just putting this here so I don't forget - trad ILM EOY confusion thread

yes plz

just so i dont have to load entire thread later:

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"
76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”
75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"
74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"
73 KING "Mister Chameleon"
72 KATIE GATELY "Pivot"
71 ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour "Somos Sur"
70 USHER "Good Kisser"
69 NICKI MINAJ "Anaconda"
68 DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo
67 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again"
66 SHAKIRA "Empire"
65 ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny"
64 DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones
63 CARIBOU "Silver"
62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666"
61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"

hahahaha wait what spoon? really?

http://tytmb.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/tick.jpg

much as i have been known to enjoy a spoon song in my time, their appearance here is not livelying-up what is turning out to be a slightly dull countdown thus far.

ok ill listen to this spoon thing first been then im going back to square one

53 SPOON - "Inside Out" [272 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

this sounds like what would happen if you nabbed julian lennon out of the late 80s and locked him in a room with that owl city song playing over and over again until he lost his mind and then forced him to only use drum loops from the first version of GarageBand and recorded it on a tascam four track with the bass shelved out. 5/10

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"

wow she really really likes that word a lot. is the vocal sample her recordings of kanye locked in a well in her basement? this is super fucking stupid. there are moments where you get glimpses of her skill still but fuck off man dumb cartoon bullshit echhh. glad its short at least. 3/10

76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”

ignoring for a second local man wins prize and my general deep respect for what he does and trying to listen to this with unencumbered ears - dig the music, wish the vocals felt more a part of the song in some way, they're living in some alternate room of reverb or something and that always weirds me out. its a tricky song to listen to in a good way, ill be suprised if anything else in the countdown hits my rhythm complexity buttons quite so hard but something just doesnt quite click for me? 7/10

feel free to pop up and tell me why im a goddamn dolt and wrong as fuck at any point i dont want this thread to be the jjjusten polemic show plus then i wont feel so bad about unleashing the real hate inside when a few things show up

i know ur doing some pouting in the corner routine but these would all be welcome contributions to the actual thread, why don't you just post them there?

I'm glad he's doing his own thing because the thread is a cesspool of suck.

Oh when I pout in the corner you'll fuckin know it.

I put this here every year because I hate shitting up roll outs with my dumb thoughts because who cares? Like yeah, I hate that minaj song, that matters to me, and anybody who wants to meander in here in case I say something funny.

75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"

FULL DISCLOSURE I VOTED FOR THIS although almost as a placeholder for thinking theres something going on with her that is still kind of revealing itself. its unapologetic and weird and difficult in a way that i didnt hear a lot of this year, the song just keeps breaking apart the longer you listen and then somehow reassembles itself in the last minute. im down.

I put this here every year because I hate shitting up roll outs with my dumb thoughts because who cares?

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:42 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i care, jjjusten

74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"

going into this completely blind and straight out of the gate i am dragged in deep, this is how i want you to drum at me, aggressive (not quiiite sure about the bass wub choice but whatever) nicely stacked and bashing and unrelenting and yeaaaaah this is how you fucking do it man welcome back late 80s industrial influence i missed you boo. would have voted for this in a high position if it had been on my radar. 9/10

xpost: well then have some more!

nice call on, like, the Test Dept influence there, I missed that previously but it totally makes sense

yeah i was pretty surprised and trying to grab a specific touchstone but yeah test dept, rabies era skinny puppy without the guitar lines maybe?

Skinny Puppy a good call. Especially the blow out at the end.

thats still not right, some of the junk can drum bits from meat beat maybe?

Hmm. Maybe?

scrubbing through some old Meat Beat and I think you're right.

73 KING "Mister Chameleon"

This will lead to two things 1. people claiming this person can sing. and she cant. she is terrible. ear breaking terrible. i hate her 2. naps. i hate all of it. 2/10

yeah idg that one at all

hahah, so not OTM but I laughed anyway

I think the King vote came from I Love Shopping for Furniture lurkers.

you have to reserve "can't sing" for Haim to unleash most clusterfuck iirc

but really, everyone can sing on a playlist with I LOVE MAKONNEN

tough but fair, im getting to that thing eventually

these poll results are putting me into an increasingly negative spiral, i might have to start posting here instead

like this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

could imagine the guy from futile islands really psyching himself up it to before a show

this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

Far too generous. A good sad wank song is a glorious thing.

Perversely, my favourite discovery of the rollout so far has been the Katy Perry song with 782 million YouTube views which i seem to have managed to miss all year.

Yesterday was a good run.

like this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly this is some boring, boring music

at least TDFW was fun(ish)

i don't even like turn down for what much either, but i bet it's hilarious on poppers (is poppers still a thing?)

wait, everything is hilarious on poppers

The Fall sound superb on poppers ime

so far today has been utterly mind-numbing

yass

just reached a new lo

i like german whip though, sorry

Vermillion is a "trying on jeans somewhere" kind of song.

well, vermillion is a trying kind of song tbh

I love these jeans but they weren't meant for me to wear

...and that's exactly what became of that thread. god help us.

Vermillion is a "trying on jeans somewhere" kind of song.

― how's life, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i don't know what this means -- or even if it's a diss? -- but i kind of like it.

basically the same as the "mid-tier fashion store music" diss of Rather Be, no?

Tbh, I don't take either of those descriptions as disses, even though they may have been intended as such.

apparently in 2015 we have gotten to the point where a guy who would have been ok in an opening slot for dizzee is top 15 material

11 GRIMES "Flesh Without Blood" (542 points, 19 votes, 1 first-place vote)

less objectionable than i generally expect but still she just seems incomprehensible to me as anything that people get behind hardcore, the weird key shift on the "i dont care anymore" is interesting until it becomes annoying. she still sounds like something they would play during the end credits of a final fantasy game to me every time i hear her mixed with fake nostalgia for imaginary synthpop or something. 5/10

6 Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer

Things I know about Demi Lovato. 1. She did that confident song which I loathe. 2. This would be a pretty good instrumental. 3. There are worse singers I suppose. 4. too many syllables in a line doesnt sound interesting, it sounds stupid. 5. I blame Nicolas Winding-Refn for a lot of bad pop this year i think. 4/10

apparently in 2015 we have gotten to the point where a guy who would have been ok in an opening slot for dizzee is top 15 material

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, January 21, 2016 3:35 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my sole contribution here is that i think three uk rap songs made it into the top 77 and i could not tell you what is remotely interesting about any of them

5 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

maybe i should just stop doing the top ten and realize between this and a bunch of other stuff im totally out of step abt whatever people are hearing in this that is notable. 5/10

i think three uk rap songs made it into the top 77 and i could not tell you what is remotely interesting about any of them

same, i mean the skepta one is ok i guess - jordan shrug @ the other two

britishers gonna britisher i suppoze

there's a lot of stuff in this list that's perfectly nice and inoffensive. kind of wish there were more tracks that blew my hair back.

51 Eric Prydz - "Opus (Four Tet Remix)"

i think i would like to hear this? i'm always vaguely disappointed with four tet remixes but remixing Eric Prydz sounds like a nutso "tex wasabi's"-esque flavor explosion.

am i crazy or did Tinashe not place at all?

oh n/m only one single of hers came out in 2015

4 Miguel - Coffee

It's a pretty gorgeous song and does the backwards looking synthpop better than 90% of the other stuff ive heard from the list so far. great singer obv. i can get behind it. 8/10

4 UK rap songs made it - you presumably forgot J Hus

3 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta

i voted for this because it's great. might be the only track i had place so obv 10/10

If I was going to redo my ballot, I would put more Kendrick on it, because I honestly got more enjoyment out of songs on that album as songs than I did any other album I listened to this year except for Marriages.

xxp you are correct, my apologies to j hus

Yap Queen

― sarahell, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i took a Trap Queen midi file and mapped it to dog sounds

― sarahell, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suddenly glad I clicked on this waste thread

we're so happy to have you here

yapatistas unite!

who is gregus? my top neighbor & i don't know who it is

woops sorry wrong thread

nickb had some good zingy hot takes, can someone reach out to him for next year's trad ilm soy confusion thread?

xp to gregus

yea i dug nickb's takes

lol forgot about this thread from last year A+

F- as usual, jjj

hope you can do better next year!

I'm not done yet gr8080, I just need an extension. I treat real life like undergrad so

24 JLIN Dark Energy (512 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)

19 people who were really impressed by the "Diva" scene from Fifth Element.

the 2 are included in the 17

fuck. i should never post before breakfast. thank you.

I voted it #1 and have never seen that movie.

Yeah, that was just a joke about the opera samples in the opening track.