ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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

a perfect song by my favorite band

holy shit!

ok how have I not heard this Black Madonna track til now

brb gonna learn to play the intro on the piano

I admire the sentiment of Praying but voted for Woman as it's clearly the better song

it's the 90s!

this is quite good. i'll accept it while speedy ortiz have a year or two off. where did 'raising the skate' place that one year again?

charly bliss >>>>>> speedy ortiz

I listened to this album in binges all year. Like, 20 times one week, take a couple weeks off, 20 times again in another week. "Ruby" is probably still my favorite track, even though it was re-recorded and changed just enough to make it seem ever so slightly less perfect.

Voted for Glitter, but wasn't sure it would place this high.

"Julia" was the standout for me

I called it. What a song! What an album! What a band!

I never expected to like a 90s throwback act so much but this is such a good song, on such a good record.

charly bliss >>>>>> speedy ortiz

we don't really have to do this

oh i'd also figured this wasn't placing, nice to see it here. DQ is maybe my favourite from the album but they're so good at what they do.

When I sent my brother my albums list last week, he gave me responses to everything I'd voted for. My favourite one was what he said about the Charly Bliss album,

"why can't more indie bands do pop-rock like this instead of whatever it is The Horrors do"

xxp was responding to imago's assertion that charly bliss is "acceptable" in speedy's absence

lol xp

Charly Bliss!! I assume this benefited from being the only track nominated, would've been happy voting for any of them.

For another fun 90s throwback album from this year, I recommend Partner's "In Search of Lost Time", though I still prefer Charly Bliss.

Westermarck was the one for me, I lost interest in this album as the days got shorter and I'd never vote for an individual track off this but glad to see them place.

(xpost - the Partner album is better!)

ahh missed that, apologies vc

yeah I think I prefer Westermarck too, but it's all fairly bracing stuff. i like it! no beef

Even after umpteen thousand listens, I still haven't been able to zero in one person Eva's voice reminds me of. I was sure it was a dead ringer for someone else, but I've decided it's basically a hybrid of Kim Deal and Kay Hanley.

Always thought that the first few seconds of this album were the worst moment on it, in general they'd benefit from doing a bit more rhythmically but I suspect they've got an amazing follow-up in them.

Seeing Charly Bliss last year in The Hug and Pint, Glasgow was so much fun. They were genuinely enthralled at how well received they were (for being outside the US). Great album / tracks.

For me it's Renee Zellweger in Empire Records lol xposts

aw JF you did the arcade fire/sheeran before i was up and about to add to the playlist
probably for the best

lol you might be on to something xp

Definitely sounds like Kay Hanley to me - which gives the whole record the feel of a lost Josie & The Pussycats second album.

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

13 SLOWDIVE "Sugar For The Pill" [357 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote] [122 points for "(Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation)"]
https://youtu.be/BxwAPBxc0lU

FUCK I was sure they were only gonna show up on the album poll

great song, obviously

dont' care much for the original, but the remix is great

I hadn't accounted for The Avalon Emerson Boost

Called it, very good to see it place

yeah the original is probably the 4th or 5th best song on the album. pretty, but doesn't approach the heights of their best stuff, which "slomo," "star roving," etc. do

This would have played at #33 even without the remix fwiw.

it's still a coldplay song with a nice bass drop :P

I adore the outro of slomo with Rachel's vocals

this was quite underwhelming as a single but worked much better in context of the album. love the remix. Don't Know Why and Slomo were the album highlights and are some of their best ever songs

haha high five imago

i don't know avalon emerson, is it underworld

worked much better in context of the album

this is certainly true, loved the album and sugar for the pill slots in very nicely