shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

QUESTION

also I am listening to the new Florence & the Machine album and I am surprised that she isn't foghorning ever song into submission...?

http://open.spotify.com/album/5SxudoALxEAVh9l83kSebx

lol of course the instant I post that she starts blaring LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER TO LOVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WII2Gu9z-uE

digging Single Gun Theory today, had kind of forgotten how much I like "Surrender"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIsupFaL_8

why did this pop into my head

also how do I get a job as Shakira's monitor speaker

omfg how did I forget about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK4QWu70E1g&feature=related

lol 90s

Youtube is a treasure trove of Movement tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK4QWu70E1g&feature=related

you guys

remember They Eat Their Own?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc7F3vhx4U

oh also, were Nada Surf always kind of great and I just never noticed?

Rusko really makes me *eternal sadface*

he's got this great starting track called "Somebody To Love" that starts out as old-school UK hardcore/breakbeat and sounds like it's going to be a total sunny throwback, and then it just WALLOWS in this lumpen unenergetic dubstep fart beat and it's just fucking terrible

like, just don't do the dubstep bullshit and you'd be amazing! the only time it really worked for you was "Hammertime"

;_; this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6X0PqIWfzQ&feature=related

i wanna talk about this. -ilm

pro tip - searching for LP or halo or LP+halo on ilx is a hopeless endeavor

holy shit

I kind of adore this woman

"halo halo halo" becomes "ella ella ella"

do her lungs go to her knees? sounds like trickery

pssst

this is prob a total promo setup but still pretty charming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_DN0MeOspw

dear dang perrrrry, i want to start a full on "people who are actually technically impressive and adept singers and i know because i am one of them" thread on ilm but i will need your backup. also maybe that is not a good title.

oh hey, look at this

I would totally support that thread if you still want to start it

is this a good place for me to go through the ilm tracks list

note: didnt vote

that doesnt change the fact that i have OPINIONS 4 U

77. DAWN RICHARD "Pretty Wicked Things" [188 points, 6 votes]
75. CHROMATICS "Kill For Love" [188 points, 7 votes]
75. ALUNAGEORGE "You Know You Like It" [188 points, 7 votes]
74. ANDRÉS "New For U" [190 points, 6 votes]
73. JAVIERA MENA "Luz de Piedra de Luna" [190 points, 7 votes]
71. PULP "After You" [192 points, 6 votes]
71. G-DRAGON "Crayon" [192 points, 6 votes]
70. TY DOLLA $IGN "My Cabana" [193 points, 8 votes]
69. FUTURE "Same Damn Time" [194 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
68. NICKI MINAJ FT. 2 CHAINZ "Beez in the Trap" [198 points, 9 votes]
67. NICKI MINAJ "Starships" [200 points, 8 votes]
66. DAWN RICHARD "Faith" [202 points, 7 votes]
65. JAPANDROIDS "The House That Heaven Built" [203 points, 7 votes]
64. GURU "Lapaz Toyota" [204 points, 6 votes]
63. DONKIE PUNCH & LORENZO "Snapbacks n Tattoos" [206 points, 6 votes]
62. NICK HANNAM & TOM GARNETT FT. TOM ZANETTI "You Want Me" [214 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
61. TAME IMPALA "Feels Like Only We Go Backwards" [214 points, 8 votes]

60. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN "Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)" [216 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
59. HAIM "Forever" [218 points, 8 votes]
58. ANGEL HAZE "New York" [218 points, 9 votes]
57. MUNGOLIAN JETSET "Toccata" [220 points, 6 votes]
56. JESSIE WARE "Running" [224 points, 7 votes]
55. JESSIE WARE "Wildest Moments" [224 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
54. CHER LLOYD "Want U Back" [225 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
53. HOT CHIP "Let Me Be Him" [227 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
52. GRIMES "Genesis" [229 points, 11 votes]
51. BURIAL "Kindred" [236 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
50. TWIN SHADOW "Five Seconds" [236 points, 9 votes]
49. SANTIGOLD "Disparate Youth" [241 points, 9 votes]
48. PURITY RING "Fineshrine" [244 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
47. HAIM "Don't Save Me" [244 points, 9 votes]
46. BRUNO MARS "Locked Out of Heaven" [246 points, 7 votes]
45. ALEX ANWANDTER "Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo?" [250 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
44. SPIRITUALIZED "Hey Jane" [251 points, 10 votes]
43. JOHN TALABOT FT. PIONAL "Destiny" [253 points, 9 votes]
42. NICKI MINAJ "Stupid Hoe" [256 points, 9 votes]
41. NENEH CHERRY AND THE THING "Dream Baby Dream" [257 points, 9 votes]

40. MIGUEL "Use Me" [260 points, 8 votes]
39. CHERYL COLE "Call My Name (Royal-T's Back to 99 Remix)" [260 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
38. DEATH GRIPS "I've Seen Footage" [268 votes, 8 points]
37. RIHANNA "Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix)" [271 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
36. KALENNA "Matte Black Truck" [286 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. KANYE WEST FT. BIG SEAN, PUSHA T & 2 CHAINZ "Mercy" [286 points, 12 votes]
34. CHIEF KEEF FT. LIL REESE "I Don't Like" [291 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
33. JEREMIH "773 Love" [299 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
32. LE1F "Wut" [302 points, 11 votes]
31. KW GRIFF FT. PORK CHOP "Bring in the Katz" [312 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]
30. M.I.A. "Bad Girls" [314 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
29. TAYLOR SWIFT "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" [316 points, 14 votes]
28. ZEBRA KATZ FT. NJENA REDDD FOXXX "Ima Read" [322 points, 14 votes]
27. SCOTT WALKER "Epizootics!" [330 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
26. ANGEL HAZE "Werkin' Girls" [335 points, 13 votes]
25. BAT FOR LASHES "Laura" [342 points, 13 votes]
24. JESSIE WARE "110%" [351 points, 12 votes]
23. FRANK OCEAN "Thinkin' Bout You" [352 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
22. SAINT ETIENNE "Tonight" [356 points, 11 votes]
21. KENDRICK LAMAR FT. GUNPLAY "Cartoon & Cereal" [361 points, 10 votes]

77 - moody spookfest that seems to have a less soprano kate bush quality to it, inobtrusive autotuney nonsense that doesn't really need to be here. until we get to the chorus and then we get a batshit load of it that i don't want/need. def not anywhere near the other stuff i have heard by her.

dude you should have voted

also come post on that thread, we could use a good shriekfest

75. chromatics - cut rate m83 with a female vocal? maybe a grower? i dont like it. something of an ignorable 90s 4ad vibe going on.

75. alunageorge - i dig this, although there is a little more baby voice going on than i prefer, i dont need cutesy signifiers. something i wouldnt turn off, but not something i would spend a lot of time with.

those people scare me and i am at the most casually invested in any of this tho

74. andres - innocuous. odd to imagine people getting really excited about this. ever. makes me think of the soundtrack you would get in those "Minds Eye" early computer graphic film compilations. this would be the one where you were a poorly rendered bird flying over a jungle island landscape.

be ready to say that about half of the things ppl voted for; the 2010s are really becoming an age where everyone wants the edges sanded off of their music

otm :(

I mean, I love glossy smoothness too but I can't live my entire life on it and the phobic degree some ppl exhibit when something is the least bit messy or aggressive is baffling to me

73. javiera mena - what happened i was napping i think a lady might have done a downtempo cover of Bailamos

71. pulp - before i heard this i was really looking forward to making a "haha no one listens to pulp anymore do they". and now i can.

dropping a dissonant track into an ILM end of year countdown thread is akin to saying something nice about the working class at the dowager countess' table.

i did post something abt the icona pop song on the main thread, because that seemed less irritating than me showing up with my insights on stuff that showed up 2400 posts ago

I find it completely inconceivable that ppl actually dig that song

71. g-dragon - this might be ok if this dude would shut the fuck up but i think that is just because then it would basically be pon de floor

70. ty dolla $ign - this is boring altho the mix of how hilariously fucking not ok the lyrics are juxtaposed with the bland ass song is fun i guess

haha that description actually got me to play the G-Dragon track; I'd been skipping the Youtube-only selections

Ty Dolla $ign is a blight in terms of lack of talent and how thoroughly boring he manages to be despite the egregious misogyny

its kind of startling. not good but startling

69. future - man idgi, theres nothing going on here that strikes me, and it just sounds so fucking lazy, and its been done better over and over before

welcome to hip-hop in 2012, where being fucking boring and ratchet as hell are positives

bad call naming yourself future and then delivering by the numbers nothingness. still probably my favorite thing so far. thats not good.

I was actually kind of blase about "Beez in the Trap" until I heard it come right after Future and was all "oh thank God"

i thought g-dragon ranking was funny because ilm hates dubstep but apparently if you put goofy korean rapping on top of it it's suddenly ok

double shot of nicki minaj huh

68. - laid back is not nickis forte, and it really shows on this track. please let something happen some time in this song ffs aggh this 2 chainz dude sucks uggghhh

67. - ok i know this song and im not listening to it again, i fucking hate hate hate the chorus, but that is set in stark relief to the totally different way i hate the verses

hahaha OTM re: "Starships", watching ILM slowly embrace it was my biggest dissapointment of 2012

those people scare me too

66. dawn richard - ok i remember really liking dawn richard, but i am just not really feeling this song that much? its def not bad, and i could see it being something that might really step up its game listening it more, although i am sick to death of the ascending synth line schtick this year. might need some more time with this.