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

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

'money on the floor' was my #5. p much just owns

rest of today has been p shameful tho

yes! voted for both of these past two

you think Witches Brew is going to make it higher lex?

yes this is definitely more like it!

KEEP YOUR
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Other than the slo-mo jungle break, I'm not huge on this particular Katy b track.

the number of votes per track seems like it decreases every year, maybe a function of having a longer nom list every year?

you think Witches Brew is going to make it higher lex?

yeah i thought before this began that if there was a katy b consensus track it would be "witches' brew" - i can't imagine "easy please me" and "broken record" placing but not that

by 2015 everyones ballots will be completely disjoint and ties will be settled by holographic rock-paper-scissors

lol just as I refreshed this page I was listening to Katy B SOUNDING GORGEOUS on some Billboard roof session thing http://www.billboard.com/column/tastemakers/katy-b-rocks-the-roof-live-from-billboard-1005627752.story#/column/tastemakers/katy-b-rocks-the-roof-live-from-billboard-1005627752.story

lookin forward to that

xp

Think this is one of the poorer tracks on the Katy B album.

back from lunch

I have zero (0) opinion on the Destroyer track other than to agree with the PSB invocation; dude's voice is VERY similar to Neil Tennant's when he's in sotto voce mode. I will probably never intentionally play this again.

PJ Harvey is manifestly brilliant; this and "On Battleship Hill" are my two favorites from the album.

I never heard "Call Your Girlfriend" before now; I kind of hated Body Talk Pt 1 and completely avoided everything that came after it. This is a decent song but I feel like many of the tracks behind it are more interesting/engaging.

Katy B track is great.

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

25 - JOE GODDARD ft. VALENTINA "Gabriel" (310 Points, 11 Votes)
P&J - 604
Pitchfork - DNP

http://vimeo.com/28453160

oh nice! i rly like this one but didn't have space to vote for it

Yes!

catching up too.

destroyer - i tried a bunch of times but i don't like his voice or the production. it's just boring.

pj - this is uh not what i expected. is the rest of the album like this?

Ooh nice, was a bit lukewarm on this at first, but it (ear)wormed it's way in. Thought it might be a bit higher.

cad: kind of? it's a very... contemplative album

listening to "Gabriel"; at some point it went from "oh this is nice" to "woah I LOVE THIS" and I'm not sure what happened

Yeah this is a really good song. Someone on here described it as sounding like early Basement Jaxx which is spot on.

Oh DAMN, forgot to vote for this. Love it. Loooove iiiiiiit.