ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

lol @ no #1 votes

Agree with Lex, real travesty if "Boyfriend" and "As Long As You Love Me" miss out, as it now appears they will.

sweet, showed up just in time

Definitely picked the right screenshot.

xp Possibly worth pointing out to Moka that there are 6 numbers lower than 7?

also, i have images turned off, so i can't see the gifs :)

Deserved to be top 5, but happy it made it. Great event song, great to dance to, works as both a communal thing and as a sitting at a computer looking at animated gifs thing.

lex please listen to this :/

yessss the screencap it was destined to have

I knew even before clicking on it that the screenshot would be the moment where he is yelling at a butt

I feel like we are all just yelling at the butt of divine indifference now.

yeah it was never not going to be the butt yell

Well looks like Grizzly Bear got shafted.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

dying @ this

lex you never posted in my ciara thread btw thread dedicated to the greatness of CIARA - SORRY

DJP: pvmic

I love this song btw

I also loved "Party Rock Anthem"

1,236,945,859 views

i am not going to endure anything that involves anyone yelling at a butt. why would i subject myself to that? i can feel my lips pursing involuntarily.

holy shit xp

I saw it first with just under 200,000 views. beat THAT

there are many (lesser, imo) scenes where he does not yell at a butt

Yeah them Bieber tracks so much better than whatever it was that slowed down for you fuckers to enjoy. Also sad The Wanted's "I Found You" never stood a chance.

haha yeah I remember it being posted in the k-pop thread as the 'next big thing' and I listened to it once and was so dismissive, how wrong I was

lex you never posted in my ciara thread btw thread dedicated to the greatness of CIARA - SORRY

― 乒乓, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:21 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe if you hadn't chosen the one mediocre song she made last year! i knew something was suspicious about it from the off.

talking of which, POURING FOUR OUT FOR THE FOUR AMAZING CIARA SONGS THAT NEVER MADE IT ;_; ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rKnmF5JgR4

Pachanga Boys is a good discovery, although start > end > middle

Rest? I gotta live with what ILM has become - has always been, really

At least GS is damn, damn gimmicky, in a good way

Glad G-Dragon turned up in the top 77 so this wasn't the only k-pop represented (sorry BIGBANG voters, I was w/f(x) and BlockB), but still a way better breakout/crossover hit than I thought k-pop would ever get.

i am not going to endure anything that involves anyone yelling at a butt.

i thought you liked "we are never ever getting back together"?

Lex I'm sure you must like at least one record where I dunno Lil Jon or someone appears and yells at a butt.

Yeah them Bieber tracks so much better than whatever it was that slowed down for you fuckers to enjoy. Also sad The Wanted's "I Found You" never stood a chance.

― danzig, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:22 PM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh forgot the slowed bieber made it. "boyfriend" and "as long as you love me" were so fucking great but i guess their ~positioning~ wasn't right

assumed this photo was chosen by pic editors for its resemblance to psys pose

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/21/article-2266111-170E4CD8000005DC-799_634x458.jpg

I thought BoA would place tbh, sad it didn't either ;_; xposts

maybe if you hadn't chosen the one mediocre song she made last year! i knew something was suspicious about it from the off.

talking of which, POURING FOUR OUT FOR THE FOUR AMAZING CIARA SONGS THAT NEVER MADE IT ;_; ;_;

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:23 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha I chose that song because I knew you would have gone into the thread and given me a proper dressing down for liking it

usmile ambient >>>>> the kfw that placed itp

lol, The Wanted. FFS.

K-Pop suffered from serious vote-splitting, there are a good few that almost made it. Or there just weren't enough K-Pop voters.

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

5. USHER "Climax" [657 points, 24 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

yeah I can't wait for 78-100 xp

lol @ david de psyea

I saw it first with just under 200,000 views. beat THAT

I listened to it when it was just the audio up and didn't have the video yet! I have Frank Kogan to thank for that. I thought it was amazing and wasn't actually as keen on the video, although I've come round on most of it. We reviewed it super early on the Singles Jukebox, before it became clear it was going to take off, and it was still the most divisive track of the year. No one scored it anywhere in the 4-7 range.

well here's one we all agree on, right?

i can't really think of anything else to say about it, great song, deserves its place

burned myself out on climax relatively early in the year and it never seemed to get radio momentum around where I was, still a great song but no desire to revisit it atm

yay psy!

love this one to pieces

did refill place (yet)?

NOW we're talking. LOVE this.

i had my moments with "climax" this year but it's just a very good song to me, nothing more

will say that i think usher's the only singer in pop or r&b right now who could've pulled it off

i think we can confidently say that refill is now a contender for #1 xp

yeah prev posts otm tbh, i have enjoyed the shit out of this song but it is perhaps not an everlasting classic i will always treasure

i was going to claim to be the first to post gangnam style on ILX, but a quick search reveals frogbs beat me by a few hours

Climax is just nothing but monstrous hooks stacked on top of each other. Hooks on hooks, if you will.