ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

actual rap music in an ilm eoy poll, wow

2018 was the real drop-off for rap representation

like did we lose a bunch of posters/voters around then or something?

People started aging out

i also forgot about "prayer" placing, it's great but i don't usually think of that as a major black messiah highlight.

maybe it would help if the main hiphop thread wasn't basically hidden, and most other mentions of hiphop weren't met with "holy shit someone on ilm listening to hiphop?"

new Injury Reserve is pretty good, right? too white? fk me

just revisiting my 2014 summer jams pl - so many bangers
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3o7Ka4JYXLMSSht9YTlrPZ?si=f99291ffe83f4b60

injury reserve is definitely on my list and the hip hop thread is called “rolling thread 2021 (deluxe edition)”

let's do it!!

Looking back, this was one of the best years of my life so in always going to have good memories associated with it

haha i just looked up the stats for this and i had the highest hivemind score… this poll was good

LOL at Future Islands and Clean Bandit in the top 5. I think we've all cooled a lot on these

(and I say that as a big FI proselytiser in the day)

nah that song still goes hard

It was quite something when it came out. Shame they never really seemed to have any more ideas after that (although not heard all of the last album)

both hold up pretty well still, like i would easily take "seasons" over most of the decade's critical fav indie singles

I still have a lot of love for Seasons and that band in general. They do seem to be in a bit of a holding pattern, but there's something so comforting about them they kind of get away with it. The Far Field was a better album than Singles. Last album was great too.

to me they're a band that seemed like they were always on the verge of making an excellent album and then it just never happened, they just ran out of ideas

Seeing as I discovered this band much later do you think the future islands singer was inspired by the young gods ? Thinking of like “did you miss me”

see no connection between Seasons and Did You Miss Me

im talking about the vocal style. you see **no** connection??

no, not really, except that they're both straight guy songs

future islands singer does occasionally delve into that territory but its pretty much always a bad idea when he does

don't mean it as a criticism. No Flex Zone and especially No Type are total straight guy stuff but are two of my favorite tracks of 2014. I like Seasons also

I’m talking about how he makes his voice sound in the parts that made their one famous song go viral. Not sure what it has to do w being straight, I just mean that the way he growls sounds like he might have been a fan 🤷🏻‍♂️

That's just the heavy metal cookie monster growl. I mean, maybe he was influenced by that but it's in a lot of other music (not so much synth pop though)