ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

don't really get picking tracks off the purity ring album as they are all similar (a strength in this case imo)

I voted for this, but Megan's little lost girl vocals are a bit wearying over the course of an album.

should be said that i'm really into the body horror lyrics

love the purity ring album so much but i kept it to the albums poll for the same reason as cad

That Purity Ring song was played to death on 6music and everyone in my office developed such a massive hate-on for it. It makes me understand where the Grimes haters are coming from.

all of you who need a shot of perspective re: how uncivil it is virtually anywhere else on the internet shd check the comments on that santigold youtube link

because O_O

imho you are all v mannerful and lovely

Its worth mentioning that neither the "Alison Shaw recites her poetry book" or "UK bass music from Alberta" bits would work individually.

lol that's true xp

I voted for this, but Megan's little lost girl vocals are a bit wearying over the course of an album.

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago)

You must really hate The Cranes.

imo this thread contains exactly the same amount of dickishness every year; make of that what you will

It occurs to me that "Five Seconds" is a very particular type of 80s mining; that of the closing credits of a action or teen drama movie.

ps. all i listened to all year was a bunch of mediocre-to-decent comedy podcasts so an extra thx u to everyone for showing me maybe the 3rd thru 77th new songs i've heard all year (i heard the two big songs i am not an APE)

well yes, but done very boringly xp

i spent most of year intending to check out purity ring and never getting round to it (i was disappointed when someone said they weren't actually witch house)

i like the thick gothiness of the backing but i really hate that kewpie doll girlish voice...not as bad as grimes in this regard but not something i want to hear regularly

those types of reactions to purity ring are interesting to me because i hear her vocals as extremely....matter-of-fact

Yeah, there are a lot of bands out there fronted by someone who sings like a kewpie doll, but Purity Ring don't strike me as a major offender.

more like purity BOring

purity ring are kindof not very good

no this is good

xp: Viceroy

Actually I'm nearly a Cranes completist. In the early work, Allison Shaw's voice is a witness to the assault, later its a distinction. Megan from Purity Ring isn't nearly as extreme, indeed I think some more inflection would be welcome the next go 'round.

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47. Haim "Don't Save Me" [244 points, 9 votes]

Spotify /Youtube

NICE!

Wasn't sure this had enough time to make an impact on voting, as it only came out in December (or maybe late November).

xxp Cool. I like The Cranes a lot too. I don't mind high-pitched/"kewpie" (IDGI?) female vocalists of any kind, even if they are kinda blase like Purity Ring.

think I've managed to ignore santigold up to now because of 1.) the name and 2.) that one album with the gross cover art

That's a shame. The one with the vomiting glitter cover was so great, and the more recent one is definitely okay.

purity rings is like a gothier school of seven bells with the vocal harmonies replaced by flying lotus compression, this album is sounding incredible to me right now

flying lotus flower bomb compression

i think i only like half of each santigold album but i really, really, really love those halves

Haim is great. I want them to get haircuts, though.

love both haim songs

i think i only like half of each santigold album but i really, really, really love those halves

― lex pretend

I think I agree.

trying to change 'hard as a motherfucker' into a phrase that would fit HAIM has been a display name failure that's dogged me all year

all of you who need a shot of perspective re: how uncivil it is virtually anywhere else on the internet shd check the comments on that santigold youtube link

because O_O

imho you are all v mannerful and lovely

Who the fuck cares what you think?

j/k

I love the little bridge?/breakdown? part around 2:21 in "Don't Save Me" where her vocal dips down really low with the "If I had to beg for your lo-uv...tell me...tell me" part.

yeah i really wish i had heard of haim before this poll, cuz these songs are the shit

since we're back on Haim, good time to mention that the Lissvik remix of Forever should not be ignored:

http://soundcloud.com/haimtime/forever-dan-lissvik-remix

Everyone seems to mentions Haim and 90s, but a 70s sound jumps out. (I'd have to listen again to try to be more specific about where it is in the song.)

they have been described as "fleetwood mac meets r&b"

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46. BRUNO MARS "Locked Out of Heaven" [246 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

STING JR!

yessssssssssss

xp where the "meets r&b" bit doesn't make a whole lot of sense though

Yeah, I hear the Fleetwood Mac thing to a degree. I forgot about that. xposts

TOO LOW

Haim sounds like 2013 to me.

xp:
Haim performs Fleetwood Mac's Hold Me.

lovin it

the one thing w/ "locked out of heaven" is that i think the verses are way better than the chorus. i don't think the latter really takes off as much as it wants to.