ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

3 feet high/nation of millions/paul's boutique is not a period more like represents the the majority of albums that fit the description

(plz dont be pedantic abt "majority" thank you)

Gotta say I find the trap style a lot more satisfying than the Madlib and RTJ albums. Those records sound dated to me, like things I'd have been very excited to here in 2001. RTJ is insufferable bollocks frankly.

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well ok i won't list other ones but my point stands that that style became out of reach

and i agree that rap is in general has been more minimal than maximal

it's just that the 'indie' music that tends to place in these things is usually pretty boring, safe stuff that seems to be placing for no reason other than the fact that lots of other magazines have put it on their eoy lists -- it's hard to even locate where the enthusiasm for it on ilm is even coming from. like that war on drugs song had virtually no one explaining why they actually liked it when it showed up.

― dyl, Friday, January 23, 2015 10:44 AM (57 seconds ago)

Anyone could easily say it's just that the 'pop' music that tends to place in these things is usually pretty boring, safe stuff that seems to be placing for no reason other than the fact that lots of other magazines have put it on their covers' and what not. It would be wrong, obviously. Just as it is wrong for The War on Drugs. It's fine to dislike music, but making assumptions why some users like this and that, for any genre, it's NAGL.

that said, as i pointed out upthread, that period of 3 feet high/nation of millions/paul's boutique heavy sample stuff didn't really die a naturual death either due to sample clearance so you can't say 100 percent how things would have turned out had biz markie not sample gilbert o'sullivan (though i'm sure some other case would have happened anyway)

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 23, 2015 11:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I elided that but true.

Same time I could stand to hear the next development in hip hop. I've been hearing variations on these 808 rhythms on EOY for years now and as a dilettante I can't help wanting a bit of a change

Xp to myslef

well ok i won't list other ones but my point stands that that style became out of reach

and i agree that rap is in general has been more minimal than maximal

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 23, 2015 2:18 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like there were tons of songs that used samples but it was usually just a couple few at a time

a bunch of marble mouthed guys with thin voices take turns talking about how cunnilingus is the most reprehensible thing in the world

fwiw, another Young Thug song starts with the line "I'mma pull up, eat on that pussy, and dip"

yeah forget abt that even eating the ass is the hot topic of the day

young thug loves Girls

like there were tons of songs that used samples but it was usually just a couple few at a time

― lag∞n, Friday, January 23, 2015 2:20 PM (9 seconds ago)

Yeah, I'm including those—probably somewhat falsely—in my maximalist description. Like, it's tough for me to talk about because, admittedly, rap isn't my go-to music. I like a lot of it. Sometimes it's all I want to listen to. But it's definitely not my true blue comfort zone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puu3IvKnSb4

ugh h8 the indie fucker destroye and his lil baby voice

^ on this we can agree

beautiful album, thank you gr80

JF your conceptions of minimal/maximal really make no sense to me at this point so I'm going to abandon this line of conversation

http://i.imgur.com/QvbMs1g.jpg

if destroyer win the half decade poll I can only imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth, lol

http://i.imgur.com/gxV8rIE.jpg

if destroyer win the half decade poll I can only imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth, lol

― Cosmic Slop, Friday, January 23, 2015 1:28 PM (20 seconds ago)

its in the bag, folks

uh, they...did

Wasting your days
Chasing some girl's alright.
Chasing cocaine
Through the backrooms of the world all night.
Wasting your days
Chasing some girl's alright.
Chasing cocaine
Through the backrooms of the world all night.

Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME,
All sound like a dream to me.
All sound like a dream to me.
All sounds like a dream...
Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME,
All sound like a dream to me.
All sound like a dream to me.
All sounds like a dream...

Step out of your toga and into the fog,
You are a prince on the ocean...
(In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye)
Step out of your toga into the ocean,
Look they got your prints on the fog...
(In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye)

my informal polling suggests it'll be a landslide #538

straight fire beutiful album, i dont even care abt indie either

can't wait for it to get a little warmer here, going to get my white dress shirt, unbutton it *just so*, cruise up the coast in the coupe with my lady and play this on repeat

I was thinking about this yesterday. Would a 2010-14 poll really be all that fun? At this point, I think it'd be more fun to poll the years spanning the life of ilx up to now. 2001-2014, because we could rewrite A LOT of history that way (which might be a bad thing, but it also might not be).

rap has been so pro-pussy eating for like over 5 years now

Biggest surprise of this poll for me is finding out that JF doesn't listen to rap

JF your conceptions of minimal/maximal really make no sense

What else is new?

i think half-decade polls are lame, just be patient and wait until 2020

13 years feels way arbitrary to me, but.

I thought rap ws onto anal motorboating now?

we cant, who knows where pussy eating will be at then

ha!

2020 is also when the best wu-tang member poll ends, excited for that one

oh shit i dont think ive voted in that yet

#1 favorite wu-tang member

you've still got 5 years to decide

I was thinking about this yesterday. Would a 2010-14 poll really be all that fun? At this point, I think it'd be more fun to poll the years spanning the life of ilx up to now. 2001-2014, because we could rewrite A LOT of history that way (which might be a bad thing, but it also might not be).

― Johnny Fever, Friday, January 23, 2015 2:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good idea imo

do it yeah

yeah that sounds way cooler

i'm on board w/that

plan would be to do it like sometime this summer right?

hate to break it tho Kaputt still takes it in a walk

kaputt is banned sry

What's often forgotten in these roll outs is that the people voting for these tracks have had time to let them grow on them. I voted for the fucking War On Drugs song but only after months of denial. My band mates pretty much kept playing the album and enthusing about it. Months of me asking why this was supposed to be remarkable music until one day I just found myself really wanting to hear Red Eyes. I still think WoD are an inherently uninteresting band but I genuinely love Red Eyes.
There are plenty of tracks in this poll that might not make sense to me now but as is typical, I'll find myself coming back to them and one day in July it'll all click and they'll become faves.
Most opinions on EOY are snap judgements based on cursory listens. This is when we rate songs based on what they initially represent to us - 'boys with guitars', 'slow jams' etc. And there's little time to form positive personal connections to them. All that comes later in the best possible situation.

too late i already nommed it

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It's got a song about chinatown I'm cool with it