2011 BEST SINGLES/TRAX SO FAR THREAD

bubble club - goddess
tyler, the creator - yonkers
horrid red - pink flowers
sic alps - do you want to give $$
mr lucci ft bohannon & twista - bout gone
ducktails - killin the vibe
8ball & mjg ft. slim thug - life goes on
raekwon ft ghostface, rick ross - molasses
rick ross ft meek mill - perfectionist music
avril lavigne - what the hell
shaggy ft pitbull - fired up (fuck the rece$$ion)
max b - money make me feel so better
brick squad mafia - we taken [sic] bricks
destroyer - chinatown

looking forward to finding out what some of u are feeling so far

the death set - can you seen straight
windmills by the ocean - pagan sun
grails - almost grew my hair
liturgy - veins of god
low - nothing but heart
britney spears - how i roll
lady gaga - born this way
juicy j - flip that bitch a few times
mouse on the track ft shell and foxx - unwind
gunplay ft diddy and rick ross - another one
dels - trumpalump

young l - loud pockets
rick ross ft meek mill - perfectionists
waka flocka flame - all i need

craft spells - after the moment
ducktails - killin' the vibe
hips like cinderalla - it's what
kandi - leroy jones
ryan leslie - diamonds & maybachs
outer limits recordings - $20 bill
ssaliva - teenage brain
teams vs star slinger - punch-drunk love
raime - if anywhere was here...
widowspeak - harsh realm
young montana? - sacre cool

man it's been a slow year imo

this is the stuff on my 2011 playlist, roughly ordered by most played

drumma boy ft gucci mane & wiz khalifa - 2 timez
mr. lucci ft twista & bohagon - bout gone
timothy bloom ft v - till the end of time
chris brown ft lil wayne & busta rhymes - look at me now
gucci mane ft waka flocka flame & oj da juiceman - this is what i do
max b - money make feel better
foxx - gold mouth dawg
the strokes - under the cover of darkness
chris brown - no bullshit
lil b - motivation
ginuwine ft tank - heaven
gucci mane ft rocko - birds of a feather
flo-rida ft akon - who that girl

~vaguely alphabetical, incl. plenty of album tracks~

Adele: "Rolling in the Deep"
Belong: "Never Came Close"
Colin Stetson: "Judges"
Diddy Dirty Money: "Ass on the Floor" <-- it's a single this year so it counts, right? :D
Earth: "Old Black"
Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke: "Mirror"
Gang Gang Dance: "Glass Jar"
Gary Higgins: "Stormy Weather"
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx: "We're New Here"
James Blake: "The Wilhelm Scream"
Jamie Woon: "Shoulda"
Katy B: "Broken Record"
Ke$ha: "Blow"
Kurt Vile: "Runner Ups"
Lady Gaga: "Born This Way"
Low: "Nothing but Heart"
Mogwai: "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)"
Six Organs of Admittance: "S/word and Leviathan"
Tim Hecker: "The Piano Drop"
Tyler, the Creator: "Yonkers"

Destroyer, "The Laziest River"
Toro Y Moi, "Still Sound"
PJ Harvey, "The Words That Maketh Murder"
Smith Westerns, "Weekend"
Hercules and Love Affair, "Painted Eyes"
The Go! Team, "Secretary Song"
Cut Copy, "Take Me Over"
Radiohead, "Lotus Flower"

Diddy Dirty Money: "Ass on the Floor" <-- it's a single this year so it counts, right? :D

it was a single last yr

shaggy ft pitbull - fired up (fuck the rece$$ion)

love that flopson voted for this lmao

mr. lucci ft twista & bohagon - bout gone

this had the disadvantage for me of being compared to 'rollin' before i heard it lol

regret not embedding a youtube in the OP

Diddy Dirty Money: "Ass on the Floor" <-- it's a single this year so it counts, right? :D

it was a single last yr

Wikipedia

Singles from Last Train to Paris

1. "Angels"
Released: November 3, 2009 (2009-11-03)
2. "Love Come Down"
Released: November 3, 2009 (2009-11-03)
3. "Hello Good Morning"
Released: March 30, 2010 (2010-03-30)
4. "Loving You No More"
Released: September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21)
5. "Coming Home"
Released: November 21, 2010 (2010-11-21)
6. "Your Love"
Released: March 15, 2011 (2011-03-15)
7. "Ass on the Floor"
Released: April 18, 2011

P sure that's in uk

(no album tracks in this)

lea-anna - kisses
buju banton ft. wayne wonder - murder
sunny sweeney - amy
yelawolf ft. trae tha truth - shit i seen
miss fire - confusion beat
k. michelle - how many times?
black rose - anthem
keida - bubble up
julio bashmore - battle for middle you
young dro ft. travis barker - check out my swag
timothy bloom ft. v. bozeman - 'til the end of time
objekt - tinderbox
ill blu - meltdown
cousin fik - water in the bo
lunice - hitmane's anthem
omar-s - here's your trance, now dance
tevo howard - the age of compassion (house mix)
lady chann - treble to your bass
mr lucci ft. bohagon & twista - bout gone
trina ft. rick ross - waist so skinny
square off ft. cory gunz - goodfellas

not rly feeling that squareoff, jahlil beats can be so gr8 & that frantic melodic repetition is a part of most of his best work but idk the melody on that one is too juvenile or something

i love that beat, only thing i dont like on it is cory gunz lil wayne imitation

(album tracks)

pj harvey - let england shake
gang gang dance - mindkilla
kandi - leroy jones
angel haze - fall for your type
dawn richard - bulletproof
diddy/dirty money - sade
frivolous - ostalgia
katy b - witches' brew
kid sister - work them
nicole scherzinger - club banger nation
marsha ambrosius - late nights & early mornings
deniz kurtel ft. jada - the l word
nicolas jaar - space is only noise if you can see
britney spears - i wanna go

not rly feeling that squareoff, jahlil beats can be so gr8 & that frantic melodic repetition is a part of most of his best work but idk the melody on that one is too juvenile or something

yeah i don't think i love it as much as "where dat chicken at" and i'm not keen on cory gunz either but square off is (are?) great. "up close & personal, the bullets gon interview him"

Pedantry alert but "The L Word" was a single - however I generally cosign whole swathes of lex's (and jordan's and flopson's) lists.

Stuff not already mentioned:

S.E.C.T. ft Ben Westbeech - In The Park
Myshy / Fuzzy Logick - Playground
Art Department - I C U
Ill Blu - Monsta

oh yeah duh i knew "the l word" was a single, just hadn't heard it until the album

is "monsta" a released thing or a two-minutes-mid-radio-set thing

actually there are lots of good EPs this year - sunny sweeney's s/t, ill blu's meltdown, miss fire's the female touch all stand out

I think "Monsta" is getting a digital/vinyl release in a month or so, so it seemed okay to include it here. In general funky producers have really stepped up in terms of getting stuff out to market.

Tyson - Out of My Mind: Youtube
Dash & Will - Animal: Youtube
Pope Joan - A Drowning: Youtube
Alex Winston - Locomotive: Youtube
Foster the People - Helena Beat: Youtube
Rainbow Arabia - Without You: Youtube
Maria Minerva - California Scheming: Youtube
Hella Better Dancer - Hundred Balloons: Youtube

yasmin - on my own
first 45 seconds of clare maguire - the last dance

oh and rebecca black - friday

how could we forget

I'll be disappointed if "Friday" doesn't make next year's top 77 countdown.

Can't actually think of anything I've enjoyed as a standalone track this year (bar Friday) but I guess that says more about how I consume music at the moment.

heres ten

gucci / wiz - 2 timez
tity boi - feelin you
cousin fik - water in the bo
waka flocka - bringing gangsta back
max b - money makes me feel better
e-40 - my money straight
nicolas jaar - cant see what is burning there
square off - goodfellas
reks feat styles p - why cry
Dubb 20 - all i know

Britney Spears has already been listed twice. Just wanted to mention that.

Ringo Deathstarr "Do It Every Time"
Ringo Deathstarr "So High"

The Go! Team "Buy Nothing Day"

in no particular order

adele / rumour has it
perfume genius / mr peterson
the strokes / life is simple n the moonlight
wild beasts / albatross
pj harvey / let england shake
human league / never let me go (aeroplane remix)
lady gaga / born this way (grum remix)
the streets / trust me
beth ditto / open heart surgery
touch sensitive / body stop
james blake / wilhelm scream
oh land / son of a gun
jj / still
crystal fighters / at home (fusty delights remix)

a couple of these might have come out at the arse end of 2010.

Light Asylum- Dark Allies
tUnE yArDs- Bizness
EMA- The Grey Ship
Cut Copy- Need You Now
James Blake- Lindisfarne II
Star Slinger- Mornin'
Puro Instict- Silky Eyes

Singles

The Dirtbombs - Sharevari
GS&TOP – High High
Mary Mary – Walking
Thompson Square – Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not
Ditty Dirty Money feat. Swizz Beats – Ass On The Floor
Randy Montana – 1,000 Faces
Ms. Jody – Ms. Jody Is Keeping It Real
Woods Of Ypres – I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Rosehill – Midnight America
Mel Waiters - Barbecue

Album Tracks (that could make my singles list if they become singles)

Band Perry – Miss You Being Gone
Jonny Burke – Broke Again
Cauldron – Miss You to Death
El Debarge - Joyful
Kandi – Leroy Jones
Randy Montana – It’s Gone
Randy Montana – Burn These Matches
Randy Montana – Assembly Line
Gerod Rayborn feat. Mechelle Rayborn – You So Jealous
Gerod Rayborn – I’m A Hustler
Gerod Rayborn – Noisy Neighbors
Stealing Angels – Getting Lost
Stealing Angels – Girls Gotcha Back
Thompson Square – Getaway Car
Yelawolf – That’s What We On Now
Yelawolf – Billy Crystal

And yes, I know most of those are from late-2010 albums.

vybz kartel - coloring book
busy signal - right now
fuzzy logik ft myshy - playground
pyper ft recneps - duppy conqueror
tanya stephens - shame on you
mavado - tump
wasp - the government
gappy ranks & russian - tun up
swindle ft roses gabor - spend is dough
andy jay & s-tee - crunk vip
blak ryno - wine & balance
ms jaie - fall outta love (paleface mix)
freddo ft jess - take a chance
busy signal - swag team
lloyd - cupid
sizzla - got it going
mr v ft slick don - it's not long
vybz kartel - jump inna d benz
beenie man & lolita - wine you body
trilla & pressure - madman ting
tok ft sleepy hallowtips - heroin needle
mavado - pepper
chico - pon my corna
miss fire - 004fh
ill blu - warp speed
wiley ft alexa goddard - seduction
funkystepz - warrior
vybz kartel - tun up the scheme
sunday roast ft monique parris - came to party
redlight - source 16
funkystepz ft lily mackenzie - circles
monique bingham - you me world (dj christos deep mix)
ramzee & friends - ghana riddim
maverick sabre - where we gonna go
mishal moore - it aint over (hardhouse banton remix)
champion - lose control
dj eastwood - toilet blocker
depeo ft natasha carver - make me happy
motion - eye offa mi
andy jay & s-tee ft charlene - spiralling
mavado - don't wanna be a memory
marissa guzman - time to go (black coffee remix)
mr v ft nicole marie — all my ladies
trc ft zoe - playing with fire

http://i.imgur.com/RAT1H.gif

need to up my mersh house game

anyone round here with the minerals to help me with that

is "monsta" a released thing or a two-minutes-mid-radio-set thing

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:01 (2 days ago) Bookmark

o that reminds me!

dawn richard - broken record

Kraak & Smaak - Built For Love
Benoit & Sergio - Walk & Talk
Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty / Benfica
Katy B - Easy Please Me
Frivolous - Wasting Time

o that reminds me!

dawn richard - broken record

i like how my mention of ill blu reminded you, rather than my mention of dawn richard

today i think "vibrate" is the best d.richard song

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there's four great tunes on the new jennifer hudson btw if you wanna maintain the facade that nu r&b is worth an average person's time

The first couple months of the year are always a bit funny when i think what are my favs of the year so far and I realized they all came out in december of the previous year.

Not actually that many 2011 releases off top of my head for some reason but these

anton zap - miles and miles
nenad markovic - coney island
matthew burton - small winner

there's four great tunes on the new jennifer hudson btw if you wanna maintain the facade that nu r&b is worth an average person's time

uhhh was it not you who first repped for the kandi album on ilm?

iirc finney randomly said he was looking forward to it before it was even news so i'll give that one to him

r&b still having good solid stuff in dribs & drabs for the niche listener isn't really my point though

is "monsta" a released thing or a two-minutes-mid-radio-set thing

Dude does this mean you haven't heard Ill Blu's Mistajam mix? It's a radio set but it's almost exclusively their own stuff and it is apocalyptically banging (also only about 25mins and in good quality).

Monsta is straight up single-of-the-year contender for me. We need a Ill Blu hype thread really.

dj eastwood - toilet blocker

would hear

Dude does this mean you haven't heard Ill Blu's Mistajam mix? It's a radio set but it's almost exclusively their own stuff and it is apocalyptically banging (also only about 25mins and in good quality).

oh yeah i have! it was pretty amazing, i have no idea which one "monsta" is though - i can rarely tell exactly where one track ends and another begins in mixes

http://soundcloud.com/djeastwood/djeastwood-toilet-blocker

if you liked the ill blu...

I think Monsta is the one with the really mentalist OTT drop. I mean, they're all like that, but this one is even more so. It's sort of the UK funky equivalent of Vitalic or Black Strobe in its ludicrous sci-fi bombast.

night air was last year iirc

dig 'forward motion,' saw that on the tekno thread the other day

Yeah but the album was released this year. idc.

new additions (not mentioned by flopson or J0rdan):

Groove Theory - Tell Me (George Fitzgerald Remix)
Richelle - Mascotte
Hot Natured - Forward Motion

― Tim F, Sunday, 15 May 2011 23:49 (Yesterday)

niceness, and particularly fun to listen to right after the funkystepz mix

are these really all you got to add though or were you just tailoring to the ilm eunuch eclectic

I steal most of my ideas from people here anyway, you don't need me to tell you I'm listening to "colouring book" or "make up sex" or "no ordinary love" or "that candy paint" or etc.

re: Forward Motion

holy shit

lex repped for 'amy' but i really love 'drink myself single' off that same ep,

the entire ep is really super strong, even without considering last year's big single "from a table away"

Deerhoof - Must Fight Current

But if I'm pressed:

Ussy - Playtime
Invisible conga People - In A Hole
Britney - Till the World Ends (Remix)
Ame and Amampondo - Ku Kanjani
Beth Ditto - Do You Need Someone
Tom Trago - Corrupt
Jennifer Hudson - Where You At
A.L. - Tell Me 2011
John Talabot - Families

*deletes painfully long handwringing screed, wipes sweat from brow*

ussy eh! your thing for only the most mournful spooky bassline continues to intrigue.

Alexander – Truth
Bedouin Soundclash – Brutal Hearts
Missy Elliot - Work It (Nicolas Jaar Rework)
King Charles - Love Lust
John Talabot - Families (feat. Glasser)
Joy Formidable - Whirring
Tinie Tempah - Wonderman (Ft. Ellie Goulding)
Swizz Beatz - It's You feat. Mary J. Blige
Yuck - Get Away

Actually scratch that. that's not my actual list... still missing many things. I'll do another one later.

Wait, handwringing about Ussy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4eVI7OmK4

xp oh no, the screed was about the depressing spectre of sole reliance on ilx.

how did you come about the ussy anyway - dj beez april or ejucation 45? or.... somewhere else?

Benoit & Sergio - Walk and Talk
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
Jai Paul - BTSTU
Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters (John Talabot Remix)
Daphni - Ye Ye
Bubble Club - The Goddess
Hizou - Four Hands
Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar

ilm eunuch eclectic

hoay!

haha no offence like, sorry bruv

i even really like near everything on that list but just something about the look of it all put together made me wanna nailbomb stuff

that was actually a small part of the screed as well, the art in and strategic value of drawing together songs from all around to form a list that is powerfully subtextual

i saw tim's billboard list so i know it exists outside of my head

ha i agree tho i created this thread so i could exploit it not grace it w powerfully subtextual lists of my own & i do admire one (a lot) when i see them

Dj beez April! Excellent mix.

I think in theory I like poppy bassline best but then often the spooky stuff is erm prettier? If you accused me of doing the classic herb listener of imposing values from other genres I'd be hardpressed to defend myself - probably there's some hallucination of hyper-on experience vs terra danjah vibes at work.

Btw billboard list?

Will make people retch on principle but the bassline remix of Katy perry's "E.T" also is very pretty.

btw, question for the geeks: is there an app that parses a text file and turns it into a youtube playlist? could be handy.

"harmonia" by liturgy is pretty much the only thing i need to put in here

~SIMPLY THE BEST~

i even really like near everything on that list but just something about the look of it all put together made me wanna nailbomb stuff

yeah but like what doesn't

Will make people retch on principle but the bassline remix of Katy perry's "E.T" also is very pretty.

can someone in australia stage an intervention?

Lex remember how you refused to check out the Ill Blu remix of "Parachute" for ages, and you were wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfHh-xk7-bk&fmt=18 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-P_pyjvlY0&fmt=18

xpost not that this is as good as that, but.

katy perry is way more egregious than cheryl cole - you'd actually have to remove her voice entirely to make her songs palatable, whereas with cheryl a plank is a plank is neutral all the time

Perry is hardly offensive if you think of her as an anonymous bassline divalet, "good pop songs" or quality vocals are hardly the point of this music, really the more obnoxious the better. Obv the context is entirely different w/r/t the OG song.

I'm guessing you never liked Scooter though.

haha no

1. Kelly Rowland feat. Lil Wayne - "Motivation"
2. Mamacita - "No Eres Tú"
3. Miguel - "Sure Thing"
4. John Talabot - "Families"
5. Timothy Bloom - "Til the End of Time"
6. Omarion - "Forgot About Love"
7. Sky Ferreira - "108"
8. Britney Spears - "Until the World Ends"
9. Desloc Piccalo (feat. Adiah) - "Drumz"
10. Hypnomango - "El Mundo No Es Real"

new additions (not mentioned by flopson or J0rdan):

Groove Theory - Tell Me (George Fitzgerald Remix)

love this!

Creep feat. Nina Sky - "You" is magical

Yeah, I like that (more for Nina Sky than for Creep, though).

Dash & Will - Animal
Alex Winston - Locomotive
Foster the People - Helena Beat
Maria Minerva - California Scheming
Kauf - When You're Out
Distance ft. Alys Be - Falling
Tyson - Out of My Mind
The Middle East - Jesus Came to My Birthday Party
Theophilus London ft. Sara Quin - Why Even Try
Tracey Thorn - You Are a Lover (Clock Opera remix)
Vanbot - Lost Without You
Jamie Woon - Middle

some more

Kyla La Grange - Walk Through Walls
Entrepreneurs ft. FOE & Ghostpoet - Fuck Tactics
Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me a Tale
Leif & The Future - Walked Away
Erodiscotique - I Need a Reason For Living
Herman Düne - Tell Me Something I Don't Know

Made an incompetently sequenced playlist for a friend:

Locussolus - I Want It (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Remix)
The Crystal Ark - Touch
DJ Ageishi and Ackin - Rain Parade (Prins Thomas Miks)
Umberto - Put an APB on Those Bastards
Panda Bear - Afterburner
Peaking Lights - All the Sun that Shines
Fatima w/ Floating Points - Red Light
Trembling Bells - Where do I go from you
The Twerps - Self Assured
CJ Fam - Ordinary Pop Star

CJ Fam - Ordinary Pop Star

p-p-p-pop star

The Twerps - Self Assured

^_^

Loops of Fury - "I Need"

Boris - Hope

Wasn't expecting them to turn into shoegaze/pop all of a sudden but this is amazing.

Also:

Keren Ann - My Name Is Trouble
The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks
White Denim - Back at the Farm

benoit & sergio - everybody
screama ft. phe phe - nobody
dylan ettinger - lion of judah
gatto fritto - invisible college
timberlee - linja

dylan ettinger - lion of judah
gatto fritto - invisible college

^ These are cool

halfway 10... I'm surprised I can post one that I'm confident with this early on, which I guess means this must be a good year... I just wish I count find more non-p4k stuff to rep for but what can ya do...

The-Dream “Body Work + Fuck My Brains Out”
Katy Perry “Last Friday Night” (I think this counts)
Frank Ocean “Songs For Women”
Foo Fighters “Rope”
Tyler The Creator “She”
Yuck “Holing Out”
Smith Westerns “Weekend”
Ringo Deathstarr “Do It Every Time”
The Go! Team “Buy Nothing Day”
Fucked Up “A Little Death”
Pyramid Vritra “Elenor” (I think this counts)

not a big fan of "white light moment" but her next one is so so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx1wvtzxa60

wau that's great

Jonathan Burton-"Too Much Booty Shakin'"