ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

relistening now for the first time since the week it came out and still nope, this isn't doing it

beating out "matte black truck" by 20 places, smh

man, I'm gonna have to redo my joke #1 image post now

maybe she can hook up with the pet shop boys next, really eke out those last few popjustice pennies

Lol @ Cassie attempting to pander to a couple of dozen British people she read about in a magazine once and getting it wrong in the process. The song itself is flimsy as fuck.

lex otm this is a bit weaksauce considering where it placed and the poll so far

like this is significantly higher than "Ride" was in its respective year (not to draw up pointless juxtapositions)

i honestly have no idea even which BIT of the richard x remix j0rdan thinks is a headrush

i'm listening to it now and...there's nothing that comes close to headrushiness

the least cfc could have done was propel 'boys' to place

"Unfortunate bit of crumpet".

Just...

I doubt we'd agree which 50%, e.g. "Thinkin' 'bout you" is possibly my least favourite cut.
Sweet Life and Super Rich Kids is all I really like off side 1 so yeah mainly them and Pyramids onwards. I didn't like the album enough to vote for it but it has enough for me to always go back to it.

xp you may think she's had a solid career but i can assure you it's been plagued by setbacks

wait up apparently just today cassie has released a remix of "all gold everything" called "all gold, all girls" featuring TRINA and lola monroe

gonna put handing my cfc membership card in on hold til i've heard this

It's kinda silly to say Richard X is off his prime. He does one thing: candy coated archipegiation. It hasn't really responded to current music, and it was out of date on his first outing.

damn who voted for this shit?

and who would've thought that cassie would be the one thrown on the cross this year

times, they are a changin'

http://stupiddope.com/2013/01/24/cassie-trina-lola-monroe-all-gold-all-girls-new-music/

there you go, lex

i think i quite like that frank ocean song pyramids. it's so relaxed and he seems so poised, his voice sounds sometimes like stevie wonder, sometimes like some other soul singer of the 70s or 80s i just have forgotten the name of. i guess i have to think about listening to the whole album. the other two songs taylor swift and cassie do nothing for me. the taylor swift song is just so amazingly average and ordinary, i don't understand the appeal of it at all.

lol poor cassie

let's move on to more important questions

http://i.imgur.com/PHiIKLv.jpg

17. MIGUEL "Do You..." [415 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes]

Spotify / Youtube

ugh yes, this deserves its place. better than adorn imo

Yay! My Miguel pick. Love so many things about this song.

Even the "rock/paper/scissors" bit, why because that's the corny stupid stuff that people do in relationships.

possibly my fav screencap of all time

damn who voted for this shit?

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every Miguel song just missed my ballot, apparently (I thought I'd voted for at least one...)

i listen to this song for hours on end

ugh yes, this deserves its place. better than adorn imo

― teledyldonix, Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:09 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

way better

absolutely love "do you...", it asks all the important questions and is one of the only songs i've heard that makes drugs sound romantic and tender because actually they ARE - captures the intimacy of it

i heard it on the radio for the first time semi-recently and lol'd a little at the radio edit

the chiming guitars that come in on the second verse - now THAT'S a headrush. so perfect that the video cuts to his gf just vibing out on headphones at that point

"archipegiation"? does richard x turn tracks into an archipelago?

lol

respect my archipegiation

yeah he's British innit

if I ran the world, "Adorn"-haters would be subject to mental examination

I've gotten used to "Do You.." I guess but its still the low point of the album, for me.

resolve to play rock paper scissors with miggy someday

this is actually second string Miguel for me but am glad to see it. Last year I made a mix CD of the top 15 and I am slightly bummed that this won't be on it if I do the same this year.

I mean, that slap bass! Loved that Tim F compared this to Me'Shell

i don't think anyone has expressed "adorn"-hate itt

Meant "arpeggiation". Least that's what it says on the dial.

"Adorn" is great obv, probably my #3 on the album. Happen to prefer "Do You...".

personally feel like it would have been nice if 'do you' and 'use me' places were switched but i'm happy for miggy either way

xp TS: rtc calling Cassie "a bit of crumpet" vs doglatin calling Sarah Cracknell someone's tipsy mum.

"Adorn" is a fine song and "Do You" is just ok but I wish Miguel would move over on this poll for some dance music. We've seen so little thus far.

"use me" is great but sometimes i think there's maybe one too many repetitions of the chorus

Yey! More Miguel. I was very off in my idea for this top 20. I guess I'd better redo it. So here's 15 and there's at least 5 which I'm not sure if they'll place at all (major lazer, grizzly bear, sky ferreira, icona pop and.... psy)

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Usher - Climax
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Miguel - Adorn
Solange - Losing You
Grimes - Oblivion
D'Banj - Oliver Twist
Katy B x Geeneus x Jessie Ware - Aaliyah
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools
Psy - Gangnam Style
Sky Ferreira - Everything is embarrasing
Major Lazer - Get Free
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons
Pachanga Boys - Time
Icona Pop - I Love It

I like 'Do You' a lot.

someone's comment about "Use Me" being sexy r&b vocals over shoegaze instrumentals got me thinking about Meshell too, cause she's the only other person I can think of who really goes for that. xps

i am going to be devastated if sky ferreira doesn't place. :(((

TS: rtc calling Cassie "a bit of crumpet" vs doglatin calling Sarah Cracknell someone's tipsy mum.

"Crumpet" has its own (quite negative) connotations whereas comparing Sarah Cracknell being like someone's tipsy mom in a crowd half her age describes a situation and not her personally.

please 51 me for calling cassie a bit of crumpet, i can literally think of no finer way to go