ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

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

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

wtf

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, January 26, 2017 1:20 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o_O

super dope how rae sremmurd are total cunts

― left hand hierarchy (imago), Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:19 PM (two minutes ago)

can't think of a more righteous way to express disgust at perceived sexism than using a phrase universally seen as a misogynist slur in the country the song comes from

Fantastic and unpredictable list overall but with two or three exceptions the top 10 is pretty unremarkable.

Black Beatles itself is a decent enough song, I came around to it a bit. Its goodness is 100% down to MWMI

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

wtf

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I was assuming it was a troll post...?

I voted Blood Orange v high on my album ballot, nothing seemed like it had a life on its own outside the album to warrant a singles mention.

Black Beatles itself is a decent enough song, I came around to it a bit. Its goodness is 100% down to MWMI

― left hand hierarchy (imago), Thursday, January 26, 2017 1:24 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

alt-facts

thank u gr808/sean

Making a list of people sniffing at "Your Best American Girl" with Weezer comparisons and the like so I can remember to mistrust everything they say about music from now on.

"Black Beatles" sounds fabulous on the radio. It makes the Biebs and the rest sound sickly. That's all.

What is it that people find charming and/or addictive about Rae Sremmurd's personalities? IDK I'm overreacting coz of all the ridiculous shit being flung at Mitski but to me they seem repellent over like all of the other artists in the 77 except Bruno Mars

blood orange on my albums ballot too. i didn't vote in the tracks poll but if i did i might've put "best to you" on there

weezer did not even remotely cross my mind when first hearing this mitski song wtf

Catching up...

YAY!! @ Rae Sremmurd and Shura. The video for "What's It Gonna Be" was my favourite art of 2016.

black beatles is the pinnacle of meme rap it's all downhill from here folks

"Black Beatles" sounds fabulous on the radio. It makes the Biebs and the rest sound sickly. That's all.

A farting goat on the radio would make Biebs sound sickly; it's not a particularly high bar to clear.

Speaking of, pouring one out for "Whose Billy Goat Is This?"

the amount of low & high end that gets sucked out of Black Beatles and compression that gets added in for the radio is really apparent