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

xx/Sure Thing analogy was meant simply to illustrate a song that many ppl felt indifferent towards at first but then grew to love intensely.

sorry if it was distracting

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― CJ Fam Club (seandalai), Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:01 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's so masterful that i can barely believe it exists

Rolling in the Deep was #78, btw.

how DO you do that ILX?

Rolling in the Deep was #78, btw.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:01 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck you adele :)

love this but ended up voting for ragysh

ha can't keep up with this thread.

pleased to see miguel place so high.

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.

this is so OTM.

also true that it doesn't quite hit at first. when it did finally click for me, it ironically coincided with a pretty brutal break-up. :(

snooze #1 love

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there is something uncanny about it huh? i think i ended up preferring ragysh but really cool to see this place so high.

snooze 4 love yessssssss

A lot of ILMers probably like/don't mind "Rolling in the Deep," but I doubt that anyone's all that passionate about it
^this. Scraped into my Freaky Trigger poll ballot, but not my ILM one.

haha #78!!

i love ragysh, too, possibly more, but i couldn't help going with the strategic vote for mr terje

There's nothing you could do to improve Snooze 4 Love at all. It is basically perfect for what it's trying to do.

Also one fifth of all voters voted for it, that's amazing.

adele @ #78 is a joke imo

this countdown has entered the realm of the truly mysterious to me

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011 9:33 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^am addicted to these bits

JF does not joke

78 Adele - Rolling in the Deep 180 7 0 0.51 0.82 23 1 0.95

Snooze4Love is the only one so far that I've voted for, I think

IF Snooze 4 Love is perfect for what it's trying to do I guess I'm not interested in what it wants to achieve. Pretty dull for too long, and once it gets going I've lost interest. Such is life.

I don't fully understand how this got to #5?

I mean, it's nice and all, and that's about it...?

"Snooze 4 Love" just missed my ballot, but I played it again yesterday and realised it should have been there...

lots of people like it and it appeals to different voting contingents xp

i am having a little rave at my desk to this. hands in the air and grinning mdma face and everything

I suppose it was sitting on New Answers next to the phrase MASTERPIECE ALERT for the whole year.

Gonna predict:

4. Azealia
3. Beyonce
2. Lana
1. Nicki

I don't know that I ever let this track play all the way through on previous listens -- it does settle into a nice groove halfway through.

and Studio broke up xp

Undeniable track. Perfect, except too short.

want to be on a beach right now ughhh

I think Inspector Norse is going to be big on 2012 trax poll

in retrospection, I regret I didn't vote for "Snooze". that's one case of wonderful programming

"ragysh" is basically...just as good, right? a bit more driving and a bit less pretty but man that EP was something else

I don't entirely understand why the word "beach" automatically gets thrown around w/r/t stuff like "Snooze 4 Love." It feels rather chilly to me.

212
Video Games
Super Bass
Countdown

Was thinking the other day that Swing Star has a plausible shot at being my #1 next year.

mad love for ragysh but the portamento/grace notes thing really makes s4l special

Huh, Snooze 4 Love is another song I have never heard before, but much prefer its clean forward-moving vibe than the crying in the club vibe.

I did vote and applaud for Britney though because she is way beyond crying. She's just waiting for it all to end and having fun in the meantime.

If I had my ballot to do over again, this would've been my #2 behind "Heaven"...

http://i.imgur.com/ZhFc0.jpg

04 - BEYONCÉ "Countdown" (911 Points, 29 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - 2
Pitchfork - 7

http://youtu.be/2XY3AvVgDns

I'm ducking out - not interested in what order these next four pop up - but thanks to Johnny and seandalai for doing the hard work. Well done gents!

I don't entirely understand why the word "beach" automatically gets thrown around w/r/t stuff like "Snooze 4 Love." It feels rather chilly to me.

ppl are making Ibiza rave associations

let me just say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veW3qgtS384

<3 that jpg

Only heard Countdown yesterday, but it's such an amazing song. Totally curveballing sidewinding mindfucking fantastic pop.

well, the Scandinavian disco-ish scene has had a balearic/beach-vibe fetish for a while now

xpost to jaymc

what does the beach symbolize to this generation of non-surfers

wow i thought this would be higher - i guess B suffered vote-splitting though

my #1: i kept it off my other ballots b/c i don't like to vote for trax by an artist whose album i've voted for, but i realised that the extent that this dominated my 2011 as a track was undeniable

BOOF BOOF

bit bored of countdown now because I caned it so much last year, but yeah BOOF BOOF

such a good top 10 (minus m83)

but COUNTDOWN SHOULD BE HIGHER

what does the beach symbolize to this generation of non-surfers

― crüt, Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:15 PM (16 seconds ago)

probably "vibes" and "good-times"