ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

I think watching the video for the first time just now pushed Stoner from like to love for me.

Blurring out the blunt has to be the most unnecessary/hypocritical censorship ever.

migos + young thug rapping over a big country sample think abt it

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:37 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

working my way through the results imagining each as migos & young thug songs, will share my thoughts in due time

(I think I did hear them once years ago and thought the same thing, but I might be getting them confused with a similarly-named band or something)

xp to me again

The only fan I personally know is also a big fan of Wilco and My Morning Jacket. He works as a programmer, drinks one or two beers almost every day, looks like mexican quentin tarantino. Is afraid of commitment and living in one city his entire life.

― Moka, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:37 AM Bookmark

Does this mean hes afraid of living in one city his entire life or has lived in one city his entire life?

there's one song from the future weather EP a couple years back that's my favorite WoD tune but i forget the name right now.

omfg lol nick b

http://i.imgur.com/6FFJ5ET.jpg

30 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Monument" [346 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://youtu.be/6c-RbGZBnBI

ayyy

imo the best part about this song is how the saxophone kind of sounds like something from a "shreds" youtube while improving the song at the same time

(but this sounds nothing like big country)

right, bc they can't play together

yesssss

yes i'm glad the good (actually excellent) track from that ep is being recognized :D

oh ffs who has the matches

and as I keep saying, it's unfortunate when dull indie places and gives indie an undeservedly bad name

oh, ilx

First place!

Ayyyy

Indiana song is a fat slug on the garden path in the way of life. Chris Lake remix is like someone drew on the slug with a marker pen. unpleasant experience

taylor swift and war on drugs boring, he sounds like the guy from u2

becky g, is it one of the competition winner things?

def the best song on the EP. one of the best nighttime driving jams of the year.

yassssssss

Oh good, I was worried that I might actually like War On Drugs when I finally heard them and that would be horribly embarrassing, but nope, this is very poor.

― emil.y,

Why would you be worried you might like them?

Well you started ok, Wednesday. See you tomorrow.

Glad Monument placed. And a bit surprised as apparently everyone itt hates Do It Again and Robyn and Royksopp.

gr80 otm about the sax. Burn the lp version, ep version 4eva.

jesus this royskopp record is plodding. a resounding no

Oh wow "Monument"! Didn't think it would placed this highly. Glad it placed ahead of the dull "Do It Again."

Royksopp + Young Thug

Surprised this was so much popular than Do It Again.

ok saxophone makes this

otherwise yeah more soothing blankness

wd def play this again

I actually heard "Shake It Off" for the first time earlier this week, didn't hate it!

I voted for red eyes (and the album). I also like: Wilco, The National, and Country music (if that helps). And I pay a mortgage.

The things that most appeal to me about the song are the hook, the momentum, the "drop" (which is excellent for what is essentially an acoustic rock song), and the way it plays with volume. The latter is so well done in comparison to, say, an Arcade Fire, which has perfected the art of beating you over the head with loud.

Overall I have not even heard of so many artists here though

yes those rarified quiet-loud dynamics xpost

I voted Monument but my fav Royksopp thing this year was Goodnite Mr Sweetheart by a mile.

Is there a better realised version of what Red Eyes goes for from recent years? Like in the same style, speed and scale?

Not expecting 'Arcade Fire' as an answer to that because I really don't hear significant difference.

Most of the hate seems for the concept than the execution as per.

Robyn again? Lol ilm you so ridiculous.

why would anyone give pity points for execution

i own the EP and most of the other tracks don't do much for me but this one pretty much lives up to its somewhat epic aspirations

For such a middling-successful band, My Morning Jacket sure seem to have spawned a solid core of influenced bands, WoD included.

i don't see the similarity personally

This Royksopp/Robyn is more interesting than the other one but the video is less so. It's not the same track she's been making over and over for years so I'm content with it.

xpost Yeah, My Morning Jacket were who came to mind when I first heard this album. Same as when I heard Fleet Foxes too. Would much rather listen to Z or It Still Moves than either of them.

i think WoD and MMJ share common influences in 70s & 80s rock music but i don't see a direct line between them

war on drugs sound nothing like my morning jacket

Omar Little, I dunno but I hear bands like MMJ, Band of Horses, WoD and to a lesser extent Bon Ivor and Fleet Foxes as all coming from a similar pod. Something about the vocal style mostly.

Is it common knowledge that Kurt Vile is a former WOD member? Up until this year, he'd garnered far more credibility with music critics, but don't know what ILM thinks about him.

I think I enjoyed the War on Drugs simulacra more than Robyn/Royksopp blandness.

late period MMJ is def closer to WoD than early period but it's still a flimsy comparison

xxp I tried WOD b/c of the Vile connection, I like his work a lot. WOD left me totally cold, just completely uninteresting to me

every year it is a joy to watch all the posters who rip people for not microanalyzing every tiny difference between electropop 'genres' lump everything with a guy and a guitar into one box of indie rock shit.