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

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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:

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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)

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41 - THE RAPTURE "How Deep Is Your Love?" (257 Points, 11 Votes)
P&J - 34
Pitchfork - 27

http://youtu.be/jTIKffFPFv0

voted for this one.... won my award for the biggest gap in quality between an album as a whole and its best song.

For the record, the Spotify playlist is now collaborative - I'm traveling the rest of the week so others can feel free to add to it during the rest of the countdown.

lol this is like the one instance where the singer becoming more refined/restrained has negatively impacted my appreciation of a band

I miss his Robert Smithism ;_;

I had no idea people cared that much about that one. Yeah, he should definitely yelp more and sing less. Whole album needed more groove, less 'proper' songwriting.

true, but the badass sax soloing makes up for it. xp

What DJP said.

OTOH, I'm amazed he managed to interpolate "Thong Song" into this.

haha

okay I may now have an avenue into really enjoying this song

Okay, 'Thong Song' break is hilarious.

Let me seeee that thong th thong th thong

lol that has inflated my opinion of this a little

btw I can't seem to add anything to the playlist?

How Deep is Your Thong?

did not notice the "thong song" thing until now and omg suddenly this is the song of 2011

Will pick things up tomorrow with 40-21 ~

77 - SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE "Love You Like a Love Song" (182 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
76 - GANG GANG DANCE "Glass Jar" (182 Points, 8 Votes)
75 - PISTOL ANNIES "Hell on Heels" (183 Points, 7 Votes)
74 - tUnE-yArDs "Bizness" (184 Points, 6 Votes)
73 - MOGWAI "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)" (189 Points, 5 Votes)
72 - THE JOY FORMIDABLE "Whirring" (189 Points, 8 Votes)
TIE-70 - JUNIOR BOYS "Banana Ripple" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
TIE-70 - BIG SEAN ft. NICKI MINAJ "Dance (A$$) Remix" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
69 - INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE "In a Hole" (190 Points, 8 Votes)
68 - BARBARA PANTHER "Moonlightpeople" (192 Points, 6 Votes)
67 - 3BALLMTY ft. EL BEBETO & AMÉRICA SIERRA "Inténtalo" (200 Points, 7 Votes)
66 - TUCCILLO "Disco en Paradiso" (200 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
65 - JOHN TALABOT ft. GLASSER "Families" (204 Points, 7 Votes)
64 - DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY ft. SKYLAR GREY "Coming Home" (208 Points, 6 Votes)
63 - STEFFI ft. VIRGINIA "Yours" (208 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
62 - LOCUSSOLUS "I Want It (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)" (212 Points, 7 Votes)
61 - ST. VINCENT "Surgeon" (214 Points, 6 Votes)

60 - DJ QUIK ft. SUGA FREE & TY$ "Nobody" (214 Points, 7 Votes)
59 - YUCK "Get Away" (218 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
58 - THE GO! TEAM ft. BETHANY COSENTINO "Buy Nothing Day" (219 Points, 9 Votes)
57 - BATTLES ft. MATIAS AGUAYO "Ice Cream" (222 Points, 7 Votes)
56 - WILD FLAG "Romance" (223 Points, 8 Votes)
55 - GANG GANG DANCE "Mindkilla" (226 Points, 9 Votes)
54 - DANNY DAZE ft. LOUISAHHH!!! "Your Everything" (228 Points, 8 Votes)
53 - KATE BUSH "Snowflake" (229 Points, 8 Votes)
52 - BEYONCÉ "1+1" (229 Points, 9 Votes)
51 - KONSHENS "Nuh Pull It Up" (230 Points, 6 Votes)
50 - CONFOUNDED "Little Dog" (235 Points, 7 Votes, 3 First-Place Votes)
49 - FRANK OCEAN "Swim Good" (240 Points, 9 Votes)
48 - TEENGIRL FANTASY "Cheaters (John Talabot Remix)" (243 Points, 11 Votes)
47 - KATY B "Easy Please Me" (244 Points, 9 Votes)
46 - CREEP ft. NINA SKY "You" (245 Points, 10 Votes)
45 - BENOIT & SERGIO "Walk and Talk" (246 Points, 9 Points)
44 - WAKA FLOCKA FLAME ft. KEBO GOTTI "Grove Street Party" (248 Points, 10 Votes)
43 - NADIA OH "Taking Over the Dancefloor" (255 Points, 9 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
42 - JOHN MAUS "Hey Moon" (257 Points, 8 Votes)
41 - THE RAPTURE "How Deep Is Your Love?" (257 Points, 11 Votes)

good run today yo

let me go on to say that I think we shd do the slowroll if for nothing else bcz JF has said thatll make it easier on him to get his awesome pictures done.

thanks Johnny F; you da man!

John Maus, he made it! <3 <3 <3

thanks jf this has been great!

my favs today were kate bush and teengirl fantasy

The only placing rap tracks on here came out in 2010.

well I mean we still have the top 40