ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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.

Tame Impala was more fun in 2010 when the band was just the Aussie equivalent of Dungen and not such a critics' darling. But I still like 'em.

Which ones are the rock tracks? Tame Impala and Japandroids? Maybe Pulp and Chromatics could slip in under that designation, but barely.

people probably vote-split between 'same damn time' and 'turn on the lights,' obv the latter's gonna do much better xp

I actually think TA is fine but I don't get what's special about them

"Same Damn Time" easily my fav so far

Japandroids straight up suck though

i voted for both, problem solved :)

Not my favourite day ever in an ILM pollout; just one of my votes placed (Javiera Mena) and just one new discovery I really loved (Lapaz Toyota). Roll on tomorrow!

Nicki Minaj - Starships. Is this a fucking joke? Rhyming "fly" with "sky" and THEN "high"? And the terrible Guetta breakdown. Awful awful awful.

Japandroids - soooo boring.

"Lapaz Toyota" - decent. Wish the drumrolls and "lapaz toyota" bits weren't there. When is this "Barbara Streisand" shit gonna end? Although it's interesting how it's pretty restrained here and is just another element among the mountain of hooks in this song.

"Snapbacks n Tattoos" - sounds so reserved after the previous track. Whoa...how did this become a hip-hop track?

to return to the chromatics, I agree that prob not as good as their earlier neon ice palace work, but still good, and it helps to watch the music vids, they probably have my favorite aesthetic out of any band in music rite now, warm fuzzed out 8mm revivalism

http://i.imgur.com/Yk0NblH.jpg

Wait...there's a difference between "Funky" and "Jackin'" house? Hair-splitting, IMO.

digitaldjigit you ought to listen to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BayLotJJeXE

of all the aussie stuff to take off i never would have expected lame impala to be the biggest. also worst production, fridmann must die

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Those jackin house tracks (and others I've heard) don't sound like funky to me at all, and I'm not remotely a specialist in this stuff.

I do like how restrained those two jackin tracks are, with just the right placement of sounds and vocals

Anyone care to tumblr these? the way they did with the electronic poll?

http://ilxpolls.tumblr.com/

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.

― the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Monday, January 21, 2013 2:43 PM Bookmark

As much as I love "Same Damn Time", voting for Pluto and "Turn on the Lights" and "Loveeeeeee Song" felt like enough.

I bet loads have voted for their (TI) album as well. This shit is even more unbearable than Jarvis Cocker.

voted for 'my cabana' and 'you want me' so far. love 'luz de piedra de luna', but think of it as a 2010 song.