ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

this was my number one

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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

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

"bucephalus bouncing ball" otoh

Made quite a few nice discoveries from the rollout so far but tbh this probably just demonstrates how disconnected from contemporary music I've become. E.g. Sombra da Lua was a big find for me the way it seems to have been for quite a lot of other people on here, but YRN & Sugah Daddy were also big finds for me even though they seem to be familiar to everyone posting on the thread.

Love that gurgling bassline midway through Minipops so so much.

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.

Don't know what schooling the lex had but it that attitude is common amongst English 'Public' School upbringing iirc No time for feelings or emotion its about being tough and strong no weaknesses just lots of confidence and superiority.

I feel extremely strong emotions listening to the work of Shed, even though it isn't soft sad techno it sings to my soul or something like that.

i guess i'll stop pursuing my 'techno has no emotional range' line of attack cuz it's boring to argue such a reductive pt even if its true but i listen to & have gone dancing to enough techno to hear a representative sample and while sure there are exceptions i think like easily 95% of stuff you'd hear in, say, RA podcasts or warehouses or clubs would file between 'emotionally vacant,' 'riding a futuristic motorcycle thru the matrix' and 'dark/brooding'

:D xxp

Good Kisser & Dark Horse were nice 'put the name to song' moments too, have enjoyed hearing them in the background on Co-Op in-store radio and suchlike through the year.

Preferred 'Don't Sell Molly..' to 'Tuesday'. The Aphex album didn't really stick for me.

*stops negging*

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

― dyl, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is kind of how I feel about Aphex in general.

same

i hope this is a safe space to say that

Perhaps I should have stated it differently, everything i like has heart/character or however you want to define, no anti-emotion for me!

The problem with a lot of sad emo rap isn't that it's not okay for dudes to have emotions, it's that the dudes in question often come across as whiny entitled douches. Not particularly the case with Tuesday admittedly.

Dont mind the aphex twin but find it a bit hollow, best so far along tho, along with the tchelete (4/10)

Im joking about the rating i dont really have a rating

The problem with a lot of sad emo rap isn't that it's not okay for dudes to have emotions, it's that the dudes in question often come across as whiny entitled douches. Not particularly the case with Tuesday admittedly.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:11 PM (52 seconds ago)

i'd really love for someone smart to write a long article looking at the history of emo rap, i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be, but i want to know how this whole drake/future/quan etc scene came to be

what even is a rating, when you think abt it xp

Gotta admit that in the past 12 months I have struggled not to heedlessly clown the phrase "safe space" somehow (ditto "shaming")

The problem with a lot of sad emo rap isn't that it's not okay for dudes to have emotions, it's that the dudes in question often come across as whiny entitled douches. Not particularly the case with Tuesday admittedly.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:11 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree the original impulse was to push back against male entitlement, but it feels to me like the brush has gotten a lot broader than that. k3v's post makes me think this is just another thing we can blame on Drake

its kanyes fault tho really

Let's have a social justice clusterfuck in the tracks rollout!

really tho its societies fault

is this a social justice clusterfuck or are you referring to something else?

y'all mind if i do a li'l reaction dump type post

hey man not cool, no hot takes, this is a safe space, etc

plz do xp

li'l reaction >>> hot take

tbr i am excited to try on a lot of these songs, like every year.

Lil Hot Take = cool MC name

reaction *dump* now, plz

i'll break it up a bit

tw: hot takes

http://i.imgur.com/p4sK387.jpg

44 TODD TERJE "Delorean Dynamite" [308 points, 13 votes]
http://youtu.be/LUOIvT9hzD8

now, goole!

too low

thought that was a pic of goole reacting

I didn't vote for "DD," voted for the full album, but this is the first thing on the list I can fully get behind

2014 77 TRAX REAX

i’m always about 12 mo behind on all music and i don’t even think i like talking about music on the internet anymore but here goes.

NICKI MINAJ: “Lookin Ass”: eh ‘sokay. heavy! where did that “dude shouting hey on the beat” thing start? i’d love to see a youtube history of that.

OWEN PALLETT: “Song for Five & Six”: i don’t know this guy’s music very well (hi!). i’m pro arpeggio, all arpeggio everything, so thumbs up

TUNE-YARDS: “Water Fountain”: https://twitter.com/RIBSOUT/status/464192649889865728

NINOS DU BRASIL: “Sombra da Lua”: whoa this really smokes. what scene is this? how did this develop any consensus behind it? no idea what the context here is.

KING Mister Chameleon: gorgeous. will admit to not really getting grabbed tho

KATIE GATELY “Pivot”: gorgeous. will admit to kinda skipping through it tho. sounds a little like… Lookin Ass heh

ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour: “Somos Sur”: awesome, glad i got to hear this bcz of the poll

USHER “Good Kisser”: great song. personal note: radio where i live is awful, seems to be getting worse, and i miss hearing songs like this all the time. blanket endorsement from University of Chicago professor and Century Foundation fellow: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/557047130993725440

NICKI MINAJ “Anaconda”: i looove the last minute

DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo: wow, cool. “things that our people do for money,” holy shit. this is the year for pensive, wound-up music huh

RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again": idk why i was sort of rooting for this to be bad but it’s ok

SHAKIRA "Empire": quite a chorus but this is like current-day aerosmith

ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny": doesn’t do a thing for me

DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones: not into the vocal but i will always like a tune like this

CARIBOU "Silver": oookay? i like caribou a lot but i’m not sad i didn’t rush out for this one. atp i’m a little mystified how these relatively somber album-cut type tracks are generating this much EOY love

i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be

Scarface and 2pac.