the top songs of the year (although I didn't vote for it ;_;)

fwiw lyric videos always make songs seem worse

i agree with drugs a money, i'm probably gonna make this argument at greater length in the albums thread when it places but it's probably the best recession album i've heard yet

(Hoping Todd Terje gets on here, but wonder whether it will go to Ragysh or Snooze 4 Love. RA had them both back to back.)

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

69 - INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE "In a Hole" (190 Points, 8 Votes)
P&J - 604
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/ZZNqhLxNIdE

fwiw lyric videos always make songs seem worse

No, jjj just listened to the song where they proclaim about 5 bazillion times that they're hell on heels

(Ass song was good btw)

Fully expect Snooze 4 Love to place, possibly fairly highly.

I just don't get that Invisible Conga People song at all.

ok i dont know what this is at all

lol I am digging Invisible Conga People, possibly because of the acronym

YES @ Invisible Conga People. It makes a lot of sense after a joint.

yeah this ICP song is great!

love dance (a$$)

the rest of this can fuck off

ok icp and random ggd track can not fuck off i guess

I'd not heard of that Invisible Conga People track. It sounds pretty good, actually.

BWHAHAHAHAA ICP

is that video all of the tracks on the EP cut together, because it seems like it just jumped to a completely different song

Don't love this but it's definitely enjoyable.

Does anyone in this bitch like ICP?

the vocals sound like some of those pitched down knife vocals of yore. this is a great track actually.

xposts to Dan, I think it is.

is that video all of the tracks on the EP cut together, because it seems like it just jumped to a completely different song

Maybe? I didn't watch the whole thing before posting the link.

i had no idea i needed a 'bloghouse GBV' batsignal until just a few minutes ago, but now I need one RIGHT AWAY!

yeah this is definitely a clip reel not a full single track

Never heard this side of this ICP record, think I like it better than Can't Feel My Knees. It's kind of taking the slowness of Andy Stott and applying it to James Blake-style blub-step.

Doesn't seem to be a full version on Youtube; Spotify link is http://open.spotify.com/track/2Y7SLk0Kj9VQwgiQusLON1

yeah this is super Knife-y/Fever Rayish, possibly my favorite thing I've heard on the countdown so far

yeah def

oh wait the song isn't supposed to jump around like that? now I dont like it as much anymore :(

still great tho

Another video for In a Hole.

never heard (of) this, i like it though

itunes tells me i played this invisible conga people track once in may, i don't remember it?

relistening...i am not sure, i think this knifelike stuff needs more gravitas than this has

i had no idea this track was a big thing anywhere though! never heard or saw anyone particularly repping for it last year

this is definitely the most atmospheric song to place so far

who voted for it in P&J?

Tim put me onto this, somewhere on one of his best tracks of 2011 so far lists.

http://i.imgur.com/OpKP4.jpg

68 - BARBARA PANTHER "Moonlightpeople" (192 Points, 6 Votes)
P&J - DNP
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/XPObpVHDQ9k

(thx to tuomas for being so on the spot with his nominations, otherwise I never would've remembered this or listened to the rest of her album...which ended up being my #2)

what is this

kept thinking i should've been way more into barbara panther than i was, think it just hasn't caught me at the right time?

this song is COOL; I like it

or maybe it's just the voice again. yelpy

hmm, can't really figure this out

yeah she's kinda yelpy

yeah, not really feeling the vocals

bjorky

A little late, but the thing I like about "Whirring" is that it's basically a shoegaze version of Tegan and Sara.

i like the kinda loping backing track, it's an interesting rhythm, but she needs to be more decisive about what to sing over it

There are bits of Barbara Panther's album that I like but as a whole it's a bit too full-on, she can be kind of irritating a lot of the time.