ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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This Tove Lo thing is the worst song in the top 20 that isn't German Whip, just totally nothingy.

Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

Pleasantly suprised this placed. Obviously huge overlap with the "Solo Dancing" demographic, thanks to TSJ.

Would never have guessed she's Spanish from the diction. From the Canary islands via University of London.

excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

i'm listening to the 2013 playlist right now and idk it just feels like it was a better year

I def feel like I got more out of the 2013 list than I have with this one so far.

Roz, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

its her estranged boyfriend she calls him and is all im inside the store come get me so she can steal the car whiles hes in there, she steals it because she need to get out of there man, tho tbh he seems more of a wait in the car for her to come out type to me

Ahhhhh... a bit slow on the uptake over here.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

i love these streets
i love these streets but they weren't meant for me to walk
i love these people
i love the people but they never seem to wanna talk
and it's been my only home ever since i saw
the sky of vermillion

^^ this is great writing about feeling attracted to but alienated by a city as well

J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

TDFW: at some point this winter i had one of those moments where i was alone in my apartment doing whatever and all of a sudden i bust out in a comedy french accent “TURN DOWN POR QUOI!!” completely unbidden and cracked myself up. cabin fever gets pretty crazy. great song, will always love.

“can’t do without you”: not much to say. love this guy’s earlier stuff, and this isn’t as good.

“hot nigga”: pandemic otm

“german whip”: “guys better show respect if they see man pullin’ up in a TT/ guys better show respect if they see man filling up in BP/ 20 pound of diesel mate/ if i fill up the tank, it’ll make me late” is he on a kid’s show?

tove lo: w/e

skepta & JME: i’m really sorry i’m hearing this for the first time right now. w/o question the best *video* of the whole run too. “from day one i said i was serious then serious hit the jackpot/ people ask what music i make, turn the volume up ‘cos that’s what” lmao awesome

richard dawson: great guitar playing. sure is a lot of it, and a lot of singing and lyrics to go along with it!

“move that dope”: bboo bomp brrr bom booormm boo bbbrrrrrrmmmm

kiesza: idk, a little over-schooled maybe?

“no type”: i love how there’s this grim booming funereal track about what kind of girls he’s into and everybody on earth just went with it.

vic mensa: no idea who or what this is, but hey, hip house (kind of)! apart from being, like, good, it seems really “accomplished” in a way that works (the kiesza compares unfavorably)

goole, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:08 (eleven years ago)

my thoughts & prayers are with anyone who doesn't like "german whip"

J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:08 (eleven years ago)

i also like that a singles jukebox 'hit' actually managed to do at least something on p&j/here etc., most of the time the songs they all get excited about that have no critical traction or promotion elsewhere are roundly ignored

dyl, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:08 (eleven years ago)

Robyn meets M83 isn't my favourite sound I think

seandalai, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:09 (eleven years ago)

the other way to look at "vermillion" is that it's an english language javiera mena song

J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:09 (eleven years ago)

vermillion is such an uncool word, idk if i can deal with a song called vermillion

call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:09 (eleven years ago)

what if it was vermillionaire

shit's obviously artisanal (Will M.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/4/43/Vermilion_City_HGSS.png

how's life, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Is that sword of vermillion?

quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, the track is not so obviously JUST about a break up. That's the part that confused me a bit re: the video. The sense of alienation and nostalgia that bigger or about more than just a relationship ending. If it's about the latter, it's the very tail end...

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:12 (eleven years ago)

J0rdan top 5 Brit rap songs otm

out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:12 (eleven years ago)

This Tove Lo thing is the worst song in the top 20 that isn't German Whip, just totally nothingy.

I just remembered my wife's first reaction to the song -- "What is with the eating and puking in the bathtub? Is that some heartbreak cliche I don't know about? Do people do that?"

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:12 (eleven years ago)

haha nope thats straight up some pokemon xxxp

shit's obviously artisanal (Will M.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:12 (eleven years ago)

Agree that Vermillion is a bit on the nose, but I'm still down with this.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:13 (eleven years ago)

"What is with the eating and puking in the bathtub? Is that some heartbreak cliche I don't know about? Do people do that?"

a) drunks
b) no, drunks
c) yes, drunks

shit's obviously artisanal (Will M.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:14 (eleven years ago)

Frankly, I'd avoid living on a planet with skies this color:

http://www.paulnoll.com/Colors/color-0990-Vermilion-Plochere.jpg

excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:14 (eleven years ago)

re: J0rdan top 5 - no P's And Q's, no credibility.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:14 (eleven years ago)

ooh that means one of the 9 remaining "dead certs" as outlined by matt dc has missed the 77, hope it's "seasons"!

But I thought he listed 7 dead certs (No Flex Zone, Rather Be, Two Weeks, Style, Blank Space, Seasons, 2 On), and we have 8 more tracks to go. Or am I missing something?

MarkoP, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:14 (eleven years ago)

"vermillion" has 3,449 youtube views

goole, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:15 (eleven years ago)

j0rdan top 1 uk rap song otm, could do w/o the rest tbh

johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:15 (eleven years ago)

I voted no type but wish I'd thrown a vote to flex zone too now it has a chance of winning

out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:16 (eleven years ago)

that's like 400 Jagger-points, right? xxp

the top 40 is just the sound of autotuned crying (sleeve), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:16 (eleven years ago)

I voted no type but wish I'd thrown a vote to flex zone too now it has a chance of winning

same, which is why i think it won't

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:17 (eleven years ago)

sofi de la torre has 2,174 twitter followers

great find tho!

goole, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:18 (eleven years ago)

sanpaku otm

call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:19 (eleven years ago)

https://www.google.com/search?q=vermillion+sunset&source=lnms&tbm=isch

gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:19 (eleven years ago)

there's another youtube version that has like 20k views. still crazy low

gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:20 (eleven years ago)

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

8 TAYLOR SWIFT "Blank Space" [515 points, 18 votes]
http://youtu.be/e-ORhEE9VVg

gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:21 (eleven years ago)

Vermillion might also be a place, fyi.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:21 (eleven years ago)

too low

Mordy, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:21 (eleven years ago)

So almost noone knows her or vermillion, then. How did it end up ranking so high in here?

the QT conundrum (Moka), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:21 (eleven years ago)

OK, this was my T-Swift vote.

This track gets stuck in my head like nothing else.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:22 (eleven years ago)

STARBUCKS LOVERS

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:22 (eleven years ago)

A large crossover with TSJ writers/readers?

MarkoP, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:22 (eleven years ago)

there are 1989 songs i like more but this one is cool

call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)

yeah Vemillion, which is better than I'd remembered, is clearly a testament to TSJ's influence on ILM

rob, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)

if blank space places this high i assume style (which was my only tswift vote) places in the top 3

i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)

i have no idea how anyone misheard the line as "starbucks lovers" which wouldn't even have made grammatical sense

one of my initial favourites off the swift album that's fallen slightly in my estimation since but which is still a very excellent pop song

lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:23 (eleven years ago)

i thought this was a bad song and one of her worst singles for a bit but the songwriting is pretty incredible

still wish it had a "sound" ... i don't really understand what it's supposed to be, but that's a small potatoes critique

J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:24 (eleven years ago)

How is this better than Shake It Off? IDGI and I doubt I'll ever get Taylor Swift.

quinoa: how's it spelt? (dog latin), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:24 (eleven years ago)

to my Afro-Cuban ears attuned to coffee 'n' cigarettes it sounds like Starbucks lovers

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:24 (eleven years ago)

how many P4K: DNPs have there been and what's the highest placed P4K track so far?

german whip, that's not me, & hot n*gga... today was a good day

||||||||, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:24 (eleven years ago)

lol it just sounds like that if you listen to it a certain way, "song lyric that doesn't make grammatical sense" cmon man

call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:25 (eleven years ago)

lol CAD i read your post as "there are one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine songs i like better than this, but this one is cool"

gr8080, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:25 (eleven years ago)

voted vermillion
beautiful song that grew on me with with every listen

nxd, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:25 (eleven years ago)


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