ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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.

Er, that's talking about Future, not Grimes.

finally someone says something positive abt springsteen, sheesh

"oblivion" is definitely the shit

the drop in that song is kinda >

Love that sound, Drumma Boy uses it a lot

― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:24 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

indeed. i just like it there cos u instantly picture future in the woods looking for his kidnapped scully

The lurching/halting quality of "Oblivion"'s bassline tripped up a bunch've people who tried to drunkenly queue this up at parties.

this song ate me & spit me back out

― tity boi historian (ciderpress), Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:08 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah nice, the grimes song i like :)

really love the video too

http://i.imgur.com/h3jSshi.jpg

kid otm

Love that sound, Drumma Boy uses it a lot

― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:24 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

indeed. i just like it there cos u instantly picture future in the woods looking for his kidnapped scully

― r|t|c, Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:27 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

you guys have almost convinced me this is a deep Parliament reference

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

― etc, Thursday, 24 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Grimes is so flimsy oh what's the point.

Grimes' music possesses a lot of characteristics of things I listen to and like, but yeah...flimsy is a good word. I'd rather listen to fifty other things that sound similar to this rather than this itself.

I have a feeling Sun Ra wouldn't like Future.

probably my favorite line from 'turn on the lights,' and checking on lyrics sites maybe I've been mishearing it, but when he says "I'm looking for one too" which sort of accentuates that he's not really looking for an actual girl but just the platonic ideal, also all the references to her via hearsay (I heard she... I heard she...)

didn't think much of the grimes album but that song is a legit smash hit monster imo

her vocals give me the heebie-jeebies

i know i have previously implied all grimes bleeds into itself but this might actually be the one that specifically gets on my tits, it's like barney the dinosaur in a k-hole

oh well its 2013 now, like it if u like it who cares

Really? smash? monster? its just kinda there, nothing monster smashing about it. xxxp

grimes is a little on the slight side, it's okayish but from a top ten song i'd expect a little more substance.

are we just going to complain about every song that shows up from now on

i really like this Grimes track! genuine surprise. something to do with that angry human league synth, maybe.

xp Yeah if it suxxxx

it sounds a little like someone got hold of an old Knife demo and added some "oohs" to it

Not my favourite Grimes by a long shot.

Grimes is great obvs everyone who says it's slight and nothingy just ain't real enough to hear.

Does she have a speech impediment or is it a stylistic thing to not pronounce her S's?

christ her voice is just so cloyingly twee but it's so knowing as well. heebie-jeebies is right. i listen to it and i'm waiting for the name of the brand to pop up because it's such advert music

speech impediment