ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

yup :(

damn

Not #1! Thank fuck.

$5

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:37 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:|

God bless 'em

guessing it's gonna be 2 on which i'm fine with

pretty sure those indie songs got roughly as many negative opinions as eg the british rap songs, as I said earlier the projected coprolepsy on the part of pop squares seems weirdly important to fans of certain types of music but it isn't really borne out by the actual thread?

xps obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N4ZdZ9gVio

Oof. I was the first place vote and was pulling for it. I'm officially joining #teamtinache. "2 Weeks" is great but has no life outside of the album for me.

conceding defeat to team flex zone and it feels fine

"2 on" would be a great winner imo, it was my favorite song of the year for at least three months

http://s123.photobucket.com/user/TheWadhams/media/obama-make-it-rain.gif.html

DON'T YOU LIKE THESE A. WANGS?

― 龜, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:09 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DON'T YOU LIKE THESE GOLD FANGS?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:09 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 on #2

ayy lmao

h2o lean same thing

in 2015 ppl should really stop hating on indie otherwise we get lame indie rap songs and indie dance songs

accounts payable to nospolf @ liamg tod moc

i was kind of amazed the first time i heard this on the radio

i then posted it on ilx in the mike will thread and it got no replies lol

Let the indie fans have their persecution complex.

indie fans vs. trill ass individuals

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

― out here like a flopson (tpp), T

i'll do these last few another time, really good new mix popped up on soundcloud!

Wait how old is this Rae Sremmurd guy? He's too young to be speaking in such a foul language.

they're both in their early 20s

lol every time

saer - we'll make a special event thread

BEATIN' ON MY CHEST LIKE MAGILLA
I AM THE GORILLA OF THE VILLAGE

sremm kill the haters itt
god bless em

so these little bastards are gonna dominate all pop music for the next 10 years right

accounts payable to nospolf @ liamg tod moc

― flopson, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plz check yr twitter direct messages thank you

lyrically it's kind of a boring outing for Thug

disagree but saying "flava" is better is defensible

they're both in their early 20s

― dyl

whaaat? They look like they're 12 and 15. Damn, good genes.

how many ballots were there this year?

131 tracks ballots.

thank you

well at this point i guess i'm pretty excited to know what #78 was.

my #2 iirc? or #3. probably the song that got into my head the most all year

in my mind 'no flex zone' is a real throwback to the golden age of fruity swag anthems but actually whenever i listen to it again the production is way too sci-fi for that era

The only rap track in the top 20 I will fuck with is Vic Mensa, and it seems quite an outlier among the goon crew. Not surprising I guess.

Wait how old is this Rae Sremmurd guy? He's too young to be speaking in such a foul language.

― the QT conundrum (Moka), Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:41 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bronze this post