ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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24. JESSIE WARE "110%" [351 points, 12 votes]

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yeah, great vocal performance on Laura. It's also more stripped down than anything else on the album, and really stands out

disappointed in the "110%" placement... was in my top 10 from the first time i heard it

On my second listen of Laura, I'm coming around to it...

I think if you listen to more than like two Angel Haze tracks the idea that she's just about battle punchlines really becomes unsustainable. "New York" and "Werkin Girls" feel like exceptions rather than the rule IMO.

"Wicked Moon" and "Gypsy Letters" were probably my two favourite other AH tracks, yeah.

ol girl has my heart forever after sampling pun for a song that sounds like it came off 'velvet rope'

amazing song. was in my top 10 iirc

xp idk I find the "carve my initials" bit really distracting...otherwise a flawless song

I love Jessie Ware but I find "110%" kind of barely tolerable. It's too cutesy for my tastes and too cutesy for her album, where it sticks out like a sore thumb. The Pun sample is great tho obv.

I've always really liked Natasha Khan's voice but really felt like she used it as more of a supporting instrument rather than taking center stage as a really excellent singer (probably "Moon and Moon" is where she comes closest to something like the range on display within "Laura" and surprise surprise that's also primarily just piano and voice)

I do think the album as a whole suffers a little for not having something on it in the vein of "Glass", "Horse and I" or "Two Planets" though; the thing I really like about her work is the balancing act between pretty and driving, and the thing that really slays me about "Laura" is how the song packs all of that bombast into a ballad.

Think of this mainly as a Julio Bashmore track. It's alright.

tho i do think it's kinda weird she gets so much love on ILM because she's basically just doing like NYC battle rap type punchline stuff...not that i'm complaining! i hope to see some iron solomon tracks placing higher up the poll

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:09 PM Bookmark

idk, Nicki has a pretty firm grounding in this stuff too, although she's strayed further from it obv

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:13 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah you're right, obviously she's got the eccentric vocal tic and personality but i 'spose she's really the most post-eminem type rapper that's big right now

110% isn't a sore thumb on Devotion, imo, but it's definitely a detour. Wildest Moments is still the only song I wish wasn't there.

i really love "110%" but in album context it comes across as a stylistic exercise...not saying it doesn't play to her strengths or that she doesn't pull it off, more like that's not what she's about; it's more like a homage to my boo/millionaire/swing my way.

still the standout from the album for me

Is 110% on the album? It's not on Spotify, unless you live in Poland.

probably something to do with the sample clearance. They've changed it for the US release

probably got pulled over issues with the big pun sample

huh Jessie Ware has a great voice

They changed its name because of having to replace the Pun sample.

it's now "always on a mission like a warhead"

wiki sez:

In late 2012 the song titled "110%" had to be changed to "If You're Never Gonna Move" due to legal problems with the clearance of a sample of "Dream Shatterer" by Big Punisher, which was an integral part of the song (the title itself was a play on another of Big Punisher's tracks, "100%"). "If You're Never Gonna Move" contains a similar-sounding sample instead.

Ha, so now it's called "If You're Never Gonna Move"? Guess I'll put up that Spotify link for the non-Poles.

"Sweet Talk" is the best song on Devotion, duhhh

it's now "always on a mission like a warhead"

― Number None, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh ugh @ this

surprised there aren't any big songs about throwing shade yet considering that term seems to be wayyyyyyy more used than reading around the internet

― prolego, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:49 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Scott Walker does sing "Let's add a little shade" on Epizootics!

you can't even really understand what they've replaced it with now, it's unintelligible. not even sure if i believe it's "always on a mission like a warhead"

think the new sample says "we want hen fap"

yes guys, I snuck a hen fap joke into the 2012 ilm tracks poll thread *disappears in puff of smoke*

I liked it.

It definitely is "warhead". It's not particularly detrimental to the song anyway

:O

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23. FRANK OCEAN "Thinkin' Bout You" [352 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

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Haven't heard this yet, seems like an opportune moment to give it a whirl.

Wow, thought that would place in the top ten at least. Love it.

Also: yay Scott!

i love that song to death. when they fleshed out the production they really kicked it up to a classic... it sounded so good on the radio. one of the best bridges in a long time.

that second verse is just unfuckwithable

yeah I like this

i'm glad this didn't place as super ridiculously high as it could have. i mean it's a good song but come on, some of the critical praise that was heaped upon it was just a little much. anyway it's the only song on channel boring that didn't put me to sleep other than "pyramids" and some other random thing i already forgot about

Did not like Pyramids at all, which is why I never checked out the rest of the album.

would be my no. 1 in probably any other year but 2012

got a fighter jet, I don't get to fly it though, I'm lying
down
thinkin' bout you

Did not like Pyramids at all, which is why I never checked out the rest of the album.

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:54 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

oh gosh, nothing else on the album sounds like "pyramids"

I tried really hard to like this song & channel orange but his voice grates on me too damn much

this song makes me almost unbearably sad nowadays so I don't put it on much

i like his falsetto, i really dislike the flatness of his non-falsetto, it all sort of drifts past boringly. there's not much of a song there really.

it all sort of drifts past boringly. there's not much of a song there really.

"Thinkin' About You" has some really terrible lyrics in the verses, guy is as full of bad ideas as good ones imo

I love "Thinkin' Bout You" but it didn't make it onto my ballot

Lex, are you using "flatness" to describe his pitch or his emotional affect?

the latter

his voice is just completely affectless and uninvolving to me