ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

gutted i missed bicep in december due to the rainbow shutting down

bicep another one that's elevated almost incalculably by the video

The Slowdive song was underwhelming for me (imago basically OTM) but the remix is something else. The Alvvays song was better post-shoegaze/dream-pop/w/e imo, though the album made my teeth hurt a little.

OK, I just got weirdly emotional at the rave memories in the Bicep video so I'm obviously just having a very overemotional day. 'Aura' is still better (this is good too).

yeah i prefer "aura" but i'm not mad at "glue" or anything, it does a lot with v little

for all my small complaints this is easily my favorite 77 that I can recall

remix of "sugar for the pill" is so, so, so wonderful upon revisit that now i wish i had voted for it even though it's sufficiently high

the video to this really is a great match to the music

for all my small complaints this is easily my favorite 77 that I can recall

― Simon H., Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:15 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm inclined to feel the same way. By some distance, too.

even if the #1 ends up a massive anticlimax (which is more likely than not tbh)

Yes (and yes)

yeah it's been a really great list, looking forward to the top 10 being entirely kendrick and sza though! (actually not sure multiple tracks from either will place at this point)

hoping for akanamali as #1 though that's unlikely

these is ballot polls

yeah I'm revising my original guess to only 1 sza track

eh this song's pretty annoying tbh, if you ask me they should melt bicep down for glue

got 'em

here's hoping for some shockers :)

"akanamali" getting this high is astonishing

it's cool that 'hailing drums' made the ilx top 12

https://i.imgur.com/n7Nj3xg.jpg

11 CARDI B "Bodak Yellow" [362 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/PEGccV-NOm8

OMGGGGG

Not even top 10?! ILM you make me proud

Can't imagine putting this Kesha anywhere near a top 20, but it is ILM and at least we don't get Arcade Fire.

Oh, this is Black Madonna. This track did jump out for me sometimes from the electronic music playlist. It was more of the type of thing I enjoyed while it was playing without it ever registering really strongly with me.

Underwhelmed with the Slowdive.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

no offense to Cardi fans but I'm just so over this track

i was thinking this would surely have to show up soon enough, kinda surprised it got this high but there's been so little consensus this year

slowdive song is all about the avalon emerson remix. again

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, January 25, 2018 11:05 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea. original is kind of dull imo

these is ballot polls

― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:19 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Charly Bliss song is fun enough. In the 90s, I would have probably scorned it as too sugary/fluffy but one takes what one can get in this brave new world.

brb gonna page deej

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

― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, January 25, 2018 10:49 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol p much

damn cardi b placed appropriately. wonderful

it was cool that bodak yellow was a #1 hit but it feels so by the numbers it's hard to get too excited about

Bodak Yellow is:

actually, links to appropriate threads for these songs is a good idea. brb.

it was the response to that thread that made me think it could actually win this thing!

there's a Slowdive remix? original is kind of beautiful imo. first place vote = me.

feeling v good about my CRJ #1 prediction tbh

Predicting Charlie XCX as ilm soty now

there's a Slowdive remix? original is kind of beautiful imo. first place vote = me.

― geoffreyess, Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:27 AM (twenty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here you go geoff (pls don't embed pls don't embed) https://youtu.be/xchUUu6H3nY

xp :)

so T-Shirt is going to beat this huh

I like the original Sugar For The Pill just fine, but the Avalon Emerson treatment is phenomenal and otherworldly. (I voted for neither, but would've voted for 'Gilded Escalation' if I had.)

voted very unstrategically this year and now getting sadly hopeful that Akanamali is going to win

Oh, Charly Bliss's "Percolator" is pretty cool. I could have used a catchy uptempo pop-rock album last year; listening with interest.

"T-Shirt" would be the funniest possible 78 imo

Charly Bliss song is fun enough. In the 90s, I would have probably scorned it as too sugary/fluffy but one takes what one can get in this brave new world.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, January 25, 2018

This elicited mirthless laughter from me. Too relatable.

T-SHIRT SONG OF THE YEAR

if my ballot has anything to do with what's no. 1 then it's not crj or charli (but tbh i almost never have anything to do with what's no. 1)

Oh, Charly Bliss's "Percolator" is pretty cool. I could have used a catchy uptempo pop-rock album last year; listening with interest.

Album is all killer, no filler. You'll be pleased imo.