ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

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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)

Only made it a fraction of the way thru the thread so far looking forward to more, just want 2 say this rev opinion is crazy wrong:

Davido: This is cool but I feel like don't love Naija-pop because it's too focused on mid-range. When I listen to this I'm just waiting some heavy bass to appear the whole time.

spotify is up-to-date
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/57m9LpUGkWDzGOiIgNsTeR

i wasn't following the nom process; is there a reason "ain't it fun" wasn't?

ain't it fun was nominated and place last year iirc

lukewarm takes:

GURU "Pooley" - I missed this until now; it's pretty great!

D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Prayer" - Voted for this. When I got off the train on the way home from the pottery studio today, this was playing on the headphones and a silent snow set off a moire pattern in the sky, every streetlight reflecting a diamond spray of mundane and heavenly beauty and i will likely be listening to this album until i die. one love to everyone else who mimes a punch in the air on each tone of the bell.

TKAY MAIDZA "U-Huh" - Voted for this. Straight up undercover superhit IMO; wouldn't be surprised to see her blow up this year. best use of the Godzilla scream since "What's So Different"

PHANTOGRAM "Fall In Love" - I tried Phantogram several times this year and I just can't connect somehow; some intangible quality is missing.

YOUNG THUG "Stoner" - My girl HATES young thug so i have to play him when she's not around and i do. this was the entry song that made it clear why he mattered.

SHIFT K37 "Touch" - this seems fine but on two listens just is a little too AW YEAH INTERNET KEWL for my tastes

INDIANA "Solo Dancing" - i can give or take the lyrics/singing but the synths feel like tangerine dream / risky business OST and that's a cheap way to my heart.

TAYLOR SWIFT "Shake It Off" - didn't like it when i heard it, still don't like it. the sax and "rap bridge" reminds me of thrift shop every time.

BECKY G "Shower" - as i said above, I like the idea of this more than the actuality of it.

THE WAR ON DRUGS "Red Eyes" - i tried the album a time or three and while I can't remember any of the songs (or this on playing it), it's just fine; neither deserving of hate or over the top accolades. Would be fine having this show up in a random mix once every two days or so.

RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Monument" - Voted for it. Complaints that this is too long or too ponderous or too whatever make no sense to me; it's up there with my favorites of the year. that lost, breathy sax!

DEJ LOAF "Try Me" - didn't vote for this but wish i had. this (and also shmurda's track which will chart shortly) is what the summer of 2014 really sounded like

HODGSON "Babylon System - totally new track, this seems good on cursory exploration but i gotta spin a few more times

JESSIE WARE "Tough Love" - Weirdly Tough Love and Champagne Kisses were tracks I didn't much care for on this album... I lean into Say You Love Me, Kind of Sometimes Maybe and (best of the pack) Keep on Lying.

KIRA ISABELLA "Quarterback" - Great track; a comparison that regularly occurs to me that I never heard anybody mention is Taylor's "fifteen"; same power and intensity and perspective.

T.I. "About The Money" - I think Paperwork was quietly a very very good album and TI's sense of what the public will pay for has never been better. This is a great track o'course.

OWEN PALLETT "The Riverbed" - Surprised to see another Pallett track on here (brief FYI to people saying hateful shit: you're aware he posts here, right?) but the more the better and this is superlovely. I'm hopeful In Conflict is a top five album on the followup poll.

TAYLOR SWIFT "Out of the Woods" - By FAR my favorite track on 1989 and really the only one I still come back to. The cover version I put up on Spotify is not a horrible representation.

YOUNG THUG "Danny Glover" - this is not in my top five of the year for thugger but not mad at it, do it for the vine

CHARLI XCX "Boom Clap" - Coincidentally, today is the day I finally gave a comprehensive listen to both Sucker and Cher Lloyd's Sorry I'm Late. I like Charli better than Lloyd but only barely and I don't like either of them much at all. I prefer "London Queen" and "Gold Coins" to "Boom Clap"

while we're waiting, here's 2013 and another spotify list:
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6aanFh0UkiNJlrvg3kZgmI

1 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2 Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful
3 Paramore - Still Into You
4 The Knife - Full of Fire
5 Ciara - Body Party
6 Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
7 Duke Dumont - Need U (100%)
8 Amel Larrieux - I Do Take
9 Bunji Garlin - Differentology
10 Haim - Falling
11 Sky Ferreira - You're Not the One
12 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
13 Paramore - Ain't It Fun
14 Todd Terje - Strandbar
15 Rudimental ft. MNEK & Sinead Harnett - Baby
16 My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow (pulled from spotify)
17 Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself
18 Chvrches - The Mother We Share
19 Quadron - Hey Love
20 Disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge - White Noise
21 Vampire Weekend - Step
22 Lady Gaga ft. R. Kelly - Do What U Want
23 Kanye West - New Slaves
24 Fantasia - Without Me
25 Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct
26 Haim - The Wire
27 Tegan & Sara - Closer
28 Lorde - Royals
29 Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
30 My Bloody Valentine - In Another Way (pulled from spotify)
31 Classixx - All You're Waiting For
32 Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
33 Betty Who - Somebody Loves You
33 Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
35 KING - In The Meantime
36 Britney Spears - Work Bitch
37 Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
38 Migos - Versace
39 Droop-E ft. Nite Jewel & J. Stalin - N the Traffic
40 Beyoncé - ***Flawless
40 Rocko ft. Rick Ross & Future - U.O.E.N.O.
42 Angel Haze - Echelon (It's My Way)
43 Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy
44 Charli XCX - Superlove
45 A$AP Ferg - Shabba
46 Sophie - Bipp
47 Gunplay - Bible On The Dash
48 Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu - Q.U.E.E.N.
49 FKA Twigs - Water Me
50 Arcade Fire - Reflektor
51 Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
52 Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
53 Pusha T - Numbers on the Boards
54 Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
55 Javiera Mena - Espada
55 Kingdom ft. Kelela - Bank Head
57 Deafheaven - Dream House
58 Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop
59 Sevyn Streeter - It Won't Stop
60 Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me
61 Rhye - The Fall
62 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
63 Hot Fruit - Falling Off the Grid
64 Ace Hood - Bugatti
65 Savages-She Will
66 Factory Floor - Fall Back
67 Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go Round
68 Phosphorescent - Song For Zula
69 Lulu James - Closer (not on spotify)
70 Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn
71 The Knife - Raging Lung
72 Beyoncé - XO
73 Bardo Pond - The Creator Has A Master Plan
74 Burial - Rival Dealer
75 Haim - Days Are Gone
76 Beyoncé - Partition
77 Beyoncé - Drunk In Love

ALSO! Here is the 2012 list and spotify in its immortal glory
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/3ChxVkEPVmdKIdfX19Yy5s

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse - more like todd turd “inspector bores”
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - more like hardly great jepsen “squall me lamely”
Miguel - Adorn - more like miguel “a-bore-n”
Katy B - Aaliyah - more like katy pee “cashing in on the memory of a dead artist way more talented than me”
Usher - Climax - more like flusher “premature ejaculation”
PSY - Gangnam Style - more like ZZZ “surely the first in a long line of k-pop songs to achieve chart success in the west”
Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing - more like why should i care-a “this song is embarrassing”
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms - more like facelift “i belong in your trash can”
Grimes - Oblivion - more like frank grimes “noblivion”
Future - Turn on the Lights - more like poo-ture “turn off the autotune”
Eric Church - Springsteen - more like eric turds “token non-taylor swift mainstream country song because we all really really respect mainstream country music really”
Pachanga Boys - Time - more like pachinko noise “slime”
Icona Pop - I Love It - more like morona slop “i love shit”
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage - more like blah-wan “why they forget to write the rest of this song” (not available on spotify, still)
Solange - Losing You - more like beyonce’s sister “oozing poo”
D'Banj - Oliver Twist - more like d’iarrhea “all of her shits”
Miguel - Do You... - more like pig hell “no i do not”
Cassie - King Of Hearts - more like assie “king of farts”
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - more like wailer shits “i blew chunks because this song was so awful” (not available on spotify, popped in a cover)
Frank Ocean - Pyramids - more like wank lotion “bore-amids”
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal - more like thindick lamar “too bad my best song isn’t on my boring album” (not available on spotify)
Saint Etienne - Tonight - more like taint etienne “poonight”
Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You - more like stank potion “stinkin bout poo”
Jessie Ware - 110% - more like messy underwear “0%” (released on album as "If You're Never Gonna Move")
Bat for Lashes - Laura - more like shat for asses “bore-a”
Angel Haze - Werkin' Girls - more like strangle haze “bleaurghing hurls”
Scott Walker - Epizootics! - more like flop squawker “epic poo licks!”
Zebra Katz ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read - more like pee bra shats ft. vagina dead cocks - “ima turn this boring song off”
Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - more like failer pissed - “i am never ever listening to this shitty song again” (not available on spotify, dropped in a cover)
M.I.A. - Bad Girls - more like D.O.A. “bad song”
KW Griff ft. Pork Chop - Bring in the Katz - more like ky jelly ft. how am i supposed to think of a derisive parody name for someone already called ‘pork chop’ “bring in the farts”
Le1f - Wut - more like queef “butt”
Jeremih - 773 Love - more like i don’t caremih “i’m sorry this number has been disconnected please hang up and try again”
Chief Keef ft. Lil Reese - I Don't Like - more like chief queef ft. lil pees “i don’t like being sentenced to jail time, it makes me cry”
Kanye West ft. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz - Mercy - more like blahnye west ft. big yawn, tusha pee & 0 brainz “literally the only listenable song on ‘cruel summer’”
Kalenna - Matte Black Truck - more like duhlenna “fat wack suck” (not available on spotify, still)
Rihanna - Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix) - more like riyawna “duuuh i’m rihanna duuuuh” (not available on spotify, still)
Death Grips - I've Seen Footage - more like meth whips “i’ve seen publicity stunts blow up in my face”
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name (Royal-T's Back to 99 Mix) - more like sterile hole - “call me lame (toiletry’s wank to 69 mix)” (not available on spotify, still)
Miguel - Use Me - more like oh well “lose me”
Neneh Cherry and the Thing - Dream Baby Dream - more like nono blarey and the nothing “hey you know what would make this awesome suicide song even better? four minutes of free jazz noodling and the singer of ‘buffalo stance’”
Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe - more like nicki minaj is a “stupid hoe”
John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny - more like john toiletpot ft. pee on all “density”
Spiritualized - Hey Jane - more like zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...huh what? what? ok what number am i on? jesus.
Alex Anwandter - Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo? - more like alex anwanker “translation: you actually voted for this shit?”
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven - more like poono farts “this was a police b-side for a reason”
Haim - Don't Save Me - more like lame “don’t listen to me because i am a terrible song”
Purity Ring - Fineshrine - more like poority ring “whinewhine”
Santigold - Disparate Youth - more like can’t be sold “pisspoor-ate poo-th”
Twin Shadow - Five Seconds - more like a-ha jr. “five seconds until i turn this shitty song off”
Burial - Kindred - more like poo-rial “skin dread”
Grimes - Genesis - more like crimes “not as good as ‘i can’t dance’”
Hot Chip - Let Me Be Him - more like cold shit “let me pee on him”
Cher Lloyd - Want U Back - more like glare annoyed “want u back at whatever job you had before ‘professional singer’”
Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments - more like i’m just going to go with messy underwear again, that was pretty good “wildest bowel movements”
Jessie Ware - Running - more like messy underwear “running away from this terrible song”
Mungolian Jetset - Toccata - more like bungholian jetset trash & no star “tocaca”
Angel Haze - New York - more like angel malaise “poo pork”
Haim - Forever - more like shame “whatever”
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue) - more like queef fullofit shitman “i’m just going to turn on these synths, hit record, take a smoke break for 20 minutes, then hit stop”
Tame Impala - Feels like we only go backwards - more like lame isuzu “feels like our ability to write songs only goes backwards”
Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett ft. Tom Zanetti - You Want Me - more like dick handjob & tom hairnet ft. another guy named tom “no i definitely do not” (not available on spotify, still)
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks n Tattoos - more like wonky lunch & lamerenzo “lame hacks n bad booze” (not available on spotify, still)
Guru - Lapaz Toyota - more like pooru “halfass tuneyota”
Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built - more like chappedassdroids “the song that morons built”
Dawn Richard - Faith - more like limp bizkit “faith”
Nicki Minaj - Starships - more like sicki minaj “fartshits”
Nicki Minaj - Beez in the Trap - more like tricki minaj “peez in the trap”
Future - Same Damn Time - more like suture “lame damn rhymes”
Ty$ - My Cabana - more like why$ "my crapola”
G-Dragon - Crayon - more like pee-flagon “craisin”
Pulp - After You - more like poop “after poo”
Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna - more like javiera pee-na “loose de pee-dra de poo-na”
Andrés - New For U - more like undress “poo for poo” (not available on spotify, still)
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It - more like apoonageorge “poo know poo like shit”
Chromatics - Kill For Love - more like ugh so close to being done “kill you for loving this boring song”
Dawn Richard - Pretty Wicked Things - more like yawn richard “shitty boring songs”

maybe i can work on early years with proper pleading

who said anything hateful about OP?

just some vaguely meanspirited jabs upthread; I am a bit in love with the album and tetchy 'bout it

i keep forgetting to not look here until #1 is unveiled. otherwise there will be spoilers.

maybe i can work on early years with proper pleading

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:53 PM Bookmark

Don't worry about it. I've been working on something.

oh tru?

Speaking of, I'll put out the request again to anyone with mod powers...can we go back to polls past and change the titles to match the ones we've standardized since the 2010 poll? That would make the results a hell of a lot easier to find in the future.