that awful schoolboy q verse
great song but yeah i hate that bit
― Germane Quip (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
thank you to gr8rs and feves and the boy seandalai btw, top work out there lads
― Germane Quip (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Tracks that got a single #1 vote and nothing else:
Affie Yusuf - Rinse & DryCAZZETTE - SleeplessGirl Talk & Freeway ft. Jadakiss - I Can Hear SweatHannah Diamond - AttachmentIsaiah Rashad - Heavenly FatherJessica Pratt - Back, BabyLee Ann Womack - Send It On DownMariah Carey - MeteoriteRóisín Murphy - Ancora Ancora Ancora (Severino & Nico De Ceglia Remix)Samantha Jade - Sweet TalkTV On The Radio - Careful YouThe Nels Cline Singers - Companion PieceYhdentekevää - Pyhä Lehmä Anthem
― seandalai, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
a very fitting #1 and one of the best top 3s in recent memory. praise be for future islands getting shut out of it.
"rather be" - i hated this at first, and i still hate clean bandit for their twee, polite take on the pop-house revival. they are innocent smoothies advertising incarnate in music. song is so catchy and its ubiquity never felt oppressive though, i had downgraded my hatred to mild dislike by year-end. would really like them to fuck off now though.
"style" is a very special song and maybe the only real saving grace of 1989 - not that i don't love other songs on it but this is really peak taylor for me, and in a style i never expected she could pull off. is she really saying "take me home" at the end? i always hear it as "take me up", like despite the dysfunction of the relationship she's still going to give in to how good it feels. i also hear her "i said i've been there too a few times" not as a comment on how often she's had her heart broken, as seems to be the consensus, but how she plays the same game as he does.
i dislike "lifestyle" on a very visceral level. all their voices are like nails down a blackboard and the beat just adds to the chintziness. ugh i can't even listen to it. idk why people are surprised, if there's one thing i'm consistent in being against it's men who can't fucking sing.
future islands - thought it was funny that the indie consensus choice of 2014 depended so much on a "theatrical" attention-grabbing tv performance. like, one of the accusations lobbed at big pop stars tends to be "all spectacle, no substance" and yet i've rarely encountered a song whose popularity seemed so dependent on spectacle. do its fans think that without that tv performance it would have had the success it did? i thought the song was boring and his voice was a dealbreaker and the tv histrionics didn't even seem that notable
fka twigs - the way her vocals overlap, especially just as she starts swearing, is pure sensation.
tinashe - the way get ratchet go dumb then go mo dumb then we can keep it lit let's roll rolled off her tongue was maybe the finest enunciation in pop last year, and the moment when i first heard it last january and the sean paul interpolation dropped felt so triumphant - such utter confidence to use it at that exact moment. its placing at #1 feels very "summation of 2014" in that i'm unsurprised it got only one #1 vote: at no point in the year did it ever announce itself as The Song, but it encapsulated so many great things very neatly and honestly i can't think of anything better that deserved to be there. (so it makes sense that the dj q remix voters pushed it over the top.) i threw my vote to her album, though.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
saer deserves some sort of a prize too, somebody shoplift him a gold-plated colander or something
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Lee Ann Womack - Send It On Down
great song
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
it was a weird year for r&b
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it was as good a year for r&b as ever but ilx majorly diverges on r&b these days
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
nice words, lex
― flopson, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
thx
looking at the whole list and i can't believe fucking "bang bang" got so close to the 77. ppl need to stop listening to the radio and giving these terrible songs the opportunity to grow on them.
country breakdown -
USA (36): Tinashe, Rae Sremmurd (x2), Rich Gang, Taylor Swift (x4), Vic Mensa, Future, Bobby Shmurda, DJ Snake & Lil Jon, Young Thug (x2), T.I., Dej Loaf, The War On Drugs, Becky G, Phantogram, D'Angelo & The Vanguard (x2), Shamir, ILoveMakonnen, Katy Perry, Spoon, Migos, Haim, Against Me! (x2), Jennifer Lopez, Holly Herndon, St. Vincent, Usher, Katie Gately, King, Tune-YardsGBR (18): FKA Twigs (x2), Clean Bandit, Richard Dawson, Skepta, Meridian Dan, Charli XCX, Jessie Ware (x2), Hodgson, Indiana, Shift K3Y, Katy B, Aphex Twin, Rita Ora, QT, Mark Ronson, Duke DumontCAN (7): Kiesza, Caribou (x2), Owen Pallett (x2), Kira Isabella, AlvvaysTRI (3): Nicki Minaj (x3)SWE (2): Tove Lo, Röyksopp & Robyn (½) (x2)NOR (2): Röyksopp & Robyn (½) (x2), Todd TerjeCHI (2): Javiera Mena, Ana TijouxESP (1): Sofi De La TorreAUS (1): Tkay MaidzaGHA (1): GuruCOL (1): ShakiraNGR (1): DavidoITA (1): Ninos Du Brasil
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Also, the top three is entirely comprised of artists no one had heard of at the end of 2013. Big difference from the previous year's blockbuster overload.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
Even less of an Asian presence than usual
― abcfsk, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
looking at last year's poll and this one, beyonce really got ripped off by releasing her album when she did :/
― mh, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
max was boosting FKA twigs back in december 2012!
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Okay three artists who had very minimal profile a year ago, although Twigs hype was already starting to build. She's hardly Daft Punk or Kanye.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
cross-post to ILX first mentions:
mike t-diva wrote this on thread Name ten artists YOU have never seen mentioned on ILM. on board I Love Music on Mar 19, 2010
DebruitStartled InsectsKTUTinasheDavid BunnyLupen CrookBella HardyThe OutpatientsUnmenMarian Montgomery
― seandalai, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
formerly known (by max) as twigs
― example (crüt), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
didn't "water me" place on a tracks poll
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
such as last year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
i also hear her "i said i've been there too a few times" not as a comment on how often she's had her heart broken, as seems to be the consensus, but how she plays the same game as he does.
This is one of my favourite moments on the album and one that bears a certain amount of close reading. It's ambiguous because it's not clear whether the meet-up is during a period where they're officially on or off, i.e. when the dude is "out and about with some other girl" is that a problem in itself or only because he's here, now, with the lights off and taking off his clothes?
So it's either the case that your take is spot on lex or alternatively you can read it as her copping to having been fixated on an ex while dating someone new (this situation crops up again later on the album but I can't remember where offhand).
People who think this song has bad lyrics aren't paying attention: I think this is in fact one of her best written songs as well as one of her best sounding.
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Cosign this in its entirety, and that line really pushed "2 On" over the top for me.
Water Me placed last year
― monster_xero, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
I agree that Tinashe works as a "what if Ciara hadn't become boring and terrible after '1 2 Step'" thought experiment
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My #1. Apparently I was the only one to vote for her :\ Hoping she has more success on the Albums list.
Great job to those who did all the tabulation, pictures, etc!
Biggest ah-ha's were Vermillion, Hideaway, German Whip, Babylon System, and U-Huh.
Biggest WTFs were that God awful Richard Dawson track, the proliferation of Young Thug, and 2 On being the clear consensus (I like this song, but was surprised at the gap between it and #2).
Biggest stiff was Vince Staples, but glad "Hands Up" was the consensus among those who voted for him.
― Indexed, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
hoped nigeria & ghana would've placed more tracks.
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
hoped Jamaica would place a single track in the last three years
― rob, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah after a few embarrassing years in a row this is a really solid top 3
― k3vin k., Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
i don't think i hear it as a problem in any context. the initial accusation - "i heard that you've been out and about with some other girl" - that's pure hurt accusation, she's wounded there. and then the next line when she captures exactly the kind of excuse he'd use and its very effective charm - "what you've heard is true but i...can't stop thinking 'bout you & i" - and how he uses tone and timing and words to manipulate her into falling for him (again) despite her hurt. and so "i've been there too a few times" could be that she's also been out and about with some other boys, but mostly because that's her territory. game recognise game.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Really thought Kitty - BRB would make it
― abcfsk, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
hoped Jamaica would place a single track in the last three years― rob, Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bou yah (vampire teeth) is an egregious omission.
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
also yeesh, looking at the full list, despite the #1, the r&b vote really died. i don't really count fka twigs as r&b and that pretty much leaves tinashe, king, usher, jessie ware and d'angelo (the last two are sort of outliers anyway). it's not like there weren't great r&b singles in 2014...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
kelis not placing is a surprise
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
to me
yeah they got cut off my ballot bc they weren't as good as all the young thug features
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
i don't think i hear it as a problem in any context.
oh I agree - I just meant that it's an exchange that is both ambiguous and yet feels emotionally true regardless of how you interpret it.
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
The Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? singles will probably be old and uncool by this time next year, so I was really disappointed Love 'Em All made such a poor showing.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Popcaan suffered from vote splitting it seems
― danzig, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
xpnot really complaining. there's been no crossover tracks or even consensus among the board's tiny number of dancehall partisans for years. Spice not appearing is disappointing as I would think a wider range of posters would like her
popcaan should show up in the albums poll next week, which is cool and an unexpected turn for the genre
― rob, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, Gr80! My favourite discovery of the day, btw, turns out to be Bobby Shmurda! Such roiling menace!
― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
well i guess this should be the last EOY ilm poll ever, it was a good run
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Terrible verses on "2 On" aside, I thought Schoolboy would at least place a track. "Man of the Year" was in my top ten (and "Collard Greens" the only other bearable track on that record).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
pumped for the 2010-2014 poll this summer
― prolego, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't get this
― rob, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Bobby Shmurda! Such roiling menace!― my shoes are deception (imago)
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Alfred completely wrong re: Schoolboy Q, that album was great
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Thank you gr80 (and anyone else involved in this joyous occasion) for a gripping first poll experience! Sad to have been work-bound for 90% of the roll-out, but next time I'm booking it off!
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Whaaaa
Xxp
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
forks you should throw your computer in a river for posting a story from hoodstarmagazine.com that "cites" an obvious photoshop of a fox news broadcast
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
So this is what FKA Twigs sounds like. I actually enjoy this.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm confused. As a newb, is Shmurda really in critical condition or no? Care for the kid now since this poll :-/
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
https://hoodstarmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bobby-shmurda-fighting-for-his-life-after-prison-fight.jpg?w=840
forks, answer for this
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link