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

i didn't know this was britney!

Really? This is like the standard Britney template now!

I had the remix on my ballot at some point, but I've cut it. Still, a great tune, even though the vocal hook was a bit hard to accept in the beginning

Just sounds enormous. Not 100% sure it's the best song on the album but it's still an absolute rush.

yeah it makes sense i think whenever i hear one of these songs i assume it's someone new and not britney *again*

original version is so limp sounding. remix goes harddddd

ANYWAY BRITNEY
WHY THEY SO JELLY SINCE YOU TEAMED UP WIT ME

anyway "Gasoline" is my favorite off of that Britney album, but in terms of the singles "I Wanna Go" >>> "'Til The World Ends" imo.

i agree with this - as great as the remix is it's still got, like, ke$ha on it, ew.

album held up surprisingly well (i dismissed it at first) but i don't think it's a landmark pop album or anything. really astonished that so many people do.

production is really great, i'm def not much of a britney guy but this is one of her better songs.

i assume everyone voted for the remix with nicki, anyway

I don't know that I've ever actually heard the remix. Will listen now.

i don't think it's a landmark pop album or anything. really astonished that so many people do.

Landmark? No. But it's surprisingly solid.

ANYWAY BRITNEY
WHY THEY SO JELLY SINCE YOU TEAMED UP WIT ME

TELL EM THEY MY SON YEAH TELL EM THEY MY PICKNEY

does this make nicki the first to rhyme "britney" and "pickney" since dizzee?

There's an urgency about this track that I haven't gleaned from any of her work in eons. Like she actually WANTED to be singing that day.

"surprisingly solid" is what i think of it, but "surprisingly solid" tends not to be good enough to get an album my vote in anything

"gasoline", "seal it with a kiss" and "i wanna go" are jams though

There's an urgency about this track that I haven't gleaned from any of her work in eons. Like she actually WANTED to be singing that day.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah that makes a lot of sense imo

My fave pop album last year besides Gaga was Jennifer Lopez's Love? which was universally slept on even though it was full of big tunes.

Okay, lol - turns out when I wnt to listen to 'Drums' I ended up clicking on this chill neo-soul track and I was all 'this is amazing!'. Felt pretty deflated once I hear the actual song though.

the remix is NOT better. it has fucking ke$ha on it, ewww.

the original gave me so much life in 2011. it's like the ultimate end result of robo-britney. sure it's a template, but it's the perfection of the template. i'd be happy if it was the single to end her career on.

"Drums" doesn't excite me, but it's pleasant.

Yeah, listening to the remix, I'm not sure what either Nicki or Ke$ha add. I mean, I'm always happy to hear Nicki, but I don't think it takes the track to a new level or anything.

i aired my grievances w/ this track on the sandbox p&j thread, but suffice to say i think this song is pretty damn average even going by dr luke standards, and that no one would give a shit about this song if britney hadn't become a critical golden child circa "toxic"

I thought the production in the Britney song was awesome, but I feel like the main hook is really hamfisted and doesnt go anywhere

this is actually my problem with On the Floor also, except I dont think I liked the production as much

the remix is NOT better. it has fucking ke$ha on it, ewww.

feel like this more or less justifies my hypothesis that if this was a ke$ha song, no one would really care about it

(ilm excluded considering her placements on this list last year)

I think the main hook is the only decent part of the song! It's like the opposite of "I Wanna Go"

I still don't like Toxic, but I like dis.

she's certainly done much better before "toxic" and much better since

j-lo's "on the floor" >>>>>> anything britney made last year

I don't think Brit did become a critical golden child. Toxic is ace and Blackout as an album is A++ good, but Circus and its attendant singles were mediocre at best. There are a couple of bangers on Femme Fatale singles wise but the album as a whole is ok, but not great.

yeah i disagree

prolego has a certain prescience; this def felt a bit like a late-career top 40 hit from some 70s AOR band

j-lo's "on the floor" >>>>>> anything britney made last year

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:39 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

"golden child" was prob a bit of a heavy term, but i think ppl give deference to britney post-comeback despite her songs not really being all that

(disagreeing w lex & j0rdan btw just in case that wasnt clear)

and i'm excluding ilx in this discussion cuz i don't remember ppl caring all that much for 'blackout' outside of here

idk i just think she falls into the category of pop stars who ppl pretend are much better than they are out of a desire to have BIG POP STARS... and i think a lot of it has to do w/ the cult of her celebrity going back a few years

i know this is all ad hom, but so it goes

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

06 - MIGUEL "Sure Thing" (579 Points, 18 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
P&J - 68
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/q4GJVOMjCC4

Circus and its attendant singles were mediocre at best.

"Womanizer", "Circus" and "If U Seek Amy" were all great; the only thing she's put out that's been halfway as appealing since was "3"

"I'm A Slave 4 U" is still her best single.

yessss

also loved this remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsCX38BuHs

viiiiiiiiiiiiibes

"sure thing" is fantastic... one of the best produced songs of the year

ha i was just listening to that remix last night for the first time, it's pretty cool

huh where was I all year, I never even heard of this song

I have tried to like "Sure Thing," but every time I listen to it, it seems rather forgettable.

like this still for this one

oh YES miguel - forgot this might place! this was the song that snuck under my skin all summer, it took me a while before i realised how much i loved it. it's just the perfect sweet summer loving vibe. it was such a telling contrast with the ~critically favoured~ r&b of last year and i loved it so much.

all the corny similes stacked up on top of each other are key to its appeal imo, it creates this tension of miguel trying so hard to find the right way to put into words something that you can't put into words.

Physical Therapy is A++. This mix, their Alicia mix from last year. etc. Also responsible for alerting us to that Seany Mac song via the Therapy Session, Vol. 1 mix.

Whole Miguel album is solid as hell, but sad I didn't know that in 2010.

i'm not totally in love with this song but glad to see it place anyway.

another dope remix from Brook D'Leau of J*Davey:

http://soundcloud.com/migmoney/sure-thing-brook-dleau-mix

'blackout' being a part of the all-time pop canon now is so not just an ilm thing.

anyway, yesss at this amazing run continuing.

can't say i think much of this guy as a singer but production is indeed excellent.

something very appealing about his voice though

I guess the vibe for Sure Thing is that its deceptively forgettable, but turns out to be catchy and lovable...? that's what a lot of folx were saying when they polled the "top R&B singles of 2012" That's what folks were saying about the xx record in 09...

I havent listened to it enough to learn to love it yet I guess

love the guitar sound

I guess the vibe for Sure Thing is that its deceptively forgettable, but turns out to be catchy and lovable

p much