ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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

... when 'climax' places in the top 10 tomorrw

xpost I wish iamamiwhoami had a chance of making it.

That Rhye song is so good but I heard it after I'd submitted my list, the album is great too.

Miguel will have at least one other song place, Do You and maybe The Thrill?

exceptions to every rule obv

xp

I'm still burning a candle for BIGBANG to place tomorrow

no way 'the thrill' will place, esp after use me already did

Top three will be Todd Terje, Carly Rae Jepson and Miguel but I'm not sure in which order.

maybe someone else will like daphni

no way 'the thrill' will place, esp after use me already did

― 乒乓

I'm not sure what his most popular tracks are after Do You and Adorn. Maybe there will be just the three that place. Starting to think he will top the album list now. Does anyone have anything bad to say about that album?

i spoke at a nerdy music thing on a college campus a couple years ago, Diplo's name came up a lot during the group discussion, mentioned by dudes with a weird mixture of awe and resentment, and then at the after party one of the guys started his DJ set with "Look At Me Now." that day was kinda like ILM in a nutshell.

i'm calling the top five as

5. grimes (something really corny has to slip in)
4. terje
3. psy
2. crj
1. miggy

haha psy is not getting that high c'mon

he has the advantage of being known by everyone

that has never really seemed to matter much in ILM polls

telling you: psy is a lock at #78 or #79

Kitchen Person -

I didn't like the Miguel album as much as the EPs. It's not bad, but the songs I like best are all on the EPs, and I like the shorter "Adorn" more. Ended up not voting for Miguel at all on the album poll.

Many xposts going back to the Jeremih track that placed. The best thing he's ever done is that free download from last year. Maybe my favourite song of the decade so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkvLb2gpEU

actually the random corny track is prob solange

cultish enthusiasm always wins out over "everyone knows this and most of us are cool w/ it" xp

that has never really seemed to matter much in ILM polls

― Doctor No Cassie (some dude), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

telling you: psy is a lock at #78 or #79

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was never the outpouring of enthusiasm on ilm for Adele that there was for "Gangnam Style"

but who knows, that was just an off the cuff prediction.

yeah not gonna browbeat you about it. that thread seemed more swept up in the whole phenomenon than really over the moon about the song, though, imo.

other songs that i think might place:

drake/rihanna "take care"
eric church "springsteen" (at least i hope so ;_;)

really don't get the love for "inspector norse" tho yeah it will probably do really well. crossing my fingers pachanga boys will appear :)

yeah I was just thinking today "well i'm gonna give up rooting for 'Springsteen' and 'Refil' ;_;"

I didn't even vote for "Gangnam" cause it seemed like such a gimme that I'd rather devote my points to less-known songs that I like about equally (although the only thing that made the list specifically because of my vote is "My Cabana")

I didn't get the love for "Inspector Norse" (seemed kinda dippy to me) until I heard it out and then it was amazing. It's just so gregarious.

"Turn on the Lights" and "Aaliyah" are locks and haven't been mentioned.

i would be so happy to see "refill" as well, but yeah, top 20 does seem high. devastating!

figured it'd be top 15 but not a contender for #1

I voted for Refill, dont think its gonna make it though.

I'm p sure her album will tho, if not that high.