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

only good guitar record this year tbh

Thought the dude on the far right in the Fucked Up photo was Dr3w D.

Not sure if it's due to being in the context of some really trying tracks on this list but Friday sounds better now than when it came out.

Yay, great song.

I voted for this - my number 5. Take or leave the overlong album, but this is pure pop-punk fun! Supremely catchy, but matey's vocals give it the edge and then her singing comes in and it's a Bangles song. Insane! <3 Def one of the best songs of the year.

it is really a shame about this vocalist

today's been wonderfully diverse with each new entry :)

Dunno, sometimes just shouting really loudly is enough.

i got 25 seconds into "fucked up" what is that voice i cannot even

back to "friday" :)

okay the female singer should be singing this entire song

lex posts very much in character

The songs Fucked Up write are great, but can't get past that dude bellowing.

lex, skip to 1:55

you guys are pussies. what is wrong with the vocalist??

Fucked Up sounds like Thin Lizzy, or is that just me?

only good guitar record this year tbh

No fucking way. Though most of the 'guitar records' in this list are pretty pants.

Take or leave the overlong album

Yeah, the album felt kind of oppressively wearying to me, but I like individual tracks. Prefer "Under My Nose" and "The Other Shoe," but "Queen of Hearts" is fine.

Oh posted twice sorry

This is alright, think I preferred the Yuck song though.

you guys are pussies. what is wrong with the vocalist??

he sucks?

I can totally deal with Damian's vocals in short bursts, but whole Fucked Up albums are too much for me.

fucked up is cool i voted for the album not the trax though

Up to this last point, today has been like reading the Bristol stool chart tbh

sometimes you just wanna hear a guy screaming his head off for 90 mins...

I did my time with hardcore and can't say I want to go back there, even for good tunes.

some people on this board are so bloody anti-rock they come out the other side. what is wrong with the vocals? for the style of music they don't suck at all.

Fucked Up turning dog latin into a tough guy.

Yeah, I kind of like this Fucked Up song. I don't think the sweet female vox would work so well if not paired with shouty shouty male ones, though. Don't think he sucks at all, his vocals are very much aligned with a tradition here. If you don't like that style, then you don't like it, but it doesn't "suck".

also re: "only good guitar record this year" - maybe it would help if you listened to some guitar records, eh?

No fucking way. Though most of the 'guitar records' in this list are pretty pants.

― emil.y, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:58 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^OTMFM emil.y

also: Yuck is by far my new least favorite band

Great. I know where to go next time I need to hear a frog croak "I couldn’t take the pains of the underclass, trying to smile through gritted teeth."

ah yes if you start at 1:55 it is better, though not "good" because the backing is still like blink 182

OH GOD HE STARTED SHOUTING AGAIN SHUT THE FUCK UP AARGH OFF OFF GET OFF MY STEREO

Claiming Damian's vocals suck is pretty much besides the point.

I think screaming works in the following circumstances:

- with really aggressive music
- in short bursts as punctuation/interjection
- when directly juxtaposed with another, more conventional vocalist

two minutes of this dude screaming, and not even actually screaming all that forcefully, over a song that doesn't really support it until the female vocal comes in is not my thing at all

(please note: by "direct juxtaposition" in that previous post I mean "one on top of the other")

It sounds nothing like Blink 182 ffs lex. Its just as dismissive of you to say shit like that as it would be for someone to claim that all house beats sound alike.

i like this track! though the guy's vocals were a bit of a shock at first

i agree with everybody

I think he bellows rather well. Just not my cup of tea anymore.

It's actually like Andrew WK rather than Blink 182 but that's hardl going to convince Lex.

Seriously, if the vocals are the dealbreaker for many of you, try the second youtube linked up there. It's got kids!

On second listen I do actually f/w this. Probably would have been obsessed with it when I was 15.

I did my time with hardcore and can't say I want to go back there, even for good tunes.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:00 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No I don't want to act like a big h/c stan, I don't really rep for the genre (even though I was bigging up Weekend Nachos on that other thread) - but take out the vocals and Queen Of Hearts is a proper pop song. It's the vocals that trick you into thinking it's this big hoary angry track, but it's a love song essentially, and a sweet one at that.

The female vocals in the song are done by the girl from Cults, right?

Tbh, I'm not much of a fan of hardcore-style singing -- I like Fucked Up mostly for the melodic intertwining guitars.

I mean, despite my rep it's not like I am averse to songs with people screaming on them; this is one of my favorite songs of all time.

(although note that he's actually screaming on notes)

It's actually like Andrew WK rather than Blink 182 but that's hardl going to convince Lex.

aghhhh i hate andrew wk so much

lol @ all reactions to this track

Couldn't make out a word, but from transcribed lyrics, I kinda wonder if Fucked Up is going to follow the Crass path or the Chumbawamba path...