ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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.

everybody should watch the bruno music vid btw

I like the woopwoop thing in this song, I am not a big fan of this guy's singing.

think this was my #2

the one thing w/ "locked out of heaven" is that i think the verses are way better than the chorus.

This is 200% otm.

didn't vote for it but i'm so glad this placed, good job everyone

Oh, I've never heard the verse or bridge for the Bruno Mars song before. I like this!

percussive "ooh!"s make the song, as well as the ascending pre-chorus, as well as everything else about it

If I'd voted for this, which I didn't, it would've been on the strength of the verses.

kind of agree that the verses > chorus but i still love the chorus, it's a respectable peak

glad that a song that blew up so late in the year ended up doing pretty well in year-end lists, thought a lot of the people who came around to it in time wouldn't realize it was good until well into 2013

wouldn't mind a handful less 'woop woops' but otherwise amazing song. i'm surprised, i think the chorus hits really nicely. it's hard to sing along to tho cos bruno's voice is mad octaves high

oh shit i always forget about the bridge though

Cher's NNGH >> Bruno's NNGH

i like the woop woops, just, less please.

that sounds like marley meets the police in 2012. i like some of it, all those oohs are a little ridiculous though.

*looks at my ballots* wth I didnt vote for this

>:O

Great song. Police + "Melt With You" builds. The bits that sound like Journey are kinda superfluous.

nope i love all of the oohs

very jacksons i think?

also if u r curious the camera they use in the music vid is a ROLLEIFLEX

This is definitely Bruno Mars' best single and a well above average number 1 hit, but it still isn't too exciting to me. I guess it's about as good as some of the songs I threw in towards the bottom of my ballot, but I didn't vote for it.

been meaning to check this out despite bruno mars scepticism thanks to the hype, it is...not what i was expecting at all? this sounds even more like a lost minor 90s hit than haim

it's got a soaring chorus and all but i don't hear anything particularly, but if it's really going to be ubiquitous i'll withhold judgement for now

*particularly special

the Haim 'Hold Me' is weird to listen to, it almost sounds like another version of the song by F Mac themselves.

lex can you promise us that when gangnam style places you'll listen to it in full and liveblog for us your reaction??

glad that a song that blew up so late in the year ended up doing pretty well in year-end lists

doesn't this happen often with the end-of-year ILM polls? i remember hearing this song back in early-october which seems like forever ago.

lex can you promise us that when gangnam style places you'll listen to it in full and liveblog for us your reaction??

no, i don't really want to ever watch it or hear the whole thing

it's very popular

globally

lex can you promise us that when gangnam style places you'll listen to it in full and liveblog for us your reaction??

― 乒乓, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:53 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seconding this

wtf i would have thought lex would be down with gangnam style

iirc my first time hearing "locked out of heaven" and "gangnam style" was on the same day. on the radio, no videos.

xps I did that with Snow Patrol. I never heard them at all, and by the time I realized it, I wanted to keep it up. Then one night I had VH1 on tv and they played a video I didn't recognize and half way through I thought "oh shit, I bet this is Snow Patrol. FUCK!" and it was.

yeah the chorus in "Locked Out Of Heaven" is super weak.

lex it's for a very special thread, the 2012 year-end 77 best tracks of ILM thread

pissed i forgot to vote for gangnam style
i don't honestly know why i bothered to submit a tracks ballot at all

actually i think bruno mars' voice is a bit too...strained for me to love it, but not strained like that's his actual voice, but like he thinks that's how a "rock singer" should sound. it's a bit saturday night light entertainment.

i hate comedy and i hate fun, the idea of "gangnam style" just makes me purse my lips

i think that's just how bruno mars sings. i don't think he's reaching for a specific type of singing voice.