ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

top 40 comprised completely of the 2014 annual "NOW that's what i call pc music" compilation

and hey qt ft drake

the top 40 is just the sound of autotuned crying

according to my calculations

mods plz confirm

These are just guesses as I haven't seen any tracks results during the poll-running process:

At least one Panda Bear track, maybe 3 Taylor Swifts, 1 (2?) K. Michelle tracks, 2 Charli XCX tracks, 1 Kiesza track, 2-4 bobbins things I haven't ever heard and will like unless I don't, 2 "country" tracks, and then whatever else.

the top 40 is just the sound of autotuned crying

stealing this

haha

If Juno Jam places I will well up.

Quarterback is still to come. Is there a Miranda Lambert / Sturgill Simpson rallying cry that I should be watching out for?

(A&E Interventions)Best Cry Ever Auto Tune Remix

lol @ "tuesday" being "sad"

Szkira, butterflies and Nuits Sonores the other bobbins I'm behind.

I'm sure there will be a few more rap tracks, but let's be honest...I don't know how many or by who because the shit I like in that genre really doesn't get much traction here.

Most of the track polls I've seen have had either Two Weeks or Seasons at the top so they'll feature highly. We haven't had ANY taylor swift yet which is surprising

There'll be another Javiera Mena, probably a few pitchforky things like Can't Do Without You, SKM, Red Eyes, etc. Rae Sremmurd should feature at least once, hopefully twice.

I dunno if everyone forgot about M.O., but I'm holding out hope for them to crack the top 40!

Wondering if anything other than 2 On will place for Tinashe.

lol @ "tuesday" being "sad"

― qualx, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:54 PM Bookmark

Even bigger lol at "Lifestyle" being sad!

Two Weeks

totally missed this follow-up by the b-naked ladies

We had it 6 years ago from ed droste

gonna be livid if sun kil moon places

guy fuckin warbles about senseless death and bar decorations, ppl go nuts

ILX #1s by year

2013 - Get Lucky - Daft Punk
2012 - Inspector Norse - Todd Terje (Gangnam Style, Adorn and Call Me Maybe in the respective 4/3/2 slots)
2011 - 212 - Azealia / Video Games - Lana Del Rey (4 points between first and second so basically tied for first imo)
2010 - Wut - Girl Unit (Hard in da Paint at #2)
2009 - You Belong With Me - Taylor
2008 - Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
2007 - Umbrella - Rihanna
2006 - Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
2005 - 1 Thing - Amerie
2004 - Toxic - Britney
2003 - ?
2002 - Work It - Missy

what else is there to warble about -- bird food?

t-swift's 2014 output can be pretty easily divided into "songs that will place extremely highly" and "songs that will not place at all". the rallying points were more obvious, i think, and the minor album tracks less likely to get support.

tons of rap singles to come i'd imagine.

hoping but increasingly unsure about the big deep tech and grime singles...

2011 - 212 - Azealia / Video Games - Lana Del Rey (4 points between first and second so basically tied for first imo)

this was definitely not a tie

Best ILM EOY roll out ever imho. Obv more than half of this is shite, but it's intersting shite nonetheless. This thread wins.

Stoked for the six Taylor Swift songs in the top ten

i know "tuesday" and "lifestyle" are not SAD songs but the autotune warble codes as ~underlying melancholy~ to me. maybe faux-sensitivity is a better fit. idk it's just bad singing ultimately

i love the song "brockwell park", adore ghosts and april, and i can even get down with the pretty arrangements mixed w/ impenetrable stern-ness of stuff like admiral fell promises from a few years ago, but this whole jokey "i'm a turd" cartoonish guitar rap thing he's done for the past few years is so, so not my thing, he might as well be grouped with milky chance now imo

i think if tswift had released "style" as her first single it would have probably been our #1

instead we got fucking "shake of off" which will probably still reach the top 10 in a year with no real consensus

2011 - 212 - Azealia / Video Games - Lana Del Rey (4 points between first and second so basically tied for first imo)
this was definitely not a tie
― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015

There's a bittersweetness to both songs, but it's hardly either's dominant feature. xxxp

shake it off is the consensus #1 song of all time, people just haven't realized it yet

I quit earth if Taylor wins again.

i think if tswift had released "style" as her first single it would have probably been our #1

instead we got fucking "shake of off" which will probably still reach the top 10 in a year with no real consensus

― prolego, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:08 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is otm. 'Shake it off' doesn't belong anywhere near a top ten place thh.

I would think Blank Space and Style will place from the Swift album, maaaaaaaybe Shake It Off just b/c of ubiquity although I recall the reaction here being either ambivalence or disgust. If New Romantics or You Are In Love hadn't been bonus tracks they'd've had a better chance I think.

Careful Rev, wouldn't put my fate in ILM's hands like that... :-/

Xp

just want to say in advance of the upcoming results you guys listen to taylor swift huh whatre you little girls (apologies to any ilm posters who are little girls)

Voting for Shake It Off never even once crossed my mind. Instead, I voted for one of the outliers.

I felt a sense of relief when "Shake It Off" didn't top the P&J poll, forgetting for a moment that we still had ILM ahead.

"blank space" will probably be higher

apology accepted

Instead, I voted for one of the outliers.

Dunno why I'm being so coy. It's never been a secret my favorite track on 1989 is All You Had to Do Was Stay.

Xp, me too.,Clean was my highest placed swift vote iirc

feel pretty comfortable predicting "style" will be the highest placing t-swift track by some distance

Still think a top five place could be in the cards for Two Week by Twigsy. Which would be awesome.

I noticed around the holiday that "Blank Space" had become the default hey-Taylor-Swift-isn't-so-bad track among people who avoid her and pop.

would wager that most votes for "shake it off" either had another swift track on the ballot or were from people that did not hear the album

Rooting for SviiB

"style" will suffer because its not on youtube or spotify but the ppl that like it *really* like it.

I don't think SKM will place.

What is that, btw?