ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

Prob my most played track in the car this year. Love it with my all.

Kara-Lis Coverdale is becoming a fave already, although, oof, 5 GBP for one 22m track is as much as her 2015 full-length costs.

Drink I'm Sippin On is a jam. The kind of song that makes you want to have more of the same thing right away.

Hoping a saer track does make it if only to see his thoughts on it

Green Light was my #1. To me it's a perfect pop song: infinitely replay-able and always carthatic in ways I can't describe.

I'm guessing that New Rules will be #1 but honestly there could be ten other possible winners. It's not like last year where it was obviously gonna be Black Beatles

And if the pet shop boys were able to make the top 20 last year who knows what'll show up.

hey Sund4r, these are the sleeve notes from the back of the KLC record. i've read them about 8 times and I still have no idea what the heck it all means, but you might find it informative(?)

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

Predictions for top 20:

Bicep - Glue
saer - ::_::
Julien Baker (Appointments)
XCX
Kendrick
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Lindström/J Hval

Probabaly not?
Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man
Superpitcher: vote split victim?

― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre)

These ones will surely make it:

BODAK YELLOW
MASK OFF

Maybe these?

Fever Ray
Calvin Harris
Lana del Rey
Selena Gomez
Thundercat

Weird year for consensus... many split votes. First year in which I have no idea which ones will make it to the top 20. Thought XO would be top 20.

this has to be the year with the most non-english tracks. which is pretty great.

totally forgot about Bodak. of course it'll make it

There's probably a Kelly Lee Owens song lurking in there as well.

I'm thinking one of Vince Staple's makes it.

Future released so many better tracks than Mask Off this year. I mean, Patek for a start but also Fresh Air, I'm So Groovy, Comin Out Strong all great but I guess Mask Off was the hit

I voted for Patek but somehow doubt it showing up?

Thanks, NickB. I did just shell out for the WAV (which is sounding great so far, although I'll probably compressed it to at least ALAC) but it didn't come with those notes. On first glance, I wouldn't say it's written with the utmost clarity but I'll try to explain what I understand in a bit.

i thought about it and sorta figured out what's gonna be in the top twenty (i mean it's possible sza won't place twice so there's room for error) but regardless i have no idea what order it'll shake out in. not really a clear no. 1 in the bunch (well, i mean, except for cardi, but who knows what'll happen there). kendrick ("dna" over "humble" imo)? paramore? kesha? lmao sun-el musician??

I doubt Mask Off will make the cut when XO Tour Llif3 has already placed.

Mask Off will make it trust me.

Even I voted for it.

I would have hoped Incredible might have slipped in as well, but probably not top 20.

Trying my best to get caught up on this list. A lot of pleasant stuff and some really bad stuff, but the first track that has really captured my attention and got me interested to dig further is the Richard Dawson one. Is the long-awaited Freak Folk revival finally happening? Does the rest of the album measure up.

keep thinking that Richard Dawson is the guy who wrote The God Delusion

I guess "Boys" will be in the top 20 but imo it's not even in the top 20 of the thirtysomething songs Charli XCX appeared on last year

^this

and xps to Brad I can't really figure out a #1 either. I'd personally be surprised if it was "Bodak Yellow". "DNA" seems like the safest bet but Kendrick is also the kind of artist who would likely suffer most from vote-splitting.

I would have totally voted for 'Mask Off' had I cast a ballot.

I'd say "Boys" was significantly lifted by its video, but I recently learned that no one watches those

I'd say "Boys" was significantly lifted by its video, but I recently learned that no one watches those

― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 10:42 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd add cultural impact as a factor - though this is hard to disentangle from the video. I saw "I was busy thinkin' 'bout boys" (or a snippet of that from the song) being deployed online as a lolronic self-descriptor much more than I actually heard the song in the wild last year.

I think Mask Off might win by virtue of being #8-15 on 35 different ballots and no one's #1.

^yes, but also, given the something like 6 'best song of the year' votes on that Bodak Yellow poll...

But is cultural impact usually taken into account for ILM voting?

Does the rest of the album measure up.

you shall find out next week!

(yes)

xp
I can buy that. I only watched it once, but the video definitely felt like an *event*
If it had come out back when tumblr was thriving, it would have been seismic on there

I'd say "Boys" was significantly lifted by its video, but I recently learned that no one watches those

― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:42 (three minutes ago)

^^ Didn't vote for it, but considered throwing something the way of the Mandarin-language Howie Lee remix.

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring and guess for Cut To The Feeling at number one. ILM loves Carly and that's a really great song, although it feels like it came out a long time ago now

The Chromeo remix salvaged "Green Light" for me, which was unbearably omnipresent in New Zealand

It was "bearably" omnipresent across the ditch, I'd say, though as #2 on my ballot I don't think it's the sort of thing that would ever have become unbearable to me. I like the airiness of the Chromeo remix and am also partial to a trashy one made by someone called "Riddler", which seems to come on every time I go to the gym and then unexpectedly popped up very briefly in a recent episode of The Good Place.

CRJ #1 is my guess as well

Mask Off is a masterpiece face it

bad liar gotta be in the top 20

You guys are collectively missing at least one as yet unnamed artist

rico nasty? nah

lmao sun-el musician??

please god 🙏🏻

Is it me? It's me, isn't it? I'm number one! I'm number one!

Ibibio Sound Machine? Haim?

Rihanna??

Hmmmn, my "ILx gonna ILx" guess'd be the Cut Copy massive turning out for the Horrors.

(would be nice if it was e.g. Nadia Rose, mind)

Is Miguel in with a shot? The album got a mixed response overall, but Told You So and Pineapple Skies got good reactions on here. He's had a good hit rate over the last few years.

oh god it'll obviously be him

idk reception has been a little lukewarm to Miguel