ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

hahahaha

The Francis Bebey sample on this is so clunkily used and a really shabby way to treat a wonderful record. I mean, I basically like the Arcade Fire but they're well into their pointless mid-career drift by now.

Can't believe it took just one denial for me to swallow the #FakeNews

haha

well played, I've been made a fool of and it's not even 9am local time

Don't know which of those is the least credible joke post

The Fool of You

i weep for ilm ;_;

The Arcade Fire one was pretty credible in fairness, lamer records than that have done well here.

I'm in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Although my heart is falling too
I'm in love with your body
Remember when I used to follow you home from school babe?
Before I got picked up for paedophelia
Who makes the nazis-ah

robin thicke made top 20 iirc xps

yeah arcade fire was just believable enough, well played

lol

Without further ado...

https://i.imgur.com/xaFkEk8.jpg

20 KEHLANI "Undercover" [296 points, 10 votes]
https://youtu.be/rBrmg0BBHI4

Hell yeah. I'd have liked it even higher but I'll take it. earworm of the year

Fantastic song

thank the lord for that but i am never forgiving you for making me listen to that arcade fire abomination

too low!

i had already mapped out the top 20 so i knew u were fuckin with me

I feel like such a credulous moron about the fact that if someone tells me they're not lying, even on THE INTERNET, I am naturally inclined to believe them

One way or another
I'mma love you
Slidin' under covers, undercover
They don't wanna see it happen
But we say, "Fuck it"
They don't wanna see it happen
But we say, "Fuck it"

the bit where she sings one way or another slays me every time

tbf "Everything Now" is the only Arcade Fire song I've ever liked

Hahahahaha. I totally believed Arcade Fire, tbh, as other people have said, ilx has voted for worse. The 1975 didn't have anything out this year, did they?

the two basically-opposite "Undercover"s being only 12 pts apart is quite nice

if Arcade Fire had shown up at 50 or something I wouldn't have been surprised at all

couldn't really pick a highlight from the Kehlani album but Undercover is great

just noticed that bob marley gets a writing credit on undercover - anyone know which bit is his?

One way or another
I'mma love you
Slidin' under covers, undercover
They don't wanna see it happen
But we say, "Fuck it"
They don't wanna see it happen
But we say, "Fuck it"
--bob marley

courtesy of The Fader:

On “Undercover” — probably the most fun song on the album — Kehlani pulls from Akon’s 2006 megahit “Don’t Matter,” which itself takes a part of its crucial melody from Bob Marley’s 1979 song “Zimbabwe.” (Marley and Akon both received songwriter credits on the track.)

ah ok, don't think i know 'zimbabwe' tbh

I don't think the bit of Zimbabwe that was in Don't Matter ended up in Undercover but that's how writing credits work

https://i.imgur.com/jgggPS1.jpg

19 STORMZY "Big For Your Boots" [300 points, 10 votes, 2 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/dFOErVWlsxg

this is fun :)

hell yes

Beuuuts

maybe 20 seconds too long but otherwise great

totally forgot to vote for the man stormzy

Way too low, but may have lost votes to the album.

a regrettable last-minute cut from my ballot--glad to see it so high!

https://i.imgur.com/im1BIyF.jpg

18 FEVER RAY "To The Moon And Back" [326 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/fJjGZkPl9Tw

those fakes were excellently played, kudos

oh shit

this was actually one of my least faves on the album tbh

still just a mediocre retread of Silent Shout except in a major key, huge disappointment

yeah idk about this, it's ok maybe

This fever ray track grew on me a lot in the context of the album. Prefer "Mustn't Hurry" tho

I know I began listening to this album once, but I can't remember if I even finished it.

It's a definite grower, and there's a handful of tracks that could stack up to the first. There's also a bunch of tracks that take the internalized body horror and grief of the first and turn it outwards and in a more ramped up, percussive direction. Comparisons to the knife make sense but it's worth the price of admission

Obviously Stormzy has made it to national treasure status in record time but Big For Your Boots is the one that just clicked instantly and never went away. Totally deserves its status as ubiquitous UK anthem.

he is mayor of london at this point. and the adenuga brothers are our foremost public intellectuals

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

17 TOVE LO "Disco Tits" [328 points, 11 votes]
https://youtu.be/8RQDPwODja4

ok I can say I called this one. good song imo