THE 2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations! (ends Sunday January 6)

lol!

Albums:

Martin Eden - Dedicate Function

8/25

sorry i just don't get 'dance' remixes that are just mildly awkward versions of songs that were danceable to begin with

Was that to me? I didn't know these were remixes, tbh. I'm a big Eluvium fan so I checked this out, and while I don't like as much as any Eluvium album, I found myself listening to it at work nonstop the past two weeks.

If that wasn't referring to me, disregard. :)

ALBUMS

Marie Fisker - So, Hoes & Heroes

Danish Lynchian Americana, she's notable for past vocals for and remixes by Trentemoller. Available on Spotify, though I can't seem to add it to the ILM Albums playlist.
(30/30)

TRACKS:

FIDLAR-Cheap Beer
Zamutto-FUC3PO
jj-Beautiful Life
Ty Segall Band-Oh Mary

track

Pulp - After You

wait Pulp had a new song this year damn how did i miss that!?

recorded a decade ago but just released 2 days ago.

ohhh ok will have to check that out

ok i'm wrong: it's a newly recorded version of an old unreleased song, released on christmas

ALBUMS:

Quiet Village - Too High To Move: The Quiet Village Remixes
Woolfy vs Projections - The Return of Love

22/30

ALBUMS:

John K. Samson - Provincial
Dar Williams - In The Time of Gods
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
Tinashe - Reverie
Aimee Mann - Charmer
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze
Why? - Sod in the Seed

7/15

TRACKS:

Bruce Springsteen - Death To My Hometown
EMA - Take One Two
Lee Fields and the Expressions - Moonlight Mile
Justin Bieber - Die In Your Arms
Kitty Pryde - Okay Cupid
Ne-Yo - Lazy Love

6/15

TRACKS:

Stag - Pop Song
Nina Sky - Never Kissed You
Fushitsusha - Ore no Wake Mae
Gunplay - Bogota
Hospitality - Birthday
Lil B - Februarys Confessions
Vybz Kartel - Dynamite
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
E-40 (feat. Kendrick Lamar and Droop E) - Catch a Fade

9/15

TRACKS

Lil Durk ft King Louie - Get Paid
D'Prince - Why You Over There?

30/30

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness

I was going to call bullshit on this but apparently a) this is an actual 2012 thing, and b) is hilarious, especially with the video.

yes, the jauntiness, which initially made it seem a pleasant frivolity in comparison to the original, in the end came to feel both moving and meaningful. Video definitely part of the enjoyment.

The Bangles thread revive reminded me I really like this album, so I'll make it my 4th (and possibly final) nomination:

Susanna Hoffs Someday

(highly recommended to fans of Bangles, Hoffs, and classic pop in general)

Oops, to put it in proper format:

Susanna Hoffs - Someday

All that work for nothing...it's already been nominated :)

Oh good! For some reason I assumed it would get overlooked. Didn't even ctrl-f.

I'll probably only vote for 15 or so songs, but these would be in my second tier:

Madonna - Give Me All Your Luvin'
Flo Rida - Good Feeling (2011, but it peaked on Billboard this year)
Gyptian - Gyal Gimme Some
Liechtenstein - Passion for Water

i liked "Good Feeling" too but "Wild Ones" was better and more decisively 2012 imo

'Passion for Water' was released in 2010!

It is bloody great, though.

Yikes...I had it tagged as 2012 on my media player. With that in mind, I'd also like to nominate "Hey Ya!", "Maggie May," and "Desolation Row."

I don't know--if you do a Google search, Discogs and all the reviews have Fast Forward as early 2012...maybe there was a delay in the North American release?

Ah, yeah, I wasn't thinking about the album - the 7" came out in '10.

Okay, mystery solved: EP with "Passion for Water" 2010, LP with "Passion for Water" 2012. I'll leave it up to JF to decide whether it should count.

Borderline but I'd say it's probably ok, especially if the LP got a lot more attention (did it?). It's up to people to decide whether it's 2012 enough for them.

If it's on an LP that came out this year, that's fine with me (see: Delilah situation upthread)

"Wild Ones" was one of the worst songs on the radio this year

hey i heard that you hate fun
ooh ooh woo ooh

surely there's some fonkytimez remix that arbitrarily changes the BPM and chops up the vocals awkwardly that could win you over

aha shots fired at last

it's rare i have reason to troll rev so i must savor it

hey, I like "Good Feeling" alright, but "worst Flo Rida single of the year" in an annum that included goddamn "Whistle" is a fairly ignominious status

ha i wouldn't take "whistle" over anything

"Wild Ones" was one of the worst songs on the radio this year

― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but then again...

hey, I like "Good Feeling" alright, but "worst Flo Rida single of the year" in an annum that included goddamn "Whistle" is a fairly ignominious status

― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, December 30, 2012 5:13 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I plan to commission a fonkytimez remix of "no lie" dedicated to some dude.

ALBUMS

Laetitia Sadier - Silencio

12/30

i always end up nom'ing some stuff i end up not even voting for but heres some more

trax

twin shadow - run my heart
carly rae jepsen f/ owl city - good time
mr mfn exquire - cheap whores & champagne
king louie - o.d.
jel x main attrakionz x zach g - j bar

27/30

carly rae jepsen f/ owl city - good time

http://gifsoup.com/view6/3420038/hard-o.gif

Nooooooo that Carly Rae Owl City song is horrible. So many other quality jams on that album too!

Lol rev

i thought main attrakionz and mr muthafuckin exquire turned into pumpkins at the end of 2011?

lol i like that im out of step w/ both most of ilm and critical consensus as well, feel like i must be doin s.thing right

yeah just bustin yr balls, definitely keep doin your own thing, more people should

the thing about that Owl City/Carly Rae Jeppson song is that Owl City is fucking horrible and should be killed