ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

"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.

http://i.imgur.com/hMJeYWn.png

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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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

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this is fun

FONKYTIMEZ TIMEZ TIMEZ TIMEZ TIMEZ TIMEZ

not really a rihanna fan but this slays

as far as "funkystepz miami bass" mixes go, i liked "the motto" and "birthday song" better than "birthday cake" but of course this bangs

funkystepz revving up a #clapper was an obvious and brilliant move

about two people in this thread will get the joke if i post a picture of marion bartoli at this point

chris brown remix was *lowers eyes, stares bashfully at floor* better

someone fill me in: was ILM more or less enthused with the 2012 full length than it was with the 2011 one? (talking about death grips)

乒乓 otm

lol Lex. She does love the candies as well iirc

as far as "funkystepz miami bass" mixes go, i liked "the motto" and "birthday song" better than "birthday cake" but of course this bangs

i think i like "birthday song" better but i think "birthday cake" is perhaps the most notable of their refixes because it's not just replacing the original beat with a funkystepz one - it's about how it's in conversation with all the little hooks and oddities of the original too

if you're really dying for a Chris Brown-less version you can just play the short Talk That Talk version twice in a row. this remix blows.

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― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:57 PM (2 minutes ago)

lol J0rd

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We are off to a screamer of a start here. That Cheryl Cole remix is far from my favourite interzone bubbler from this year but I'm really pleased to see it and I'm wondering if that's the last we'll see of Royal-T.

The Rihanna remix completely bangs and it's like the seventh or eighth best Funkystepz track this year alone.

Death Grips sound hopelessly lumbering in this company.

the original was such a banger already this is like a lil' pinewood derby car

haha

"and it's not even my birthday" was stuck in my head for a good proportion of the year

speeding up the original makes it seem so much less thudding, more teasing

the way funkystepz turn riri's distracted hum into a hook of its own <3

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