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

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.

If this song had cost two million dollars to produce, it would still be excellent imo.

Of the rest:

Danny Daze - like the other big Hot Natured track this year, the one with Ali Love whose name I've forgotten, it would be way better without the vocals. That chewy bassline is amazing though.

Creep & Nina Sky - sexiest record so far? I really like this, but I've not completely fallen in love with it in the way I did with 'Days', which I really hope places.

Benoit & Sergio - the problem with Benoit & Sergio is that although they are fantastic producers, their voices just don't fit and sound kind of grafted onto the record without quite fitting. This is fine when the rest of the track is storming enough (Everybody) or the song is touching enough (What I've Lost) but this track falls awkwardly between the two polls for me. Bodes well for better tracks appearing later - although I'm assuming this one is appearing because it works well on the Wolf + Lamb/Soul Clap mix.

Waka Flocka Flame - this is just boring really, no bounce, no rhythmic interest, the beat just slugs along the floor. Painfully limited MCs can work over the right beat but this isn't it. Whole thing just feels lazy.

Nadia Oh - more swag than Waka.

Nadia Oh:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WbCKeoqg2c8/TmTHe9qQxJI/AAAAAAAAC_8/HHCo0kyGnIU/s1600/Nadia%2BOh%2BNo%2BBueno%2BMaybe%2BAsian.jpg

People who think Maus is incredibly lo-fi don't know shit about lo-fi music. And there's no attempt to mask amateurishness. People who think that don't know shit about aesthetics.

never thought of Maus as particularly lo-fi or amateurish

(Though besides anything else 'Hey Moon' is just swoonsomely lovely - a great duet with and distortion of the original, as I have said elsewhere.)

Yeah, I really don't like Grove St Party much either.

i've never heard john maus except i accompanied a friend to an in-store show he did last year. i've never seen anything quite like it. twee-ish (i couldn't really hear it?) background music playing while a guy had a nervous breakdown on stage. really uncomfortable and weird.

I was going to say, there's nothing lo-fi about this Maus track at all from what I can tell?

It's a nice song, not necessarily one I would come back to.

For some reason this John Maus video has a link to Gareth Bale's Champions League hat-trick in the Related Videos. I have no idea why but I approve.

this is one of the worst songs on that album...

I didn't like Grove St. Party when I first heard it, but it's growing on me a bit tbh; Lex's line about ecstasy rap may have been an 'in' for me...

Actually never realised before that Hey Moon is a cover

The record isn't lo-fi but the cheapness of the drum machine sounds certainly give it that appeal. Song's nice enough but it's sort of drifting past me as well, as the album did in general when I listened to it.

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

― emil.y, martes 24 de enero de 2012 08:40 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

― Angrrau Birds (seandalai)

Hahaha I had the exact same experience... I wrote off John Maus and reconsidered him after hearing emily play 'hey moon' in the outloud room. Tried to get into the album but couldn't quite get it... ended up voting Hey Moon either way.

google sez Molly Nilsson does the original "Hey Moon". Is she like Harry's daughter or something?

Excessive reverb is a good trick to hide defects.

The conjunction of insomnia, outloud, and John Maus = the stars align!

yeah I p much agree with emil.y completely re: Hey Moon; it's an echoey delight. My #5.

(John Maus was the third instance of my traxx and albums ballot intersecting; fourth one is not going to show up--it was Brute Heart)