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

why is it bad?

hilarious top 2 given how much blood has been shed over multiple threads slamming both artists the past 2 months

Fuck Azaelia Banks and haven't heard Video Games but fuck Lana del Ray too. Nicki and Beyonce are the rightful winners. HARRUMMMMMPH. *folds arms*

haha brilliant xpost

these are some garbage songs today huh

the wayne verse is my least fav thing about my fav song of the year, but it's an OK loverman weezy verse with some good lines & a nice flow. i agree with deej that it's not bad. the humour/wordplay is unnecessary, i like new position/i put her on my plate and then i do the dishes but think a more earnest or romantic verse would have been more appropriate, turn that girl into a rainforest is dope but ...brainstormin just kills the mood

Emeli Sande is practically 'Unfinished Sympathy Pt. 2' no?

Emeli Sande is practically 'Unfinished Sympathy Pt. 2' no?

yup, which is why it's so awesome

Yeah I'll allow it the world could use more unfinished sympathies.

the wayne verse is my least fav thing about my fav song of the year, but it's an OK loverman weezy verse with some good lines & a nice flow. i agree with deej that it's not bad. the humour/wordplay is unnecessary, i like new position/i put her on my plate and then i do the dishes but think a more earnest or romantic verse would have been more appropriate, turn that girl into a rainforest is dope but ...brainstormin just kills the mood

― flopson, Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:52 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i don't really mind brainstorming, the do the dishes line is a little corny but 'hold her like a conversation' is a nice period on the verse i think.

Update re Perfume's apparent double-placing: 194th place is actually "King Louie - Too Cool", must have been a c+p error on my part.

As you were!

LBI: The "enthusiasm" score is the points total of a track divided by the maximum total it could have from the same number of voters.

So Enthusiasm = 1.0 if all voters for a track had it as #1.

Lack of Kush Groove itt is painful. Thought that was a lock.

Like (and voted for #1 & #2, in that order), but from their other output, I'd be content to never hear another song from either.

The Blawan is my clear favorite from today's batch, and I could listen to that on repeat.

yeah i don't really mind brainstorming, the do the dishes line is a little corny but 'hold her like a conversation' is a nice period on the verse i think.

― guilt is a useless emoticon (D-40), Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ us liking the opposite corny wayne lines

i don't mind either of those corny wayne lines

this is my annual announcement when i say i haven't heard any of these songs -- though it's not quite true this year, i must have heard the tune-yards since i played the record once through, and i heard the wild flag once though i remember nothing about it, and i think i heard whatever destroyer song was the first single from kaputt, which might have been one of these two. "212" is nice, i enjoy not being able to figure out what it's trying to do.

I might not 'get' this whole Chicago Juke thing

it's really important that that kid sister remix doesn't stop you from checking out juke lol

Thanks for explaining Sean!

I guess my imgur album is public, so lemme know if you can see all the images: http://imgur.com/a/gCkic

JF, the images look even more spectacular when they're all on one page like that!

tracks from 2011that i loved but didn't get nominated for the ILM Poll

great poll, discovered lots of stuff, the #1 is pretty good as was the todd terje, full attention, heaven, schoolin life and kaputt (i don't like dan bejar's voice neither but the excellent, intricate music somehow makes up for this). thanks johnny and seandalai! there were a couple of songs i voted for which placed in the end. besides the wilco - which is actually quite lame esp. compared to art of almost, it was destroyer's the laziest river, kate bush's snowflake, video games (a consensus choice). i am quite disappointed that james blake's the wilhelm scream did not make it into the top 77. where did it finish?

Thanks everyone who voted and posted on the thread this week. May sound nerdy, but this is exactly what I wanted to do on my birthday! The eoy polls are my favorite thing on ilm every year.

happy birthday jf!

too bad i didn't have a chance to watch results unfold live today buuuuuut the results were pretty fantastic so it's hard to complain

Great work Johnny (and happy birthday)!

I think a lot of these results (whether I or you or etc love or loathe any particular song in question) really capture a certain ILM aesthetic, not so much in terms of a particular style, sound or genre, but in terms of some kind of broader notion of pop music and music fandom.

This is a rare tracks list which really reflects a love of one-song-at-a-time listening, sharing and enthusing. The majority of the songs in the top ten make me immediately flash to the threads where that occurred.

happy birthday and great job JF!

Just got back from dinner and drinks.

Just want to say, Happy Birthday Johnny and thanks so much! I'll miss you ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2011...

Dude (gast! of: meid!) the album countdown is still on the way! :)

Another nugget...at joint 443rd place we have the four tracks that got a #1 vote and nothing else:

443 Acid House Kings - Would You Say Stop? 50
443 The Crystal Ark - Touch 50
443 Emeli Sandé ft. Naughty Boy - Daddy 50
443 Innercity - untitled 7" 50

"Touch" was my #1 (sob).

things i voted for today

EMA - "California"
first heard this through the video like Gucci Gucci and really think that's an essential component. too many good lines to count before the song drags at the end

BRITNEY SPEARS - "Till The World Ends"
voted for the remix, love the original too. rare jam that can get me excited for "whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"

missed the cut

Motivation - weird lapse, i.o.u. Kelly. this should have been high on my list
Snooze 4 Love - whoa didn't even know this! thanks ilx!
Countdown - last one I cut; knew it didn't need any help, best video of the year
Super Bass - not really a fan of the chorus
Videogames - Blue Jeans is better because of the tempo shift in the third quarter
212 - sure why not

happy birthday Johnny!! the eoy poll is always my favorite time of year too, thanks for making it so awesome.

i'm a teensy bit surprised that no gaga songs placed in the top 77, but i guess the only song people generally coalesced around was "the edge of glory" and no one seemed, like, super-wowed.

wish "countdown" had made it to #1 though

thank you so much, johnny and seandalai! and happy birthday Johnny. :)

Well, that was a lovely way to spend an evening; playing 1m30s-2m of each track as I skimmed the intervening comments... Thanks to living in a bunker called suburban mid-aged dadhood for the last year(s) I had actually never heard the top two. They're in the right order.

even though i don't actually strongly dislike any of the singles or anything lady gaga's 2011 output was bullshit imo

images look amazing on one page!

if there's one thing i missed it was people piling in with run-downs of their thoughts on each song, i encourage that to happen b/c it was great last year to read them. anyone & everyone please

Born This Way was my #1 of the year, yet I voted for none of its tracks.

no one agreed on which gaga songs were any good in the album thread so none of her songs placing isn't surprising. i liked a few on the album but i can't say they were huge losses to the poll. "scheiße" and "electric chapel" were pretty great.

Lex, will be doing a rundown hopefully at the weekend. Too busy right now.

terje should have been higher. and the lack of omar-s is totally baffling to me!

no lex, i hadn't

i think it's interesting how much more personalized 'tastes' seem to be getting, to the point that this list actually represents a lot of tastes that reach a certain group of people on ilx & when the right ppl cosign it, they sort of pick up steam. i'm think of, like, the love for 'drums' of course, and 'sure thing,' probably some others here; i guess this has happened for awhile, you could say the early interest in gucci was fairly ilx-centric, at least as far as critics go. Because I haven't seen much critic / blog love for "sure thing" or "drums" outside of ilx

anyway, i like 'drums' but think 'sure thing' is just ok, so this isn't a diss or w/e, just ~thinkin baout things~

seems like critic taste is more fragmented & localized on this new internets, moreso this year than in year's past, or maybe that's just more my perception this year than in years past, but anyway thought it was interesting

― guilt is a useless emoticon (D-40), Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:38 PM (4 hours ago)

how does it make any sense to lump 'sure thing' in together with 'drums'? the former was a huge hit! i mean i'm laughing as much as you are at ppl who know every note of the weeknd and all the other fake r&b blog songs but are just now discovering shit that dominated r&b charts like 'sure thing' and 'motivation', but 'sure thing' placing this well seems like a small victory to me

im talking about critics

sure thing & drums, from a critical perspective, are ILX-only phenomenons, as far as I'm aware

unless i missed like a stereogum piece on miguel or something

i mean, i'm not complaining about that, just observing that we can have our own little niche favorites from the pop charts or from the obscure reaches, it doesn't matter -- that i feel like that's happening more now, where small communities will pursue their own aesthetic preferences right into the wormhole so to speak

very glad I removed Video Games from my ballot at the last minute, there is no way that was the best song of 2011.

2nd best.

Yeah, I thought about including "Video Games," said to myself "Nah, it doesn't need my help," and left it off.

my invaluable perspective

Selena Gomez & The Scene – Love You Like A Love Song

YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE 1/10

Gang Gang Dance – Glass Jar

STARTS AWESOME ALL WOBBLY SYNTHS THEN THE BEAT BRINGS US BACK TO PLANET POP 7/10

Pistol Annies – Hell On Heels

NO TAYLOR SWIFT OR LADY ANTEBELLUM TO THRESH CORN TO THIS YEAR, AT LEAST THE ‘NIES DON’T HAVE A SHITTY NUPOP BEAT ON TOP 7/10

tUnE-yArDS – Bizness

PITTED AGAINST MICACHU, DIFFERENCE IS DISSONANCE (AND LACK OF COD-AFRICAN BLATHER) 3/10

Mogwai – Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BEAUTIFUL, THEIR GREATEST WORK, MY #4 10/10

The Joy Formidable – Whirring

NOT BAD, WOULD BE DULL BUT FOR THE FINAL ACT, SOUNDS LIKE AN ENGINEERS B-SIDE UNTIL THEN 7/10

Junior Boys – Banana Ripple

OK, ROUTINE, LONG 6/10

Big Sean ft Nicki Minaj – Dance (A$$) Remix

IT SEEMS ILM SKEWS ASS 2/10

Invisible Conga People – In A Hole

IF I SMAEKED MORE WID I MIGHT ‘VIBE’ 2 THIS, DIG THE LO-FI PRODUCTION, GETS AN EXTRA POINT FOR ECHOTASTIC OUTRO 8/10

Barbara Panther – Moonlightpeople

DECENT SYNTHESIS OF CLASSICAL POP VOX + CUTTING-EDGE HERBERTZ, I WAS DIVERTED 7/10

3BallMTY ft. El Bebeto & America Sierra – Inténtalo

UNREPENTANTLY GARISH 4/10

Tuccillo – Disco En Paradiso

ILM! ILM! ILM! ILM! ILM! ILM! ILM! ILM! *set to four-on-the-floor beat* AH FINE YOU CAN HAVE THIS ONE 8/10

John Talabot ft Glasser – Families

I’VE COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT 5/6 OF THIS LIST WILL BE TRENDY ELECTROPOP BUT CAN IT AT LEAST BE EXCITING 3/10

Diddy – Dirty Money ft Skylar Grey – Coming Home

DON’T YOU LOVE HOW CHART RAPPERS DEMONSTRATE THEIR ECLECTIC RANGE OF TASTES AND INFLUENCES BY EXPRESSING A DEEP AND ABIDING LOVE OF COLDPLAY 2/10

Steffi ft Virginia – Yours

CAN IT AT LEAST BE EXCITING 3/10

Locussolus – I Want It (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)

ENOUGH ALREADY (GETS BETTER BUT ONLY AFTER I’D HAVE TURNED IT OFF IN LESS EXHAUSTIVE CIRCUMSTANCES) 5/10

St Vincent – Surgeon

NOT UP THERE WITH ACTOR’S FINEST 7/10

DJ Quik ft Sugar Free & TYS – Nobody

CATCHY, NEAT PRODUCTION TOUCHES, SUITS HEADPHONES 7/10

Yuck – Get Away

ISN’T EVEN ILM-BAIT, LIKED THE FIRST 15 SECONDS THO 2/10

The Go! Team ft Bethany Consantino – Buy Nothing Day

EXACTLY THREE AND A HALF TIMES BETTER THAN YUCK 7/10

Battles ft Matias Aguero – Ice Cream

WASN’T FULLY INTO THIS UNTIL THAT COUNTERPOINT GUITAR LICK 8/10

Wild Flag – Romance

REDEEMED BY THE ORGAN 6/10

Gang Gang Dance – MindKilla

FLITTED BY WITHOUT LEAVING ANY SORT OF IMPRESSION, SADLY 5/10

Danny Daze ft Louisahhh! – Your Everything

SCORE ONE FOR THE LEX 8/10

Kate Bush – Snowflake

MISTY WAS MY #7, CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO VOTE FOR THE ALBUM 10/10

Beyonce – 1+1

TRIES SO HARD AND IS REWARDED BY BEING SUPERIOR CHINTZ 5/10

Konshens – Nuh Pull It Up

FOR A SONG WITH SO MANY SONIC LAYERS IT DOES LITTLE FOR ME 6/10

Confounded – Little Dog

LO-FI FIELD-RECORDING AMBIENCES NEVER HURT ANYONE 5/10

Frank Ocean – Swim Good

GULLS! NOW I GET IT! 3/10

Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters (John Talabot Remix)

HAD TO DELETE MY ORIGINAL REVIEW, COMPLIMENT INTENDED 8/10

Katy B – Easy Please Me

I HOPE THE POOL SOUNDS ARE IN THE ACTUAL SONG TOO 5/10

Creep ft Nina Sky – You

ATTACK OF THE BREATHY VOCALS 5/10

Benoit & Sergio – Walk And Talk

INDISTINGUISHABLE 3/10

Waka Flocka Flame ft Kebo Gotti – Grove Street Party

THIS & I FUCK NOT 2/10

Nadia Oh – Taking Over The Dancefloor

WEIRDLY LUMBERING 5/10

John Maus – Hey Moon

OH THIS IS MAKING A FUCKING BIG EFFORT TO SWEET-TALK MY INNER TEN YEAR-OLD 8/10

The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?

I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT THE RAPTURE & I SHOULD HAVE PARTIED MORE OFTEN, THIS REMINDS ME IF ANYTHING OF ‘HOW TO OPERATE WITH A BLOWN MIND’ SANS MR TRAIN 9/10

Beyonce – Schoolin’ Life

PLENTY O’ SURFACE, NO HEART 4/10

Gotye ft Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know

CATCHY CHORUS FAILS TO OFFSET UNFORTUNATELY AUDIBLE LYRICS 3/10

2NE1 – I Am The Best

WHY AM I GRINNING 8/10

Wilco – One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BEAUTIFUL, THEIR GREATEST WORK (ESPECIALLY THE LAST 3 MINUTES), MY #5 10/10

Pitbull ft Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer – Give Me Everything

FUCK OFF. FUCK OFF NOW. FUCK OFF WITH YOUR VOCAL HARMONIES AND YOUR CATCHY CHORUS 5/10

Jay-Z and Kanye West – Niggas In Paris

MY FAVOURITE TRACK OFF MBDTF IS NOW ‘HELL OF A LIFE’ BTW 5/10

Rebecca Friday – Black

IT’S FRIDAY (IT IS! IT REALLY IS! SHE HAS COPYRIGHTED 1/7 OF MY LIFE!) 11/10

Fucked Up – Queen Of Hearts

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I’M STICKING THIS ON AGAIN 9/10

Terror Danjah ft Ruby Lee Ryder – Full Attention

MORE AUTECHRE 5/10

Seany Mac – One Of Those Days (Organ Mix)

THE SWEET SUMMER SISTER OF ‘FULL ATTENTION’ 5/10

Big K.R.I.T. ft 2 Chainz, 8Ball & MJG – Money On The Floor

NOW YOU NEED A BANDNAME 2/10

Destroyer – Kaputt

AS I WRITE THERE REMAIN FOUR MINUTES 2/10

PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder

VERY INTERESTING, DOESN’T STICK THE LANDING 7/10

Robyn – Call Your Girlfriend

MY WIFE POINTED OUT ROBYN TO ME ON THE TUBE RECENTLY, I DID NOT GET IT AND I STILL DO NOT (EDIT: 2.5 MINUTES IN THIS SUDDENLY CLICKS INTO POSITION) 7/10

Katy B – Broken Record

HOWEVER GOOD THIS IS, THERE ARE TWO KATY BS AND ONE KATE BUSH SO FAR 7/10

Joe Goddard ft Valentina – Gabriel

HER WAILING IS KINDA PERSUASIVE HUH 7/10

Nyan Cat – Nyan Cat Theme

4CHAN IS A BOMB OF LOVE 8/10

Jacques Greene – Another Girl

DOES MORE THAN A LITTLE WITH VERY, VERY LITTLE 6/10

Rihanna – We Found Love

EXTRA POINT FOR THE AGYNESS DEYN BIT 3/10

Diddy – Dirty Money – Sade

EXACTLY FOUR AND A HALF TIMES BETTER THAN THE OTHER DDM SONG, DUDE’S ON A SONG WITH THESE FUCKING SONICS? 9/10

Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers

LISTENING TO THIS WITHOUT WATCHING THE VIDEO FOR THE FIRST TIME, IT IS PROBABLY WORTHY OF 7/10 IN THIS CONTEXT, WHICH IS THE CONTEXT I HAVE CHOSEN

Destroyer – The Laziest River

HAD BETTER NOT BE 20 MINUTES OF WHATEVER THAT LAST DESTROYER TRACK WAS. *20 MINUTES PASS* OK SEVERAL THINGS. 1) BRING BACK LANSING-DREIDEN FFS 2) EXACTLY FOUR TI…ETC 3) I HAVE NO INTEREST IN LISTENING TO DESTROYER AFTER TONIGHT BUT 4) THIS IS SOME GORGEOUS ACCIDENCE OF SOUND DESPITE BEING 5) MARRED WHEN THE VOX COME IN JUST AFTER THE 10-MINUTE MARK, CAN’T IT JUST HAVE CARRIED ON LIKE THAT OK 6) I THINK YOU GET THE POINT NOW 8/10

EMA – California

DOESN’T QUITE REACH THE SKITTISH HALCYON IT SEEKS 6/10

Frank Ocean – Novacane

HIT THE ROAD! EXPRESSWAY! EXPLODE! 6/10

Benoit & Sergio – What I’ve Lost

MUSIC FOR BESPOKE CLUBWEAR 5/10

Emeli Sande – Heaven

MUSIC FOR BESPOKE CLUBWEAR IN 1996 5/10

Kelly Rowland ft Little Wayne – Motivation

I CANNOT VIBE 2 ANYTHING WHEN THERE IS A WEAPONS-GRADE TERRIBLE RAP OCCURRING 3/10

JoJo – Marvin’s Room (Can’t Do Better)

I PREFERRED IT WHEN SHE SLOWED BIEBER DOWN 8X 4/10

Cass McCombs – County Line

SET LASERS TO ‘DEAFEN’ 2/10

Blawan – Getting Me Down

JUDGE JUSTICE TOONVOICE RETROHOUSE WOULD BE A PASSABLE NAME FOR A LAWGIVER 6/10

Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci

BITCHES EVERYONE, BITCHES. BITCHES. 5/10

M83 – Midnight City

NEXT YEAR, PLZ DO ME A FAVOUR AND EXCLUDE PITCHFORK PLACEMENT FROM THE TRACKS’ WRITE-UPS 3/10

Desloc Piccalo ft Adiah – Drumz

IT’S COOL WHEN SHE SINGS INTO YR EAR HALFWAY THROUGH AND I’M REAL HAPPY FOR U ILM BUT I MUST GRACEFULLY DECLINE, I HAVE NO SOUL THOUGH AS YOU’RE AWARE 5/10

Britney Spears – Till The World Ends

AS RECOMPENSE TO JORDY S AFTER THE ABOVE ATROCITY I WILL SIMPLY QUOTE HIM WHOLESALE: 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 3/10

Miguel – Sure Thing

THIS TOP 20 IS PRETTY ME-RESISTANT EVEN BY USUAL STANDARDS, YET ONWARDS I WRIGGLE 3/10

Todd Terje – Snooze 4 Love

CAN GET W/ THIS DESPITE ITS ODIOUS PERFECTION 7/10

Beyonce – Countdown

DRUMS IN THE CHORUS ARE OFF. THE. CRAY. 8/10

Nicki Minaj – Super Bass

I JUST REALISED THAT ILM IS NEVER GOING TO BE ANY OTHER WAY NOW, NOT NOW – AN EMPOWERING AND LIBERATING THOUGHT, AND THIS AIN’T SO BAD ANYHOW 6/10

Lana Del Ray – Video Games

THE HARP THAT MAKETH PROFUNDITY 8/10

Azealia Banks ft Lazy Jay – 212

IF STUPID HOE WINS TRAXPOLL ’12 THEN I AM SUGGEST BANNING EVERY SINGLE POSTER ON ILX, TWICE 8/10