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?

My top singles in rough order:

Yahzarah, "Why Dontcha Call Me No More"
Gucci Mane, "Lemonade"
Alley Boy f/ Young Dro, "Tall"
Waka Flocka Flame, "O Let's Do It"
Yelawolf f/ Bun B, "Good to Go"
Kelis, "Acapella"
Jay Electronica, "Exhibit C"
Joy Orbison, "Hyph Mngo" (Andreas Saag's House Perspective)
Sade, "Soldier of Love"
Pitbull f/ Black Point, Sensato, El Cata, & Lil Jon, "Watagatapitusberry"
Erykah Badu, "Window Seat"
Janelle Monae, "Tightrope"
DJ Quik f/ Suga Free, "Nobody"
Big Boi, "Shutterbugg"
Nas & Damian Marley, "As We Enter"

songs

1 erykah badu - window seat
2 ciara ft the-dream - speechless
3 ariel pink's haunted graffiti - round and round
4 ciara - ride
5 vampire weekend - white sky
6 drake ft the-dream - shut it down
7 lil b - insane
8 jay electronica - exhibit c
9 dj quik ft suga free - nobody
10 rihanna - rude boy
11 young jeezy ft plies - lose my mind
12 trey songz ft fabolous - say aah
13 the-dream - love king
14 rick ross - mafia music 2
15 the jacka & laroo - don't be scared
16 ne-yo - drinks up
17 big boi - shutterbug
18 gucci mane - dear diary
19 usher - mars vs venus
20 hot chip - i feel better

and for the heck of it, albums

(lol indie rock)

1 titus andronicus - the monitor
2 lcd soundsystem - this is happening
3 hot chip - one life stand
4 against me! - white crosses
5 vampire weekend - white sky
6 yelawolf - trunk muzik
7 los campesinos! - romance is boring
8 the gaslight anthem - american slang
9 ariel pink's haunted graffiti - before today
10 woods - at echo lake

ah this always happens -- throw the badu album somewhere in the middle there

vampire weekend album is also 'contra' duh

oh damn, I forgot about "Insane"

oh god - this year is going by so quickly, I feel like I'm still catching up with all the cool stuff that skipped my radar ont he 09 EOY round up.

Top songs:
We Want War - These New Puritans
Soldier Of Love - Sade
Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Owen Pallett
Who Makes Your Money - Spoon
One Life Stand - Hot Chip
Odessa - Caribou

Closely followed by:
Mind Reader - Kingdom ft Shyvonne
Rocket - Goldfrapp
Stylo - Gorillaz
Gone Baby. Don't Be Long - Erykah Badu
No Tears To Cry - Paul Weller
Jeans - Quadron
Them That Do Nothing - Field Music

Here's what I have jotted down so far in a Word doc:

Alphabeat, "Hole in My Heart"
Erykah Badu, "Window Seat"
Big Boi, "Shutterbugg"
Caribou, "Odessa"
Ciara ft. The-Dream, "Speechless"
Dâm-Funk, "Mirrors"
Delphic, "Acolyte"
The-Dream, "Love King"
Four Tet, "Angel Echoes"
Four Tet, "Sing"
Jay Electronica, "Exhibit C"
Joy Orbison, "BRKLN CLLN"
Kelis, "Acapella"
Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce, "Telephone"
Adam Lambert, "Whataya Want From Me"
LCD Soundsystem, "Dance Yrself Clean"
MGMT, "I Found a Whistle"
Janelle Monae, "Tightrope"
Nas and Damian Marley, "As We Enter"
Ne-Yo, "Drinks Up"
Rihanna, "Rude Boy"
Spoon, "Who Makes Your Money"
Taylor Swift, "Jump Then Fall"
Taylor Swift, "Today Was a Fairytale"
These New Puritans, "We Want War"
Yeasayer, "Madder Red"

Interested to see you guys' lists, though -- already can tell I oughta spend more time with the Jeezy, Quik, Sade, Drake tunes and a few others listed so far. Heard most of these, but gotta give it all time to sink in!

Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Starlito - Renaissance Gangster

in fact any burn one mixtape is d-_-b right now.

is the jeezy actually about yet?

Owen P, JoNew, Erykah, Los Camp!, the Big Boi leaks, the first half of the Lady Gaga album...

Wow! This year has been a real corker for singles! Several fantastic labels have taken to sort of specializing in ye olde vinyl 7" joints, and the result has been tres groovy. Smith Westerns, El Jesus de Magico, Dum Dum Girls, Melted Sunglasses, Girls at Dawn, Broken Water, Blank Dogs, Woven Bones, Haunted George - all kinds of terrific stuff from all over the musical map. If yr interested try Google. I don't recall all the titles.

Some stuff not yet mentioned:

Gayngs - The Gaudy Side of Town
Corinne Baily Rae - Paris Nights/New York Mornings
Sade - The Moon & the Sky
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co.
The One - Double Life
Mark E. - You (Full Vocal Mix)
Strong Arm Steady - Two Pistols
Yeasayer - I Remember
Quadron - Pressure

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.

A sucker for what exactly? xpost

t.i. - i'm back

Was going to say Rox's "My Baby Left Me," but I'm already kind of sick of it.

Something about the big budget album version is RONG. Can't put my finger on it. The demo that (I) floated around (via Fluxblog) in 2008 is greatly superior.

3) dj quik ft. suga free - nobody

yall are way overrating this, & im a fan

^^^^^^^

It's a fine Quik song but really nothing that stands out in his catalog.

well that's one way of thinking about, i just thought "WOW THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS I'VE HEARD ALL YEAR" and wrote it down in a list and posted it on ilx. ordering on my list was really just an excuse to put yahzarah at number one anyways tbh, but if we're gonna get into dj quik's discography i like 'nobody' as much as my favourite songs off blaqkout.

would i be a total shit in saying that there's very little appearing above that i'm thinking "i must really check that out"? i can't think of much coming out in 2010 that i'm particularly looking forward to either :-( 2010 and all its portent seems to be largely retreading last year's territory what with all the gagas and dj quiks etc... that might be me being very myopic though. haven't had the internet in a while due to house moves etc.

that might be me being very myopic though

indeed it might

ntac, but I linked to the wrong J. Alvarez song. I had meant to list this bachaton (w/ Jowell & Randy):

http://www.youtube.com/v/l-i_ukCYJLw&fs=1&hl=en

(That other track is just okay.)

would i be a total shit in saying that there's very little appearing above that i'm thinking "i must really check that out"? i can't think of much coming out in 2010 that i'm particularly looking forward to either :-( 2010 and all its portent seems to be largely retreading last year's territory what with all the gagas and dj quiks etc... that might be me being very myopic though. haven't had the internet in a while due to house moves etc.

― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:23 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

lol @ the idea that *last year* was when u should start paying attention to dj quik

& you might like it as much as the blaqkout stuff, samosa, but it sounds a lot like his pre-blaqkout shit -- bq was good cuz he was really stretching out on it, but it still sounded fun/funky/party-ready. 'nobody' is dece but not exactly blowing my mind or anything. if you like it, check the 1st two suga free albums, 'rhythmalism' & the two lp's after that

ya i mean, my point was basically that i enjoy the song as a dude who's oblivious to the narrative of dj quik and suga free's respective careers, just a dope hip hop song to me. obviously ever since listening to blaqkout i've been meaning to check out his previous stuff though, suga free now added to list as well.

it doesn't really sound like his work from that era tho (even if it's quite obv the work of the same guy), much more brashly synthetic

i dont think thats really the case -- hes def used synth keybs like that before -- and even if it is the effect isnt particularly surprising or notable. compared to quik classics like 'buck bounce' or 'up n da club' its pretty standard album track type generic funk jam

"nobody" is great because it seems beamed in from a suga free solo album

that's not something i'm holding against

also suga free is hilarious

yeah but hes been releasing an album a year for like 4 years straight

none of which have produced by dj quik (srs question tho: are any of them worth hearing?)

I did a Top 50 tracks (and 20 albums) on my Tumblr: http://thediscography.tumblr.com/post/480134038/2010-q1

Of those, 34 aren't listed above. They are, alphabeticaly:

Best Coast, “Something In The Way” (PPM)
Deniz Kurtel ft. Guests of Nature, “Yeah” (Crosstown Rebels)
DJ Kaos, “Kosmischer Ruckenwind” (Clone Loft Supreme)
DJ Zinc ft. Ms. Dynamite, “Wile Out” (Zinc)
Eddie Vedder, “My City of Ruins (Live from the Kennedy Center Honors)” (Monkeywrench)
Gil Scott-Heron, “Me and the Devil” (XL)
Goldfrapp, “Rocket” (Mute)
Grateful Dead, “Shakedown Street (Tommie Sunshine & Figure Brooklyn Fire Edit)” (Soundcloud.com/tommiesunshine)
Gui Boratto, “Telecaster” (MP3)
Hanoi Janes, “Skeleton Girl” (Captured Tracks)
Hot Chip, “One Life Stand (Carl Craig PCP Remix)” (EMI)
I:Cube, “Falling” (Versatile)
Josh Turner, “Why Don’t We Just Dance” (MCA Nashville ’09)
Joy Orbison, “The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow” (Aus)
Kyle Hall, “Kaychunk” (Hyperdub)
Mi Ami, “Cut Men” (Thrill Jockey)
Michael Bublé, “Haven’t Met You Yet” (Reprise ’09)
No Age, “Depletion (Daytrotter Session - 2/8/2010)” (Daytrotter.com)
Pangaea, “Sunset Yellow” (Hessle Audio)
Peter Van Hoesen, “Terminal” (Time to Express)
Professor Green, “I Need You Tonight” (Virgin)
Ray Mang, “Look Into My Eyes” (DFA)
Strong Arm Steady ft. Mitchy Slick, “Two Pistols” (Stones Throw)
Subeena, “Picture” (Opit)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, “Ativan Eyes” (Matador)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, “The Mighty Sparrow” (Matador)
The Bangz ft. the New Boyz, “Found My Swag” (Asylum)
The Sight Below, “Blown” (Ghostly International)
The Unthanks, “Lucky Gilchrist” (Rough Trade)
The xx, “Islands (Nosaj Thing Remix)” (Young Turks)
T-Pain, “Reverse Cowgirl” (Jive)
Vampire Weekend, “Giving Up the Gun” (XL)
Vampire Weekend, “Ruby Soho (Live @ Maida Vale)” (BBC Radio 1/MP3)
Wiley & Chew Fu, “Take That” (Island)

Oh, duh: this is first-quarter only. Plenty in the past month I haven't even listed yet.

samosa what's this pastor troy bet i bust remix you speak of? the t.i./playboy tre version would be somewhere on my list. and ya swang real wide is amazing i'm surprised thats not on more peoples lists.

some other stuff ive liked but might not have been mentioned:

m.i.a.- space odyssey
erykah badu feat. lil wayne- jump up in the air and stay there
titus andronicus- a more perfect union (album version obv) or richard II
and something by kesha

I guess it's technically a December 2009 single, but out of things that haven't been mentioned I've definitely been playing Luda's "How Low" the most this year.

Eddie Vedder, “My City of Ruins (Live from the Kennedy Center Honors)”

Nice -- I could see this working.

lol @ the idea that *last year* was when u should start paying attention to dj quik

how is that even implied by dude's post -- must u be a total dick abt everything

samosa what's this pastor troy bet i bust remix you speak of?

fuck sorry playboy tre is what i meant to type.

in no order...

Delorean - Stay Close
Watch Out for Rockets - Lift Off Cloud Controller
Hari & Aino - entire EP
Juan MacLean - Feel So Good
White Fence - Mr. Adams
Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain
Quasi - Bye Bye Blackbird
Apples in Stereo - No Vacation
Radio Dept - Heaven's on Fire, even with that dumb introduction
Caribou - Kaili
Serena Maneesh - Blow Yr Brains in the Mourning Rain
Ariel Pink - Round & Round
Sambassadeur - Days
Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind
Kesha - Tik Tok (really)
most of the Lindstrom & Christabelle album
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Golden Bug - Flamingo
LCD - Home
Pipettes - Our Love Was Saved by Spacemen
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra - That Hat

Juan MacLean - Feel So Good
Radio Dept - Heaven's on Fire, even with that dumb introduction
Caribou - Kaili

Ought to add these tunes to my list, I'm playing the hell out of them. Agree that "Kaili" is one of the high points of the Caribou album.

Forgot Class Actress's "Let Me Take You Out". "Adolescent Heart" has the most amazing neo-Nena buildup in the verse before the bottom completely falls out of the chorus. If they had just repeated that chord progression!

Radio pop sucks this year, obv.

1. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
2. Ciara feat. Ludacris - Ride
3. Rihanna - Rude Boy
4. Yelawolf feat. Bun B - Good to Go
5. Cassie - Skydiver
6. Sleigh Bells - Tell Em
7. Zinc feat. Ms Dynamite - Wile Out
8. Corinne Bailey-Rae - I'd Do It All Again
9. Natalia Kills - Activate My Heart
10. Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
11. Erykah Badu - Window Seat
12. M.I.A. - Born Free
13. Michael Buble - I Just Haven't Met You Yet
14. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
15. Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - Baby

if we're getting all indie album tracks in here then "white hinterland - icarus" is in my top five

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4fYlsf-Es

how is that even implied by dude's post -- must u be a total dick abt everything

― iiiinfinite jjjjest (some dude), Friday, May 7, 2010 10:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

bcuz dude implies is ***so last year*** to be paying attention to dj quik in 2010 which is like ... what the fuck?

yeah that's not at all what he was saying

2010 and all its portent seems to be largely retreading last year's territory what with all the gagas and dj quiks etc.

― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

what else does this mean

i think he's talking about music, not people who pay attention to i -- but idk, it's dog latin, who really cares, is kind of what we should be taking away from this

it*

if i cant diss dog latin i dont know if i want to ilx any more

haha

how does referring to people who had great or notable records in 2009 as "last year's territory" imply that that was also the time to start paying attention to said artists? i mean one was a newer artist, one wasn't, but you pretty much read something into it that wasn't there is all.

"how does referring to people who had great or notable records in 2009 as "last year's territory" imply that that was also the time to start paying attention to said artists?"

cant believe yr asking this but

1. dl implies that talking about quik sounds like last year retread
2. quik has had a career for so long that implying that we should associate quik with '09 makes no sense unless
3. you think quik just showed up as a worthwhile artist in 2009

this was the logic for my tossed off comment, which isnt exactly particularly nuanced but makes sense dude, jeez

he was just saying he wants to be excited about 2010 records by people that didn't just drop records he liked in 2009. he used 2 random examples, and since one of them was on the master list of a dozen or so rappers that any mention of on ilx causes you to show up and hulk out, here we are.

'hulk out' really

Wow! This year has been a real corker for singles! Several fantastic labels have taken to sort of specializing in ye olde vinyl 7" joints, and the result has been tres groovy. Smith Westerns, El Jesus de Magico, Dum Dum Girls, Melted Sunglasses, Girls at Dawn, Broken Water, Blank Dogs, Woven Bones, Haunted George - all kinds of terrific stuff from all over the musical map. If yr interested try Google. I don't recall all the titles.

― ImprovSpirit,

Ok, that sucks mister. You come back at tell us the name of the songs you're referring to.

Rooney - I Can't Get Enough
just crashed my top ten, I think

zinc ft. ms dynamite - wile out
monica - blackberry

hold on, this is gonna turn in to the other "favorite music of 2010" thread

Jowell & Randy - Goodbye [bears some relation to "No Te Veo"]

Great year so far!

1. Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blu Remix)
2. Shy Child - Dark Destiny
3. Devine Collective - People Keep Dancing
4. Funkystepz - Lovers
5. Drake - Shut It Down
6. Marcus Cabral & Shux - A Lifetime Groove
7. Ruby Suns - Cranberry
8. Yelawolf - Pop The Trunk
9. Devine Collective - House Girls Part 8
10. Ward 21 & Tifa - High Come Down
11. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
12. Rudimental - Midnight Affair
13. T2 - Better Off As Friends (Lil' Silva Remix)
14. J Stalin - Money On The Way
15. Sabrina Washington - OMG (Ill Blu Remix)
16. Naughty Raver - Drama
17. Funkystepz - Hurricane Riddim
18. Ciara ft. Ludacris - Ride
19. Yeasayer - I Remember
20. Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Princess Nyah Remix)
21. Emvee - Windrush Riddim
22. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
23. Roll Deep - Good Times (Ill Blu Remix)
24. Big Boi - Shutterbug
25. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
26. Screama & Farah - Kiss Me
27. Shawnna - Nappy Boys
28. Taylor Swift - Today Was A Fairtytale
29. Ne-Yo - Drinks Up
30. Sensato Del Patio - Watagatapitusberry (Remix)
31. Damian Marley & Nas - As We Enter
32. Marcus Nasty & Bassboy - Let's Get Nasty
33. Rich Boy - Go Crazy
34. Devine Collective - Touch Her In The Morning
35. Chris Sorbello - So Lonely

Cults - Go Outside
Eli Escobar - Oslo
Four Tet - Sing
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
jj feat. Lil Wayne - My Way
Janelle Monae - Tight Rope
Javelin - Oh Centra
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Pawel - Dawn

Mostly culled from albums that I mostly love but:

Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Against Me - White Crosses
Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
Beach House - Zebra
Eminem - Despicable
Erykah Badu - Turn Me Away (Get Munny)
The Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky
Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish, Rhinestone Eyes, other stuff!
jj - Let Go
Laura Marling - Devil's Spoke
Motion City Soundtrack - Her Words Destroyed My Planet
The Radio Dept - Heaven on Fire
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun
Hadag Nahash - Shir Nehama

melted sunglasses are rad, i didn't know they had a single out this year

wow i need to hear the ill blu remix of craig david

you could dance to it on a cruise

that would be ideal

Putting it at the top of my list was a post-midnight impulse decision last night but it is very good, rather like an R&B version of their 321 remix. I'll upload it to the funky thread when I'm home.

it's on youtube

I need to catch up on the funky thread, which I have not read at all this year. Unfortunately, my sound card is not working. :(

jj-My Way
The Tallest Man on Earth-King of Spain
Titus Andronicus-Theme from "Cheers"
HEALTH-USA BOYS
Ariel Pink-Round and Round
The National-Afraid of Everyone
Future Islands-In The Fall
Zola Jesus-Night
Baths-Maximalist
Yeasayer-Ambling Alp
Wolf Parade-Ghost Pressure
Flying Lotus-...And the World Laughs With You

I should note how much my listening in the past month has been cribbed from Lex's quarterly report. And while on the topic, Shawnna's "Nappy Boys" should be higher up my list than it appears above.

yeah, great song

now they wanna try me like i'm in the illuminati!

glad to hear it tim.

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

No rankings!

Marcos Cabral & Shux - Life Time Groove (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit)
Devine Collective - Tribal Daydream
Tensnake - Coma Cat
Ginz & Kool Money Kwame - Wet Wipe Riddim
Grace Jones - Love You to Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Joker - Tron
Pangaea - Why
Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me
Yeasayer - One
Ciara - Ride + most of the leaks from the album...
Addictive - Bad Girl (Champion Remix)
Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blue Remix)
Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk
Emvee - Windrush Riddim
Funkystepz - For U
Geiom - Sugar Coated Lover
Lil Silva - Against Yaself (the vocal version of "Different" , as well if it's 2010)
Roska - I Need Love
Roll Deep - Good Time (Ill Blu Remix)
Furious Funky - Paris Riddim
Screama - Kiss
Illmana - Kiss You

exciting year!

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

^^^^^^^^^^^

Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk

What's this?

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

Tim, it's from his new EP "Wonderful"...three new (?) tracks plus Anthem Hype Dub for some reason. It's a pretty solid release, no vocals, but pretty exciting all the same.

Tim, check your FB.

yo where do I read lex's quarterly report?

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? ;)

yo hit me with the stupid stick ;_;

Has Tim heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRXRvShQlWE
yet

BoA - Possibility
Quadron - Slippin'
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Popnoname - Hello Gorgeous
Jaga Jazzist - Bananfluer Overalt
Lindstrom & Christabelle - High & Low
Joanna Newsom - '81
Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo
Usher - Mars vs. Venus
Gorillaz - Stylo
Thomas Fehlmann - Permanent Touch
The Bird & The Bee - Heard It On The Radio
Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
Cassie - Sky Diver
Lonelady - Marble

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