shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

be ready to say that about half of the things ppl voted for; the 2010s are really becoming an age where everyone wants the edges sanded off of their music

otm :(

I mean, I love glossy smoothness too but I can't live my entire life on it and the phobic degree some ppl exhibit when something is the least bit messy or aggressive is baffling to me

73. javiera mena - what happened i was napping i think a lady might have done a downtempo cover of Bailamos

71. pulp - before i heard this i was really looking forward to making a "haha no one listens to pulp anymore do they". and now i can.

dropping a dissonant track into an ILM end of year countdown thread is akin to saying something nice about the working class at the dowager countess' table.

i did post something abt the icona pop song on the main thread, because that seemed less irritating than me showing up with my insights on stuff that showed up 2400 posts ago

I find it completely inconceivable that ppl actually dig that song

71. g-dragon - this might be ok if this dude would shut the fuck up but i think that is just because then it would basically be pon de floor

70. ty dolla $ign - this is boring altho the mix of how hilariously fucking not ok the lyrics are juxtaposed with the bland ass song is fun i guess

haha that description actually got me to play the G-Dragon track; I'd been skipping the Youtube-only selections

Ty Dolla $ign is a blight in terms of lack of talent and how thoroughly boring he manages to be despite the egregious misogyny

its kind of startling. not good but startling

69. future - man idgi, theres nothing going on here that strikes me, and it just sounds so fucking lazy, and its been done better over and over before

welcome to hip-hop in 2012, where being fucking boring and ratchet as hell are positives

bad call naming yourself future and then delivering by the numbers nothingness. still probably my favorite thing so far. thats not good.

I was actually kind of blase about "Beez in the Trap" until I heard it come right after Future and was all "oh thank God"

i thought g-dragon ranking was funny because ilm hates dubstep but apparently if you put goofy korean rapping on top of it it's suddenly ok

double shot of nicki minaj huh

68. - laid back is not nickis forte, and it really shows on this track. please let something happen some time in this song ffs aggh this 2 chainz dude sucks uggghhh

67. - ok i know this song and im not listening to it again, i fucking hate hate hate the chorus, but that is set in stark relief to the totally different way i hate the verses

hahaha OTM re: "Starships", watching ILM slowly embrace it was my biggest dissapointment of 2012

those people scare me too

66. dawn richard - ok i remember really liking dawn richard, but i am just not really feeling this song that much? its def not bad, and i could see it being something that might really step up its game listening it more, although i am sick to death of the ascending synth line schtick this year. might need some more time with this.

is this the "ilm is shitter than ever" enclave?

haha well it certainly has its moments of that

ok i am really happy this thread exists now that people are gnashing their teeth abt the injustice in this miguel track taking third place

65. japandroids - sub against me! yowl rock, done a million times better by at least 40 bands that are playing in shitty bars in your hometown right now.

64. guru - at least this is interesting right off the bat, and now that i am aways in, its heads above everything up until now. not in my general wheelhouse but yeah i could see working this into rotation. yep, this is pretty good, will be returning to it for sure.

see i dont hate everything! just most of this list so far

trivia - guru is the only song that i have been able to get all the way through without skipping ahead

ok i know this song and im not listening to it again, i fucking hate hate hate the chorus, but that is set in stark relief to the totally different way i hate the verses

so OTM

Just checked out that song via youtube. Is it on purpose where she looks like Richard D. James in Windowlicker?

do i really need to listen to a track made by someone who chooses to call themselves donkie punch

only if you're down with dumbfounded incredulity at your fellow ilmers

63. donkie punch & lorenzo - i kept jumping around on youtube thinking i was stumbling onto the same terrible basement remix of this song, but it appears this is actually the original. wtf

62. nick hannam and a bunch of other people - this is an ok meh limp house track i suppose but theres gotta be better stuff in this vein i imagine. ugh who is this second idiot. yck. this dude is awful why is this happening

62 could be mediocre ok if it was just the lady and none of this terrible guy

61. tame impala - is this another animal collective spin off? its not the worst thing of the day but it is also nearly impossible to imagine people getting excited about it

no wait, this is wretched and endless

so out of the first days rollout i like exactly one song, which is that guru track

I like this rollout better jjjusten. I don't want to slap you and tell you to get a hold of yourself. You should make this a thing.

I dunno he's been pretty much OTM so far

I like the Dawn Richard tracks but otherwise yeah, jjj otm

I def don't dislike the dawn Richard tracks, I just like them less than I expected/remembered

I dunno he's been pretty much OTM so far

that's what i was saying!

For god's sake will ye not shit on yr own doorstep, ilm?

but if we don't, who will?

I am really anticipating jjj's reaction to Cher Lloyd; I have no idea which way it will go

haha i know that song so i can predict that my response would be

-how is it possible that ILM stops just short of suggesting that jessie j should be stabbed to death in a back alley somewhere and then vote this to spot 54 on its end of year list

hahahahaha yesssss

its good to finally know the artist name because i honestly spent half the year wondering who had convinced jessie j that a half-assed nicki minaj impression on the chorus was a good move.

60. keith fullerton whitman - holy crap i love this. a lot.
59. haim forever - so this is basically dumbed down bored out tune yards meh hot garbage. booooooring. it brings out sort of a special place of hatred from me. irrational yes but god i really really hate this.

How does Haim remind you of tuneyards??

the same way foster the people reminds me of mgmt, it just seems like the blippy vocal punctuation and the quirky boppy almost subsaharan rhythm and guitar lines have some shared lineage, but done so much less compellingly.

i mean point of ref there would be "the bizness" to "forever" i guess - the quirky luaka bop vibe without anything behind it. idk.