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

lex, you might like the Battles album - it's really not a far stretch from the GGD record.

have totally failed on hearing the new Battles (& old Battles for that matter) so happy to rectify this :)

hey, what a great bass sound at the end, love this!

who is voting for this stuff

tbh, it's only 7 people out of 122. they just really, really liked it.

'Ice Cream' is almost certainly the worst thing that Matias Aguayo has ever been involved with.

lex, you might like the Battles album - it's really not a far stretch from the GGD record.

i heard the first battles album and no just no, unlistenable, thought it was a joke at first

oh wait i've seen this before... *xposts*

lex, you might like the Battles album - it's really not a far stretch from the GGD record.

haha come on, the Battles album is lex kryptonite; about the only way it could be less lexish would be if every track featured John Lydon shouting Mariah lyrics over it and ad libbing about how terrible and base they are

Didn't like the Battles album. Voted for The Go! Team, having previously gone right off them after the first album. The Yuck track is pastichey in a good way.

go team was poor battles was worse

Agree that I prefer the first Battles album and that Ice Cream is the only one I really dig off this new one.

battles album is a total grower. ice cream i think is just okay on the lp but really kills live.

Voted for 'Ice Cream', though as already pointed out the album is one to skip.

lex, you might like the Battles album - it's really not a far stretch from the GGD record.

i heard the first battles album and no just no, unlistenable, thought it was a joke at first

― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:32 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Okay fair enough, but at least listen to Ice Cream - it's not got the squeaky voice (dropped after first album) and not as blatantly rocky.

Battles are all tight and jerky (going by the few songs I've heard), don't see where GGD comparisons come in.

meh I kinda feel like the last three songs are really mediocre, and I much preferred the safe-for-work Go Team video to the other two

p sure dog latin is trying to drive lex to suicide

hahaha

next year make the whole top 77 first equal then we don't have to debate

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56 - WILD FLAG "Romance" (223 Points, 8 Votes)
P&J - 16
Pitchfork - 93

http://vimeo.com/27473793

hey it's La Lechera!

Battles are all tight and jerky (going by the few songs I've heard), don't see where GGD comparisons come in.

― Angrrau Birds (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:38 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Latest one is more groovy and spaced out than the first one which is, yes, very tight and jerky.

lex, you might like the Battles album - it's really not a far stretch from the GGD record.

haha come on, the Battles album is lex kryptonite; about the only way it could be less lexish would be if every track featured John Lydon shouting Mariah lyrics over it and ad libbing about how terrible and base they are

― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:33 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i really want to hear this

oh, I still haven't heard Wild Flag. This is the Matador femme allstars supergroup right?

dig the guitar on this a lot.

oh shit, this is great

I liked the wild flag at first but then some music started and ruined the atmosphere

I literally had no idea who Wild Flag was until I saw Carrie Brownstein at the beginning of that video

hmm i tried the wild flag album and was a bit disappointed; i don't hate it but it doesn't really thrill me like the best S-K - i find the melody here a bit basic, and it just makes me want to listen to one beat instead. relistening now and haven't changed my mind.

better'n the last few though

Okay, the Wild Flag is pretty good.

wild flag has sorta grown on me but still less than the sum of parts imo

this was one of the last songs to be removed from my ballot - love the parallel vocal and guitars in the chorus. The handclap section is a bit smarmy...in general this band feels a bit like old people play-acting rock stars, then again they are actually bona fide rock stars so they deserve some slack.

I agree that the guitar in this sounds fantastic

although to be fair nothing else i've heard from S-K has thrilled me like one beat does so maybe that album was a one-off

now if you'll excuse me i'm going to listen to the magic city for the 500th time

I quite like that Wild Flag song but I suspect it's just as pure comfort food.

Wild Flag = Janet/Carrie from Sleater-Kinney, Mary from Helium and Rebecca from The Minders.

many xps

the outro is sweet though - the "we love the sound, the sound is what found us" bit, that's when it kind of takes off

Wild Flag kinda drives me nuts. Not enough to ruin my memories of Helium, but I never liked Sleater-Kinney and this is too much of that for me.

oh are YOU the other guy who likes helium more than s-k?

thought i was the only one

she's good in that show i prefer that

Me and cad in similar taste shocker.

finally some good guitars in this poll

:D

Helium was way better before they started progging out all the time.

yayyy 'romance', this song's a delight

I donated my copy of Dig Me Out to the public library a couple years back. I did not like Wild Flag. (I think I may actually hate indie rock more than lex, but I am not as vocal about it as he is.) I did like S-K live the one time I saw them.

LOVE prog helium, that shit kicks ass to this very day

(not that Helium ever went full-prog, but they definitely went in some sort of medieval direction that I didn't want to tag along for.)