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

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

i prefer "girls like you" and i think i'm the only one who does, but "sure thing" is super great, both tracks sort of slowly enact upon you, but are great spacious, subtle, futuristic r&b. dude has a real sense for interesting vocal melodies, chordal shifts. at least that's my perception.

This one totally passed me by! It's pretty good, the little clicks and pops everywhere sound great on headphones.

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

so...

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

This is the same track, right? Uploaded in 2009 :/

That remix from Brook is way good.

yeah I already like it more than the first time I listened to it

also cad otm about the guitar sound; it's almost 60s garage-y

i prefer "girls like you" and i think i'm the only one who does

+1 here, but I like Sure Thing a lot too.

Also on Spotify in the UK: http://open.spotify.com/track/0JXXNGljqupsJaZsgSbMZV

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 think nostalgia has a lot to do with this: britney's like the one last holdover from a previous age of pop, and her survival in this era makes her seem like more of an oddity now. also the generation who grew up with her as omnipresent pop culture figure throughout high school are now old enough to be critics

I don't get comparing Miguel to something like The XX in terms of impact; those songs have a very clear, distinctive ethos to them that makes them instantly recognizable, whereas this dude sounds to me like 500 R&B singers who have been on the radio since 1995.

Everybody talks about the so-called Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey effect on modern R&B and no one really talks about the analogous Boyz II Men/Blackstreet effect on the guys

xxxxxxp: Disagree that people want Britney to be a 'big pop star', part of her charm is how she still keeps trucking on with her own thing, and even being successful/popular with it, despite not really being that big a pop star anymore...In the sense that people don't care about Britney as a public figure anymore, or as an icon, after that breakdown (I'm sure that participated in making Blackout critically acclaimed, even if it didn't sell, but now she's just a family person, there's no gimmick to her anymore) and the less than explosive comeback. But she still somehow manages to take part in creating these great singles and to sound only like herself.

I think it's as simple as people enjoying that, and I don't see any sort of cult of hype around her anymore.

(as I write this lex makes the same point in a more concise matter above)

"quickie" is really fun & awesome too... really looking forward to new miguel stuff this year

I don't really dig Miguel, but it's... not offensive, I guess? In fact I'm only posting to point out that he uses metaphor not simile.

In fact I'm only posting to point out that he uses metaphor not simile.

yup relistening i know this, when i was hearing it in my head as i was typing i managed to insert a few "like"s

Hehehe. It's actually more problematic as 'metaphor' also operates as the generic term, so a simile is a metaphor. But that's not what he's doing there. /pedant mode

I guess Snooze 4 Love isn't placing then :( Unless ILM has collectively snubbed Rolling In The Deep.

Also I like Gucci Gucci way more than the one other time I listened to it.

xp I think the latter is more likely than the former.

i would put money on ilm loving "snooze 4 love" more than "rolling in the deep", which i'm surprised you think would place at all

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

05 - TODD TERJE "Snooze 4 Love" (773 Points, 26 Votes)
P&J - 78
Pitchfork - 51

http://youtu.be/rQx5EAfirhc

:D fuck you adele

big jump in pts