ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Okay, the only Kendrick I'd heard before is 'Swimming Pools' and I really didn't like it. 'Cartoon & Cereal' is much more enjoyable.

The tattoo makes no sense.

yeah it was "beam"

like if dude can not just pull off but excel at autotune-blazed summer jam singing, riveting cathartic rage and waka-style gun sounds aggression with extra lyricism...sky's the limit

xps

yeah this me
no mic
no cameras
no lights
just pain
mama, how much trauma can i sustain

when the beat drops out and this goes a capella *single teardrop rolls down my cheek*

― 乒乓, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I WAS JUST GONNA PINPOINT THIS BIT, so amazing

yeah, do yourself a favour and don't read any Gunplay interviews

nice results today. my favorite that i hadn't really heard before is the bat for lashes song, truly beautiful. (i had actually heard it before, but it was only once and i wasn't *really* listening)

only 4 of mine have placed so far... maybe it's extremely optimistic of me to think that nearly 10 others from my ballot still have a chance of making it. who knows :\

"banger" has definitely been diluted by overuse and loose interpretation

at this point it seems to mean "the song I like"

of all the songs mentioned today, birthday cake remix (not funkystepz) probably hews closest to the ideal in my head

2nd: B4L 'laura'

i like the parts where he gets philosophical

nobody can't mute me
but i never said nobody can't shoot me

&

dirty money come with lots of stains
road to riches come with lots of lanes

since "beam" won't place and apparently now has an actual video... http://youtu.be/sEHRv3AY80Y

those horns, those drums, everything about it <3

this more than anything merits the term "banger"

if i was an olympic gymnast i would do my beam routine to that song

if you were an Olympic gymnast, ppl would be all "why is that dude on a balance beam and why is he blasting music?"

lol

you'd be a lovely gymnast, lex

"that was a lovely routine lex but you were supposed to be on the rings: 0.000"

i'd do my floor routine to "i'm god"

can't keep up with this thread at all, but:

1. MIGUEL "Adorn (3:13)" [1709 points, 69 votes]
2. MIGUEL "Adorn (2:19)" [1658 points, 55 votes]

is where we're headed, right?

Where's this stuff from Noz on Gunplay Tim? I only looked at the CB best rap list.

or the people who loved jeremih's first 2 albums and then flipped for the mixtape

― 乒乓, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you mean 'flipped' like i did (loved it) or like changed their tune? afaict the only person who hates on the mixtape is lex, who never seemed like a big jeremih person to begin with.

― Doctor No Cassie (some dude), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rtc and i weren't really having it either. i do sort of grudgingly agree with whoever said upthread that people were projecting their feelings on the state of r&b onto the tape though. it was a little annoying to talk to the same 5 dudes on ILM about how great his first two albums were and then see him get his props on his (IMO) weakest work around the same time stereogum or whatever started liking r&b

Yesterday>>>>>>>>>>>Monday>>>>>>>>>>Today

nobody specified which version of Adorn they were voting for iirc

can't keep up with this thread at all, but:

1. MIGUEL "Adorn (3:13)" [1709 points, 69 votes]
2. MIGUEL "Adorn (2:19)" [1658 points, 55 votes]

is where we're headed, right?

come on, #1 is "Call Me Maybe"

#1 is the Thanksgiving Song irrc

i scorn its 2011 canadian release date

Best ARK-related song this year was Mahkenna's "Without You".

if "Adorn" doesn't beat "Call Me Maybe" I will cry some tears

adorn seems like the most obvious #1 ever

it's kinda hard to say how things will go given the secret ballot nature of the poll but i'd be very surprised if call me maybe doesn't win

Cmon Deadly Doris is totally gonna take this thing. In the meantime, I am going to ride a monkey that is riding a burro into a spectacular sunset.

also i've never heard jeremih's previous work but voted 773 Love as my #2 because the song jams. not getting the clunky structure arguments either, to me it builds perfectly to the champagne fizz of the chorus synths and the vox-only outro is lovely

I was off all morning but here's my inane take on today's run:

40. MIGUEL "Use Me" [260 points, 8 votes]

It seems I really like Miguel. I should listen to his albums when I have the time.

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

Didn't expect a song about police brutality to be so catchy and upbeat. Love the update on the old school electro.

37. RIHANNA "Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix)" [271 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
36. KALENNA "Matte Black Truck" [286 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. KANYE WEST FT. BIG SEAN, PUSHA T & 2 CHAINZ "Mercy" [286 points, 12 votes]
34. CHIEF KEEF FT. LIL REESE "I Don't Like" [291 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
33. JEREMIH "773 Love" [299 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
32. LE1F "Wut" [302 points, 11 votes]
31. KW GRIFF FT. PORK CHOP "Bring in the Katz" [312 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]

I didn't care for the songs in these run except for maybe Kalenna but it didn't blow my mind either. Several off these sounded too much like a frat party for me.

30. M.I.A. "Bad Girls" [314 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

Loved this one better when it first came out.

29. TAYLOR SWIFT "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" [316 points, 14 votes]

I'll never understand ILM's ongoing infatuation with Taylor Swift.

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

I love the video but the song doesn't live up to its creepiness.

27. SCOTT WALKER "Epizootics!" [330 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

Yey! Scott Walker doing artsy rockabilly! Love the video too.

26. ANGEL HAZE "Werkin' Girls" [335 points, 13 votes]

I like the new york song better but this is great too. Another artist I need to check.

25. BAT FOR LASHES "Laura" [342 points, 13 votes]

This is actually good. Seems she benefits from stripping her music to the basics.

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

Too low for me but happy it made it, thought for a second that ILM didn't care about this one. The Julio Bashmore production is tops.

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

Meh. I'd rather listen to another Miguel song.

22. SAINT ETIENNE "Tonight" [356 points, 11 votes]

Saint Etienne released a record this year!? I'm really not in the mood for this sort of music at the moment. Can't say anything about this one just now.

21. KENDRICK LAMAR FT. GUNPLAY "Cartoon & Cereal" [361 points, 10 votes]

This song sounds insane.

http://pitchfork.com/features/hall-of-game/9029-the-year-rap-broke/

"•Gunplay didn't just kill "Cartoon & Cereal". He killed MMG's "Power Circle", rapping about seabass and santeria candles in a cipher of middlebrow yacht rappers who are still stuck on keys and hate and hard work and Jordans. (Kendrick was there too, and though he is not a middlebrow yacht rapper, he did get killed.) Gunplay killed "Bible on the Dash", pulling focus out of his lonely last stogie. He killed "Take This" and he killed his Bugatti's engine slowly by settling for 87 octane. He killed "Fuck Shit in My Life" and all the bottom feeders, snakes, and centipedes that lurked within. He killed Billy Ocean and wore his skin on Trina's "Beam". He killed everything else then he went fishing. He does not have a release date yet."

yeah that paragraph is *_*

"take this" is ridiculously good

if i hadn't slept on it i'd have stanned for it all year with a view to it placing here

adorn seems like the most obvious #1 ever

― teledyldonix, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:09 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally. "Sure Thing" was #6 last year and "Adorn" feels quite a bit more popular here.

carly still has a chance but if she can lose in any poll it's this one

Neither "Fuck Shit In My Life" or "Bible On The Dash" were nominated i was saddened to find. Hopefully one of his tapes will place in the albums poll

"call me maybe" will probably be on more ballots but i can imagine "adorn" will get a huge average points per ballot total with loads of #1 votes

I really like "Tonight" and I'm pretty sure I voted for it, but I still think it sounds like a slightly inferior rewrite of their 2009 single "Method Of Modern Love".

i kinda expected it'd be "popular" to place!

I kinda expected "Popular"to be nominated

great results so far - lots of stuff the first day I'd not heard before that ruled, lots of stuff the second day I'd heard but should have rated higher

xpost

At least it wasn't an inferior rewrite of Hall and Oats' "Methods of Modern Love"

Lol

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:58 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this display name because i hear it in my head the way Timbaland says 'magoomagoo' on "Beep Me 911"

So what are we missing? Here's what I got

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (ILM's song of the year?)
Usher - Climax
Frank Ocean - Pyramids
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Miguel - Adorn
AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love (not sure about this one)
Solange - Losing You
Grimes - Oblivion
Jai Paul - Jasmine
Psy - Gangnam style (please god no)
Beach House - Myth
Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dream
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools
Kendrick Lamar - Dont kill my vibe
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
Sky Ferreira - Everything is embarrasing
Major Lazer - Get Free
Lana del rey!?
Animal Collective!?
Chromatics - Cherry
iamamiwhoami - goods
Andy Stott - Numb
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again (I have the idea ILM hates them but you never know)
Rhye - The Fall (hopefully)
Icona Pop - I love it (I actually don't know how much ilm cared about this one)
TNGHT - Higher Ground

Ah yes, also forgot about Charli XCX and Pachanga Boys.

Major Lazer - Get Free

ILM hates Diplo

but that song is a jam, way better than the santigold (and i love the santigold)

ILM hates Diplo

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:40 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol um