ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

yay

obviously i'm super happy to see this pop up so high; my #1 song

https://youtu.be/eKxFS8L6AlQ going to implore everyone to listen to the full version instead of the video edit, since that lacks the organ solo

what a great song, real shame it isn't #1

hell yes, such a beautiful song!

I totally forgot to vote for this on any of the three passes I made at my tracks ballot. I could've bumped it up, but not much.

btw, though i didn't find anything else on the Akanamali level, Sun-El's soundcloud is worth exploring:
https://soundcloud.com/sun-el-sithole

So between charli, Selena, Kendrick, sza, crj and dua lipa, one of them's getting brutally 78'ed :/

beautiful song

This really would've been a neat #1.

This song on the top 10 feels very ILM to me. Voted for it obviously think this might be the first year where a song in my top 10 ends in the top 10.

I'm listening for the first time and <3 ILM for voting this so high. Those rising warm house pads are so gorgeous.

I think I actually voted for new rules and bad liar too but not inmy top10 iirc.

aww, this is really nice. wish i’d made more of an effort to follow african pop music this year but my attention was already stretched thinner than that pancake-looking woman off dr who

every single sound that is introduced on that track is warm and pleasant, v sweet song.

he has an album coming sometime this year so hopefully it'll be great

This was my #1 which I felt a little strange about since I only heard it for the first time in, I think, November. But Samthing Soweto's vocals are absolutely the best thing I heard all year, and the production is perfect for it

listening for the first time now, but yeah this is awesome and ufo otm about that organ solo

https://soundcloud.com/sun-el-sithole/sun-el-random-original-mix
^ this is great btw

I'm just happy Akanamali placed! Well done, ILM!

https://youtu.be/SL1Q4P2jPR0
https://youtu.be/mlVhfJLAVG0

these two are great as well and are going to be on the album

i thought this song was gonna place somewhere in the fifties. this is so great

btw - and i'll mention this again when we get there - i have the top 177 tracks queued up to add to the playlist as soon as we hit #1, so there is much listening yet to be done.

This is really pleasant.

I love both CRJ and Charli but I hope it's either of them that doesn't make it this year.

same. feel like "new rules" is most likely to have been 78'd though

i kinda expected Boys and Bad Liar to both show up around where Green Light did

Really not sure what's going to miss out here. I know Carly Rae Jepsen is popular on here, but there's barely any discussion about that song on her thread. Could SZA have suffered from major split voting? I hope Selena has made it. I can't see New Rules missing out.

we could stop the poll here, and declare Akanamali the ILM song of the year

This is sorta cool, because I don't have to post #2 and #1 together. No one knows what's missing.

yeah i can't remember this ever happening before

I'm guessing SZA got vote split to death. The Weekend, Drew Barrymore, Doves in the Wind, Prom, none of them have placed.

https://i.imgur.com/UHRNAy9.jpg

05 KENDRICK LAMAR "DNA" [510 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/NLZRYQMLDW4

well she'll prob top the albums poll xp

we could stop the poll here, and declare Akanamali the ILM song of the year

― Dan S

I'd be totally OK with this

IGOTIGOTIGOTIGOT

A couple of years ago half the poll seemed to be Kendrick Grimes CRJ Future Sundfør. This year's is just so much more interesting.

i'm hoping that New Rules is missing because i like all the others much more

this that put the kids to bed

it's like the best pop song of the year and i'll think less of the list for it missing xp

didn't vote any Kendrick for tracks b/c whenever I put on "DNA" I had to listen to the rest of the album & so the album was so obviously album of the year / decade / whatever, a unity

but it's not like i helped it out, it's just kinda kicking it at the end of my ballot xp

"dna" is so awesome

If Lost In Your Love placed then New Rules definitely will but top four is way too high.

either way, it looks suspiciously like the top four tracks are all by women

Kendrick videos are always great, but the ones from DAMN are just another level.

saer is a woman right?

New Rules just doesn't do much for me, nothing really hooks me and i wish it had a real chorus idk

DNA's placement is obviously well deserved, beat switch is great

it has an extremely real chorus

The one two three bit is magnificent but the actual 'I got new rules' hook is a real damp squib after that.

"DNA" is his best pure single imo