ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

but yeah, thx dudes, now i have something else to waste my time :)

flocka coming 2nd in this poll basically proves everything I've suspected about ILX's incredibly narrow sense of what music should be

AMIRITE

― 2010 was a great year for highly-credible pop-ambient (acoleuthic), Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:02 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

proud to be on the opposite side of LJ in this argument

Wut is a hip-hop beat AND a shimmery indie electronica instrumental AND a huge dancefloor anthem. It's number one because it unites different groups of listeners in a way that Mindreader doesn't.

"look right through" and "mind reader" were on my ballot ;_;

Thanks to j0rdan, johnny and seandelai for polling. And also to Lex for his quarterly reports without which I wouldn't have had about 1/4 of my ballot.

yeah storm queen was my #1, really disappointed that it didn't place

I don't really get "wut" tbh, it's cool and everything but I don't see what the big deal is... maybe if I was more familiar with the scene

i agree w/ jagger and whoever else about the aggro but basically dull character of wacka flocka. "hard in da paint" is a standout, and i voted for it (low on my ballot), but its placement here, like that of all top 3 entries seems a bit strange to me. dude doesn't really seem to have anything to offer other than energy and cred.

in a way, each of the top 3 songs is an almost cartoonish reduction of a key ILM contributer niche: dance pop, goon rap, and indie rock. they're songs that exemplify their genres for the faithful, not songs that unify the world under a populist umbrella. all seem like the sort of thing that should place in the 20s somewhere, maybe the low teens.

Tracks I voted for:

74. CRYSTAL CASTLES "Celestica" [232 points, 8 votes]
59. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "I Can Change" [250 points, 8 votes]
51. GAYNGS "The Gaudy Side of Town" [266 points, 13 votes]
(TIE) 48. KANYE WEST "All of the Lights" [270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
(TIE) 48. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI "Bright Lit Blue Skies" [270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
42. HOT CHIP "One Life Stand" [288 points, 11 votes]
34. M.I.A. "Born Free" [340 points, 13 votes]
33. THESE NEW PURITANS "We Want War" [342 points, 10 votes]
21. JOANNA NEWSOM "Good Intentions Paving Company" [428 points, 13 votes]
13. SLEIGH BELLS "Rill Rill" [532 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote]
10. KANYE WEST ft. RICK ROSS, JAY-Z, NICKI MINAJ & BON IVER "Monster" [596 points, 20 votes]
9. RIHANNA "Rude Boy" [628 points, 23 votes, 2 first place votes]
8. JANELLE MONÁE ft. BIG BOI "Tightrope" [642 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote]
4. THE-DREAM "Yamaha" [764 points, 26 votes]
3. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI "Round and Round" [794 points, 25 votes, 2 first place votes]

Mirrorage was 78. Hoping for a better showing from Ms Glasser in the albums..

I still think make up bag is the best love king track. Very happy to see terius on here though. I also discovered him from last year's poll with Fancy and he's been my most played artist this year too!

AWESOME POLL thanks jordan, johnny, seandalai, everyone else!

wait, toot and boot didn't crack the 77? y'all are frontin.

what is indie-non-indie

― ullr saves (gbx)

This term refers to artists like 'The Strokes' who even tho are not signed to an independent label get sympathy from listeners who exclusively listen to real independent artists.

Incidentally I'm rather behind now but Lightwight Jammin' is an absolute banger.

Mirrorage was 78. Hoping for a better showing from Ms Glasser in the albums..

― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:06 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark

Damn, Mirrorage was my #1. so close...

thanks for running the poll guys! great job.

yeah thanks a million! these polls are lots of fun

in a way, each of the top 3 songs is an almost cartoonish reduction of a key ILM contributer niche: dance pop, goon rap, and indie rock. they're songs that exemplify their genres for the faithful, not songs that unify the world under a populist umbrella. all seem like the sort of thing that should place in the 20s somewhere, maybe the low teens.

yeah but that's to be expected i think? cartoonish reduction = lowest common denominator imo

what is indie-non-indie

― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:04 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

indie aesthetics & values (highly conceptual sense of history, self-consciously high-brown, 'difficult,' 'retaining our pop sensibilities,' anglophilic tendencies, dance music that doesnt rely on af-am or latin rhythms, focus on textures over rhythms, some/any/none of these) shifted from rock to idm

Problem with a lot of these popular indie albums was that people nominated four or five different songs off each of them. If Mirrorage had been the only song in the running it would probably have been top 30.

HOLY SHIT YES "wut" at #1!!

in a way, each of the top 3 songs is an almost cartoonish reduction of a key ILM contributer niche: dance pop, goon rap, and indie rock. they're songs that exemplify their genres for the faithful, not songs that unify the world under a populist umbrella. all seem like the sort of thing that should place in the 20s somewhere, maybe the low teens.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:06 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so glad i don't hear these the way you do...

i think 'dance pop' is an inaccurate way to describe 'wut' & wut's dominance prob has something to do w/ its indie overlap

wait a sec, wasn't the vote form supposed to be ordered 25-1? because if it was the other way around then....

First vote on your ballot was your #1 and got 50 points.

thanks guys!

also

Or if you want to stay here: Full results

― Glenroe in 3D (seandalai)

what does diversity represent, and how can some tracks (like "shutterbug") have a negative enthusaism?

i think 'dance pop' is an inaccurate way to describe 'wut' & wut's dominance prob has something to do w/ its indie overlap

It is really sweet the way you're pretending it has nothing to do with US rap production.

son of a bitch. why did i think it was the other way round???

sorry i'm new i suck at ilx.

lol @ deej, "wut" is so many genres (dance, garage, grime, dubstep, r&b, hip-hop) before it's indie o_0

should there be a ballot thread or are we just gonna do a 'tracks i voted for' thing here?

oh nevermind i just saw it

ILM 2010 Tracks Poll Ballots/Stats/Banter/Recriminations Thread

Alright guys I'm missing out on a great party because I wanted to see the results live. Gotta go. Thanks for doing this, one of the most interesting and agreeable polls I've seen on ILM.

this might surprise u guys but u.s. rap listeners like rapping in their rap songs

xp yeah I voted for Apply, partly because I was trying to second-guess what the consensus might be? Anything from Ring could've represented it for me.

Also want to say how delighted I am with the results. Sure, I'm not into every song, but it really betrays a good message about ILM as a community of music fans.

I forgot what my ballot was - can someone send it to me?

this is why:

"An ordered albums/tracks ballot will count the points down from 50, 48, 46...6, 4, 2."

interpreted that to mean my ballot should be ordered like that...

wish id voted, wonder if waka would have taken it

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

well done everyone, this was a blast

btw Drugs i gave up on trying to parse your post but it seemed like you were talking about doing ILM poll noms before P&J results, which we already do, and i was referring to bumping ILM results to run before P&J results

Enthusiasm = (points total)/(#votes) - 26

So if it's negative then that track's voters were less enthusiastic than average (tended to put in in the lower half of their ballot)

Diversity = (number of unique tracks on all ballots for that track)/(number of tracks on all ballots for that track)

In general, diversity will go down as the number of votes goes up as there's more chance of overlap. But if a track is less diverse than its neighbours (e.g. Rick Ross) then its voters had more homogeneous ballots.

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

and now they're going for james blake and jamie woon - very definitely NOT girl unit

amazing poll, thanks everyone!

Well, I'm really out of step with ilx taste wise. But then I knew that anyway, so.

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fair enough i dont know the internals of that scene, im just saying in the u.s. that stuff is basically all consumed by the same ppl -- idm heads

(or indie heads to a degree)

Albums poll next Monday?

i think the running theme here is "deej things girl unit = indie" ok discussion over

thinks* obv.