ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

let's do this

btw i made some jpgs for the results -- i will be linking to youtubes instead of embedding them

for those that missed the other thread, i'll be revealing 17 spots today, then 20 over the next three days

And there's a Grooveshark playlist too

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The new phonebooks are here!

"btw i made some jpgs for the results"

in before The Rev complains about this

TOO LOW

btw i made some jpgs for the results -- i will be linking to youtubes instead of embedding them

Both of these sound like good things to me.

woop!

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77. DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Ass on the Floor" [222 points, 7 votes]
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SO EXCITED! And to think I was starting to wonder how to kill my last hour at work.

I was starting to think about getting some work done :(

as you can see i'm off to a rousing start here -- the 222 points is the correct number

^^ great reason to expand results to 77 places imo

Exciting!

so is 7 votes, lol

i shouldn't have done this during the nfc title game

multitasking is a bitch

222 points, 7 votes, #77 - amazing

amazing song too!

good song imo

good start, great song

I "Ass on the Floor" one of the songs they did on SNL? I like this.

Wait are you gonna just be posting jpgs or doing text too? Coz for those on zing it's gonna be v inconvenient

all downhill from here guys

i love that synth arpeggio that comes in the last time through after diddy's little rap buildup bit

Wait nvm

i like "ass on the floor" because it tells people to get their ass on the floor

^^^

how many points was #1 place again?

they did "ass on the floor" on snl but it sounded kinda terrible

listening to aotf for the first time and wow, it turns out swiss beatz shouldnt have been written off years ago?

#1 had nearly 1,000 points

that jpg is a bit witch house

dawn and kalenna really shine here imo, one of their best vocals on the album - love the way their verses pivot around various uses of the word "motherfucker". i said this in the album thread but the switch up from "now i'm drunker than a motherfucker, tryna find my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the first to "got me madder than a motherfucker, tryna fight my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the second SLAYS

great tune, prob my fav production job from 2010

rofl @ whiney's first post itt

'ass on the floor' music video really appropriate song for today. it's like 8 degrees outside.

Jordan, sorry I meant the individual ballot vote #1, not the collective #1

listening to aotf for the first time and wow, it turns out swiss beatz shouldnt have been written off years ago?

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:34 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

swizz beatz has been like consistently amazing for like the last 8 years, u goof

i will be linking to youtubes instead of embedding them

maybe a cool thing would be to set up a youtube playlist linked at the top of the thread, just add each track to it after they're posted here. but otoh anyone could do this (inc me) so no big deal.

xp - 50 points for a #1 vote.

not expecting to like this track but it's pretty damn good.

Since Touch It, On To The Next One, Gucci Time - dude has been lames for more than a minute

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76. VAMPIRE WEEKEND "Giving Up the Gun" [222 points, 10 votes, one first place vote]
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lol

and those are the breaks i can remember - so many things i listened to and forgot while they were still playing

most straightforward song on that album; it's dece but that's as far as i would go

How many points per track for an unranked ballot Sean?

26

I had successfully managed to fool myself into pretending that VW album doesn't exist, thanks ILM

whose #1?

'Ass on the Floor' really does not impel me to get my ass on the floor. Similarly, 'Giving Up the Gun' does not impel me to lay down my firearms.

lol @ tennis photo. Great job w. the jpeg formatting!

only 50 points? rip the chances of my #1 turning up.

is that... rza in the vw video or have i spent so much of my time listening to the wu that i'm seeing things?

i didn't vote for singles but if I had, despite loving the album to pieces, vampire weekend would not have appeared. they're one of these bands i get as album artists way more than singles artists (and especially re giving up the gun which is way more than the sum of its parts in the context of the album and so much less on its own). i guess this means that we can still expect white sky + cousins to place, too.

It is rza yes

'giving up the gun' is not an imperative like 'ass on the floor' fyi xxxxp

Show me where I said it was.

vampire money "gun on the floor"

Give your ass up and put the gun on the floor.

Since Touch It, On To The Next One, Gucci Time - dude has been lames for more than a minute

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 10:38 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these songs are all horrible but hes had good songs on & off for the past decade +

lol. song is kinda boring and i'm not a vampire weekend h8r

I think Lil Jon is in that video also iirc

"giving up the gun" is an amazing song, i'm surprised it didn't place higher tbh

joe jonas is also in the video & jake gyllenhal

it's pretty imo, but nothing dasein-shattering (lol)

i actually hadn't thought swizz had fallen off, but looking at his discography he really hasn't done much i'm into since like 07 - "ass on the floor", "roman's revenge", mariah's "o.o.c.", that's about it.

On To The Next One, Gucci Time - dude has been lames for more than a minute

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:38 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Uh, those tracks are phenomenal.Not to mention "I Can Transform You," "Swing Ya Rag," the "Power" remix, "Tambourine," "Lil Jon's "I Do", a bunch more.

good song. don't love it, but a fine way to kick things off. like the beat a lot more than the vocal hook. ass-floory, but maybe not ass-floory enough?

o shit, and vampire wkned. turns out they are bad.

It would be cool if we could make a listeningroom to stream all these as they're posting

i like a lot of those swizz beatz as beatz, tho not necessarily as songs ("i can transform ya" being #1 there)

xp - yeah the beat is the only thing I particularly dig in AotF.

Mordy - I thought about doing this but realised I have about 5 of the top 77 tracks as mp3.

Nice idea. xp

But feel free to take over the ILXOR listening room as a communal project I guess

recent swizz i like are in the same vein as 'ass on the floor' i.e. 'its alive'

I voted for both of those. 77 was a good call.

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75. AZARI & III "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake remix)" [228 points, 8 votes]
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yessss

<3

i don't think this has applied yet, but for the record

a tie was broken by number of votes/first place votes -- more votes or more first place votes meant the higher spot

that said we did end up w/ i believe 2 ties in tracks

2 ties in albums too, fwiw

yeahhhh. i think that's been overrated just cuz of the "lol c&c music factory sample" BUT it's still a fantastic song to hear at house parties at 6am, exactly what you need at times like that

Specifically: ties are broken first by # of votes, after that by # of first place votes.

Uh, those tracks are phenomenal.Not to mention "I Can Transform You," "Swing Ya Rag," the "Power" remix, "Tambourine," "Lil Jon's "I Do", a bunch more.

― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 January 2011 16:45 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i only like one of these songs, and even then, i forgot it even existed (swing ya rag).

vw is nice but follows my 'everyone vampire weekend has ever done sounds kinda sweet when listening, and then i'll forget it ever exists straight after'

i feel like we should spin off some kind of dedicated Swizz thread but i don't know what shape it should take -- singles poll, search & destroy, POX?

where did the original "reckless (with your love)" place last year?

og is still too good for me to love the rmx

can't wait to hear more awesome dance tracks I missed this year!

I think someone said it was #28 or something like that? xps

Uh, those tracks are phenomenal.Not to mention "I Can Transform You," "Swing Ya Rag," the "Power" remix, "Tambourine," "Lil Jon's "I Do", a bunch more.

― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 January 2011 16:45 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i only like one of these songs, and even then, i forgot it even existed (swing ya rag).

― supply 'n d-man (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 10:51 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney has a particular preference for boshing abrasive swizz tracks that remind him of old school 80s stark bangers fyi

vw song is boring (for them), but now I think Rostam might be awesome

I love the barefaced cheek of putting out a remix in 2010 that features both Coldcut/Eric B & Rakim drums AND the riff from Everybody Dance Now for good measure. Never heard it in a club but the first time it was played in one people must have lost their shit.

The original is still better though.

whiney has a particular preference for boshing abrasive swizz tracks that remind him of old school 80s stark bangers fyi

― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:53 AM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

After hearing #75, I don't ever want to ever hear anyone on ILX making fun of PM Dawn again

dunno whether i'm more surprised that whiney hadn't heard azari & iii or at the batty pm dawn comparison

didn't realize there was a C&C MF sample, but <3<3 the 1991 house beat that Tensnake added to this track.

og is still too good for me to love the rmx

― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, January 24, 2011 4:52 PM (3 minutes ago)

i have room in my life for both

Oh, now that I got to the C&C Music Factory part that everyone was grokking on, I realize I've totally heard this

I didn't care for VW debut or that Horchata song but Giving Up the Gun is surprisingly good. Hmm. Might have been an error to not listen to Contra.

Diddy song the best so far. I have never been able to say that in any context before.

Azari & III original > remix by huge margin.

can't wait to hear more awesome dance tracks I missed this year!

― skip, Monday, 24 January 2011 16:52 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^

really enjoying this!

azari song is nice but def a reminder that there's a huge number of ilxors who are clearly listening to music in much different contexts than i am

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74. CRYSTAL CASTLES "Celestica" [232 points, 8 votes]
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woah, j0rdan, slow down! give me a chance to finish listening to the last one!

i fxck w/ this

also, not exactly batshit comparison with PM Dawn

Love of "Ashley's Roachclip" break + 4AD textures = come on, son

Sure, Aziza and III def pump up the BPM and the handbag house ish, but I know how dance ppl can split micro-hairs all day, so whatev

if case anyone's interested, I made a grooveshark playlist of the songs so far and will try to keep adding to it as this list is counted down

lol i'm on a strict results every 10 minute schedule here, sorry

i can slow up if y'all want

nah, it's ok. i'll probably fall behind at 12 anyway (class to teach) and have to catch up tnite

here's a link to the original Arazi. Kinda agree with people who like this version better on first listen...

woah, j0rdan, don't slow down, Mordy's request makes no sense!

(er at 1 i mean) xp

In fairness, pretty much everyone in the early 90s used that beat or a variation it at some point.

does the whole crystal castles album sound like this song?

really like jordan's jpegs but have to say that I don't really care what the P/J results were and don't get why they're on the jpegs but maybe that's just me

i really enjoyed interviewing both azari & iii and tensnake this year - they were print only though. i definitely have to get round to uploading those to the internet.

i'll slow down if mordy records a freestyle over the "ha, ha (slow down)" beat

really like jordan's jpegs but have to say that I don't really care what the P/J results were and don't get why they're on the jpegs but maybe that's just me

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, January 24, 2011 12:01 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark

it's a thing musically used to do when she revealed the results \(o_O)/

The Crystal Castles album pleasantly surprised me but it has a pretty even split between "pretty and melodic" and "nasty synth noises and screaming".

P&J and Pfork results have been a routine inclusion over the past few years for context, so we just tried to keep the ghost of musically alive. (Noticed he's ignoring the Pfork results, tho)

the p&j results are traditionally noted here too - if only as a measure of our superiority

fwiw, VEVOs fuckin suck and you should link to cheezy-ass fan videos instead.

dig both of the last two (azari & III way more), and had never heard either. so thanks and moar please.

does the whole crystal castles album sound like this song?

sort of but not really - check out 'baptism', 'empathy', 'vietnam' and 'i am made of chalk' imo

yeah i didn't feel like looking up the pfork results & i had started on the jpgs before seandalai gave us that info

i remember thinking the CC song was gonna be 'big' when i first heard it, but i guess it got overshadowed by the robert smith track?

Azari & III was #21 in Pfork and Vampire Weekend was #23, if anyone cares.

nope

lol

I <3 crystal castles and really should pick up both albums. also alice glass is like perfection in a lady body

there's a better version of the beat in this Azari remix in a freaking Beta Band song, just sayin' :P

also hi, thread

#83 on my list, regardless of who cares

i remember thinking the CC song was gonna be 'big' when i first heard it, but i guess it got overshadowed by the robert smith track?

& rightly so! it's fantastic, best thing robert's done since the great tracks on bloodflowers imo

Nice gravewave jpg J0rdan!

dear vevo, get ur corporate asses off of utube! thumbz up if u agree!

Loving the jpegs!!!!

Crystal Castles - first track on here that I voted for!

I like the Vampire Weekend album enough to put on my albums list, but no particular track stood out for me enough to get on my tracks list.

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73. TAYLOR SWIFT "Mean" [232 points, 8 votes, one first place vote]
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aight i'll stop linking to VEVO videos

^^ this wd be my daughter's #1 track of 2010 fwiw

i read that crystal castles sampled stina nordenstam on their latest album, which made me marginally interested in checking it out, but i ended up just thinking about how much i want a new stina nordenstam album instead

is that the one that goes "you are the best thing that's ever been mean"?

ha ha ha.

~cold stare~

oh some dude is zingin over here

Still yet to hear a Taylor Swift track I can make it to the end of.

"mean" is ok i guess, but it's one of the worst trax on the album - i cannot deal with the "mean! and pathetic! and a liar!" section at all, like USE BETTER WORDS TAYLOR - this is her actually being as limited a songwriter as her h8ers erroneously insist she is

yeah i don't really like "mean" that much at all either

Same here. (I bought this cd for my niece for xmas, and ripped a copy to my computer before she went home...ha!)

Uh, Vevos usually have better sounding audio and official videos

too exhausted by taylor swift in 2011 to engage in swift song exegesis. swift: "but u don't know what u don't know" rumsfeld: "there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know"

also, she might not know this but there are mean people in big old cities too

i actually make a dad joke for once and people call it a 'zing' wtf

Still yet to hear a Taylor Swift track I can make it to the end of.

step by step guide:

- turn on speakers/put on headphones
- click youtube link
- make sure track is playing
- leave window open for ~4 min until track reaches end

voila!

(disclaimer: this works for making it to the end of any song)

Embedded Vevos don't have the annoying commercials. If you go to the page, though, they do.

I always think this is a Miranda Lambert track.

like i'd rather watch the official video on Vevo instead of grainy bootleg bullshit

even if it means sitting through a WHOLE TEN SECONDS OF ADVERTISEMRNT... NO LOGOZ!!!!

also if you actually give a big sincere fuck about sound quality and visual resolution you're probably not on youtube

i guess "mine" is going to place then? and maybe "back to december"?

i don't really care whether we do vevos or not, altho they are typically in higher quality

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dear vevo, get ur corporate asses off of utube!

This thread is moving very quickly...

alright, whiney, enough

hey whether you prefer to watch official videos or fan ones, the option is still open to you regardless of what j0rdan links, by going to youtube and typing in the search box yourself! stop complaining.

fwiw personally i always go to Vevo and wait for the ads over sorting through a bunch of unofficial vids where half the time the music's been sped up annoyingly or muted

i do love the end where she's like "and mean. and mean. AND MEAN. AND MEAN. AND MEAN."

alright, VEVOs it is

lmao @ that pic

typing, ugh, not enough time...

xxxpost

This thread is moving very quickly...

Five results in an hour is a little ahead of pace, but it's not unheard of.

half the time the music's been sped up annoyingly

i've noticed this a lot more lately, is there any reason why people do this?

I'd prefer it if we linked to fan cover versions

i've noticed this a lot more lately, is there any reason why people do this?

helps avoid labels pulling down copyrighted tracks iirc

aight i'll slow it down -- as proud as i am of myself of being on record time

i've noticed this a lot more lately, is there any reason why people do this?

copyright infringement avoidance. yeah i know.

i.e., a song that's slightly tweaked, sped up or slowed down is not the ~exact same~ as the copyrighted tune

guys it doesn't take that long to read a fuckin song title or even to listen to the song, and people probably won't go "that was THREE SONGS AGO GOD" if you want to keep discussing something after j0rdan's moved on.

great, you made j0rdan slow down, look what you did

yes, same reason people sometimes upload music videos with all the frames mirrored horizontally

alright fine

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72. MARINA & THE DIAMOND "Shampain" [234 points, 10 votes]
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DIAMONDS obv

Great jpg.

i'd never heard of her/them or that song and.... well i liked it better on mute

Yeah I don't get the love for this (sorry JF)

wtf is this

10 ppl voted for this!

So is the speeded up or slowed down or whatever it is is done to avoid copyright or is this how it's supposed to sound?

a track with a pic like that is either going to be amazing or complete shite and unfortunately it's the latter.

music video is pretty h0t

i kinda feel uncomfortable watching this at work

Oh look it's an uncoordinated 'Thriller' tribute.

lol

mean's kind of great (first time i've ever heard anything by taylor swift) and horrible in equal measure. i mean, the voice and tune and arrangement and musicianship and even the bulk of the lyrics are excellent, can totally see why it'd be a huge hit. and then there's the word "mean," which seems to deflate and flatten everything the song is trying to say, worse yet the cringeworthy "mean and pathetic and a liar and alone in life" part that everybody's rightly complaining about.

that said, the lifeless word "mean" and that sneering and would-be-crushing bridge are the most explicitly teenage things about the song, so they read as canny in a way, reinforcing her persona, perhaps making her more relatable to the young women who'd like to be saying something similar, i dunno. i appreciate it, but could never see myself listening to such a thing for pleasure (never say never...)

i've only heard "hollywood" and "i am not a robot" by marina but based on those she brings me out in hives. does she do the moronic quirkygirl enunciation on "shampain" too?

Hmm, Marina. Didn't like her at all at first, but she was loads of fun to interview and I ended up warming to "Shampain" in particular.

(But not enough to vote for it, though; "Celestica" is the only one of mine to place thus far. Another act that I changed my mind on in 2010, and absolutely totally fucking AWESOME when I saw live. The records cannot prepare you.)

"I am not a robot" is many times better than "Shampain" imo.

I'm fuckin with this Marina thing

It's like Florence And The Machine jamming with the Pussycat Dolls.

They're pretty big in the UK having sprung up in the Florence & The Machine slipstream but I find Marina & The Diamonds pretty much unbearable, it just reminds me of second generation Britpop glammed up a bit.

Crystal Castles strike me as one of those bands who will one day put out an amazing album only to find out the world has stopped caring.

marina & the diamonds from sierra leone

I HAT U, ILM

"I am not a robot" is many times better than "Shampain" imo.

haw, well, i gave "i am not a robot" a 1/10 on the jukebox. perhaps best if i don't bother with "shampain" because the idea of a song that's many times worse than "robot" is giving me the fear.

this is where I confess to have voted for Shampain, right

w/e it hits me ya knowwww

This is the country that brought us Queen, I gets down w/ this

shampain is decent to kinda good

fyi marina & the diamonds is a solo project. the "diamonds" refer to her fans. yeah i know. afaik this was her stage name from the beginning, ie before she had any fucking fans to speak of bar her a&r men.

disagree with u contenderizer re: Taylor Swift; 'mean' can connote both 'asshole' and 'small' or 'petty...

Awesome song (Marina)

didn't give it many points but it's fun and I like the keys and I'm about to listen to that Crystal Castles song, bet it's rubbbbbbish :D

Bravo, Whiney.

I've been fucking with this song for over two years, ever since the demo popped up on her Myspace in 2008.

This is the country that brought us Queen

i sincerely apologise. god i fucking loathe queen. even more than marina.

Crystal Castles is pretty good LJ

"Shampain" is fun, but I can't say that I love it, and Taylor Swift is a pretty painful listen for me. Can't say I'm in a place in my life where teen country sensations really have much relevance.

I've remembered which Crystal Castles song it is now, that one's really good actually.

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71. RIHANNA "What's My Name" [234 points, 11 votes]
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Yeah, this is a good one, but I like "Rude Boy" better.

would have voted for this if i had voted (rihanna 'what's my name')

xp otm

oh na na

what does her finger say?

thought the last rihanna was zzzzzzzzz. marina and the diamonds sounded like kate nash? i dunno idgi

anything to avoid having that horrible Eminem collaboration in this countdown.

hear this on the radio all the time & i still dig it a bunch

yeah "Rude Boy" better be waaaay higher now

kinda surprised anyone cared about "what's my name?" enough to vote for it. the original is...catchy but kind of boring, and dragged waaaaay down by fucking drake. however! these two remixes are BRILLIANT:

rihanna ft. vybz kartel - what's my name? (federation sound remix)
rihanna - what's my name? (brenmar club remix)

both drakeless, hurrah.

champain is balanced somewhere between hilarious and turrible. kind of love it, in spite of the sense that my sensibilities are being somehow offended. i guess ersatz abbadonna is always gonna be OK w me.

Manages to overcome Drake doing maths and still be terrific.

Hadn't heard this but it's pretty good (if you subtract Drake)

I like Marina just fine (but didn't vote for her), but Matt's britpop comment has made me think of Catatonia and... well she is a bit Cerys Matthews, it has to be said.

btw i'm feeling the crystal castles song in a non-committal kind of way - i like what they're going for

waiting for intertextual exegesis between "what's my name" and billy joel's "uptown girl"

i'm surprised "what's my name" placed too -- i like it like i said but also not enough to vote for it (i don't think...)

Crystal Castles is ok but completely not the sort of thing I'll return to. Marina song has a chunky, organic unslickness which makes me want to hear it again.

hey can one of you guys email me my albums/tracks ballots when you have a sec? thanking u

take it to the fetish thread, louis

Diddy still leading the pack. Are we counting up or down?

I guess it's a good thing we extended to 77 results.

The vybe kartel version is good but doesn't feature those shorts...so.

Crystal Castles is a fucking embarrassment

ilxor, just ILXmailed it to you

Because of their music or their attitudes or both?

xpost

thx seandalai! v fast

Marina is horrible.

Crystal Castles will never be anywhere as good as what they rip off.

Rihanna is okay but gets a bit trudgey, and yeah, Drake is cack.

bc they are always doing shameful things that bring disrespect to their families xxp

Awesome jpgs j0rdan

rhianna's might be the best thing here so far, despite drake being boring and gross.

that or taylor swift

actually yeah CC is just really bland, euphoric dreampop has been done so much better

Vampire Weekend is also really dull! :D

Shampain is the first Marina song I've made it all the way thru but still meh

still not made it all the way thru a Whiney post

xp - bitter words of an ex-VW-fan.

there's a solo version of the rihanna w/out any drake on Loud

rihanna & diddy are the best so far

did not think Shampain was horrible

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70. THE FIVES FT. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)" [236 points, 5 votes, one first place vote]
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This is the only track with five votes to get in the top, um, 90...everyone who voted for this put it in their top 3.

wtf is that

both of the rihanna remixes i posted are drakeless! and have better beats, too.

"it's what you do" is v.good indeed.

lol i didn't realize there was actually a video for this until i went to link to it -- anyway, cool song

Have never heard this, nor have I even heard OF it.

it's funky house btw

the only person to vote for it in p&j was deej

This is the only track with five votes to get in the top, um, 90...everyone who voted for this put it in their top 3.

ha it was really really close to making my ballot, if it had it would've been around 20 or so.

this was tim f's #1 if that matters to anyone

i get the feeling that the uk funky track i DID vote for did not have the same support as the fives

this video is really cool

I'm feelin' it.

tim f going retro in 2010?

Is it just the Hipstamatic video effect or is she actually that orange?

Crystal Castles will never be anywhere as good as what they rip off

is Celestica ripping off anything in particular?

i didn't like crystal castles a few years ago when their early tracks sounded like My First Chiptune with a dance beat added, definitely willing to reappraise them now though. will listen to the track when i get home and see

"Celestica" reminds me of more gazey Ladytron

The Fives is only the second one on here I've heard before today - must have been through Tim (heard the Marina before through Johnny). Solid.

nice, i really like this one!

oh so THIS is what funky house is

it's ok I guess

Vocals and sounds (not beats) on "It's What You Do" have a great disco vibe.

The Fives is really good; probably my favorite so far

a word about the next track: the fact that it's #69 is... not insignificant

is it a song about oral sex?

the square root of #69 is

Fives dollar fooootlooooong

taylor swift is end credit music for hollywood parent drama

69 is the best number besides 77

cee-lo?

it's weird, cuz while the rhianna and taylor tracks strike me as the "best" so far (maybe i just mean "most successfully pop-like?"), it's marina and the diamonds that i'm gonna go back to and track down. not sure what to make of that fives track. it's not bad, but it's not grabbing me either. maybe i need to give it a little more time, i dunno...

is it tik tok *crosses fingers*

I've got a lot of time for Vybz Kartel but still not entirely convinced by that Rihanna version.

is Celestica ripping off anything in particular?

Not as far as I'm aware (unlike their early career controversy), I meant it more in terms of being blandly derivative.

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69. YUNG HUMMA FT. FLYNT FLO$$Y "Lemme Smang It" [236 points, 8 votes, two first place votes]
Youtube

TOO LOW

This is the only track with five votes to get in the top, um, 90...everyone who voted for this put it in their top 3

Knew this would happen but it still makes me happy, that was my #2, love love love that Fives song so much.

omglol yessss

I liked Celestica; reminds me of nothing so much as "Daniel"

I'm about to hear this for the first time.

Me too

i'm just gonna post this one more time

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5244/5309189462_cee00fb897_o.gif

Is this like a Weird Al thing?

"lemme smang it" is the first of my votes to show :D

my #25 at that!

video reminds me of Milli Vanilli

liking these results a lot so far and wishing i'd voted (even tho i nom'd tracks and albums) - so glad the fives song made it!

way too low

Oh god...that is so horrible. What is good about it?!!

"lemme smang it" is basically 2010's "drop it like it's hot"

But Lex, it's basically a comedy song!

this is amazing and repulsive at the same time

okay, on a second pass, i'm into the fives track. not my favorite thing ever, but nice.

I meant it more in terms of being blandly derivative

ok but is strange to me to criticise it for this when most of the album is more abrasive or aggressive. but i think it's actually just a good example of the kind of musical style/aesthetic its going for rather than a bland imitation.

Oh god...that is so horrible. What is good about it?!!

another tummiscratch beat

i start cracking up just thinking about "lemme smang it" -- i can barely watch it anymore

"lemme smang it" is basically 2010's "drop it like it's hot"

Except one is great and the other is far from it.

listening to it again, how can you not like the chord changes in 'shampain' everyone - or the squiggly mid-song break

ah well

fuck only 8 votes btw

haha i've never seen the "lemme smang it" video, is it funny or good or what

"lemme smang it" is basically 2010's "drop it like it's hot"

this makes exactly no sense. "smang it" has nothing on "drop it".

smang it video is genius, the track itself is ... okay

haha i've never seen the "lemme smang it" video, is it funny or good or what

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, January 24, 2011 12:53 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

c'mon!!!

xp the beat, contenderizer...

I liked the "Roach Egg" guy from a few years back much more than Smang It dude.

smang it is giving me a few chuckles, gotta say

don't mind the minimal instrumentation either, has a weird charm

i.e. it has stealthily become my 2nd-favourite posted so far

both of the rihanna remixes i posted are drakeless!

too bad they suck tho!

i like to mix it up / i like to do stuff

lemme smang it is tim & eric

smang!

drip drip

CIDERPRESS OTM

alright the next track was a big one that never really caught on here, but it places anyway

Get ready for 68 posts of me going "how the fuck did this get more votes than 'Lemme Smang It'"

can't wait

smang it kindof confirms a lot of things abt goon thread culture

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68. RICK ROSS FT. STYLES P "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" [238 points, 12 votes]
Youtube

I'm into it.

saul wright

How did this not catch on here?

wtf is this

The start is meant to be 'where's my head at' yeah? Love this. BIG MEECH!!

Should be higher BTW

How did this not catch on here?

― President Keyes, Monday, January 24, 2011 1:02 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah wth

Excellent screencap, btw.

smang it kindof confirms a lot of things abt goon thread culture

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 January 2011 18:00 (2 minutes ago)

well, if the lyrical content isn't lol, it's mostly sad - way too dopey to be egregious tho

the beat's great but i have zero use for the original "bmf" and wheezing rick ross at all - i assume the song that's the better version of it will place a lot higher.

better "bmf" freestyles -

na'tee - bmf ("I THINK I'M WANDA JACKSON - SCARLETT O'HARA / GETTIN HEAD IN MY BED AS I APPLY MY MASCARA")
young lyric aka lyrikkal - michelle obama ("I THINK I'M HILLARY - MICHELLE OBAMA / FIRST LADY, NO DRAMA")

i like this song a lot tho i don't think i voted for it -- wasn't my favorite ross OR lex luger track of the year -- banger tho, fun to hear in the car

Like the backing track, meh on Ross rapping.

Rihanna song was kinda dull but with a good middle-eight where the song was allowed to soar, apart from that, not really interested

that bridge is a nightmare

"wheezing rick ross" jeeeeeez give the big guy a break lex

^^ ross = first of my votes to place

the bridge is oooooookay, it's certainly no "fireworks" as far as those things go

i like this song but not my favorite on the rick ross album

Like the backing track, meh on Ross rapping.

rick ross sounds like a self-obsessed asshole ffs, music dripping with fat, coronary imminent

lex pls stop posting crappy utubes

music dripping with fat

this basically = prog in a nutshell imo lj

maybe that is its genius, the portrayal of potentially-fatal bombast

haaaa well as Whiney showed the other day, rap is the new prog

Rick Ross looks like a bald African-American version of my stepfather

i even like ross's voice, but get bored by what he does w it

this was def. one of my drinking anthems of the year. i don't love rick ross that much but fuck the fattist haters. i think i'm big meech!

maybe that is its genius, the portrayal of potentially-fatal bombast

this is basically the angle every reviewer took on the ross album iirc

lex pls stop posting crappy utubes

wtf is your problem? they're youtubes related to the song posted here that i think are better versions. i'd be mentioning them anyway so i may as well actually give people a link to hear them if they want. you don't need to click on them if you don't want to.

god I wasn't being physically fattist, just saying that the music wobbles and lurches

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67. THE KNIFE "Coluring of Pigeons" [242 points, 7 votes, one first place vote]
Youtube

YES

lex pls stop posting crappy utubes

C'mon that Na'Tee is nice.

9 mins 59 secs! Really? Is this an lj thing?

this doesn't smash nor bang

all of you have to listen to all 11 minutes of that as punishment for Crystal Castles

Never listened to that Knife thing. Guess I'm about to.

just had a horrible feeling that i posted my tracks list back-to-front OH GOD

xp oh it is.

that photo is from the accompanying opera or w/e fwiw

that knife record was a complete and total joek

the jpegs are officially getting cooler & cooler

argh i did :(

Hadn't got round to hearing this before, this is pretty cool.

Lovely jpeg there j0rdan

dope track~

wtf did i vote as number one then

BTW LISTEN TO THIS ONE: ALL 11 MINUTES NOT EDITED VERSION

almost voted for the knife track (it's incredible) but first heard it tail-end of 2009 iirc, so cut it last second

just to be clear the first one in the list is the highest ranked on the ballots right?

i'm only 1 minute in right now but seriously, wtf

just had a horrible feeling that i posted my tracks list back-to-front OH GOD

paranoia that i did too, now

argh i did :(

Why would you do that?

please let that be the case! (i think it was the other way around tho)

the knife song is pretty good imo

The self-indulgent Knife record was seriously funnier than "Let Me Smang It"

oh i get it, this is from the "on the origin of species"-inspired thing, right? hence the pigeons. smh.

fever ray's cover of "mercy street" fr this year is amazing tho

xp truthbomb

sorry louis, i just picked the first youtube result

just to be clear the first one in the list is the highest ranked on the ballots right?

Yes. Points were assigned highest to lowest (or equally for unweighted ballots).

oh thank fuck for that!

The self-indulgent Knife record was seriously funnier than "Let Me Smang It"

― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 January 2011 18:13 (19 seconds ago)

-_-

tpp - sent you your tracks ballot.

can't wait for the Americans to hear These New Puritans btw

thank you! panic over

kind of admire the knife w/o loving it or wanting to listen to it - not down with people dismissing it as self-indulgent or pretentious or whatever though (not down with either of those dismissals anywhere tbh)

I like TNP, but didn't vote for them in either category.

Ugh. Seriously don't get the love for The Knife.

Oh, I'm not a big fan of the album, but We Want War has gotta figure xp

you were into Silent Shout or Fever Ray weren't you lex?

haha i've never seen the "lemme smang it" video, is it funny or good or what

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:53 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can i just post this again to boggle @ the lex for a minute

self-indulgent and pretentious shit is some of the best shit there is imo (not that i'm sure this is necessarily either.)

loved both silent shout and fever ray - way more than deep cuts or the debut

i can't even imagine listening to it without watching the video xxp

yesssss for "ass on the floor" & "mean" so far. i love when you vote for songs that just scrape into the chart.

this year's knife album is fabulous, but definitely a mood piece a la scott walker's the drift (or similarly harsh '00s record w/o an easy entrance point) and pretty much the definition of "for fans only"

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66. CASSIE "Skydiver" [242 points, 8 votes]
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Oh god...that is so horrible. What is good about it?!!

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 11:51 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

catchy beat, catchy hook, hilarious lyrics, funny rapping, gets stuck in your head...? what else do u need

self-indulgent and pretentious shit is some of the best shit there is imo (not that i'm sure this is necessarily either.)

yeah exactly.

i've just been listening to an mp3 of "lemme smang it" all this time, didn't realise it had a video. shrug.

that knife song is fascinating, first genuinely surprising thing to place

yesss cassie!!! my #2

i was the only person to vote for the cassie song in p&j -- it's a very beautiful song

is this chillwave

no

i wanted to like 'skydiver' but it never really did it for me

haha it wouldn't be an ilx poll without a lost cassie track! i neither voted for this nor think it's particularly special, but i'm heartened to see it place. my favourite lost cassie track of 2010 was "fuck u silly" with nicki minaj, which ends with nicki riding cassie ("giddy up, giddy up! now wake diddy up, diddy up, diddy up!")

cassie is just proto chillwave

now she just needs to release that album so that it can be no 1 on the 2011 ILM album poll

Not heard the Knife track before, really like the intro and the operatic bit, not so moved by the main song in between or the extended instrumental at the end.

Δ

cΔass†e

fuck i fucked that up

cΔss†e

you spelled cassette wrong

I voted the Knife album very high in my albums list, no singles though - good choice

for those that are interested, "skydiver" was written by the dude that wrote "shades" off the dirty money album

this cassie song is cute

That Fives track is nice and fun and mixtape-able.

love that AlIeN SoUndzzz cΔss†e comp

Get ready for 68 posts of me going "how the fuck did this get more votes than 'Lemme Smang It'"

― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:59 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feelin this post

I'm a little behind, but I kinda dig "Lemme Smang It"! Nice synths.

catchy beat, catchy hook, hilarious lyrics, funny rapping, gets stuck in your head...? what else do u need

All of these things, none of which are contained w/in "Lemme Smang It"

i was the only 1 to pnj both smang it & the fives. shame on all of u

ban Johnny Fever

the next spot is a tie b/w two tracks -- should i post them both at once or space em out?

i think i cut the knife off my albums ballot as #26 :(

space em

i was the only 1 to pnj both smang it & the fives. shame on all of u

― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, January 24, 2011 1:25 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol it was funny to find the p&j spots for a lot of these only to find them in the thousands w/ one placement by a ilxor

Space em out, I'd say.

cassie song has potential but in the end is just another radio-ready blurt of competence like 90% of this list :P

dece synths but christ, write a song

catchy beat, catchy hook, hilarious lyrics, funny rapping, gets stuck in your head...? what else do u need

All of these things, none of which are contained w/in "Lemme Smang It"

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 1:24 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

daaaaamn, i really hope that that ain't true

All of these things, none of which are contained w/in "Lemme Smang It"

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 12:24 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you post in none of the music threads i do so im guessing that we will never see eye to eye on this one due to intractable aesthetic differences.

BABY!

i was the only 1 to pnj both smang it & the fives. shame on all of u

shame on all of us!!!!!!! if only we had such great taste as u

As soon as the Cassie track started I began singing the Longmont Potion Castle dude's "trip / triplecheck check / double check triplecheck / check / tripledoublecheck" to the beat. Doesn't mean anything, just popped immediately to mind.

LOVE IT!

^^^

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64 (tie). KELIS "Acapella" [242 points, 9 votes]
Youtube

All of these things, none of which are contained w/in "Lemme Smang It"

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 24, 2011 1:24 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

daaaaamn, i really hope that that ain't true

― alpaca bowl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 24, 2011 1:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

^dying

LIKE @ Kelis

hope this doesn't mean "4th of July" didn't place

yay! i <3 this song, thought it wouldn't place b/c ppl (somewhat deservedly) have a thing against guetta

ughhhh the one bad song on her album >:(

so awkward - i don't feel like the beat and vocal ever quite match. and if she's gonna sing about orchestras, how about at least giving us some euphoric strings, david guetta you utter hack?

i hope fourth of july places then bc it was better

this is one of the more tactful guetta compositions

kelis video kind of reminds me of "Bedtime Story"

I didn't realize I liked "Acapella" until I heard it over the store speakers of Kohl's while I was xmas shopping last month.

I actually don't mind Guetta generally, I'd tack him over RedOne and Dr. Luke for the most part

though he is responsible for the worst song ever ("I Gotta Feeling")

haha @ tack, freudian

also silver hair makes Kelis look like Maya Angelou

i mean fourth of july is so much better as is this

'acapella' does not deliver on its title. NEXT

Acapella?

http://www.strategicdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/inconceivable.jpg

chorus is ok in a really derivative dreampop way

Was all lined up ready to like the Kelis track, but... nope.

lol jagger

only you could call a straight house track like that "derivative of dream pop"

^srsly cracked me up

thought he was making fun of his own reaction to Crystal Castles honestly

william orbit was knocking out better shit than this 12 years ago

oh whatever, dream-pop-house, vanity of vanishing differences

ugh "Skydiver" is even more weaksauce than "Official Girl," wtf is wrong with you Cassie stans

isnt dream pop like mazzy star and shit i mean what is genre even

i sadly forgot to vote but 4th of july would've been my number 1. It better be on here.

cocteau twins is the iconic thing i think of for 'dream pop'

It's LJs new synonym for music since he got tired of calling everything art-rock.

this is a pertinent segue

*excited*

may not be that far a truck from the chorus of Acapella to, say, Teardrop...

more dream-pop coming up

That Fives track is nice and fun and mixtape-able.

yeah, i guess that was another surprise. not a "wtf" surprise like the knife track, but surprising in that i'd never even heard of it, or of anyone involved. get the feeling i'm not alone there, that if more than a handful of ILXors had heard it, it would have placed much, much higher.

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64 (tie). FOUR TET "Love Cry" [242 points, 9 votes]
Youtube

Kinda 2009 but so so so so good.

starting to realize between Cassie and The-Dream that my idea of R&B as a genre built to showcase great vocal performances doesn't square with this board's love of chirping little munchkins

fucking four tet :D

iirc this album was quite good, will listen now

ugh "Skydiver" is even more weaksauce than "Official Girl," wtf is wrong with you Cassie stans

― trv kvnt (some dude), Monday, January 24, 2011 10:36 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

rooting for cassie, but yeah, this

Okay, kind of lost interest in Four Tet a while ago but have seen a bunch of you raving about the new album, so let's have a listen to this.

yeah, i guess that was another surprise. not a "wtf" surprise like the knife track, but surprising in that i'd never even heard of it, or of anyone involved. get the feeling i'm not alone there, that if more than a handful of ILXors had heard it, it would have placed much, much higher.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Monday, January 24, 2011 12:38 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its got its own thread

starting to realize between Cassie and The-Dream that my idea of R&B as a genre built to showcase great vocal performances doesn't square with this board's love of chirping little munchkins

― trv kvnt (some dude), Monday, January 24, 2011 1:39 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha! -- i don't think of that as the genre's #1 function, so that makes sense

starting to realize between Cassie and The-Dream that my idea of R&B as a genre built to showcase great vocal performances doesn't square with this board's love of chirping little munchkins

― trv kvnt (some dude), Monday, January 24, 2011 12:39 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im hardly a cassie fanclub member but if this is the grounds u are gonna argue this one on im more inclined to side w/ them!

If I'd weighted my tracks "Love Cry" would have been #1 or #2.

four tet sampled cassie somewhere else this year, didn't he? can't remember where.

thought his album was boring (as ever) iirc, will give this track another try.

J0rdan this song is 9 minutes; give us a little time plz to listen to it...

(not that you weren't going to; just sayin...)

oh and i went back and tried to listen to that crystal castles again. it seemed okay when i first tried and failed to make it through, but i was only wrong. there is no way in which that thing does not stink.

the four tet track is fantastic, but i voted for it in 2009 (didn't it place last year??)

hope others voted for "angel echoes" w/ me ^_____^

am i the only one who prefers Angel Echoes?

This is okay, but I got off the Four Tet train a few years ago.

Actually, this is better than just okay. I'm glad it placed.

four tet album is stellar front to back, was my #1 long-player for most of 2010 until a couple great albums hit late in the year, but i'd still rank it in my top 2-3 w/o hesitation

am i the only one who prefers Angel Echoes?

nope :)

I love angel echoes!

If you guys feel the need to argue with every clueless LJ pronouncement we're gonna be here for 20,000 posts.

Ringer EP and There is Love in You are the only Four Tet releases that have grabbed me - found the earlier stuff not so interesting.

this was my number four btw

add moth/wolf cub to that and im p much in agreement

xp

four tet sampled cassie somewhere else this year, didn't he? can't remember where.

his joe goddard rmx

um also this track

love cry is pretty cool, v spacious mix, groovy space sounds, building 2 a monstrous climax (I hope)

aw Matt, u harsh - I use genre terms v personally and tbh most radio music tends towards this glossy electronic euphoria which I can get v lazy with in turn

I do like this, but it doesn't knock my socks off or anything. Not sure it'll get me back into Four Tet in any meaningful sense.

If you guys feel the need to argue with every clueless LJ pronouncement we're gonna be here for 20,000 posts.

― Matt DC, Monday, January 24, 2011 1:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah LJ is approaching Hongro territory where i see him as kind of a static, unchanging but minor irritant in music threads but i get way more annoyed with people who obsess over responding to him.

^^yah XPOST

four tet doesn't do monstrous climax

as in LOVE CRY is the track where he samples Cassie

four tet track winds up being pretty great, but sure takes its damn time getting there

four tet doesn't do monstrous climax

― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, January 24, 2011 6:49 PM (28 seconds ago)

jeez thank god

well it had a cool sound thruout and the last 3 minutes were dope - hasn't slain me but would listen again

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63. JAVIERA MENA "Hasta La Verdad" [244 points, 8 votes, one first place vote]
Youtube

kinda wish certain people on ILM would shut up about who they hate and why and how much...

I have no idea what this is...

Four Tet - liked the last four minutes or so. Found the first five pretty tedious though. It is safe to say this is not my thing.

Yay Javiera!

LJ is not that Hongro-ish--he may not always be "hip" to what has caught the ILX zeitgeist, but he doesn't offer up rigid framework to what constitutes "good music" with every post. He's just a little challopsy.

javiera mena

Is this the Spanish Sally Shapiro?

sorry shoulda just left well enough alone...

takes me too long to compose complete sentences imo

btw plz keep discussing me rather than the music ty

"Hasta la Verdad" is the first of my votes to place, though I came very close to voting for "Love Cry."

sweet, glad this placed

Ok I like this.

Javiera is pretty good, reminds me of early-90s chartpop

Liking this! Does the whole dream-house-wtf-fuckit thing rly nicely

This Javiera Mena is pretty great! Wasn't so sure at the beginning but since the first chorus it's been ace. Kudos!

Is this the Spanish Sally Shapiro?

Chilean. And you're not *that* far off, except I think Mena has broader range and more personality.

very good song, and grew on me with every listen thoughout the year. perfect for any situation really

Wasn't so sure at the beginning but since the first chorus it's been ace. Kudos!

this

I think Mena has broader range and more personality.

Yeah I see that...not that it's difficult though.

(I like Sally Shapiro)

is there an Aeroplane '08 or Pacific!-esque mix of Hasta La Verdad because that could be nice

is this where I mention that Sally Shapiro remix again, the pinnacle of late-00's dream house

Never heard of Javiera Mena! Very nice - it's a little too slickly finished for what would normally be my taste, but that seems to be kind of the point.

"love cry" is a lot better than i remembered it being!! love when the main beat finally drops.

javiera mena is another that i heard once, for the jukebox, and didn't thinka great deal of. i guess i should go back to it too.

blueski otm

Also, ILX not piling on the hipster-girl moustache-wearing thing in the video? What's happened to you guys?

four tet doesn't do monstrous climax

that's what she said O_O

She washed it off and the song got good. Fitting metaphor.

xpost

this song could sound great remixed

not crazy about the mena album tho i like it fine. (i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context)

I didn't hear "Love Cry" until I got the album so had no hesitation putting it at #3 on my ballot this year. It's so brilliantly paced, the way it introduces new ideas gradually - kinda like a Lindstrom track in that regard.

Also voted for "Skydiver" (my #7). I love the refrain, the way the synth/vocal phrases move against the beat. Those who say the song is weak should listen again.

If more than 2 other things on my short tracks ballot make it, I'll be very surprised. But v. happy about these two.

not crazy about the mena album tho i like it fine. (i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context)

oh hold up she's a lekman associate - maybe that's why i didn't like her first time round and maybe why i perhaps shouldn't go back to her. h8 that dude.

i'm pretty much allergic to jens lekman in any context

Jens Lekman is involved??? Damn - I had high hopes for the album but I hate hate hate Lekman.

lol xp

well, he's on one track

yup listening back and all i can hear now is the twee. can't deal, soz.

don't know if these are any good but here are some hasta la verdad remixes i found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDXHaoThsU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyD9xfSFyc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSIzu60-QI&feature=related

sorry if they are not what youre looking for

^^ lex otm. lekman is annoyingly twee imo

aww shit...how do you not embed youtubes?

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62. SWANS "No Words/No Thoughts" [248 points, 7 votes, one first place vote]
Youtube

my favorite on the album is probably "luz de piedra de luna", when the piano kicks some life into the song in the chorus

[url] tags

Glad this placed too ("Hasta La Verdad"). Love it.

haha what/who is swans?

YESSSSSSSSS

*AMAZING* song, I await ur reactions with glee

Excellent! Don't dissociate it from the album enough to vote for it as a track but nice to see it here.

Swans! My first vote to place. Happily surprised.

i used [url]s....you mean the [url=]link title stuff?

haha what/who is swans?

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 24, 2011 2:02 PM (37 seconds ago)

Never stop, you!

see ilxor told ya id vote swans

I assume this ain't t' Swans who did "Holy Money" and stuff in the 80s?

i had no idea who/what swans were either -- i assume that's the right dude in the photo \(o_O)/

i used [url]s....you mean the [url=]link title stuff?

yes. Sorry.

it is
xp

Serious question LJ. Do you like anything shorter than 9 mins long? Hm, admittedly this is a very promising start.

sick swans jpg!!!

I assume this ain't t' Swans who did "Holy Money" and stuff in the 80s?

That would be an incorrect assumption.

so far the poll has been loads of dreamhousepop and three (good to awesome) 9+ minute monsters :D

loool xposts

there's a singlemindedness to swans that i feel like alt-universe lex would love.

loving this song

maybe lex would like Swans when Jarboe was a member

this sounds like what i recall mogwai sounded like, when some people i knew in university tried to get me into them :/

Okay so this is really really good. Will have to check the album.

oh wow, thx

whatever next, Foetus?

Mogwai have always been much more cookie-cutter quiet/loud/quiet than Swans ever were (and about 1000% less interesting)

I must try to stop shaking my head at lex or I'll permanently damage my neck.

But YEAH, glad to see Swans in here.

skip to 4 minutes in lex tbh

I forgot to nominate Foetus' 'O Putrid Sun' :( ah well, gave the album a ton of points

the next song, i believe, is chillwave

i probably would've started using the term 'dream house' eventually but can't now louis has

it will also be our last track of the day

actually i really like the whooshing noises, like a rollercoaster into a black hole. christ, that's the sort of thing LJ would type.

church bells always good, too - one of my favourite hip-hop trax atm has church bells for a beat

great SWANS track!i liked the knife track also, to my surprise.

v. nice job getting the results up quickly so as not to shoot my entire afternoon btw

omg a male indie vocalist that i DON'T HATE!

i actually quite like this, albeit i'm not sure when i'd actually listen to it - i would file it alongside scott walker, to be dug out once every few years late at night.

Swans aren't indie, lex, don't worry.

awesome song. the amazingness hit me like a bullet about 3.5 minutes in, i thought it sounded awful at first.

he has gravitas, i like that

i like the massive drums, too

wow Lex kind of digging The Swans? right on.

omg a male indie vocalist that i DON'T HATE!

i actually quite like this, albeit i'm not sure when i'd actually listen to it - i would file it alongside scott walker, to be dug out once every few years late at night.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, January 24, 2011 2:11 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark

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ILM is going to have to step up in 2011 to produce a moment greater than lex liking Swans.

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61. GAMES "Strawberry Skies" [250 points, 7 votes]
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games is the oneohtrix dude, right?

yall i am actually downloading the swans album

this is pretty cool actually -- sounds like something off 'italians do it better'

yay for the lex

Have not heard this, but I know people who wouldn't shut up about it. I'll give it a listen now.

No Words/No Thoughts was a great choice for opening track on the album

Not feeling that Javiera Mena track, for much the same reason I don't like Sally Shapiro past her (admittedly amazing) first single.

This list is reassuringly all over the place and batshit so far. Lex getting to Swans probably the weirdest part so far.

Okay Strawberry Skies is the first track I've never even heard of.

Strawberry Skies and the Games EP is fucking excellent but everything on it needs to be twice as long imo esp. SS

awesome song. the amazingness hit me like a bullet about 3.5 minutes in, i thought it sounded awful at first.

whereas i dug the bells at the start and some of the screeching/buzzing after that but once the guitars and drums dropped fully i'm done with it

This is Oneohtrix dude, yep. I voted for this - didn't care about the album all that much, but thought this was a really good single track.

love "strawberry skies" - i crushed pretty hard on OPN dude in general in 2010 tho

yeah i'd never heard of games either - i didn't mind the oneohtrix album but didn't like enough to think about it or play it again

Okay, I'm liking this Games thing. Seems tailor-made for my tastes of late.

Don't like Games as much as I expected - it goes to far over the line into pastiche for me.

i don't consider Games chillwave - half dreampop half turbo charged Shannon instrumentals

I think I voted for his CFCF remix - Strawberry Skies almost makes me want to believe in chillwave

recap:

77. DIDDY-DIRTY MONEY "Ass on the Floor" [222 points, 7 votes]
76. VAMPIRE WEEKEND "Giving Up the Gun" [222 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
75. AZARI & III "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake remix)" [228 points, 8 votes]
74. CRYSTAL CASTLES "Celestica" [232 points, 8 votes]
73. TAYLOR SWIFT "Mean" [232 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
72. MARINA & THE DIAMONDS "Shampain" [234 points, 10 votes]
71. RIHANNA "What's My Name" [234 points, 11 votes]
70. THE FIVES ft. VANYA TAYLOR "It's What You Do (Hottest By Far)" [236 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
69. YUNG HUMMA ft. FLYNT FLO$$Y "Lemme Smang It" [236 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
68. RICK ROSS ft. STYLES P "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" [238 points, 12 votes]
67. THE KNIFE "Colouring of Pigeons" [242 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
66. CASSIE "Skydiver" [242 points, 8 votes]
(TIE) 64. KELIS "Acapella" [242 points, 9 votes]
(TIE) 64. FOUR TET "Love Cry" [242 points, 9 votes]
63. JAVIERA MENA "Hasta La Verdad" [244 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
62. SWANS "No Words/No Thoughts" [248 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
61. GAMES "Strawberry Skies" [250 points, 7 votes]

I should hate this Games song but I don't. Combines all sorts of elements I've never liked but the resulting mixture is actually decent. Hugely surprised.

thinking again, I probably did not vote for that. but still a good track.

i crushed pretty hard on OPN dude in general in 2010 tho

this interview http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2010/11/electric-independence-oneohtrix-point.html seals the deal - one of my favourite guys out there right now

lol @ everything being called 'dreampop' itt

great results so far!

Swans is "bad dream pop"

already better than p&j

oh "strawberry skies" has laurel halo on it - i have some of her solo stuff, it's aight. as is this, feeling it - way different to his stuff as oneohtrix! i love that bassline tethering it down and stopping it becoming to insubstantial, as is the wont of dreampop sometimes

Jordan's jpgs pretty much making this list.

quite like the list so far!! keep surprising me (a little) ILM

games track is ok, very dreamy swirly

swirly house. you heard it here first

synthgaze

SWIRLY HOUSE

Gonna go do some work now...great list so far, my favourites today were Four Tet/Fives/Swans, Four Tet was my only vote to show.

I love OPN but not heard Games yet

haha one of the laurel halo things i have is a cover of lindsay lohan's "something i never had"

Is 'Strawberry Skies' actually meant to riff off Strawberry Switchblade, or is it just me?

i completely missed the boat on the oneohtrix guy i guess, seems like something i'd like but i haven't heard a note yet

3 of my votes have showed so far! yayy

strawberry switchblade is pretty amazing

as a cultural artifact

swirly house

ugh are people ever gonna stop attaching 'house' to stuff when it's really not there in any meaningful sense? guess not

That was joeks.

Oh Strawberry Skies is THIS track, I like it.

Currently listening to Smang It for the first time. Awesome.

If you like this Swans stuff lex, please get hold of Soundtracks for the Blind....heavy music but oh so pretty, Don't discount the Jarboe factor too.

Voted for Games and Crystal Castles. Haven't had much time to check out things i didn't already know, but did listen to the Fives song - nice!