ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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.

that would be sweet

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

― 乒乓, Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:43 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously! i love GD and all, but it would kind of suck if Crayon placed but no BigBang songs did. :(

Yeah, I expect to see "Aaliyah" unless people just voted for the EP.

I think my k-pop picks are going the way of my dancehall picks; no real big consensus/crossover tracks outside of "Gangnam Style".

Hoping against hope D'Banj's "Oliver Twist" & B.Traits/Elizabeth Troy's "Fever" will make it in the top 20.

I would expect "Oliver Twist" to place but not "Fever".

I think "Fever" was the last track I cut from my ballot :(

Would have been good to see L's Anthem in here, I'm guessing the odds are slim...

Cartoon & Cereal one of my favourite tracks of the year. Love the way Gunplay's verse is only completed by the end, the way its brooding is foreshadowed throughout the song, punctuating KL's hustle (along with that brilliant 'That's why I'm backdooring you m'fuckers etc). Gunplay does a combination of desperation and rage in/at the void better than anyone else at the moment I think. He's also not without humour and inventive too. Pity about the Sandy Hook stuff. And er, that video. And the Nazi imagery.

Other things I hope/expect to get through: Miguel - Adorn, Usher - Climax, Grizzly Bear - Yet Again, Future - Turn On The Lights, Todd Terje - Inspector Norse, Disclosure - Control feat. Ria Ritchie, Pachanga Boys - Time, Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe, Tyga - Rack City, Julio Bashmore - Au Seve, Ciara - Sorry Pt. 2 feat. Future...

Oh yeah, and Lil B - California Boy.

Would wish yuna - live your life to place but you guys suck.

I'll be happy if inspector norse and pachanga boys make it.