ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

Much as I love both Katie Gately and Holly Herndon, I find myself getting confused about which tracks are which and where they appear. Both seem to have been keen on releasing a lot of split-singles and single track things it's hard top keep up. So is Chorus the one with the video of a computer desk rendered in VR graphics? I love that one.

Really enjoying that Owen Pallet track. Never crossed my radar before. What other things of his should I be checking out?

Not keen on any of the music so far but its interesting to hear different things I wouldnt otherwise hear.

i like the images

I dont usually post negative thoughts but here it feels ok to do so. An occasional hot take to clear the january air

yep chorus is the one with the computer desks
and in relation to owen pallett, personal choices but i'd recommend the riverbed off his latest, and this is the dream of win and regine way back from his first album (under the alias final fantasy)
genuinely love all four of his solo records though and would say that if you have the time to, to check them all

correction, i liked he poos clouds but never loved it :'(

Ok, cheers

Both seem to have been keen on releasing a lot of split-singles and single track things it's hard top keep up

i wish! katie gately discography is really short: 1 x cassette (Pipes), 1 x 12" EP, 1 x split 12" (includes 'Pivot'), 1 x split 7" (includes 'Far')

might be more stuff on her soundcloud, but otherwise it's just the two songs in 2014

Love love love that Ninos do Brasil track, those rotating drums sound great on headphones.

yh so far,

voted for: gately

love: pallett, herndon

like a lot: ninos, against me, MAYBE st vincent

other: the others

why are we all giving our hot takes on every song

Because a rollout without discussing what we think of the songs would be really fucking boring?

Whoever said it's the 'ugly' parts of her music that make it, is OTM. SV's music is very much about spiky, somewhat awkward phrases rubbing up against moments of startling beauty, and that's what's happening here.

See, I know this is what people like about St Vincent, and having seen clips of her live I can sort of get it, but listening to this track I don't hear "ugliness vs beauty" at all, I just hear a mid-range radio blandness.
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maybe it works better in the context of the album/rest of her work. like, Prince Johnny is a highlight on that record because it comes as a much-needed breather after a bunch of fairly fast/jerky songs. I could imagine hearing it for the first time as an individual tune and thinking it might be a bit on the sleepy side. It's def a song that reveals itself after a few plays.

My six year old daughter gives a big thumbs up to that Shakira track.

Very happy that AM! placed - I voted for this, but it was more to make up for forgetting to nominate the True Trans EP for last year's poll, I'll fill my singles ballot with AM! tracks I don't care

Here's the true trans version, I like it better than the album http://youtu.be/4q5oAY4BIcE

Because a rollout without discussing what we think of the songs would be really fucking boring?

instead of posting hot takes ppl should type out the names of the tracks and then put ::claps politely:: after each of them.

MONDAY RECAP:

Gallery of today's images

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"
76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”
75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"
74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"
73 KING "Mister Chameleon"
72 KATIE GATELY "Pivot"
71 ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour "Somos Sur"
70 USHER "Good Kisser"
69 NICKI MINAJ "Anaconda"
68 DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo
67 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again"
66 SHAKIRA "Empire"
65 ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny"
64 DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones
63 CARIBOU "Silver"
62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666"
61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"

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60 MARK RONSON "Uptown Funk" Ft Bruno Mars [252 points, 7 votes]
http://youtu.be/OPf0YbXqDm0

monday was a great day
well done everybody

sure didn't take long for you guys to poop in the punchbowl today

actually can't imagine a song i'll hate more in this poll, unless "happy" is eligible, but at least we've saved the higher echelons of the 2015 poll. like if one of the organised fun assignments on an office team building day was to make a michael jackson song. brr

Feel like 2015 is going to be more of a year of impact for that song.

My id thinks Uptown Funk sounds terrific, but my ego can't help feeling slightly sceptical that this isn't just a bunch of touchstones and vamps that have been cynically smooshed together for optimum effect. Part of me says 'fuck it well that's what a large part of pop music is all about' and the other part isn't so sure whether 'Get Lucky''s fairy dust works as well the second time round.

It's amazing that I still haven't gotten tired of "Uptown Funk."

like if one of the organised fun assignments on an office team building day was to make a michael jackson song. brr

Or what lex said, p much.

I loathe Bruno Mars and love loathing Bruno Mars but this is my jam. He should sing in that cocaine-husk of a whisper forever.

This is the kind of music that a band that goes on Jonathan Ross or Letterman might play. Thankfully I dont even have a tv

My #2, prob caught up in joy from New Years Parties and all that. But I love it, much more than Get Lucky. It really is "touchstones and vamps that have been cynically smooshed together for optimum effect" which is what makes it so much better than when touchstones and vamps are cynically smooshed together to seem 'authentic' or 'tasteful'. I love the almost EDM-like dynamics of it.

his voice on this is so weak

felt that way about "fuck you"

love "uptown funk" tho

i don't care about how cynical the motivations were behind this but the end result is joyless and insipid

"fuck you", "happy", "all about that bass", all need to get in the bin

Thankfully I dont even have a tv

* * ILX SIRENS AWOOGA * *

'Happy' is definitely more irritating than this. 'Happy' is up there with Lenny Kravitz' 'Fly Away' a hit song that doubles as a hatchback commercial

"Fuck you" is the worst

I love Bruno Mars and take the hateposts about him around here a bit too personally but this song is trying too hard to please. Orgafun is a good comparison but see also Hollywood movie plots put together by committee of scriptwriters.

Yeah, Uptown Funk is the Skyfall of popmusic. But I love Skyfall as well. Sometimes it works.

'Fuck You', 'Crazy', 'Uptown Funk', 'Get Lucky', 'Happy' - dangerously close to becoming a genre in itself.

Thankfully I dont even have a tv

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Happy is in a category of its own, no way is this as bad. Neither is it as bad as Fuck You, which was more in your face about its melodic gimmicks and only slightly listenable the very first time. This one is just a piece of sound pastiche with not much of a song to it and I don't particularly like it or hate it.

I never heard this before either. I guess I'm not listening to the radio anymore or something...

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Part of me says 'fuck it well that's what a large part of pop music is all about' and the other part isn't so sure whether 'Get Lucky''s fairy dust works as well the second time round.

― quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:47 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not even "get lucky" a second time round, more like the latest in that long line of "happy", "fuck you", "blurred lines", "crazy", "hey ya", "crazy in love" etc. that sort of inoffensive retro funk that somehow manages to appeal to every demographic (aka older white ppl) so as to top every radio format and become inescapable (and then ends up on wedding playlists forever). i actually can't think of a more popular style of song (although ofc it generally needs an engaging performer over the top). there's going to be loads more before the decade is out.

I never heard this before either. I guess I'm not listening to the radio anymore or something...

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― MikoMcha,

#1 song in America.

and was #1 in England.

'Fuck You', 'Crazy', 'Uptown Funk', 'Get Lucky', 'Happy' - dangerously close to becoming a genre in itself.

― quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean pop music?

I'm not 100% on board with get lucky but it's abt a hundred times better than either cee-lo cut

Just catching up on the rollout so far... More stuff I've enjoyed at this point in the poll than last year, I think

yus, no indie, no country and no metal. A great roll out so far. A proper tracks poll.

Give it tme.

psyched for the country

http://i.imgur.com/oGLGO1h.jpg

59 JENNIFER LOPEZ "I Luh Ya Papi" Ft French Montana [252 points, 9 votes]
http://youtu.be/c4oiEhf9M04?t=1m19s

I LUH YA LUH YA LUH YA PAPI

i'm down for this randomly placing

I LUH YA PAPI I LUH YA LUY YA PAPI

"Meanwhile, another legend is about to be born--somewhere in the mid-west of America, the Minneapolis sound is taking shape. A blend of funk and rock, known in the local clubs and bars where it's performed as Uptown, it's practised by two teenage bands: Grand Central (later named Champagne) with Andre Cymone on bass, Morris Day on drums, and Prince on guitar, and Flyte Tyme--Terry Lewis on bass, Alexander O'Neal on vocals, and Jellybean Johnson on drums. All are products of Minneapolis Central High School."

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