ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

This song is good, but I never knew what they looked like before now. Definitely a detriment.

My number 1. It's just such a perfectly produced song and it ruled my summer (and my autumn nd a good chunk of my winter). Love the way the initial violin vamp gets passed on from instrument to instrument as the song goes on. Love 'we never hesitate/kyoto to du-bay'. Love the 'DUN-DUN' piano just before the chorus. Love it all.

brad otm

I liked this when it came out a year ago but it has had serious diminishing returns.

The photo choices have been excellent.

this song seems to have some p fun beeps and boops I guess

the guy in the far right

1) is cute
2) is playing an Astroturf violin

deej did you vote this year?

also some fun clicky clacks

Did not get the hype for this the first time I heard it but after hearing out a fair bit throughout the year it crept up on me and has become one of my favourite songs of the year. Still really surprised just how big it was in the UK. It's already one of the 50 best selling singles ever there.

Still love this, they can priss around all they want in the verses because that's just one hell of a killer chorus. Deserved to be the massive hit it was.

lol alfred

i can easily see the appeal of this tbh

wow 213M views, hm

Only two first place votes tho?

it's actually tsarbucks lovers, guys

oh this song

Do we have a surge of nü-British posters? Feel like that's the explanation for these awful top 20 results

is london ilx still a thing

Girl is gorgeous. Is that the vocalist on the screencap?

"Lights" - "Call Me Maybe" = this song

hate the cutesy John Lewis idea of Clean Bandit but this song is great

http://i.imgur.com/DRd6CEu.jpg

This song is alright, but I got a bit tired of that period where ads for it would keep popping up on my YouTube.

i love the lyrics, it's just a very happy song. i realized it was one of my songs of the year when i was out drunk and got so happy to hear a remix of it playing that i cried a little.

i have no interest in clean bandit otherwise

ugh

Do we have a surge of nü-British posters? Feel like that's the explanation for these awful top 20 results

"rather be" was pretty big here too dude

This song also did very well internationally and managed to get to #10 in the US.

good song for midtier "fashion" clothing chains.

not necessarily a diss i guess.

biggest gulf in quality between the first half and second half of a chorus in any song this year. but god the first half is just the hugest thing, it was impossible not to cave to it.

OK the guy on the right with the Astrotruf violin no longer cute

heavy piano and the chorus is hard to dislike but those beth ortony type vocals drive me up a fucking wall, and whole vibe of this thing is too youtube for me

Beth Orton??

you know I love the players
and you love

http://thissongissick.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/The-Game.jpg

also really liked route 94's "my love" w/ jess glynne's vocals even tho it's impossible to tell that it's her

i can easily see the appeal of this tbh

wow 213M views, hm

― johnny crunch, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It even sneaked into the top 10 in the U.S. for a week!

lol i don't think she sounds like beth orton

good song for midtier "fashion" clothing chains.

not necessarily a diss i guess.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so otm, i've heard way worse songs than this but idk how it took off so drastically

xxxp lol

the shift in the beat when glynne sings "IF you gave me a chance i would take it" just has this v endearing sweetness and urgency

(woops need another x that was in ref. to the reverend)

The other TSwidz misheard lyric that always foxes me is in 'Style', always hear it was "And I got that Brad Pitt / Classic / Thing that you like", then I imagine her slightly aging but ruggedly handsome with a goatee.

Jess Glynne, the featured vocalist:
http://www.earone.it/artistphotos/2014_jess_glynne.jpg___th_220_220.jpg

everyone from London definitely voted for Clean Bandit

a goatee would be awesome

heard this one quite a bit out and about, love everything about it except the "No place I'd rather be" repetitions.

good song for midtier "fashion" clothing chains.

word.

this "Rather Be" song is perfectly inoffensive but I cannot comprehend it's supposed magnitude

Vermillion is fantastic. Can't thank the Singles Jukebox enough for the discovery.

first time I heard "Rather Be" out and about was at the market veg stall, good tune for picking out broccoli to

this song is great

the aesthetics are all wrong (violins and general theatre kid vibe) but the core is a really emotional house song, so i'm down