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

oh okay! tbh "melody" threw me there, I was expecting to hear something more fugue-like with sustained interlocking musical lines going along (kind of, um, like what the tune-yards stuff does)

yeah i realised as soon as i posted that "melody" wasn't what i meant. possibly "counterpoint" wasn't either. "those things that bounce off the main melody in a deeply satisfying way"

So I never really got into Aerial. I feel like picking up this KB album would be a bit like starting with the 6th series of the Wire. Does it matter that all I've really listened to is Hounds Of Love?

this is v beautiful :) the only tracks i had heard from this album were kinda disappointing so maybe i will have to check the whole thing out after all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWMYfcg1o8

maybe

That Danny Daze track: my best discovery from this list so far.

i downloaded a 30 second sample from lastfm
nathey 1 vs 0 emi

I'm gonna be lucky to get one track to place i think.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I voted for 'Yonkers' so I'm fairly sure that'll be in. Everything else - I doubt it.

Don't think about what's missing, think about what's here!

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Most of it's rubbish!

danny daze: WS

http://www.burlingtonproject.co.uk/WebFiles/ContentImages/Danny_Black_Final_copy.jpg

man, there are some songs on my ballot that I knew had zero chance of making it but man they are SO GOOD

I guess I can't be a one-man Lamb street team ;_;

oh PS this Kate Bush song is FANTASTIC

yeah it is really amazing

oh my danny daze is a looker

i really hope LJ has heard the kate bush record, wherever he is

if emil.y is right she only has one then I guess I have zero. But I still think one will make it. Keep the faith emil.y!

oh dammit, I apparently didn't save my final ballot ;_;

"Snowflake" my #3 :) Voted for the album too but this is so great, needed to be here.

I feel like picking up this KB album would be a bit like starting with the 6th series of the Wire. Does it matter that all I've really listened to is Hounds Of Love?
Nah, not at all.

I guess I just love the community aspect of this more than worrying about whether some obscure song I (and only I) like places somewhere in the top 77. If you voted for it, it's somewhere in the long list. Meanwhile, hear some stuff you haven't heard and figure out what makes it so appealing to other voters.

(I feel like a kindergarten teacher.)

*raises hand* Mr Fever, I hafta potty

if you like 'your everything' then make sure you check the b-side 'fall away from love' which is also extremely good.

sorry bout complaining earlier; there was a huge gap where no one was responding

I guess I felt that I should fill it with something; that was probably the wrong thing though. This list has been a lot of fun so far

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

52 - BEYONCÉ "1+1" (229 Points, 9 Votes)
P&J - 78
Pitchfork - 26

http://youtu.be/KaasJ44O5lI

I liked the Battles album as a whole. I may be the only one here, so I thought I'd throw that out as a dissenting opinion.

what is beyonce crying about?

the image here, great job <3

how many Beyonce tracks are gonna end up on this, do you think?

Pretty sure "Countdown" is a lock for top 20, is there also enough support for an outlier like "Love On Top" or "Schoolin' Life"?

Aww, Snowflake! 1,000 x better than the Mogwai song upthread in the long-arsed sombre piano song stakes imo.

Can't listen to that Beyonce song in our house cos it upsets the dog.

i don't know much about algurburrr but '1+1' is wayyy too low

"1 + 1" is a supremely stupid song ("IF I AIN'T GOT SOMETHING I DON'T GIVE A DAMN CAUSE I GOT IT WITH YOU!") but a really good-sounding one nonetheless.

<3 <3 <3 <3 "1+1"

might have expected it higher but then again beyoncé of all people would have suffered from vote splitting, and i didn't vote for this song

her realest ballad though. "i don't know much about fighting but i know i / i would fight for you / and just when i ball up my fists i realise / i'm laying right next to you" - every time i listen to it i still end up basically stopping everything else i'm doing

this was high on my ballot. stunning song.

so glad i haven't wasted any time listening to any of these indie bands for years.

Pretty sure "Countdown" is a lock for top 20, is there also enough support for an outlier like "Love On Top" or "Schoolin' Life"?

"schoolin' life" would be amazing - "countdown" a lock for the top 10 though i think?

also do they realize that this part:

Hey! I don't know much about guns but I...I've been shot by you
Hey! And I don't know when I'm gon die, but I hope that I'm gon die by you

kind of sounds like "i hope someday you murder me"?

"1 + 1" is a supremely stupid song ("IF I AIN'T GOT SOMETHING I DON'T GIVE A DAMN CAUSE I GOT IT WITH YOU!") but a really good-sounding one nonetheless.

haha yeah, on 4 really got the sonics to transcend many of the colossally stupid things she was saying ("I care/I know you don't care too much/But I still care/La la la la la/Baby" <--- well thank you for that nugget of wisdom)

I like that Danny Daze song. Never heard it before but quite fine.

"i don't know much about fighting but i know i / i would fight for you / and just when i ball up my fists i realise / i'm laying right next to you"

what a bizarre lyric, I would dump anyone who was doing that when they were lying next to me

Guilty pleasure/new listen so far on this list is probably Yuck. Just for shameless exploiting my teenage soundtrack nostalgia circa 1995 in a way I'm not entirely comfortable with.

the picked sus chord in the beginning always reminds me of "Chasing Heather Crazy", haha

haha yeah, on 4 really got the sonics to transcend many of the colossally stupid things she was saying ("I care/I know you don't care too much/But I still care/La la la la la/Baby" <--- well thank you for that nugget of wisdom)

lol "i care" does not stand up to lyrical analysis at all

BUT "schoolin' life" actually IS amazing life wisdom! so, swings & roundabouts

lol "I Care" is definitely in the running for most moronic lyric on the album ("You see these tears falling down to my ears"!!!!!!!)

I think the Danny Daze just about gets away with the godawful triteness of the lyrics as it's a more hynoptic/creepy thing, but yeah, those Beyoncé lyrics are terrible.

("You see these tears falling down to my ears"!!!!!!!)

that makes sense when you consider how much of her life beyoncé must spend standing in front of a wind machine

Fuck I knew I should have bought the deluxe version of Beyonce.

irl lol, lex.

lol "I Care" is definitely in the running for most moronic lyric on the album ("You see these tears falling down to my ears"!!!!!!!)

maybe she's so upset she's lying on her back sobbing

or maybe she's like "Wicked" #defyinggravity

The Danny Daze track is so dope though. I'm glad that one made it. Probably most likely from the Hot Creations releases this year, backed it over Forward Motion.

despite the could-be-better lyrics, I Care is still one of the more powerful tracks on the album I think

"You see these tears falling down to my ears"

"maybe she's so upset she's lying on her back sobbing"

otm

1 plus 1 is pretty cool, maybe like my 6th favorite song on 4 (bonus tracks included)