ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015

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."

"white light"'s appeal is probably more visible in the 7 minute version of the song tbh

If my only contribution in 2015 is getting "Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" to place I'm okay with that. And "Sweetie" is pretty boss too.

Was going to defend Shura here but TBH I find White Light a bit inconsequential, so will save it until we get to 2shy.

Not going in on Shura - reasonably pleasant but inconsequential is something I'll let others get angry about. But I viscerally dislike the Flowers. Ugh ugh ugh.

save us forksclovetofu

gaz coombes

the #1 vote for radiohead's james bond song is inexplicable

Well if the Brandon Flowers track is any indication of where this list is going, the next song will obviously be: https://youtu.be/zD77kyQYifc

lol I actually love that Vannelli song.

ok i'm caught up now, good shit all around so far

all we need is one of my votes now

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

67 KENDRICK LAMAR "The Blacker the Berry" (201 points, 7 votes)
Pitchfork - 21 / P&J - 33 / Youtube

haha shit i really nearly voted for this, it's at like 30 on my extended vallot

feels low here

I like the Kendrick album loads but other than King Kunta, I can't seem to think about it as a collection of individual tracks at all. I was looking forward to hearing BtB in that context but the video is blocked in the UK.

probably my favorite single (if it can be called that) from the album

I'm with emil.y. that Brandon Flowers love is inexplicable to me.