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

hey!

so it turns out that our esteemed presenter Johnny Fever is having a birthday today. Happy birthday man & thanks for all the hard work!

hb jf!

save us, johnny

Yeah, I'm sure there's things you'd rather be doing today than feed a hungry pack of poll watchers. HB!

Yeah, I mean I have no problem with rock-format music being supplemented by electronica - in fact it's staple listening-fodder for me. WSGM, Jon Hopkins & King Creosote, Console, Panda Bear, John Maus - all good stuff. But I do wonder if guitar-pop as we know it is actually over for now? I think this dearth is what's brought on this recent spate of metal and hardcore listening in me because once you replace all the live instruments in a song with electronic sounds, you're essentially swapping roughness/organic-ness(?) with cleanly precision. I love the latter, but sometimes rock songs still need that margin of human error. Think that's why I was so hypnotised by Weekend Nachos the other day - it was like going out to live in the woods after a month sat indoors playing video games.

The gigantic logical flaw in this argument is the idea that all electronic sounds on a record are sequenced rather than played through a MIDI instrument and all loops are perfectly quantized (the Jamie XX/GSH album undercuts both of these ideas IIRC) (also the Jamie XX/GSH album was terribad)

goooooooooooo music

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6483659381_8440820b3c.jpg

hb, jf

Needs actual Pop Tart.

(also the Jamie XX/GSH album was terribad)

ha i'm so glad someone agrees on this. i don't think it was DREADFUL but it was negligible and gigantically overrated due to the double name factor

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY FEVER what better present could there possibly be than the top 20

usually it's customary for people w/ birthdays to receive presents and not spend their whole day giving them

I think a good one would be to go to the Mirel Wagner thread and listen to "No Death" and post on it while we wait!

early 2012 pick from the only man who can wear sunglasses indoors: Mirel Wagner

usually it's customary for people w/ birthdays to receive presents and not spend their whole day giving them

friend of mine recently spent his birthday cooking for me

i did not see any reason for that to have been the other way round

you have amazing friends Lex!

i def think you should cook for him on your birthday though

Happy Birthday Johnny Fever. Hopefully you enjoy giving us these results as much as we all enjoy reading them.

Happy Birthday JF

but anyways Lex give this a shot. I think its possible you might like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtvkoqTnSs&feature=player_embedded

pretty rad

happy birthday jf!!!

HANG ON who/what is mirel wagner and how did she come up? I AM BEING SPELLBOUND HERE

*files alongside phaedra*

i def think you should cook for him on your birthday though

i doubt ANY of my friends would want me to cook for them ever

i host port & stilton evenings, that is my form of hospitality

nice

JF played that Mirel Wagner some time last week in outloud. And then he just played other songs! It was crazy!

The gigantic logical flaw in this argument is the idea that all electronic sounds on a record are sequenced rather than played through a MIDI instrument and all loops are perfectly quantized (the Jamie XX/GSH album undercuts both of these ideas IIRC) (also the Jamie XX/GSH album was terribad)

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Okay, yeah some electronic stuff is played "live" through a MIDI, which will give it a bit of an effect, but it's still digitally synthesised and often electronic music has to then be quantised/cleaned up in order for it to sound good, otherwise you just end up with a James Blake album and it all sounds horrible.

what is GSH BTW?

Gil Scott Heron

I don't really like Jamie XX's stuff for the above reason as well. I prefer electronic music quantised and clean or else it sounds like some kid bashing away on toy instruments.

oh and happy birthday johnny fever!

Who's ready?! (And thanks for the b-day wishes!)

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)

Let's do this!

Whoo!!

yip yip yip

http://i.imgur.com/Wy7yj.jpg

20 - TYLER, THE CREATOR "Yonkers" (344 Points, 10 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
P&J - 10
Pitchfork - 16

http://youtu.be/XSbZidsgMfw

oh ffs

Well, I'm glad it's not any higher than this.

i thought this would be top 10 for sure. I do think it works best as a video mind you. And yes, I know you've all seen the vid a million times, but I was definitely kind of "woah!" when I first heard and saw this for the first time.

song + vid together is a of towering work of art.

this is basically a charm-free Gravediggaz filtered through Insane Clown Posse

I held off of Goblin for ages because people were making out that it's 99% rape and faggot jokes. I've listened to it probably three times all the way through - which is enough - but it's really not as bad as people had made out.

i'm glad it wasn't higher too

relistening w/o video and it's just such a drag, goes on forever and nothing he says resonates with me at all.

video was shit, why is the "teenage boys trying to shock people" aesthetic revered by so many

Lots of parallels between Goblin and Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer, IMO.

why is the "teenage boys trying to shock people" aesthetic revered by so many

Why is anything revered?

classic bonkers

ha dog latin how dare you make me want to hear a Tyler album!

Terrible fucking record. Next.

and it's more than "I'm just out to shock you" - there's a lot of power in that video, through composition, the use of focus, expression - it is a really great bit of pop art. The fact he eats a giant cockroach and throws up everywhere is a Brucie.

idk I thought EARL was p much superior to this in every way; I think I even like "French" more than this

but Tyler is right about 'Yonkers' being a cool word

I don't have audio at home so I don't know what the song's like, but the gimmick of the video seems to be... that the guy eats a bug and then hangs himself? Don't know what's so "woah!" about that, looks pretty juvenile to me.

(several x-posts)

everything about tyler the creator is fucking juvenile. puerile maybe a better word. "towering work of art" my ass.