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

i started listening to the nominations playlist a few weeks back, and seriously considered voting, but then after about a dozen or so tracks of tepid garbage, I decided I would rather listen to Bach and Roedelius and it isn't like my voting would make any difference in anyone's life, so I just gave up.

ditto

hopefully gaz will place high

my one regret in not voting.

Also, I did not formally release my Trap Queen IDM parody in time to be nominated.

Twink Peen?

Yap Queen

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

lol

I'm behind but I'm not feeling bad about that

ok so do i just skip to the top ten or abandon all hope

listen to the higher-ranking Sundfor song

im loading something by somethig called the 1975 right now that placed at 20

oh

oh no

what the goddamn hell is this

20 the 1975 "Ugh!"

so this is a joke right. or knowing recyling of garbage irony or something. what the shit. take the worst pop music of the late 80s/pos and resultant paste aagghhgh fuck this song. 2/10

hahahahahaha

ha every year i decide to rejoin in progress at some random point and its always somehow at one of the worst songs in the countdown i think

lol oh dear. There is a lot of good stuff in this rundown after that abomination, I swear.

19 JACK Ü FT. JUSTIN BIEBER "Where Are Ü Now" (380 points, 14 votes)

this is innocuous mushy pop ballad sung well enough and then hamfisted uptempo then back to mush then back to yeah i get the idea 4/10

going to jump back and forth here a bit since the top ten is happening i think

10 DAVID BOWIE "Blackstar"

im about to piss of a bunch of people probably but uh. its ok? vocal doubling is dull, hate the saxophone intrusion, dont like the drum sound choices, moments where it almost catches my ear but yeah. not a fan so far. 4 minute mark might be turning that around though? ehhh as a guy who likes disjointed things more than most, this is kind of a mess. sorry, all respect but just no. 5/10

Blackstar album better than Blackstar song.

18 TOVE STYRKE "Ego" (381 points, 10 votes, 1 first-place vote)

every country gets its own kylie minogue i guess? or something? its..fine. i suppose. 5/10

9. DONNIE TRUMPET AND THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT "Sweet Candy"

So a series of reactions. Name prepared me for some twee fuckstick garbage shit. was wrong. saw this on SNL i think and thought it was horrible live. On record, it's apparently great. Yay suprises. 8/10

8. Missy Elliott - "WTF" feat. id rather not talk about it

It's Missy so clearly it rules, appreciate the mostly lack of Pharell although its less horrible than usual, maybe she yelled at him enough to suck less. there can alwaays be less pharell though. docked 1 point for pharrell content. 7/10

Pharrell is the cursed sword of pop music. -1 to everything.

sometimes i try to think about a song like, idk, "get lucky" by daft punk ft. anyone else and i like the song more.

17 GRIMES "Kill V. Maim" (384 points, 11 votes)

what little voice fucking whine shit nonsense is this all chirpy and terrible. its like everything people hate abt j-pop with a coda of evanescence thrown in at minute 2:45. or a whole song based around the worst instincts of lady gaga. people really miss kreayshawn huh. fuck this song. 1/10

the sixth best song on her masterful album art angels but still a solid 8/10. maybe 9.

I still liked "Kill V. Maim" more than anything I heard off of her first album

16 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Fade Away" (406 points, 10 votes, 2 first-place votes)

i think im down with this, liking the analog synth thing going on, weird knife/1989 blank space taylor swift/eurythmics vibe which on the face of it makes no sense at all and i know that but hey i just gotta be meeeeeee. ha i swear the keyboard sound is take straight from "i want to break free" by queen which is 1000% ok by me. and hooray for understanding that just over 3 minutes is the perfect length. 9/10

This is the only ilm thread allowed on ile

15 JUSTIN BIEBER "Sorry" (474 points, 21 votes)

lolololol i shit you not i spent all year hearing this on the local pop station and was convinced it was Ed Sheeran doing a guitar free singles track. not kidding. amused enough to give it 5/10

oh look, the deejery has entered the thread *grabs popcorn*

I had my way this would be the only ilm thread allowed

yeah we know

lol, i had no idea this was happening but for what little it's worth, i approve

14 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Delirious" (485 points, 15 votes, 3 first-place votes)

love the music (more than the one i recently posted), way less into the vocals. 7/10

7 Kendrick Lamar - Alright

I really have no excuse for not voting for way way more Kendrick on my ballot other than that most of my listening these days is w/the kid and so this song was one of those "skip so we dont learn the wrong words" moments. 9/10

13 RIHANNA "Bitch Better Have My Money (488 points, 18 votes)

my fading interest in Rihanna continues. not terrible, i like shes found and used that scratch in her voice more and more but not much else about this. 5/10

12 SKEPTA "Shutdown" (517 points, 17 votes, 2 first-place votes)

this is totally fine and all but #12 idgi. unremarkable in every way, but not actively bad so hey. 6/10

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

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?