ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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.

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

haha are you quoting their press release??

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

it is very serious he wears a suit and everything

i like the bruno mars. hadn't heard it before!

a song has to be really good to get me to the point where i'm singing "cause you sex takes me to paradise" around the house and walking to work and clapping my hands and bobbing my head and shit

lol brad

what is lex's position on LMFAO

trying to imagine how one could appreciate the cher lloyd song without "fun" being part of the equation

Gangnam Style bores me.

I like how we are getting the discussion of it out of the way ahead of time.

quick post the next song before the gangnam style backlash

xp. You wish...

what is lex's position on LMFAO

my two great loves in this world are pop music and tennis and somehow the two have recently been united by just about my least favourite representatives of each, redfoo and victoria azarenka, becoming some sort of it media couple, and he's apparently sampled her intolerable screech in a song which might be the worst thing ever to exist on this planet, but actually it makes total sense that he would hear it and think "ah yes that is a sound i would like to hear LOOPED throughout a piece of music" rather than "where the fuck is the mute button"

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45. ALEX ANWANDTER "Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo?" [250 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]

Spotify / Youtube

int'l shit in the poll this year has been top notch

ok so if you hate LMFAO you will love gangam style, trust.

that's actually true of me, more or less

is anyone running a book on where gangnam style will place

i thought maybe 17 but fear that's too low

yay to alex anwandter! Didn't think he'd place higher than javiera

xp Top five at least.

Alex Anwandter track is so good! My #8. The rest of his album didn't really live up to the standard though.

sounds a bit like Phoenix

wtf is this alex anwandter! it's rare that something places in this that i haven't even heard OF. it's alright, love the strings and...is that an accordion? got the makings of a great disco track but dunno if it's quite there, sounds a bit homemade and his voice is a bit of a damp squib. i'm guessing this is here because of the same people responsible for javiera mena?

"Gangnam Style" was #12 on Pazz & Jop, and it feels like chart hits are mostly placing lower here than they did on P&J, so i'm gonna say it misses the top 20

forgot to vote alex anwandter, but so stoked on this song & video

dope tribute to -=+~PARIS IS BURNING~+=-

the way the strings sparkle into life is really awesome though

bit shocked by how much I like this Bruno Mars song, I think I've actively disliked everything else I've heard by him.

i predict gangnam style is a repeat of adele lats year and places #78

bit shocked by how much I like this Bruno Mars song, I think I've actively disliked everything else I've heard by him.

― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:11 PM (33 seconds ago)

i'm saying!

lol i've been wondering what the amusing snubs of this year's poll will be, i don't think gangnam style will be it tho

someone posted the alex anwandter track in the campaign thread right? heard it right before i submitted my ballot; didn't end up including it but it's v nice

this song is totally groovy! Love it.

yeah i like it

Alex Anwandter's previous incarnation as Odisea is even better. Check out Cabros and his lovely dancing in Casa Latina.

I really, really like the way the drums change in Locked Out of Heaven, becoming simpler and simpler, and then rolling in the second half of the chorus. The verses might be better, but the whole song is really well put together.

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44. SPIRiTUALIZED "Hey Jane" [251 points, 10 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

i really really love the bridge of locked out of heaven because, like, for a Police rip to suddenly do Stewart Copeland quarter-notes on the bell of the ride cymbal is like a Weird Al-level attention to detail.

― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:24 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ otm

Regarding the case of Rita Ora, this year's anthropological discovery at the staff christmas party was that the office ladies got more excited about singing along to "and when the sunsets baby on the avenue" than just about anything else that played, even though it was clear that they were both ignorant of and indifferent to the existence of any other part of that song.

spiritualized still exist in 2012? if we were a day on i'd assume this was one of the traditional "hilarious" joke entries

yeah how on earth does spiritualized get into a tracks poll honestly

this.... needs to improve right now if i'm gonna make it through another eight minutes

just that lyric? or the chorus? either way there are plenty of singalong parts in there (xp re: "how we do (party)")

lol i totally forgot spiritualized released a record this year