ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

it's updated and currently includes our #73.

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73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg” – 167 points – 7 votes
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Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg

IDG what people who don't like this are looking for in music. - flopson

Dirtbox acid mournful synth, every track's a belter. AOTY. - kraudive

imo it's a worrying (or...exciting?) sign when something with its own ecstatic thread comes in this low

i had hoped i'd like this based on descriptions in the thread but it's not for me

ehhh it's more of an albums list thing xp

hadn't heard "girls on the tv" before, it's nice

it's totally your thing

eh sorta

ooh the gif Brad posted on the Hauff thread is v helpful

Gotta say i was weirdly nonplussed by the Hauff track; not getting much emotional resonance off it.

it's not about emotional resonance

it's about being hard af

tbf the clue is in the title

imo it's a worrying (or...exciting?) sign when something with its own ecstatic thread comes in this low

― imago, Monday, January 28, 2019 10:01 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilm is withered these days, probably gonna be lot of surprises. that thread, eg., only has like 25 posts on it

Are cigarettes back in style?

xxp Not getting that either I guess.

fantastic images; nice to see red velvet, went for power up! myself

fatalism prob back in style and cigarettes a part of that idk

Today makes two months since I've last smoked a cigarette after smoking for 26 years, so I'm pretty over them now. That's a hot photo though.

the images are fucking great

and congrats JF!

I really like the postal card format. Is Moka doing magazine covers for a living ?

thank u moka design queen

Yeah, these are amazing.

The metal poll could also benefit from such visual professionalism (not throwing shade, just saying it would be awesome).

cosigning; Moka's done a bang up job on all these!

alas all metal band photos are the same

shocking admission - i have never knowingly listened to andrew wk before and now ilx is making me listen to andrew wk. that song is um, like if the darkness had grown up listening to kiss instead of queen?

and just for clarity, i hate the darkness, i hate kiss, and now i hate ilx

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72: Drake – “Nice for What” – 170 points – 5 votes
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Drake - Scorpion (June 29, 2018) ~it's a double album~
thread for pics of Drake looking ridiculous

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25353

At this point, his personality is so firmly established that the little Drake offers here — lackluster rapping and familiar lyrics — is all we really need. He’s simply a peripheral but recognizable hypeman for the listener, offering supportive nice-guy-schtick in a way that can be comfortably ignored with an eye roll. If anything, the actual empowerment of women on “Nice for What” comes from how easily they can recognize his presence as superfluous. It turns out that Drake is at his most benevolent when he stands outside the frame, allowing the rest of the song to become a space for people to “hit them motherfucking angles.” – Joshua Minsoo Kim

Fucking Drake as master of ceremonies in party-starter mode, gliding (“roll on” and “slow song” should not rhyme so well) over an utterly unstoppable Murda Beatz-made gumbo with just the right touch of “Triggerman” and an airy flip of “Ex-Factor.” Unlike “Hotline Bling” and “One Dance” before it, “Nice for What” features its chameleonic creator straining only to let the influences he’s synthesizing shine in their own right. Drake has been making #1 songs like these for a long time but not all of them have let Big Freedia be an indomitable (if lamentably uncredited and unseen) force or been creative triumphs so profound that it’s worth putting aside cynicism. – Andy Hutchins

good song

uuuuuuuuuuugh

xxxxxps to Simon:

I don't know man, Vargrav's studded classicism and Severoth's pensive druidism are worlds away.

appropriately low for a drake song i've enjoyed

I will never click harder on anything than I will when the "mute" option goes live on Spotify Desktop and I head to the Drake page

a lot better than average for a drake song but i didn't quite understand why this was acclaimed as it was elsewhere (very controversially i like "in my feelings" more), this placement feels about right

can't wait till he finally gets cancelled for grooming underage women

I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?

"comfortably ignored with an eye roll" is right

Drake is not worse than "Nice for What" is well produced and that's as good a compliment as I can give it.
That said, the old adage about mixing 10 gallons of ice cream and a half gallon of horseshit yielding 10 1/2 gallons of horseshit still applies.

Wtg Andrew WK!

I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:22 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's the biggest pop star of the past decade & ILM is ostensibly receptive to popular music so that might have something to do with it

We aimed for the customary #78 and just missed

also WOO POLL

drake has killed the thread. people are still in 'if you can't say anything nice, say nothing' mode

tbf I took care to say something not nice

there's really so little to left to say to clown on drake at this point, everyone's probably tired of doing so at this point

we could clown those singles jukebox writeups instead i guess

In an alternate universe, Drake became a kind of Coxsone Dodd/ Berry Gordy figure and I don't find him nearly so tiresome

I'm actually impressed how little Drake there has been in our lists over the years.