ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

Awesome! Laurel Halo and Tornado Wallace made it! Thinking this might be the only ones of my top votes to make it :/

I'm now obsessing over the question of whether Cotton Eye Joe would have placed in an ILM 1995 poll and I'm guessing that yes it probably would.

As If It's Your Last is by far the best Blackpink song, hopefully it's still to come though

yeah I wondered that too, and I agree xp

oh it would have placed for sure

Yeah, it definitely would!

need to poll cotton eye joe vs blue pedro

yes

The first time I heard Blue Pedro I thought 'wtf is this' after about a minute and then realise I'd played it all the way through. And then played it another five times in a row. The "all aboard!" bit just slays me. Didn't expect to see it anywhere near this list.

― Matt DC, Monday, January 22, 2018 4:29 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Definitely. It's a matter of 'I can't work out if I like this but I MUST PLAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO FIND OUT'

The main chorus opens "Likey" but then spends more than a minute on its return, after several detours. Contemplative bridge then a rap bridge. The BB cream thing. There's a real "let's put all the catchy stuff in here" vibe to this song and I like it, more than the individual parts.

Btw, I just realised that I hadn't listened to the Taylor Alxndr on my catch-up. Rectifying that now and it's really sweet. Poll has my approval so far.

I was going to start slowing the pace for the remainder of today, but, as usual, ILM seems to predict itself...

https://i.imgur.com/irUX9yd.jpg

66 BLACKPINK "As If It's Your Last" [159 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/Amq-qlqbjYA

BLACKPINK IN YR AREA

lmao

As someone coming from a Spanish speaking country: Despacito was huge in the first quarter of 2017 (even before the Justin Bieber useless version appeared) but was displaced by other reggaeton artists and tracks. If you ask me the biggest reggaeton hits in 2017 came from either Maluma, J Balvin (who also had huge hits in 2016) or newcomer Danny Ocean.

:D
my first nom!

This really reminds me of something. Is it 'Hair' by Little Mix?

blue pedro is the first totally new find for me; this is great but the cotton eyed joe comparison is otm

The greatness of Likey is its joy in trying to have and eat four cakes

Looks like we're getting a different "vibe" at this point.

rest of the list is k-pop

Blue Pedro melody = the theme from Blue Peter, right? I am confused that no one has mentioned this yet

hahaha

great throwback to the 'three songs in one' ~2012 kpop trend and i love the chorus

If anyone is new to Blackpink and likes this I strongly recommend you listen to 'Whistle' and 'Boombayah' straight after.

Btw K-popsters, I can't believe nobody nominated Yezi.

I really like the all-too brief K-soca section on this BLACKPINK track and the groovy tom fills. Not sure I love the rest. TWICE seemed a bit more bonkers and I like that

I'm going to laugh real hard if the next two songs are Red Flavor and Girl Front.

Holy shit, "Whistle" is my new favorite song ever.

Yeah I was down on this Blackpink initially - it's nothing new, really - but it's many catchy songs in one wore me down and I'm freely jamming to it now.

Blue Pedro melody = the theme from Blue Peter, right? I am confused that no one has mentioned this yet

― rob, Monday, January 22, 2018 4:39 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The song is called 'Blue Pedro' (Blue Peter) and someone said it was a direct sample of the BP theme but I don't hear it. It's definitely in the same key as the Jolly Roger theme and done in a sea shanty style but it's not quite the same.

ah i really hope "girl front" makes it

xp I really like LOONA's 'Sonatine' (which wasn't nominated)

In light of Blue Pedro I'm slightly regretting not nominating Neil Cicierega's Wallspin mashup. It might have broken ILX

i voted for three loona tracks lol hopefully at least one of them will make it

i voted for girl front fwiw

"T.I.M.E." absolutely deserved a nom xxp

ya

ha i was thinking about TIME and smooth

thanks dl, as someone who knows what BP is but has never seen it, I wasn't sure to what extent this was like Chance the Rapper covering the Arthur theme (i.e., is childhood nostalgia a factor here or not)

And this is exactly why doubling points to non-spotify tracks would be a bad idea.

I voted for 'Girl Front' but I just can't get with Red Velvet.

i'm fully expecting both to show up

Blue Peter Theme through the ages

just catching up

that avalon emerson video is gorgeous, great tune too

despacito, eh, idk. it's fine. never really understood why it blew up as opposed any other catchy reggaeton tune

that was partly due to the bieber remix wasn't it

the very utterance of his name has cleared the room

Blue Pedro sounds like something a trying too hard high school music teacher would play in class.

https://i.imgur.com/wGTbcHB.jpg

65 FRENCH MONTANA ft. SWAE LEE "Unforgettable" [160 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/CTFtOOh47oo

Whoop!