ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

love that japandroids song

ugh, japandroids are so SINCERE in a way that is very put on to me. i don't buy their shtick at all.

it's a pretty good track tho all things considered... i can only do them one song at a time tho

While I agree with emil.y that the structure itself is boring on paper the anticipation-release on Faith is worked to perfection and the voice is engaging, the corny 'you never lost faith..' is writing that is again, made to work. Templates are almost always boring on definition and then they are made to work time and again with great execution...why they are templates to be used in the first place.

Would have loved to listen to this on the Tokyo subway that's for sure. The Tube doesn't quite have it somehow.

alright let's all forget about japandroids now

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64. GURU "Lapaz Toyota" [204 points, 6 votes]

Spotify /Youtube

Also, I heard (from a propositionee) they're pretty skeezy about trying to pick up girls in the audience after shows. So are most bands, I guess, but anyway. There's that. xps to Japandroids

Chromatics - lasted about 10 secs.

Japanoroids lasted 15 secs.

tune! hopefully more afrobeats to come

So glad to see Lapaz Toyota on here, even though I voted for Karaoke. Yeah, more afrobeats!

This is a fun one!

Chromatics - lasted about 10 secs.

Japanoroids lasted 15 secs.

This is why I've decided to just stop commenting for now unless something I really like comes up. I think only one track I voted for will make it.

shed a tear when i saw that 'obuu mo' wasn't nominated.

this is fun but I can't get over there being a new artist named Guru RIP ;_;

On first listen "Lapaz Toyota" is very cool. Well done, ILX!

rev otm

Is he singin "lick my dick"?

singing

rev otm

ez also otm

excellent work ilm

The Guru thing definitely made me raise an eyebrow. But the song is great.

This is neat.

ooh i like this v much

best thing so far I hadn't previously heard.

ugh, japandroids are so SINCERE in a way that is very put on to me. i don't buy their shtick at all.

There was an article that seemed to suggest that there was something disingenuous about Japandroids' fetishization of youthful tear-your-heart-out urgency. The argument's kind of disjointed, but there's a worthwhile point in there:
http://www.spinner.com/2012/10/26/japandroids-celebration-rock-essay/

Ive done karaoke with one of the guys from japandroids, they are mos def sincere dudes. xp

nice beat, funny video, good dance. one of the best yet.

fuck i love lapaz toyota

This is pretty informative: http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/02/lungu-lungu-lapaz-toyota/

possibly best thing so far, regardless. xps to me

looking forward to the next 63 entries of rappin with alex in manhattan

shouldn't we make a poll after the poll when everyone has listened to all tracks which have placed?

no

TUUUUUUUUNE, such great fun to dance to this. Lapaz is a suburb of Accra, works as a nice counterpoint to "Gangnam Style" in terms of an ironic evocation of a locale.

Would feel stupid going on at length about it when Tim F nailed it in his EOY thread:

"2. Guru - Lapaz Toyota

"Lapaz Toyota" is consummate azonto not merely in the sense of being tremendously good, but also in the sense of taking to their logical extremes all of the style's most winning qualities, or rather that one quality of its qualities, the way that everything that happens - the tense string riffs, the metallic pings and scrapes, the ricochet beats, the cacophony of different voices all chanting different earwormy hooks - happens at once, in a barely coherent yet somehow flawless explosion of ideas, or perhaps less an explosion then the largest, most confusingly spiraling set of falling dominos ever. At first, "Lapaz Toyota" is like a carnival ride that moves too fast for you to feel sick, to even absorb much other than the constantly mutating dazzle of colour and shape. After a few replays, though, you get a sense of its motion and patterns, and the fun shifts to anticipating each new development, an oddly angled synth riff signaling the arrival of a drum build-up which seems to trigger a shouted vocal interjection which itself sets off something else again in an endless loop of breathless excitement, the sheer inevitability of each new trick almost as enjoyable as the tricks themselves - how could its creators ever imagine it, and keep it all in their heads long enough to commit the result to tape? For a more subtle, sinuous take on the same idea check Guru's hypnotic "Anything Goes" from 2011, which but for its release date would be my second favourite azonto tune of the year."
― Tim F, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 05:38 (2 weeks ago)

cheers for that sendalai - I was always confused this ghanaian was singing about a toyota in the capital of bolivia.

(x-post with seandalai's link)

There's a fair few things I like about the Guru track, but fucking house stabs! Again! Argh! Tear out my ears!

Lapaz Toyota: yesss, a Ball J Beat made it!

ball j made it

Actually, the more I listen to it, the more I can ignore that one sound, b/c it's full of lots of other sounds that are fucking ace.

i have such a stupid smile on my face whenever i listen to this

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63. DONKIE PUNCH & LORENZO "Snapbacks n Tattoos" [206 points, 6 votes]

Youtube

well if this isn't the best thing in the world

yep. hadn't heard it before i assembled my ballot but it was definitely the most fun song among my last-minute listens

There's a fair few things I like about the Guru track, but fucking house stabs! Again! Argh! Tear out my ears!

― emil.y, Monday, January 21, 2013 1:36 PM Bookmark

but house stabs are the best thing in the world tho

was gonna say

Obv the last two tunes are my two favourite things ever.

I remember seeing this on the noms list, but thought "Donkie Punch? Next..." and didn't listen to it. I should've.

not as good as actual stabs

xposts