ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

oh hey my no. 2

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:22 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

This was my #2 and was gonna be my #1 for large portions of this year. Young Thug dominates the track obviously but Quavo's "Y-R-N/ I'm in love with Benjamin Frank-a-lin" is my favorite line. Whoever it was on twitter who said they needed a whole album of Migos and Young Thug going off over old exotica records OTM. Speaking of which, has anybody figured out what that sample is?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:27 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

My #2 as well

fuck is this?

Also I think it was Rev who said that YRN is a Young Thug song featuring Migos and not the other way around

now THIS is or maybe isn't indie

Straye Thugs

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:41 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahh thx rev!! :D

er wait it says the file is not available, is that just me?

― dyl, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:44 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i reuploaded it 4 u http://www.filedropper.com/strayethugs

Great song. Probably my favourite indie album of the year.

adding grist to my argument that when indie does make it, it's usually boring dreck

with a fucking terrible bandname

can't help but hear Edith Bunker singing this song

I am very vvary of bands who do the whole 1337 spelling thing, like Chvrches etc.

i hate this song.

i hate a lot of the songs so far tbh.

Also I think it was Rev who said that YRN is a Young Thug song featuring Migos and not the other way around

― 龜, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:50 AM (23 seconds ago)

not the only "ft young thug" you could say that abt tbh

i recently heard this for the first time. i had already heard some other alvvays song and had basically written them off as some horrendous twee indie rock group but there's something about this song that i find rather affecting.

i reuploaded it 4 u http://www.filedropper.com/strayethugs

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 7:51 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tysm!! downloading now :)

yeah this one is OK by me

i liked sambros, the holly herndon, and yrn--those were great discoveries.

My second song to place, I thought it was doomed.

I just looked this is my second place as well.

this is a bit like Best Coast 'Boyfriend' - whatever happened to them? in the studio perhaps, recording some new songs I dare say

i wasn't rly into the migos track that ppl seemed to get behind this year ("fight night"), kinda liked "handsome and wealthy" better

"fight night" is the best of them all imo though i didn't vote for it; i think migos songs work super-well in isolation but their albums and mixtapes tend to get samey

this alvvays song is terrible

i listened to some of the pazz an jop albums list and there seems to be an uptick in this kind of lofi-ish flat affect female vocals garage-y indie thing that never quite goes out of style

this one sounds like particularly 90s tho

Alvvays is great.

something abt the dreaminess

This is very anglo-american sounding. Very good opening line, does nothing else for me.

this is a bit like Best Coast 'Boyfriend'

haha this is another song that i really like by a band that my instinct was to hate

hey hey a-r-c-h-i-eeeee hey

I've not heard them yet but just... I mean, ALVVAYS?! That's up there with Test Icicles, the Dandy Warhols, Joanna Gruesome and Eagulls for all time egregiously pointless band names.

love love the whole Alvvays album, and this is the best track, or at least the most memorable.

whole alvvays album is a joy start 2 finish

it is a worse name than all of those

is it pronounced always

is it ever pronounced differently?

characterless and flat

or is it alvvays pronounced 'always'

I have yet to really listen to Alvvays, so all I really know about them is that the lead singer is the daughter of one of the members of The Rankin Family.

never would seek this kinda music out in 2014 but this song was a gut-punch, prob played it two dozen times since getting the results on saturday

aLvV-aYs

I alvvays lol at the reactions to "indie" in the results, it's like that time I accidentally ordered pasta w/scallops in front of my kosher in laws.

Psyched for the album to place too

lol xp

Hoping the album places high - it's the definition of all killer, no filler imo

true

i am not against indie music in principal fwiw i even like some of it but alot of it these days is just very insufferable

TBF you have a very strange concept of what indie is

The Alvvays album is perfectly pleasant imo, but there are songs on it I like more than this one.

im usually one of the bigger indie stans on ilm but i don't understand this alvvays record at all esp this song

lagoon otm

TBF you have a very strange concept of what indie is

― quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:09 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prob just experiencing the uk/america indie divide tbh

america is in charge tho

indie since '76