ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

this is my jam

Haim! I remember them!

These guys are still going, huh?

i think this is residue from 2013.

otm

Does that mean all of Haim's singles placed in these polls now?

a new song or are their fans just voting for anything that's vaguely eligible?

didn't place last year, released as a single in feb 14 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It was the best song from the 2013 album that became its own single in 2014. That sounds like a qualifier, so let me clarify. It was the best song from the album.

i think this is residue from 2013.

― quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin)

One of my highest scoring songs this year but I didn't want to P&J it.

indie bands its always kind of weird to see their songs in singles polls cause they still seem just like a song off an album

this is not a singles poll!!

Tracks

Albums

Bands

indie bands

anyway, i can't remember for the life of me how this one goes because days are gone feels like 100 years ago

whatever

indie bands its always kind of weird to see their songs in singles polls cause they still seem just like a song off an album

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is not a singles poll!!

― telling like hot takes (imago), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:58 PM (52 seconds ago)

Haim are not an indie band!!

sure they are

they represent the ethos of contemporary indie like maybe better than anyone

xxpost he was talking about Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars

save us, gr8dy!

They play pop/rock music and are not on an independent label, how are they an indie band?

It had to happen, things just took a turn for the worse.

haim are a soft-rock band btw yeah

theyre a super conservative nostalgia act, indie 2015

they have independent spirits.

another band made of girls iirc

6 tracks from Days Are Gone have placed over three years. That has to be a record on both counts, right? o___O

like what wld be real 2015 soft rock music, prob some country artist

for sure, country took over soft rock's niche a long time ago

Passenger?

yeah this feels like a lame pick for 2014 even though i enjoy the song

emil.y is right to cavil tho as 'indie' gets a terrible rap around here & yet it often produces brilliant music that rarely threatens the year-end 77 - when it does, it's often pretty generic pop-rock disguised as indie

^^^this is my single and only meta complaint itt, i'm not going to generalise ilx's listenership like every other year. but i will stand for indie

if soft rock is now indie and country is now soft rock and pop is now country, is indie now pop?

voting for the fifth single off a very well-represented 2013 album that had no greater impact on the world than its predecessors seems pretty boring to me, i assume all its voters heard and loved it as much as they were going to back in 2013

I thought Indie was now R&B.

Anyways, I would have voted for this song, but I thought it seemed too 2013 to me even though it wasn't on last year's poll.

i assume all its voters heard and loved it as much as they were going to back in 2013

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:07 AM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^yeah this is the reason I didn't even consider it; it'll always be just a song from 2013

like i can understand voting for a 2013 album track that became a huge hit in 2014 because a surge in popularity does mean a song takes on a new life of sorts. i don't feel like this one did

move to strike haim from the record

didn't think anyone would remember that "if i could change your mind" was a single last year so i didn't vote for it. would've though. incredible song

like i can understand voting for a 2013 album track that became a huge hit in 2014 because a surge in popularity does mean a song takes on a new life of sorts. i don't feel like this one did

― lex pretend,

that's how I see it.

*reads reactions to Haim placing in 2014* Damn... looks like Haim... is not going to change anyone's mind

when all the other music has been exterminated i will come to love them

The video was really cool. Maybe that had an impact? I didn't vote for it but I love the song and I'm happy to see it place.

also i honestly thought it placed in 2013 a la "ain't it fun"

"Ain't It Fun" did actually become a hit, unlike "If I Could Change Your Mind."

fun thread today