ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

well that sure breaks a pretty encouraging streak of songs that weren't indie rock garbage

saer, it does matter because all too often you get sweeping generalisations about 'indie music' on ILM which end up not being about indie music at all.

bugger, i appear to have summoned ILM discussion monster #4.

Next track please!

Like Best Coast but blasted out and better produced, which could make a difference for me. Do they have a cat?

Tbh I'm sympathetic to the idea that Haim represent some sort of "end of indie", but that's completely because they are indie, not because they are not.

alvvays album is much better than best coast true, bestest coast imo

I kinda liked one of those New Pornographers tracks in the nominations list quite unexpectedly. Not expecting to see it here tho.

#notallindie

I liked the one New Porn song I randomly heard once! It was a long time ago tho. Like probably ten years.

hey guys lets keep talking about indie ok

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

53 SPOON - "Inside Out" [272 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/IpT5SBg1Mmk

I will not now and never will stan for this Alvvays track, but the exasperated reaction to it even daring to appear in the 50s is hilarious.

Y'all should've saved your bile for this crap.

damn has it really been 10 years since Twin Cinema

spoon is indie but i like them

love this spoon song. love all spoon songs

I have no idea why Spoon inspire such intense antipathy tbh

top comment under the video lol

sperminator oftheasshole 1 month ago

oh wow its another indie rock song wow look its all arty and shit,wow

the steely dan of indie rock

i listened to this album a bunch tho i didnt really like it that much just fills a need i guess

Idk I think bands like the knife came along and made spoon seem dull

GrinningPariah1 week ago

Honestly, it's not really an indie rock song. It's an indie rock band that decided to make a pop album, which is interesting.

put a fork in em theyre done

My Spoon argument, pt. 854. I quite like pre-00s Spoon, but 00s and on Spoon may as well be an entirely different band, one that has consistently shit on any good will I had left for them.

OMG this fucking Spoon track. I want to pull out my ears. UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH.

this song sounded like a crazy anomaly in the spoon sound when it turned up on spotify shuffle

but it was just as calmly, efficiently, decently dull as all their music

like I say, the indie that appears here is not necessarily representative of what indie can do

Didn't go back to the Spoon album at all really but this was the highlight.

an indies idea of what pop is is maybe the most telling and horrific display of all

Idk I think bands like the knife came along and made spoon seem dull

Is that supposed to be some sort of cutlery pun?

I like Spoon well enough. There, you can call them indie if you like. They've never released a perfect album, but there are always a few choice cuts from each release. This is the one that stuck out most the one time I listened through to the latest one. Similar vibe to 'Us & Them' by Pink Floyd crossed with 'Huey Newton' by St Vincent.

lol xp

I was very into Spoon for a while in the 2000s but I've quite definitively stopped caring about them. This is fine I guess. I like when the harp suddenly appears.

I think Spoon is the first track I've actually had to turn off before the end?

Idk I think bands like the knife came along and made spoon seem dull

Is that supposed to be some sort of cutlery pun?

I wish Kitchen Person had said this.

I see you've played knifey-spoony before.

I love how Britt Daniel keeps thinking he'll make his band more popular by writing crappier songs.

xxpost yeah, or forks

break out of character for me

this track is kinda nice in a never-listen-to-again kind of way

Fer crying out loud, these indie rock tracks are giving me dysentery. Absolutely sickening and disgusting.

Oh no, wait, I turned off Duke Dumont too.

xp to me

this really epitomises plodding, ponderous journeyman indie to me. ugh, the culture that pitchfork created

I think Spoon is the first track I've actually had to turn off before the end?

― emil.y, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 8:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idgi, this is one of the most inoffensive things here.

Well this list went downhill fast...

don't really listen to much indie any more, but played the shit out of this Spoon lp. this was one of my least faves on it though.

I love how Britt Daniel keeps thinking he'll make his band more popular by writing crappier songs.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:24 AM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but....they are more popular

this is the 'ballad' on the album tbf.

really smh that spoon have better p4k/p&j stats than most everything else that has placed so far

No, I mean I think the guy has totally unrealistic expectations about them being a huge band. That's why he keeps trying to sign to major labels. "It's gonna work this time, I can feel it!"

more like wooden spoon amirite

spoon? dorks more like