ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015

Voted for the Gesu track as well. And they just released their new album last week.

sweetie is just a big powerful club song with meaty vocals and killer percussion.

How have I not heard this Heavy K track before?

I really like Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No but forgot to vote for it. will have to check out their new album soon. hadn't heard Sweetie before but it's really nice too

this rollout is already better than my ballot

Really don't like the Gesu No Kiwami Otome track. I think it's the same reason I couldn't bring myself to vote for Joanna Wang this year... the ideas behind it are fine, but right now "arch and perky" is an aesthetic I cannot bear.

my god "sweetie" is just blowing me away and i'm only on my second listen 0_0

how is it arch? I'm curious.

i think the support on 'Sweetie' comes from Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2015 thread

Everyone should bookmark the 2016 thread; there's already a number of bangers on there:
Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2016

damn and i thought i'd been following the acrobats (AFROBEATS GODDAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT) thread closely this year. Must have missed a bit.

That Gesu track is pretty 'arch' to be fair.

"Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" is not my type of music, but the video was fun to watch. "Sweetie" on the other hand is pretty awesome, gotta pay more attention to those Afrobeat threads.

Yeah, I remember saying I would pay more attention last year, completely failed.

The Shura tune is nice too, better than "2Shy". I wish she had some new angle to her pastiche, but at least this one has a proper dance groove, "2Shy" is just too much 80s syrup.

http://i.imgur.com/Wmht4Eo.jpg

68 BRANDON FLOWERS "Between Me and You" (194 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube

So is this guy like the son of Mike Flowers? He sounds like him.

Flowers' album caught me by surprise: no idea he could write ridiculous-good instead of ridiculous-bad at this point in his career.

We were doing so well. What happened?

(to be honest, I've not heard this before but I can't imagine liking it)

*listens*

yeah this is cobblers.

I would've voted for "Can't Deny My Love"

can't deny my love for this record, nowhere near my top 25 but cool to see it here

(could some britisher please fix the playlist? it's a pain to manage on the web interface. just put sweetie between the brandon flowers and shura songs; it's collaborative at the moment to allow for this. thanks!)

Why does ILM like these pitch-perfect past pop pastiches so much? I thought people here were forward-looking?

(re: Flowers and Shura)

oh my god the countdown is so awesome so far

Why does ILM like these pitch-perfect past pop pastiches so much? I thought people here were forward-looking?

― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 1

cheekbones

To answer your question, Tuomoas: listening to things because they're "forward looking" is not how I listen to pop. It has to grab my ear and force me to relisten.

The last seconds of the Flowers song even quotes Cars' "Drive", if it wasn't obvious enough already!

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re: spotify
should be in order now, tracks kept disappearing on mine

What the hell, ilx?

there should be a word for the moment you realise halfway through a song striving really hard for transcendent emotion and classic melody that it's not going to get there. it's akin to second-hand embarrassment but it winds up close to boredom as well. anyway that's what i feel on first listen to the brandon flowers one

We are indie Tuomas, haven't you noticed?

thanks for fixing nxd!

the brandon flowers record is great, and that's the best song from it imo

Seriously. What. The. Fuck.

This is awful.

If Suiyoubi no Campanella don't make it and this bollocks does I will be incredibly angry.

It has to grab my ear and force me to relisten.

Yeah, I guess we're different here, pop tunes that sound exactly like the pop tunes that were on the radio when I was a kid don't really grab my ear, no matter how well they're made, I already heard enough of that stuff as a kid.

david rose 6 months ago
Your about to get so famous..Amazing song and album, thank you...changed my perspective on life...

That Shura track is deadly dull. I thought Haim had put the last nail in this coffin a few years ago.

That's like saying in 1983, "I won't listen to Culture Club, they sound like certain Motown songs *crosses arms*"

tbf the Flowers album did boast a couple of fall-down-on-your-face embarrassing moments; that's the deal with this fool.

got no issue with backward-looking pop but shura feels totally boxed in by her influences and the flowers song just isn't very good

also the whole 80s teen movie romance aesthetic isn't boring in 2015-16 bc it's old but bc it's ubiquitous

like i haven't heard from dev hynes in a long time THANKFULLY and yet it feels as if i'm still hearing his style everywhere, and even more inert

The Killers anticipated Dev Hynes imo

the killers were fucking dreadful landfill indie and we all know it. this, at least, is a bit better than that

Which Motown songs sound exactly like Culture Club, though? I don't mind borrowing elements from the past, even large chunks of them... I love how The Knife appropriated the synth riffs of the Eurodance of my youth, for example. But if you're doing nothing creative with those elements, it's kinda boring. The Flowers and Shure tunes sound like they could've literally been made 30 years ago.

yeah i just don't know what's supposed to be so special about those two songs. The Shura track sounds like any electro-pop ILM 77 track from the last 10 years. Did Robyn have a year off or something?

and neither of those songs float through the dullest opaque chord changes ever imo so dev is a limited comparison

I loved the Flowers album and appreciate Alfred stumping for it, as late-period Killers wasn't exactly bringing it. Bummed I didn't nominate 'Dreams Come True' in fact.

Is there a spotify playlist of everything?

lmao i am so indiff to that Flowers song but this lil spat got me like popcorn.gif

xp is that the link in the first post?

Which Motown songs sound exactly like Culture Club, though?

"Uptight."