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

nyan cat is sorta fascinatingly annoying but i think i like less gimmick-y are at least gimmick-y in a different way youtube only stuff

itd be sweet if more mario paint compositions made ilm eoy lists tho. or like 'america, now' jams or w/e

i mean one of the major things about pop music is that it's broken into discreet manageable units, if that's not your bag then ok cool but i would suggest that we're dealing with something else now

oh, broken into discreet manageable units is very much my bag, it's what nearly all music is, isn't it? Nyan Cat is different though. Get it?

xp lol indeed

huh i can still play my youtube!

the weirdest thing is that the song was given away on a free download in the first place so i have no idea what product they think they're protecting by yanking it

eh ok if the claim is that the future direction of pop music is infinite loops then we will just wait and see

Slow rolling the top 20 over the next two days (20-11 tomorrow). Until then...

77 - SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE "Love You Like a Love Song" (182 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
76 - GANG GANG DANCE "Glass Jar" (182 Points, 8 Votes)
75 - PISTOL ANNIES "Hell on Heels" (183 Points, 7 Votes)
74 - tUnE-yArDs "Bizness" (184 Points, 6 Votes)
73 - MOGWAI "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)" (189 Points, 5 Votes)
72 - THE JOY FORMIDABLE "Whirring" (189 Points, 8 Votes)
TIE-70 - JUNIOR BOYS "Banana Ripple" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
TIE-70 - BIG SEAN ft. NICKI MINAJ "Dance (A$$) Remix" (190 Points, 7 Votes)
69 - INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE "In a Hole" (190 Points, 8 Votes)
68 - BARBARA PANTHER "Moonlightpeople" (192 Points, 6 Votes)
67 - 3BALLMTY ft. EL BEBETO & AMÉRICA SIERRA "Inténtalo" (200 Points, 7 Votes)
66 - TUCCILLO "Disco en Paradiso" (200 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
65 - JOHN TALABOT ft. GLASSER "Families" (204 Points, 7 Votes)
64 - DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY ft. SKYLAR GREY "Coming Home" (208 Points, 6 Votes)
63 - STEFFI ft. VIRGINIA "Yours" (208 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
62 - LOCUSSOLUS "I Want It (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)" (212 Points, 7 Votes)
61 - ST. VINCENT "Surgeon" (214 Points, 6 Votes)

60 - DJ QUIK ft. SUGA FREE & TY$ "Nobody" (214 Points, 7 Votes)
59 - YUCK "Get Away" (218 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
58 - THE GO! TEAM ft. BETHANY COSENTINO "Buy Nothing Day" (219 Points, 9 Votes)
57 - BATTLES ft. MATIAS AGUAYO "Ice Cream" (222 Points, 7 Votes)
56 - WILD FLAG "Romance" (223 Points, 8 Votes)
55 - GANG GANG DANCE "Mindkilla" (226 Points, 9 Votes)
54 - DANNY DAZE ft. LOUISAHHH!!! "Your Everything" (228 Points, 8 Votes)
53 - KATE BUSH "Snowflake" (229 Points, 8 Votes)
52 - BEYONCÉ "1+1" (229 Points, 9 Votes)
51 - KONSHENS "Nuh Pull It Up" (230 Points, 6 Votes)
50 - CONFOUNDED "Little Dog" (235 Points, 7 Votes, 3 First-Place Votes)
49 - FRANK OCEAN "Swim Good" (240 Points, 9 Votes)
48 - TEENGIRL FANTASY "Cheaters (John Talabot Remix)" (243 Points, 11 Votes)
47 - KATY B "Easy Please Me" (244 Points, 9 Votes)
46 - CREEP ft. NINA SKY "You" (245 Points, 10 Votes)
45 - BENOIT & SERGIO "Walk and Talk" (246 Points, 9 Points)
44 - WAKA FLOCKA FLAME ft. KEBO GOTTI "Grove Street Party" (248 Points, 10 Votes)
43 - NADIA OH "Taking Over the Dancefloor" (255 Points, 9 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
42 - JOHN MAUS "Hey Moon" (257 Points, 8 Votes)
41 - THE RAPTURE "How Deep Is Your Love?" (257 Points, 11 Votes)

40 - BEYONCÉ "Schoolin' Life" (258 Points, 9 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
39 - GOTYE ft. KIMBRA "Somebody That I Used to Know" (260 Points, 9 Votes)
38 - 2NE1 "I Am the Best" (264 Points, 6 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
37 - WILCO "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" (265 Points, 7 Votes)
36 - PITBULL ft. NE-YO, AFROJACK & NAYER "Give Me Everything" (268 Points, 8 Votes)
35 - JAY-Z & KANYE WEST "Niggas in Paris" (268 Points, 8 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
34 - REBECCA BLACK "Friday" (274 Points, 12 Votes)
33 - FUCKED UP "Queen of Hearts" (275 Points, 9 Votes)
32 - TERROR DANJAH ft. RUBY LEE RYDER "Full Attention" (282 Points, 11 Votes)
31 - SEANY MAC "One of Those Days (Organ Mix)" (288 Points, 7 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
30 - BIG K.R.I.T. ft. 2 CHAINZ, 8BALL & MJG "Money on the Floor" (290 Points, 10 Votes)
29 - DESTROYER "Kaputt" (294 Points, 9 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
28 - PJ HARVEY "The Words That Maketh Murder" (296 Points, 11 Votes)
27 - ROBYN "Call Your Girlfriend" (298 Points, 11 Votes)
26 - KATY B "Broken Record" (306 Points, 13 Votes)
25 - JOE GODDARD ft. VALENTINA "Gabriel" (310 Points, 11 Votes)
24 - NYAN CAT "Nyan Cat Theme" (318 Points, 9 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
23 - JACQUES GREENE "Another Girl" (319 Points, 10 Votes)
22 - RIHANNA "We Found Love" (319 Points, 16 Votes)
21 - DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Sade" (332 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)

eh ok if the claim is that the future direction of pop music is infinite loops then we will just wait and see

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:06 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who's saying anything about direction? It could be a one-off, who cares? It is there, it exists now.

all i'm trying to say is that framing it as "pop music" revolutionary or otherwise makes no sense to me

It existed 8 years ago in a much less annoying form when Weebl did "Badger Badger Badger", is what we keep telling you.

"Sade" might have been y #1, certainly top 5, can't remember where I put it exactly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_Badger_Badger

eh ok if the claim is that the future direction of pop music is infinite loops then we will just wait and see

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:06 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who's saying anything about direction? It could be a one-off, who cares? It is there, it exists now.

― future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:06 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LBI otm; part of the implications of infinite loops is that there pop music doesn't need a future

minus one "there"

More recently a dubstep version called "Guess I got My Badger Back" was released based on "Swagga" by Excision & Datsik.[11]

lol, dog latin's wish granted

also, have you never clicked on a ytmnd link

Nyan Cat >>>>>>>>> Badgerbadgerbadger

ok u guys, i give up. i won't even talk about how absolutely no one would ever be riding for this without the cat gif and meowing as an instrument.

(though I love the Aja Dante Daft Penguin ytmnd thing and wouldve totally voted for it if i were around when whoever it was set that up)

thread declining into meme talk makes me wanna

http://www.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/blog/fe/9143/Nerds-Gallery.jpg

Yeah, Badgerbadgerbadger was funny, I liked it, but not as a track. Nyan Cat appeals to a lot of what I like about music. And cats.

(But I will reiterate, I'm not claiming it's revolutionary. I'm just claiming it's wonderful.)

LBI otm; part of the implications of infinite loops is that pop music doesn't need a future

― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Exactly!

lol I'm not arguing with you, emil.y!

ok Aja Dante is Steve Winwood not Daft Punk; my bad

http://ajadante.ytmnd.com/

ok u guys, i give up. i won't even talk about how absolutely no one would ever be riding for this without the cat gif and meowing as an instrument.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, that is a bold claim impossible to prove. And even if so I don't see how that is even remotely relevant? It is what it is.

just FYI, using "it is what it is" is the 2012 version of Godwin's Law

lets talk more about how incredibly effective a jam 'sade' is

(if we're gonna nerd out, might as well go whole hog)

You could say the same thing about how no one would ever be riding for Lady Gaga without her image, weird dress style, exhuberant videos etc.

lets talk more about how incredibly effective a jam 'sade' is

― sisqó inferno (Lamp), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:14 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just FYI, using "it is what it is" is the 2012 version of Godwin's Law

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:14 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nah c'mon, that wasn't what I meant in the slightest.

yeah Lamp & lex otm; "Sade" is great

You could say the same thing about how no one would ever be riding for Lady Gaga without her image, weird dress style, exhuberant videos etc.

... except that wouldn't be true, because people really started paying attention to Lady Gaga and taking her seriously when the video of her playing "Poker Face" on the piano on Japanese TV started circulating and ppl realized she could really sing and play (IOW, there was "substance" under the "artifice" that allowed people to relax and enjoy the spectacle)

also "Sade" is amazing, I should grab that mixtape

oh lol now I remember why I blanked DDM, Chris Brown is on the album

has the album list been posted yet?

no next week

Uhm, Dan, I don't disagree with that? It was CAD who argued that one couldn't like Nyan Cat without the cat and the .gif. Which remains unproven, because Nyan Cat happens to be the outcome of; music+gif+cat. Which is what I meant by "it is what it is". Not a 2012 Godwin, just a response to CAD trying to argue that the Nyan music wouldn't be as succesful without the video or gif. Which can't be proven tbh.

Anyway, enough with Nyan hogging the thread now

the mixtape is basically the entire album remixed in a lush r&b style - such a neat idea (and kind of illustrative of the amount of creativity bubbling around DDM) and v effective too

the chris brown songs luckily happen to be the most negligible

what I love about "Sade" is the high drama: love the twinkling beginning & Diddy's exhausted come-on -> the climax & then drop when the singers finally come in. & the singers on the "chorus", the "I don't know what to do", when they're singing so high that it sounds like the song is going to crack: so tense!

So pleased that Sade made it this high, my number 2 as well.

Nyan Cat - Much prefer the smooth jazz version but this ones ok too, better than most of other stuff so far anyway (didn't vote for it though)

hate that badger thing though

wow, never heard "sade" before and it is terrific

also thx for reminding me of hamster dance, youtubing it now

really great day!

Yeah, "Sade" is gorgeous. I'm so glad I finally got around to downloading the mixtape, it really is essential to the whole LTTP story.

Maybe "story" is the wrong word, but it really rounds out the experience.

"...we all went home and jammed some Sade. The end."

(sorry jvc; i was just messing around)

yeah as a pretty avowed non diddy fan i was shocked by how much i loved "sade", i should prob investigate further but yeah chris brown and coming home are big impediments for me