ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

you mean Andorra right, or TMOHK :P xp

Umm... so this was a thing that also happened? "St. Vincent & Nirvana - Lithium (Live Rock Hall of Fame 2014)"

Oh shit, and Lorde played All Apologies?? Sacrilege.

Sorry, getting off topic here.

This has one really nice chord change about two thirds of the way through but this guy seems to emotionally slay people in a way that I just don't understand, most of his music just feels so tepid.

xp you maybe missed this: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-inside-story-of-nirvanas-one-night-only-reunion-20140416

Ooof, the Katie Gately and Ninos du Brasil tracks are the highlights of this list so far for me. Both are gorgeous, texturally adventurous and have epic buildups with a payoff.

Silver at 63???? TOO LOW.

he'll never top the Andorra LP imo but i've loved everything he's done since, even if it mostly pales in comparison

Ooof, the Katie Gately and Ninos du Brasil tracks are the highlights of this list so far for me. Both are gorgeous, texturally adventurous and have epic buildups with a payoff.

― octobeard, Monday, January 19, 2015 8:20 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Silver at 63???? TOO LOW.

― octobeard, Monday, January 19, 2015 8:20 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

X/

don't like 'too low' as a rule, think it demeans the poll, also this caribou track just felt rote to me during my extended poll ballot preparations, might give it another try tho

I can't speak for everyone, but when I do a "too low!" post I know full well the hurdles a track has to go through to even make the top 77, so it's kind of tongue in cheek.

i feel like being a shakira stan would be very rewarding, she suits being a niche concern as much as she suits being a megastar and tends to be come off as pretty unconcerned about it either way.

st vincent - idgi generally, though is this youtube a different mix to the album version? i remember not liking the album bc it was all lo-fi and scratchy and don't remember anything as ~stately as this on it. quite like the crunchiness of the guitar rupturing the stateliness but the song isn't grabbing me

duke dumont - lots of fun, guaranteed to make me happy if i heard it, it seems a lot more straightforward and disposable than "need u" - in a good way but i never considered voting for it

caribou - what a fucking snooze this was

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

62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666" [242 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/5Q4XJI8B1BI

shit, that's 62

i actually like this caribou track? weird b/c i normally don't like caribou, like the other one that ppl liked this yr is just whatever

Most of the time I was on the beach in Mexico last month (while Chicago was cold and gloomy), I felt like I was in the "I Got U" video.

didnt like the caribou either. didnt mind it that much until the singing and then it had to go with all the others

Interested to hear lex's thoughts on this one.

aw i love this song and i did not vote for it at all

have a long-standing personal "no rock on the tracks ballot" rule for myself though

lasted about 10 seconds of against me, I think im at the end of my limit now, not done very well today

don't like 'too low' as a rule, think it demeans the poll, also this caribou track just felt rote to me during my extended poll ballot preparations, might give it another try tho

― rae sredrum (imago), Monday, January 19, 2015 12:25 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I find the "too low" exclamation to be funny and an adorable public proclamation of ecstatic love for a track or album on these polls. I'm glad it made it, nonetheless. Our Love is my favorite record of the year based on simply how often I listen to it. A good half dozen of the songs on are personal classics for me. It's also hard for me to compare it to Andorra or Up In Flames to Swim and Our Love... feels like two different bands to me.

not sure why that Against Me track gets the love, much stronger ones on the album imo

although it was good to freak out to at their live show

I'd always thought Against Me were heavier than this? I tend to assume I'm just not going to like new rock music but this is fun. The singer reminds me of J0hn D4rn13ll3 a bit.

no more troubled sleep
there's a brave new world that's raging inside of me

;_;

was v interested in this band and their frontwoman and her story, enough to check out the album in a genre that's usually not for me, but it's still not for me. sometimes listening to individual tracks via the trax poll rather than slogging through a whole album cracks artists open for me but that's not happening at all either

I've listened to all the tracks in this poll so far, but I'm not sure if should even try that with something called "Fuckmylife666"...

It's not a bad track, really. But not really my style of music these days.

I guess it's an ironic title? But that'd be just worse.

(xpost)

#JUSTICE4KELLILEIGH

oh, re: duke dumont, what IS the male vocal singing? i've always heard and sung it as "taking drugs all night" but surely not given the radio play it got

this is the first song where if you didn't watch the video the song wouldn't make as much sense, even with knowing the backstory.

I guess it's an ironic title? But that'd be just worse.

imo it's like an aim screen name, i.e. referring to early moments of self-definition

What scene would you say Against Me! emerged from? Post-emo or something? iirc they used to be more abrasive than this, because this is Green Day and Soul Asylum blended into one sound.

i really like Against Me! and voted for the album! dunno many of the tracks apart from each other (except 'unconditional love') but they're all good and the album makes for a really sweet listen-thru. bet you didn't expect that :D

well this is one of the uh gentler songs on the record. their scene was folk punk and then they expanded their sound dramatically

xpost

xxp JF they have roots in the Florida anarcho=punk crusty dumpster diving train hopping patch wearing scene

Okay, this Against Me band isn't as awful as I thought, based on the track title I was expecting hardcore punk or metal, but the tune sounds more like Soul Asylum or something... And the lyrics are actually kinda cool in a heartfelt way, I get the point of "FuckMyLife" now. But I'm like Lex, rock music like this just isn't for me, I'm still not converted.

(xpost with Johnny Fever, hahaha!)

ilm proving about as punk as a fish dinner rn :P

nothing more punk than being punk in 2015

re: Katie Gately, the Quietus interview makes something of her film work but she isn't sampling any compelling source material to do anything much with in the first place..

guess I like Against Me! because they're really intense and wild, but also pop as hell, idk. good concise songwriting that never gets too dull as well

Against me! lasted about five seconds. xp

Against Me! track is fine but an odd choice for a tracks list

Even before the band's story became their most interesting aspect, people would preach the virtues of Against Me! and I'd just go o_O so idk

well, I prefer the album as a whole - it works in aggregation - but nothing wrong with its representation here imo

i hope there's another Against Me! track or two to come, i liked that one when they played it on Letterman but it never felt like a standout in the context of the album to me.

only thing i've voted for so far is "Good Kisser." i'd love to hear a remix of "Lookin' Ass" that put the vocal over something better than the turgid Detail instrumental. maybe even an a cappella would be preferable.

i kept trying to make "Empire" click, i've liked a lot of Shakira singles, but that one always just went in one ear and out the other.

I'm listening to the album now and a lot of it is pretty MOR in a way that reminds me of the one good Gaslight Anthem album but that's okay, it works for me.