ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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TIE-54 YEMI ALADE "Mon Lo" [170 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/sDZgZE1TG0E

oh shit I've not heard this one. Oh shit how did I not know she had an album out this year??

this is dope!

I'm merely an afropop tourist, but I like this a lot.

soundcloud says the release date for this was 15 December 2017, that's cutting it pretty fine for the 77

nice song btw

Nice!

Yay! The album didn't make my ballot but this one was pretty high up on my tracks list.

this song is amazing

soundcloud says the release date for this was 15 December 2017

VERY, considering noms opened on the 14th.

That's part of the reason for the bonus 10 noms allotted in the final 24 hour stretch, though.

https://i.imgur.com/ZJni5lz.jpg

TIE-54 L'RAIN "Which Fork/I'll Be" [170 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/RqAbjGd-OpQ

!!!!!

This is destined to be the most interesting stretch of the whole poll folks, so savor it

imago-approved maximalism, as promised

(my #6)

this is awesome

Oh cool - in a reversal to the last one, I didn't vote for any L'Rain tracks but the album made it very high on my list!

is this the first 77 entry to contain a hidden track?

that Nilüfer Yanya song is all right but the pretentious blank expression on her face throughout the video is enraging to me

not sure it's hidden - it's in the title! the silence is just a pause to reflect on how amazing the music is. psychedelic soul-prog yall

I dunno, crut. That just seems like...her face? xp

this is the most imago song ever

apologies in advance but it reminds me of the ambient fanfare at the end of Kid A

yeh voted album too, whole thing as a piece truly rules

also, I only discovered this after the nominations closed and would have possibly voted for one of the other tracks instead, but this was the only one nominated and as my introduction to l'rain it merited instant high inclusion. as for the album...well that's another story. next week...

i never got round to listening to this but enjoying it in the here and now

xp ("stay go" is my choice cut i guess)

yeah, 'stay go'

is that her going all yma sumac at about 2:00 or is that a synth?

i liked the l'rain album but not quite enough to vote for anything from it

I find this L'Rain pretty annoying but yesterday was rather placid so I'm okay with it

this ten year old track used the Moodymann sample way better than Drake did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5EuxE9p7PA

All aboard the L'Rain. Very good to see it place. Album is nuts.

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53 THE XX "I Dare You" [170 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/qqflFMhkqHM

I loved that xx album

lovely song

Say Something Loving and Replica were the highlights from that album to me but this was fine too, maybe one of them is still to place?

weirdly when I saw them recently they did this as a stripped down ballad, nowhere near as good

In my head last January I kept imagining a Buckingham-Nicks cover.

Glad to see L'Rain. I actually nominated this on one of the last days for nominations so didn't really expect it to place. Only discovered this very recently but have listened to it a bunch the last couple of weeks.

reminds me of use somebody by kings of leon :/

see how all the artists have been different? hasn't that been exciting? (starting my rules change campaign early )

lol but true xp

Love the album, voted for it. If I'd voted for a song it would probably have been Dangerous. On Hold placed last year, right?

I believe so.

Not sure about combining points for originals and remixes that can be voted for separately. What's to stop someone heaving 98 points onto a single placement? Anyway, it's decent-ish disco so w/e

― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:47 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You can't vote for more than one version of a song, just like you can't vote for the same song twice.

I may like or dislike an artist, I may like every other measure of a particular song, but the second I hear a fucking "oh whoa oh" part I check out.

(Not throughout pop history...just in recent years. Y'all know that "oh whoa oh" I'm talkin' 'bout.)

may like or dislike an artist, I may like every other measure of a particular song, but the second I hear a fucking "oh whoa oh" part I check out swoon.

After their totally forgettable second album and Jamie's dreary solo one, I really didn't think I needed another XX album in my life, but I went back to I See You a lot last year. Might be my favourite album of theirs now.