ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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.

all the charli xcx fans voted for "try me"

dej! my first track to place and my number 1!

shout out to my office mate who has walked in on me quietly singing this about 1000 times this year

oh dear i just looked at the comments D: h8 the world sometimes

"try me" is probably too cloudy and singsong for me to love but i grew to appreciate it after a while. still the second best rap song called "try me" of 2014 though.

i sort of file it alongside taylor swift's "you are in love" and indeed you can sort of sing them over each other; people who love them seem to really love them and feel really deeply to them, but i find them a bit slight and the melodies too simplistic for that. nice to see it nonetheless

try me... more crying and driving, roads must be jammed. i stay in the woods where there are no cars and i dont have to hear these awful records

how is 'try me' crying.... dead-eyed maybe but crying???

trying for no reason

have decided saer is posting during a peyote trip

Shit I scrolled down to see talk of the National and got scared they placed. Now that's a 'fuck boring white male grad student indie rock' crusade I can get behind. They didn't put anything out this year did they?

all autotune is crying

lol

"try me" is an a+ driving jam

Been hearing this Dej Loaf on the radio lately. Dig it. I just realized it kind of reminds me of Sean Kingston.

yeah man t-pain that suicide watch music xp