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

i wld totally love a video poll. think it should be all time tho instead of cut up into decades.

LMFAO was my #3, and would have been my #1 if I didn't stick some dance stuff that's definitely not appearing now ahead of it. Blah, you lot probably wouldn't have voted for "Surfin' Bird" or "Pump Up The Jam" either.

Hoping there'll still be some dancehall ("Coloring Book"/"One By One"?) show up but looking increasingly unlikely; hopefully the track-hyping threads for "Fuck'd Up"/"Kush Groove"/"Drumz" worked their magic for the top 20.

On the 2011 yacht-rock tip, Billy Currington's "Love Done Gone" >>>>>>>>>> Destroyer.

ILX MUSIC VIDEO POLLS discussion thread

looool i would have voted for "love done gone" if i saw it in the noms

totally undeniable jam

I hadn't heard "The Party Rock Anthem" before someone played it at Outloud.fm a couple of weeks ago, and I kinda fail to see what's so awesome about it. I've always loved good novelty(-ish) dance tunes, but that one didn't seem to offer anything that would distinguish it from the generic "rap + Eurodance" sound that's been the trend for novelty club tunes for the last 5 years or so. At least last year's "Let Me Smang It" had an irresistably freaky and unique feel to it, so it deserved to be on list.

my votes that placed today:

WILCO "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" (my #2)
one of my beefs with Wilco is that Tweedy doesn't write very many songs that suit his voice. He's found an ideal match here, and backs it with a gorgeous pastoral cycle (think jaymc said something similar upthread). this hangs above everything else they've ever done and at 12 minutes is just about long enough.

JAY-Z & KANYE WEST "Niggas in Paris" (my #1)
itunes says i've listened to this 65 times, but i know it's alot more than that and it gets me goin every single time. killer melody/beat, kanye even gets a classic absurdist line here, love the will ferrell break, grandiose ending, the different moods tossed around.

BIG K.R.I.T. ft. 2 CHAINZ, 8BALL & MJG "Money on the Floor"
im with Lex re: this and Country Shit are all i really need.

JOE GODDARD ft. VALENTINA "Gabriel"
love the valentina-bot's fragile command so much.

country shit is big k.r.i.t.'s like 30th best song

i fuck w/ 'money on the floor' for sure tho

exquisite production sound

lmfao are recording a song with paris hilton atm

can't stand "party rock anthem" (mostly cuz i find THEM so dislikeable, which isn't the case with pitbull at all) - am wondering whether paris will salvage lmfao or they'll drag her down to their base level. in any case it seems appropriate though

Wait, Paris Hilton is making music?!

I assume a generous use of Autotune for her?

she released an entire album in 2006! it was good!

Really? I find that kinda hard to believe, though I guess I shouldn't judge until hear it. Haven't most albums by celerities-turned-singers been pretty awful, though? Can't think of a single good example...

my #2 album of 2006 <3 one of the best songs (though it's hard to pick just one) http://youtu.be/cA3Cpq9RiGs

bonus: "stars are blind" inspired my favourite ilx post of all time. of. all. time!

yeah! well you've also got "suicide" as merely "stupid pride", a somewhat hardline xtian sentiment which that indeed daring pantheism x astrology "gods are crazy / stars are blind" double whammy immediately vexes. and then yr everyday manichaean "be the devil and angel too" chaser. paris milton more like.

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:17 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well okay, there's this. But I doubt even David Hasselhoff was ever able to make a full album that's all good.

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Haven't most albums by celerities-turned-singers been pretty awful, though?

kylie minogue and j-lo, to name two off the top of my head, built entire pop careers on it

Okay, that Paris Hilton tune is quite okay! Don't understand why it needed to have a hard rock guitar though, since it's clearly a dance tune. Also, I think it could've been sung by pretty much anyone (I assume Hilton didn't write the music or the lyrics, sorry if i'm wrong), don't hear enough personality in it to justify why it needed to be sung by Paris Hilton. No wonder she didn't become a pop star.

Rachel Stevens xposts

Haven't most albums by celerities-turned-singers been pretty awful, though?

kylie minogue and j-lo, to name two off the top of my head, built entire pop careers on it

Sorry, I should've clarified that I meant celebrities who weren't already singers to begin with... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Lopez and Minogue both began singing very early in their careers, even if they both became known as actors first?

Hmmm, now that I think of it, one of my favourite singers of all time, Grace Jones, was a model before she became a musician. So I guess it is possible, just not very common.

I do not like the music made by Jennifer "Hussein" Lopez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQktTPqgcw

can't watch videos on this comp, how many times does she say POT LEDOM on that track

Rachel Stevens wasn't a celebrity turned singer, S Club 7 just launched with a tv show

Cristina, Carla Bruni, Grace Jones...more models should make music.

Stars Are Blind also 'inspired' the excellent eponymous Zhanna Friske single that promted Russia's biggest music station to introduce a special 'Plagiarist Of The Year' award at their annual awards show.

I'd never realised this record was actually by Rihanna before, it barely even sounds like her, like all trace of personality in her voice has been sanded away. Song isn't much cop either.

You guys are going to regret being so charitable when Calvin Harris becomes American pop's ubiquitous go-to crossover producer.

a real good finish yesterday
nice to see nyan cat place nicely too

i can't wait for the crazy frog cover

Can I just mention that I love how Moka just casually threw Radiohead in there with Rebecca Black and an animated cat gif?

I'd never realised this record was actually by Rihanna before, it barely even sounds like her, like all trace of personality in her voice has been sanded away. Song isn't much cop either.

You guys are going to regret being so charitable when Calvin Harris becomes American pop's ubiquitous go-to crossover producer.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:46 (11 minutes ago) Permalink

Yup - sounds like the kind of thing anyone could do. Reminds me a bit of Kelis's dance excursions from a year or two ago.

Kelis at least actually sounded like Kelis though.

Can I just mention that I love how Moka just casually threw Radiohead in there with Rebecca Black and an animated cat gif?

What Internet meme did Radiohead produce?

Dancing Thom Yorke.

Link?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thom-yorke-dance-remixes

Thanks!

Upon viewing the vids, I'd say Dancing Thom Yorke is indeed the most positive thing Radiohead has ever given to the world.

Is Lotus Flower likely to place in this?

Don't really know what the big indie rock songs were this year for ilxors that are into that sort of thing. Holocene? County Line?

Holocene wasn't even on the nominations list, otherwise I'd say yes. Not that kind of year, especially not in ILX terms. Would you call Midnight City indie-rock? If so then that.

Holocene wasn't even on the nominations list

No wonder the guy sounds so sad.

EMA's California is another one I guess.

I didn't know California was so popular. Pretty much all the guitar rock bands I voted for (Fucked Up, Yuck, Joy Formidable) have placed in one form or another. Maybe not for singles, but albums we might expect PAnda Bear, St Vincent, When Saints Go Machine, Tom Waits, Kurt Vile and a few others...

If "I Be Beastin'" doesn't place, I'm a punch haters up in they jaw.

Not looking forward to Boring Ivor placing... I wonder who's more likely to send me to sleep first - Grizzly Bear or him.

Is Lotus Flower likely to place in this?

― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:47 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pffff...

If I'd voted for anything off KoL it would've been Limb By Limb or Give Up The Ghost.

I didn't know California was so popular

Yeah, I have no idea really, just thinking of acts that were high in the pfork list that have some sort of ilx following. Only indie rock thing I voted for was Wild Beasts iirc, but don't really expect to see them here today.

Forgot about Wild Beasts. Whenever I listen to that album it just sounds like a whispier non-electronic version of When Saints Go Machine. I'm honestly starting to believe all those columnists who write "rock'n'roll is dead" articles, because really - what is out there that's really making an impact and pushing things forward without "interesting-up" with electronic sounds.