ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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

tove lol

i think this song is Just O.K.

The lesser of the Toves.

unfashionable conservative opinion: ugh

Dope track

Men tend to overrate songs in which women get vulgar but "Disco Tits" is a good 'un.

Helluva run this. Just clocked that I've had a veggie burger at the Bethnal Green takeaway Stormzy's on the counter of in the vid.

Disco Tits is the 1st of these today I voted for but I'm down w/ everything tbh

I like the track but the video is a bit silly

it took me a while for it to click but this is by far the best tove lo track

i hope the other tove is still to show up but i really doubt it

Unless you've gotten head from a puppet, don't judge. xp

its placing #17 on ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017 is not enough to convince me to listen to a song called "Disco Tits"

what if I asked you to dance to "Disco Tits"

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

16 THE BLACK MADONNA "He Is The Voice That I Hear" [329 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/0NCjHeiwycQ

^ I'm the #1 on this one. It was a late decision and partly strategic, but it turned out the song was doing just fine.

great track

hell yeh

think this is the third and final of mine to place, absolute banger

hearing it now for the first time!

I like rather than love this one but this is an excellent run of songs in any case.

Good start to the day. Undercover is a highlight from the album. Happy to see it here.

I really should have voted for Big For Your Boots. Probably the most fun song of the year. The way he says, "boots" will never get old. I wish the rest of the album was that good.

I've only listened to the Fever Ray album once. I enjoyed it at the time, but for some reason I haven't felt the need to go back to it yet. Some of it did seem a bit, Fever Ray/Knife by numbers.

Disco Tits is pretty enjoyable. Probably the closest I've come to really liking anything of hers since Habits. Totally agree with Johnny Fever that she's the lesser of the Toves. Mistakes really should be in here somewhere.

Only discovered the Black Madonna song when going through the Spotify playlist last month. Such a beautifully produced track. It was on my long list.

Can I just say that that Arcade Fire song is actually good and it wouldn't have totally surprised me that it would make the top 20. I mean, I didn't vote for it, but I like it. Rest of the album is terrible.

A BIG YES to The Black Madonna (but then I did actually vote for "Everything Now", the first AF track I've liked in many years, so you don't want to listen to me).

the fact that it actually got a few votes but angered the overwhelming majority made it perhaps the most effective joke entry ever

Agree with "Disco Tits" being just an OK track. I still resent ILM for ignoring "Habits" when it first came out.

Black Madonna made my long list too, it was a nice discovery from nominations. i like the piano solo towards the end

didn't Habits place decently in 2014? nowhere near as good as Disco Tits

i thought it came top 20

https://i.imgur.com/3cU4h2O.jpg

15 KESHA "Praying" [347 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/v-Dur3uXXCQ

by no means the best track on a great album but lovely to see it here

I admired the hell out of her this year but didn't actually enjoy any of the music, despite my best efforts

Given everything she's gone through I'm glad she gets to make music again but... I still find her voice extremely annoying.

I like the most because it's grinding a stiletto heel into Dr. Luke's tainted legacy like extinguishing a cigarette butt.

Rainbow ended up growing on me a lot over the last couple of months. Praying was an instant classic. My fifth vote to place.

I voted (quite high) for Spaceship, myself

can admire the sentiment here and it's a great performance but i didn't really care much for it as a song unfortunately

didn't Habits place decently in 2014? nowhere near as good as Disco Tits

― ufo

Actually, yes it did (#16)... but it was originally released in early 2013 and I didn't like the single version that became a hit.

I know I'm just being picky

oh I had no idea there was even a 2013 version

They did a slight rework of it, I wouldn't say it was a different version. Still, it kind of ruined it for me. Also the original video was way better.

glad this placed here

https://i.imgur.com/R3xJMXT.jpg

14 CHARLY BLISS "Glitter" [350 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/K_2UqssvaSc

ha! i was wrong