ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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.

i spend my life posting on internet forums, i fear death and disease, and i don't have any mortgages to worry about

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:34 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sad that WOD fans are hopeless

To be fair i have put them all into one box, just outside the back door

war on drugs record was/is very well-liked on ilm iirc, most of those people just aren't hanging out on the tracks rollout thread

I could definitely live without either of these last two tracks though. Seems to confirm by impression that you had to dig deep this year for interesting stuff.

Honestly this isn't the worst thing ever but I just can't imagine what it would be like having any use for this sort of thing. Like what kind of lives do War On Drugs fans lead? What are their hopes and fears? I imagine they spend a lot of time thinking about mortgages.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:32 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The War on Drugs album was one of my favorites of 2014. I don't have a mortgage, though.

yeah but have you ever been in a war.... on drugs?

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.

― Indexed, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love (some of) kurt vile's solo records since leaving war on drugs. i haven't listened to much war on drugs but haven't heard anything to interest me in them yet.

Xpost Deerhunter and Grizzly Bear and lots of bands my band mates seem to like so much too. I file all these under 'twig rock' because it seems to be going for a big sound that just ends up sounding brittle and indistinct, like it's buried under leaves or something.

like looking at the end of a party through leaves

i like 'twig rock' i'm gonna jack that term

For me, War on Drugs is all about the driving beat and the atmospherics.

yep

i do not have a mortgage fyi

Honestly this isn't the worst thing ever but I just can't imagine what it would be like having any use for this sort of thing. Like what kind of lives do War On Drugs fans lead? What are their hopes and fears? I imagine they spend a lot of time thinking about mortgages.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:32 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm a war on drugs fan AMA :)

i thought the national was really the mortgage rock band

War on Drugs is about Nancy Reagan.

i like future islands too. i'm the monster at the end of the thread
― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:36 PM (24 minutes ago)

this made me laugh pretty loud.

http://i.imgur.com/qAU1iWW.jpg

29 DEJ LOAF "Try Me" [348 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/3Hn9hLOljJI

yeah these mortgage having lames. God, some of them might even have jobs and ugh, kids. Should just kill themselves now.

xxp

i thought the national was really the mortgage rock band

nah the national is still drunk bespoke suit rock

aw hell yeah

rev basically setting himself up to be worrying about his mortgage in ten years time

think i voted for this

The National is for dudes who are into scotch.

Monument makes me want to listen to Crockett's Theme

turn this thread into some macaroni

Monument makes me want to listen to Crockett's Theme

positive effect for a song to have imo

Robyn is for dudes who are into bourbon.

there are people who aren't into bourbon?

:D

aw hell yeah

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't know about this song at voting time but have heard it since, killer

I can get behind WoD but Grizzly Bear are the worst. It doesnt help that they have the most punchable faces in twig-rock.

there are people who aren't into bourbon?

Exactly!

Do like the contrast between the lush, smooth backing and the sing song voice with the lyrics.

"set it off like jada pinkett" is terrible tho

What happened to socially/politically concious rappers

<3 try me
like monument

no raccoon, no credibility

None Of Dem was the best Royksopp/Robyn collab

this is fucken A+

YouTube comments to be avoided, in particular.