ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Fresh hate ideas for tomorrow!

kinda thought that if any track from the cherry thing placed it'd be "cashback"

I personally prefer "Cashback," but for most of the year, it seemed like the only track I ever saw anyone talk about was "Dream Baby Dream." In fact, my difference to that song meant I didn't get around to hearing the whole album until December.

*INdifference

Jeez.

Ha ha Neneh just killed Suicide. Yeah!

THE THING! Yaaaaay. A thing I voted for.

This has been a great run. I voted for Cher Lloyd, Hot Chip, Twin Shadow, Santigold and Spiritualized.

Johnny Fever is OTM about Santigold sounding like Making Plans For Nigel, it's so obvious, can't believe I didn't hear it before.

It's odd people saying they didn't realise Spiritualized made an album this year as it appeared on plenty of critics lists. It's a good album but yeah you know what to expect with them these days. Hey Jane is easily the highlight.

Cher Lloyd is just great, seeing that become a big hit this year was such a joy. Easily the best thing to come from a reality show since Girls Aloud (Sorry Cardle)

Good Jessie Ware choices. I thought she'd be someone to suffer from split voting. I went for Taking in Water, but don't expect that to place. Her album just got better and better for me.

The Bruno Mars song is pretty good. Surprised I could ever enjoy a song by someone who made The Lazy Song.

I kind of hate it when Lex says things are pleasingly low, really hope that Oblivion is pleasingly high. I do agree with Jordan that I can't rememeber which song is which.

Love that Alex Anwandter! Never heard of that guy before this roll-out. Totally overlooked him in the noms...but I probably overlooked a lot of things.

This is exactly why I look forward to this EOY thread every year. It seems to cull most of the best stuff from all of ILXs disparate threads.

Thats what is great about this poll, you discover really exciting shit that otherwise would pass you by.

lol the phrase "come on, bitch, you see where brad at" often popped into my head for apparently no reason throughout the yr

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:56 PM (45 minutes ago)

Glad to see I'm not the only one to experience this bizarre symptom

wow yeah I love that Cher Lloyd track, killer catchy

NNNNNGHHHHGGHH

like a helicopta brrrrrrr

yay 'stupid hoe'! my #2 i think. "LOOK BUBBLES GO BACK TO YOUR HABITAT" is the best. i've had four songs place and two of them are nicki.

today >>>>>>>>>> yesterday

with the minor exception of:

beez >>> stupid hoe

^^

lol @ people not being able to tell the difference between oblivion or genesis or at least remember what each is called

Five Seconds is kinda cool! Sort of a weird cross between Rick Springfield and Interpol :D
Like a dude with emo-bangs Footloose-dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBKqCTJ64RM

yesterday >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> today

kindred is probably my least favourite thing on that burial EP. probably the most burial-ly burial track though so i can understand its popularity

I don't normally pay attention to EOY polls but I think I'm gonna make it a habit. Dunno how I got so embarrassingly unaware of so much new music

prob would have voted for 'oro y sangre' off the talabot album

xp yeah ilx year end poll is like essential for me, thanks jordan + other poll ppl

I don't normally pay attention to EOY polls

o_O

This is ILM CHRISTMAS!

(I might be biased because I'm a co-runner)

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.)

― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like how it seems people can't quite place the decade on HAIM? I had an 80s Sixteeen Candles vibe to this maybe? Last saw 10 years ago though, so way less than half-recalling.

oh bollocks, just realised I forgot to nominate/vote for Micachu in either trax or albums poll

her best work so far, too

The Thing & Neneh Cherry - somehow they work up a South African vibe on that track...totally thinking Louis Moholo and the like.

definitely into Haim

i liked that micachu album but i'd be lying if i said i preferred anything on it to "golden phone"

nicki screencap made is a masterpiece

dream baby dream def one of the songs of the year, never heard anything like that album before

Hmm, I think I'm coming around on Locked Out Of Heaven

i liked that micachu album but i'd be lying if i said i preferred anything on it to "golden phone"

I only gave it a cursory listen, but this is otm

"Lapaz Toyota" was directed by Xbills Ebenezer.

so far the only things to really grab me have been the keith fullerton whitman and the andres (which is really kickass AND really subtle, way2go housemusic)

currently struggling thru grimes, gonna give everything beneath a fair crack too

threw hey jane on the bottom of my list because i like how it reconfigures itself in the final movement, as my list was quite short it probably got more points than it perhaps deserved. good song tho, will defend

wrt Anwandter I thought of as a sequel to this film except with Marc Almond impersonator in the lead. Damn it isn't.

Anwandter has just joined KFW and Andres in the 'approval' bin - really digging this

sounds like what Air should be doing about now

and the Cherry Thing song, after a slow start, has become something rather mighty indeed, gorgeous sonics, amazing production depth, aural synaesthesia...holy wow

fwiw, to wrap things up my end for the night, there are about 3 or 4 incredible songs on the micachu album, most notably 'holiday', 'heaven' and 'nothing', and I plain forgot about the album in a '2012' context when I hurriedly scrawled together some last-minute nominations

glad to see that the Anwandter placed. for me that track is all about the Kelley Polar strings. worth noting that Kelley Polar was also responsible for the strings and some of the production on the Javiera Mena album. don't know if he had anything to do with Luz de Piedra de Luna, but it would make a lot of sense to me if he did.

I really like the idea of Kelley Polar as the go to guy for Chilean pop stars.

listening through the rest of the stuff now

Hot Chip - this isn't any less anemic than anything else I've heard by them
Grimes - idgi
Burial - this keeps getting prettier as it goes along but I can't help wishing it were more functional
Twin Shadow - I don't really have time of day for anyone's Ian Curtis impression
Santigold - this kind of reminds me of the Res album she wrote, which is a good thing
Purity Ring - wake me when the reverbcore bullshit section of the list is over
Haim - this is aight but not nearly as good as the other Haim song
Bruno Mars - everybody otm, verses >>>> chorus, the latter tips it far into Bruno's usual cornball territory. kind of think it's funny that two of the year's biggest hits bore a pronounced Sting influence without really sounding like one another tho.
Alex Anwandter - damn, this is what's up. latin american hipster shit crew, y'all are killin' it
Spiritualized - I wish this was just the part where it got all noisey
John Talabot - this feels pretty staid, doesn't make me want to dance
Nicki Minaj - so glad this beat out fucking "Starships". I appreciate that Nicki chose to come back with a completely insane track by a female producer
Neneh Cherry & the Thing - this doesn't feel like it's going anywhere even as it builds? it doesn't groove enough to support such a static tune

this stretch kinda sucked, Anwandter and Nicki aside. so far the only thing I've voted for is "My Cabana", but there have been seven songs from albums I voted for and three artists I voted for different songs by.

We're about halfway through now, and theres a bunch of stuff on my ballot which I know is coming up and a bunch which I know isn't. But now its time for Drugs A Money Annual Tracks Poll Wishlist:

Some stuff I hope to see in the top 40:

5 Miguel songs (including the 3 in my top 10)
"Wut"
ZZ Top
...mmmmaybe Ab Soul

And:

TOY

Twin Shadow - I don't really have time of day for anyone's Ian Curtis impression

There is ZERO about this song that brings Ian Curtis to mind. Lazy reference, Rev.

Purity Ring - wake me when the reverbcore bullshit section of the list is over

Reverbcore? It's mixed a little wet, but this ain't exactly The Raveonettes we're listening to here.

Pulled up my ballot to see what's placed so far...turns out I didn't vote for "Don't Save Me" like I thought I had! Glad that mishap didn't keep it out of the top 77. Angel Haze and AlunaGeorge are the only two tracks I voted for to make the roll-out so far, but I suspect a large portion of my ballot will turn up Wednesday and Thursday.

Purity Ring is a snooze imo

Angel Haze - it's like she is rapping over a Fever Ray track. She's definitely talented but I can't really get into it as music.

Mungolian Jetset - it's so pretty and light, it's like IKEA music. Had to struggle to overcome initial dismissal when listening to the album. I settled on "Revolving Door" as being my favorite. Thanks for pointing out "Tocatta" is a remix.

Hot Chip - pleasant. It's got a bit of Orbital/Two Lone Swordsmen ("Smokebelch") thing going on under all those vocals. Vacation music. A warm up for "Warm & Easy".

Bruno Mars - took my by surprise. Quite like it. Video is strange, like a beer commercial - people having too much fun for the situation. It's an uplifiting song for sure but more fitting for dancing in your room than in a basement full of people. Love the "woop woop" and the smooth way it blends a modern soaring chorus with the Police backing track. I agree verses are better than chorus.

Alex Anwandter - whoa! Never enough early 90's revivalism for me. "Pump the Jam" bit kills me. So hard to pull off this kind of joyful sound.

Neneh Cherry - happy to see her in this if only because rooting for her in the '92 hit parade is one of my cherished memories

Loved "Running". "Destiny" was definitely one of my jams of the year. Pleased to see something like "Issue Generator" show up in the poll. I was about to say that I liked yesterday more on balance but the last few songs pulled it out. This Four Tet remix is banging!

yeah not sure about some of these references - what fever ray tracks use handclaps? and the sprightliness of twin shadow is more new order than joy division, but both are tenuous comparisons

Angel Haze backing track sounds absolutely nothing like Fever Ray to me.