ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

Tim F dropping the ball massively by equating QT with Rebecca Black back there. World of difference in composition style + skill. Clearly shook ;)

Fair point, I shouldn't smear Rebacca like that.

Also yay for "I Will Never Let You Down".

i like that johnny fever cares about rita ora

get over yourselves and have a good time -> but people do have a good time to it! -> that's irrelevant is a perfect ilm exchange

― flopson, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:32 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

Tim F dropping the ball massively by equating QT with Rebecca Black back there. World of difference in composition style + skill. Clearly shook ;)

Fair point, I shouldn't smear Rebacca like that.

― Tim F

lol

there's this great dissonance going on in my head with these super catchy songs playing while everyone bitches and moans.
I <3 ILM.

Love the Rita Ora song. It must suck that she can no longer put it on her album along with all all the other Calvin Harris songs she had after she cheated on him. Her album was supposed to be out last summer but he took all his songs back after he found out.

Her first album was one of my favorites of 2012 for reasons I still don't fully understand, but I've kept the fandom alive.

i think the diff between downer party rap songs and melancholy techno/house or whatever is the ego of the former, like i'm expected to care about makonnen feeling sad

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the thing ppl complain about re: drake but the flip of it is you never really care about the sentiment of a techno track. rap has way more scope for feelings/personality than techno in general, its kinda hard to gaf about any sentiment in techno because it's always kinda vaguely melancholy broody vibe, same way if u listen to enough of it you don't hear punk music as angry it just becomes pro forma

beg to differ

says the sad nerdy bedroom specialist

soft sad techno

Yeah Flopson otm. Rap being more expressive than techno is a GOOD THING.

this thread is such a volatile hot mess in every sense

don't be talking about my techno

techno has a wide expressive range, don't blame ur ignorance on the form

and need for vocals to telegram what you want to feel

i meant there aren't really "happy" techno songs, it's a genre built on vague, dark moods. so a techno song doesn't "expect you to care" that it's in a minor key the way a rap song could but that's a feature not a bug

Katy Perry record forgettable, quite liked the first 5 or 6 seconds of Jessie Ware, the makkleman was another sad sack looking out of a window and the rita ora really annoying singing.

theyre all kind of blurring into the same song now

dang dude there are like a million happy techno songs

i meant there aren't really "happy" techno songs, it's a genre built on vague, dark moods. so a techno song doesn't "expect you to care" that it's in a minor key the way a rap song could but that's a feature not a bug

― flopson, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:50 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

theyre all kind of blurring into the same song now

tbh this is how i feel about 90% of ilx pop taste

techno has a wide expressive range, don't blame ur ignorance on the form

Seriously. Some songs add or subtract elements every 25 seconds instead of 30.

Rita Bore-a more like

that hip hop just sounds like noise with bitch or fuck every 20 seconds *derp*

everyone lookin' real good rn

ILM goin' up

man this list rules i love every song thanks everyone

lets have another indie track plaese

ok lets

http://i.imgur.com/mXFDt3y.jpg

45 APHEX TWIN "Minipops 67 [120.2] (source field mix)" [295 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/RUAJ8KLGqis

a happy techno song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5Sew

xpost!

wow forks

this thread isn't the place but I am kind of interested in how "feelings" get talked about on ILM. like "another sad sack looking out of a window" is totally how i've described indiedudes+guitars in the past, so hearing that about rap is odd to me. lex saying he doesn't like Young Thug's "emotional" songs and I'm not even sure which songs he could mean. idk sometimes it feels like we're reinforcing some pretty terrible stereotypes of masculinity. I don't pursue new stuff anymore but I did used to love lots of mopey guitar music (by men and women) and that was probably a good thing in terms of not growing up emotionally stunted

i have never understood what lex is talking about re: thug

"minipops" is really pretty

lex saying he doesn't like Young Thug's "emotional" songs and I'm not even sure which songs he could mean

givenchy, or most things on tha tour mixtape

i was expecting a new aphex record to be way less accessible than it ended up being, this track is a nice jam

this was my number one

xp
maybe the supposed divide between "No Flex Zone" and "No Type" is more apropos

idk sometimes it feels like we're reinforcing some pretty terrible stereotypes of masculinity.

Word. And the emotional stuff on the Rich Gang tape is mostly Quan anyway.

Emotional rap is sometimes the best rap and that's how I feel about that

Wow people still think that way about techno. Personally I'd say it has the greatest emotional scope of any music.

love this aphex track. probably should have put it higher than #25.

techno is made by heartless robots iirc?

Or rather as great an emotional scope as any music xp

xp RDJ has spoken about how this is his "pop" album and he expected it to be more accessible. I'm expecting more out there stuff to come.

Emotional rap is sometimes the best rap and that's how I feel about that

― 龜, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:00 PM Bookmark

otm

this aphex track is technically competent etc but i can't bring myself to feel much for it