ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

xp what are you talking about, they signed to a major once in the 90s when everyone did and one more time like 15 years later

Plodding, ponderous journeyman indie was a well established genre before the world wide web.

I'm pleased to note there's 6 acts named Fork, the most popular being a Norwegian hardcore band.

hey heeey marry me aaarrrchieeee

lol all the hate on indie, haven't seen this big of a closet since I was in Catholic school.

xp Yeah, and most pragmatic and reasonable artists would get the hint the first time.

next result y/n?

im ready

y :)

y

i dig that alvvays song, good find

save us Johnny Fever!

(I know it's not Johnny, nor do I care, but TRADITION)

http://i.imgur.com/r4TjUiW.jpg

52 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Sugah Daddy" [275 points, 10 votes]
http://youtu.be/HPp6pTrNw44

:D

I hit it so I made the pussy fart

I voted for Prayer, but I probs should've voted for this one.

great song

Interesting youtube comments..

JanTomas123
2 weeks ago

The difference between hearing this on my macbook speakers and my monitor room is INCREDIBLE.

Please rent a studio and enjoy this album in a high quality setup, it deserves it.
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Dray Breezy
1 week ago

Or just buy good speakers...who the hell rents a studio to listen to an album?
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Messiah indeed

love that Spoon showed up, one of the best songs on their latest album. oh and Johnny Fever hates them has a thing about posting that opinion even in Spoon threads.

This one just missed my ballot I think. Great song.

ya that is a super boring spoon song. huh.

alvvays: can't help but see this as the kind of deeply boring thing that could only pop off in toronto but maybe that's just the hater in me

kind of crazy only 7 people voted for YRN, felt like that was one of the big ones in terms of consensus rap songs. also whoever is downloading straye thugs make sure to swap out the awful quality mixtape version of YRN for a cdq/nodj

d'ange :)

voted 4 the album but this is such a wonderful song, i remember him playing it on his comeback tour a few years ago and finally getting a studio version out of nowhere was one of the best days in 2014

"really love" is the pinnacle of the album to me, i wonder if that'll place

oh wait no i did vote for Sugah Daddy.

ugh god actually reading the lyrics to "Sugah Daddy" is srsly creepin me out

tbc, I'm not part of the kneejerk anti-indie people in these threads. I spend probably half of my music listening time listening to indie things. But consensus indie picks around here are terrible usually.

i mean i voted for it bcz it's a jam but damn

flopson can you YSI me a CDQ of YRN

Think mine is from STraye thugs and only 128 :(

Voted for Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Archie, and Inside Out. Nominated Sugah Daddy but didn't end up having room on my list for it. Biggest revelation so far has been the Holly Herndon track, which sounds like a beautiful intersection of Oneohtrix and Julianna Barwick.

Quick question about I Luh Ya Papi, which I've only done a cursory search for and can't find anything on:

Is the synth shift at 3:36 a lift of the shift at 1:32 in MOP's Ante Up? Direct links:

I Luh Ya Papi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oiEhf9M04#t=212
Ante Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAW5Mv6kiV8#t=92

I find it weird referring to 'Sugah Daddy' (and a lot of tracks off Messiah) as a 'song'. Obviously it has singing and lyrics in it but I still hear it more as a really great (and deceptively complex) groove laced with vocal interjections.

xp amazing catch

Oof. Sorry for the embeds.

Not remotely the best song on Black Messiah for mine, still resent Drugs A Money a bit for not nominating 1000 Deaths :P

Quick question about I Luh Ya Papi, which I've only done a cursory search for and can't find anything on:

Is the synth shift at 3:36 a lift of the shift at 1:32 in MOP's Ante Up? Direct links:

Both are taken from "It's So Hard" by Big Pun, who had recently died at the time of the MOP track and grew up in the Bronx as did J. Lo and French Montana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVOPotWx15g

respect

Interesting youtube comments..

JanTomas123
2 weeks ago

The difference between hearing this on my macbook speakers and my monitor room is INCREDIBLE.
Please rent a studio and enjoy this album in a high quality setup, it deserves it.
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Dray Breezy
1 week ago

Or just buy good speakers...who the hell rents a studio to listen to an album?
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― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:40 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/gkOhmvN.png

Ya know, I'm actually PISSED that somehow I never even knew this J.Lo song existed until this poll, SO FUN

(Thus far nothing I've voted for has placed)

http://i.imgur.com/n9uADqn.jpg

51 FKA TWIGS "Pendulum" [281 points, 9 votes]
http://youtu.be/O8yix8PZKlw

so, i am giving Nicki Manaj an earnest listen for, really, the first time in my life (i mean i've heard her before - but never really *listened*) and this seriously has to be some of the worst garbage I have ever battled my way through.

and i really dislike it when people are super negative on these threads, showing up just to bash stuff etc – but I just cannot fathom how any adult can endorse something like Minaj.

now that that is off my chest... the Migos/Young Thug track is great. wish i had heard it earlier so I could have voted for it!