ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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Finally listened to some Taylor Swift this year. Liked the Hunger Games track and Begin Again a bit more than this, but it's still pretty good.

I like this song but I'm hoping it's not the highest ranked Taylor song on here because I think it's probably not one of the top 5 songs on the album.

oh certainly not

but it's the first one i'd do at karaoke (dying to do it at karaoke tbh)

admittedly i know nothing about this but don't most of her songs (or at least singles) get a ton of radio play?

yeah it's little like, canny move Taylor to capitalize on the fact that you could record yourself farting for 30 minutes and it would probably still go to #3

of all the songs about jake gyllenhaal this is definitely one of them

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:59 PM (5 minutes ago)

LOLOLOLOLOL

says tim f who gets upset about use of dance music terms

clever ruse taylor swift, you win again

I mean, finally listened to TS last year, of course.

as far as undeniable pop jams, it just is really not fucking with "You Belong With Me"

Liked the Hunger Games track and Begin Again a bit more than this, but it's still pretty good.

― MikoMcha, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:05 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awwww shit I shoulda nom'd/voted for one of the hunger games ones

bring in the katz is really awesome

that taylor swift song is so bad & that indie line is fucking corny as hell

safe & sound would actually be nice to see

gyllenhaal is pretty miserable but it's hard to take pleasure in him being trolled by one of the only worse celebrities out there

haha otm

is this her biggest hit in the uk? it felt like it

that taylor swift song is so bad & that indie line is fucking corny as hell

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

It really seems like something Avril Lavinge would write/sing. She might be able to get away with it, too.

i saw taylor swift perform this live @ the mtv video awards and thought it was pretty "big" but not really good.

is this her biggest hit in the uk? it felt like it

"love story" technically peaked higher but this felt way more ubiquitous

yeah between the Taylor song and Cher Lloyd's grunts Avrilcore had a banner year

bring in the katz is great

love story charted v highly in the uk but idk if it had as much chart longevity

still love the taylor song, only god can judge me, etc. etc.

I'm god? cool!

yo lil b

http://youtu.be/FpJhilIA-NY?t=9m55s

that taylor swift song is definitely not rubbish. a great chorus and a rather nice voice. i also like the acoustic guitar intro. probably in my top ten of this thread.

Have to lol at people attaching wiki flags to Taylor's use of "indie".

― Tim F, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's hardly trainspotting to understand no one outside of, like, my mom or total idiots thing mumford & sons are "indie hipsters"

I think I ultimately prefer "I Knew You Were Trouble," but I voted for "We Are Never...," since it felt more ~2012~. (Even though I'd heard Red when it dropped, IKYWT didn't really hit me until late December, when I started hearing it on the radio.)

tbh I feel some small resentment towards some dude for not bringing the katz in two years ago but I'm glad most people hearing it for the first time are so taken with it. It was my #2 and really the most exciting dance record I heard all year. I feel like after skimming through these reactions it would have placed quite a bit higher if more people had heard it before now. I really miss having Outloud as a source for people to find out about new stuff outside of their usual during the year proper. Wh-what wh-what?

i always imagined the indie record was kid a for some reason

There's an "ever" missing in the title

I don't understand how anyone could be turned off by the vocals on Purity Ring on the basis of kewpiedollism but be completely on-board with Taylor Swift in any form or fashion.

I was kind of disturbed by the fact that I lightweight enjoyed that Taylor song the first 1.5 times I heard it but it quickly turned annoying as fuck and it felt like all was right in the world.

i always imagined the indie record was kid a for some reason

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:15 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

t swift was 10 years old when kid a came out

hahaha sorry homie, i don't trust myself to have the perspective about when to be evangelistic about Baltimore club to out-of-towners, i'm kind of fine with songs like that or "I'm The Ish" taking on a life of their own without my help (xp)

I really miss having Outloud as a source for people to find out about new stuff outside of their usual during the year proper. Wh-what wh-what?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 21:14 (1 minute ago)

yep

btw

HEY GRIFF, BRING IN THE KATZ

bring in the katz reminds me of fatman scoop :)

yeah we got nyan cat into the poll last year! and uncle acid and the deadbeats into the albums top 10.

xxp

the funny thing about this line is that i'm willing to bet that with the kind of ppl swift dates, the "indie" record was prob, like, the lumineers or something

http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/38848737345/what-would-you-think-if-that-indie-record-taylor

i don't even like taylor swift and i don't think the lumineers qualify as "cooler" than her

did L1ef place and i missed it?

yep

t swift was 10 years old when kid a came out

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:16 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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http://i.imgur.com/c3eHePT.jpg

28. ZEBRA KATZ FT. NJENA REDDD FOXXX "Ima Read" [322 points, 14 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

oh i forgot abt this one, cool song

Great song. glad this is in the top 50%

that song is cool i guess but definitely on the wrong side of minimal for me

much prefer 'pulla stunt' tbh