just putting this here so I don't forget - trad ILM EOY confusion thread

I don't even have the energy tonight but tomorrow is another day

what are we talking about i dont get it

i think this is the thread for dissing the results without irritating as many people

the tuneyards suck

Karl knows my ways

It's the prevailing popularity of Robyn that gets me most.

That time of year when ILM tries to trick me into listening to steel drum music.

nicki minaj is on some theater kid shit

rap-game amanda palmer?

*joke about 2002*

remember when mark fucking ronson was seen by everyone on ilx as a force for awful fucking evil boring shite

no, but plus ça change?

he was briefly hated when he put horns on everything, then he disappeared for a few years, now he is back :)

lol i'm venting but it's MAYBE the only thing so far i've felt the need to go full lj about. fair play if u jammed 2 it in the summer

I liked when he put horns on everything. But in the U.S. at the time, he was known mostly as Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend's brother.

that. I didn't even know he produced Back to Black. I thought he was a DJ or something.

I didn't realize Minaj put out every song made this year.

do i start at the beginning or start at wherever it is now. LIVE BOLG? LIFETWEET? INSTAGRAMPS?

start right where they are with SPOON

yes plz

just so i dont have to load entire thread later:

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"
76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”
75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"
74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"
73 KING "Mister Chameleon"
72 KATIE GATELY "Pivot"
71 ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour "Somos Sur"
70 USHER "Good Kisser"
69 NICKI MINAJ "Anaconda"
68 DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo
67 RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again"
66 SHAKIRA "Empire"
65 ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny"
64 DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones
63 CARIBOU "Silver"
62 AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666"
61 HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus"

hahahaha wait what spoon? really?

http://tytmb.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/tick.jpg

much as i have been known to enjoy a spoon song in my time, their appearance here is not livelying-up what is turning out to be a slightly dull countdown thus far.

ok ill listen to this spoon thing first been then im going back to square one

53 SPOON - "Inside Out" [272 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]

this sounds like what would happen if you nabbed julian lennon out of the late 80s and locked him in a room with that owl city song playing over and over again until he lost his mind and then forced him to only use drum loops from the first version of GarageBand and recorded it on a tascam four track with the bass shelved out. 5/10

77 NICKI MINAJ "Lookin Ass"

wow she really really likes that word a lot. is the vocal sample her recordings of kanye locked in a well in her basement? this is super fucking stupid. there are moments where you get glimpses of her skill still but fuck off man dumb cartoon bullshit echhh. glad its short at least. 3/10

76 OWEN PALLETT "Song for Five & Six”

ignoring for a second local man wins prize and my general deep respect for what he does and trying to listen to this with unencumbered ears - dig the music, wish the vocals felt more a part of the song in some way, they're living in some alternate room of reverb or something and that always weirds me out. its a tricky song to listen to in a good way, ill be suprised if anything else in the countdown hits my rhythm complexity buttons quite so hard but something just doesnt quite click for me? 7/10

feel free to pop up and tell me why im a goddamn dolt and wrong as fuck at any point i dont want this thread to be the jjjusten polemic show plus then i wont feel so bad about unleashing the real hate inside when a few things show up

i know ur doing some pouting in the corner routine but these would all be welcome contributions to the actual thread, why don't you just post them there?

I'm glad he's doing his own thing because the thread is a cesspool of suck.

Oh when I pout in the corner you'll fuckin know it.

I put this here every year because I hate shitting up roll outs with my dumb thoughts because who cares? Like yeah, I hate that minaj song, that matters to me, and anybody who wants to meander in here in case I say something funny.

75 TUNE-YARDS "Water Fountain"

FULL DISCLOSURE I VOTED FOR THIS although almost as a placeholder for thinking theres something going on with her that is still kind of revealing itself. its unapologetic and weird and difficult in a way that i didnt hear a lot of this year, the song just keeps breaking apart the longer you listen and then somehow reassembles itself in the last minute. im down.

I put this here every year because I hate shitting up roll outs with my dumb thoughts because who cares?

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:42 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i care, jjjusten

74 NINOS DU BRASIL "Sombra da Lua"

going into this completely blind and straight out of the gate i am dragged in deep, this is how i want you to drum at me, aggressive (not quiiite sure about the bass wub choice but whatever) nicely stacked and bashing and unrelenting and yeaaaaah this is how you fucking do it man welcome back late 80s industrial influence i missed you boo. would have voted for this in a high position if it had been on my radar. 9/10

xpost: well then have some more!

nice call on, like, the Test Dept influence there, I missed that previously but it totally makes sense

yeah i was pretty surprised and trying to grab a specific touchstone but yeah test dept, rabies era skinny puppy without the guitar lines maybe?

Skinny Puppy a good call. Especially the blow out at the end.

thats still not right, some of the junk can drum bits from meat beat maybe?

Hmm. Maybe?

scrubbing through some old Meat Beat and I think you're right.

73 KING "Mister Chameleon"

This will lead to two things 1. people claiming this person can sing. and she cant. she is terrible. ear breaking terrible. i hate her 2. naps. i hate all of it. 2/10

yeah idg that one at all

hahah, so not OTM but I laughed anyway

I think the King vote came from I Love Shopping for Furniture lurkers.

you have to reserve "can't sing" for Haim to unleash most clusterfuck iirc

but really, everyone can sing on a playlist with I LOVE MAKONNEN

tough but fair, im getting to that thing eventually

these poll results are putting me into an increasingly negative spiral, i might have to start posting here instead

like this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

could imagine the guy from futile islands really psyching himself up it to before a show

this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

Far too generous. A good sad wank song is a glorious thing.

Perversely, my favourite discovery of the rollout so far has been the Katy Perry song with 782 million YouTube views which i seem to have managed to miss all year.

Yesterday was a good run.

like this caribou song sounds like the soundtrack to a sad wank

― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly this is some boring, boring music

at least TDFW was fun(ish)

i don't even like turn down for what much either, but i bet it's hilarious on poppers (is poppers still a thing?)

wait, everything is hilarious on poppers

The Fall sound superb on poppers ime

so far today has been utterly mind-numbing

yass

just reached a new lo

i like german whip though, sorry

Vermillion is a "trying on jeans somewhere" kind of song.

well, vermillion is a trying kind of song tbh

I love these jeans but they weren't meant for me to wear

...and that's exactly what became of that thread. god help us.

Vermillion is a "trying on jeans somewhere" kind of song.

― how's life, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i don't know what this means -- or even if it's a diss? -- but i kind of like it.

basically the same as the "mid-tier fashion store music" diss of Rather Be, no?

Tbh, I don't take either of those descriptions as disses, even though they may have been intended as such.

that's true and I don't think whoever posted that even meant it as a diss, replace with "comment on"

I've had day-long meetings for the past three days and I'm realizing now that missing the vast majority of the tracks rollout didn't bother me at all, particularly since "Two Weeks" looks to be either #1 or #2. Kind of bummed no one went for Alcest, though.

I'm bummed so many people think the Ear Murderers are good.

Well, people also think Taylor Swift and Tyler the Creator are good so it's not really a shock to me.

No Taste Zone

My brother gave me an album by The 1978ers for my birthday that I wish I'd heard last year because I would have been pushing it heavily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utniz5PWhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QYsE2VdoeQ

Basically this is what I wanted to listen to for most of the year and I didn't even know

This is the band you were telling me about! Wow, this is great.

The whole album is FAAAAAANTASTIC

These two songs smoke, so I'm adding it to the purchase list.

Took a break, not related, but did I miss some reevaluation where people decided Drake wasn't hilariously awful?

lets see how long i last this year

bookmarked

huh. a good start

77. Jazmine Sullivan - Mascara

This is pretty good! I don't think that's ever been my reaction any other year to the first track so hopefully not a jinx, only criticism is some clunk lyrics wise and the potential for getting a little audio wallpapery, doesnt so much end as just drift off somewhere, still 7/10

76. Radiohead - Spectre

This sounds exactly like "Radiohead writes a song for a James Bond film" which is somehow super super gross to me, not in a "oh how could they" way but in the terrible combination of the worst of both of those two things. Remember when a James Bond theme wasn't an automatic bullet full of dull shot into whoever was making it? not a radiohead hater but this is phoned in no effort garbage. 3/10

76 RADIOHEAD "Spectre" (184 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 465 / Youtube
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who voted for first place - WE NEED NAMES!

― xyzzzz__

75 THUNDERCAT FT. FLYING LOTUS AND KAMASI WASHINGTON "Them Changes"

I think I can't be impartial about this because i bear the deep scars of guitar store lifetime but the noodly watery envelope filter bass shit in this is so fucking grating and unlistenable that i cant give it a fair shake. shades of shrapnel records if they had put out anything not made by the whitest people available in new jersey. i get grabbed for moments, theres hooks but then saxophone or "blurgle bluggle wuuba wubba squee squa" bubbles up again and i just cant fucking take that shit. still better than the radiohead track. 4/10

74 FLOATING POINTS "Silhouettes (I, II, III)"

kind of reminds me of up bustle and out except for that part where something interesting happens eventually 5/10

Following this on social media this year it's good

55 ROMAN FLÜGEL "Black Towers" (224 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)

I Love Employee Orientation Video Music

i don't know that song but me too

flugel is the man

i just cannot take the vocals on 99% of this stuff... at all

feeling old and musty rn

i like jasmine sullivan's vocals pretty well, though!

i started listening to the nominations playlist a few weeks back, and seriously considered voting, but then after about a dozen or so tracks of tepid garbage, I decided I would rather listen to Bach and Roedelius and it isn't like my voting would make any difference in anyone's life, so I just gave up.

ditto

hopefully gaz will place high

my one regret in not voting.

Also, I did not formally release my Trap Queen IDM parody in time to be nominated.

Twink Peen?

Yap Queen

i took a Trap Queen midi file and mapped it to dog sounds

lol

I'm behind but I'm not feeling bad about that

ok so do i just skip to the top ten or abandon all hope

listen to the higher-ranking Sundfor song

im loading something by somethig called the 1975 right now that placed at 20

oh

oh no

what the goddamn hell is this

20 the 1975 "Ugh!"

so this is a joke right. or knowing recyling of garbage irony or something. what the shit. take the worst pop music of the late 80s/pos and resultant paste aagghhgh fuck this song. 2/10

hahahahahaha

ha every year i decide to rejoin in progress at some random point and its always somehow at one of the worst songs in the countdown i think

lol oh dear. There is a lot of good stuff in this rundown after that abomination, I swear.

19 JACK Ü FT. JUSTIN BIEBER "Where Are Ü Now" (380 points, 14 votes)

this is innocuous mushy pop ballad sung well enough and then hamfisted uptempo then back to mush then back to yeah i get the idea 4/10

going to jump back and forth here a bit since the top ten is happening i think

10 DAVID BOWIE "Blackstar"

im about to piss of a bunch of people probably but uh. its ok? vocal doubling is dull, hate the saxophone intrusion, dont like the drum sound choices, moments where it almost catches my ear but yeah. not a fan so far. 4 minute mark might be turning that around though? ehhh as a guy who likes disjointed things more than most, this is kind of a mess. sorry, all respect but just no. 5/10

Blackstar album better than Blackstar song.

18 TOVE STYRKE "Ego" (381 points, 10 votes, 1 first-place vote)

every country gets its own kylie minogue i guess? or something? its..fine. i suppose. 5/10

9. DONNIE TRUMPET AND THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT "Sweet Candy"

So a series of reactions. Name prepared me for some twee fuckstick garbage shit. was wrong. saw this on SNL i think and thought it was horrible live. On record, it's apparently great. Yay suprises. 8/10

8. Missy Elliott - "WTF" feat. id rather not talk about it

It's Missy so clearly it rules, appreciate the mostly lack of Pharell although its less horrible than usual, maybe she yelled at him enough to suck less. there can alwaays be less pharell though. docked 1 point for pharrell content. 7/10

Pharrell is the cursed sword of pop music. -1 to everything.

sometimes i try to think about a song like, idk, "get lucky" by daft punk ft. anyone else and i like the song more.

17 GRIMES "Kill V. Maim" (384 points, 11 votes)

what little voice fucking whine shit nonsense is this all chirpy and terrible. its like everything people hate abt j-pop with a coda of evanescence thrown in at minute 2:45. or a whole song based around the worst instincts of lady gaga. people really miss kreayshawn huh. fuck this song. 1/10

the sixth best song on her masterful album art angels but still a solid 8/10. maybe 9.

I still liked "Kill V. Maim" more than anything I heard off of her first album

16 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Fade Away" (406 points, 10 votes, 2 first-place votes)

i think im down with this, liking the analog synth thing going on, weird knife/1989 blank space taylor swift/eurythmics vibe which on the face of it makes no sense at all and i know that but hey i just gotta be meeeeeee. ha i swear the keyboard sound is take straight from "i want to break free" by queen which is 1000% ok by me. and hooray for understanding that just over 3 minutes is the perfect length. 9/10

This is the only ilm thread allowed on ile

15 JUSTIN BIEBER "Sorry" (474 points, 21 votes)

lolololol i shit you not i spent all year hearing this on the local pop station and was convinced it was Ed Sheeran doing a guitar free singles track. not kidding. amused enough to give it 5/10

oh look, the deejery has entered the thread *grabs popcorn*

I had my way this would be the only ilm thread allowed

yeah we know

lol, i had no idea this was happening but for what little it's worth, i approve

14 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Delirious" (485 points, 15 votes, 3 first-place votes)

love the music (more than the one i recently posted), way less into the vocals. 7/10

7 Kendrick Lamar - Alright

I really have no excuse for not voting for way way more Kendrick on my ballot other than that most of my listening these days is w/the kid and so this song was one of those "skip so we dont learn the wrong words" moments. 9/10

13 RIHANNA "Bitch Better Have My Money (488 points, 18 votes)

my fading interest in Rihanna continues. not terrible, i like shes found and used that scratch in her voice more and more but not much else about this. 5/10

12 SKEPTA "Shutdown" (517 points, 17 votes, 2 first-place votes)

this is totally fine and all but #12 idgi. unremarkable in every way, but not actively bad so hey. 6/10

apparently in 2015 we have gotten to the point where a guy who would have been ok in an opening slot for dizzee is top 15 material

11 GRIMES "Flesh Without Blood" (542 points, 19 votes, 1 first-place vote)

less objectionable than i generally expect but still she just seems incomprehensible to me as anything that people get behind hardcore, the weird key shift on the "i dont care anymore" is interesting until it becomes annoying. she still sounds like something they would play during the end credits of a final fantasy game to me every time i hear her mixed with fake nostalgia for imaginary synthpop or something. 5/10

6 Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer

Things I know about Demi Lovato. 1. She did that confident song which I loathe. 2. This would be a pretty good instrumental. 3. There are worse singers I suppose. 4. too many syllables in a line doesnt sound interesting, it sounds stupid. 5. I blame Nicolas Winding-Refn for a lot of bad pop this year i think. 4/10

apparently in 2015 we have gotten to the point where a guy who would have been ok in an opening slot for dizzee is top 15 material

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, January 21, 2016 3:35 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my sole contribution here is that i think three uk rap songs made it into the top 77 and i could not tell you what is remotely interesting about any of them

5 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

maybe i should just stop doing the top ten and realize between this and a bunch of other stuff im totally out of step abt whatever people are hearing in this that is notable. 5/10

i think three uk rap songs made it into the top 77 and i could not tell you what is remotely interesting about any of them

same, i mean the skepta one is ok i guess - jordan shrug @ the other two

britishers gonna britisher i suppoze

there's a lot of stuff in this list that's perfectly nice and inoffensive. kind of wish there were more tracks that blew my hair back.

51 Eric Prydz - "Opus (Four Tet Remix)"

i think i would like to hear this? i'm always vaguely disappointed with four tet remixes but remixing Eric Prydz sounds like a nutso "tex wasabi's"-esque flavor explosion.

am i crazy or did Tinashe not place at all?

oh n/m only one single of hers came out in 2015

4 Miguel - Coffee

It's a pretty gorgeous song and does the backwards looking synthpop better than 90% of the other stuff ive heard from the list so far. great singer obv. i can get behind it. 8/10

4 UK rap songs made it - you presumably forgot J Hus

3 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta

i voted for this because it's great. might be the only track i had place so obv 10/10

If I was going to redo my ballot, I would put more Kendrick on it, because I honestly got more enjoyment out of songs on that album as songs than I did any other album I listened to this year except for Marriages.

xxp you are correct, my apologies to j hus

Yap Queen

― sarahell, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i took a Trap Queen midi file and mapped it to dog sounds

― sarahell, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suddenly glad I clicked on this waste thread

we're so happy to have you here

yapatistas unite!

who is gregus? my top neighbor & i don't know who it is

woops sorry wrong thread

nickb had some good zingy hot takes, can someone reach out to him for next year's trad ilm soy confusion thread?

xp to gregus

yea i dug nickb's takes

lol forgot about this thread from last year A+

F- as usual, jjj

hope you can do better next year!

I'm not done yet gr8080, I just need an extension. I treat real life like undergrad so

24 JLIN Dark Energy (512 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)

19 people who were really impressed by the "Diva" scene from Fifth Element.

the 2 are included in the 17

fuck. i should never post before breakfast. thank you.

I voted it #1 and have never seen that movie.

Yeah, that was just a joke about the opera samples in the opening track.