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

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.

'On Battleship Hill' is my favourite on LES. After caning the album for an initial 3 weeks haven't ended up going back to it.

the jaunty backing vox add to that too

Thank you to whomever it was that found and added 2NE1 to the Spotify list.

the bird, the bird, the bird is the word.

sounds smash hits melody maker nme all sounds like a dream to me

I always think the backing vocals on this are done by a trio of cowboys for some reason.

Best autoharp of 2011. Winfred Owen was better at this.

Wow how did I possibly miss this Seany Mac record though? It's Sweet Like Chocolate with added house piano aka best thing ever.

Obviously the PJH is magnificent and I wonder if Written on the Forehead is still to come.

I too only voted for the Peej LP, not any tracks. That said, the other track nominees apart from this one were (to my ears) the least interesting ones from the album.

(I meant to nominate "Written on the Forehead" but forgot - pretty sure it wasn't nominated)

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.

Sort of agree with this although there are two or three tracks on the album where I think it really works ('Chinatown', definitely). Most of it is kind of forgettable. I like Scritti, Blue Nile and Prefab Sprout far more!

i think my favourite on LES might be the title track - that or "the last living rose" or "all and everyone"

OMG, the Seany Mac track, ADORE. Reminds me of that H2O ft Platnum hit.

"One Sunday Morning" is the first Wilco track I've ever loved.

Yeah the album is all of a piece for me, it didn't occur to me to vote for any one song.

while kaputt was one of my top albums of the year, i only voted for 'bay of pigs' in the trax poll because imo it's the only one that stands well on its own: 13 minutes of ambient disco synth jamminess with weird lyrics and about 5 different hooks

I've never heard this song; I've been deliberately holding off on Let England Shake because a) I've never got into her before, and I wanted to go back to some of the earlier albums and get a sense of the way she grew & developed, and b) the album was overly acclaimed, I was afraid if I heard I'd put it on my albums ballot, and I p much already loved everything on there

But yeah this was v good; probaby one of the best I've heard all day

xp Yeah, Written on the Forehead wasn't nominated, otherwise it would have been my top choice. The Niney sample kills me. That and Words are the songs that make most sense detached from the album.

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

27 - ROBYN "Call Your Girlfriend" (298 Points, 11 Votes)
P&J - 20
Pitchfork - DNP

http://vimeo.com/27428495

xp to D.A.M.
I got a total PJ skeptic into this album, much to her surprise. I think starting here and working your way back might actually be kind of interesting.

lex blows up in 5...4...3...

2...

I've really grown into the pj Harvey album in recent weeks after much idgi. Fave tune is still the opening track, and the one that references Summertime Blues

Think I would probably have voted for LES if I'd spent more time with it.

Robyn sounds like an ok pop song, don't feel strongly either way.

I love Robyn so, so much. Call Your Girlfriend just seems a little perfunctory to me. The sparkle's missing. 2011 was all about Tove Styrke for me.

Call Your Girlfriend has, at times, been my favorite song from the whole Body Talk era. In fact, I think it is right now.

nah i'm too used to ilm's robyn fascination and this is pleasingly low. i can't even remember whether i listened to this. botherd

Love Robyn, and this track is p.dece, but surprised at the high placing.

I don't like the song, but I do like the lyrics - they're delivered in a way that allows for several interpretations of the song, all of them quite sad ;_;

love love love love the Destroyer album. so perfect in every way. the PJ i like but never want to listen to.

I think of Call Your Girlfriend as more of a 2010 track but I saw it on the nominations list and just couldn't not vote for it. Such a great tune.

I got a total PJ skeptic into this album, much to her surprise. I think starting here and working your way back might actually be kind of interesting.

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Makes sense. I kind of love her after seeing that video twice.

DL's right about the Niney 'Blood and Fire' sample on the PJ album. Love how it's placed in a way that makes it sound out of sync/in sync. First time I heard it I thought my iPhone was malfunctioning and trying to play two songs at once.

so far "Call Your Girlfriend" has more of a pull than the Robyn track that placed last year

i can't even remember whether i listened to this. botherd

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend)

Maybe this is the track to get you back into her, like you were when you first heard (and loved) Be Mine all those years ago.

Do not understand the enduring appeal of Robyn. Good music for 2003, but...?

I like how in the song she's the other woman but the facial expressions she makes in the video suggests she herself is the titular jilted girlfriend.

than the Robyn trackS that placed last year

this is just ok

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

26 - KATY B "Broken Record" (306 Points, 13 Votes)
P&J - 177
Pitchfork - 49

http://vimeo.com/26472159

and that is more like it!

hey another vote!; I was kinda hoping this was a lock for top 20 tbh