ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

I do not like Phantogram. There, I said it.

Same.

Have no use for candy-glossed, pseudo-romantic dance pop

this is perhaps the worst opinion i've ever read

― J0rdan S., miércoles 21 de enero de 2015 16:13 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought you said I was winning on this front today.

xp re: john beck i guess the shock to me is that 22 years after "sleeping satellite" he's still writing significant pop songs. 22 years! and where is tasmin archer now, i sometimes wonder.

xp - you are, but i get an honorable mention for poor taste in music

I am probably the only person who keeps trying to listen to Phantogram and realizes I accidentally have Pharmakon on my phone and listen to that instead and keep forgetting to load up Phantogram :/

― mh

Pharmakon is way better, so no real problem there.

When's Pharmakon going to place?

xpost to Moka: She was diplomatic about the video, but made it quite clear that the idea wasn't hers, and that in all other respects she controls her visuals. She alluded to some struggles with the label re. autonomous artistic choices, so perhaps this was the concession she had to make.

xxp otm

NB Solo Dancing absolutely isn't about masturbation. At all. She's confirmed that to me in person. It's in dancing-as-empowerment-metaphor territory.

― mike t-diva, miércoles 21 de enero de 2015 16:14 (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know it isn't! I got it was about dancing the first time around. But, was she annoyed at the label for sexing up the song and completely missing the point via the video?

Oh got it nevermind!

guys masturbation and dancing are both cool/great releases no need to choose

Ha! I'd never thought of it before, but "U-Huh" really does sound like "Numb". Good call, whoever that was way upthread.

guys masturbation and dancing are both cool/great releases no need to choose

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best appreciated at the same time, amirite?

You don't get a threadban warning for poor taste in music unfortunately, contenderizer. But you can still try.

rip tasmin archer, truly you flew to the moon too soon

emil.y vmic :)

Pharmakon! Pharmakon!

http://i.imgur.com/RCmxN2g.jpg

33 TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off" [339 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM

lorenzo mix of 'touch' was my number 1 / is the best thing ever but both are essential and need each other. follow-up was the excellent 'i know'.

ha well at least this is the lowest tswift song placing

And it begins

too high

lol

the "pharmakon! pharmakon!" chant goes nicely over this chorus :)

welp

1 first place vote smh

let's move on

I like this song. It's the first TSwift song I've heard I can say I genuinely like

ha, turns out i did say that:

loving that Tkay Maidza-- has sort of a zooropa vibe to it

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:41 AM (4 months ago)

The Swiftstep has arrived.

the moment i really "got" young thug's deal was "try me" (the trae single not dej loaf) which is a song literally only i seem to give a shit about

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:07 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Super late response but Try Me is great. Know it from lagoons mix so you're not alone

my ex was rly into "Solo Dancing" so I don't like it v much

I didn't vote for any Taylor Swift in this poll but I don't mind "Shake It Off"

Bleah, "Shake It Off" gives me the hives most of you seem to get from "All About That Bass"

hot takers gonna take take take take take

"shake it off" is great but i never considered voting for it

i wish the production was richer and the bridge didn't exist but otherwise it's kind of impeccable

I voted for "Shake It Off" idc idc

why do people hate 'shake it off' so much? i'm not really that invested in tswift but is it because it's quite a different style for her? i find it ludicrously catchy.

"Solo Dancing" was beloved by the Singles Jukebox; its novelty wore off damn quick.

Not a fan of 'Shake It Off' but how is it so low?!?!?! I have clearly misread ilx.

xposts the bridge is silly though yes.

the dancers in the video have nice muscles

Radio opened "Shake It Off" to me, especially in Nov-Dec, but ugh no: still my least favorite track. What you naysayers said about Tuneyards applies more to "Shake It Off."

i think this song is fine and possibly good

I didn't vote for it and yes the breakdown is lame but there's something about the layers of melody that build up over the choruses that really works for me.

Radio opened "Shake It Off" to me, especially in Nov-Dec, but ugh no: still my least favorite track. What you naysayers said about Tuneyards applies more to "Shake It Off."

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:30 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That it's deliberately clunky, needlessly arty and culturally appropriative?

yes "shake it off" is catchy but the lyrics are some inane scribbles t-swift found in katy perry's bin, the production is thin and cheap and maybe it could've been elevated by one of her transcendent bridges but this bridge is the opposite of transcendent

if it was by rita ora or whoever then it'd be whatever but it's just so far beneath swift's standard

"needlessly arty"

"arty"

Tune-Yards song is just gibberish

xps ah i see. yeah i like it as a piece of infectious pop fluff. a very rare occasion where i was in my local shop and i found myself hooked to whatever was on the radio.

The label should have filled the 'shake it off' video with masturbation innuendos.