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

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

"Stupid people," eh?

Yes.

Oh man, just when I thought things were slowing down itt.

I wouldn't say the author of that quote is always on the mark, but I wouldn't call him stupid.

I have absolutely no qualms in saying that someone who didn't understand the lines "She said, 'Ye, can we get married at the mall?'/I said 'Look, you need to crawl before you ball'" is not really spending any time thinking.

I don't think that was one of Nitsuh's more thought out pieces, but I think those round tables do none of the writers any favors whatsoever.

Like I said, it's really fucking easy to make Kanye look terrible given the amount of ammunition he freely hands people (note me not saying a word about the bathroom stall line, for example). It's always going to be a better critique if you understand the thing you're criticizing and, based on that paragraph, I have absolutely zero confidence that the person writing that article actually spent any time trying to understand what is going on in the song.

xp: ha that was nabisco? That is incredibly shoddy of him!

http://i.imgur.com/tXkb8.jpg

34 - REBECCA BLACK "Friday" (274 Points, 12 Votes)
P&J - 51
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0

TOO LOW

what's wrong with you people?

Don't answer that.

THANK YOU JOHNNY FEVER FOR SAVING US

No

(insert any random lex reaction to a boring indie song here)

Ick

hahahahahahahahahaha

FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN

i never listened to this outside of the appropriate meme time limits when it was a thing but i am very glad to see it represented

lol no? xxxxp

Voted 'Friday'. Not particularly high on my ballot, but a worthy song to place. It's no Nyan Cat, though.

it was definitely one of the most FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN threads on ilx last year

It's not a stretch to me to think that "crawl before you ball" is kind of demeaning in context and not the innocent analogue to "walk before you run" that DJP suggests, even if you don't think Kanye literally wants the girl to get down on her knees and crawl. In other words, I read Nitsuh's "prostrate" as being just as metaphorical as "crawl" is.

many xps

am glad that Nyan Cat placed higher than Friday

This is pretty amazing, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1D9t8n0qA