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

"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

"Ass on the Floor" is pretty great, too. I was going to get Last Train To Paris on release day until I found out Chris Brown was on it.

No offense taken! Really just trying to get across the point that if you loved LTTP, you really need to hear the mixtape too!

(xpost)

well you know if only all stories ended like that ;)

Every story should, imho. Juno might have been tolerable.

Oh wow, another two of my votes "Another Girl" and "Sade" placed. I didn't really expect either at this point.

Every year there's at least one (sometimes more) track which blows me away and makes me mad I wasn't listening to it all year. This year, it's 2NE1's "I Am the Best". SO EFFING GOOD.

^^otm

I tweeted about it after I listened to it today and was linked to this: Pop Utopianism

Didn't vote for 'Sade' but really glad to see it here, so beautifully produced. Best moment for me is when the woodblock-type percussion comes in over the synths in the intro.