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

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

really hoping that Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song features

yeah love that, such a jam

im not sure ringtone cru really rallied around anything this year

― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 23:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have a feeling that goons will have quite an influence on the album list more. hiphop was more about really good mixtapes in 2011 and no real singles to pick from them imo. Like it would be easier just picking Return of 4EVA than just 1 KRIT song? I dunno.

i love that rapture single.

also anyone wanna give me the scoop on CREEP and John Maus?

more thoughts:

69 - INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE "In a Hole" (190 Points, 8 Votes)
I think these slowed-down male vox are my least favorite trend in dance music. Otherwise this sounds great sonically, but they really need to pick up the pace.

68 - BARBARA PANTHER "Moonlightpeople" (192 Points, 6 Votes)
I like the sound of this record too, but the vocals are a mess.

67 - 3BALLMTY ft. EL BEBETO & AMÉRICA SIERRA "Inténtalo" (200 Points, 7 Votes)
Oh damn, why had I not heard this before? Total jam. I need to hear more tribal guarachero for sure. Definitely my favorite new discovery so far.

66 - TUCCILLO "Disco en Paradiso" (200 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
Kosmische! This gets better the more synths come in. Cool track.

65 - JOHN TALABOT ft. GLASSER "Families" (204 Points, 7 Votes)
This is alright. I like the sunny sound and the vocals. Again, I wish it was a bit faster though.

64 - DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY ft. SKYLAR GREY "Coming Home" (208 Points, 6 Votes)
This should by all means be just as cheesy and bad as everything else Alex da Kid and Skylar Grey have ever touched, but wins on strong writing and pure honest emotion, which I love even more given Diddy's rep for cynicism. It might be Diddy's greatest vocal performance. I probably would have voted for it if I didn't think of it as a 2010 song.

63 - STEFFI ft. VIRGINIA "Yours" (208 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
Oh! Nice, nice nice. I love this. This is making me dance. Restrained, but syncopated in the exact right way and always feels just on the edge of going mental. My other favorite new discovery other than 3ball MTY.

62 - LOCUSSOLUS "I Want It (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)" (212 Points, 7 Votes)
Damn, while I love Lindstrom, I'm not quite his most obsessive fanboy on ILX and this somehow passed me by. Such goofy fun. I love the horns, piano, and the chord changes in the bridge. Another keeper. The autotuned vocal sounds way out of place though.

61 - ST. VINCENT "Surgeon" (214 Points, 6 Votes)
This is nice. I expected it to totally not be my thing. I like the slurry synth-strings, the busy (keyboard? guitar?) during the chorus, the sudden bursts of repitition. Oh and this keeps getting better! That Bernie Worrell synth-bass, the screeching lead synth! Oh, this is good.

CREEP f/ Nina Sky = dark, depressing witchhaus with intimate r&b vocals. made my longlist

johnmau5 = joy division-y synthpop iirc?

really the best thing about 'hey moon' was that it prompted me to read that "john maus is a a worthless idiot" thread and therefore exposed me to his classic anthem 'rights for gays.'

Hey Moon is really good, but I think I voted for Believer. I think HM must be a duet with the girl who originally did it. Or maybe he's just singing over her version? They sound practically identical.

Katy B - I had to vote for a track off this album and I realised I'd be kidding myself if it wasn't this one. Maybe not the danciest thing on the LP but the production, the lyrics, the all-round charm of this is what sells it.

Lots of neat bobbins tunes I hadn't heard before. The Tucillo is just one of these great little grooves that turns into this incredibly catchy tune that could have been bobbing around in my mind since birth for all I know.

Walk & Talk I also voted for. I'd become fascinated by the morbidity of house tracks like Art Department's 'Without You' and then I heard this on the Wolf + Lamb / Soul Clap mix (have to thank Tim F for pointing this one out). "My baby does K all daaaayyyy" - what a horrible, depressing thing to play to people who are dancing in a club - but maybe not? There's a bittersweet poignancy to lyrics like this, and the message changes with set and setting. I can imagine people dancing to this in a club and adopting it as a subversive anthem. And then the production - it's so hazy and tracery - it's almost as though you're being placed in the k-hole state - blissful and anxious.

I didn't vote

― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:54 PM Bookmark

lol a torpedo to 75% of my ballot

Agree with everything the Rev said about Locossolus.

The Tune-Yards track is brilliant - forget about the vocals, there's some great musicianship/song-structuring going on here.

battles have some great moments but make really horrible ~songs~ imo, ice cream being a case in point. benoit & sergio, danny daze, john maus, quik all great, don't think any were in my ramshackle ballot though. really adore walk & talk's warm narcotic sadness, should have been right up there. frank ocean also has a sort of soft conversational quality which i find v appealing, really played the tape to death in spring.