ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

i'm guessing my #1 got 578'd

incidentally the drummer who plays with Future Islands on tour and on the Letterman appearance (Mike Lowry from Lake Trout) has been my favorite drummers in Baltimore for ages, love that guy getting a weird little peripheral bit of fame for playing something way more straightforward than what he usually does

I just listened to "seasons" all the way through for the first time, really paying attention. And it's okay! But not amazing.

I had no hope for my #1 placing.

Oh man, that's the guy from Lake Trout? That's awesome!

surprised the flawless remix looks like it's not going to place considering how much ilm loves beyoncé (and nicki)

I just listened to "seasons" all the way through for the first time, really paying attention. And it's okay! But not amazing.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:26 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[makes concentration face] hmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBmBWM_mNE

this Express-house remix of 'habits' sold me on the song & its lol lyrics

I just listened to "seasons" all the way through for the first time, really paying attention. And it's okay! But not amazing.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

It's really soft and grows on you, kinda like a jacket your mom buys you that you don't really like but when you wear it it feels really comfortable and you jsut find yourself reaching for that jacket every time

future islands looks like dear zachary.

I was never HUGE on "lifestyle" its obv a future classic? but lyrically it's kind of a boring outing for Thug & Quan has the best lines.

nb I think "Flava" was a better song

I haven't listened to Seasons since the day the Letterman performance video went semi-viral. Had totally forgotten what it sounds like, but this is alright I guess. Definitely preferable to Spoon or The War on Drugs for poll indie fuX0r content.

I didn't really have any hope for my #1 placing either, and it made #40!!!

Just coincidentally, and I know everybody's got other things on their minds, who were the other two who #1'd Pooley?

after listening to this song about 4 times now i think it's very good

OOO-oo-OO-oo ive been waiting you-oo-oo

OK, there were a lot of xposts. This Future Islands song is the sort of thing that affirms that I don't really understand rock critics. I guess I don't mind it; maybe if it were in a movie I liked, I could get into it.

xposts again Hm, diamonddave's love makes me want to reconsider.

the lyrics are prob my favorite thing about "Seasons," the anger towards someone dragging their feet feels right for the current social/political zeitgeist

I didn't vote for it though

Comparisons to Elton and FYC are absolutely on point.

logged into all my google accounts just to downvote seasons letterman on YT. his dancing is a total beamer.

Production on Seasons misses the mark somehow. I love the overdriven melodrama but it doesn't quite nail the take-off in the chorus.

smh as ever at the ritual huffing and puffing surrounding the half a dozen indie-identified songs that make it into the 77.

I think I voted for 20 tracks. "Blank Space" would have been #21. Maybe "Habits" and "Boom Clap" could have squeaked into a top 50?

love his dancing on letterman, i think it's endearing

Hey, I feel like there was a time when indie was supposed to be the alternative to things that sounded like this?
xpost

beamer? this is not the jay batman meaning of beamer i take it

smh as ever at the ritual huffing and puffing surrounding the half a dozen indie-identified songs that make it into the 77

Wouldn't be a yearly ritual if people voted for better indie.

don't think there has been much huffing and puffing? i've listened to this future island tracks over and over and i love it!

gr80 wish you'd somehow made a poll image which incorporated a gif of his dancing

Production on Seasons misses the mark somehow. I love the overdriven melodrama but it doesn't quite nail the take-off in the chorus.

smh as ever at the ritual huffing and puffing surrounding the half a dozen indie-identified songs that make it into the 77.

― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:31 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ritual anti indie puffing >>> weird empirical claims abt songwriting/production

i'm still pretty neutral about this song but i pretty sincerely love the letterman performance

I describe his dancing as 'classy skanking' (and eagerly await a ska cover of this song)

i say this everytime they come up, but as much love as i have for "waiting on you," "Balance" is still the superior Future Islands jam (and video): http://youtu.be/g0LJNEQz-E4

logged into all my google accounts just to downvote seasons letterman on YT. his dancing is a total beamer.

― ||||||||, Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, I like this song but I appreciate your dedication

I just listened to "seasons" all the way through for the first time, really paying attention. And it's okay! But not amazing.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

It's really soft and grows on you, kinda like a jacket your mom buys you that you don't really like but when you wear it it feels really comfortable and you jsut find yourself reaching for that jacket every time

― 龜, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where's saer when we need a solid woods metaphor/allusion

ilx should have a house ska band that covers every song on the top 77 every year

I describe his dancing as 'classy skanking' (and eagerly await a ska cover of this song)

― 龜, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:34 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

normcore seamonster

his moves are like a more gliding less herky jerky version of the carlton dance

Hey, I feel like there was a time when indie was supposed to be the alternative to things that sounded like this?
xpost

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:32 PM Bookmark

Yeah, but Haim.

time for #3?

i say this everytime they come up, but as much love as i have for "waiting on you," "Balance" is still the superior Future Islands jam (and video): http://youtu.be/g0LJNEQz-E4

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:34 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

video is cool but cmon

someone needs to go out to the cabin and check on saer before we proceed with the other songs

ritual anti indie puffing >>> weird empirical claims abt songwriting/production

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:33 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a style of talking about songcraft on ILM that has always been totally opaque to me and "weird empirical claims" is a good way to put it

worried he has succumbed to the influenza

"Are we out of the woods?" he asks nervously

ilx should have a house ska band that covers every song on the top 77 every year

― example (crüt), Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:34 PM

never forget:

Bosstones, Inventors of Ska

out of the 3 that i think will be in the top 3, the one that will probably be #1 is definitely the most boring choice. i like all 3 songs, but i'm rooting for the other 2 to win, even though odds are not stacked in their favor.

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

3 RAE SREMMURD "No Flex Zone" [691 votes, 25 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/p2cQSPRTdhg

$5

:( the winner will almost assuredly be boring now

Boring or not, I'll like it 300% more than this.

lol two twos in nos. 1 and 2