ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

I do think it would have worked a lot better in a smaller venue. Probably being a bit unfair on poor St Ettys cos they had to fill a big outdoor headline slot at last minute and they clearly weren't prepared for it.

I'm also quite bitter cos the lack of Bjork meant loads of day-trippers got their money back and the whole place felt rather dead on the Saturday, prob didn't help the vibe much.

Bjork is a middle-aged woman, what am I not gettting?

bjork is ageless

I think this is the first time I realized Storm Queen isn't some sort of dancehall diva, totally sounds like one.

An observation re: "Cartoon and Cereal" - Gunplay is there to tell the story of Kendrick's paternal "you"

Oh man, I hadn't heard "Cartoon and Cereal" and for some dumb reason I searced for it on iTunes and it came up with one of my favorite recent examples of those namejacking musicians that sell shit on iTunes, a rapper named Kendrick Lamaar and his mixtape Cartoon Cereal. lol.

This is my favorite example:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnb7hyDZ1qkvtqmo1_1280.png

lol

lol

I salute his Ihu$tle

hey everyone

doing some work this morning, sorry -_-

gonna try and get this started w/in the next 30 minutes

lol @ Ihu$tla

Am bummed about Gravity not making it, will have to console myself w Miguel's two big hits

"Ima Eat Her Ass Based Freestyle" was robbed

http://i.imgur.com/KfT12X6.png?1

20. FRANK OCEAN "Pyramids" [366 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes]

Spotify / Youtube

it is 366 btw, i fucked it up in the image

Redo! Entire poll is now suspect!

That video is horrible.

2nd half of the song > 1st half

at the beginning of last year "pyramids" def opened my eyes cuz i had really cooled on nostalgia, ultra but it's not one of my fav songs on the album and i skip it often.

it's pretty dope tho and a good switch up for him.

oh yeah that video gets NSFW

I have never even watched the video. Perhaps I should finally do it.

Guess I always suspected this would rank higher, at least on ILM, than Thinkin Bout You. Dunno why, though.

i think "pyramids" is a bit silly and ultimately boring, and its ambition exceeds what he can pull off, but i can at least see why people would go nuts for it - you appreciate the ambition, whereas with something like "thinkin' bout you" succeeds or fails on whether you're moved by it, and i remain unmoved

Frank Ocean is a bit like Taylor Swift for me, I can see why he's an important pop thing and I get that the music means a hell of a lot to a lot of people but it just washes over me. I never have an actively unpleasant time listening to it but never want to explore further either.

That is my fav song off album. I am not really down with all the Frank controversy I just simply think half of his album is great.

The big synth hook in the middle of Pyramids is easily my favourite bit of this.

my favorite on the album but for me that is not saying much

http://i.imgur.com/1Yj16oH.png

19. TAYLOR SWIFT "I Knew You Were Trouble" [402 points, 14 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

SWIFTSTEP

I wish the song had explored the issues uncovered inthis classic ILE thread xxp

I'm glad this one beat out "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", it's a much better song. I voted for it.

classic joint from the first time i heard the first chorus... it's really constructed well though. it keeps adding and adding on, there's some great vocals at the climax of the song.

the first dubstep drop is actually the best and most emotional moment of this fucking brilliant song, which comes bang in the middle of the album's most amazing stretch

when does the song start?

Though I did vote "Begin Again" higher than this, which I am assuming at this point is not going to make it.

when does the song start?

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Kept fwding to 2:05

The spoken word intro is kinda hilariously hamfisted in its portent.

I kind of hate the idea of anyone being introduced to "Pyramids" through the video, which cuts out most of the first movement and then adds more extraneous John Mayer noodles, in addition to just being visually horrible.

the video was such a disappointment (though given that taylor has never made a remotely good video apart from maaaaybe "you belong with me", i shouldn't have been disappointed really)

The song itself is probably the best Taylor I've heard though, the bit where it goes all Fisher Price Skrillex is great.

Pyramids was my #1, I love that song

but yeah I kinda feel like both movements are essential

are we expecting some more swift in this cos from what little i can dimly recall from hearing the alb one time she had loads on there better than these 2

altho i like the pouty way she says trubble trubble trubble

I would be surprised if there was any more Swift on here.

shit we have gobs of unused footage what should we do? how about a 2min spoken word intro?

I'm glad this one beat out "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", it's a much better song. I voted for it.

Yeah, as I said way upthread, I like "...Trouble" better than "...Together," even though I voted for the latter. So I'm glad to see it here.

Trouble ws great, glad I skipped the intro.

i really liked the live version of "trouble" she did at the AMAs too - added chamber strings in the second verse, turned the chorus into a clapper (!) http://youtu.be/4F6k67xoGL8

are we expecting some more swift in this cos from what little i can dimly recall from hearing the alb one time she had loads on there better than these 2

oh she does ("all too well" is like her FUCKING MASTERPIECE, and "treacherous" is usually the best song ever written when i listen to it) but these were the big singles i guess

Is it just me or is more of this list coalescing around a handful of artists than usual? I know it's the whole vote splitting thing but Nicki, Taylor, Miguel, Frank and Jessie between them account for a pretty hefty chunk of the list, assuming there's a couple more to come from some of them as well.