ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

mods

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

this was my first War on Drugs jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFrKCPNog0

see it's a classic, irrefutable

if i ever go to vancouver i'm going to go to that park and have someone take a B&W photo of me in the exact pose as the album cover

needle in your eye is still the best thing they ever did

a 2000-2014 poll is only acceptable if we can vote for 100 albums and 100 tracks apiece

Also acceptable only if we are allowed to vote for a song or album multiple times

Point of order: Eat It Up and Lay Wit It: Hip Hop, Cunnilingus and Morality in Entertainment

only acceptable is someone reminds me what songs i like

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

― call all destroyer, Friday, January 23, 2015 2:42 PM

Yeah, like August/September.

joe that young thug song u like is called "Treasure"

"Chinatown"
"Blue Eyes"
"Savage Night at the Opera"
"Suicide Demo for Kara Walker"
"Poor in Love"
"Kaputt"
"Downtown"
"Song for America"
"Bay of Pigs (Detail)"

That article's almost two years old xp

man idk if i could handle making an ordered ballot longer than like 40 entries

a 2000-2014 poll is only acceptable if we can vote for 100 albums and 100 tracks apiece

― example (crüt), Friday, January 23, 2015 2:47 PM

For sure, expanded ballots would be essential. I think the decade polls all had 100-entry ballots (if not, they had at least 50).

joe that young thug song u like is called "Treasure"

― gr8080, Friday, January 23, 2015 2:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you

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).

much better than a half decade poll. Not a fan of those.
Dont think there would be any interest in a 2000-2015 metal poll so go for it jf

i think it'd be fun to re-evaluate my own personal picks from the 00s now that there's more distance, so i'm in favor of this poll happening

limit on 2 hot chip jokes per person

i'm all for unlimited kaputt jokes as a coping mechanism for those who haven't come to terms w/the album yet

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.

There are enough people who say "I discovered this song during nominations and voted it high on my ballot" that I think this is a fundamental misreading of what this poll has become, which is less a snapshot of what music ILX posters liked over the past year and more an attempt to curate our special snowflake status by committee.

well.... I found a lot of songs on the nominations list that were better than songs I heard last year, what was I supposed to do?

an honest snapshot of music I was bumping last year would have The Cars at #1

Best Friend's Girl would certainly have been a shock winner.

Was there already a 2000-2009 poll? I seem to recall a 2005-2009 one at some point. Don't know if there was a 2000-2004 poll either.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-greatest-albums-of-2013.html?m=1

an honest snapshot of music I was bumping last year would have The Cars at #1

― example (crüt), Friday, January 23, 2015 2:17 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Best Friend's Girl would certainly have been a shock winner.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, January 23, 2015 2:18 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd be cool with this result any year