ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Toccata was my #19. Album was half great, half ok, I should probably just edit out the couple of tracks I wasn't so into and listen to it a lot more than I have been.

Great remix. I loved the original Jaga Jazzist track back in 2010, but the Mungolian Jet Set version might be better. It keeps the basic Reichian pulse of the original but trades its menacing tension for a warmer, more blissful atmosphere.

Tocatta was p high on my ballot--

also, braggin: i took the photo j0rdan used. so mad he made it tiny >:-[

"Don't Save Me" is oodles better.

I just listened to it and nawwww. It didn't make me wanna listen again and I've already listened to "Forever" four times already.

Here's the original "Toccata," btw.

I changed my Angel Haze vote from "New York" to "Werkin' Girls", heh.

Enjoying this KFW on Spotify - saw him live this year but he was overshadowed by Pauline Oliveros/Model 500 on the same night, heh. Maybe because I'm from NZ and Birchville Cat Motel/Antony Milton (than new A.M. LP on Trensmat is great)/etc play live all the time, I think of drone stuff more as live music. Happy people are voting for it in the singles poll.

How did I miss this Mungolian Jet Set track, arrrgh.

the Angel Haze song sounds like it's sampling Lumidee "Never Leave You (Uh Oh)"

― billstevejim, Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 19:38 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's a freestyle over gil scott-heron's "new york is killing me" beat

As pointed out upthread, this Haim track definitely has a bit of Michael Penn's "This And That" in it's DNA. Probably why I like it more than "Don't Save Me", but I like the Michael Penn far more than either.

This is a fantastic stretch of the list - I pretty much love everything that's been posted today.

Toccata is wonderful, it's a reminder of how amazing Mungolian Jet Set can be when they tone down the wackiness and leave the annoying Muppet voices at home.

Toccata is wonderful, it's a reminder of how amazing Mungolian Jet Set can be when they tone down the wackiness and leave the annoying Muppet voices at home.

otm kicking myself i had this since release and haven't been jamming it every day

Tocatta is used breathtakingly well in this mix: http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/627

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56. JESSIE WARE "Running" [224 points, 7 votes] (184 points for Disclosure remix)

Spotify / Youtube / Disclosure Remix Youtube

great song! the original is WAY better than the disclosure remix

nice song. hoping to see "110%" or "sweet talk" as well

xp Right on, I'm only familiar with the video version of "New York Is Killing Me."

The first three tracks and the last two on the album are all great really. As long as I delete the awful 'People On Strong Stuff' I find the whole thing works really well as a whole. Even the long dark tunnel bits where not much happens work because the production and sound design are so gorgeous and you can pretend they're an extended build in a DJ set.

(xpost lol Angel Haze aside this is definitely the hippy yacht pop section of the list)

yeah i never really rated the disclosure remix myself. it's alright.

Night Light is the only Jessie track I voted for. I don't know now if it will place or not, but if it does it will be because of the Goddard remix giving it a bump.

That's ~probably~ my favorite Jessie Ware track, but my love for her is mostly about the whole album rather than any particular song.

(That" = "Running")

Night Light is the only Jessie track I voted for. I don't know now if it will place or not, but if it does it will be because of the Goddard remix giving it a bump.

this ware remix, otoh, slays everything

disclosure remix is not objectionable or anything of course, i just feel like the original conveys the stately emotional heft of the song better

There could be quite a lot of Jessie in the list, Finest Moments and 100% will surely be in there as well.

OG "Running" probably my favourite JW song.

that Mungolian Jetset track was incredible!! Totally rad!

Based on this, "110%", and "Aaliyah", I prob should give Devotion another shot - I was kind of in the wrong frame of mind when I first listened to it, I think.

Toccata is the first track to also appear on my list. Some of the tracks on the album suffer from what, for me, is often the problem of the MJS from the past: a basis of something fun/interesting that is kinda wrecked with something annoying, or at least distracts from the tune. But there's probably 4 songs on the album which should have been nominated.

Here's a great live version by Jaga Jazzist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28fk5jVxE2E

"Sweet Talk" is my favorite Ware song but this is a close second. The double-lead guitars! I always feel like I don't like Disclosure as much as I should tho.

...or, like MATT DC said
Toccata is wonderful, it's a reminder of how amazing Mungolian Jet Set can be when they tone down the wackiness and leave the annoying Muppet voices at home.

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55. JESSIE WARE "Wildest Moments" [224 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

Spotify / Youtube

this song was almost ruined for me by rtc saying "wildest moomins" but i've prevailed

I dont remember if I ended up voting for 110% or if it was a late cut, but that wz def my Jessie W jam. But Running is v good too

wot's wildest moomins choon

"Wildest Moments" is a good song but I've kind of developed a visceral hate of big stadium-rock drums.

Not as into Wildest Moments tbh

how could moomins ruin anything

It'll be funny if the remainder of the 50s is all Jessie Ware due to vote splitting.

That's the one I voted for. I can never work out whether the BBC actually played it during the montage at the end of the Olympics or whether it's just totally tied up with that time and I'm imagining it, but it's still an amazing song.

i'm SURE it was played over at least some olympics montages

i mean if it wasn't, fire whoever was in charge of that

Forever is so good but now I'm obsessed with Don't Save Me and wish I'd voted for that as well. Love the brightness of the melodies, love the production, love all the distinct moments of pleasure in the vocals.

Voted for New York too but Azealia Banks told me Angel Haze isn't really from New York so now I hate it because she's a faker.

OG Running >>>> Disclosure. Speeding up the vocals works on the Night Light remix but annoys me here for some reason. Hope to see another couple of Jessie Ware tracks further up the list.

rev otm about the guitars in "running", just >>>>>>>>>

oh shit it already started and i need to read back 988 messages so excited brb

Jessie Ware will probably be top five in the albums so I wouldn't worry too much about vote-splitting here.

Jessie Ware album was my favorite thing about 2012 music. I did not vote for either of these tracks, though I like them both, but I did vote for 2 other JW tracks.

Love Wildest Moments, which overtook Running for me in my reassessment for this poll.

i just looked up jessie ware's chart positions and it's kind of weird to me that she's never actually had a (top 40) hit! like i really felt she got a lot of mainstream traction and wasn't just a critic fav.

I voted for two JW tracks - could easily have been five. Her lack of proper pop success is baffling to me.

Wildest Moments p much the only song on the Ware album I actively dislike, but I get why people would.

I hear her in clothes shops a lot but idk if that's a sign of anything.

Wildest Moment was the first one I've voted on so far! I'm really discovering a lot of amazing tunes. Love Angel Haze and Mongolian Jetset as well, hated the Haim-one, as I've hated every guitar-based song so far.

The album went top five in the UK though, she's still pretty successful.