ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

First impressions: Liking "Getting Me Down" much more than "Garage"

don't get the love for this or that other big blehwan track

blehwan lol

lol @ the morbsization of blawan

blawank obv

The yacht disco beat on Losing You is so great that it still irritates me to hear it wasted on a vocal melody that sounds like it was written by a six-year old in a primary school recording lesson.

tbh i really like how straight and stead and inflexible the vocal line is, like she's been left behind in the song.

staid, even!

btw did blawan really sample the fugees for an entire ep? that is mildly interesting to me

yeah i've never really thought of 'bodies' as a dance track to tell the truth but then that's often the case with uk bass whatevers

Oblahmawan for the full Morbs effect surely.

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13. ICONA POP "I Love It" [450 points, 16 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

good, now i have blawankety-wank, blawankety-wank song stuck in my head

fuck this shit

Blawan track really did work as a Halloween track. I like Getting Me Down loads as well, but here he turns full on Suicide-esque industrial while somehow keeping a toe in the partisan/bass water. Funny how an ever so slight change in his style parameters (from GMD to WTHTBUMG) can yield such different results.

i fuck with "i love it" but there's something very not quite there about it that makes me wish it had been filtered through the hands of dr. luke or max martin or some such bloodless professional

Was hoping this would be Ikonika.

idk what this is

so much british stuff I never even knew existed.

lol @ J0rd's Spotify link

try this instead

wow, that's horrible

i don't want to know what this is. xps

Heard I Love It on German tv about a hundred times over the course of three days and turned the volume up every time. Fantastic song.

rolling stone put this on their year-end list and justified its quality by saying something like "this song gets all the drunk euro-sluts on the floor" smh

this is a good song! not *that* good but still

Wouldn't have voted for Icona Pop, but it's another one I'm kind of glad to see. I like its nihilistic exuberance.

jesus christ that's fucking dreadful

i'd been meaning to check out icona pop all year but the name was off-putting, i didn't think they sounded like this - i imagined some scando-type thing? this is just...are they consciously trying to sound like republica or some shit? this is horrifying

You don't care, nobody cares...its like sub-Sham 69.

the vocal and instrumental tracks sound like the basis for two separate (good) songs but something is very off in the combination.

so much british stuff I never even knew existed.

― skip, Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:14 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Icona Pop aren't British, if that's what you're referring to.

Never heard of this one before, it's terrible. Reminds me of Shampoo.

with the unison vocals they come across kind of like a charmless Bananarama

hmm this is basically "getting me down" with all the fun surgically extracted though isn't it

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:58 AM (15 minutes ago)

lex otm

Is this the track with Charli XCX on it? I liked that one

oops, Swedish, sorry.

Was hoping this would be Ikonika.

― etc, Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:13 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

brrr the devil's own taking sides

it's a line from the song o_0

I know. Still put me off.

I think Charli wrote/produced it or something. Dunno if she's actually on it.

lol i love how "feat. charli xcx" was eventually tacked onto the release probably b/c charli's own recent singles weren't going anywhere

i can't actually hear her on it

just glanced through the rest of the list so far and this icona pop thing is easily, easily the worst thing to have shown up so far

i actually mildly liked the few charli xcx songs i'd previously heard too

it's basically designed to soundtrack some montage in an episode of Skins, isn't it?

Wait were people voting for the piano version or the 2005 Popjustice electrotoss version? If it's the former then I demand the names of everyone who voted for it so I can ban them.

I know. Still put me off.

refer you to rtc's post on this matter, if it put you off then whatever tbh

I'm surprised lex doesn't like it, seeing as the chorus hangs around their use of the word 'bitch'. I figured that was all it took for him to proclaim lyrical genius.

it's not actually as fun as any republica bananarama etc etc though is the thing, i hear only dread concrete mixer calculation and emotional squalidity

Haha turns out the '2005 Popjustice electrotoss version' was actually some other Solange song than Spotify had run on to. But it doubly applies to the actual Icona Pop song. This is dreadful.

I'm not in love with Icona Pop like Maura is or some other friends are, but this song's alright and FAAAAAR from the worst/most embarrassing thing to have placed so far.

Come now, its "Nineteen" written from the other side of the equation. I have time for exuberant nihilism.

"Losing You" is definitely in my wheelhouse, but I don't love it enough to have voted for it. (At least I don't think I did?) My wife loves it, tho. (Her #1 of 2012, fwiw, is the Hot Chip album track "Look at Where We Are.")

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12. PACHANGA BOYS "Time" [465 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]

Youtube