ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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.

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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

Just realized that YRN is almost kinda like a beauty pageant or a male runway show

Today has started amazingly! Does she say "bum chum" at one point in this? Hope so.

Beyoncé placed 4 in the top 77 last year, I don't have stats for previous years to hand but I doubt anyone has surpassed that.

this is the first one in a while I've no idea what it is.

Today is off to a more interesting start than yesterday, I must say.

Is there any kind of label push behind Tkai Maidza at all? Because it feels like the sort of thing that could be a hit in the UK but there doesn't appear to be any kind of organised campaign. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry ffs.

Tkay not Tkai.

didn't vote for "u-huh" but i'm glad it placed, it is just super immediately likable

Haim had about 4 entries in a year, surely? Or did it just feel that way?

Def liking Tkay, too. Good stuff.

never heard it before but i like it fine. refrain sounds a bit charli xcx?

this Tkay reminds me of Laurie Anderson's Let X = X in its synth hook :D

it's good!

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

37 PHANTOGRAM "Fall In Love" [327 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://youtu.be/RsQjC5zVnt8

memories have faded but thought a chunk of MBDTF placed