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?

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.

Trax:

Gypsy & The Cat - Jona Vark (made the blog rounds last year, but getting officially released as a single soonish)
Gayngs - The Gaudy Side of Town
Gayngs - Cry (Godley & Creme cover)
The Jezabels - Hurt Me
Smalltown Romeo - Boom Ha
Yeasayer - Madder Red
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
Rihanna - Rude Boy
Zola Jesus - I Can't Stand
The Chap - Even Your Friend
Bullion - Say Goodbye to What
Robyn - Fembot
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain
Hammarin & Robin - You Are the Sledgehammer
Avi Buffalo - What's in it for?
Lupe Fiasco - What U Want
Groove Armada - Shameless (Bryan Ferry, y'all!)
Ice Cube - I Rep That West
I Blame Coco - Caesar
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Teddybears - Crystal Meth Christian
Teddybears - Cho Cha (really, pretty much the entire Teddybears album)
Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
Wild Nothing - Chinatown

...some others, I'm sure.

gucci - antisocial
das racist - ek shaneesh
vampire weekend - california english
los campesinos - i warned you do not make an enemy of me
stars - fixed
untamed - country

Alfred: Best r&b album I've heard this year is Corinne Bailey Rae's

glad samosa love's the Yahzarah single as much as I do, album is kinda meh to me tho

3) dj quik ft. suga free - nobody

yall are way overrating this, & im a fan

anyone who votes for Pill is a sucker

thank u for your opinion, deej

BOOZER

ha

A few (I've been pretty album oriented this year, but I guess that's normal for me):

Jowell & Randy - No Fue Una Noche Normal
Daddy Yankee - La Señal
Daddy Yankee - Vida en la Noche
Daddy Yankee - Rumba y Candela
[but really pretty much that whole album]
J. Alvarez - Ella Esta Encendia con Letra
[from 2009]
El Gran Combo - Achilipu
Janelle Monae - Tightrope
Marina & the Diamonds - Hollywood
Marina & the Diamonds - Oh No!
[but definitely the whole album]

Was going to say Rox's "My Baby Left Me," but I'm already kind of sick of it. She has a great voice though, so I will be listening for more.

a few favorite songs off the top of my head, no order

Charles Albright - "I'm On Drugs"
Broken Water - "Say What's On Your Mind"
Magic Lantern - "Showstopper"
No Balls - "Subsequent Needs"
Young Governor - "Call Me When The Cat Dies" (Absolutely love this song)

Specifically "My Baby Left Me" seems to sing-songy, and it feels like it's all coming too easily to her. Not that things coming easily is necessarily bad, but here there's something about it that makes it a problem, to me. I'm kind of hoping I'll change my mind though, because I'd like to be listening to her voice. Maybe the song will sound different in the context of a whole album.

Also, I think that Jowell & Randy track would be of interest to general "dance music" fans, though maybe you have to be a little familiar with pop bachata beats to understand what's so distinctive about the way they take off from that.

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