ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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

NOT HIGH ENOUGH

my heart literally just skipped a beat

http://i3.fc-img.com/fc03img/Comcast_CIM_Prod_Fancast_Image/13/514/1317929742253_1187116962706_QD-5650.jpg_640_320_Overlay_640_320.jpg

fuck you, ILM

1,386 points would have won comfortably in 2010 and 2011.

lol @ 500 point jump

boooooooooooo

My #1.

oh god please make 'inspector norse' number one!

aaliyah in queen of the damned

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:48 PM (2 minutes ago)

SCENE THREE: Lovely dead Aaliyah as EMPRESS AKASHA slinky-winding through a Goth Klub in London’s um “meat-packing district”, elder-being lust for the immolation of the entire human race held sexily in check FOR NOW in the weird egyptian-lizardly grace of her dance motion. She DOESN’T MIND WHO SHE MURDERS, it’s all just fun to her: the implied closure of the movie will be a limitless apocalyptic end-time orgy of pure energy-release pleasure NOW…
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2004/10/ft-top-100-films-15/

xpost NOT HIGH ENOUGH

nice vase

there have been a lot of times this year where i considered whether "adorn" is my favorite song ever, so i'm pretty disappointed by this

has anyone made a spotify playlist of this poll?

wow i did think everyone predicting "adorn" had a chance vs CRJ was tripping but i'm surprised terje beat it

then again it is only like the 6th best song on the album

ahh how did qotd not ever come to me before, of course

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/facepalm.gif

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

― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:29 PM Bookmark

Miggy could have.

Surprised to see "Aaliyah" this high! I voted for it but I'm not quite sure it deserves #4 tbh.

I am hoping for more variety in the albums poll for us ugly ass misanthropes with toothache and never fucking heard Psy.

OH FUCK WHAT I QUIT ILM

But I am feeling like... I dunno, where are the oddities and curveballs and discoveries this year?

― emil.y, Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:43 (7 minutes ago)

be quiet and drink your keith fullerton whitman (and your scott walker)

endless lolz @ j0rdan/lex continually finding disappointment in these results