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

and goon influence finally gets the chance to reassert itself xp

lol, Drugs, I was being flippant.

dan that's a reasonable definition of a melodic hardcore record actually

ooh i was about to complain that i'm still 1 for 25 but now it's 2

Zzz...

This Big K.R.I.T. song is not my thing at all, really. It's basically like G-Funk and Three Six Mafia had an enervated baby.

T/S: hating indie artists for exploitative videos ("Yuck") vs. hating rappers for same.

that's a long 4 minutes and change. Like Wilco long.

yessss i love "money on the floor", think i voted for it - the beat is so gorgeous, the way all the different elements intertwine with each other - so incredibly detailed and evocative. actually obsessed with the high synth behind the chorus, such an amazing contrast to the screwed voice, and then when the key changes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

for some reason i never really care about big krit over a whole mixtape but he's made two of my favourite hip-hop songs in recent years - "country shit" and this

wow this is nice. i need to keep up with more rap so i don't miss stuff like this

drop my cup and i DIP DIP DIP IT

>>please let electrik red quote that line at some point

just catching up = seany mac, "friday", "full attention" = <333

couldn't get into that fucked up album but 'queen of hearts' isn't bad

As it went on, I felt more and more like "Money on the Floor" was a pandering checklist put together by someone while pausing and rewinding "Hustle and Flow"

SO SO HAPPY that Full Attention placed, especially glad that I went back and added them to my ballot after initially forgetting. It's so big and expansive and punchy and expensive sounding compared to a lot of other tracks in this vein.

Also the discovery that bass wobbles sound 1,000 times better when you hit drums in time with them is something that every jobbing dubstep producer in the world should note immediately.

And the vocals, god the vocals. Amazing tune.

Haven't heard the others, something to catch up with on my commute anyway.

lol Sanpaku idk; I dont have a Youtube account so they wouldn't let me watch the Big Krit video

backing up even further: i remember the week of "friday" being huge as just being a deeply strange week because on the one hand the whole internet imploding because of that one song was deeply hilarious and awesome and otoh that was also around the same time of the fukushima disaster/tsunami/earthquake so i was also filled with this sort of existential dread that whole time

Yuck's videos have a real unpleasant subtext to them though which makes my skin crawl and my brow darken tho; have no idea if the KRIT one does or not

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backing up even further: i remember the week of "friday" being huge as just being a deeply strange week because on the one hand the whole internet imploding because of that one song was deeply hilarious and awesome and otoh that was also around the same time of the fukushima disaster/tsunami/earthquake so i was also filled with this sort of existential dread that whole time

^otm

like THE INTERNET IS AMAZING AND ALSO WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN

full attention - awesome
seany mac - decent
big krit - i like this well enough though there's gotta be some state of the industry type commentary if it's a notable track. i will just play g-side some more for my part.

KRIT was a cool song I thought

Yuck's videos have a real unpleasant subtext to them though which makes my skin crawl and my brow darken tho; have no idea if the KRIT one does or not

The KRIT one has a real unpleasant overtone. (NB: I hate Yuck so much I refuse to watch their video. I don't think I could hate them much more but I don't fancy finding out.)

Almost voted for KRIT's Dreamin' but ended up just going for the mixtape in the albums poll. Money On The Floor's nothing special.

emil.y - you would hate them more. Much more.

Is it 'woman from Ringo Deathstarr x 1000'?

@ Drugs A Money: It's not exceptionally exploitative (for the genre). Just a lot of erotic dancers at a strip club with peeled down bottoms parading behind the rappers, and bending over to pick up piles of one dollar bills.

Vs. double exposures of dog groomers expressing anal glands and pinching their breasts.

Hard call.

i listened to the Yuck track last night and enjoyed it

the video is dumb though yeah

xp see I figured it was straightforward strip club shenanigans. The whole tossing huge wads of one-dollar bills is always a lot weirder to see in person than it is to watch in a music video

(I fucked that 2nd sentence up)

emil.y - can't comment on Ringo Deathstarr as I've never seen any videos.

friday? you people are savages!

not really a fucked up fan though i don't mind those type of vox (not entirely dissimilar from mclusky, hot snakes, future of the left)

the wilco song is pretty solid but then again they're a pretty solid band w/occasional flashes of excellence.

favorite track thus far out of what i've heard is probably kate bush (will have to catch up w/others.)

the Ringo Deathstarr chick has topless photos of her wearing nothing but suspenders from the waist up and eating a sandwich

Yuck videos are worse

@ EZ: the RD guitarist/singer is a bit exhibitionist in self-directed videos as well as a fashion/interview photoshoot.

RD guitarist/singer has a page on ModelMayhem though I dont remember her name

Thanks for the crash course. I heard a song of theirs once, thought it was cut-rate second-hand shoegaze and never gave them a second look.

I think self-exploitation is very different than the Yuck thing.

lol i keep thinking of ruff diamondz when i see rd

Was the Yuck video that bad? I think I must have been doing something else instead of watching, cause I don't really remember it.

naked hitchhiker, band looking bored, naked girl looking bored. i liked the song tho.

they also cover her in a gooey substance

I like RD, but never knew anything about her exhibitionism (should see videos at some point, I guess).

I missed the anal glands thankfully, but covering a naked girl with yellow cooking oil that looks kind of like urine is pretty bad imo.

it was more just out of the song's character but what i'm realizing is that since music videos are only viewed on the internet every band is like "may as well throw some tits in there"

anal gland thing is their other video.

Haven't seen it. Thanks for the warning.

i thought the hitchhiker's hands being tied behind her back whilst being baptized in cooking oil was kinda key

good general policy with their videos, it seems.

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Many many xps: jaymc nails it re: that Wilco song. I like it for exactly the same reason I like long, gorgeous, repetitive dance tracks. The length is the point: at four minutes it would be just a pretty little tune. This way it's hypnotic.

Fucked Up are so plainly a brilliant thing that I deeply regret my instinctive dislike of the hardcore bark.

Remember the abuse Roger Waters got for his Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking album cover? Yuck's video more or less that, plus nonchalance on the part of the band. Their other video for Rubber, is a good deal more upset worthy.

Not trying to derail, just bemused by the indie/rap double standard wrt exploitation.

It's not even the vocal quality as much as it is the full-on contempt for the voice as a musical instrument, really.

I haven't heard the F'ed Up but I do think this is a pretty good description of a particular school of hardcore vocals, for example, The Ex. It could be a deliberate decision to make the vocals unmusical in order to emphasize the political content of the lyrics. It's like: Don't listen to how I'm singing - listen to what I'm singing.

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29 - DESTROYER "Kaputt" (294 Points, 9 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - 97
Pitchfork - 6

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