ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

Should be tidied up now. 'Pretty Wicked Things' is probably my least favourite Dawn track but stoked for the madness.

thx!

Yessss

http://open.spotify.com/user/awesomewells/playlist/0MVP8scsWPfbXQ4ji7RoUI

^^^ Collaborative Spotify playlist, feel free to add things as and when they come up. Hopefully we're in before the thread cut here.

PWT is maybe the only track on goldenheart that works better as a single in isolation than on the album

hmmm that's how i feel about 86 but then again i don't really "get" the album yet (maybe i won't ever)

gonna try and stick to 10 or so minutes in b/w the results

Great start. Might have voted for it, but assumed the Dawn crew would be in force.

first tie coming up btw

Is it a 76-way tie?

I'd guess that Dawn will have suffered from vote splitting to some extent but I'd expect at least two more entries from her.

http://i.imgur.com/nWMdruL.png?1

(TIE) 75. CHROMATICS "Kill For Love" [188 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

cool font btw

Not particularly been into Dawn Richard, but those breakdowns/glitches/effects in the chorus are FIERCE.

That chromatics track sounds like something from 1991?!?

Hill for love?

Two artists so far where I voted for an album instead of tracks; in both cases (despite the meandering overlong nature of the Chromatics album) I feel the album is greater than the sum of its parts.

Probably my least favorite single by Chromatics this year (Into the Grave should have been a single instead of this one imho) but happy to see them. I hope Cherry or Lady make it higher.

i like the chromatics record but nothing on it feels particularly single-ish to me

yeah that k is looking a bit h-ish... oh well

i like "kill for love"... that album is a good make out album but it's entirely too long

I think I voted for "Kill for Love" last year, but maybe my memory is strained.

I've not paid any attention to the Chromatics at all over the last year but that song is pretty nice, if a bit Drive soundtrack.

drat! I saved my ballots, but only on my home pc. :(

I think I voted for Kill for Love, but maybe not.

if a bit Drive soundtrack.

Johnny Jewel did a bunch of work for the original draft of the Drive soundtrack fwiw

love 'kill for love', but i just voted for the full album

Expected "Pretty Wicked Things" to place a lot higher, my favourite Dawn Richards song no contest. Dramatically the best.
Plus glitches are cool.

I went for "86"

http://i.imgur.com/jCLcLy1.png?1

(TIE) 75. ALUNAGEORGE "You Know You Like It" [188 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

I did not check out any of the non-Armor On singles before sending my ballot in but I can see voting for PWT, that was sweet

i really like that song and alunageorge in general, it turns out

relistening and i still don't feel alunageorge, it's so weak and timid, esp following so soon after how fierce/cathartic/at the top of your head "pretty wicked things" is

ha xp :/

hmmm i like this. i had only heard one other alunageorge song before. i don't remember what it was called but i think it was pretty boring.

I voted for it. I love the way that song moves. Not usually my type of thing - I think I credit Spotify for exposing it to me.

The vocal on Pretty Wicked Things sound so *weary*, like Dawn's really slogging her way through the track, whereas I like the insouciance of the AlunaGeorge vocal, it's way better than Your Drums, Your Love.

British vocalists, enough with the fucking mockney though.

AlunaGeorge is okay imo, but this track is definitely in its own league in their catalogue so far.

Wow, this Chromatics song is really blah. Nice pick, ILM.

lol

I tried several times to get into the Chromatics album, but 'blah' is the best way I can describe it, too.

yeah that vocal is british as fuck

Definitely a step up from Aluna's prior band My Toys Like Me, which I like as well (at least the debut LP). I went with "Your Drums, Your Love", and unreleased/unnominated track "Disobey" is my favorite so far.

YKYLI is def my favourite AlunaGeorge track, would have been in my top 50.

not feeling nu-chromatics

Kill for Love sounds kinda like the fifth best song on Psychocandy

The Chromatics album was the most puzzling (to me) regular feature of EOTY lists - I feel like I've been hearing this kind of stuff for years now, and done better. Love the Dawn and Aluna songs though.

The vocal on Pretty Wicked Things sound so *weary*, like Dawn's really slogging her way through the track, whereas I like the insouciance of the AlunaGeorge vocal, it's way better than Your Drums, Your Love.

dawn conveys effort and struggle without sounding effortful

alunageorge convey nothing, really, apart from something it's easy to ignore

Nu-Chromatics is all about atmosphere, rather than actual songs (although to some extent they always were). If it catches you in the right mood, it works well.

As someone who should by all accounts love the idea of J&MC produced by New Order, I pretty underwhelmed by the Chromatics.

"You Want Me" is such a fucking JAM!

Today I'm going apeshite for Matte Black Truck.

Matte Black Truck is one of the main reasons I owe this thread a drink.

I'm not sure I know of many regular-length pop songs that work in three very specific movements in the same way as MBT, but it's the chorus that gets me the most - there's something so satisfying and crunchy about the way those syllables work together "in my matte black truck/in my matte black truck", makes me feel like I'm eating a Yorkie bar. I like Tim F's reading about the ambiguity of the chorus. I kind of hear it as a state of passive/aggressive denial: "If you leave NBD, I'm just going to play some killer jams in my Jeep (so loud you won't hear me weep)".

video now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkv4nPVIDhQ

Why is it only a minute and a half long though? what is WRONG WITH PEOPELEELEEELE?!!!~

"Viral"

the video isn't new, it predated the full song's release

v annoying that she never released a full version (same with "go to work")

I've been grooving to Spotify radio based off of this playlist and a song just popped up that made me go "this sounds a little like a dude singing a Cher Lloyd song, what is this?"

It was "Looks Like Sex" by Mike Posner.

NNNNNNNGH

Mungolian Jetset - Toccata - more like bungholian jetset trash & no star “tocaca”

No audio werner?!

what font is that, Jordan?

shit i'll have to look it up on my boyfriend's computer, but i'll let you know

thanks! I appreciate it.

so this and the album thread are on most read all of a sudden.

christ, music really did get good again in 2013/14

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse - more like todd turd “inspector bores”
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - more like hardly great jepsen “squall me lamely”
Miguel - Adorn - more like miguel “a-bore-n”
Katy B - Aaliyah - more like katy pee “cashing in on the memory of a dead artist way more talented than me”
Usher - Climax - more like flusher “premature ejaculation”
PSY - Gangnam Style - more like ZZZ “surely the first in a long line of k-pop songs to achieve chart success in the west”
Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing - more like why should i care-a “this song is embarrassing”
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms - more like facelift “i belong in your trash can”
Grimes - Oblivion - more like frank grimes “noblivion”
Future - Turn on the Lights - more like poo-ture “turn off the autotune”
Eric Church - Springsteen - more like eric turds “token non-taylor swift mainstream country song because we all really really respect mainstream country music really”
Pachanga Boys - Time - more like pachinko noise “slime”
Icona Pop - I Love It - more like morona slop “i love shit”
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage - more like blah-wan “why they forget to write the rest of this song”
Solange - Losing You - more like beyonce’s sister “oozing poo”
D'Banj - Oliver Twist - more like d’iarrhea “all of her shits”
Miguel - Do You... - more like pig hell “no i do not”
Cassie - King Of Hearts - more like assie “king of farts”
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - more like wailer shits “i blew chunks because this song was so awful”
Frank Ocean - Pyramids - more like wank lotion “bore-amids”
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal - more like thindick lamar “too bad my best song isn’t on my boring album”
Saint Etienne - Tonight - more like taint etienne “poonight”
Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You - more like stank potion “stinkin bout poo”
Jessie Ware - 110% - more like messy underwear “0%”
Bat for Lashes - Laura - more like shat for asses “bore-a”
Angel Haze - Werkin' Girls - more like strangle haze “bleaurghing hurls”
Scott Walker - Epizootics! - more like flop squawker “epic poo licks!”
Zebra Katz ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read - more like pee bra shats ft. vagina dead cocks - “ima turn this boring song off”
Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - more like failer pissed - “i am never ever listening to this shitty song again”
M.I.A. - Bad Girls - more like D.O.A. “bad song”
KW Griff ft. Pork Chop - Bring in the Katz - more like ky jelly ft. how am i supposed to think of a derisive parody name for someone already called ‘pork chop’ “bring in the farts”
Le1f - Wut - more like queef “butt”
Jeremih - 773 Love - more like i don’t caremih “i’m sorry this number has been disconnected please hang up and try again”
Chief Keef ft. Lil Reese - I Don't Like - more like chief queef ft. lil pees “i don’t like being sentenced to jail time, it makes me cry”
Kanye West ft. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz - Mercy - more like blahnye west ft. big yawn, tusha pee & 0 brainz “literally the only listenable song on ‘cruel summer’”
Kalenna - Matte Black Truck - more like duhlenna “fat wack suck”
Rihanna - Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix) - more like riyawna “duuuh i’m rihanna duuuuh”
Death Grips - I've Seen Footage - more like meth whips “i’ve seen publicity stunts blow up in my face”
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name (Royal-T's Back to 99 Mix) - more like sterile hole - “call me lame (toiletry’s wank to 69 mix)”
Miguel - Use Me - more like oh well “lose me”
Neneh Cherry and the Thing - Dream Baby Dream - more like nono blarey and the nothing “hey you know what would make this awesome suicide song even better? four minutes of free jazz noodling and the singer of ‘buffalo stance’”
Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe - more like nicki minaj is a “stupid hoe”
John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny - more like john toiletpot ft. pee on all “density”
Spiritualized - Hey Jane - more like zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...huh what? what? ok what number am i on? jesus.
Alex Anwandter - Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo? - more like alex anwanker “translation: you actually voted for this shit?”
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven - more like poono farts “this was a police b-side for a reason”
Haim - Don't Save Me - more like lame “don’t listen to me because i am a terrible song”
Purity Ring - Fineshrine - more like poority ring “whinewhine”
Santigold - Disparate Youth - more like can’t be sold “pisspoor-ate poo-th”
Twin Shadow - Five Seconds - more like a-ha jr. “five seconds until i turn this shitty song off”
Burial - Kindred - more like poo-rial “skin dread”
Grimes - Genesis - more like crimes “not as good as ‘i can’t dance’”
Hot Chip - Let Me Be Him - more like cold shit “let me pee on him”
Cher Lloyd - Want U Back - more like glare annoyed “want u back at whatever job you had before ‘professional singer’”
Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments - more like i’m just going to go with messy underwear again, that was pretty good “wildest bowel movements”
Jessie Ware - Running - more like messy underwear “running away from this terrible song”
Mungolian Jetset - Toccata - more like bungholian jetset trash & no star “tocaca”
Angel Haze - New York - more like angel malaise “poo pork”
Haim - Forever - more like shame “whatever”
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue) - more like queef fullofit shitman “i’m just going to turn on these synths, hit record, take a smoke break for 20 minutes, then hit stop”
Tame Impala - Feels like we only go backwards - more like lame isuzu “feels like our ability to write songs only goes backwards”
Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett ft. Tom Zanetti - You Want Me - more like dick handjob & tom hairnet ft. another guy named tom “no i definitely do not”
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks n Tattoos - more like wonky lunch & lamerenzo “lame hacks n bad booze”
Guru - Lapaz Toyota - more like pooru “halfass tuneyota”
Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built - more like chappedassdroids “the song that morons built”
Dawn Richard - Faith - more like limp bizkit “faith”
Nicki Minaj - Starships - more like sicki minaj “fartshits”
Nicki Minaj - Beez in the Trap - more like tricki minaj “peez in the trap”
Future - Same Damn Time - more like suture “lame damn rhymes”
Ty$ - My Cabana - more like why$ "my crapola”
G-Dragon - Crayon - more like pee-flagon “craisin”
Pulp - After You - more like poop “after poo”
Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna - more like javiera pee-na “loose de pee-dra de poo-na”
Andrés - New For U - more like undress “poo for poo”
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It - more like apoonageorge “poo know poo like shit”
Chromatics - Kill For Love - more like ugh so close to being done “kill you for loving this boring song”
Dawn Richard - Pretty Wicked Things - more like yawn richard “shitty boring songs”

― ienjoyhotdogs, Friday, January 25, 2013 1:41 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I failed to vote in this one but if I had Springsteen would have been my #1 and would have made the top 10. Timeless tune.

Truly incredible that Gangnam Style placed higher than Oblivion on this

V good year for music in my opinion

i like almost every song on this list. incredible year.

I'm a pretty big pulp fan but I have zero recollection of that single

I can't believe people still think about Inspector Norse

Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal - more like thindick lamar “too bad my best song isn’t on my boring album”

this is technically a positive review

I like Todd Terje but Inspector Norse is far from his best tune.

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I never think about inspector norse but i still like it whenever it pops up on shuffle every once in a while. pew... pew... pew... pew pew

I miss 2012 so much.

Inspector Norse is amazing btw.

still mad adorn lost

♡

Consolation in that I think "Adorn" still sounds like one of the five best songs of the decade