ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

making my way through the playlist now, prob will skip stuff i've already heard/like...this rita ora song isn't terrible but mostly bc it's not markedly identifable as rita ora or anybody else really, it's just an ok lacking-in-identity pop song

feel like a lot of the emo rap discrepancies boil down more to generational differences than like musical things or specifically hiphop culture things

Isn't the story on It's Album Time that it really was unfinished, due to some health crisis in Terje's family last year?

so over todd terje. should be sewn up inside his own poncho and dumped in the baltic

idk is it

Secretly hoping saer is a renewable resource.

i'm cool w terje just tired ignorant and in need of coffee

finished or not, i was album time

wonder if the Bryan Ferry collab will score

people just like to say 'bryan ferry'

Delorean Dynamite sounds like all the other "outrun" stuff based on the old Cannon film incidental music, except it's higher profile due to him being him. I dunno. No bigs.

someone shd name a ferry boat bryan that wld be good

"you take the bryan ferry ... " *chuckles*

Secretly hoping saer is a renewable resource.

― excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku),

So am I, coming down with flu and it can't be unrelated, listening to all these is very draining! Luckily I can tell with most of them if I dislike within 5 seconds due to awful sound palette, but even so

The todd Terje album was a non event to me and I love todd Terje but as soon as I heard Delorean Dynamite I knew it'd be amazing if I ever heard it out and when I finally did it was. My 2nd pick to place and knew itd be one of the few.

http://i.imgur.com/NAK6A6T.jpg

43 KATY B "Crying For No Reason" [310 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote, Tom Shorterz remix: 92 points]
original: http://youtu.be/BOboa27SHDE
Tom Shorterz remix: http://youtu.be/QYGROAxN-UI

<3 Katy B

niiiiiice

That song was really the beginning of the end for Katy B. Guy Chambers really should not have been allowed anywhere near her.

I was like "uhhhh" when I heard it a year (!) ago but Katy made this Diane Warren-esque pop ballad work.

oh yeah!

have enjoyed every song so far
good poll
got into the katy b album last month, it's got four or five standouts def worth a listen

the katy b album is great

^cool points of iMak too

oh ilmpaws

tremendous song

i think this is my third vote to place, i gave it a lot of points iirc

drake loves z-ro right

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:32 PM Bookmark

Scarface -> Z-Ro -> Drake

katy b-

Matt DC OTM. Also Benga & Zinc were a better look on KB than Geeneus.

Hm, I sort of take back my "oh ilmpaws" dismissal. This sounds better to me now than it did many (many!) months ago.

I feel like dyin -> Kid Cudi feels like the sort of the genesis of modern emo rap

As much I loved Katy's early UK funky singles and her first album I found it impossible to care about anything she did this year.

snoozepatrol

Obv expressive emotional range has always been a thing in rap though. Mind Playing Tricks on Me is one of the most forlorn songs ever.

Also giving up hope for my #1 :(

was really surprised by the negative reaction to this one when it dropped. katy gives it everything and at one point i configured a youtube this year to have that outtro on loop

i just finished up to "B" on the nomination list; got a ways to go.

the outro is devastating

drake loves z-ro right

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:32 PM Bookmark

Scarface -> Z-Ro -> Drake

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tru

the outro is devastating

― dyl

yes

song reminds me of Cathy Dennis' "Too Many Walls."

i'm guessing that j lo's vocals had nothing to do with why "i luh you papi" placed on this poll, but just hearing it for the first time and holy jesus her voice - minimal to begin with - has not aged well. the beat is solid but otherwise woooooooof

I voted for the Shorterz remix.

this performance sold me on "crying for no reason"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9oUQqkmwlI

not one of my picks off that album though

i tried with RNT, i really did! a six minute opening track?

Real Nigga Timeline is Migos' worst full-length since they became popular, mostly because they started to misunderstand what makes them good. Like it's way more focused on technical rappity-rapping then it should be, and while their technical skill definitely adds a dimension to them, it's really a secondary part of their appeal. Young Rich Niggas and No Label 2 both had way more catchy songs than RNT, which gets way too bogged down in them trying to prove themselves instead of just letting their chops serve the songs. Actually, my favorite songs on RNT are the 'real shit' songs at the end like "What Y'all Doin'?" and "Struggle".

Yeah Crying never sounded what its critics said it sounded like to me. Always dug it.

there are some good rappity rap tracks on RNT though... the first 5 or so songs are killer. then at the end it gets good as rev says. the middle is soggy though.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's all bad, just not what they're best at.

all migos mixtapes since YRN are imperfect though ... RNT has about as many good songs as 'no label II' imo they're just good in a diff way