ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

lol yeah this is a good song but

I fuck with 'Hot Right Now' but that doesn't quite count and yeah Rita Ora has zero personality whatsoever.

rita ora is most underrated pop track of the year imo (or maybe the one big the wanted single) and "domino" is like a top 3 katy perry track, i didn't even know it was jessie j for like 3 months

rita ora glottal stops like hell except for when pronouncing her own name

she might have an antisocial personality

This song was Cher Lloyd's breakout hit in the US. I guess "Oath" isn't going to go anywhere but they play/played it on the radio where I live. I think it's alright but I would never have thought to vote for it.

off the top of my head, two pop tracks that no one cares about that sound just like that cher lloyd track but that are better: rita ora "how we do (party)" & jessie j "domino" (plus some one direction tracks)

1) not really 2) it's almost like cher lloyd is really charismatic on record and her personality elevates her song

still not really sure how this spacker managed to crack the septic market

Still annoyed they took the grimey one off the album for that.

Radioactive was my particular Rita Ora fave of the year, but that whole album is full of ott ridiculous gems that are awkward and clumsy and loveable and full of personality imo.

2) it's almost like cher lloyd is really charismatic on record and her personality elevates her song

cuz she makes a sound with her mouth?

re: New York, I might have had the phrase 'chicken noodle soup face' going round my head more than any other last year. Along with perhaps punctuating transitional movements with 'lapaz toyota'.

haha I forgot about UNNNH. hahaha

aren't they all just making sounds with their mouths at the end of the day

I really hate her enunciation on 'Want U Back' but I'm not going to blame her for that and instead focus on going back in time to assassinate whoever gave Lily Allen a record deal. See also that AlunaGeorge track upthread.

"how we do" (and rita ora in general) is nowhere near as bubblegum-teenpoppy or unserious

jessie j is a pest who would ruin even the best song in the world

lots of people care about one direction

my fav new cher lloyd song of 2012 ("want u back" came out here in 2011) was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NviFGo8Ddd8"">"riot!". "new world order, can't eff with our shit" <3 and the key change at the end <3

lol @ me loving what you guys hate. It's like I'm in a bizarro world.

2) it's almost like cher lloyd is really charismatic on record and her personality elevates her song

cuz she makes a sound with her mouth?

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stop being obtuse

i had zero investment in Cher Lloyd's career, thought the way she became famous was pretty Karmin-ish, just really liked that song

"Radioactive" is the only Rita Ora song i've heard that wasn't 100% awful

I love the awful ones too.

<3 for HAIM, Tocatta and Angel Haze.

Only Jessie Ware song I voted fo was 110%. I wasn't expecting it to rank higher that Running or Wildest Moments... I'm abandoning hope that it has a chance of placing at all now.

ora/j/lloyd songs have guitars but otherwise if you think they all sound alike seek medical attention immediately

btw fun fact if you put your ear to the ground and listen very carefully you can faintly hear 'domino' being blasted in hell

Ah also surprised to see Keith Fullerton in the top tracks. That was a nice surprise, enjoying the countdown today.

lol

Rita Ora/Jessie J/Cher Lloyd all seem to have a common ancestor in Gwen Stefani imo.

I guess the Cher Lloyd track popped up at extremely opportune moments for me, on public transport, restaurant patios, etc for me to pay full attention to its giddy charms. It veers so close to Radio Disney level treacle but that's part of the allure imo.

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53. HOT CHIP "Let Me Be Him" [227 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]

Spotify / Youtube

forgot how dope that song is

ora needs to holler at vatican snares or whatever for the collabo, missing a trick there babe

I thought this Hot Chip lp was a improvement over the last, but I can never remember what any of its songs sound like until I'm actually listening to them.

haha well of course cher lloyd isn't charismatic if we compare her to dude from hot chip

LET ME BE HIM

hot chip are such journeymen

joe goddard should just ditch his band and concentrate on production

Like most Hot Chip tracks it's a bit of a dog's breakfast and really depends on my mood whether I can make it through or find it sweetly devotional but it's a nice "Life in a Northern Town" pastiche regardless. Would prefer if they focused on Joe Goddard remixes etc obv.

haha xp

can the person who voted first place for this please come to reception, i wish to point and laugh at u

not cool

but right!

so mundane!

I think I know who voted it #1. It wasn't me me by the way.

I like this song fine. Didn't vote for it. Wouldn't even cross my mind to make fun of THE PERSON WHO voted it #1.

This is no way to talk about Deej really.

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52. GRIMES "Genesis" [229 points, 11 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

making fun of that person is better than accusing people of not really liking a song they voted for

this song is great but for the life of me i can never remember which one is called "genesis" and which one is called "oblivion"

Shockingly low (?)

pleasingly low for grimes, or does she have more to come that i should prepare myself for

oh hey finally a hit from my list

that's not grimes' big track, lex

I voted for the song she did with Blood Diamonds, but I have no delusions that it will place.

this song is good, oblivion is the better one (only track from the album i actually returned to) and will surely place high

<3 Grimes but it didn't feel right to vote for a track, couldn't even tell you which one "Genesis" is.