ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

I've never heard of Eric Church until today but this totally sounds like a Taylor Swift song.
I dunno, his voice is nice but this song/style/sentiment does a whole lot of nothing for me.

Don't think I could ever love this but I like the guy's voice a lot.

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

It's also only about 41.5% as good as 'I Love This Bar' so that figures.

Also if this got FOUR number ones and still didn't make the top 10 then we're about to head into serious big gun territory.

The hook is much lamer and less memorable than I expected for a country track to place this high. His voice is also pretty reedy on the high end. If you're going to do the country baritone thing you have to maintain it throughout the range.

I didn't get my ballot in on time for it to count, but I Love It was my #1. EVERYBODY UPTHREAD IS WRONG b/c that song totally rules.

Glad to see all the love for "Time". Pretty sure i was the number one voter (lost track of my ballot, ahem). It's as good as anything Superpitcher has ever done and i did not expect to be saying that about a track released in 2012

"springsteen" took a while to grow on me (it hardly registered the first time i heard it) and it is corny so i am not too surprised ppl don't like this

totally flabbergasted that four people voted that "springsteen" song number one. nthing special about it, there must be a trillion similar country songs floating around in the world. it's not per se a bad song but is quite ordinary.

WTF ILM

it's cute, i can see why people have fallen for it

I didn't get my ballot in on time for it to count, but I Love It was my #1. EVERYBODY UPTHREAD IS WRONG b/c that song totally rules.

― rocky dennis horror show (Pillbox), Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah ppl are weird, it is the #1 song to blast/scream along with in your car over and over again

enjoying alex in m and rtc itt

Garbage.

hardest zing i've taken in years :/

oh fuck, that just reminded me...Garbage released an album last year. lol I never listened to it. Did anyone?

two tribes, every ying needs a yang, every clint hill a taarabt &c &c

x-post no but I am holding out for the next Jason Aldean single "Butch Vig"

haha

http://i.imgur.com/hHpBdCM.png

10. FUTURE "Turn on the Lights" [476 points, 16 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

Great screen grab.

he seems pleased

sun is setting, he's getting worried abt it being too dark soon

this song ate me & spit me back out

I'm kind of meh on the Future album this song is so far and away the standout. If anyone would care to furnish my with an interzone bubbler remix of it I would be eternally grateful.

a truly wonderful song

I think if I'd spent a little more time with "Springsteen" -- I think I've just randomly played the YouTube two or three times, most likely after reading someone enthuse about it -- I'd have fallen for it. I'm kind of a sucker for songs about looking back at time gone by. The video for Brad Paisley's "Letter to Me," for instance, has made me just lose it, tbh.

He has such a good smile.

so much better out of album context

feeling this again

the first 1 minute of that song is utter perfection, from the snares coming in to the beat dropping out except for those fluttering anti-gravity synths to the chorus... it can't really match that first minute, but very few things can

wow "Springsteen" is terrible

xp The last minute is pretty dope too

Not my thing, but whipped cream and Pabst Blue Ribbon?

i love how the warbly autotune effect on the vocal makes 'turn on the lights!' sound really panicked every time

Tim F wrote this on thread Polling Songs, Polling Albums at the Same Damn Time (The Tim F 2012 Round-Up) on board I Love Music on 01-Jan-2013

Future himself, lost in third-hand idealizations of the perfect woman and torn between boastful fantasy (“I wanna tell the world about you just so they can get jealous”) and remorseful realism (“If you see her ‘fore I do, tell her I wish that I met her…”), somehow knows he doesn’t deserve the prize, and it’s that undercurrent of deflated wistfulness that makes “Turn on the Lights” as loveable as it is startling.

Why would anyone want to listen to any other mopey torpid autotune shit when this record exists?

xp The last minute is pretty dope too

― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:11 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

idk if they even meant to do this shit but i especially adore the theremin-ish flying ufo sound coming in right after "i'm lookin for her... with a flashlight"

Yeah its that strangled "Turn on the Lights" is actually affecting.

Then the harpischord kick at 3 mins in is awesome too..

i love how the main synth kinda sounds like a harpsichord

Yeah I was thinking is the harpischord in earlier or what...great arrangement beat and ghostly bits that go in w/the sentiment, needs lots more listens.

I love how civil everyone's been all through this thread and now we're approaching the end there's so much outcry

haven't heard any of 11-13. so glad Future Page cracked the top ten

"I Love It" was my #2. To me it's a sort of shameless retro-fetishism for a nihilistic generation of hedonists. Like, it sounds like Max Martin and Shampoo/Republica but done in a sloppy style, in a sort of affectionate yet knowing take on that brand of pop, so it both celebrates itself and doesn't take itself too seriously. I love how it positions Icona Pop as young enough to be snarling and confrontational, but mature enough to have this kind of legitimate dichotomy of apathy and rebellion. All the people I know who love this are in their early-to-mid 20s though so there's probably an element of nostalgia in it, though.

also multiple x-posts the Garbage album was really disappointing, even after the horrible "Bleed Like Me" and the No Doubt comeback was much better.

xp: Not early-to-mid 20s, but memory still good enough to remember the momentary freedom between tossing my underwear and toothbrush in a gym bag and the onset of regret behind the steering wheel. It's not a song about a personality, but about a moment.

xp The last minute is pretty dope too

― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:11 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

idk if they even meant to do this shit but i especially adore the theremin-ish flying ufo sound coming in right after "i'm lookin for her... with a flashlight"

― r|t|c, Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love that sound, Drumma Boy uses it a lot

pachanga track is bloody ace m8s

whoever upthread said Future has a blues quality is otm

'springsteen' is great

http://i.imgur.com/PJi6T0M.png

9. GRIMES "Oblivion" [510 points, 20 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

Managed to convince a bunch of otherwise taste-fossilised noise dudes listen to this via shameful handwaving "Sun Ra'n'B" blather.