ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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Sandro Verderosa 3 weeks ago
I worship him. he introduced me to the darkest side of my entire life. I can't explain how much visionary he is for me. H's always great!

ILM's undying Hot Chip love mystifies me.

aylesburyboi 1 month ago
This makes me proud to be from South London

dying @ that first comment

uncanny convergence of artschool twinks and Tumblr pagans

looooool this is crazy OTM

burial track is okay but doesn't justify its length at all

this song is 11 minutes long huh

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

never heard grimes, knowingly, maybe my circle of friends has changed as normally there are albums like this, eg it ruined the xx's first album for me. i'd say in 2012 talabot/pional was the omnipresent thing that became annoying, for me.

burial is the ultimate vague-vibes-over-substance producer, no time at all beyond "archangel" from back in the day

what does substance sound like?

btw if we're denigrating via moronic comments on youtubes we might as well never listen to any music again. not that i'd rep for recent burial, but the first two albums are brilliant.

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50. TWIN SHADOW "Five Seconds" [236 points, 9 votes]

Spotify / http://youtu.be/HiC9XNQSxFQ

I don't even remember noticing this name.

Like this one more now than I did when it was new.

dunno this one

x-post

(Maybe nothing to brag about. At work and not going to listen right now.)

after a near-flawless and almost wholly interesting start, this list is now on a four-song stretch of BORING

twin shadow put on a really good live show but his recorded music is kinda ass imo

when does the dang song start

i don't get how this is a big song at all

yeah sorry the video has like a 2 min intro

This board moves too fast for me ;_;

I picked Oblivion over Genesis because it has a better video and I think the lyrics are stickier - I like "Coming up behind you always coming and you'd never have a clue" and "I need someone now to look into my eyes and tell me/Girl you know you gotta watch your health". I do like that Kerli - Gravity came out in March 2012, and Grimes jacked the look immediately for a song that she released in August 2012. It points to quick, efficient, and timely production.

deej usually refuses to deign to vote and then whines about the results more than anyone else

― lex pretend, Friday, January 18, 2013 10:51 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anyway "five seconds" is great

still dig this song but i definitely didn't vote for it

Five Seconds throws some big 80s flags, but it's always sounded more like TVotR to me than anything retro.

how do ppl not find this level of empty pastiche choking

deej usually refuses to deign to vote and then whines about the results more than anyone else

― lex pretend, Friday, January 18, 2013 10:51 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i voted. what's your problem?

i fuck with the twin shadow record a lot but weirdly this is one of my least favorite songs on it

i am loving today 100% more than yesterday

twin shadow put on a really good live show but his recorded music is kinda ass imo

Sorta feel the opposite? But I've only seen him at P4k Fest.

i find haim a bit too pastichey but at least they sound like they're having fun doing it

yeah same

i voted. what's your problem?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems pretty obvious but: you accusing other people of whining about the results more than anyone else and then whining about the results more than anyone else? i.e. chill the fuck out on the whining

I don't find anything "pastichey" about Haim? It's not squarely 80s or 90s or 2010s, though it has a bit of "not in the present" feel to it. I think it's just a production choice on their part.

Twin Shadow otoh definitely reaches for a proper 80s sound and hits as often as he misses.

btw that twin shadow joint was 39 in pazz & jop for anyone that cares about such things

Oh! so this is Twin Shadow. Apparently I kept mistaking them for Twin Sister.

This sounds sort of... old. Doesn't it? as if it came out 6 years too late.

are you wilfully misreading a very simple post? not voting and then complaining is a different thing to voting and then commenting. also are you ignoring the posts where i'm being enthusiastic about songs? or do you have deeper issues to deal with?

xps to n/a

Haim is not pastiche, but the production choices make it sound dated on arrival.

this cher lloyd track is the worst thing i've ever heard, everything else is rly good

the EEUUUNGHHH!'s really make the cher lloyd!

i love the kfw track, not the kinda thing i'd vote for in this, but thanks to those who voted it in for reminding me to listen to it. love the haim remix and voted for it (also voted for 'don't save me' and i suspect we'll see it soon.) love 'toccata' but voted for the album instead. hadn't heard 'new york' before, first pleasant surprise for me so far.

not really down w/twin shadow unfortunately

oh yeah, meant to say the keith fullteron whitman track is great. i don't really listen to drone anymore but that made me wonder why (probably because it doesn't strictly drone)

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49. SANTIGOLD "Disparate Youth" [241 points, 9 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

This one was the first big single of the year for me.

It wasn't until just a few weeks ago that I realized it's basically a rewrite of "Making Plans for Nigel". I know mashups are passe, but I'd love to hear one made of these two.

when i'm reading other people's whiny bullshit i don't really care if they voted or not but don't let me stop you from making awesome insightful comments like "this list is now on a four-song stretch of BORING"

oh i love "disparate youth" - it was one of those songs that really stuck with me over the year, that i kept going back to, which i hadn't expected. there are some gorgeous, elegiac melodies on her latest album, those songs are pretty special - "the riot's gone", "this isn't our parade", "god from the machine" too. really like how it feels like it has a really wide scope but is really intimate too.

that hot chip song is for real boring

somehow i've avoided this santigold song the whole year but i like it a lot! those guitar stabs!