ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Also is this really what anyone calls "minimal" these days?

There's only 2.25 elements on the track at any time (only 2 minutes in, mind), the minimalometer is reading quite high!

really loving this track

How did this pass me by before now, it's gorgeous.

i really like that icona pop song because it spoke to a particular nihilism that defined my 2012 but 'manners' is a lot better

lost track of time

as time
goes
byyyyyy

In the era of m_nus and Mobilee and whatever at their height this would never have been considered minimal but up against the backdrop of the 2013 dance landscape it's absolutely tiny.

Honestly, the development of this Pachanga Boys track is nice and all but I'm not engaged, especially when compared to older epics like Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams"

It's not up there with the best Kompakt stuff from 8-10 years ago but it's still glorious.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah OK on another listen I can cosign this. Maybe it should have made my list.

Also is this really what anyone calls "minimal" these days?

There's only 2.25 elements on the track at any time (only 2 minutes in, mind), the minimalometer is reading quite high!

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

B-but minimal is a genre name, and this is not an example of something in that genre, unless the meaning has has. (OK, OK, I give up).

whoa totally missed pachanga boys this year, i'm digging it.

my number one was solange <3

man RA canon growing ever stronger on ILM

i thought i thought this was just nice but now it seems i have forgotten my name and what my name is and what day it is and really p much everything

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

― my chemtrails romance (c sharp major), Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nooooo.... a melodic rhythm entirely in quarter notes, who fucking does that?

Good that Jordan S is giving us a few more mins than usual, or so it seems..

Also I was drunk at a Croatian boat party and I went up to Michael Mayer and tried to get him to play this and then realised I was probably being a bit of a dick and apologised and he was all "no, it's okay, I *like* dicks!"

loving the Pachanga Boys track!

lmao

lmao Matt DC

omg matt

http://i.imgur.com/67NgctE.jpg

11. ERIC CHURCH "Springsteen" [467 points, 13 votes, 4 first place votes]

Spotify / Youtube

!!!

that time track is pretty good. after 20 seconds i thought, repetitive shite, i'll stop now. after a minute i am hooked and have to listen to the whole thing. hypnotic like hell.

this is literally an adult male writing a taylor swift song

he's got just enough twang to pull it off tho... i dig this

i wish "pontoon" had placed tho

it def sounds like he sings "jew'd out saturday night" in this song tho

wau 200 points from 4 ballots

i drunkenly tried to get richy ahmed to play 'you want me' at burning man... wasn't so well received tbh.

Damn, I had given up hope of this placing! I vote for it in my top 5 (voted for "Pontoon" too).

i think the first time i heard this i texted a number of people just to say "the dude version of 'tim mcgraw'!!"

YESSS "SPRINGSTEEN"! Corny as anything but the "funny how a melody seems like a melody" refrain is so affecting :/

YESSSSSSSS! had kind of given up on this

it is totally the male "tim mcgraw" but that is a point in its favour - also any song with the line "funny how a melody sounds like a memory" in the hook, i'm a sucker for

hahaha xp

i thought i thought this was just nice but now it seems i have forgotten my name and what my name is and what day it is and really p much everything

― r|t|c, Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:37 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, re: "time", this is EXACTLY it

And c sharp major/lex OTM re "dude version of 'Tim McGraw'"

OMG :))))

beautiful song. timeless. my #1.

Love this. Didn't the first couple of times - I still have some kneejerk reaction to country, I think - but yeah, such a great refrain.

the funny thing is, i have never actually heard any music by either tim mcgraw or bruce springsteen, and the perfection of the songs named after them makes me feel like i can't , they will never live up to the memories people hold of them

sorry this is ugh

"funny how a melody sounds like a memory"

the point at which I swicthed off..

i hate eric church & this song but I kinda like the line "back when I was gasoline and this old tattoo had brand new ink"

Listening to "Plastic Dreams" thanks to mention above and wow - what a track.

My #14. I think 6 of my top 10 and my number 12 are still quite likely to make the top 10, either I am very boring or wrong (or both).

i knew greater ilm would love 'time', awesome that it placed so high

this is corny as a motherfucker

country music

see i think he sings this perfectly so that it's not corny at all

as a person with a lot of sappy teenage memories associated with springsteen, i should be a lot more passionate about this song than i am

It is corny but in a genre where it's pretty much impossible be too corny.

Well yeah, compared to Toby Keith at his most Toby Keithiest, this is only about 41.5% corny.

*goes back to listening to pachanga boys track*

I kinda hate that thing in country music where the title of the song is sung at the end of the chorus/held over the post-chorus like THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE SONG, DO YOU SEE