ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

should have listened to this before reading the fall out boy comment because my brain is trying to simultaneously take in the song + transpose it as if patrick stump were singing it + it had some nice bright full guitars

This Chairlift song is pretty good. Not feeling the remix.

Combine Grimes and Chairlift and you end up with Japanese Boy by Aneka

I like this Chairlift remix more than anything on the Talabot album actually, I wish he'd included a couple of sunrise anthems like this really.

poll finally delivers a new gem w/ pachanga boys. I don't have a clue how you go about creating something that so deftly angles to such a rarefied headspace. awesome.

not in love with either of the two consensus grimes tracks, but adore the album - like oblivion and genesis just fine but aren't the best tracks by a wide margin.

personal favourites are Skin which is the one mostly comprehensible ballad and i have FEELINGS about it,

and Be a Body (侘寂) which was supposed to be a single and was going to have a video at some point but that never happened. anyway, this is the best 'dance'/upbeat number on visions

vowels is pretty great too.

I Belong in Your Arms is a song that I love. Intensely.

"wrong opinion" is best actually

― Tim F, Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

xp:
New Look still hasn't managed a North American release, and Chairlift had a big early bump from an Ipod commercial on their debut.

wasn't massively into the grimes album but i like it when i listen to it and happy enough to see it here. plus she seems like she'd be fun to hang out w/. wish i liked talabot's stuff more than i do, feel like it should be right up my street. gonna give this one a proper go.

did we fold in remixes with originals on previous end-of-year polls? just thought: maybe that's a reason why this one feels like it's got so much less bobbins than previous years.

also, brb, setting up a kickstarter to bully patrick stump into a studio

"songs fall out boy should cover" needs to be a thread, no telling the millions of songs it could save

Yeah, Friendly Fires 'Paris' finished incredibly high up as a result.

The bit where Talabot and Pional bring in the pitched down "I beeeelong in your arms" chorus is so so great.

did we fold in remixes with originals on previous end-of-year polls?

idr if musically did this or not, but that's been the protocol for the past three polls.

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

7. SKY FERREIRA "Everything is Embarrassing" [607 points, 19 votes, 3 first place votes]

Spotify / Youtube

ah, ok.

Yeah, we've always combined remixes and originals. I'd be open to arguments about keeping them separate. xxxxxxxxxp

Chairlift had a big early bump from an Ipod commercial on their debut.

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:58 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

again, natural habitat

idk i can't get with anything that doesn't just borrow or nod to the past but literally sounds like it was not made at any point in the last 20 years, just so sterile

love it xxp

that sky ferreira youtube link doesn't work in the uk so here's a mirror: http://youtu.be/1jtTeMgWNhA

i can't remember if i voted for sky or not but that's a 10/10 joint no doubt... i need to find somewhere that has it for karaoke

i like "everything is embarrassing" a lot despite dev hynes. sky ferreira is an incredibly charismatic performer despite not having much in the way of actual killer tunes yet and in general it's a pretty real song

i can't remember if i voted for sky or not but that's a 10/10 joint no doubt... i need to find somewhere that has it for karaoke

noooo it's way too intimate for karaoke, i don't think i'd want to hear it with anyone else in the ROOM

Last interesting place left now? Assuming it's going to be an Usher/Psy/Terje/Miguel/Jepsen top 5.

Combining originals and remixes has called attention to a number of great songs (esp. Haim's "Forever" above) that I wouldn't have otherwise heard. I'm sure the opposite argument will be seen from #s 78+

I feel like all my sky stanning on ilm has finally gotten her somewhere (was sad when "one" didn't crack the top 77 in 2010).

such an amazing song. groovy, dreamy, perfect

"everything" actually didn't click for me until it popped up at random on the nominations spotify and i went OH

My #1, totally addictive.

either "aaliyah" or "au seve" didn't make it ://///

(and neither bieber -_- )

Kinda worried PSY isn't going to make c.f. "Party Rock Anthem" in 2011.

i had such a high success rate recommending 'everything is embarrassing' to friends, and then always had to tell them that no she doesn't have any other good songs

aaliyah will probably make the 2013 list? i figured it was way too late to have much impact and i see it as a '13 song

bummed that ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid" didn't show up.

yeah I've given up on PSY by now ;_; and ... probably meek milly

PRA didn't make it because it was inadvertently left off the noms list.

idg why everyone liked "aaliyah" so much

Grady's 'Gangnam Style in at #78 with a bullet' prediction is looking more and more likely, unless ILM has decided to pass on Meek Mill in which case fuck you all.

This Sky song is probably my least favorite song of the day so far.

then always had to tell them that no she doesn't have any other good songs

Well that's just not true.

I really hope Psy doesn't make it.

I've been assuming 'Black Lipstick' was a lock for the top 77 all along but perhaps not.

gangnam for #1 cmon

^ shame that the best dawn track this year wasn't on either of the EPs or the LP

sky ferreira does have other good songs :( honestly was ridiculous that "one" didn't make the top 77 two yrs ago

if it means "amen" i'm 100% against psy rn

if meek mill doesn't place it's because everyone was stanning for the wrong song by him

have kind of been assuming from the start that the top 3 are psy/crj/adorn in some order

yeah maybe people votesplit between amen and dreams and nightmares?