ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

gr8080 is the

man of the year
uh man of the year
the man of the BOUNCE

Albums coming Monday morning. No fancy graphics, just album art. Lots of good looking album art in 2014, tho, so...um, yay!

more than anything I will treasure the utter bafflement of my stepson and daughter-in-law when they showed up at our house last night and L and I were plowing through 40-21, they were like "this is not what we expected you to be listening to"

thanks everyone, great job, I am now officially a Nicki Minaj fan

Also, they will not be in black & white (unless they're intentionally in black & white). xp

YES DAWSON YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I was convinced he'd have, like, 4 votes, not 4 number ones. So great, thank you all.

Also, I like all of the top 3 tracks, which I'm pretty sure doesn't usually happen?

i like the whole top 5

whole dang top 5 folks, its good

I hadn't heard anyone outside of TSJ mention this song. Are there a lot of writers from there on ilm?

― the QT conundrum (Moka), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:01 (5 hours ago) Permalink

i'm on TSJ

also y'all properly dragged me for the "hot takes" comment and i deserved it, i know better now

didn't take it personally, no worries

related q - are you a new poster? is this your first EOY poll? If so, welcome, etc.

related q - are you a new poster? is this your first EOY poll? If so, welcome, etc.

― the top 40 is just the sound of autotuned crying (sleeve), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is! i literally spent a whole day going through the entire ILX list of lists and i became obsessed

v happy about "2 on" and "vermillion" placing in the top 10. i was one of the people who gave the latter a [10] on TSJ. it has come to represent the past 2 years of my life, so that's why i find it so precisely resonant and painfully relatable

i've been known to get way 2 on dancing to 2 on in the club, it's such a wonderful song

Also, they will not be in black & white (unless they're intentionally in black & white). xp

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:01 PM (58 minutes ago)

thank you ;-)

ffs forks get these kidzbop covers outta here

also i am still loling @:

we posted a lot of shit just to get to Lifestyle

― rob, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:46 PM (4 hours ago)

classic post

gr80 and whoever else ran this, you all are brilliant w/ styles for miles

can't wait to recreate the playlist because forks made it too long and put in kidzbop

Highest placing songs in other polls that did not make the top 77

FADER #1 iLoveMakonnen - Wishin You Well
RA #1 Objekt - Ganzfeld (271)
Popmatters #1 Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (103)
PMA #1 Sia - Chandelier (165)
Popjustice #1 Sia - Chandelier (165)
Billboard #1 Sia - Chandelier (165)
Complex #1 Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up (81)
Noisey #2 Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up (81)
Fact #2 Mumdance - Take Time
Cocaine Blunts #2 Metro Thuggin – The Blanguage (359)
Time Out London #2 Jungle - Busy Earnin (952)
Quietus #2 Blacknecks - To The Cosmos, Let's Go
Slant #2 New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (440)
Rolling Stone #3 U2 - Every Breaking Wave
Drowned In Sound #3 Iggy Azalea f. Charli XCX - Fancy (194)
Guardian #3 Perfume Genius - Queen (121)
Wondering Sound #3 Perfume Genius - Queen (121)
NME #3 Fat White Family - Touch the Leather
Singles Jukebox #4 IU - Sogyeokdong (171)
SPIN #5 Parquet Courts - Instant Disassembly
P&J #5 Kendrick Lamar - i (291)
Pitchfork #6 Run the Jewels - Close your eyes and count to fuck (91)
Freakytrigger #11 La Roux - Let Me Down Gently (190)

thanks everyone for no sia, i personally appreciate it

this has been one of my favourite ILM countdown as there were many unexpected surprises

41-60 the only disappointing day of the rollout imo (there's always at least one). I don't like about half of the top 20, but it's not the top 20 I expected so that's always cool.

thanks everyone for no rtj, i personally appreciate it

loool

Where did 'all hands on deck' come?

I hadn't heard anyone outside of TSJ mention this song. Are there a lot of writers from there on ilm?

― the QT conundrum (Moka), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:01 (5 hours ago)

hi!

deej's traditional failure to contribute anything except "looool" and expect us to know or care what he finds funny in full effect, i see

deej's post directly followed lagoon's funny run the jewels post, you dick

it happened upthread re: "german whip" as well

i didn't get the lagoon's post was a joke

loool

well german whip is hilarious

YES! FUTURE ISLANDS DIDN'T TOP THE POLL!

*punches air*

fewer country songs in the end

All in all, though, I guess the poll has confirmed that 2014 in general just wasn't the year for me.

To add to Bobby Shmurda (get well soon Bobby), I have discovered (after my gf made me listen again) that the Meridian Dan song is actually well banging, and now I want a Volkswagen too

btw listened to that Taylor Swift song some more to figure out where Starbucks comes in

In order to fit the rhythm, "list of ex-lovers" becomes lih stahvex lovers

Stahvex is kind of Starbucks right

http://significanceandcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/600full-good-will-hunting-screenshot1.jpg

This "Skating Beats" thing is dope and better than most of the dance music that placed.

I actually like this list better than last year's, but I know that's just because it better flatters things I know and/or like. Either way, I like the exercise. I think this is as good a slice of 2014 as anyone's going to find anywhere. Thanks to all involved.

I feel like these results accurately reflect what a good year it was for rap and what a bad year it was for not-rap.

otm - i voted for eleven rap songs and two not rap songs

#78 not as funny and/or poetic as in past. "digital witness" more like "digital SHITness" [not really, decent song but not really my thing as per usual w/ st. vincent]

i think the results and rollout were as fun as they've been for me in years. i discovered a few great songs i hadn't heard before, one of my votes helped a song sneak in that a lot of people seemed to have been glad to discover ("sombra da lua"), and i enjoyed the whining too lol. a smidge disappointed that some of the r&b in particular on my ballot did not do better (i foolishly thought both adrian marcel and k. michelle had better chances to place) but oh well, things could obviously have been much worse.

i also like that the system rewards enthusiasm rather than bottom-of-ballot consensus (contra what some seem to think). nicki minaj was #77 with 5 votes, presumably all high; whereas 6 votes, presumably all low, only got route 94 to #264.

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:57 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like this a lot too! pazz & jop should start weighting singles ballots tbh

also i heard "seasons" playing in the restaurant i went to tonight O_o

Tracks that got a single #1 vote and nothing else:

Affie Yusuf - Rinse & Dry
CAZZETTE - Sleepless
Girl Talk & Freeway ft. Jadakiss - I Can Hear Sweat
Hannah Diamond - Attachment
Isaiah Rashad - Heavenly Father
Jessica Pratt - Back, Baby
Lee Ann Womack - Send It On Down
Mariah Carey - Meteorite
Róisín Murphy - Ancora Ancora Ancora (Severino & Nico De Ceglia Remix)
Samantha Jade - Sweet Talk
TV On The Radio - Careful You
The Nels Cline Singers - Companion Piece
Yhdentekevää - Pyhä Lehmä Anthem

― seandalai, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:33 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love these two

forks please add the correct that's not me to the spotify.

Just noticed that Serebro got 5 votes and Dasha Charusha got 3!

<3 <3 <3 <3

To answer my own question, no one voted for all hands on deck. Actually thought that was the next best song on the tinashe album but what do i know

Also can I just say that 'get money like an invoice' has got to be one of the dreariest similes I've heard, it's like being at work or something. Did one of the payments clerks write that line?

fantastic tracks, rollout (aside from time zones) and beef ITT - many thanks to sean and gr80

Missed the top ten yeasterday, just caught up.

thx gr8080 and seandalai for the tabulations, graphics, and rollout.

*yesterday*

Thanks Sean and gr80 - as always loved the countdown. Faves were most of the Rap singles. Not as much as R&B (well almost nothing) but the no1 made up that. Elsewhere I like Herndon, Tchelete, Jessie Ware unexpectedly clicked, Somos Sur and a few others.

Never that keen on the rock & avant-garde ish stuff that places here - but it has never been the place for the latter and I hope we can keep the novelty away next year.

Sorry not much R&B placed..

Oh and re: grime. Whoever said London ilx was dead better think again :-)