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

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

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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.

Slowroll = splitting the top 20 over two days (10 per). Doesn't matter to me, really. If people want it all done on Thursday, I can do that.

I like when you give it to us hard and fast.

lex, do you just generally dislike lower male voices

lex, do you just generally dislike lower male voices

i don't think it's the register so much as the timbre and context. i loved the male vocal in the danny daze track...

my bb does k all day

pleased to see the two talabot tracks and pleased to hear this mario & vidis remix i didn't know about. love the bassline.

69 - INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE "In a Hole" (190 Points, 8 Votes)
63 - STEFFI ft. VIRGINIA "Yours" (208 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)

Really enjoying my listens in, these two were the ones that I felt really strongly for, on one listen

Of the oldies: disappointed in that Kate Bush track, seems like it wants to be warm your winter but it translates to dread, for some reason.

The Lulu is amazing tho'. Shames all the other guitar tracks. Need to get the album sometime (more bcz its an Alban Berg thing tho')

xxxxp
If you slowroll, please have it done by 1pm EST (= 'won't see me for dust' time for Britishers).

don't mind the downer lyrics of this...the track is very hypnotic

http://i.imgur.com/CsL0M.jpg

44 - WAKA FLOCKA FLAME ft. KEBO GOTTI "Grove Street Party" (248 Points, 10 Votes)
P&J - 343
Pitchfork - DNP

http://vimeo.com/22597595 (dancing bear in this video FTW!)

Re: Creep. Voted for "Days" instead (which seems unlikely to place), as "You" is trip-hop unvarnished by the passing years.

The dance massive is certainly out this year. Its just a different dance massive than mine.

yeah, i love that sleazy, druggy, hypnotic sound, seems somewhat of a piece with "in a hole" to me

xxp

nice! this was on my longlist and i didn't know whether it had a chance of placing

huh well i love "grove st party" a lot but i had no idea it was a 2011 thing

haha the more I hear of contemporary hip-hop, the more I like Waka in comparison

dude would not have a career in Juvenile's heyday but I guess someone had to take up the baton

thugged out ecstasy rap will never not be amazing tho

"grove st party" is the shit, but i don't really think of it as a 2011 song

Voted for "Principles" (a few extra vocal gears with the pitched-down "PRINCIPES" + the Remain In Light-era Byrne bug-eyed mania), but glad "Walk & Talk" placed - the dreamy smear of the vocals suits the lyrics perfectly. "When I come home she doesn't even say hello" :(

many xposts: YESSS "Grove Street Party"

I also voted for Principles instead of Walk & Talk but it was a tough choice.