ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Should note "You Want Me" is like the absolute opposite of an instant tune though.

I first heard it way back in Feb or March or so and was like "yeah this is a pretty nice follow-up to Hannam's "Love You Girl" remix", and then found that it just grew in my estimation fairly consistently over the course of the year.

Just this deeply compulsive hypnoticism that eventually feels totally hardwired into yr nervous system like when it's playing the blood is pulsing in time in the veins on the top of my hands.

uk funky seemed to get much more traction on ilm than jackin and yet "It's What You Do" barely got into the top 77 a few years back

i can't recall where the best uk funky trax placed? "in the air", "do you mind", "bongo jam", "fallin' again" etc

this is the greatest thing

xp What years were they? I don't remember any of those titles.

goofy wiley raps + choice r&b sampling...

Love those eeeerie sounds building around then it breaks onto the rap 2mins in...just unexpected, seemingly out of place yet totally appropriate. xps

That love you girl remix was so dope too

If pre-2010 then ignore my q

sweet victory

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Haha Tom zanetti Facebook wormhole

Can't keep up. Some thoughts so far:

Dawn Richard - the musical equivalent of "Battlestar Galactica" - so much bathos. Lighten up a little?

AlunaGeorge - the track itself is so much better than "Pretty Wicked Things". UK dubstep better than US shocker. I like the vocal and it allows the track to shine through.

Andres - lacking variation? The heck? There are so many little details. What's that voice whispering? Admittedly it would work much better in a mix than on its own.

Javiera Mena - amazing song. But I thought it came out in 2010? I definitely put it on my best of 2010 mix.

G-Dragon - the hypertrophied commercialism of K-Pop really turns me off. It's kinda cool how their videos "sample" other videos. As with other K-Pop I doubt anyone would give a shit about the song if the video didn't exist though the chorus is fun and quite ravey (makes me think of "Poing").

Ty Dolla $ign - I love that the tradition of signing off with your name continues in hip hop

"Same Damn Time" - love the bombast and the cheap video. I gotta admit I love shouting in hip hop especially as compared to the blunted affect of "My Cabana" (for example).

"Beez In The Trap" - refrain reminds me of Schoolly D's "PSK". How many guest spots did 2 Chainz do last year? Seems like he is everywhere.

also london had a really terrible 2012, no?

ok can someone traversing the wormhole post the Tom Zanetti + tiger pic :D

I think the #32 placement for "In the Morning" is the best a UK funky track ever did.

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61. TAME IMPALA "Feels Like Only We Go Backwards" [214 points, 8 votes]

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japandroids are such a token rock band for critics who don't really like rock music

that's it for today

i can't recall where the best uk funky trax placed? "in the air", "do you mind", "bongo jam", "fallin' again" etc

Strictly speaking "It's What You Do" is actually slightly better than even the best of those, but yeah I don't think any funky ever did astonishingly well on the poll.

Possibly more vote-splitting at work though, it seems to me that with jackin' there's a bit more consensus around what constitutes the absolute cream of the crop (i.e. I don't expect any other jackin' tunes to place now that these two have).

ok can someone traversing the wormhole post the Tom Zanetti + tiger pic :D

― Mind Taker, Monday, January 21, 2013 10:26 PM (3 minutes ago)

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tame impala is kinda token rock too. them and japandroids are the frank ocean/miguel of rock

Can take or leave Tame Impala, don't really get the hype. Cool video though.

i enjoy the overwhelming psychedelia of the tame impala track but it can't totally distract me from the pointless tune

these guys really really like john lennon, huh?

oh well at least it's unlikely that there'll be a 20 minute wilco song on this year's list

tame impala are really good but i have no idea how anyone can tell one song from the other

Tame Impala - another 10 secs I need back.

my eyes spent so much time glossing over tame impala as the most irrelevant bit of sundry EOY lists that it actually surprises me to learn they have a following on ilm

these guys really really like john lennon, huh?

― The Reverend, Monday, January 21, 2013 10:31 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post

what's up with the bragging about how little you made it through a song? listen!

But I already own the Dukes of the Stratosphear record.

The video is really cool, actually, and almost puts the song into a context where you can forget it is a sub-par Beatles-obsessed nonentity. Almost.

Hadn't heard Tame Impala before - is this what Modular sounds like these days? As a Kiwi I think I'm passively exposed to enough Unknown Mortal Orchestra/Opossum for me to relish engaging w/the Aussie equivalent.

Very very cool video, decent song

How many guest spots did 2 Chainz do last year? Seems like he is everywhere.

that gif posted upthread is great for the reversed gender dynamics that lex noted, but it also captures why he works so well on Beez: he's like the pixie-stick snorting younger brother buzzing around his deadpan calm older sister. It's a classic comic strip/cartoon kind of combination.

yeah tame impala is very "oh ok that's nice but i won't remember it in 5 minutes and will never want to listen again"

lots of good-but-not-great for me in today's results, still excited to hear the rest tho. "lapaz toyota" is my pick of the day easily

what's up with the bragging about how little you made it through a song? listen!

it's less bragging and more an exclamation of disgust

for the record i lasted five seconds into it so i have xyzzzz beat

That Tame Impala has exactly enough awesome to fit into a car-commercial. And then nothing happens. Hate it.

You could make sure no-one one-ups you by just not listening at all.

everyone discovering Lapaz Toyota might want to bookmark Afrobeats 2013

tame impala are really good but i have no idea how anyone can tell one song from the other

I think "Feels Like..." got traction on EOY lists and such just b/c it was a single and has a cool video. But the other single, "Elephant," stands out from the album a bit more, IMO.

ILM poll is the time each year where I'm confronted with things I ordinarily wouldn't hear (even with the Spotify noms playlist, I can't devote attention to everything). I'm with J0rdan in that giving everything a shot is the best way to experience these rollouts. You're not going to like everything, but boastful hating is lame imo.

I really want japandroids to go on tour with japanther and japancakes. also, for bands to stop with the japainful japunny japandnames.

― Frederik B, Monday, January 21, 2013 4:17 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm, will never listen to any of these bands

Stood through an hour of Marcus Nasty mixing jackin last Thursday (expertly, must be said) and was left pretty unmoved. "You Want Me" is making a lot more sense tho. Perhaps these things really need an MC over them to be interesting to me. Same with "Au Seve" actually, only makes sense with Maxwell D being super dorky over it.

recap:

77. DAWN RICHARD "Pretty Wicked Things" [188 points, 6 votes]
75. CHROMATICS "Kill For Love" [188 points, 7 votes]
75. ALUNAGEORGE "You Know You Like It" [188 points, 7 votes]
74. ANDRÉS "New For U" [190 points, 6 votes]
73. JAVIERA MENA "Luz de Piedra de Luna" [190 points, 7 votes]
71. PULP "After You" [192 points, 6 votes]
71. G-DRAGON "Crayon" [192 points, 6 votes]
70. TY DOLLA $IGN "My Cabana" [193 points, 8 votes]
69. FUTURE "Same Damn Time" [194 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
68. NICKI MINAJ FT. 2 CHAINZ "Beez in the Trap" [198 points, 9 votes]
67. NICKI MINAJ "Starships" [200 points, 8 votes]
66. DAWN RICHARD "Faith" [202 points, 7 votes]
65. JAPANDROIDS "The House That Heaven Built" [203 points, 7 votes]
64. GURU "Lapaz Toyota" [204 points, 6 votes]
63. DONKIE PUNCH & LORENZO "Snapbacks n Tattoos" [206 points, 6 votes]
62. NICK HANNAM & TOM GARNETT FT. TOM ZANETTI "You Want Me" [214 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
61. TAME IMPALA "Feels Like Only We Go Backwards" [214 points, 8 votes]

I haven't heard most of these but I'm waiting for the spotify playlist to be done so I can listen to all of them at once.

Thanks so far Jordan. Bit underwhelmed at the beginning but there are five killer tunes in here.

As for the rock tracks we should all stop this and go back to our Sun City Girls stash.

rmde

even though i agree re: rock

only one of mine to show up so far is "Same Damn Time," which was my #1. pretty lame that it actually did better on P&J than on ilx.