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

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xxxpost: Yeah they've pretty much conquered the latin market through internet. Erik was one of the pioneers on the 'tribal' scene (where the ridiculously pointy boots come from and it became a sort of meme and cultural curiosity on 2010).

Glad you've liked my selections :)

Yeah, would agree with DAM on those tracks. Moka always has the best taste, though.

steffi was my no.1, i mostly voted for dance stuff and it seemed like a more suitable candidate for 'best record of the year' than some of the other less uh assertive tracks on my ballot

enjoying the list so far

Annie Clark talking about the song and doing a nice solo version of "Surgeon" here: http://www.avclub.com/articles/st-vincent-discusses-and-performs-surgeon,64467/

this is great so far. nothing i voted for has appeared yet but im loving the tunes so far. a nice mix of stuff so far and mostly tunes i havent heard either. i would definitely have voted that 3Ball track for sure.

"In a Hole" is really hitting the spot right now...dayum!

generally I don't pick up tracks after the fact when putting together a ballot but, had I heard "In A Hole" before submitting, I would have voted it really high

Had forgotten how good that Gang Gang Dance track is. And if I'd managed to do a tracks vote, I'd have voted for Selena Gomez too.

Big love for the visuals for the countdown from here too. Gonna listen through to all of these, lots of stuff I haven't heard at all.

It's been an innescapable tune in Mexico throughout the year... you could hear it pretty much everywhere from the clubs to the hot-dog stands in here

I thought you were Spanish?

She is. But she lives in Mexico. *avoids certain running joke*

So far Big Sean/Nicki is the only one I voted for. Most of these I haven't even heard of and I'm suddenly worried about anything beyond like a few obvious things on my ballot showing. :/

resident advisor review of benoit & sergio - what i've lost from november 2009

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6872

fwiw i voted for it

oh wait sorry nevermind--i voted for "walk & talk"

what i've lost shouldn't even have been nominated

Knew I should have repped for "Principles" in the campaigning thread, oh well.

man all the benoit & sergio songs that were nommed are sweet

 It looks like Benoit & Sergio's  "What I've Lost" was released twice, once on the self-titled 12"  on Thesongsays in 2009 and as part of the "boy troubled"  ep on DFA in 2011. So doesnt that make it valid ?

Most of these I haven't even heard of and I'm suddenly worried about anything beyond like a few obvious things on my ballot showing. :/

― The Reverend, Monday, January 23, 2012 6:02 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I haven't voted for any yet. Heard of/like the Selena, tUnE-yArDs, Pistol Annies, Big Sean, Diddy-Dirty Money and 3BALLMTY, but still. A lot of stuff I didn't even know existed, let alone was popular.

Need to listen to a lot since some of it looks promising. But nervous about my ballot, for sure.

that's why i didn't say anything when it was nom'd, but it was reason enough for me not to vote for it, that and "walk & talk" is awesome.

xpost

Well they we're both in my top five or six so I'll be happy if either one shows up

*avoids certain running joke*

Ha, I appreciate it.

i'd be very surprised if one of the songs i have voted for will feature. ilm seems to have become a parallel universe without any overlap with my musical taste. weird.

No no you got it all wrong. I was born in California from Spanish parents and I'm currently living in Mexico. Is the joke that I'm feisty every now and then? ha.

hooray, stuff i voted for made it!

'love you like a love song': this slipped off my ballot at the last minute, but i'm glad it made it in! i played it for my sister and she was convinced the chorus was "i love you like i loves a baby."

'hell on heels': the harmonies and the ambiance really clicked with me, even though i agree that, as an album-opener, it promised something that the rest of the album was not. my sense is that some think that's a good thing, like maybe the pose they're striking in this song is a bit hackneyed? but i genuinely dig it! tbf my familiarity with country is mostly limited to things ilx stans for, so i might be enjoying things that others consider tired tropes.

'bizness': voted for this because i thought it's where the consensus would gather, i've grown to love other tracks more (esp. 'my country'). tune-yards TOTALLY DOES IT for me, the everything + the kitchen sink production doesn't annoy me because it's still strongly melodic, and i don't mind the yawp (tho i think there's too much focus on the yawp in the critical conversation, she has a lovely gentle voice that gets a lot of album time too).

'moonlightpeople': i actually prefer the other nominated track 'dizzy' to this one ('dizzy' is tonally weird, it starts off buzzy and ominous and then veers into sweetness), but i got caught up in a barbara panther rush and ended up voting for both of them. my favorite discovery of the voting period, hands-down.

xp no, the deferred joke was about jaymc, not you.

Never heard A$$ before... this is pretty incredible - almost a footwork influence creeping in. Dare I ask who's the producer on this, and what else should I check out?

Been at jury duty today. 512 messages. You psychos.

That's only 30 messages per track so far.

that's a lot!

i need more music like this in my life. where the hell were yall talking about it on ilm last year and why wasn't i told?

― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Monday, January 23, 2012 12:34 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

_Rudipherous_ has been talking about tribal guarachero for a little over a year. so, read his posts i guess?

― flopson, Monday, January 23, 2012 10:51 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Thanks. I have to give credit to fauxmarc for introducing me to it and knowing more about it. (Also I have to admit lex caught one of those Erick Rincon songs before I heard anything about the whole genre, but then again I'm not a professional critic or even a blogger.)

I've enjoyed the various mixes I've downloaded (generally at fauxmarc's prompting) more than "Intentalo," although it's okay and I voted for it.

Back to the rest of the list.

Though lex's comment is a little funny considering I even had "tribal guarachero" in my "salsa" thread title last year.

not a big goon crew influence thus far

although i'm not sure what we even agreed on this year

maybe your stuff will be in the upper reaches?

xp well, you could have upped the influence by voting :)

prob tbh i didnt even realize this poll was happening

too busy influencing ppl to notice

im having a rap blogging existential crisis tbh, not sure anyone is actually reading anything ive ever written

cannot post...too many...potential jokes

smh

Does the beginning of this Selena Gomez song borrow from some other obvious and famous song or does it just give that illusion?

That Tuneyards screenshot is kind of like what I do when I have a really bad sinus headache, no exaggeration.

I voted for a bunch (well, out of a smallish ballot) of dance tracks this year (thanks mostly to the Spotify tracks list), but in a lot of cases I have no idea how big a thing they were on ILM.

I think Barbara Panther is kind of like Tuneyards (if more Bjorkish, on that tracks anyway). Not into either.

This is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGw2bmcsaP4

Sorry. I still don't get how to not embed a youtube link.

Does the beginning of this Selena Gomez song borrow from some other obvious and famous song or does it just give that illusion?

― John Gaw Meme (_Rudipherous_), martes 24 de enero de 2012 01:46 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, earth wind & fire's fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTQJ2QiK4QU

man all the benoit & sergio songs that were nommed are sweet

^yea, i hope smthg actually places tho. my favorite is actually "what i've lost" but that track is hella old so i just bumped "walk and talk" up a few places. which is my 2nd favorite, so w/e

ffs why don't people bother to vote? it's not like the timing of this is a surprise or the various threads haven't been obviously at the top of new answers for ages. and then they come in here and complain smh

next year i am in favour of personal harassment to get the votes in

What I've Lost is like Super Bass in that it was previously released but then rereleased last year to make a bigger impact. It counts, although I think Paper Planes actually made the top five two years running.