ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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[420 points]

I think the video didnt help German whip, thats what made it seem more novelty to me. Better to hear a new thing without watching a video I think

Voted for it last year. The album is very good and i'd hope that would place.

cant stand the tove lo. theres been a few of these, incredibly plodding and then the chorus is blaring, and then its plodding again, just sounds like a person struggling with shopping bags uphill, anticipating being able to drink some juice, then they rest at the top of the hill and drink some juice, then they set off with the shopping again. dispiriting

Screencap is making me uncomfortable.

My vote was for the unnominated Hippie Sabotage Remix.

grats to shmurda great song/meme

i am at work and can't listen. please, what is tove lo?

some context re German Whip (got a lot of Radio 1 support, maybe partly because it didn't feel as fast as default grime) http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/27/second-coming-of-grime-dizzee-rascal-wiley

best saer-take yet

xp: A Stockholm Liz Phair of sorts.

Lmao what is this German whip song? Just pick list years rap thread, cover your eyes, scroll down the page at random and I guarantee you'll hit a better song

pretty sure this could've passed itself off as lorde's follow-up to "royals" without anyone noticing. have heard the name tove lo around for years from the kind of people who love scandopop that never actually charts so it was a surprise that one finally did. doubt i'd ever mind it as such but i don't feel any connection either

german cool whip

omgz so happy

420 points LOL forever

Really like Habits. Her album should have gotten way more attention than it did.

habits it close to being a pandering/novelty track but i think at its heart its quite sincere and very important

i dont ever really want to listen to it ever again tho

my #1 obvs

the kind of people who love scandopop that never actually charts

I'd be one of those people, and I really don't care a bit about Tove Lo, so maybe that explains something about her unexpected popularity.

theres a lot of post lily allen music on this list

Is there a Bobby Shmurda lp/mixtape?

i hated habits when i first heard it, and i still hate it.

walk us through your journey

habits is incredible, tho the rest of her album sounded embarrassingly generic to me

Lex loves to feel sorry for people

I liked the opening line of 'Habits' but then lost interest fast.

"Habits" couldn't be more dull and on-the-nose if the lyrics were "I am on DRUGS because SAD"

lagoon otm

prefer "Talking Body"

Is there a Bobby Shmurda lp/mixtape?

― xelab, Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:35 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

There's other stuff out there but I don't think I'd bother tbqh

This tove lo song is catchy

pop music w/ on-the-nose lyrics say it ain't so

Xelab - "Shmoney Dance ft Rowdy Rebel" by is just as crucial as hot n1gga

also "Computers"

Don't really understand Tove Lo getting big commercially, or people loving her out of all scandi pop stars.

she really speaks to my need to stay high all the time

my gf briefly considered liking this & added it to our joint EOY ballot-preparatory playlist but in retrospect it was never rly for us & we have maybe both disowned it (i will ask her)

it needs to be more ethereal imo

more actually-druggy

i have listened to both caribou tracks now and i like the sonics and vibes to some extent like it half way has a warm summer nights air france thing going on but then the rhythmic sensibility and singing and songwriting are so painfully self conscious the spell never quite takes hold

unlike Caribou ft. Young Thug

DJ Snake ft. Lil Jon – "Turn Down for What" – Hard to separate this one from its wonderful/terrible video, but it's awesome in any context. Gr80 says, "it's huge and gaudy and shiny and pointless yet so joyous and beautiful and perfect and monumental", which yeah, but more crucially TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!

Caribou – "Can't Do Without You" – Something Moby might have done a million years ago, with a dreary beige spectre moaning oertop. Eh, I'm trying too hard to sneer for effect. It's alright, inessential.

Bobby Shmurda – "Hot Sausage" – I kind of hate "Shmoney Dance", but this one works for me. Great for driving around town feeling like Travis Bickle. Pandemic's right about Shmurda's whole vibe being [more than] "a little heartbreaking", though.

Meridian Dan – "German Whip" – What the hell, people? You're better than this. And I don't give a fuck about the accent. Just dull and corny in every respect. Couldn't make it past two minutes.

Love To – "Habits" – Dunno why, but I've heard this song on the radio far more this past year than anything else that's shown up so far. I don't really like it, but appreciate those big, yearning chorus hooks in an indifferent sort of way. Also, I find the lyrical angle more irritatingly ~daring~ than "quite sincere and very important", but that's probably my age talking.

young thug ft reindeer

thanks xxp's

top 15 (to the tune of 12 days of xmas):

fiiiiiiive taaaaaylor swiiiiiiiifts
four pop-rap anthems
three club bangers
two boring indie
and laaaaaana del rey

think u posted that in the wrong thread, imago

One Lord Custos as well.

Oh, man, THIS is the substitute "Out of the Woods" I would have used!

http://open.spotify.com/track/2fNV27DXhomph5xmXZwTPk

"to the tune of 12 days of xmas"

thanks for unpacking

love that lj is finally unleashing himself after starting the us v. them "on the regular"/"qt" ppl v. everyone else argument two days ago