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

Save us Johnny Fever!

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

35 - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST "Niggas in Paris" (268 Points, 8 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - 5
Pitchfork - 12

http://youtu.be/FfM_wS7qYfY

Again, save us Johnny Fever!

lol

i dont think i know how to excelsior that!

haha

as of yesterday I completely fell in love with N****s in Paris after several months of bewildered antipathy

This list cray.

Actually, haven't heard a note from KanJay so I don't know yet if I need saving.

i like the beat on this one a lot

oh c'mon even i like this and i think WTT is otherwise a total dud, beat is amazing. you really need the remix with t.i. though http://youtu.be/2vIGazA67rU

i do wish kanye could be removed from it, he needs to stop braying like an actual donkey. HUHHHHHHHHH

Watch The Throne is really good imo, and this song more than others. You should dig into it EZ.

tip's verse <3 tip's horrible french accent <3

really don't get this song.

an acceptable place for that song, much more so than it's p&j and pfork placings

i get why it's huge but kanye is just utterly unforgivable

jay's verse is pretty hype tho

listening now. Good so far.

I realized yesterday that I fucking LOVE Watch The Throne. I thought I just liked it but I dunno, I really started paying closer attention to it yesterday and it's fucking massive mixed in with some of the most positive/aspirational lyrics I've heard in a while.

The Wilcos of hiphop...

i don't know how kanye didn't get kicked out of the studio 15 seconds into recording his verse tbh

putting it down as one of those rap tracks u gotta hear on the radio all the time to get into

N***as is alright; I actually prefer Pitbull

nb pitbull's "latinos in paris" is a thing that exists: http://youtu.be/O_xnW1p-9fU

The beat is making this for me. Nice.

bangs. loses points for kanye's 'contribution'. jay goes hard.

yeah Jay is IMO consistently amazing on this album

jay and kanye track surprisingly alright!

okay wait the left turn the song takes in the last min with the piano was a nice surprise tbh

lesson: listen to entire songs before posting

This one should be #35 - #25 to pay homage to the fact that you can't play it just once

This and Lift Off are the only songs I really loved from Watch The Throne. I didn't think it was a bad album just a bit forgettable, probably need to give it another play.

Best thing I've heard from either of them in a long time. Guess I should give the album a go.

yeah Jay is IMO consistently amazing on this album

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:45 AM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i realized this like two months in but the album would've been legit great if it was a jay solo album -- it would've been way, way better than what they ended up putting out and way, way better than anything jay's put out since the black album

Best thing I've heard from either of them in a long time. Guess I should give the album a go.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:47 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well let's not get carried away here

(actually, surprisingly enough, I kinda want to listen to it again)

I'm not a big fan of either so color me impressed.

i realized this like two months in but the album would've been legit great if it was a jay solo album -- it would've been way, way better than what they ended up putting out and way, way better than anything jay's put out since the black album

I think my epiphany began when someone (on the sandbox maybe?) was talking about the dubstep track and I was all "what, I don't remember that" and when I played it I was like "holy shit Jay-Z is losing his fucking mind on this, why did I not notice this before"

Then yesterday I started playing the album in the afternoon and then listened to it on repeat for the rest of the evening

i'll have to try it again; i think i was just so sick of kanye when it came out.

Taking a break from the results for a bit...be back with #34 within the hour.

which one is "the dubstep track?"

"Who Gon Stop Me"

this has been fun today

Viral cover of the Gotye song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

Surprised that this placed so low, seems everyone I know likes this track.

just struck me that When Saints Go Machine isn't very likely to place now ;_;

i'm sure there'll still be a few 'surprises' :)

I voted WSGM in albums, but not tracks.

lex otm re: "Give Me Everything"; was hoping this would place a lot higher. Oversaturation at parties/dairies/passing cars/etc really helped out my love for "Give Me Everything" and "Party Rock Anthem" - both fantastically ravey with a much larger bag of tricks than each needed.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxkfqmFQFw1qzfktho1_500.jpg

(Couldn't resist)

I have to step back and agree with Ann about something, or one thing among many: that Kanye line from “Niggas in Paris”? The one where someone needs to prostrate herself (and run to the bathroom stall) to prove she’s worth West’s attention? The one that makes his sex life sound like it operates on the same basic principles as Fear Factor? Yes, that’s been bugging me for months now, too. (Something about hearing the song performed three times in a row at Madison Square Garden made matters worse.) Last time I complained about it, strangers accused me of being no fun, or a prude, but I think I might even have objections to it beyond the obvious moral ones. Like Jody mentioned, the really intriguing parts of Watch the Throne were the ones that found Jay-Z and Kanye ruminating on their own success and how it fits into bigger pictures, like the post-Civil Rights trajectory of black America or the culture of the wealthy. And on a record where these guys are occasionally thinking hard about wealth and power and what they mean, Kanye keeps lagging; with That Line, he comes up with the fairly boring answer that, hey, one thing you can do with money is exploit people.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_music_club/features/2011/music_club_2011/best_music_2011_how_about_a_bechdel_test_for_albums_by_male_rappers_.html

readings based on fundamentally misunderstanding someone's lyrics: C/D?

just struck me that When Saints Go Machine isn't very likely to place now ;_;

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:02 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's an album album - no one song really edges over the rest (well, okay Church & Law and Kelly are both amaze, but it's best heard from beginning to end).

(the "crawl before you ball" line is not about literally prostrating before Kanye, it is a rhymed working of "walk before you run"; not understanding that makes the foundation of that entire paragraph untenable)

in summation: there is enough evidence to paint Kanye as a sexist that stupid people don't have to invent shit