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

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60 - DJ QUIK ft. SUGA FREE & TY$ "Nobody" (214 Points, 7 Votes)
P&J - DNP
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/_rfvgrForo4

rarely watch, just listen and carry on scrolling or doing something else, i mean.

QUIK!

Still need to hear that Quik album!

it is as incredible as a quik album. like all quik records. guy is a straight up genius, only wish i knew this 10 years ago and didn't have to cram in the past 2.

Yeah, I never read the rolling threads either, they feel to much like they're only for people "in the know", whereas I'm not following any genre closely enough anymore to really participate.

(x-post to V79)

also suga free's hair looks like a wig and i giggle everytime i see it.

Great start to the list today. Nobody is easily my favourite song on the album.

quik!

it feels so weird listening to this song in the winter, lol.

"nobody" emerged quite a while before the album iirc - maybe even in 2010? - it is excellent but "across the map" is my favourite on the album

damn this is like being in a time machine, is this 2012 or 1997

re: youtube, you do know you're not honour bound to actually watch the screen while a song is playing

That's one of my favourites on the Quik album, love the beat and Suga Free's verse.

i like it on youtube when you open a song in another window and you think the advert is actually the start of the song

Not the Quik track I voted for, but I can roll with it

Still need to hear that Quik album!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:37 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

I didn't get around to going through the Spotify playlist for the nominated tracks but that's ok, there were already more than enough familiar things to choose from and it felt kind of right to vote for the songs I'd been loving all year. I did pick up some good stuff from the albums list though!

Pretty sure i didn't vote for any individual Quik tracks cos i had the album so high

glad quik/suga free placed!

thoughts on some of the first gang:

77 - SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE "Love You Like a Love Song" (182 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
This is bog standard as fuck, huh?

76 - GANG GANG DANCE "Glass Jar" (182 Points, 8 Votes)
I've been thoroughly skeptical of this band, but I think I like this more than any GGD song I've heard before! I so much associate with that ramshackle dance thing they do that I never would have assumed they're really good at this kind of epic sweep.

75 - PISTOL ANNIES "Hell on Heels" (183 Points, 7 Votes)
Didn't vote for this but I already knew I loved it. The slow burn, the harmonies, the lyrics - especially "He made me pretty/ he made me smart/ and I'm gonna break me a million hearts."

74 - tUnE-yArDs "Bizness" (184 Points, 6 Votes)
I respect the enthusiasm and to a lesser extent the cod-afrobeat, but Floppy otm.

73 - MOGWAI "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)" (189 Points, 5 Votes)
This is long and pretty but way longer than and not as pretty as the Gang Gang Dance. It wears out its welcome.

72 - THE JOY FORMIDABLE "Whirring" (189 Points, 8 Votes)
Indie! This is spirited and all but seems have made its point in the first two minutes. The build at the end is exciting, but it really sags in between those two points.

TIE-70 - JUNIOR BOYS "Banana Ripple" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
A lot better than I expected from them at this point, but kind of pleasant and minor.

TIE-70 - BIG SEAN ft. NICKI MINAJ "Dance (A$$) Remix" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
I voted for this. When it first came out, I thought it was another case of Nicki lifting up a bad song. Then I heard the original version come on the radio. Even though I felt like a toddler who had his candy stolen when the second verse came on, I realized that it's still a jam in Nicki's absense. She just pushes it over the top. Please note: this is not a defense of Big Sean, who raps like Farnsworth Bentley.

I feel like omitting the Quik album was one of my biggest musical mistakes this year, every cut I get to hear is brilliant

Yeah, I wish I'd have voted for Quik too.

quik album was my #3. didn't vote for any tracks from it tho.

lol I thought the line in the chorus goes "I only care 'bout weed"

Rev has been making me into a Quik fan the last few weeks so I'm happy to see it on here. Thanks Rev!

srsly how the hell did I NOT know about Invisible Conga People before yesterday, this is so exactly my type of shit

they were invisible.

I'd been holding back on them for reasons of terrible band name

lol, true

xp

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59 - YUCK "Get Away" (218 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - 51
Pitchfork - 81

http://vimeo.com/23416724 (nsfw)

what it's a great band name!

What kind of band/artist name is "Yuck"?

i unashamedly love the yuck record

yuck

I mean, if you name your band like that, you're practically inviting everyone to make the obvious joke. See also: Carbage.

I am shocked, I am really enjoying this Yuck track

I just assumed I would despise them but they are doing a "melodic Pixies pastiche" thing that's like the flipside of the stuff I liked about the Cage the Elephant album

(hahaha, x-post with Rev!)

xp: Carbage?

Dinosaur Jr. Jr. do write some catchy stuff.

2 first place votes! Guess I better listen to it then.

Sorry, I meant Garbage.

roffling because I'm imagining every video being Shirley Manson just stuffing her face with bread and pasta

Get Away was my #16. It's total nostalgia-bait for me, and while I can take-or-leave the rest of the album, as soon as that scorching lead riff comes in and she starts singing that bit that sounds like "Summer suuuu-n came but Iii-'m here..." I'm transported back to so many teenage summers kicking around the town centre and hanging around with girls at free festivals and learning the guitar and wearing bad clothes and ripped jeans. It's a beautiful track.

Pastichey as hell but I do like this.

yuck song is great, just a really solid song.

i think yuck are the lowest scorers ever on the jukebox http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2988

quik was reasonable enough - prob best so far

how nsfw is that yuck? im at work

it's extremely nsfw

can the top album countdown pictures be all attempts at the cover in mspaint

lol I didn't even watch it, just pressed play and switched tabs

is it, like, 4 minutes of exposed labia/glans?

love that idea

xp

Okay, kinda loved that Yuck song I admit.