ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

i remember being very moved by laura the first time i heard it, and even now it still resonates. something about the way those doleful horns come in midway through the song. and she sings with an incredible freedom.

is there an external site/central spot where the runners & riders so far are compiled for easy viewing?

seem to remember something similar for last year

guys, which bigbang songs did you vote for? i'm concerned about votesplitting. i gave "monster" a pretty high vote myself

― cocktail onion (fennel cartwright), Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:28 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

voted for 'bad boy' myself =(

Voted "Fantastic Baby"

*sigh*

'Fantastic Baby' here too, though it only just snuck on my ballot anyway, so I don't think my meagre points-giving would've had much effect.

Great 30-21 sequence. Laura's astounding. I like the story about her writing it with Video Games dude in a couple of hours while hungover - the whole lyric came from an incident with her best friend at a party the night before. Directness serves her well.

Surely Chairlift will make the Top 20 with the help of the Talabot remix. I agree the top 3 will be some combo of Carly/Miguel/Terje.

My k-pop votes were G-Dragon, Block-B, f(x), and Exo-K. Sorry. Was gonna vote for 'Monster' but didn't for some stupid reason.

Only 3 of my picks placed and the only other possible one that still may is 'Turn On The Lights'.

Fully expect CR Jepson to win, people seem to genuinely love it, tho it doesn't do anything for me.

I gave loadsa points to f(x), that was it as far as K-Pop goes.

Voted Bad Boy, and I think forapper did too. Right, so votes split then. :(

BFL has always been more conventional than Kate/Karin/Bjork that she's always compared to. Tori would be closer I think?

So what are we missing?

iamamiwhoami - goods

I thought the song that might have a chance was "Play", but not this high unfortunately.

Chromatics - Cherry

I really like this one too, but I voted for "The Page", my favorite song on the album. I think the title track is all we'll get in the Top 77 due to vote splitting.

Beach House - Myth

Crossing my fingers for that one. Just gorgeous.

yeah I wanted to get a k-pop track that's not a banger onto the list xp

BFL has always been more conventional than Kate/Karin/Bjork that she's always compared to. Tori would be closer I think?

way more conventional than tori generally, but maybe tori at her most straightforward

22-32 was a good stretch for me. Ratings for 40-21:
***** Scott Walker, Jessie Ware "110%", Saint Etienne
****.5 Cheryl Cole/Royal-T, Le1f
**** Rihanna/Funkystepz, KW Griff, Taylor Swift, Angel Haze "WG", Bat For Lashes
***.5 Miguel, Jeremih, M.I.A., Frank Ocean
*** Kalenna, Zebra Katz, Kendrick Lamar "C&C"
**.5 Kanye West
** Death Grips
* Chief Keef

Blawan ain't gonna place at this rate, is he?

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:28 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd be really surprised if it didn't place, it has some stans outside of the bobbins crew. i expected to see 'lets make mistakes', especially after 'new for u' actually placed despite the almost unanimous eye rolling at its high placing on critics lists, but top 20 seems a little much, same with 'time'.

storm queen has never placed in an ilm poll iirc

for some reason i forget about his stuff when it comes to EOY voting then spend months kicking myself when i realise how long-lasting and classic they are

really, i could've sworn i've seen it place before, i must be thinking of a dance poll. i think if more people had heard 'time' it would almost definitely have placed.

Well as long as Blawan places, I'm happy for this thread.

i thought "time" was just a personal fav all year but in the EOY dance thread a lot of people seemed to be into it, i still have hope

its has an epic melancholic/meditative synth-scape thing going for it that would probably appeal to a lot of non-dance peeps. reminds me a bit of 'dexter'.

it reminded me of peak kompakt and we know how ilm swooned at the feet of that

i think it has a chance

Really soppy Kompakt stuff tends to play well on ILM, I'm still expecting to see it place.

I think 'Look Right Through' by Storm Queen actually placed relatively low down a few years ago, but I might be imagining that. We're probably too far up this list though.

sorry to bring this corpse back to life but i werent around

lex's overstatements may have clouded matters as per but ultimately idk how you can say jeremih suffered from state-of-the-genre projection when the mixtape got way way more play than it would have done any other year

'773 love' is just very frustrating to me at this point, it's fine but i still can't see the very special thing about it that warrants its vaunting above others (even above 'matte black truck' ffs!! have mercy on these people's souls r&b jesus!!!) at most i could say it plausibly sounds like a demo of a cool song, but even then the kind of cool song that's at its best when executed adroitly and not this harried smushy mess

mk dub of storm queen's 'look right through' is arguably one of the most influential cuts of the year imo but not in any way that would get attention here

cannot believe mia got as high as this

i'll say it point blank, you voted for this you werent into music so much this year

i thought "time" was just a personal fav all year but in the EOY dance thread a lot of people seemed to be into it, i still have hope

I'd never heard of Pachanga Boys until just now. Lots of dance stuff is off my radar, but I'd have been happy to know about a Superpitcher project. Maybe I should've at least paid attention to that EOY dance thread.

xp though still not as bad as funkystepz haters who all just need to be escorted off the fucking premises at this point

rtc otm re mia

i guess people liked the video?

that sort of proves rtc's point

Yeah, "Bad Girls" makes more sense in tandem with its video. Even then, it wasn't among the 25 things I wanted to vote for, but I could see how it might be for someone else.

I can see how a video might suddenly make a song make sense in a way it hadn't previously, like providing a 'way in' to a record. But the idea of voting because you like a video, or worse because 'it's the video that makes it', is totally alien to me.

Has anyone actually said that was the reason they voted for it?

I dunno, a video can do that for me totally.

maybe people liked it when it popped up on the Vicki Leekx tape and continued playing it when it was released as a single this year

"artist with semi-rabid following gets ppl excited about a lesser single" isn't an unheard-of phenomenon, guys; it's basically how most pop musicians have made billions of dollars over the years

i haven't watched the video and i thought it was a good MIA song

i'll say it point blank, you voted for this you werent into music so much this year

i like how the inverse of this could also be a pompous dis - "anyone who voted for this song obviously loved the sounds of 2012"

But the idea of voting because you like a video, or worse because 'it's the video that makes it', is totally alien to me.

"Single Ladies" anyone?

i'm pretty sure Gangnam Style's success had a bit to do with its video

I am guessing MIA-haters might not be totally down with that one either.

The MIA track seemed so sluggish, gave up 3 mins in.

The Gangnam Style video is fairly obviously the sort of thing I was talking about as a "way in" to a record that may not have made sense previously.

wait, why would mia-haters not be down with gangnam style??

kind of sad no one else was as into Creep or The Presets as I was

Re-listening to "Bad Girls" right now for the first time in quite a while and it actually sounds really good to me this morning. I definitely wouldn't want it to be any more uptempo than it is, and it's not sluggish. It's got a menacing lurch to it, and the little bells and whistles in the beat are great.

Bad Girls is a decent enough record really but it doesn't have anywhere near the energy or exuberance of the best tracks from her first two albums and she sounds like she's putting the minimum effort in. There's a lot of sluggish music in this list (Chief Keef ffs) but nothing that quite gives off the same can't-really-be-arsed vibe. The fact that it's enjoyable enough nonetheless is kind of impressive but everyone involved sounds like they're on autopilot.

Someone get J0rdan out of bed.

i would have voted for either of the bad girls remixes - the missy/azealia one is the best verse azealia's had all year bar maybe esta noche and the rye rye/missy one is a hell of a lot of fun.

missy's great on both and her guest spot there is probably more 'missy' to me than either of the two singles we got from her, so

on its own, i dug bad girls but not enough to toss it a vote

Something else going w/Chief Keef. I mean he could do something with Aerosmith or AC/DC and no one would be surprised surely. Its another tactic altogether.

MIA is a complete lack of anything so yeah autopilot too. xxxp