ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

almost forgot my most important take: the Indiana video is fucking stunningly bad, you should all watch it

spent a good part of 2014 singing 'danny glover' while drunk.

ray from scranton

http://youtu.be/O-aW5cvCpC8

just post the results now so we can settle this

http://i.imgur.com/Efd5yHp.jpg

21 CHARLI XCX "Boom Clap" [386 points, 14 votes]
http://youtu.be/AOPMlIIg_38

woooo

damn I thought this would be top 10 for sure

just catching up with some tracks.

I've def heard this ILOVEMAKKONEN thing before. It's interesting how unfussy this track is. The vocal sounds like it was done in one take.
I LOVE this Becky G song. Gorgeous!

thanks everyone, today was (with a few minor exceptions) a lot more fun than yesterday

MON-WED RECAP:

GALLERY OF IMAGES 77-21

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"
76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”
75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"
74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"
73 KING "Mister Chameleon"
72 KATIE GATELY "Pivot"
71 ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour "Somos Sur"
70 USHER "Good Kisser"
69 NICKI MINAJ "Anaconda"
68 DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo
67 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again"
66 SHAKIRA "Empire"
65 ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny"
64 DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones
63 CARIBOU "Silver"
62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666"
61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"

60 MARK RONSON "Uptown Funk" Ft Bruno Mars
59 JENNIFER LOPEZ "I Luh Ya Papi" Ft French Montana
58 AGAINST ME! "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"
57 NICKI MINAJ "Boss Ass Bitch" ft. PTAF
56 HAIM "If I Could Change Your Mind"
55 MIGOS "YRN" Ft. Young Thug
54 ALVVAYS "Archie, Marry Me"
53 SPOON "Inside Out"
52 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Sugah Daddy"
51 FKA TWIGS "Pendulum"
50 QT "Hey QT"
49 KATY PERRY "Dark Horse" Ft. Juicy J
48 JESSIE WARE "Champagne Kisses"
47 ILOVEMAKONNEN "Club Going Up On A Tuesday"
46 RITA ORA "I Will Never Let You Down"
45 APHEX TWIN "Minipops 67 [120.2] (source field mix)"
44 TODD TERJE "Delorean Dynamite"
43 KATY B "Crying For No Reason"
42 SHAMIR "On The Regular"
41 JAVIERA MENA "Otra Era"

40 GURU "Pooley"
39 39 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Prayer"
38 TKAY MAIDZA "U-Huh"
37 PHANTOGRAM "Fall In Love"
36 YOUNG THUG "Stoner"
35 SHIFT K37 "Touch"
34 INDIANA "Solo Dancing"
33 TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off"
32 BECKY G "Shower"
31 THE WAR ON DRUGS "Red Eyes"
30 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Monument"
29 DEJ LOAF "Try Me"
28 HODGSON "Babylon System
27 JESSIE WARE "Tough Love"
26 KIRA ISABELLA "Quarterback"
25 T.I. "About The Money" Ft. Young Thug
24 OWEN PALLETT "The Riverbed"
23 TAYLOR SWIFT "Out of the Woods"
22 YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover"
21 CHARLI XCX "Boom Clap

surprising it's not top 20. really don't see "fancy" in this countdown now.

Was wondering if rae sremmurd was rap's lynyrd skynyrd xp

wow, the charli song is low. I kind of prefer the Marcus Schlossow (sp?) mix which is very trancey and prob not to everyone's taste but I love the way it slows down half way through and speeds right back up.

rap leonard zeplin more like

the poll goes onandonandonandona

Rae Stemmurd are the 12's Kris Kross tbh

(Ducks)

ray from scranton

http://youtu.be/O-aW5cvCpC8

― example (crüt), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love dis guy

glad charli made it this high

also - how many young thug appearances are going to turn up?

Uhm 2010's xxp

charli xcx has become kind of disappointing, i sort of regret buying the new album.

Fun day!

Def!

jesus this is horrendous, what a way to finish

wish i'd heard this javiera mena track in the summer. it would have been a top jam.

peace be upon you raccoon tanuki

owen pallett: for most of 2014 i deliberately avoided the album bc dude is one of my favourite posters, and people generally, and i was afraid i would not like it. i think dorian's raves made me finally check it out and it just wasn't for me, songs or voice or anything. i really tried and i felt bad about this

"out of the woods" - maybe the best middle 8 she's ever written. completely transcends the cheat sheet about harry styles she waved at the press, i wish people would stop asking her about her lovelife. WHEN THE SUN CAME UP YOU WERE LOOKING AT ME~~~~~~
i do have a slight issue with the cheapo electronic squiggles right at the song's climax, they really don't need to be there. this is till the 2nd or 3rd best song on the album though.

"danny glover" - i don't even like the nicki remix of this, is how much i dislike the song. i remembered it as being an autotune warble but people are right, it's not, his voice just sounds like that, which might make it even worse...his singing voice is so nails-down-blackboard quavery

wish i'd heard this javiera mena track in the summer.

Don't think it was around then. LP came out in October.

Monument is good, Do It Again is serviceable, but Röyksopp sure sound more interesting when they're working with more interesting vocalists, Karin Dreijer back then and the always underrated Susanne Sundfør both last year and this year (and who should've had her own songs and her feat.'s this year on this list but will have neither -- hopefully this year's album will catch some folks attention) .

xxxp naw RT would've mumbled some nonsense about corporation$ by now

oh man, this Ana Tijoux track is amazing! I need more stuff like this.

Really excited to see Tkay show up (and someone put her at #1 meaning they like her more than me!) - having seen her live recently I can confirm that she has many more bangers in the vault. She's more or less an underground star here now and it's only a matter of time before she gets some international recognition. Her 30min Switch Tape mix is def worth a listen.

Tkay, D'Angelo, Kira, Shift K3y for me today which makes 10/25 so far - and I adore "Shower" and am embarrassed I forgot to vote for it. Glad to see a few things I don't know show up today. Perplexed by "Monument" placing which is imo deathly dull and interminable.

Boom Clap I like I guess but it is definitely Charli phoning things in to an extent, there are much more interesting things on the album

i thought this was the charli xcx single that even charli xcx stans didn't like but i guess paying lip service to ~hits is a thing. it's sort of leaden to me. i don't get stanning for someone who is all potential and no actual uncomplicated easy greatness, her album isn't ever bad but the tryhardness shouldn't show as much as it does

i saw her on SNL and it was a little embarrassing :/

i thought this was the charli xcx single that even charli xcx stans didn't like

for me it was a tremendous grower, especially when it was suddenly everywhere

i've only listened to the charli album 1x but found it p thrilling

It's among my favorites on the album, even though it was around quite a while before it. Like it more even now than I originally did, but didn't vote for it.

"danny glover" - i don't even like the nicki remix of this, is how much i dislike the song. i remembered it as being an autotune warble but people are right, it's not, his voice just sounds like that, which might make it even worse...his singing voice is so nails-down-blackboard quavery

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

DRIPPING DOWN HIS DICK THIS PUSSY'S TOO VICIOUS

Well that was perversely enjoyable if surprisingly draining, tomorrow is the last one?

u'd think a board full of charlie xcx fans would place her a little higher

Top 20, yeah.

time to start talking about qt again

time to start talking about qt again

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:07 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brad are you a sadist

haha no way is saer raccoon tanuki

contenderizer, why does modern country's sound repel you? How is it more repellent than, say, Billy Sherill's George Jones productions or Loretta Lynn's early seventies stuff? And if you listen to eighties country productions it's often no different sonically than Atlantic Starr. Because the revulsion keeps coming up -- offboard too -- I'm wondering why gloss is a burden with country like it isn't with pop.

(Not attacking. I'm genuinely curious!)

wish i'd heard this javiera mena track in the summer.

Don't think it was around then. LP came out in October.

― Johnny Fever,

It leaked in the summer. Jukebox got it.

haha no way is saer raccoon tanuki

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:10 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

Nah saer is like deep tech house tech no bobbins

haha no way is saer raccoon tanuki

― The Reverend, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:10 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah i just meant cos charli xcx came up! the xps came so fast...

Top 20 predix

2 On
No Flex Zone
Lifestyle
Seasons
Two Weeks
No Type
Can't Do Without You
La Joya
Style
Blank Space
Really Love
Move That Dope
Queen
Turn Down For What
Emotions
Hot N*gga
Down On My Luck
Love Me Harder
something from bobbins
something by run the jewels / vince staples (?) i dunno. stuck for this last one.

much better song than the apalling break the rules

How is it more repellent than, say, Billy Sherill's George Jones productions or Loretta Lynn's early seventies stuff?

I'll take this: Modern country/bro country/post-Shania/Mutt country sounds like the residue of late 80s-thru-mid 90s rock and pop radio. It should. It's mostly the same musicians and a lot of the same songwriters, all of which moved to Nashville when the labels started waving cash in the air. If you liked all that stuff then, it's no surprise you still like it now.