ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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]

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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]

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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.

Oh okay, I thought Genesis was the bigger of the two. Oblivion is certainly still to come then.

i am thoroughly confused at how 'oblivion' ended up her big song, it's one of my least favorites from the record while this one is really sublime

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

the unmemorability of her songs is why i DON'T like her!

idk, it was always the one i liked most and i didn't understand why none of the reviews praising her album ever mentioned it. and then it started being the one everyone put on the yr-end lists

OBLIVION will be top-5 surely

I assumed this *was* the big one actually, it's certainly the one I've heard around more.

The rising synth line in this one is pretty memorable I think. It's way better than Oblivion.

people always act like coffee table dinner party album is such a lol strawman but grimes was for really realsies the undesired faint background muzak to so very much of my illstarred 2012

Listening to the Grimes album is a very memorable experience for me and I gave it loadsa points. I just rarely select individual tracks from it.

This is one of the 3 good tracks on that album (but all of those are really good).

all the people saying genesis is better than oblivion are going to be eating their words when oblivion ranks higher than genesis, objectively proving its superiority

I think "Genesis" and "Oblivion" are both great -- I like the former just a bit better -- but I don't give a shit about the rest of the album.

?

I think everyone has acknowledged that Oblivion is still to come, but liking Genesis more is a fair position.

genesis is my preferred grimes. whiffs of halcyon & on & on

love grimes

how you can like a song that is ranked lower more? doesn't make sense

Have no strong opinion in either direction on Grimes. She exists.

oblivion is way better... ♫bloopbloopbloopbloopbloobloobloobloop♫

I can think of four songs that will definitely be above 'Oblivion' and am frantically casting around for a fifth sure thing.

voted for both....the album is an indistinct mass for sure but i love both those songs.

people always act like coffee table dinner party album is such a lol strawman but grimes was for really realsies the undesired faint background muzak to so very much of my illstarred 2012

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:12 (5 minutes ago)

gallery openings rather than dinner parties for me, but it was an uncanny convergence of artschool twinks and Tumblr pagans. whenever I try and remember a track off this album the "hey hey wanna play" bit off "Vanessa" from a few years back overwrites any of the more uh diffuse vocal melodies off this album.

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51. BURIAL "Kindred" [236 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]

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