ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

black beatles is actually a very bad song

That Poll is a real crowd pleaser : 2016 Tracks Poll debrief, ballots, and haters mad for whatever reason

Teenage Dirtbag with a bit of hipster-patriotism on top?

Nah, Junie/FUBU/Mad/Don't Touch My Hair are all classics too.

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, January 26, 2017

I don't mind "Weary" and "...Hair."

All these Weezer and "Teenage Dirtbag" mentions re: Mitski make me sad. Y'all, this song is so much better than any of that moldy old shit.

I can't believe the Mitski song is the one people take issue with tbh. I can't even begin to understand the love for Sremmurd

tuomas there's been like 3 indie rock songs in this poll you wally.

thanks poll runners, great work as always

yes thank you poll runners!!

black beatles is actually a very bad song
― marcos, Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this saddens me. I thought we were pals

not sure i "get" the mitski video but that song is pretty nice. doesn't strike me as a song of the year contender or whatever exactly but hey

"black beatles" obv pretty unimpeachable

All these Weezer and "Teenage Dirtbag" mentions re: Mitski make me sad.

even as someone who likes Weezer, co-sign

Also "Panda" >>> half this top ten

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:58 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

thanks for a great rollout pollrunners!

You can look up my comments on the Ear Murderers last time around if you care for my take.

The Mitski is better than "The Sweater Song" but I couldn't help but hear the similarities.

That Mitski tune is too Weezeresque for my taste.

Yeah, she sometimes sounds like Weezer and sometimes even reminds me weirdly of Tori Amos, which normally wouldn't excite me that much, but I just really like her voice and songwriting. Btw, she used to be part of a prog group called Voice Coils, who did a couple of great EPs.

"teenage dirtbag" is a great song, in case that obvious fact was being misinterpreted by people reading these casual comparisons

Teenage Dirtbag with a bit of hipster-patriotism on top?

Are you sure you were paying attention?

ok so mitski would appear to be my second 'no idea who this is but wow' discovery of the day, melanie di biasio being the other

"black beatles" is a worthy winner :)

mitski video also great

also, yes both mitski and weezer use heavily distorted guitar sounds but to way different ends

Thanks pollrunners for making this work. And gr8080 - those fakes were perfectly timed. kudos.

Clearly not.

I'll leave the long version for Mitski to tell, but the short version is "I thought I wanted to date you, American Boy, but we're not really on the same page and never will be because of deep culture clash and, whatever, I'm starting to appreciate that as I get older."

"Black Beatles" has a really good beat, but like with "Bad and Boujee", the lyrics are too sexist that I'd want to listen to it multiple times, sorry. I know these guys are young and all and it's common, time-worn rap tropes they repeating, but there's so much good rap that averts those tropes that I can afford to avoid tunes like this.

mitski song is great
"townie" is an absolutely amazing song from her album before if anyones interested x

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars was my pick from that record, I voted for it

All these Weezer and "Teenage Dirtbag" mentions re: Mitski make me sad. Y'all, this song is so much better than any of that moldy old shit.

I'm listening to it now and... not really? It's fine and all but eh.

re: "Black Beatles", this is the best Rae Sremmurd song I've heard to date; I would rate it a 5/10.

honestly i don't get the Mitski hype either, can't shake the suspicion that it's '90s nostalgia?

80% of the songs on this list are 90s nostalgia in some way

well okay I will grant "better than Weezer" but 2nd-best song of 2016? noooooope

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Those Voice Coils EPs are wonderful!

Mitski layers this incredible power and beautifully candid lyrics onto any recognisable chord structures. She knows how to create tension in a song like nothing else too. Lol at someone thinking it was supposed to be patriotic.

black beatles is actually a very bad song
― marcos, Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this saddens me. I thought we were pals

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:04 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol we still are. kind of changing my mind tbh:

lol "Bad and Boujeeblack beatles"

my reaction to it was basically "what is this nonsense"/plays it 5 times in a row/"well I guess I like nonsense now"

― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

10% are 80s nostalgia and the other 10% are nostalgia for 80s nostalgia

80% of the songs on this list are 90s nostalgia in some way

― na (NA), Thursday, January 26, 2017 1:13 PM (five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And most of it is crushingly boring.

Black Beatles really does seem very trance-like, I can kind of understand the mannequin challenge meme

well okay I will grant "better than Weezer" but 2nd-best song of 2016? noooooope

As someone who voted it #1 and listened to it approx 2000 times, I will politely disagree.

i didn't vote but i'm surprised there are no blood orange songs on the list, was it a 2015 release that i was late to?

Mitski my #19 but I'm so glad to see it at #2. Or rather #1 of all the songs not by total cunts

All about how the second chorus kicks in so quickly and even more intensely than the first one, such a rush

Oh and thanks Gr80/sean!

Song I'm most surprised and disappointed didn't make this list: "OOOUUU"

Blood Orange was 2016. But ILM isn't really keen on him.

Well, that was something. I dunno what, but it was certainly something.

super dope how mitski perpetuates cultural apartheid thru millenial self-absorption. volkshambhala uber alles

super dope how rae sremmurd are total cunts

super dope how mitski perpetuates cultural apartheid thru millenial self-absorption. volkshambhala uber alles

wtf

i didn't vote but i'm surprised there are no blood orange songs on the list, was it a 2015 release that i was late to?

― na (NA), Thursday, January 26, 2017 2:16 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank u ilm

Beyonce or Tribe had best win albums

i think blood orange might show up in the albums poll

xp Yeah, seriously

I liked the Mitski song a lot more once sund4r told me the lyrics in the chorus. I ended up voting for it

Black Beatles was my #4. Feels very vaporwave to me

huh i would have guessed blood orange would be popular here