ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

very, tbh

It would be great if poll results were edited into the tops of all the EOY poll threads

all ballot poll threads too, as long as we're on the subject.

There's a link at the top of the stats thread.

You could meet somebody who really loves you.

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

It would be great if poll results were edited into the tops of all the EOY poll threads

all ballot poll threads too, as long as we're on the subject.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, January 26, 2015 11:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good idea, there've def been some ballot polls ive been interested in investigating after the fact but many of them its a huge pain to load the whole thread

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:24 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zero Yankovic votes in the tracks poll. i voted for Mandatory Fun in teh albums poll, though.

'No Type' sounded really familiar to me, so I worked out it was very similar to an Autechre track, 'nodezsh', from 2013. I played them over each other for fun and it's true:

nodezsh vs No Type

lol awesome

huh

Sorry, Weird Al.

cunnt ((()))

― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:40 Bookmark

O___O

Yeah that was terrible, sorry.

ha no i thought it tremendous tbh but now i'll probs never listen to them again

i had a vision of them draped not in monks' robes, but in big fleshy folds of skin instead, and making this huge squishy sucking vortex of sound

http://ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=cunto&offset=10&searchtype=text&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=messages&idtype=null&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=0

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:24 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zero Yankovic votes in the tracks poll. i voted for Mandatory Fun in teh albums poll, though.

I had "Word Crimes" as #25 in my ballot, was that not counted?

I looked at the results table, and "Word Crimes" got 4 votes/72 points. Some Dude wrong!

http://carles.buzz/how-scalable-is-pc-music/

ah yeah, my bad. i think i underestimated how long it took my browser to load the full results spreadsheet.

"Word Crimes" was my #2 for all the good it did.

I get it now!

list of ex-lovers
listof ex-lovers
stofex-lovers
Starbucks lovers

got a long li-starbucks lovers

like, wtf how do you even mishear that

it's like the katy b arrogance/africans common mishearing. my ears have never ever once done that! in this case i was immediately struck on first hearing that "got a long list of ex-lovers" was a brilliant and witty lyric for taylor swift to write and i don't even understand the desire for it to be anything else

I always thought the line was "Go along you Starbucks lovers."

I thought that line went "I will rip your fucking heart out and eat it in front of you, lover"

got a lotta custos lovers

i never fail to hear starbucks lovers

liza tarbuck's lover

I heard it as "All the lonely starbucks lovers" but assumed she was really saying "starcrossed" in a weird way until it was cleared up itt.

Sounds like "All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."

Or like "Gotta love these Starbucks lovers"

My as well go into partnership with Starbucks. It's what she sings.

i never fail to hear starbucks lovers

― flopson, Friday, January 30, 2015 10:46 AM (8 hours ago)

me too, even when i know it's not what she's saying, even though it makes no sense: "gotta lonely starbucks lovers"

love that chicken at starbucks

lotta lonely starbucks lovers

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/card4.png

despite the terrible, terrible schoolboy q bit '2 on' led me to buying that tinashe album, which is incredible.

love that chicken at starbucks

― qualx, Friday, January 30, 2015 9:31 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it really is a bummer that the rest of schoolboy q's 2014 tracks suffered from vote-splitting

titty
ass
hands in the air

lol

despite the terrible, terrible schoolboy q bit '2 on' led me to buying that tinashe album, which is incredible.

Me too. And yes it is.

Shakira's Empire is on daily rotation since I discovered it through the poll.

there's nothing wrong with ScHoolboy Q's verse on "2 On" imo. his verse on the version of "Latch" that a lot of R&B stations play, however, is incredibly awful.

I wish "Man of the Year" had made it :(

i always hear it as a hyphenate

titty-ass hands in the air

not that that makes more sense

where does rap genius stand on this imp topic

brb gonna email SFJ

there's nothing wrong with ScHoolboy Q's verse on "2 On" imo

yeah i agree, there's nothing great or especially memorable about it but nothing egregious that disrupts the song in a bad way either à la ty on "my main". i don't think i could actually quote any of q's lines on "2 on" off the top of my head apart from the one dj q used to excellent effect in his remix, which is probably a good thing

There's nothing right with it

I don't think the biggest problem with Schoolboy Q's verse is necessarily with the lyrics, but his delivery is kinda disruptive... Like, Tinashe's vocals and the backing track has this subdued, almost melancholy tone, which I feel adds an extra dimension of fatalism to the in-your-face hedonist lyrics... But then Schoolboy Q rides in with your standard aggro/horny, slightly rapey tone, "pull your panties down from under you, beat that pussy up, make you wanna holla Q", and it's just run-o-the-mill rap hedonism, nothing more, so that definitely takes me a way from the tone of the tune... Unless it's all suppose to point out some gendered difference in how they feel about "2 on", but I can't imagine that's what they're trying to do.

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