ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

mine! can't understand anyone being ambivalent or hateful towards it

i voted for one song w/ french montana on it and this is not that

Ambivalent, but not hateful. Beat, melody, flow feels very plug-n-play for 2017.

Blissful song, mellow and sweet

Video helps too yeah

Video definitely raises it a level above.

every swae lee hook i heard in 2017 transformed the song it appeared on

a fuckin' good time never hurt nobody

https://i.imgur.com/bF8RiAI.jpg

TIE-63 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS "Wear Black" [160 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/o05_TpRaCsA

Xp. It has a very nice groove though. Is that a new dance? So physical.

well thats out of nowhere

His best release of 2017 was a novel, but this is p good too

I voted for it!!

Every year a couple of big American radio hits don't get played down here, and "Unforgettable" is one.

ilm confession: i don't think i've ever really listened to these guys before but this is decent. sounds kind of like phil ochs singing a prefab sprout song

Darniele would be flattered

Didn't vote for it but pleased to see it. DJP did some arrangements for this album, right?

At least you didn't compare them to They Might Be Giants.

Still convinced if there were no ILX connection, they would not be so popular here.

yeah but do you like it?

FW I wasn't wild about the album as a whole but this is one of his best songs

*fwiw

I can see a reverse argument. Joan Crawford has a legendary reluctance to discuss her music on here and I feel that the rest of us only do so tentatively out of respect

yeah this is a lovely song

idk about that, i was into the mountain goats before i joined ilx, and didn't know about the ilx connection when i joined here either

My jams from Goths were 'Rain In Soho', 'We Do It Different on the West Coast' and 'Shelved' FWIW

I loved Tallahassee but that has been a while. Since then I have tried but found nada.

they're a pretty popular act out in the real world!

the full-length Ariadna (i.e. on Spotify/the album) is really lovely and better than the edit imo btw

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No. But I have some bias due to old ILX grudges. Really not my thing though.

i'm not a mountain goats fan but because of real life events this year i am beyond thrilled that his new album is called "goths" and appears to be about goths

"Rain in Soho" rules.

the whole album rules

Darnielle’s Kaputt

DJP did some arrangements for this album, right?

Just one track, I believe, but I could be incorrect.

What I will say about Wear Black is that it has a really satisfying bridge

Darniele would be flattered

well i didn't mean it as an insult. but let's be really real here guys, this song is no blue pedro

I'd probably be bored shitless by an Anglophone track in the vein of this Kedr Liviansky song but this is fantastic and it's all in the way the vocal line weaves around the rest of the music.

https://i.imgur.com/biT2CFF.jpg

TIE-63 JESSIE WARE "Midnight" [160 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/MJz8mtImzdc

I had completely forgotten she released anything last year.

Album really came and went. It's the least best of the three, but not awful by any means.

"Your Domino" should've been the single.

tornado wallace track way back is v nice

midnight wasn't a highlight on that album

i'm looking forward to finally giving this album a spin at some point. love her, but have yet to get around to it.

Ariadna was my #7 i think?

Midnight is my first vote to place. I was excited about the album based on the first two or three singles, but I found it a slog. Probably if I were to make the effort I'd find more tracks there that I like.

If I had voted for any JW it would have been "Thinking About You" but maybe expectations were just too high.

I voted for Your Domino over this.

same, your domino is a jam.

Our next track is the one that was oh so close to being 78'ed before it was (unfortunately?) rescued by one last vote at the buzzer...

oh boy