ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

this ended up being my fav track on the miguel record

SPOILER ALERT: this is not the only miguel song on the list

i'm thinking three more at a minimum

YOU CAN DEVOUUUUUUUUUUR MEEEE DEFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3

awesome

YES YES YES YES YES

i fucking love this song so much

My #2, after a first half where the only thing from my ballot which placed was "Starships"

USE ME!

i think this might be my favourite on the album - the chorus is just, wow, the way he elides sexual aggression and nerves

this song is obviously awesome.... i don't listen to it that often anymore because i'm not always in the mood but if totally blew my mind the first time i heard it

the overlapping chorus vox towards the end...this is the song on the album that it's most possibly to sink into

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39. CHERYL COLE "Call My Name (Royal-T's Back to 99 Remix) [260 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]

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the whispers on the final ascendant climb ... shivers, man

FUCK YEAH BEST DROP OF 2012

the original is such dull shit and royal-t just made it magic

this was top 3 for me, just spent so much of the summer blasting it

how have i not yet listened to miguel

grady you gotta start w/ adorn

Miguel is badass

that cheryl remix always sounded a bit off to me. slightly out of tune maybe?

"Adorn" is great and all, but I don't think it's a particularly useful indicator of what the whole album has to offer.

That Miguel is neat. Sex R&B over a early 90s shoegazy instrumental.
And Royal-T feat. Cheryl is the kind of Rinse FM material that I wish the local airwaves played.

"call my name" is pretty good, but doesn't scream classic to me or anything

i guess none of the rest of 2012's crop of pop garage remixes will have placed though :( cheryl/royal-t was probably the most prominent of them. sad 4 misha b/zed bias in particular

xp: The vocals on the Cheryl remix have enough overdubbing/compression/processing that it almost sounds like its slightly flanged, and hence out of key with the bassline. Not objectionable to me.

Didn't vote for any Miguel tracks but love the album so much I'm happy to see any place.

Cheryl Cole Remix a massive improvement on the original.

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38. DEATH GRIPS "I've Seen Footage" [268 votes, 8 points]

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loving Miguel, holydamnwow

gonna issue a preemptive epileptic seizure warning on that video

Ah push it

didn't vote for "Use Me" because I'm a singlez only fuddy duddy but nice to see my fav deep cut from my #1 album place

"i've seen footage" is cool but i mean yeah it just makes me want to listen to "push it" so whatever

I always wanna like Death Grips more than I do. They remind me of 90s Atari Teenage Riot in that the idea of listening to them was always more exciting than actually listening to them. But hey, they're fantastic in small doses and this is on a par with 'Guillotine', so cool rahoul.

more like "i've seen half-footage" amirite

death grips, yessssss

xp Exactly, re: Miguel. I loved Adorn for a while without being spurred to check out the album. It's great but it sounded like it might be the standout on a fairly conventional record. It was Use Me that really got me interested. It's vast yet vulnerable and the bit where it breaks down to just his voice in the middle is electrifying. Why is this not a single?

lol al

I can see Death Grips going nuts on the dancefloor -- it feels weird to just be sitting at a desk trying to get a feel for it

the thing is "push it" is also harder and rawer than death grips

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word

Death Grips track is interesting for the first minute or so, bit wearying after that.

Death Grips are interesting when you read about them, but wearying when you listen to them.

It doesn't feel like a keeper, it's cool enough though

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37. RIHANNA "Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix)" [271 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]

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xp Reminds me of the Prodigy or a surly 90s house record like Par-T-One. It feels much poppier when detached from the rest of the album.

i didn't even feel death grips' extra-musical antics were that interesting, apart from in a vaguely car-crash kinda way - they just enhanced their rep of being "counter-cultural" and ~outside the system~

the album had its moments but is essentially not my thing

CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE

CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE

cakecakecakecakecake

this is fun