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

I think this is the proper album version. The single edit is less than 3 mins.

although the vocal line still starts annoying me well before it ends, oh well

yeah i was gonna ask you guys--you're voting for the 6 min one right? because it's just ridiculous enough to be awesome.

didn't know about this track, but I like it

okay the beat is awesome, i wish someone had either bothered to put an actual song on top of it, or not bother pretending and just remove half the vocals

yeah, the 6 min one is the one i love. the shorter edit just confused me.

Single edit is pointless...the full version is just nuts and over the top and stupid and I love it.

everything about this is fantastic, actually

signed, ILM's last remaining M.I.A. fan

Louder Youtube version is here btw.

I almost voted for Nadia Oh. Found it uninspired on first listen then found myself singing it at random points in time. It's a cute song.

THROW YOUR WALLETS IN THE SKY.

soooo it's the kim kardashian song with a weirder beat and much much less of a tune

the appeal of this song isn't really the nonexistent tune

soooo it's the kim kardashian song with a weirder beat and much much less of a tune

or, to put it another way, it's nothing like the Kim Kardashian song

PICTURE ME TROLLIN

lol

Nadia Oh is fantastic to dance to - even more bubblegum than most moombahton, which isn't exactly averse to catchiness. I highly recommend "No Bueno", too:
http://soundcloud.com/nadiaoh/nadia-oh-no-bueno-masterr

Er, "Taking Over The Dancefloor" is fantastic to dance to, etc.

There's something pathological about its dead-eyed robotic determination to annoy and bludgeon you onto the dancefloors. It is transcendently irritating and all the better for it.

Nadia Oh is fantastic to dance to

toooo sloooooow

lex didn't you just call it "kind of a monster"

I was always surprised her first album didn't really take off. It's packed with potential hits. I suppose her vocals would be the issue for a lot of people.

If you can't dance to that Nadia Oh track you're doing it wrong.

Whoa watching and hearing that waka flocka for the first time and just found out a friend from France that I hadn't spoke with in years is dancing in there. Just messaged her and it's really her...

Not really interesting but it grabbed me by surprise. Not really feeling the song but dancing bear is great tho.

lex didn't you just call it "kind of a monster"

i changed my mind again before the song ended

oh, duly noted

toooo sloooooow

hahaa wait, weren't you all over "Wut"'s jock last year

The Nadia Oh sounds promising but it lacks some 'oomph'... really like it... is this a demo or a rough draft? It sounds like it could use some extra mixing.

idk i think if the nadia oh didn't have pretensions to being a dance-pop song it'd work much better? if you're gonna be dance-pop you have to be CATCHIER and FASTER

I think one of the things I like about Nadia Oh is the roughness of it. It sounds kind of like a bedroom demo, and for me that adds 1000x more charm to it than a lot of similar stuff (but may also explain why lex doesn't like it at all).

fyi "Taking Over The Dancefloor" is faster than "Gasolina"

xp: oh I see, you're just putting shit into boxes again

fyi "Taking Over The Dancefloor" is faster than "Gasolina"

This. I know moombahton and reggaeton are different things all together, etc., but it's certainly possible to dance to it.

Tempo doesn't matter as long as yr beat has BOUNCE, which the Nadia Oh has in abundance.

I guess if your main criticism of the song is "this is nothing like 'Mr Saxobeat'" there's not all that much convincing that can be done

I think I kind of agree with lex... 6 minutes feels too long for a pop dance hit and it doesn't have the ambition to pull it off completely. An edit would help.

On the other hand I do find it catchy, ripe for the dancefloor and the little twists are delightful.

how is it trying to be a dance pop song??

yeah this is what i am wondering

Fuck everyone who said The Go Team track was "forgettable."

i already forgot it :(

Fuck everyone who said The Go Team track was "forgettable."

― billstevejim

+1

http://i.imgur.com/t7VFe.jpg

42 - JOHN MAUS "Hey Moon" (257 Points, 8 Votes)
P&J - 226
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/AnlSA0a2X_w

Yay! Another one of mine. Maybe a strange choice of still for the most gentle track on the album, though?

Another one of mine...thanks to emil.y for playing it in Outloud after I'd written off John Maus a few years back. The whole album has a great vibe but "Hey Moon" is the one song I keep coming back to and singing at inappropriate times.

That jpeg is pretty much the opposite of how the song sounds btw

"Buy Nothing Day" sounds like a lost Phil Spector or Dusty Springfield track. I'm psyched that it placed.

Today's results are great so far.

I had a pic of Nadia Oh all lined up, and all of a sudden a song I voted for made it! Hey there!

Also:

That jpeg is pretty much the opposite of how the song sounds btw

is otm x 1000

To be honest I'm sure Maus would approve of the juxtaposition.

So this is the "lo-fi enough to mask amateurishness" electro-pop Scott Plagenhoef was going on about. I take back my bile directed at Scott P.

Yeah, I was being a little cheeky with this one.