ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

somehow you just know usher will still have been the first to hear that new timberlake, and he will have smirked

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

When was it? I posted it on twitter on July 25th.

Although it definitely had a video at that point, so I think if has me beat.

I think this is the lowest rock content we've ever had in a poll (I'm even using rock broadly). Just an observation.

http://i.imgur.com/apXUG3Z.png

4. KATY B FT. JESSIE WARE "Aaliyah" [866 points, 27 votes]

Soundcloud

Gotsta Get Paid really should be in this list. xp

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

wth with you guys liking this "Springsteen" song??

AALIYAH PLEASE
THIS IS GREEN ENVY
WHY MUST YOU TAUNT ME, GIRL

When was it? I posted it on twitter on July 25th.

Although it definitely had a video at that point, so I think if has me beat.

Aug 1st

PS- Chaki hipped me to it ;)

woah points jump!

crazy this placed so high when it came out only a few weeks ago, not that i'm complaining

*patiently waits for amen to show up*

― 乒乓,

Can't remember if I voted for this, really hope I did as I've had it in my head almost constantly since I heard it on the Spotify playlist.

Whoa, 27 votes, awesome! Still need to hear this played out at 4am etc.

"aaliyah" surely the latest-released song ever to place in an ILM EOY poll? december release and it went straight on to everyone's ballots

K-pop

first ilx post I could find but I'm almost positive it was posted earlier in the k-pop thread, k-pop thread crashes my browser tho

Top three predictions earlier in the thread were otm: Terje, Carly Rae and Miguel. Not certain of the order yet.

I think this is the lowest rock content we've ever had in a poll (I'm even using rock broadly). Just an observation.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mm, but I'm not missing the rock entries so much (tbh ilx quite frequently has terrible taste in rock). But I am feeling like... I dunno, where are the oddities and curveballs and discoveries this year?

glad aaliyah showed up this high

avoided listening to this because i'm still traumatised from that drake aaliyah tribute thing. it's really good though

"Aaliyah" made this clear by giving me exactly what I wanted: a tune so hypnotic it verges on meditative, a weightless mass of constant swell and involution without any edges whatsoever, its gently scraping synth-riffs so insubstantial and yet so tangible, that even the intermingled envy and jealousy of Katy's words lose their bite, become enamoured of their own sparkling intensity. And of course if you want tangible insubstantiality then there's no better idea than to rope in Jessie Ware as guest singer: Katy and Jessie's traded lines on the billowing double middle eight slash breakdown make for perhaps 2012 pop's most entrancing moment, two sirens beckoning you down into an endless haze of uneasy fever dreams.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 05:38 (3 weeks ago)

Way way higher than any of Jessie Ware's solo efforts, yikes.

Aaliyah!!

Tim F said just today on the Katy B thread that "it's like she's stageblocking social situations", you really recognise the physical space, the movements people are making in it, in her songs. And this always, always makes me think of dancing by the DJ booth and the weird social politics that form there.

was feeling down about lack of Katy B (i liked Got Paid too) so this is joyous!

woah points jump!

You ain't seen nothing yet.

I love inspector Norse but had no idea it would place so high

I dunno, where are the oddities and curveballs and discoveries this year?

There have been a few, at least for me. But I suspect we may have been paying attention too closely to too much this year to be thrown (?).

hurrah

quite shocked actually!

Terje #1!

http://www.rocketsmusik.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TerjeHoneySm.jpg

this is jessie ware's best ever vocal imo. "that contrast between her holy beseeching mournful prayer and katy/geeneus' determined secular lightness" as rtc put it last month

casting aaliyah as jolene is the most perfect tribute

jessie ware kills that song yeah

Never heard "Aaliyah" before. 3 minutes in and I never want to hear it again.

"I watch from afar, and watch you sing along..."

this destroys me

i still would very much like to know what jessie is actually saying, can someone tweet the girl already

(tbh ilx quite frequently has terrible taste in rock). But I am feeling like... I dunno, where are the oddities and curveballs and discoveries this year?

― emil.y, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:43 PM

Top three predictions earlier in the thread were otm: Terje, Carly Rae and Miguel. Not certain of the order yet.

― Johnny Fever,

These were the three songs I wanted to predict at the beginning of the thread but thought it was a bit early. Think that Carly is going to take it but I'm hoping it's Miguel.

maybe 78-100, emil.y?

I only really come back to ILM for weddings funerals and polls these days, so there's been a few surprises for sure. Miguel for example, who I've never heard of until he appeared on the Freaky Trigger poll last week.

heh it cuts deeper than anxiety of influence i think

if, as it must be accepted, aaliyah is the best girl ever there must be an unspoken dark side to that which this song finally now dares address

― r|t|c, Friday, December 7, 2012 2:37 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still looks like Monday is going to be the best day over all.

aaliyah in queen of the damned

I know I listened to Aaliyah when it showed up in December, but not since. Sounds EXTREMELY dope today.

#TeamMiguel

aaliyah in queen of the damned

― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:48 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yes!!!

cant take the suspense

So glad that there was an actual honest-to-god worthy Aaliyah tribute in 2012 after a lot of worrying sub-"Brandy & Coke" knockoffs or instagrammy/mushy How To Dress Well/I-Love-The-90s attempts.

http://i.imgur.com/gzBaer7.jpg

3. MIGUEL "Adorn" [1,386 points, 39 votes, 7 first place votes]

Spotify / Youtube

booooooooooooooooooooooooo

noooooooooooooooo

Huge boos

Now that's what I call a points jump.

huge booze

Fucking Carly Rae Jepsen beat this thing? Siiigh