ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

my only criticism his his repping for true religion trousers

Here I was looking for entomological/botanical metaphor

the apiarian metaphor is the beat

my only critcism is he changed his name from tity boi

have read other people on here being dismissive of 2 chainz' verse on this which is just crazy imo

― 乒乓, Monday, January 21, 2013 12:29 PM Bookmark

srsly!

GOT MY TOP BACK SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT I BEEN THINKIN/ AND IF YOU KNOW ME YOU KNOW THAT I BEEN THINKIN FRANKLINS

also essential: http://soundcloud.com/schwarz420/beez-in-tha-ha-ft-kevin-jz

speaking of the devil...

http://i.imgur.com/c7B3TJr.png

67. NICKI MINAJ "Starships" [200 points, 8 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

i've just realised how sad i'll be if "the boys" misses the 77

xp YES though!

if it weren't pimpin I'd be gettin i
PERIOD

tity boi historians, what does T.R.U. stand for?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

"starships" is pretty dope, redone is a mad genius

I have totally succumbed to Starships at this stage. As a bit of enormous pumping Guettahouse it works in a way that so many of these things don't. Having a chorus that isn't utter shit helps.

i thought this was gross when it first came out but by the end of the year all i ever wanted to do was to get really really drunk and dance to it in communal settings

AND I AIN'T PAYIN MY RENT THIS MONTH - I OWWWWWWWE DAT

contra so many other memento mori club pop the beauty of "starships" isn't that we're dancing cuz the world is about to end, it's that we're dancing because tonight will never end

q: how many redone songs can people admit to loving while still pretending they think he is an awful producer?

a: apparently limitless

"higher than than a motherfucker" and than the ludicrous drops, i can't not dance to it, i am actually going to dance a bit around my room right now

still can't stand "Starships" :/

weird thing is i like all the other edm-pop songs on RR tho

yeah i only barely started to tolerate this song, surprised by the legit love for it

was fortunate to almost never hear this outside of my own volition, i.e. on like my first two passes through RR and just now

That song was inescapable and is horrible.

this song is completely tacky and ridiculous and also the first thing here that i voted for, hmmm

that fucking bass

that kind of hip-hop is quite ok as party music, it has a nice, positive vibe. and it is even melodic. to dance to this i'd have to be very, very drunk though...

still can't get over how bad the video is

Actually, I don't really like 'Starships'. Nicki makes it an okay song, but it's not quite enough.

It's a little too LMFAO for my liking but Nicki elevates it.

yes thank goodness y'all, our first example of non-shite hip-hop, good ole starships

still can't get over how bad the video is

― prolego, Monday, January 21, 2013 10:40 AM (2 minutes ago)

lol it won a VMA

???

in a fan-voted category i have to assume

i can't see it, german copyright law, the strictest in the world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Female_Video

top comment on vevo: "this porn has fucking awful music"

Occurs to me that 'New For U' is like a half-finished Metro Area track...

"Starships" was absolutely massive live at the Nicki concert I went to, which helped me come around to it. I voted for it, and I genuinely can't remember if I voted for "Beez in the Trap" or not!

"Beez..." is the only Nicki track I voted for, would really rather see "Gun Shot" or "The Boys" over "Starships".

fun fact: valley in "starships" video same shooting location for this

that kind of hip-hop is quite ok as party music, it has a nice, positive vibe. and it is even melodic. to dance to this i'd have to be very, very drunk though...

― miesepeter (alex in mainhattan), Monday, January 21, 2013 8:40 PM (9 minutes ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1nr5dneK61r1bcejo1_r1_500.gif

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66. DAWN RICHARD "Faith" [202 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

the drop in faith was drop of the year

Tune.

"faith" is such amazing build-and-release

it's even more so 3/4 of the way through the album

didn't vote for this but for the album instead, but it really deserves to be higher

Okay, yeah, this is one of the Dawn Richard tracks I'd heard before, and I still don't like it. I quite like her use of "cheers to you", though, hahaha. It is a shame, though, b/c from the other track I was hoping I'd been missing out on something and she was actually up my alley to some degree.

god, that is boring.

Who pissed in your corn flakes today?

"faith" is pretty much nothing like anything else on armor on, and therein lies its power

she repeats the trick on goldenheart to a degree

he does this in the trax countdown every year

Yeah the drop in Faith is absolutely masterful, as is its positioning in the album. Love how it's brazenly stolen from that Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie XX track and boshed up. You only really need one track like that on your album, the perfect balance of bombast and restraint.

She doesn't pull the trick off anywhere near as well on Goldenheart.

lol Matt DC's "dick in your face post"