We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year?

My top singles in rough order:

Yahzarah, "Why Dontcha Call Me No More"
Gucci Mane, "Lemonade"
Alley Boy f/ Young Dro, "Tall"
Waka Flocka Flame, "O Let's Do It"
Yelawolf f/ Bun B, "Good to Go"
Kelis, "Acapella"
Jay Electronica, "Exhibit C"
Joy Orbison, "Hyph Mngo" (Andreas Saag's House Perspective)
Sade, "Soldier of Love"
Pitbull f/ Black Point, Sensato, El Cata, & Lil Jon, "Watagatapitusberry"
Erykah Badu, "Window Seat"
Janelle Monae, "Tightrope"
DJ Quik f/ Suga Free, "Nobody"
Big Boi, "Shutterbugg"
Nas & Damian Marley, "As We Enter"

songs

1 erykah badu - window seat
2 ciara ft the-dream - speechless
3 ariel pink's haunted graffiti - round and round
4 ciara - ride
5 vampire weekend - white sky
6 drake ft the-dream - shut it down
7 lil b - insane
8 jay electronica - exhibit c
9 dj quik ft suga free - nobody
10 rihanna - rude boy
11 young jeezy ft plies - lose my mind
12 trey songz ft fabolous - say aah
13 the-dream - love king
14 rick ross - mafia music 2
15 the jacka & laroo - don't be scared
16 ne-yo - drinks up
17 big boi - shutterbug
18 gucci mane - dear diary
19 usher - mars vs venus
20 hot chip - i feel better

and for the heck of it, albums

(lol indie rock)

1 titus andronicus - the monitor
2 lcd soundsystem - this is happening
3 hot chip - one life stand
4 against me! - white crosses
5 vampire weekend - white sky
6 yelawolf - trunk muzik
7 los campesinos! - romance is boring
8 the gaslight anthem - american slang
9 ariel pink's haunted graffiti - before today
10 woods - at echo lake

ah this always happens -- throw the badu album somewhere in the middle there

vampire weekend album is also 'contra' duh

oh damn, I forgot about "Insane"

oh god - this year is going by so quickly, I feel like I'm still catching up with all the cool stuff that skipped my radar ont he 09 EOY round up.

Top songs:
We Want War - These New Puritans
Soldier Of Love - Sade
Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Owen Pallett
Who Makes Your Money - Spoon
One Life Stand - Hot Chip
Odessa - Caribou

Closely followed by:
Mind Reader - Kingdom ft Shyvonne
Rocket - Goldfrapp
Stylo - Gorillaz
Gone Baby. Don't Be Long - Erykah Badu
No Tears To Cry - Paul Weller
Jeans - Quadron
Them That Do Nothing - Field Music

Here's what I have jotted down so far in a Word doc:

Alphabeat, "Hole in My Heart"
Erykah Badu, "Window Seat"
Big Boi, "Shutterbugg"
Caribou, "Odessa"
Ciara ft. The-Dream, "Speechless"
Dâm-Funk, "Mirrors"
Delphic, "Acolyte"
The-Dream, "Love King"
Four Tet, "Angel Echoes"
Four Tet, "Sing"
Jay Electronica, "Exhibit C"
Joy Orbison, "BRKLN CLLN"
Kelis, "Acapella"
Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce, "Telephone"
Adam Lambert, "Whataya Want From Me"
LCD Soundsystem, "Dance Yrself Clean"
MGMT, "I Found a Whistle"
Janelle Monae, "Tightrope"
Nas and Damian Marley, "As We Enter"
Ne-Yo, "Drinks Up"
Rihanna, "Rude Boy"
Spoon, "Who Makes Your Money"
Taylor Swift, "Jump Then Fall"
Taylor Swift, "Today Was a Fairytale"
These New Puritans, "We Want War"
Yeasayer, "Madder Red"

Interested to see you guys' lists, though -- already can tell I oughta spend more time with the Jeezy, Quik, Sade, Drake tunes and a few others listed so far. Heard most of these, but gotta give it all time to sink in!

Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Starlito - Renaissance Gangster

in fact any burn one mixtape is d-_-b right now.

is the jeezy actually about yet?

Owen P, JoNew, Erykah, Los Camp!, the Big Boi leaks, the first half of the Lady Gaga album...

Wow! This year has been a real corker for singles! Several fantastic labels have taken to sort of specializing in ye olde vinyl 7" joints, and the result has been tres groovy. Smith Westerns, El Jesus de Magico, Dum Dum Girls, Melted Sunglasses, Girls at Dawn, Broken Water, Blank Dogs, Woven Bones, Haunted George - all kinds of terrific stuff from all over the musical map. If yr interested try Google. I don't recall all the titles.

Some stuff not yet mentioned:

Gayngs - The Gaudy Side of Town
Corinne Baily Rae - Paris Nights/New York Mornings
Sade - The Moon & the Sky
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co.
The One - Double Life
Mark E. - You (Full Vocal Mix)
Strong Arm Steady - Two Pistols
Yeasayer - I Remember
Quadron - Pressure

singlez:

Janelle Monae "Tightrope"
Ciara "Ride"
Big KRIT "Children of the World"
Kelis "4th of July"
Miguel "All I Want Is You"
Aloe Blacc "I Need A Dollar"
Erykah Badu "Window Seat"
Flying Lotus "Do The Astral Plane"
Lupe Fiasco "I'm Beaming"
Jay Electronica "Exhibit C"
Corinne Bailey Rae "Paris Nights/New York Mornings"
Dirty Money "Hello, Good Morning"
Omarion "Speedin'"
Trae "Inkredible"
Usher "Mars vs. Venus"
Maluca "El Tigeraso"
Pac Div "Waves At The Prom"
B.O.B. "Bet I Bust"
Sade "Babyfather"
Ryan Leslie "Never Gonna Break Up"

There's nothing but perfect all over Beach House's Teen Dream. and I just got it, but I'm pretty sure Delorean's "Subiza" is excellent.

I really haven't been keeping up though.

'soldier of love' was so '09

/posts in character

jacka and laroo - dont be scared
husalah - you neva know
andre nickatina - 1-flight
alley boy feat. el dorado red - play yo position
cypress hill feat marc anthony and pitbull - armada latina
erykah badu - window seat
wiz khalifa feat. killa kyleon - spotlight
gucci mane feat. rocko, oj, waka, shawty lo, yo gotti, nikki minaj - coca coca
j stalin - don't front
e-40 feat. stressmatic - the weedman
davinci - whiplash
z-ro - one night stand
tensnake - coma cat
the jacka - we mafia feat. young lott
DJ Crazy Toones & W.C. - Frontline

young dro - freeze me
big boi - shutterbug
8ball and mjg feat. young dro - bring it back

young buck - who's winning

brotha lynch hung - DOA

big krit - country shit

Ryan Leslie "Never Gonna Break Up"

did this get a vid this year or something?

trae inkredible im with too

yeah that leslie song is a jam

its also last year unless im missing some single release or something

yeah no i know -- just saying

el tigaroso is the best 'mad decent' related release ive heard afaik ....

like hey someone discovered restraint

he just shot a vid for "never gonna break up"

Happy Birthday "Subliminal Message"
Japandroids "Art Czars"
Beak> "Wulfstan"
Pill "Hear Somebody Comin'"
Happy Birthday "2 Shy"
Caribou "Odessa"

Hopefully some of the other choices in this thread can help me to expand on this... Seriously, 6 songs in 4 months is not good.

Cults- Go Outside
Black Chow- Wonderland
Delorean- Grow
Delorean- Simple Graces
Beach House- Silver Soul
Beach House-Walk in the Park
Beach House- Norway
Johnny Cash- "Ain't No Grave" (old song, stunning version)

hey remember that time i didn't read the thread title and posted albums and then came back hours later and was all like 'hey, why's everybody just posting songs?'

seminal moment in ilm's history

same as here - http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/493272716/2010-first-quarter-report - plus

big boi - shutterbugg
zinc ft. ms dynamite - wile out
lady gaga ft. beyoncé - telephone
redlight ft. roses gabor - stupid
natalie storm - play di ting
charlotte gainsbourg - irm (diskjokke remix)
nina kraviz - i'm gonna get you
lady chann - ease up
the crystal ark - the city never sleeps
selena gomez & the scene - naturally
quadron - buster keaton
kelis - 4th of july (fireworks)
tracey thorn - oh, the divorces!
khia - been a bad girl
8ball & mjg ft. bun b - i don't give a fuck

die vögel - petardo

pretty half-assed list as not been paying much attention to new stuff this year and includes a few things from late 09 but love all these

Crookers & Roisin - Royal T
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me
Mosca - Nike
The Brown Acid - Bastard Kids (Ikonika Remix)
Massive Attack - Girl I Love You
Hot Chip - Take It In
Subeena ft Jamie Woon & Om'Mas Keith - Solidify
Ikonika - Heston
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
Neon Indian - Mind, Drips
The Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer
Gorillaz - Empire Ants
Gucci Mane - Lemonade
Afrobutt - Wunderbutt
Martyn - Mega Drive Generation
Four Tet - Angel Echoes
Delorean - Stay Close
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
LCD Soundsystem - One Touch
Erykah Badu - 20 Feet Tall
Goldfrapp - Voicething (Ghost Food Kickdrum Edit)
Julio Bashmore - The Moth
Nas & Damian Marley - As We Enter

"heston" is your favourite track on the ikonika album?!

Lex, many thx for that link to your first quarter report!! Some great stuff on there that I hadn't got round to hearing:)

why would that be unusual? it's on kode 9's dj kicks too i see xp

it's just not one of the tracks that leapt out at me really.

no probz pandemic. i intend to do one every quarter.

The Pipettes - Stop The Music
Rihanna - Rudeboy
Mini Viva - One Touch
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Bittersweet
Alphabeat - DJ
Lady Gaga - Alejandro

Lady Gaga - Alejandro

^^^^^^^^^

I think I am holding the fact that "Alejandro" sounds almost exactly like an Ace of Base song against it a little too much, esp. since I liked Ace of Base.

Hot Chip-Take it in
The Pipettes-Stop the Music
LCD Soundsystem-All I want
Kelis-Accapella
Robyn-Fembots
The Fall-Bury Parts 1 & 2
Fyfe Dangerfield-She Needs Me
Owen Pallett-Lewis Takes of His Shirt
Goldfrapp-Hunt
Gorillaz-Empire Ants
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists-Bottled In Cork
Everybody Was In the French Resistance..Now-Hey! it's Jimmy Mack
Erykah Badu-Turn Me Away
Groove Armada-History

"alejandro" is my favorite gaga song, period, just feels weird to think of it in the context of 2010

A terrific year for singles so far (which I'll post in a few), but albums -- meh. So many lol-indie albums! Any great R&B records released? Sade's was meh; Erykah Badu's was just good, the sort of thing that finishes the year in the teens or twenties.

Damien Marley ft. Nas - As We Enter
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Sade - Soldier of Love
Pill - Hear Somebody Comin'
Hurts - Wonderful Life
Erykah Badu - Window Seat
New Boyz - Cricketz
Corinne Bailey Rae - Paris Nights/New York Mornings
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Kelis - Acapella
Courtney Love - Pacific Coast Highway
Pill - Hear Somebody Comin'
Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Angie Stone - I Ain't Hearin' U
Martina McBride - Wrong Baby Wrong
Spoon - Written in Reverse

i made one of these it's called favourite songs 2010, but we can go on using this one whatever

the sort of thing that finishes the year in the teens or twenties.

Don't see how this is a bad thing in 2010, when online publications are reviewing 500+ albums per year, and P&J goes well over 1,000 albums. I'm usually quite enamored of anything that ends up placing in, say, my top 30.

some of these might be 09 but i was either only made aware of or only heard on the radio this year

1) yahzarah - why don'tcha call me no more
2) b.o.b ft pastor troy - bet i bust
3) dj quik ft. suga free - nobody
4) sade - soldier of love
5) alley boy ft young dro - tall
6) roscoe dash ft. soulja boy - all tha way turnt up
7) waka flocka flame - o let's do it
8) rihanna - rude boy
9) ms dynamite - wile out
10) killa kyleon ft. z-ro - swang real wide
11) pitbull & co - watagatapitusberry
12) ke$ha - tik tok
13) yelawolf ft. juelz santana - mixin up the medicine
14) erykah badu - window seat
15) soulja boy - all black everything
16) new boyz - cricketz
17) big boi - shutterbug
18) lady antebellum - need you now
19) kelis - accapella
20) quadron - buster keaton

alfred listen to the quadron and yahzarah albums.

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

No rankings!

Marcos Cabral & Shux - Life Time Groove (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit)
Devine Collective - Tribal Daydream
Tensnake - Coma Cat
Ginz & Kool Money Kwame - Wet Wipe Riddim
Grace Jones - Love You to Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Joker - Tron
Pangaea - Why
Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me
Yeasayer - One
Ciara - Ride + most of the leaks from the album...
Addictive - Bad Girl (Champion Remix)
Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blue Remix)
Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk
Emvee - Windrush Riddim
Funkystepz - For U
Geiom - Sugar Coated Lover
Lil Silva - Against Yaself (the vocal version of "Different" , as well if it's 2010)
Roska - I Need Love
Roll Deep - Good Time (Ill Blu Remix)
Furious Funky - Paris Riddim
Screama - Kiss
Illmana - Kiss You

exciting year!

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

^^^^^^^^^^^

Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk

What's this?

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

Tim, it's from his new EP "Wonderful"...three new (?) tracks plus Anthem Hype Dub for some reason. It's a pretty solid release, no vocals, but pretty exciting all the same.

Tim, check your FB.

yo where do I read lex's quarterly report?

We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year? ;)

yo hit me with the stupid stick ;_;

Has Tim heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRXRvShQlWE
yet

BoA - Possibility
Quadron - Slippin'
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Popnoname - Hello Gorgeous
Jaga Jazzist - Bananfluer Overalt
Lindstrom & Christabelle - High & Low
Joanna Newsom - '81
Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo
Usher - Mars vs. Venus
Gorillaz - Stylo
Thomas Fehlmann - Permanent Touch
The Bird & The Bee - Heard It On The Radio
Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
Cassie - Sky Diver
Lonelady - Marble

I cannot fucking believe I'm the only person who likes "Art Czars."

Like, seriously.. rock isn't THAT bad.. it's okay, you can listen.

Has Tim heard

Deej "Don't Be Scared" is awesome! Like, shot into my top five awesome. What's the album like?

inconsistent but it has some jams for sure. im a big fan of 'blood shot eyez'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxuJjKKwQbA

also: 20 bricks remix, get on 1, top floor, never be the same

this is a blatant pander-to-tim maneuver but the new bay stuff is clearly the funky house of u.s. rap

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

― kelpolaris, Monday, May 10, 2010 8:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^_^

this is a blatant pander-to-tim maneuver but the new bay stuff is clearly the funky house of u.s. rap

There probably should be a better comparison but I totally get yr point (assuming yr point is secret innovation, winning synthesis of so many great things that underwhelms outsiders b/c they're looking for more blatant signifiers of newness etc)

yes also general stuff we've summarized before re: populism vs. popular etc

India - Estupida

(but probably a few other tracks from her new album Unica, which might turn out to be the first album of hers I really like. The English language "Smile" and "Crying" are both good as well.)

Also new versions on Boris's Variations:

Rainbow
Naki Kyoku

Sunny Jain - Ya Mera Khuda

(I know this is pretty obscure, but it's an interesting Indo/prog rock/jazz fusion fusion. Somewhat weird to hear this vocalist move from a (relatively?) traditional Indian style of some sort into melodies that you might find in Sally Oldfield, or something like that.)

favorite song of the year (streaming):
Sin Ropas - The Fever You Fake
(One of only 2 real rockers on their album released back in April. There needed to be more rockers)

Foster The People - pumped up kicks

http://bit.ly/akFkng

So yep... it's sort of 'young folks' revamped and most of ilm might hate it but I'm extremely addicted to this song atm.

Arandel - #1
Big Boi - Shutterbug
Broken Social Scene - All to all
Cali Swag District - teach me how to dougie
Cults - Go Outside
Foster The People - pumped up kicks
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
jj feat. Lil Wayne - My Way
Janelle Monae - Tight Rope
JoJo - In the dark
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Soldiers
Sascha Funke Vs Nina Kraviz - Moses
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
YG - Toot it and boot it
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze

Whoa, went to high school with Yahzarah (same year). Totally slept on the fact that she was starting to blow up.

woah

woah great song btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78knidd1qLE

oddball intro is a bit crap but the her sound has a very appealing home lo-fi quality which the video compliments nicely.

yeah, the intro isn't actually part of the song

but maybe song of the year imo

i feel like someone should moderator request that youtube be removed and replaced with one without that intro bcuz we do not want to risk tainting people's first exposure to this wonderful song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5mNZ_fVnc

omg @ the yahzarah song

XD

haha rev's turn to be all "yall ... APRIL"

nah, i'm just happy ppl are getting turned onto it

smh they should read the offbeat R&B thread & u should make them aware of that fact

man...I can't believe deej was into toot it and boot it 2 years after it was released... what an appropriate dn

yeah sadly im not aware of every single locally popular single ever released -- that said i knew it before it charted & before u dudes did & yall ignored it when i posted it so now im rubbing yr faces in it and?

Oh look another self-congratulatory deej post. Fucking yawn.

I knew about deej's latest self congratulatory post before you did, loser

*congratulates self*

*knows about it*

VVVVVV

While I'm on it a few more songs I love (let's include the yahzarah as well for future reference)

Axel Boman - Holy Love
Crystal Castles - Empathy
Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN
Mount Kimbie - Field
Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss
Yahzarah - Why Dontcha Call Me No More

I was fooled by the production but damn yahzarah is straight vicious & cold blooded on this

in a more perfect world there wouldn't be two ludacris features in my 2010 singles list but what can غخع يخ?

yahzarah - why dont'cha call me no more
yg - toot it & boot it
the bangz ft. new boyz - found my swag
justin bieber ft. ludacris - baby
waka flocka flame - o let's do it/hard in the paint
ms farah - kiss me
ciara ft. ludacris - ride
wc - frontline
gucci mane - lemonade/it's alive/first song out/normal
e-40 ft. husalah & clyde carson - lightweight jammin
vanya taylor - it's what you do
lady gaga - alejandro

I think this song has been around for a little while (and have filled the Afro-Latin thread with Juliana youtube links), but it seems like it's getting a release now as a U.S. single:

http://www.vimeo.com/15459835

Anyway, I'm excited she's got what seems to be a U.S. domestic CD release slated for November.

Kyle Hall - You Know How I Feel
Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me
Nina Sky - Too Long to Let Go
Nina Sky - You Aint Got It (Funk That)
Nufrequency Feat Ben Onono - Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
Zinja Hlungwani - N'wagezani My Love

I'm probably going to nominate this for our ILM poll at the end of next week (but I'm holding on to two open spots just in case, since I have been doing some last minute 2010 album downloading and you never know). I think it's probably better without the video, despite the women, some of whom are somehow stolen from my own fantasies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKOM-m71gtc