ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

so is it too late for tove lo (my #1) to place? :(

Are you telling us you don't think Rude has the best guitar solo of the earñy 21st century, dog latin?

which tove lo did you vote for? I like "Habits" but always thought of it as a 2013 thing

fair enough - year of impact for me i guess did it place last year?

What might be interesting - well, not really that interesting, but, you know - is seeing which track that eventually made the 77 was the last to be posted in the nominations thread.

low hanging fruit chart is a great name

xxp: nah - 260th apparently

a feb countdown for 154 - 78

saer's ballot:
1. you suck
2. RADIOHEAD
3. lol
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer),

This is all kinds of wrong.

lol finishing below you suck is ridic

xp nice to know who callously skims the EOY threads vs who dutifully reads every single post

If there was one tune I voted for that saer voted for I'd say it was this

http://youtu.be/GcXzlz6C4XQ

sorry last post seemed a bit ungrateful
terrific work all involved
tremendous fun :)

If there was one tune I voted for that saer voted for I'd say it was this

http://youtu.be/GcXzlz6C4XQ

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:34 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(|~_~|)

minimal more like limbinal (trees)

Any requests for novelty statistics tomorrow? I'm finishing off the code now...

Jaggerism: -1 point per million YouTube views

This is all kinds of wrong.

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:27 PM (20 minutes ago)

obvious post is obvious

nm that's not minimal i thought he was romanian or something

kewl track

phantogram will always remind me of warm boozy butterfly-stomach makeouts bc this summer was the one time in my life when i was going on lots of 1st/2nd/3rd dates with lots of different women and every single one of them was obsessed with this band

i aint got no type/ phantogram girls is the only kind i like

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, i will always love phantogram because i was listening to "turn it off" a lot in summer 2010 when i first started dating my gf and i can't listen to them without getting prousty flashbacks to driving to her house

i was listening to other shit too but their aesthetic just hooks onto memories i guess

39 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Prayer" - i feel self-conscious about voting for this but it really is great. lovely but incredibly tense. i end up folding it into my own life too readily though

22 YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover" - such a great song. my coworker once asked me if this song was about 'the black guy from community'. tags include: teal windbreakers, the raincoats cover of 'lola', woodford manhattans, le samouraï, the part of dead wrong where biggie says 'i dont wanna rape ya/i just the paper', ryan mcginley

Is there a way of knowing the voters we have the most and the least in common based on ballot similarities?

― the QT conundrum (Moka), Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:14 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a column for your most similar voter. Least similar would be "most people" given that there would be zero overlap with a lot of voters.

What might be interesting - well, not really that interesting, but, you know - is seeing which track that eventually made the 77 was the last to be posted in the nominations thread.

― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:25 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I thought about doing something like this to check whether there's an advantage in early nomination (you'd have to control for other effects to be meaningful but what the hell). I haven't cross-referenced tracks with their nomination dates though.

Jaggerism: -1 point per million YouTube views

― The Reverend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:50 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:) :) :) I don't have anything to set up to use the YouTube API. Maybe next year!

Awaiting the grueling top 20. Guessing at least 17 of these are still left to place:

0 to 100/The Catch Up, 2 On, Blank Space, Can't Do Without You, Chandelier, Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck), Digital Witness, Fancy, Hideaway, I, Johnny and Mary, Lifestyle, Move That Dope, Never Catch Me, Queen, Rather Be, Seasons (Waiting on You), Turn Down For What, Turtles All the Way Down, Two Weeks

22 YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover" - such a great song. my coworker once asked me if this song was about 'the black guy from community'.

― wizaerd (Lamp), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:01 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol o gosh

love that Kornel Kovacs track!

on loop over here

you're a stoner you're a stoner you're a stoner

puff puff pass puff

Looks like the last nominated track to place so far is "Transgender Dysphoria Blues". Didn't notice any notable contenders after that.

Possible top 3 in no order:

Swiftstep
fka twigrock
Vic mens

pretty sure there are two YG tracks still to come

krazy talk

maybe, it's just hard for me to believe that anything toward the bottom of the list could've garnered more votes than 'left, right' and 'my n***a'

still holding out hope for my #1 of 2014 to place in first itp

i am enjoying coming up with alternate titles for songs that could be track of fourteen though

man of the year? morelike song of the year

no flex zone? morelike no sweat, first place zone for this great song

boys and feelings by taylor swift? morelike boy am i feeling like this is the no. 1 song of 2014

lyk u used 2? more lyk ur used to being 1

&c &c

takes

40 GURU "Pooley"
i like how stately the beat is, it just sounds like something that is cool tho i wish i knew what he was rapping about.

39 D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Prayer"
so woozy, my goodness

38 TKAY MAIDZA "U-Huh" [326 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
omg i love this, i want to listen to this on repeat for the foreseeable future.

37 PHANTOGRAM "Fall In Love"
i like this, it sounds like something that should have come out 20 years ago but that’s ok.

36 YOUNG THUG "Stoner"
nah.

35 SHIFT K3Y "Touch"
like the idea, love the piano chords, would love to get a different singer in there.

34 INDIANA "Solo Dancing"
idgi, is this like meta-club music? it’s trying to sound cool but it’s dorky as hell.

33 TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off"
wore me down, i like it.

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

yeah.

32 BECKY G "Shower"
this is like replacement-level pop, every move is predictable and the lyrical hook is blah.

31 THE WAR ON DRUGS "Red Eyes"
i like the album ok but no on a tracks placing. and the “let’s imagine an indie-rock man and his life” thing is one of the shittier things that happens on this board.

30 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Monument"
wow this is a lot better than the prior royksopp/robyn song, i still got bored though.

29 DEJ LOAF "Try Me"
this is fine, i like the empty threatening quality, something about it makes me uncomfortable or weirded out so i didn’t listen to it a lot.

28 HODGSON "Babylon System
i don’t go out b/c i’m too busy listening to indie rock but this would be fun to hear out

27 JESSIE WARE "Tough Love"
i just realized some of these jessie ware tunes sound a lot like junior boys. maybe i’ll like her more now?

26 KIRA ISABELLA "Quarterback"
i have no energy to listen to this again, it’s fine, i respect it, that’s all.

25 T.I. "About The Money" Ft. Young Thug
hook is annoying.

24 OWEN PALLETT "The Riverbed"
TOO LOW

23 TAYLOR SWIFT "Out of the Woods"
my wife and i were really divided on this song. i think it will be one of the 1989 tracks i’m still listening to a while from now.

22 YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover"
i….don’t think i really like young thug :/

21 CHARLI XCX "Boom Clap"
cool song, i’m pretty happy when i hear this song.

my n***a placed last year

i enjoy this versh of "quaterback" than the original tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhSpIquqdcE

xp oh, what the hell, why was it on the noms list

my n***a placed last year

― flopson, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:57 PM (8 minutes ago)

xp oh, what the hell, why was it on the noms list

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, January 21, 2015 6:04 PM

Oh shoot I nommed it and voted for it. I swear I checked last year's results and was surprised not to see it!

Um yeah it didn't place last year

really? well i voted for it last year :-P

lol yea i didnt think that sounded right

it stayed in the charts well into 2014, but it was definitely very much a 2013 hit. i'm kinda wondering if there IS enough support for "Left, Right" or even "Who Do You Love" to place in the tracks poll. i voted for the later, but My Krazy Life works pretty well as a whole, that's kinda how i see the album even though it does have hit singles.

2/20 for today and 4/57 overall.

Eris will reward me for my QT nomination.

i'm thinking no yg trax will place... same for k michelle :'(

i feel like in another year something like "can't raise a man" would have placed, but i don't think this voter pool is really into that kind of straight r&b

Yeah, if "Good Kisser", which I expected to place in the top 20, was only #70, K. Michelle is doomed.

(ftr, I only voted for her album)