ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

best song of the year

(en quan voce)

That's the fifth song with Young Thug on it, right? New record?

2014 = triumphant return to groups (or pseudo-groups) of rappers with actual chemistry after the long MMG winter

Frederik B, did you vote for "Bad Dream" by Nick Thorburn?

Uhm, no, why?

lifestyle is great

charli xcx is good! she's got charisma! tayor swift sounds like the when you go to work and you think there's coffee in the thing and you pour it but then you have a sip and you realize it's leftover from yesterday

where is saer and does he think 'lifestyle' is crying ?

"Lifestyle"'s improved with radio play but I dislike the whine.

we posted a lot of shit just to get to Lifestyle

Xp but style is nothing like t swift before

xxxp Just curious.

we posted a lot of shit just to get to Lifestyle

― rob, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:46 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha

best song of the year

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Declaring from now until the next song drops a NO LEX ZONE, pls no lex hatin' on Lifestyle tnx

it's so lush and relaxed

just listening to it has radically improved my day

i like "Lifestyle" a lot but the Quan verse is my favorite part and i generally prefer "About The Money" and "Stoner" as far as defining Thugger moments of 2014

Lifestyle is the track where Young Thug and Rich Home Quan really make sense to me, I haven't heard anything else in this vein that's got anywhere near it.

Also if it's finishing below No Flex Zone then No Flex Zone is too high.

I prefered Brand New Choppa off this lp

wait lex doesn't like "lifestyle"???? weird

diced with 'no lex zone' as my dn earlier, decided it was too spiteful

xp
no reason to not like Quan just as much, though right? dude is (has?) really coming into his own

Also there's a shitload of rap in this list but with the exception of D'Angelo and a couple of songs near the bottom of this list, the R&B vote appears to have totally collapsed this year.

Oh god, Future Islands are totally going to win this aren't they?

Also there's a shitload of rap in this list but with the exception of D'Angelo and a couple of songs near the bottom of this list, the R&B vote appears to have totally collapsed this year.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:51 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 On to come, but yeah

xxxxxetcpost: Oh, ok. I was kinda hoping it was an elaborate set-up for a disparaging remark. I don't even know the song, but at some point I would hear it, and think 'oh THAT's what he meant' And then my mood would be ruined for the rest of the day...

Also there's a shitload of rap in this list but with the exception of D'Angelo and a couple of songs near the bottom of this list, the R&B vote appears to have totally collapsed this year.

it was a weird year for r&b

i like "Lifestyle" a lot but the Quan verse is my favorite part and i generally prefer "About The Money" and "Stoner" as far as defining Thugger moments of 2014

― EVERY HUGH JACKMAN HAS A VAN HELSING (some dude), Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah quan's verse really ties it together, very crucial

twigs and tinashe still to come and they'll both do very well in the album's poll i'd bet

but yeah

hey-are those keyboards on Blank Space a bit of a Missy Elliott/Peter Piper homage?

i have just realised that yet again ILM continues to snub ariana grande :(

FKA Twigrocks #1?

i voted for 3 ariana grande tracks :(

this is only beginning

Other ILM staples missing - mid-tier song propelled ridiculously high by virtue of a great remix.

(I mean I'd like to think the DJ Q remix might tip Tinashe over into the #1 spot but I'm guessing I'm the only person who voted for it)

You guys didn't made Fancy #1 did you mothereffers?

this is the part when we break free

maybe "love me harder" is the surprise top 4 song no one sees coming

there's already like 5 songs on this list that sound exactly like "love me harder"

this year any of "bang bang" "problem" "love me harder" "fancy" could have conceivably placed. last year it was "the way" "baby i" "piano" :( all missing out

Lifestyle is the track where Young Thug and Rich Home Quan really make sense to me, I haven't heard anything else in this vein that's got anywhere near it.

Also if it's finishing below No Flex Zone then No Flex Zone is too high.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:49 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh even though Thugger takes up most of the track, he's really stepping into Quan's realm than vice versa. He's really reigned in compared to most of his work. All the stuff about taking care of family that's the heart of the track is definitely RHQ's turf. I usally prefer Thug when he's more off the wall and his rapping is more stylized (I know those things sound at odds but they really aren't), but it really works here.

Also it bears mentioning that the production is totally late-90s west coast.

Chasing Time, Two Weeks, 2 On, Fancy and something else?

no way is fancy not going to place

there's really not enough you can say in praise of this song. it's, well... a lifestyle ;-)

the promise that "this is only the beginning" brings a tear to my eye

the dj q mix of "2 on" was the last thing i cut from by ballot. regretting that now with the spectre of "seasons" winning.

no way is fancy not going to place

― out here like a flopson (tpp)

I hope not.

I'm thinking it's going to be Two Weeks at number one with 2 On in second.

this year any of "bang bang" "problem" "love me harder" "fancy" could have conceivably placed. last year it was "the way" "baby i" "piano" :( all missing out

― danzig, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:57 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark

it's funny bcuz ilm was really on ariana before any critics basically

amused that my spotify friends queue just lit up with lifestyle, like seven people