ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

first holy shit wow of the list so far, track and video go the lengths

whoa she had an awesome disco song in the tracks poll 2 years ago right? or am i thinking of someone else

yeah, I dont remember what it was called though

this is rad too but i liked that other one better

"Hasta la Verdad" iirc

yeah i remember she had a song in a previous poll that i wasn't bowled over by but this is really excellent

a necessary condition for a good song would be that i listen to it till the end when i hear it first. this didn't happen to any of the first 5 songs. for a really good song i would need to want to listen again. obviously this did not happen neither yet...

"Luz de Piedra de Luna" video is by ILX-approved misogynist CANADA btw.

Yeah, this song is v v good. The best to place so far.

Someone tell me which thread this was being discussed on so I can bookmark it. I love it when these out-of-the-blue picks appear.

"Hasta la Verdad"'s placing in the 2010 poll inspired latin american hipster shit but I don't recall "Luz de Piedra de Luna" being discussed much on ILX since then. It was the highest-scoring song of 2012 on the Singles Jukebox though.

Yeah, I was going to say, The Singles Jukebox got me onto it: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=6030

I'm guessing javiera mena and maybe latin american hipster shit xxp

oh yeah I forgot she had her own thread

http://www.clubfonograma.com innit

The synths are a little too cheesy-rave for my liking, but the Javiera Mena song is fun, yeah.

Love this utterly ludicrous blurb from the Jukebox:

Andrew Casillas: Pardon the (slight) hyperbole, but what can I say about this song that hasn’t already been said about the Sistine Chapel? Everything about this is configured exactly right — the house piano, the Miami Sound Machine percussion, the disco boot stompin’ beat, the steady ebb and flow of the vocals, etc. Yet this song feels naturally big and epic without the cold precision of so much dance floor filler. This is the best kind of pop music — the type which, at its most primal and satisfying, makes its listeners lose their inhibitions and surrender to the power of the beat. By that measure, “Luz de Piedra de Luna” is one of the greatest pop songs of this young century.

nice :) hadn't heard this before even tho i loved "hasta la verdad"

j0rdan you do such a fantastic job with the images

She has her own thread: javiera mena

nm, i see rev beat me to it

did jf do the images? well whoever it was they are indeed great :)

It was Club Fonograma's best song 2 years ago! Andrew Casillas writes for both Club Fonograma and Singles Jukebox which is how it wormed our way here I guess. Yay!
http://www.clubfonograma.com/2010/12/club-fonogramas-best-songs-of-2010-part_13.html

http://i.imgur.com/ZAHfTzy.jpg?1

(tie) 71. PULP "After You" [192 points, 6 votes]

Youtube

J0rdan made these. I'm doing albums this year. xp

I guess it's time to finally hear this Pulp song.

j0rdan you do such a fantastic job with the images

― Z S, Monday, January 21, 2013 2:08 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

thanks! glad to hear, esp from the gif master

(there was a new Pulp single??)

urgh pulp

Javiera Mena was the single of the year (the one with the best global rating at least) on thesinglesjukebox.

the whole javiera mena album is really v. good!

Wait, Pulp put out a song last year? When did that happen?

pulp!

First song I haven't heard before, let's do this.

her first album is a bit indie pop for my tastes, but the second 'Mena' is just something else.

pulp being sandwiched in b/w javier mena and the next track is pretty funny

I feel like this is the 2010 poll all over again with people being introduced to Javiera Mena. ^_^

I have to be the only person ever to ever mix up Javiera Mena and Maria Minerva, right? u_u

This Pulp song isn't terrible at all! I think that's because it was written a long time ago or something and just recently unquarantined.

my boyfriend put on 6music yesterday afternoon as we were chilling at his place and jarvis fucking cocker was so intolerable on it that i had to insist we turn the radio off. and he wasn't even singing!

Came out on Christmas Day so I missed it until recently. Produced by James Murphy while they were on the Coachella cruise. It's a good fit.

This is decent.

Wouldn't expect Pulp + DFA to be a good fit at all but that actually works really well. This is great.

pulp? they are still around? another band whose appeal i have never understood. this song does not make an exception though it is probably one of their best and the best of this thread yet.

switched off at the "party in hackney" line. cocker sounds like dog latin

Pulp song is jaunty and insufferable in equal doses, ie exactly what I expected, admittedly gets better in the last two minutes

takeaway = shes shakin her booty

I didn't know Pulp had released a single this year either. It's good, actually! I like the clattering pace.

cocker sounds like dog latin

― lex pretend, Monday, January 21, 2013 2:19 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

dying

"Nu" Chromatics isn't drastically different from anything they've made in the last 7 years or so. I guess you're either into what they do or you're not.

I agree and I'm the former. I think Kill For Love the album is full of great simmple but catchy songs. Psychocandy produced by New Order is a pretty good description.
It is weighed down by the long instrumentals though.

*checks calendar*