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

(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.

xp 2NE1: Then you should go on a youtube spree to watch it live (in addition to checking out their other stuff, of course) - fanchants from the audience and all: http://youtu.be/7epNrIkjBv8

xp

kudos to frank kogan, he was going on about k-pop YEARS ago before it randomly became a thing this year

Naega jeil jal naga!

Unfortunately, this isn't really true. Other than when on a whim I reviewed Drunken Tiger in 2000, I didn't hear any K-pop until 2009, when I casually posted a Wonder Girls vid on my lj more for the plot (background becomes foreground) than the sound, and anhh and then Sabina and Tari and Mat poured in, embedding videos, making informed comments, and so forth.

Link for the definitive, transcendent live performance of "I Am The Best," with CL being the most incandescently effervescent (or effervescently incandescent) creature I've seen in music, probably ever. Also greatest fancam.

"Can You Follow Me" possibly ranks with "I Am The Best" in the 2NE1 pantheon.

By the way, here are several of us from the Singles Jukebox in the audience at the Freaky Trigger Awards Gala displaying a range of reactions to "I Am The Best"'s finishing unexpectedly high (4th place) in the Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll. I'm the guy on the left in the white jacket.

"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.

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:33 PM (32 minutes ago)

you bought childish gambino! don't act like you have any purchasing dignity!

for others interested in LTTP btw the chris brown songs are NOT negligible, lex is the only person on ilm who thinks this - the whole thing is great though definitely track it down

You see, this Dirty Money shit, it ain't for everybody
It's a muthafuckin vibe
It's for muthafuckas that's patient

So happy this placed - top ten track for me.

Hadn't realised "Nyan Cat" was, er, original c.2011 - I'd grouped in my head w/"Always" & "What Is Love?" & "Tarzan Boy" as a YTMND-esque exhumation.

today's was the best 20 songs yet!

lol, Childish Gambino happened on a whim because I liked the "Bonfire" video without paying much attention to the fact that the song wasn't that good

also to my knowledge Donald Glover never beat up his girlfriend and then acted like a privileged unrepentant dick about it

Anyone who hasn't really been catching up with K-pop this year might also want to check out Hyuna's 'Bubble Pop'. It's not quite as amazing but still absolutely fantastic.

For something in a vaguely similar maximalist style to I Am The Best, Taiwan's Lollipop F have a song called 'Dance' that may be worth a look.

just wish there was someone around to smack jordan around and dan for calling 2011 jay-z 'great', dudes had free reign to be posting nonsense

unfortunate xp w/ chris brown comment re: "smack around" :/

check out Hyuna's 'Bubble Pop'

Quite fun.

'Bubble Pop' is a fun track, yeah.