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

<3 LBI

"We Found Love" is such a stupid song, and I really do love it so

xp: wait, did you just say "Nyan Cat is not just a loop; it is also a loop"?

it's prob the best use of her voice i can think of

LBI nailed it!

altho i always unintentionally mash it up in my head w/ hot chip's "we have love"

oh god i hate "we found love" so much

basic as fuck

i am never gonna forgive rihanna for opening the door to calvin harris becoming the go-to producer for pop stars, i can't think of any other professional producer who's so INEPT with sounds as him. fucking basic ass toy keyboards smh

i had no idea anyone except surm liked it

Never before has a looped piece of music been released, as just that, a loop.

Well, actually...

wait i actually don't get it--what is revolutionary about a loop

the toy keyboards on "we found love" are pretty important imo... helps it stand out from all the guetta/dr luke stuff on the radio

I don't like Calvin Harris one bit but We Found Love is still a huge tune.

It took being faded in from a totally melancholy poetry moody ambient bit at the end of this mix for me to really appreciate 'We Found Love'. Didn't vote for it, but quite like it, finally.

the toy keyboards on "we found love" are pretty important imo... helps it stand out from all the guetta/dr luke stuff on the radio

it's remarkable, of the many ways to stand out in a good way from the radio guettavomit, harris managed to find the one thing that made it even worse

love that rihanna song but i feel like it would be like 10x better with a well-placed rap verse

i don't even like it as a song - i thought the funkystepz remix would solve it for me but it didn't. it's just an endless foghorn cycle in a void. as i said this song is a BASIC BITCH

all I can really say, lex, is that you would have despised the mid-90s when those exact same keyboards were all over every other house hit

wait i actually don't get it--what is revolutionary about a loop

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:30 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It is a loop, but not released as "just one loop" that you yourself have to loop over and over. Rather (and I mean the 10 hours version on youtube proving how it is a work of genius and art), it will continue looping, you don't have to do anything, you turn it off when you please. It is presented that way. Which is very different from, as a listener, pressing a button for it to mechanically loop. This is an organic loop and it will go on forever, or for 2 minutes, for as long as you want it to be played.

that said it provided some amusement when i saw someone on twitter genuinely think it went "we found love in a homeless place" :/

It's more fun just to watch the lex wail on this one than try and intervene. I love the song, idg the complaints at all, but what a spectacle!

so it's revolutionary because of youtube?

I get the complaint that the song is two lines of music repeated for 3:30, but considering the house tradition it's pulling from I don't really see that as a problem.

when has a loop ever placed on an ILM poll? xp

I bet you that if we'd been polling in 2000, the Amen break had a shot

If those two lines weren't good, it would be a painful 3:30. Fortunately, they're VERY good.

WFL's basicness makes it work imo.

also the fucking massive bass

LBI there's plenty of music that fits that criteria. you could say the same for a lot of video game soundtrack music for example

also, these keys don't sound particularly "toyish" to me?

don't really like the melody on this, and if you took rihanna out of it it would just sound like late 90s trance

I am still back on "it's not just a loop; it is a loop" tbh

i refer again to 'badger badger badger'

a better tune fwiw

Omar OTM re: "Badger Badger"

yeah thats another example of an older meme thats pretty similar

i am never gonna forgive rihanna for opening the door to calvin harris becoming the go-to producer for pop stars, i can't think of any other professional producer who's so INEPT with sounds as him. fucking basic ass toy keyboards smh

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

Pretty sure everyone on here hates Calvin Harris as much as you do, I know I certainly do but this song is so good I almost forget he's invloved. The combination of her voice and that big bass is just perfect.

I still don't understand what makes Nyan Cat revolutionary. Looping videos have existed on the internet for years.

LBI there's plenty of music that fits that criteria. you could say the same for a lot of video game soundtrack music for example

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Fair enough, but then it serves the purpose of being a musical decor for the game. Nyan Cat isn't a decor for anything, it is Nyan Cat, and released as that.

I didn't even credit him on the image fwiw xp

did anyone ever nominate a Buddha machine in an ilm poll?

should've

no-one could possibly hate calvin harris as much as lex does.
xxxp

Is Calvin Harris the 2011 version of Robert Miles?

http://nyan.cat/

^despite the incorrigible imitation animation, this site is a perfect representation of what LBI is getting at. You basically turn it on, listen to Nyan Cat for however long you want and then shut it off. Basically you, the listener, decide how long the piece of music is. That's what revolutionary about it. The cuetsy cat meme aspect is just the vehicle for what amounts to almost a platonic ideal of one of the principles behind a lot of house music, including many of the songs in this countdown: the idea that pop music doesn't have to be about 'songs'--discreet units w/ beginnings and endings--but instead can be about a continuum

LBI, see Satie's "Vexations" (1893). Loops have a looooong history.

As far as loops go this tune made a bigger impression on me back in 2007 http://youtu.be/faQSs6UBDok

The original version of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" was uploaded by user "daniwell"[4] to the Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga on July 25, 2010.[5] The song features the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku (初音ミク?). The Japanese word for the sound cats make, "nyā" (にゃあ?), is the equivalent of the English language word "meow".[1][6]

A user named "Momo Momo" ("もももも") uploaded a remixed version of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!", adding the repeating vocal sound "nyan" throughout the song, to Nico Nico Douga on January 31, 2011.[7] The added vocal sound was created using the singing synthesizer software UTAU with the voice preset, "Momone Momo" (桃音モモ).[8] The UTAU voice preset, "Momone Momo", gets its name from the kanji "momo" 桃, meaning "peach", and "ne" 音, meaning "sound".[9] The voice source used to create the Momone Momo voice was Fujimoto Momoko (藤本萌々子?), a Japanese woman who lives in Tokyo.[10]

i didn't like "we found love" at all until this very moment, listening to the spotify playlist.

http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/

^this site is a perfect representation of what LBI is getting at. You basically turn it on, listen to badgerbadgerbadger for however long you want and then shut it off. Basically you, the listener, decide how long the piece of music is. That's what revolutionary about it. The badger/snake/mushroom meme aspect is just the vehicle for what amounts to almost a platonic ideal of one of the principles behind a lot of house music, including many of the songs in this countdown: the idea that pop music doesn't have to be about 'songs'--discreet units w/ beginnings and endings--but instead can be about a continuum

lol I know I've heard Wilco before but they apparently made absolutely no impression on me because I'm surprised this song sounds like this

I am also 100% certain that within 15 seconds of finishing this song I won't remember how it goes

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:13 (4 hours ago)

Okay I timed it, aaand... that would be NOW! To test your hypothesis, try humming it.

oh lol, the Loituma video is from Bleach

xp: lol

Epic Sax Guy >>>>> Nyan Cat