ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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.

I think if you give them the full set of links and make a thread on the mod request board, you're more likely to see your dream come true

Sorry, that's not meant to sound patronising

The ILX List of Lists

xp tru

Nice catch, forks!

Would that Becky G had sustained her first 8 seconds of inspiration.

started to compile every list into youtube playlists too

just listened to that myself xp - it's saccharine & irksome but the chorus sustains quite a rush w/ building strings & suddenly distant vox production. agree that the sound of dripping water probably has it beat tho (not necc. a diss, i like found sound)

hodgson was a semi-righteous discovery that didn't quite imo take off - same scene as beep dee apparently but the latter is composed far more ingeniously & less complacently imo

Yes, maybe this song is best enjoyed in its titular habitat! (Not entirely joking). It had a sweetness to it. It's something I might listen to if it came on and I was already very emotionally heightened.

Thanks a ton for the hotlinks to past Spotify lists, Forks, I'm just getting up to speed with my phone but what a relief to zap these things in like lightning. I work outdoors so the rollouts pass me by unfortunately. Like Bee OK I'm at something like 3/57 so far but I assume I'll clock at least 5 tomorrow in the top 20. Biggest disappointment is Boom Clap landing outside the top 20; what an eternal, satisfying piece of songcraft from this last year. Best discoveries were Indiana and Tkay Maidza, oh shit.

Looking forward to seeing saer's ballot

― groovypanda, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ otm. Though I doubt he handed one in.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine),

I wasnt going to put one in but I did in the end! I think i voted for 7 or 8 records

In 'About The Money', Young Thug clearly sings 'my shoes are deception', Giuseppe my ass

and I'm going to remind you all of this, constantly

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

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:45 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― The Reverend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:52 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think k michelle has haim-like traction to have the last single off a 2013 album place...i briefly thought "loyal" might have a shot as i saw a couple of other posters considering voting for it, but that would've been very low in the 77. i do expect her album to place though.

that said if amel larrieux could go top 10 last year, i imagine there's still scope for major surprises in a year when there was much less consensus. there's definitely a lot less of the "multiple entries by artists whose albums will also play", which is great.

assume the top 20 will be all mustard songs? have we even had one yet?

Yeah I meant Phantogram rather than Phosphorescent, that's what you get for typing on your phone with only the last couple of posts visible.

I really dislike 'Danny Glover' on an instant visceral level but I love the bits when Young Thug turns up on that T.I. track. This is the first Charli XCX song I've liked as well, her previous stuff felt too everything-in-your-face-all-the-time but this is the sort of song (and chorus in particular) that makes that into a virtue.

Mustard feels like the biggest omission so far but there's one song that will definitely place.

2 on must have a shot at winning, if blank space does

swift ain't winning this or even close, not with her vote-splitting. "2 on" in with a shot but it's the kind of song that winds up #3 i think.

there were surprisingly few mustard songs to rally behind, the quality of his beats has mostly outstripped the resulting songs, though obv he'll get one and maybe two albums placing

3 favourite discoveries of 40-21 were Tkay, the song Stoner (the only Young Thug I've been able to fuck w/) and weirdly enough the choruses (but NOT the verses) of the Becky G

slim, slim pickings tho, if u r me. at least the riverbed punctuated it all

"2 on" in with a shot but it's the kind of song that winds up #3 i think

sounds about right - two weeks and future frigging islands above it

please let there be a larrieux this year (a top 10 discovery i actually like)

And serves out to love. That was a good match

There's plenty of room for curveballs still I think, there are relatively few absolute bankers this year.

Also the second Royksopp & Robyn pick was a big surprise, so much better than the first one, I like the whole blankness of it, got a bit of a bargain basement Superpitcher vibe to some of it but I mean that in a good way.

yeah i came round to that one after my initial full-body shudder at seeing it appear

dej loaf my favourite of the unknowns in the last batch though

After a second listen, I think I do kind of like Hey QT for all its goofy idiocy. It really sounds like the kind of thing I could have made with a mate in an afternoon as a private joke. I don't really have a problem with this though? It's kind of DIY, it's cheap and silly. But then I like a lot of early-80s new wave-ish pop like the B-52s and stuff on Ze Records which isn't too different, aesthetically. I see why pop people fucking hate it of course.

John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny - more like john toiletpot ft. pee on all “density”

got this far before i lost my shit completely

Dog Latin completely otm re: Hey QT's goofiness, it's on-board the ZE records devil-may-care idiocy pushing modern pop into the bits where you put the mirror up, like slap-happy stupidity thing, nothing deeper.

can't wait for the 2k15 noise pop outfit 'john toiletpot'

John Toiletpot? - more like john talabot

hope yr flu is improving saer and that the day finds you in good spirits

Its not so good, i slept badly because of it and i have a headache too now and there was supposed to be a phone interview 45 minutes ago and the person hasnt called. Im not sure today is going to be good for me, i should be listening to more cordial music, or even better, silence

I'm in silence now because listening to vibey music I will forget everything i know as i return to my natural woodland state. not good for interview. but its the wrong kind of silence, its not the silence of tranquility and leaves

maybe one year we can all vote for a moment of restful silence and quiet contemplation instead of say, fruitless islands or tailors whiffed

a moment? thats all? I was thinking more like 18 months

"from now on the ILM Tracks Poll is a place of quiet contemplation'

Also fuck you NickB Future Islands ROOL!!!!!! :-D

the only future islands rule that i would condone is that they're never allowed near recording equipment again

the future silence rule

but he does a dance

he does!