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

Just checking into this thread today because, hello, Oscar nominations, but I wanted to add that I was Yuck's other #1 vote.

Glad to see Little Dog here; the ballot from a user I won't name here (let's call him "Confunded") that had this as #1 and no other tracks certainly helped its cause.

lol no shame in my game

Katy B is very good, huh

I feel like Selena Gomez should move to the UK and work with producers there, she would likely become much more interesting as a result

sadly not really into this katy b trac

Prefer the other mix of cheaters, forgot who does it - beautiful swimmers?

Can't comment on the other recent tracks as I'm on phone now and can't play

xpost lex, yeah I wish more people had heard the talabot remix of mario/vidis. I'm sure it won't show up here

there's a thing about music in 2011 that I complained about on I think a sandbox thread where a good chunk of it prizes shiny smoothness over jagged enthusiasm; if you are triggered by the latter, I don't think that Teengirl Fantasy remix is going to do it for you

(actually this seems like the direction music has been going for like the past 5 years, both on the critical and popular appreciation tracks; it's part of why things like "Pumped Up Kicks" are so fucking unbearable, it's so POLITE and MANNERED and uses a bunch of finely-tuned signifiers building towards a specific emotion rather than starting with a raw response and then refining it)

― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes yes yes

Also wanted to cosign all of the comments earlier about the insularity of rolling threads.

Missed out on a lot of this countdown so I'm sorry if I missed it, but is there a running Spotify playlist?

hahaha I just made the "One thing I can't stand is Africans" mistake

okay the Cheaters remix is not the one I remember, it mightve been the original or the Beautiful Swimmers...

there was a time when "Easy Please Me" was my #2 song, but I eventually got kind of sick of it; I voted for another Katy B song, but she's dope and I'm happy about her placing regardless

Reposting the Spotify playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5w1deUncq412xqQJmwkFm5

xp to DJP
Gomez needs something. i'd just listened to 2NE1 for the first time right before that and SG's lack of energy suffered a lot by comparison

I missed all the comments about the insularity of rolling threads, but what is being suggested as an alternate? I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of bitching if the new answers suddenly was overrun with fifty new threads about different metal albums that end up being talked about for a week before disappearing. Makes infinitely more sense to me to keep that stuff in a rolling thread.

there were four times when I picked songs on my traxx ballot whose parent albums I'd also voted for

GGD & Katy B were two of them

I missed all the comments about the insularity of rolling threads, but what is being suggested as an alternate? I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of bitching if the new answers suddenly was overrun with fifty new threads about different metal albums that end up being talked about for a week before disappearing. Makes infinitely more sense to me to keep that stuff in a rolling thread.

yeah this is otm. as i said before if i started a thread for every song i loved it'd be like spam, and if EVERYONE did it, yeesh

rolling threads aren't that insular tbh, and apart from the rap one they don't even move that fast these days

It isn't THAT shiny and smooth, I think it hits a sort of just-post-peak-time bittersweet house vibe pretty much dead on, and its all about the chords underneath, they give the vocals legs they didn't have in the original track.

yeah the organ makes it in that track

FWIW I loved that remix and think it's very effective; I just understand why for some people it's distancing/not immediate.

Love Katy B. Voted for album instead of track, and there are a couple of better singles (Witches' Brew, Broken Record, Movement) than Easy Please Me but good to see her place.

i'm in favor of breaking more individual album/track threads off out of the rolling threads. it's a trivial example but when cad made a thread for the curren$y record last year it got me to listen to it where i probably would have just skimmed over it if it was only discussed in rolling rap.

obviously you don't want to make a thread for every record but the ones that you think will have some appeal outside of rolling thread regulars, go for it.

obviously you don't want to make a thread for every record but the ones that you think will have some appeal outside of rolling thread regulars, go for it.

i am so terrible at judging crossover appeal ;_;

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

46 - CREEP ft. NINA SKY "You" (245 Points, 10 Votes)
P&J - 604
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/vDErC8-MrUw

nice

as i said before if i started a thread for every song i loved it'd be like spam, and if EVERYONE did it, yeesh

I wouldn't start a thread for EVERY song you like, but it might be worth starting a thread for your absolute favorites. You did this last year with "Wut," for instance.

(Of course, it might've helped had that thread been more descriptively titled. I was baffled that a track/artist I had never heard of wound up on top of the ILM poll last year, since I never managed to click on a thread titled "~WUT WUT WUT WUT WUT~.")

the poll is really indie-light this year

or is it all lurking at the top..?

another great track!

wut wut wut?

xp

yeah i totally missed the WUT thread because of the name, i pretty much click on any thread with an Artist - Title format title but others not so much

creep!!!!

"you" is such a beautiful song. i probably voted for it. i was sad that "days" came out in the awkward mid-dec period where it fell between two years of voting. i'm really looking forward to their album.

heh ironically i actually did start a thread for an individual creep single and then it was all tumbleweeds for MONTHS and no one cared, and then suddenly they did care. hurrah.

"You" is so bad-ass, easily one of the best songs of the year

ciderpress, I was making a meta joke, actually I meant to be like 'waht?' at your assertion that this poll has been indie-light? I mean, there was a pretty big patch of indie earlier today...

I voted for "days" last year and again this year!
don't know anything about creep but those two singles are great

I feel like none of my pet favorites ever gain any traction around here with the exception of a few people who see eye-to-eye with me sometimes. The one exception this year was "Heaven," which I was happy a few other people liked.

You! First track I voted for. Really really love this, but it ended up placing mid-range in my ballot, strangely.

Gorgeous. Probably my favourite CREEP track. The new one w/ Holly Miranda is the first to not be AMAZING, so hopefully they'll get back on track soon.

Also, Nina Sky. They are the best. Can we have a new album plz?

Nina Sky is super-cool but I'm not huge on this, and I remember really liking 'Days'

I feel ya JF, still 0 for 25 over here

i like "animals" fine - yeah, not as obsessively looping it as with "days" and "you" but it's fine, very happy when i do listen to it

i think i'm 1 for 25, will try to dig my ballot out of the wreckage of my former hard drive tonight

that's a bummer; sorry to hear about that

is this just going to run through thursday or are we slowrolling the last 20?

I could slowroll the last 20 if people want me to. Would give me more time to make the pics, tbh.

the pictures are really nice btw

thx

http://i.imgur.com/Ykb4h.jpg

45 - BENOIT & SERGIO "Walk and Talk" (246 Points, 9 Points)
P&J - 343
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/iRu9EGMMc5s

nice, glad this made it

xxp
JF's pics are hosted somewhere that's supposed to be blocked at work but every now and then I refresh the page and a few sneak through the filter and I go "oooh! Nice" :D

yes, glad at least one of the Benoit & Sergio tracks placed

i think i actually like ending on thursday better, was just curious

sigh i just don't get benoit & sergio at all. it's fine if a bit dull until the vocals come in and they're such a fucking downer

xp
i voted for "snowflake", so i am not 100% alone with my taste here. that makes me feel better. of all the other songs i didn't know any. what would slowrolling mean? one song per hour? in general the idea of slowness appeals very much to me.