ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

*the first Youtube I saw, even

yeah but you have made much more grandiose claims itt about what it is doing

we all analyse after the fact

yeah but you have made much more grandiose claims itt about what it is doing

Maybe it is doing those things for him, and who can say thats wrong?

"Pooley" features one of my favorite musical qualities, something I call for lack of a better term "triumphant backup chorus"

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:58 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes^

Pooley is so great. since he also did Lapaz Toyota, maybe Guru will be our afrobeats Javiera Mena

"Prayer," I've realized, is my favorite BM song.

Pooley is such a great track! Glad to see it placed. I love the 'Autobahn'-style rise.

I'd somehow not heard Pooley before and I was initially a bit disappointed that Ball-J had apparently decided to slow down again but then those four rising chords appeared and I was totally sold.

I too want to clear that I said SOME of the people liking it don't seem consistent. Like, you have all these hipster fans of QT and PC music with so many guilty pleasures but then comes PC music and they feel like they can enjoy this and when their other hipster friends confront them about it they can say 'no man this is different, this is a satire about a soda can as a pop artist'.

Obviously noone in this forum give a fuck what other people think about their music taste. The QT conundrum doesn't apply in here.

good point about people being run over, hey qt reminds of nothing so much as helen love sharing a bumper car with crazy frog

mad xps obv

This is my first ever participation in an ILM poll and I've found it scintillating so far, silently observing the debates trickle in throughout my work day. A couple I've voted for have showed up (Owen Pallett, the hotly debated Hey QT), and a good discovery made in Shamir! Hoping for some surprise entries of abstraction and intensity in today's batch...

On PC music (because why the hell not) - is it really so detestable to warp and play with a popular medium? Great things come from the deconstruction of art! And I'm not referring to PC music per se, but rather the fertile environment it creates for pop discourse. I don't think it intends to be wholly cynical, and there's something I love about being emotionally manipulated in this way. It is pared back enough to be uncanny; generic enough to tap into universal(ish) triggers of infectiousness; abundantly positive in spite of its contemporaneous critique... So yeah, emphatically in favour. Wooo!

I think theyre perfectly entitled to say no man this is different, this is a satire about a soda can as a pop artist if they like

DC, you're wrong, and you join a significant majority of those posting in this thread who are also wrong.

really incredible lj posts this year, a+

just as im entitled to say its horrible i dont like soda artists pop or cans.

quite like the bell in the d'angelo, but not the rest of the track

I hope people are going to be a lot less dickish ITT than they were yesterday. Some posters should be ashamed of themselves.
Grady you're doing a great job and love the graphics!

I feel like the Aqua/QT comparison is bcz they both (superficially) share a sort if hyperactive artificiality, which in QT's case means you are actually responding to the song's affect, and not just the fact that it appears ti be a stylized and reductive Itchy-and-Scratchy type gag about how inane pop music is

lol, QT broke this thread

So, lets move on. Wrapping up: The concept of QT feels cynical to me and the people enjoying it purely based on its concept are incredibly dull to me and the song per se is all in good fun but nowhere near as amazing as you are making it up to be. When I read the raving reviews about it I felt pretty excited about it and then I heard the actual song. It was ok. Some were claiming they are pushing the envelope I think it doesn't stray too far from the source of inspiration.

the people enjoying it purely based on its concept are non-existent

hey crüT

:D

mods please threadban anyone who keeps talking abt QT from now on thx

Xpost: in this forum there are none, but believe me: There are definitely people enjoying this ironically because P4k or someone told them it's cool to do it.

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

38 TKAY MAIDZA "U-Huh" [326 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/XvzC4TfsrI0

Never heard this one.

xp i'm sure that happens for all sorts of music

yes u-huh!
brilliant song :) very excited for tkay 2k15

Grady throw us something awesome or polarizing at least so we can stop the qt talk.

ah man this gets me smiling every time i hear it

I too want to clear that I said SOME of the people liking it don't seem consistent. Like, you have all these hipster fans of QT and PC music with so many guilty pleasures but then comes PC music and they feel like they can enjoy this and when their other hipster friends confront them about it they can say 'no man this is different, this is a satire about a soda can as a pop artist'.

Obviously noone in this forum give a fuck what other people think about their music taste. The QT conundrum doesn't apply in here.

Oh right, so you're not angry at this song, you're angry with some people you know who aren't here.
Would it be too forward to suggest that you raise this issue of consistency with *them* if it's so important.

Tkay will do. I love this.

QT is to Aqua what James Ferraro's 'Far Side Virtual' was to an old Encarta CD-Rom. I think where ILM is failing ITT is in separating bona fide pop with conceptual 'art' music.

Which artist currently holds the record for most tracks appearances in a single year (not including "feat" credits)?

Tkai Maidza I only heard last week or else would've voted for it.

encarta or n.carter

another track i jammed all summer and totally forgot about when voting

heard and enjoyed "u-huh" when the singles jukebox covered her last year but forgot about it (because it didn't seem to be available to buy anywhere) until last week, when it came up on one of the nominations threads. really great, love the verses a bit more than the hook but it's a failure of so much of the music press that i didn't see a single other outlet talk about her

and now an ep with "u-huh" on it IS on itunes!

Yep, seemed surprisingly tough to get hold of all year. Excellent single, though.

This Tkai Maidza track is fun, never heard it before.

Which artist currently holds the record for most tracks appearances in a single year (not including "feat" credits)?

This is very likely to be Nicki Minaj a couple of years ago but there were a lot of Beyonce album tracks in the lower reaches of last year's poll as well.

Oh right, so you're not angry at this song, you're angry with some people you know who aren't here.
Would it be too forward to suggest that you raise this issue of consistency with *them* if it's so important.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, miércoles 21 de enero de 2015 13:53 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At people everywhere including this forum blowing a frankly forgettable pop song out of proportion. I'm just happy it's in the lower numbers of the ranking.

Instead of talking about Hey QT can we talk about YRN some more

SHEESH

On my tombstone: SHEESH

U-huh could have been bigger but as some of you have pointed out it didn't seem to get a proper release until months later when the hype had dissipated.

She's diggin my moves! (she's diggin my moves!!)

Damn, I need to get onto this Afrobeats thread. Lovin' both Guru and Davido tracks.

yeah i really need to do the same. there's just too much great stuff to let pass by.

there were a lot of Beyonce album tracks in the lower reaches of last year's poll as well.

Beyonce was my first thought too.

okay this is wonderful