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

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i think "kaputt" is my most played track of 2011 via last.fm

this one is ok. i like it in a "will never listen to this again" kind of way

Also wow this 2NE1 track is off the hook. THIS is what the last MIA album should have sounded like.

oh god i hope this doesn't presage a top 30 full of destroyer songs

ilm love for that godawful album makes me want to rescind everything nice i've ever said about the board

his voice is so intolerably fey, it's just...feeble feeble music, this really weak attempt to create vibes

HATE THIS SHIT SO MUCH

I actually like the sound of this Destroyer album, except for the vocals, which ruin it for me. (I mostly I don't like rock vocals of any sort, I guess.)

This is the Destroyer I voted for (other candidate was "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker)...like the John Maus I enjoy the vibe of the album but it doesn't keep my attention for the whole length.

I actually like the sound of this Destroyer album

(The part I got through anyway.)

Is there a version of this Destroyer song with the Fucked Up guy singing?

lol. if only

lex posting very much in character there...buckle up, you'll get through this!

this is okay-ish; I did not get into any Destroyer this year

oh god i hope this doesn't presage a top 30 full of destroyer songs

I feel like this is a little silly

x-posts:

With guest rap by Pitbull.

i can actually respect the fucked up singer so much more even if i can't listen to him

there is nothing to respect about destroyer

i've disliked several songs on this list but this is the first instance of RAGE AND HATRED i believe

Everything about this Destroyer record is... slimy.

I'm not a Bejar fan, but him doing yacht rock pet shop boys is kinda interesting.

^I'd buy that

Yacht rock PSB deserves better treatment than this.

Bejar's voice is still a dealbreaker for me, but Kaputt is musically the best album he's made.

That Destroyer track is pretty boring guys, come on.

HATE THIS SHIT SO MUCH

Yep. Love lex's hyperactive bouncing from "YESSSS!!!! <3 <3 <3" to this.

If anything is the definition of pastiche in this thread, it's this.

Bejar's ultra-nasal voice can be as much of a distancing effect as hardcore shouting. Maybe it's an acquired taste. I do think that on this album he's figured out the best way to use his voice though.

"slimy" is a good descriptor

Kaputt is like a lovingly curated museum exhibition of every single oily 80s sophisti-pop record that ever made my skin crawl. Yacht rock PSB? If only.

Much prefer "Savage Night at the Opera", but I do like this. There is something fascinatingly repellent about the '80s cocktail bar feel of the whole thing... but somehow I'm not put off.

every single oily 80s sophisti-pop record that ever made my skin crawl

I'm a big fan of the sound, so it may be why I'm giving him more of a pass than I ordinarily would.

why would you pick up a saxophone in 2011 and make it do this?

I used yacht rock PSB as a shorthand for what I hear him aiming for. After one listen of one song I can't judge how the album, or even this song, achieves that goal.

saxophones were trendy this year actually!

kinda hated every other destroyer record maybe b/c of bejar's voice but this one uses it perfectly imo.

lady gaga and katy perry made better use of saxophone in 2011 i think

xp Totally. A friend is hugely into Scritti, Prefab Sprout and the Blue Nile so he's all over Kaputt like a rash. What you think of those bands practically dictates your reaction to this album.

i like all of those bands and thought 'kaputt' was pretty dull

Nah, the problem is that the gulf between aspiration and achievement is huge, it's a really difficult aesthetic to pull off but lots of Balearic dudes have managed it. Neither he nor his producer or arranger is talented enough to manage any of it.

Not feeling the hate, nor the love. Not much original yacht rock (or for that matter 80s sophistipop) actually sounded like this. For one, the studio hands tended to be exceptional if understated.

This is yacht rock after a two hour massage. The muscles are limp, hair is matted and oily, and none of the players is really into another take.

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

28 - PJ HARVEY "The Words That Maketh Murder" (296 Points, 11 Votes)
P&J - 34
Pitchfork - 58

http://youtu.be/Va0w5pxFkAM

i'm pro the yacht rock sound but what's key about it to me is an expansiveness to the sound, and that's exactly what i don't get from destroyer, it's all so pinched and weak

My highest placed Peej track, iirc.

xp Totally. A friend is hugely into Scritti, Prefab Sprout and the Blue Nile so he's all over Kaputt like a rash. What you think of those bands practically dictates your reaction to this album.

Okay, I dislike all of these bands (every so often I try again with Scritti, because, you know, they have a song called Jacques Derrida, but it never works).

i much prefer prefab sprout and the blue nile tbqf, b/c they seem to be coming from a place of more sincerity because the sound itself wasn't all referentially i guess but that sound is catnip to me.

Once '80s sophisti-pop is filtered through Bejar's aesthetic and that of his band (esp. the trumpet player, who is excellent) it comes out a different thing.

Yay, first thing today I've voted for.

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oh hello polly, great song! not my favourite on the GREAT GREAT album - i voted for that, not any tracks - and i'm not sure why it specifically has placed. but very welcome to see nonetheless

I thought that PJ Harvey would be a lock for top ten! Another one I almost voted for but didn't. Now I think I should have done, my tracks ballot wasn't full.

PJ obv great, but only voted for the album, which may have been my #1

multi xp I love Prefab Sprout, Blue Nile and Scritti but the Destroyer album is strictly second division.

xps I love love love Scritti's pop period (and maybe "Avalon" is also relevant here), so maybe I'm a priori well-disposed to "Kaputt", which I ended up like like liking well enough but not loving. Only Destroyer I've heard btw.

keep meaning to do a let england shake poll actually, because i never really sensed there was a consensus favourite.

i like the way "the words..." basically sounds like a pub drinking song, the looseness of the guitars and drums is really evocative of pub chatter and pint glasses on tables to me. and then you've got polly singing about blown-out limbs over it all obv.