ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

excellent lyric-posting work dog latin anyhow

― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:49 AM (1 minute ago)

yeah, the lyrics are amazing. just wish they came taped the back of the instrumental or something.

thought he was really incredible live -singing right from the soles of his boots- but i haven't ever really found the proper occasion to sit down and listen to this record with any sort of attention

why does he call it milk of amnesia instead of its actual name, is that intentional or

― dyl, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:51 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he forgot what it's called

Better Dawson than Kozelek, I guess

why does he call it milk of amnesia instead of its actual name, is that intentional or

― dyl, Thursday, January 22, 2015

The vocals are really bad. Why cant guitar acts have good male singers?

so i am assuming that it's a classical allusion

nb i still have not heard the song yet, gotta run out the door

"milk of amnesia" is pretty established slang isn't it? i've heard it before anyway

Better Dawson than Kozelek, I guess

otm

i'm officially 100% ok with the rest of the poll now obv, go wild

i actually still have the melody of "the vile stuff" in my head and it's a good one. shame about the vox, really, could've been into it without the honking

yeah, the lyrics are amazing. just wish they came taped the back of the instrumental or something.

I kind of agree with this, hadn't seen them typed out before and they work a lot better for me this way.

i might prefer just reading the lyrics to hearing him sing them lol

but still glad to have heard this song

lj you're making me look bad with your decorum here mate

intro sounds like gaster del sol

i love his playing
his singing is more in the robbie basho zone for me like i came to accept it because i like his playing so much

xpost - lagoon - there's a fair amount of crossover of weirdo 90s avant/post rock stuff and the general ilx brigade scene, like glenn jones was in cul de sac, others like wm. tyler & danny paul grody have backgrounds in that

these lyrics are um very literary

His vocals on this are perfect in context.

Grante, I'd probably be similarly displeased if I could understand Qawwali lyrics.

getting the lex to say nice things about my favourite artist of the year is a triumph for all ilm rly. now will i reciprocate

i like his singing. like his guitar playing, it creates the illusion that he's ad-libbing. and the way he stomps and sort-of hits himself to get the words out when he plays live - it's rawly-felt and unpolished, which is increasingly the way i like things these days.

http://i.imgur.com/0MS2I8i.jpg

13 FUTURE "Move That Dope" Ft.ft. Pharrell Williams, Pusha T [470 points, 18 votes]
http://youtu.be/wHguy4xHGSg

what a juxtaposition

xpost - lagoon - there's a fair amount of crossover of weirdo 90s avant/post rock stuff and the general ilx brigade scene, like glenn jones was in cul de sac, others like wm. tyler & danny paul grody have backgrounds in that

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:59 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw cul de sac open for the boredoms once and bought a hand numbered 7" from them which i sold to ian a few years ago

now we're cooking with gas

pretty good song but overrated, don't understand what the fuss is about the beat, pusha t's part is horrible

This list seems more an aggregate of everyone's two or three favorite songs rather than an actual list of the best songs of the year. That said, I'm trying to imagine a fake British music mag that would actually publish a list like this--what are its aesthetics? its preoccupations? its various perspectives and whims?--and I find the exercise v gratifying...

reet tune is this!

this song is honestly great but i don't think i listened to it after march!

pharrell's verse is still great though

i'm really surprised "move that dope" placed so high, especially beating "hot n*gga" which felt like the way bigger rap anthem. amazing beat though, pretty good song, pharrell weirdly has the best verse

'Blood, Sweat, Tears' the Future song that meant the most to me this year, but this is cool too. Even Pusha's terrible jokes.

i almost roll my eyes out of their sockets when he's like "get it?? i nose better!"

the album sucked though

it is very weird but nice that pharrell has the best verse

there is def something grubbsian about dawson's sparse guitar playing but that's become a standard style for a lot of underground stuff, his singing is obviously the overwhelming heart of this, whatever you make of it

xpost - lagoon - there's a fair amount of crossover of weirdo 90s avant/post rock stuff and the general ilx brigade scene, like glenn jones was in cul de sac, others like wm. tyler & danny paul grody have backgrounds in that

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:59 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw cul de sac open for the boredoms once and bought a hand numbered 7" from them which i sold to ian a few years ago

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:02 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha that sounds like something ian would buy!

glenn jones' solo albums are legit beautiful, but so different than cul de sac

Just tuned in to find joy of actual joys at number 14! I can't even believe this happened!

There's an instrumental Karen Gwyer remix of The Vile Stuff you should check out, Contenderizer

the whole future album was the biggest disappointment to me, it had some jams but still, feel like pharell and pushas discordant rapping ruining the song was pretty indicative of the whole mess

Everyone who isn't Future sounds terrible on this.

I feel the critical position where Takoma-esque folk-prog and novelty soundcloud rap are two sides of the same coin (which I think maybe they are) is prob the mark of reaching a higher level of consciousness (for me at least)

was there actually a casino-less version of "move that dope" or are we just quietly excising him from history

this is sounding rly quite good, might be the residual dopamine, but boy is it moving

there is def something grubbsian about dawson's sparse guitar playing but that's become a standard style for a lot of underground stuff, his singing is obviously the overwhelming heart of this, whatever you make of it

― ogmor, Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:04 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah his a capella live stuff is nothing short of electrifying. add in the guitar and it's too much really - the voice is my favourite part though

Just tuned in to find joy of actual joys at number 14! I can't even believe this happened!

― tangenttangent, Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:05 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nor i :) had almost forgotten it was even possible by this point, a victory for high-art geordie folk and rabid campaigning alike

There's an instrumental Karen Gwyer remix of The Vile Stuff you should check out, Contenderizer

― I am using your worlds, Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it's fucking amazing

his verse is better than pusha's xp

was there actually a casino-less version of "move that dope" or are we just quietly excising him from history

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:09 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

casino-less single

There's an instrumental Karen Gwyer remix of The Vile Stuff you should check out, Contenderizer

o word? thanks!

and thanks, lj, for posting it

the radio version also has a different & worse pharrell verse, the whole thing is bizarre and i don't get it