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

but I haven't had a lot of sleep so I could be wrong

why does that song never start?

This was my exact reaction the first time I heard it.

EMA likes making gun signs with her hand, huh

the interpolation of camptown races that really tipped me off

Hah, that bugged me too, just like Hush Little Baby in that Gang Gang Dance song.

I do have to say it was very brave of EMA to dust off something she wrote when she was 14 and present it unedited like this

yeah i kind of dug it in ggd even though it's a little tacky. ggd pretty clearly going for something different tho.

lol dan

There is no way Kim Gordon would have preened that dully for that long nor would she have relied so heavily on finger guns. She also would have written a better song.

http://i.imgur.com/2b467.jpg

17 - FRANK OCEAN "Novacane" (375 Points, 17 Votes)
P&J - 16
Pitchfork - 41

http://youtu.be/TMfPJT4XjAI

ha Lex must be fuming right now

Not really feeling any of these :(

YIKES

Fav track on the album. Happy it's top 20

I love "Novacane" so much. The beat is so smooth and the flat-effect vocal really cements the story of the song.

lovin that image for novacane

she's such a clumsy lyricist and it's very difficult to overlook that.

you can make out a word she's singing? there is no enunciation going on here

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:34 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lex and dc in "not getting it" shocker

Yesterday was really hard going, bailed early and still have around 10 to hear

The tyler, ema and destroyer are kind of non-descript, don't mind any of them, will never hear any of them again

i can't get thru the EMA album but "california" is amazing

i think i saw somewhere someone call it the "anti-'all my friends'" which is pretty perfect

i wonder if maybe i'd started individual threads for k michelle's "for my cinderellas" or tiffany evans' "won't find me" or ariana harris' "city slicka" or teedra moses' "another luvr" then maybe we'd have had some better under-the-radar (ie non-beyoncé) r&b on this list siiiiiiigh

"Novacane" is a song I like when I hear it but can't be bothered to track down and listen to on my own.

i like that still frame
looks like klaus nomi in the smoke

The beat is so smooth and the flat-effect vocal really cements the story of the song.

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:46 AM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this

all of those songs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> frank ocean obviously

"novacane" sounded great on the radio too

i didn't vote for "novacane" but i dig it

i mean even way-past-her-prime MJB had several better jams on her album than this. "mr wrong"! or anthony david's "god said" which was as powerful a ~statement~ as was made in r&b last year

frank ocean would be alright if instrumental, he sounds like he's in an attic and can't get down again and also maybe a bit in the early stages of constipation

better than his other record though. all 4 records today inoffensive

EMA is so, so bad and unnecessary. why would you need that when you have like... the mellow parts of Sonic Youth songs?

glancing over my EOY list now. literally nearly 100 r&b songs i'd give the time of day before anything by f.ocean

the weeknd better not fucking place anywhere

lol good luck with that lex

I don't even really care about The Weeknd (maybe heard 1 song?) but I fully expect to see them pop up on this list

Yeah, I don't dislike Novacane enough to complain about it. It's nice enough, don't go out of my way to listen to it.

It's basically....7/10 for me. Nowhere near amazing enough that I'd put it on my tracks ballot but I understand why people enjoy it and don't begrudge it placing.

seriously though. what would it take for teedra or k michelle or tiffany evans to get the same sort of traction as this dude? a sex change and a tumblr account? ughhhhh

It's like all the tedious critical bait that we've been patting ourselves on the back for avoiding has all slurried into this section of the list. Tenner on the Weeknd to come next.

Is "California" a choreopoem?

"we've"
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Frank Ocean is okay, just okay. Hardly makes me want to jump for joy.

It's like all the tedious critical bait that we've been patting ourselves on the back for avoiding has all slurried into this section of the list.

This happens every year! I don't see why it continues to be a surprise.

I'm with lex on today's entries so far :/

btw lex you totally should have started threads for "For My Cinderellas" & "Marilyn Monroe", came across yr tumblr via Tom E's and discovered heaps of great stuff on yr EOY list!

And yeah, Marilyn Monroe deserved a thread of its own, etc. etc.

they should just let the one person who knows the most about music compile the list ;)

(xp follow on to my previous post) It's completely understandable, too; a lot of people like a lot of critical darlings but think they're somewhat overrated, so they end up floating around the 6-15 spot on about a bazillion ballots, which is going to overwhelm any record that 3-4 people feel really passionate about

This happens every year! I don't see why it continues to be a surprise.

This is true actually, things usually perk up for the top 10 though.

"for my cinderellas" is ridic good

FWIW I have now heard "Countdown" and it's ricockulously brilliant.

More people hear less records than people who hear more records, and the buzziest stuff tends to place higher because of it. I don't have any real problems with any of the tracks that have placed so far today (Yonkers is kinda stained by my own opinion of TTC), but yeah...people (even ilmers) who don't track down music obsessively and just kinda listen to what their friends like or what blogs/sites/magazines are covering tend to be working from a shallow pool when voting comes. (Not a slam, btw...do what you like!)

as is "marilyn monroe" yes!!!! brianna should be getting the traction that az banks is (though i love 212 too)

I actually like "Novocane" better than the last three; I think my moment of overwhelming bitterness was the Destroyer track, my feelings on which are probably very similar to what Lex is feeling now

think i've tried 3 or 4 times with that k.michelle song. not happening.

(Also: Dan, curious as to your opinion on this!)

I don't think there's anything special or distinctive about "For My Cinderellas" at all, aside from coming out 12 years too late?