ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015

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

I don't dislike anything else so far. Although Jasmine Sullivan is another ilx sweetheart I don't really care about.

kendrick is gonna be all over this tracks thread huh

definitely at least two more kendrick cuts but not necessarily all over the countdown

this whole thread is going to be a repeating tricolor of Kendrick/Future/CRJ tracks

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

"king kunta" and "alright" seem to be the obvious tracks that took on a life outside the album in 2015. didn't "the blacker the berry" originally come out in 2014? it's one of the highlights of the album for me but

this whole thread is going to be a repeating tricolor of Kendrick/Future/CRJ tracks

pls pls pls let this not happen

listening to BtB outside of the context of the album and yeah it's smokin

The Jazmine Sullivan is fantastic - I'd never got around to listening to her at all before but definitely will now.

Was interested to hear Floating Points but that just didn't sound distinct enough to be make me wanna look further.

I hear "Alright" on the radio and it booms.

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66 RAE SREMMURD "This Could Be Us" (203 points, 9 votes)
Pitchfork - 67 / P&J - 107 / Youtube

^^^^^ great song

man i forgot that was from this year, it feels axiomatic at this point

I'm just gonna sit over here being irrationally angry with everyone and their stupid ears

all very well dan but cop to the radiohead #1 first willya

Yay Rae!

the fairground melodies playing off each other in the chorus <3333

came around to fetty wap in q a big way in 2015 but rae sremmurd never no nay. but that is ok it takes all sorts ^_^

i love "no flex zone" as much as anyone but yeah i thought most things sremmurd this yr (including their album) were perfectly serviceable but not as much of a revelation as many here seemed to think

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65 DJ KOZE "XTC" (204 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - 94 / P&J - 107 / Youtube

Sweet

Radiohead - Spectre

I didn't vote for this and had no idea there was any interest about this song on ilm. Johnny Greenwood's string arrangements which sound very influenced by middle eastern/spanish composition are what makes the song stand-out. Not the most interesting Radiohead song but I definitely prefer it over the Sam Smith one. If I have one complaint I'd say the drums sound very forced and thin.

Someone upthread commented that Radiohead making a bond song was weird. Everytime a Bond movie comes out fans bet on Radiohead as the theme song artist. This goes back to the OKC days when they were working on an unreleased song called Big Boots that was a tribute to James Bond themes. Everyone just assumed they were interested in doing a Bond theme ever since. Seems like it was partially true.

Never rated The Killers yet I love the Brandon Flowers album. Not sure I can really explain why. I voted for Still Want you. Fingers crossed for it placing.

Voted for The Blacker The Berry. I spent most of the year thinking King Kunta was my favourite song on the album but that overtook it in the last month.

Also they used to do 'Nobody Does It Better' live occasionally iirc.

xp (re Radiohead)

this dj koze track is interesting, would have preferred the vocal sample being used only once but still like it

"xtc" rules

I like how XTC becomes kind of feral-sounding at the end

okay yeah the vocal sample being used a 2nd time is really unnecessary

Agreed on the sample.

This single's bside is super cool. Better than XTC imo.

cheekbones

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 18, 2016 10:45 AM (1 hour ago)

learning about alfred's taste in men is always a nice little sub-narrative in these results threads

no flex zone!

UNLEASH… THE CARLYYYYYYYYYY

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64 CARLY RAE JEPSEN "Making the Most of the Night" (206 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 233 / Youtube

iirc that's the best crj

this one wasn't even a standout to me on the record

I had a week in July when I'd gel my hair singing MTMOTN and going HEY into the mirror.

That Koze track is tremendous!

The best CRJ track didn't get nommed :(

This one is still great though

good song :)

i kept my crj track votes to the singles since i figured i'd just be complicit in the absurd vote splitting otherwise

HIJACK U

this song is not as amazing as "Black Heart" or "When I Needed You" but it is very amazing

Dj Koze is the cool dj/producer already cool djs/producers use to remix their songs but as a songwriter/producer he still feels so underrated to me. I know he's probably making music for a niche audience but I keep expecting him to break into wider recognition. He has kept a consistent quality in his releases/sets/remixes for more than a decade and he has a very recognisable style.

I just listened to the DJ Koze song but I didn't notice it playing :(

I heard Michael Mayer drop XTC at Glastonbury and it was instantaneously both enhanced and ruined by my friend asking if the vocal sample was Margaret Thatcher.

lol

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

― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 4:41 PM (2 hours ago)

Genuine world-class deadpan here.

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

63 ALESSIA CARA "Here" (206 points, 7 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - 32 / P&J - 18 / Youtube

this song recently earned some chatter in the rolling worst songs 2015 thread so let the bickering begin :D

ps i voted!

oh huh

I don't know what to think of it. I gave it a middling score in June but it sounds cool on the radio.

ow wow i hate this song. she just keeps going on and on in with that same cadence and it never ends.