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

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

well I mean we still have the top 40

I am still hoping for strong Schoolby Q/Kendrick Lamar presence

also lol Jay-Z/Kanye

True, just a random observation. I really haven't heard many of these tracks. My scope was really narrow in '11, this is helping to round it out a little.

not to mention Kreayspawn xp

Just getting home, and I just gotta say, there's a lot to like on this list.

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.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:45 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

r u serious

Yeah but I have zero interest in arguing with you so just pretend I'm not.

w/e enjoy being rong

Love how many of these are outside the P&J top 200 or DNP. By this stage I've gone through so many EOY lists that even the records I love end up evoking an "Oh you again" response and I feel like I've caught up on everything. Then every year the ILX poll rolls out and I have no idea what most of the tracks are and standard critics' favourites are bobbing around amid a bunch of dance tunes and it feels like even after listening to so many records on so many lists there was a whole other 2011 happening, and one that it turns out I love. So that's good.

Don't know if it's been suggested yet, but how about a general all-encompassing rolling thread where people post up key things they or other people have been digging on the other threads? A kind of music "excelsiorism".

For instance, I wanted to start a thread about the Weekend Nachos I just listened to spellbound after reading about it on the metal countdown. I'm not into metalcore in any big way at all, but I'm sure there are loads of other cool things on that thread. Still, I'd also like to talk about it outside of the metal thread realm.

Thoughts on this?

AFAIK there is no reason not to just start threads about the stuff you want to talk about, under whatever format you think would be interesting

like, if you want to so a "random musical evangelism 2012" thread, go for it

if you want to start a thread about Weekend Nachos*, go for it

* I now can't get the phrase "I WANT WEEKEND NACHOS, NOT WEEKDAY NACHOS" out of my head

There was this:
Rolling dilettante convocation 2011

(dancing bear in this video FTW!)

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:31 AM (2 hours ago)

lmao for a second i thought you were referring to the very NSFW 1st google result for "dancing bear"

Yeah, I was gonna mention the dilettante convocation, but it never got that much interest. Personally I liked it, would be good if people wanted to do more of that thing.

Just a wild guess here, but maybe the name was slightly off-putting?

How about "The generalists's circle jerk"?

NB. "Taking Over The Dancefloor" is not too slow, it's (relative) slowness is the entire point! This is what makes dancing to moombahton so fun, especially in public settings with really hot people.

its >_<

A rolling thread about everything would be pretty difficult to keep up with. What'a wrong with just starting a thread about an amazing song?

^^^ some of my favourite threads

So far I'm 1/25 and I have a feeling the 13 dance tracks I voted for got shut out altogether. :(

on the plus side, will be very interested to see yr ballot, Rev

i'm glad i voted this year because i really regretted seeing the results play out last year w/o having a say in them

i'm a little miffed the nominations happened on the sandbox instead of waiting till real ilx was back, but i guess that's my own fault

we should do a "2011 tracks you loved but weren't on the ballot" thread

ROLLOLOLOLOOO: A Rolling Thread for Posting And Discussing Key Tracks + Bits from the other Rolling Threads

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)

love this opening 1-2-3 punch

"in a hole" and "your everything" are the best discoveries for me thus far

john maus though smh

So far I'm 1/25 and I have a feeling the 13 dance tracks I voted for got shut out altogether. :(

― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I'm at 0/25 and I know 22 (and prob 23) of the 24 dance tracks i voted for will get shut out!

:(

im confident everything i voted for will make it

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

― SOPA/PILLA (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:22 PM Bookmark

You're forgetting "A$$" tho. And to be fair, the version of "Nobody" that leaked last year didn't even have Quik's verse.

im not sure ringtone cru really rallied around anything this year

of today's tracks, i voted for 'romance' and 'hey moon.' i didn't discover 'hey moon' until i was going through the spotify tracks playlist and at first i thought it was kind of dirge-y and blah. but when it was over i wanted to hear it again and it ended up growing on me quickly.

really happy to see '1 + 1' place even though i didn't vote for it. i love the production on the studio version, but i think i might prefer the live dressing room version someone posted in the album thread. also happy to see katy b even though this wasn't the single i voted for.

Yeah true xp and xxp.

I didn't really carry the goon flag at all this year. Even the rap I voted for was like Trina and Ying Yang Twinz. I ended up having to cut Trouble and Cousin Fik at the last moment. :(

Lots here to fritter away the last of my monthly Spotify minutes on (yeah, YouTube - but the sound's always inferior there, isn't it?). Maus track is pretty and reminds me a little of a smearier Mag Fields circa House of Tomorrow.

Invisible Conga People, Danny Daze, Talabot/Glasser all good, second GGD track a pleasant surprise; Bush and Battles standouts but I knew I already liked those (I'm very out of touch).

I love that Invisible Conga People track so much.

think the most depressing thing now is the impending inescapable odd future invasion of the top 40

i'm 9/37

think the most depressing thing now is the impending inescapable odd future invasion of the top 40

― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait what

"yonkers" and "novacane" MIGHT be in the top 40, but that's hardly an invasion

the full length version of the nadia oh track is great, such a weird combination of chintzy and epic. tim f otm about the slowness being totally key.

otm, they had nothing else of note. xp

I didn't vote, but of things that placed I would've voted for:

65 - JOHN TALABOT ft. GLASSER "Families" (204 Points, 7 Votes)
51 - KONSHENS "Nuh Pull It Up" (230 Points, 6 Votes)
47 - KATY B "Easy Please Me" (244 Points, 9 Votes)
41 - THE RAPTURE "How Deep Is Your Love?" (257 Points, 11 Votes)

i'm doing p good this year i voted for invisible conga people, the two john talabot tracks, the nina sky and the benoit and sergio one

everything i didn't vote for is super terrible

so upthread I said "lol Kanye/Jay-Z" and then went back and spent the rest of the day listening to Watch The Throne, which is maybe the most overtly political album I bought all last year and really, really, really fucking excellent

love "Banana Ripple". It was my #2. It just really hit me at some point in the late summer.

really hoping that Seany Mac - One Of Those Days features

I bet it will