ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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77. DAWN RICHARD "Pretty Wicked Things" [188 points, 6 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

Bangin' start!

Jordan better do the youtube links only.

i forgot about emebeds, i'll use the shortener

just copy and paste the share link on the vid.

a+ op.

this will be the first of many formatting issues, i assure you all

Somehow I knew it wd be Dawn. And that's the one I voted for. :D

can a mod tidy up the code in that post?

yay :) hopefully more of hers has also placed

great start

oh i'm so glad "pretty wicked things" placed, as a non-armor on single

KINDA FELT LIKE THUNDER
KINDA FELT LIKE RAIN
KINDA FELT LIKE HIM AND THE STORM WERE THE SAME

<3

Should be tidied up now. 'Pretty Wicked Things' is probably my least favourite Dawn track but stoked for the madness.

thx!

Yessss

http://open.spotify.com/user/awesomewells/playlist/0MVP8scsWPfbXQ4ji7RoUI

^^^ Collaborative Spotify playlist, feel free to add things as and when they come up. Hopefully we're in before the thread cut here.

PWT is maybe the only track on goldenheart that works better as a single in isolation than on the album

hmmm that's how i feel about 86 but then again i don't really "get" the album yet (maybe i won't ever)

gonna try and stick to 10 or so minutes in b/w the results

Great start. Might have voted for it, but assumed the Dawn crew would be in force.

first tie coming up btw

Is it a 76-way tie?

I'd guess that Dawn will have suffered from vote splitting to some extent but I'd expect at least two more entries from her.

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(TIE) 75. CHROMATICS "Kill For Love" [188 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

cool font btw

Not particularly been into Dawn Richard, but those breakdowns/glitches/effects in the chorus are FIERCE.

That chromatics track sounds like something from 1991?!?

Hill for love?

Two artists so far where I voted for an album instead of tracks; in both cases (despite the meandering overlong nature of the Chromatics album) I feel the album is greater than the sum of its parts.

Probably my least favorite single by Chromatics this year (Into the Grave should have been a single instead of this one imho) but happy to see them. I hope Cherry or Lady make it higher.

i like the chromatics record but nothing on it feels particularly single-ish to me

yeah that k is looking a bit h-ish... oh well

i like "kill for love"... that album is a good make out album but it's entirely too long

I think I voted for "Kill for Love" last year, but maybe my memory is strained.

I've not paid any attention to the Chromatics at all over the last year but that song is pretty nice, if a bit Drive soundtrack.

drat! I saved my ballots, but only on my home pc. :(

I think I voted for Kill for Love, but maybe not.

if a bit Drive soundtrack.

Johnny Jewel did a bunch of work for the original draft of the Drive soundtrack fwiw

love 'kill for love', but i just voted for the full album

Expected "Pretty Wicked Things" to place a lot higher, my favourite Dawn Richards song no contest. Dramatically the best.
Plus glitches are cool.

I went for "86"

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(TIE) 75. ALUNAGEORGE "You Know You Like It" [188 points, 7 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

I did not check out any of the non-Armor On singles before sending my ballot in but I can see voting for PWT, that was sweet

re: whateverest/norse -
i prefer it distilled to a music video i think, even though i appreciated the 'whateverest' joke. its quotidian bitterness definitely feels True which i think distinguishes it from napoleon dynamite &c. (i think gr8080 made the comparison) &, for me, in the inspector norse video proper, means the tragedy doesn't so much undercut the utopian hedonism of the song as make it more real/meaningful. the video has informed how i've heard it out since though, & it's a strange thing to enter yr mind on the dancefloor. also i like his jumping fistpump/jumpstart move.

I've only seen the Norse video, but I definitely relate to that dude to some extent. I respect how he keeps the party going.

It's a bit depressing yet there's this aspect of respect for his commitment

sorry for the delay

20. FRANK OCEAN “Pyramids” – have tried several times to get through this but I get distracted by squirrels halfway through every time. here I’ll be nice and try again. ok sounds nice I can see how this is the beginning of a ten minute song. not really hearing the words. nice backup vox. there’s some EDM I guess. oh this is a thriller-y part. still not hearing the words. stuff about pyramids. is this whole thing about his bart simpson dick. oh god there are some dumb metaphors going on here. “got inside that gold.” bored now. is this going anywhere? go back to thriller. play thriller. “cleopetra. cleopetra. comin’ et ya.” oh she’s a stripper isn’t she. I don’t think cleopatra was around when the pyramids were being built. this whole part is just, ok, I get it, I see what you’re going for, you’re still going for it. sad guitar solo. of COURSE he ends the album with this.
19. TAYLOR SWIFT “I Knew You Were Trouble” – DUBTAY. works very well but the only parts I like are everything but the actual “I knew you were trouble” part. was originally gonna say “the guitar part in the verses and the part where she’s just mumbling trouble trouble trouble” but on re-listen I’m liking it a lot more than on the radio.
18. CASSIE “King of Hearts” – originally was harsh on this bc cassie sounds so anonymous but it all sounds so nice, who cares
17. MIGUEL “Do You…” – nope nope nope still cannot listen to this without getting ’single pigeon’ by wings in my head
16. D’BANJ “Oliver Twist” – have been forward to this bc I listened to it a few times when it was new and my ears sort of perk up at the thought of hearing it again, but I don’t remember – yes yes this is good BUT NOW // I CAN’T LISTEN // WITHOUT THINKING OF // LEX
15. SOLANGE “Losing You” – lol I do not ever really judge songs by their danceability like many here and I have no concept of rhythm and am horrible at everything but even I have trouble with the beat here. which sucks cause all of the sounds are so nice and solange sounds so nice and that melody would be great with a higher BPM and “tell me the truth boy am I losing you for good” hits me but god what is with the beat
14. BLAWAN “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage” – it’s not as good as getting me down but what is. this videois so awesome.
13. ICONA POP “I Love It” – anyone who listened to this once and did not mentally bookmark it as “a jam” immediately after is living their life in a way that is alien to me. the whole point is the chorus and I’m totally cool with waiting a bit to get there and cool with the fact that they only do it twice which forces you to listen to it over and over again. BUT I’M A NINETIES BITCH, etc etc
12. PACHANGA BOYS “Time” – never heard this – [15 minutes pass] – oh it’s nice
11. ERIC CHURCH “Springsteen” – I like this it is a good song and the fact that you all argued about it for three weeks is weird
10. FUTURE “Turn On The Lights” – love it, not sure there’s anything to say about it that hasn’t been said. “I hear she keep her promises” part is classic
9. GRIMES “Oblivion” – love at first sight with this song. the whole art-damaged decay thing is so much better when ariel pink isn’t doing it. and when it steals from del shannon. and when its lyrics are earnest. learning it’s about her sexual assault put it in a new light but wasn’t surprising in the slightest. I don’t really know what that says about the song but hey it’s important nonetheless
8. CHAIRLIFT “I Belong In Your Arms” – this is catchy with a v pleasant chorus but messy and I’ve never gotten the hype. remember two doors down by mystery jets, I keep hearing its chorus’s synths in it and getting bored
7. SKY FERREIRA “Everything Is Embarrassing” – this actually didn’t unfold for me until it popped up on random in the big trax list and then I ended up giving it a lot of points. it’s the repetition at the end (second half?) that totally makes it. it could end at least a half minute sooner but the fact that it doesn’t = best choice ever
6. PSY “Gangnam Style” – when songs become Things I lose the ability to hear them as Songs, I’m so sick of it that his voice actually makes me sort of sick, that pistachio commercial was painful, esp cause he first said he was sick of the song like 6 months ago
5. USHER “Climax” – my first exposure was seeing the jukebox give it an 8.00 and thinking whoops should’ve gotten on that, and also whoa that’s high for a new usher song, so my expectations were way too high from the start. and then it was the #1 song with a thousand bullets so it was getting constant airplay and I probably listened to it 500 times back when I had a driving job, but the last 200 times was probably more out of a commitment to this wonderful song being all over r&b radio. more inert appreciation than real enjoyment.
4. KATY B FT. JESSIE WARE “Aaliyah” – yeah it’s alright
3. MIGUEL “Adorn” – all these Miguel songs sound better as album tracks (nb I haven’t listened to the album yet obv). listen to adorn EVERY time it comes on, and it sounds wonderful and I love it but it’s always sounded too minor to put on the top of any list, it’s so short and 90% of the song is the same line, but I guess it can’t really be anything else.
2. CARLY RAE JEPSEN “Call Me Maybe” – my stance when I first heard it about a billion years ago was I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS!!! [7]. I’m attached to the meme, I got sick of the song very very quickly but I was also a driver so. I’ve always liked that it’s snooty and CRJ isn’t trying to hide the fact that she’s hot shit.
1. TODD TERJE “Inspector Norse” – first time I listened to it I was just collapsed on top of myself for seven minutes and loving every note and just going AH AH AH YES YES CORRECT =’D =’D ;_; and then the big change (key change? I don’t know) happens at the 2/3 mark and I just exploded right there and am still dead. second time I listened to it I spent the whole time waiting for that big change and then found it disappointing. have been stuck in between these two experiences ever since. not the best song of the year.

great write-up zachlyon

tyvm

I really like that Andres track upthread, and the EP it's from. I know it doesn't do a whole lot in its run-time, but that's not the point really - it serves at creating a sweet and funky atmosphere to go and do other things by. If anything it's a bit too short. Any other tracks in this kind of vein I should look out for? The only other thing I can compare it to is things like 'The Bomb' or 'Solitary Flight' maybe?

here's a link to the set ive done on soundcloud. its got all of the songs from 77 to 1 - 2 tracks are missing.

https://soundcloud.com/uglycasanova/sets/ilm-favourite-tracks-2012

this pachanga boys song is ruining my life

...in a good way?

16. D’BANJ “Oliver Twist” – have been forward to this bc I listened to it a few times when it was new and my ears sort of perk up at the thought of hearing it again, but I don’t remember – yes yes this is good BUT NOW // I CAN’T LISTEN // WITHOUT THINKING OF // LEX

:D

i'm probably stupid for only noticing this now, but 2 songs placed with parts from technotronic's pump up the jams? awesome, but strange

wait, which songs?

the alex anwandter song's got that synthy bit, and lapaz toyota has that part near the beginning that sounds a lot like the "make-my-day-make-my-make-my-day" bit in Pump. Maaaaybe now that I am listening to both again this is a massive stretch tho :/

lol never in a million years would I have thought the lapaz toyota stutters were a "pump up the jam" reference but I do see what you're getting at.

yeah i think it was JSUT because i listen to them both within a few minutes and was like "wait what"

the synth stabs in "Gangnam Style" are p close to "Pump Up the Jam" too

also i think Blawan spelled backwards is "Nawktotronalb"

you know in 1993 or whatever i (probably) very earnestly thought while listening to that song that all music would sound like that in the future -- who knew i would be right?

"You Want Me" is such a fucking JAM!

Today I'm going apeshite for Matte Black Truck.

Matte Black Truck is one of the main reasons I owe this thread a drink.

I'm not sure I know of many regular-length pop songs that work in three very specific movements in the same way as MBT, but it's the chorus that gets me the most - there's something so satisfying and crunchy about the way those syllables work together "in my matte black truck/in my matte black truck", makes me feel like I'm eating a Yorkie bar. I like Tim F's reading about the ambiguity of the chorus. I kind of hear it as a state of passive/aggressive denial: "If you leave NBD, I'm just going to play some killer jams in my Jeep (so loud you won't hear me weep)".

video now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkv4nPVIDhQ

Why is it only a minute and a half long though? what is WRONG WITH PEOPELEELEEELE?!!!~

"Viral"

the video isn't new, it predated the full song's release

v annoying that she never released a full version (same with "go to work")

I've been grooving to Spotify radio based off of this playlist and a song just popped up that made me go "this sounds a little like a dude singing a Cher Lloyd song, what is this?"

It was "Looks Like Sex" by Mike Posner.

NNNNNNNGH

Mungolian Jetset - Toccata - more like bungholian jetset trash & no star “tocaca”

No audio werner?!

what font is that, Jordan?

shit i'll have to look it up on my boyfriend's computer, but i'll let you know

thanks! I appreciate it.

so this and the album thread are on most read all of a sudden.

christ, music really did get good again in 2013/14

Todd Terje - Inspector Norse - more like todd turd “inspector bores”
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - more like hardly great jepsen “squall me lamely”
Miguel - Adorn - more like miguel “a-bore-n”
Katy B - Aaliyah - more like katy pee “cashing in on the memory of a dead artist way more talented than me”
Usher - Climax - more like flusher “premature ejaculation”
PSY - Gangnam Style - more like ZZZ “surely the first in a long line of k-pop songs to achieve chart success in the west”
Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing - more like why should i care-a “this song is embarrassing”
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms - more like facelift “i belong in your trash can”
Grimes - Oblivion - more like frank grimes “noblivion”
Future - Turn on the Lights - more like poo-ture “turn off the autotune”
Eric Church - Springsteen - more like eric turds “token non-taylor swift mainstream country song because we all really really respect mainstream country music really”
Pachanga Boys - Time - more like pachinko noise “slime”
Icona Pop - I Love It - more like morona slop “i love shit”
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage - more like blah-wan “why they forget to write the rest of this song”
Solange - Losing You - more like beyonce’s sister “oozing poo”
D'Banj - Oliver Twist - more like d’iarrhea “all of her shits”
Miguel - Do You... - more like pig hell “no i do not”
Cassie - King Of Hearts - more like assie “king of farts”
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble - more like wailer shits “i blew chunks because this song was so awful”
Frank Ocean - Pyramids - more like wank lotion “bore-amids”
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal - more like thindick lamar “too bad my best song isn’t on my boring album”
Saint Etienne - Tonight - more like taint etienne “poonight”
Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You - more like stank potion “stinkin bout poo”
Jessie Ware - 110% - more like messy underwear “0%”
Bat for Lashes - Laura - more like shat for asses “bore-a”
Angel Haze - Werkin' Girls - more like strangle haze “bleaurghing hurls”
Scott Walker - Epizootics! - more like flop squawker “epic poo licks!”
Zebra Katz ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read - more like pee bra shats ft. vagina dead cocks - “ima turn this boring song off”
Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - more like failer pissed - “i am never ever listening to this shitty song again”
M.I.A. - Bad Girls - more like D.O.A. “bad song”
KW Griff ft. Pork Chop - Bring in the Katz - more like ky jelly ft. how am i supposed to think of a derisive parody name for someone already called ‘pork chop’ “bring in the farts”
Le1f - Wut - more like queef “butt”
Jeremih - 773 Love - more like i don’t caremih “i’m sorry this number has been disconnected please hang up and try again”
Chief Keef ft. Lil Reese - I Don't Like - more like chief queef ft. lil pees “i don’t like being sentenced to jail time, it makes me cry”
Kanye West ft. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz - Mercy - more like blahnye west ft. big yawn, tusha pee & 0 brainz “literally the only listenable song on ‘cruel summer’”
Kalenna - Matte Black Truck - more like duhlenna “fat wack suck”
Rihanna - Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix) - more like riyawna “duuuh i’m rihanna duuuuh”
Death Grips - I've Seen Footage - more like meth whips “i’ve seen publicity stunts blow up in my face”
Cheryl Cole - Call My Name (Royal-T's Back to 99 Mix) - more like sterile hole - “call me lame (toiletry’s wank to 69 mix)”
Miguel - Use Me - more like oh well “lose me”
Neneh Cherry and the Thing - Dream Baby Dream - more like nono blarey and the nothing “hey you know what would make this awesome suicide song even better? four minutes of free jazz noodling and the singer of ‘buffalo stance’”
Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe - more like nicki minaj is a “stupid hoe”
John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny - more like john toiletpot ft. pee on all “density”
Spiritualized - Hey Jane - more like zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...huh what? what? ok what number am i on? jesus.
Alex Anwandter - Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo? - more like alex anwanker “translation: you actually voted for this shit?”
Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven - more like poono farts “this was a police b-side for a reason”
Haim - Don't Save Me - more like lame “don’t listen to me because i am a terrible song”
Purity Ring - Fineshrine - more like poority ring “whinewhine”
Santigold - Disparate Youth - more like can’t be sold “pisspoor-ate poo-th”
Twin Shadow - Five Seconds - more like a-ha jr. “five seconds until i turn this shitty song off”
Burial - Kindred - more like poo-rial “skin dread”
Grimes - Genesis - more like crimes “not as good as ‘i can’t dance’”
Hot Chip - Let Me Be Him - more like cold shit “let me pee on him”
Cher Lloyd - Want U Back - more like glare annoyed “want u back at whatever job you had before ‘professional singer’”
Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments - more like i’m just going to go with messy underwear again, that was pretty good “wildest bowel movements”
Jessie Ware - Running - more like messy underwear “running away from this terrible song”
Mungolian Jetset - Toccata - more like bungholian jetset trash & no star “tocaca”
Angel Haze - New York - more like angel malaise “poo pork”
Haim - Forever - more like shame “whatever”
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue) - more like queef fullofit shitman “i’m just going to turn on these synths, hit record, take a smoke break for 20 minutes, then hit stop”
Tame Impala - Feels like we only go backwards - more like lame isuzu “feels like our ability to write songs only goes backwards”
Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett ft. Tom Zanetti - You Want Me - more like dick handjob & tom hairnet ft. another guy named tom “no i definitely do not”
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks n Tattoos - more like wonky lunch & lamerenzo “lame hacks n bad booze”
Guru - Lapaz Toyota - more like pooru “halfass tuneyota”
Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built - more like chappedassdroids “the song that morons built”
Dawn Richard - Faith - more like limp bizkit “faith”
Nicki Minaj - Starships - more like sicki minaj “fartshits”
Nicki Minaj - Beez in the Trap - more like tricki minaj “peez in the trap”
Future - Same Damn Time - more like suture “lame damn rhymes”
Ty$ - My Cabana - more like why$ "my crapola”
G-Dragon - Crayon - more like pee-flagon “craisin”
Pulp - After You - more like poop “after poo”
Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna - more like javiera pee-na “loose de pee-dra de poo-na”
Andrés - New For U - more like undress “poo for poo”
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It - more like apoonageorge “poo know poo like shit”
Chromatics - Kill For Love - more like ugh so close to being done “kill you for loving this boring song”
Dawn Richard - Pretty Wicked Things - more like yawn richard “shitty boring songs”

― ienjoyhotdogs, Friday, January 25, 2013 1:41 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I failed to vote in this one but if I had Springsteen would have been my #1 and would have made the top 10. Timeless tune.

Truly incredible that Gangnam Style placed higher than Oblivion on this

V good year for music in my opinion

i like almost every song on this list. incredible year.

I'm a pretty big pulp fan but I have zero recollection of that single

I can't believe people still think about Inspector Norse

Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal - more like thindick lamar “too bad my best song isn’t on my boring album”

this is technically a positive review

I like Todd Terje but Inspector Norse is far from his best tune.

xpost

I never think about inspector norse but i still like it whenever it pops up on shuffle every once in a while. pew... pew... pew... pew pew

I miss 2012 so much.

Inspector Norse is amazing btw.

still mad adorn lost

♡

Consolation in that I think "Adorn" still sounds like one of the five best songs of the decade