ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

here's my british rap song top 5, all sales final

1. wiley - wearing my rolex
2. tinie tempha - pass out
3. dizzee rascal - i luv u
4. meridian dan - german whip
5. skepta - that's not me

matt DC otm

you could exchange "i luv you" for "if you're going out i'm going out too" and i would not be mad

That's Not Me is great, hadn't heard that before
Every song on Run the Road is better than German Whips

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

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:01 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my favourite skepta classic from back in the day is "duppy"

o fuq "German Whip" is rad as hell

I'd heard "That's Not Me" before too but relistening to it, it sounds much nicer

Whoa, I just found out Monie Love is British.

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

Witness, IMO

Jaymc you couldn't tell??

actually for all the admirable things that aren't him, casual possessiveness over women isn't one of them - he seems to contradict himself numerous times about this, deliberately or otherwise - a sensitive man looking for the right partner or someone who will 'take your girl, no dinner no rose /
two minutes in my bedroom, no clothes'?

having an argument about uk hiphop without mentioning jehst :O lol

my folks when I wrote them told 'em what I was up to said that's not me

witness is too literally british rap to be included in an american's best british rap list

Next song pls