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

what the hell

Isn't Jojo the woman who does jobbing cover versions of music that isn't on Spotify in like double-quick time?

mdc how quickly you forget the 13-year-old starlet who gave us "leave (get out)" ;_;

I mean seriously, what the hell

my favorite Marvin's Room remake

I hear very little rawness and swagger in Jojo. I hear major posing, which is pretty repulsive to me. I can see how it would appeal to some people but this it feels so heavily medicated, like she's singing it through this drugged-out fug in the corner is just not my thing for real.

I didn't vote for the JoJo version of this song because I hate Drake. The rawness of it is just so much more intense, and the lyrics make more sense sung from her point of view

i can't believe i have to listen to the drake version now

JoJo is the woman who was previously the girl who is Leave (Get Out) and Too Little, Too Late and that puppy love rap duet with Bow Wow.

Then she was in label hell for a while and put out a decent electronic-ish r&b mixtape and then this.

(And it's not just about spiting Drake. It takes everything I love about Marvins Room - production, melody - and gets rid of everything I can't stand - Drake's weak delivery, the creepy/uncomfortable character narrating the whole thing - and replaces it with strong vocal delivery and a narrator who is actually flawed but interesting instead of just calling up ex's while drunk and negging them.)

it feels so heavily medicated, like she's singing it through this drugged-out fug in the corner of a club

i thought your entire argument against the weeknd was based on hating exactly this

yeah i didn't vote for this to spite drake at all - if anything jojo showed me that there was worth in an original i had no use for at all

I don't know anything about Drake - what's his deal, and why is he so bad and hated?

woops xposts

she's really not interesting tho
xxxp

you are better off knowing nothing about Drake

I don't hear posing in JoJo's version at all. she sounds vulnerable and hurt

Anyway. It's not necessarily about hating Drake - I liked his album. It was just outside my top 25, but I enjoyed it.

I just felt that on this particular song, JoJo's was more emotionally engaging, interesting, etc.

rawness and swagger = swearing basically. I thought Jojo was teen pop!

I do think Jojo is posing p hard, and that's why I like the Jhene version better, tell me what you think of that one, LL...?

damn what a dreary run of songs so far today. cheer up, ilm!

all this really highlights to me is how there is nothing to "Marvin's Room" that I think is worth listening to

self-involved uninteresting sobfest bullshit, gtfo all of it

iow Alex in Montreal otm

it feels so heavily medicated, like she's singing it through this drugged-out fug in the corner of a club

i thought your entire argument against the weeknd was based on hating exactly this

jojo commits to an emotion and is also in a club, not her bedroom. idk she just paints a way more specific emotional picture

I don't hear posing in JoJo's version at all. she sounds vulnerable and hurt

otm - also mixed-up and a bit drunk too, though, which lends itself to things like the sexting line that la lechera might have interpreted as posing? she's playing the crazed ex-gf here but also creating a character the listener sympathises with

The Jhene one is good also. It just felt less confrontational and more needy to my ears. But also a highlight.

I dunno, I guess I just hear someone who has nothing better to do with her time than lie around in a fug and sing about boys. I just think it's kinda lame, I dunno. I don't hate it or anything. Just not interesting to me personally.

So Drake, Jojo, Chris Brown, Paula DeAnda All Been To Marvin's Room ?

WHO THE FUCK IS MARVIN ? -____-

Sharpiekiidadree1 21 hours ago

lol

Re: Drake.

Noz nails most of it for me in this review:

http://i.imgur.com/TEaI4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qYD6a.png

this is retarded. it's the same fucking song.

well i mean its a break up song (xp to LL)

the closest i have gotten to placing a track today was voting for a different tyler song.

which one jjj?

Does it matter? They're all bullshit.

http://i.imgur.com/j385X.jpg

12 - CASS MCCOMBS "County Line" (399 Points, 11 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - 22
Pitchfork - 8

http://youtu.be/sOcnITphyjk

sandwiches

nice xp

^ some Dan Fogelberg shit imo xp

Cass used to be p awesome, but idg him now.

man it's funny
the drake version is the worst song i have ever heard
while the jojo version is, in fact, the greatest song i have ever heard

what the fuck are all these songs? I don't think I've heard anything in the last 5-6 tracks...

anyways Alex I thought the confrontational stuff in the Jojo was kind of rmde (though again surprising for coming from someone I had previously pigeonholed as teenpop) basically, I think Jhene's Marvin was basically my token Weeknd-ish Bukowski-soul song from this year

i could not make it through that song

just goes to show how sprawling ILM can be... considering I'm on the music threads each day, every day and I don't recognise probably about 50% of the stuff in this rundown...

ha I thought County Line was going to be some country song I'd been listening to all year but didnt know the name of

lol the first things that came to mind from the Cass McCombs song were Chris Isaak's "Wicked Games" and Gus Gus's "Why", both of which I like a hell of a lot more

The apparent ILM popularity of this song is pretty baffling to me.

yeah this kinda sounds like it might be "Hollywood sadcore"

nothing much Hollywood about it IMO?

what the fuck are all these songs? I don't think I've heard anything in the last 5-6 tracks...

to be fair you hadn't heard OF "countdown" and "super bass" so...

i know who cass mccombs is (was recommended him years ago but don't think i ever got round to it) but didn't know people were being impressed by him this year, but...listening now, i can kinda see why this has placed highly. real strong sense of mood and melody - really like the sparseness of it. was it off an album?

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...the gangsta Glenn Campbell

xp just lol-ing Simon

Chris Isaak's "Wicked Games"

heh, an alt country "wicked games", that explains why i'm liking it

("wicked games" is one of the best songs everrrr obv)

From the album Wit's End. xps