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

emil.y - that video was gonzo, but the sonics were super sugary and squeaky clean.

http://i.imgur.com/MrT8V.jpg

37 - WILCO "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" (265 Points, 7 Votes)
P&J - 63
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/-XR3VAlnrP8

I really loathe that Gotye/Kimbra song. She's a pox on New Zealand music, ugh, and this spend far too long at #1. emil.y OTM.

2NE1 is great - I've dipped into the kpop threads but hadn't chanced upon this.

Gotye reminds me of dEUS a little bit actually...

Yeah I got that feeling too. Some of it sounds like a boringified "Serpentine".

and it all comes crashing down

Again - Wilco are still putting out records? Hm.

38 and 37 - two very different stills.

that's some juxtaposition

xposts Yep, definitely like a smoothed out version of something off In A Bar Under The Sea.

'Polite' in J-Pop more often than not is synonymous with 'completely fucking insane'.

The visuals may be crazy but the song is pretty reserved/restrained; I do not get insane unless I actually watch the video.

or in other words, EZ OTM

a wilco song that didn't even place in p4k. siiiigh ilm

loving the countdown. sitting in a boring meeting at work with Itentalo going round my head - my favourite do far.

lol I know I've heard Wilco before but they apparently made absolutely no impression on me because I'm surprised this song sounds like this

I am also 100% certain that within 15 seconds of finishing this song I won't remember how it goes

The Wilco is a fine shuffle (something I like in general) but damn, it never ends!

xxxxxxp There are no standard k-pop or j-pop sounds anymore but generalizing you could say that k-pop is about hip-hop meeting club music and j-pop about rock meeting bubble pop. Maybe. I made that up now, though. Doesn't really account for Nakata's j-contributions. I think both can get "insane" sonically but in different ways. PonPonPon is clearly amazing.

lol @ the guy second from the left

Also, I prefer J-Pop, but that's because J-Pop sounds like J-Pop, whereas K-Pop sounds like UK/US pop but in a foreign language.

Yeah, almost all of the K-pop I've heard just sounds like UK/US pop I don't like to begin with. I haven't heard a ton of it, but absolutely none of it has hooked me in, so I am not inspired to dig into it.

do we have a thread for old rock guys with that haircut?

Yeah, it would be a great little shuffle track at 3 mins. At 12, it's fucking with me.

Wilco - yawwwwwwwwwwwwn

Re: something like Ponponpon, yeah, perhaps it isn't the best example of complete nuts J-Pop sonically, though I think it does still stand with my point that J-Pop is much more culturally different to Western pop than K-Pop is. Perfume and Capsule are *relatively* Westernised, but a) they're fairly recent concerns, J-Pop has been a thing for a very long time, and b) they're hella mainstream.

cad -

Show me men who look like lesbians!

i'm not particularly "into" k-pop, i hear a handleful of the bigger tracks of the year, but come the fuck on, "i am the best" is ridiculously good

congratulations LJ! re: Wilco

sorry, OLD lesbians. Damnit.

http://oldrockdudeswithmegryanhair.tumblr.com/

i rly like that gotye song actually, nice to see it place.

lol yeah actually it would be a good use of that thread

Wilco are pretty boring, aren't they?

That said I haven't heard the new album, maybe they've gone speed-ragga or something?

yessss jf thanking u

it's kind of hilarious that right when I was submitting the post about how the J-Pop video may look insane but sounds totally normal, I flipped back to the video in time to catch the appearance of floating skulls singing along with her

When I think "mental J-Pop", I think of Tomoe Shinohara (which probably tells you when the last time I paid attention to J-Pop was)

also jesus fuck how long is the fucking Wilco song

seriously, I think Wilco is a bit old-hat for p4k to be even paying homage for him, but LJ made kind of a deal about this song in the rolling dilettante convocation thread a few months back

I didnt end up voting for it, but I'm glad other ppl did. And I am roffling at it being juxtaposed with 2NE1 (which is great obv)

i didn't know wilco had any music out this yr lol

Probably the best thing resulting from the Gotye/Kimbra was this PNC track, which samples/screws'n'chops the chorus:
http://soundcloud.com/pnc-1/pnc-stranger-pt-1-2

Tomoe Shinohara

YESSSSSSS

you are doing something SERIOUSLY wrong when you are making me pine for Death Cab For Cutie

Wait - LJ is back? I am so out of the loop. Figured he was still wandering the globe.

Prefer 2NE1 to Wilco.

hurray for Wilco. didn't vote for it though. still zero tracks placed :(

I'm enjoying today's results more than yesterday's so far.

today's been a real mixed bag
in all senses

HOW CAN THERE BE THREE MINUTES LEFT OF THIS FUCKING THING

how much worse would the gotye song be w/o kimbra's part? like, the character that the first verse paints is not one that i want to sympathize with so it's nice when her part starts and i can go "phew they're not expecting me to sympathize w/ him, thank goodness"

oh yeah the fact that it's a duet is one of the major reasons it's good

Wilco >>> Gotye imo (not exactly controversial seeing as it ended up two places higher but still)

the lengths of the 2ne1 and wilco songs should really have swapped

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

36 - PITBULL ft. NE-YO, AFROJACK & NAYER "Give Me Everything" (268 Points, 8 Votes)
P&J - 68
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/EPo5wWmKEaI

sorry y'all, but pitbull is disgusting.

yes! had a feeling this would have a strong showing

"yes" meaning hooray that this placed, not that pitbull is disgusting

well he is appealingly disgusting maybe