ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

saer reminds me a lot of the jazz-poll guy over at Clickhole tbh

anyway forgot that grime was a thing this year, would've picked "that's not me" over "german whip" had i voted either

420 pts for "Habits" is amazing.

ppl trying to predict the top twenty kept typing "can't do without you" and i was like wtf is "can't do without you" and listening right now i'm like "wtf is 'can't do without you'"

http://i.imgur.com/LC6CKWv.jpg

15 SKEPTA "That's Not Me" Ft. JME [459 points, 16 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://youtu.be/dyONbqggasY

put it all in the bin cause thats not me

ACT LIKE A WASTEMAN THAT'S NOT ME

put it all in the bin cuz that's not me

tbh i'm surprised and delighted that both rae sremmurd songs have been delayed this long

true, i used to look like you, but dressing like a mess nah that's not me

"stay high" is FINE but i should stop underestimating our ability to clear the way for pop flotsam i don't realize people actually like

both "that's not me" and "german whip" are two of the 5 best british rap songs ever

never heard of skepta before getting the results last weekend but this songs been on loop ever since, the all-star remix is fun too

all this english rap is really making a mess of ppls results predictions

YES!!! Love this from the opening second. Plus "Act like a wasteman" always makes me think of Nakh.

i went through all kinds of changes, took a look at myself and said that's not me

both "that's not me" and "german whip" are two of the 5 best british rap songs ever

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:01 AM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark

There are more than two british rap songs?

"german whip" = grime x hip-hop 2015 update
"that's not me" = grime throwback

both were amazing and endlessly quotable and had brilliant choruses so no pitting them against each other round here

a word for the "that's not me" remix cuz d double e and tempa t kill it

Yeah, idk what this top 20 even is

I was at the Just Jam thing in London before Christmas and Skepta turned up unannounced and people went absolute apeshit, just piling forward and dancing in this fully-seated classical concern hall and I realised what an anthem this actually was. It pretty much immediately went from the lower reaches to the top of my ballot.

I don't know any of these songs but <3 u ilm

YES!!! Love this from the opening second. Plus "Act like a wasteman" always makes me think of Nakh.

― pandemic, Thursday, January 22, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol.

yes my #25 haha, so good

both "that's not me" and "german whip" are two of the 5 best british rap songs ever

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:01 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really want to know what the other three are. (Does Slick Rick count?)

this seems to have a pleasant message at least, and is somewhat compelling. easily the best song of the day so far

Yeah, idk what this top 20 even is― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:02 AM (46 seconds ago)

Lol yeah this is a good year

Really want to know what the other three are. (Does Slick Rick count?)

'Pass Out' + 'Wearing My Rolex' + one up for grabs.

J0rdan S what are the others in your top 3? throw in a French one if you're not sure