ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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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)

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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"

Does "Faith" really fade out like that or is that just the YT link?

Pleased to find the extended version on YouTube the other day, doesn't add a lot, but is unmixed: here

Tbh it is quite boring. I mean, obviously the build/drop structure is designed specifically not to be boring, but... with overuse it becomes a boring technique, and without anything else to back it up... it's boring.

this song (faith) will forever be associated with taking the subway in tokyo for me. it's amazing.

I like the fact that most of the bass is withheld. It adds to the feeling of anticipation

I've really tried to get into Dawn Richard, and I know everyone's going to disagree with me here, but there's just something about her voice that just seems really anonymous to me. Just can't connect to the songs at all. :/

'faith' is not bad, but yeah it's largely because of that drop.

Does "Faith" really fade out like that or is that just the YT link?

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, January 21, 2013 12:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on the album version it just kind of quickly transitions into the next song

for me it's not even abt the big drop but when that rhythm kicks in at around 1.40

Tbh it is quite boring. I mean, obviously the build/drop structure is designed specifically not to be boring, but... with overuse it becomes a boring technique, and without anything else to back it up... it's boring.

But isn't overused, not in the track itself, nor in context of the album which really does flow like a DJ set with that as its euphoric peak. I mean if you listened to it in the middle of a load of other eurohouse R&B it wouldn't work anywhere near as well but context is everything in all dancefloor-oriented music really.

Also yeah the whole verse-chorus-verse technique can get totally boring after a while. So formulaic!

i'll give alex in mainhattan one thing: he's making me miss dog latin's wide-eyed naivety

change ---> heaven ---> faith was the most amazing sequencing of the year

(I'm not even that annoyed by Alex here, random grouches add to the gaiety of the nation at times like this, the opportunity to use that gif was just too tempting)

enjoying this a ton. that future track kills, it's the combination of monster bombast production and relatively laid back in the cut verse imo, kick-ass video too. love the pulp song and j.c.'s vocal (?!) but then i never listened to them much.

Yeah great list this year so far,

change ---> heaven ---> faith was the most amazing sequencing of the year

faith ---> scripture made it even better!

I'm a little behind here (was at out while most of these were unfolding), but so far I particularly like the Javiera Mena track. I'm not particularly into the main dance beat structure, but I like the song blowing through it. But it's the kind of thing I might otherwise easily turn off shortly after it begins, which is probably why I don't remember hearing it.

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65. JAPANDROIDS "The House That Heaven Built" [203 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

(I like but don't love the Dawn Richard I've heard.)

Also yeah the whole verse-chorus-verse technique can get totally boring after a while. So formulaic!

I know this is sarcasm from you, but it's true.

ive never heard japandroids before and this is not what i would have expected them to sound like from the name

mskcouric 1 week ago

Sounds like shit you hear at the end of a Coors Light commercial.

Japandroids is the type of thing I'm sure I'd have tons of fun if I saw them live but don't care to listen to on record.

xp: That Dawn vocal, however impassioned, is kinda anonymous compared to the one in PWT.

A few weeks ago I realised I had zero idea what Japandroids sounded like but that album is a blast.

who is that? bruce springsteen's son? i'd prefer to listen to the house that jack kerouac built.

p sure his thing was not building houses

i like the japandroids song but i feel like they're a band that's a step away from letting themselves be totally emo and that kind of restraint bothers me

There are so many better rock bands around than Japandroids.

i never heard japandroids before. sounds like a wimpy version of hot water music. i don't mind it actually