ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

Last one?! Don't we go down to 51?

lol I'm just now getting to Smoko. You guys there are 12 million songs released in 2018 better than this.

tuomas: listen to "in the house of yes"

I tried this, and I really like the basic disco groove and the vocals, but the arrangement is way too loaded! Why do they need to have all those extra sounds there, like the weird scratching? Just trust what you have!

going to 45 today. to 29 tomorrow. final 13 on friday.

that is a new breakdown but i can dig it

xpost Guess I'll have to give Salt another go. I feel like I'm really missing out. I just played the S/T this morning and it sounded so good.

http://i.imgur.com/PWN8BmP.jpg

45: MGMT – “Me and Michael” – 201 points – 7 votes
video

Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

Might be one of the best retro 80s synthpop songs of all time. great video too! <3 the Cronenberg phone cases. – Adam Bruneau

Me and Michael wouldn't sound out of place on an old school M83 record. - Ross

45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “All End”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Last one?? Save us, Johnny Fever!

Oh wait

MGMT placing twice is pretty wild but "Me and Michael" is pretty undeniable

this is gonna be a big year for repeat appearances

Lol, I guess ILX never stops loving sad photocopy synthpop!

MGMT really went in on the videos this time around

'Jaipur' was one of my votes, it's gorgeous.

see what happens when Cut Copy stops releasing new albums

Hopefully the title track will make it as well, as it's the best of the lot.

me and michael is lots of fun, love the funfetti synth sounds

I don't rate this song at all btw but they pastiche cronenberg well

and the mutated harmony between the synth line and vocal melody

should be noted that the video of 2000 elefanten isn’t the best way to hear the song because that stretch of dead air in the middle really kills it

the one thing I've been gathering from this list so far is that ILX really loves deadpan, disaffected vocals

This is me and my gf's song this year (guess why) and would usually be right up my street but i still didnt feel like throwing it a vote

should be noted that the video of 2000 elefanten isn’t the best way to hear the song because that stretch of dead air in the middle really kills it

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB)

Ha, I actually thought this was pretty effective.

I tried this, and I really like the basic disco groove and the vocals, but the arrangement is way too loaded! Why do they need to have all those extra sounds there, like the weird scratching? Just trust what you have!

― Tuomas, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12:12 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok i feel confident tentatively recommending salt to you, spend some time with it

might end up using this year's results as an excuse to kickstart an actual poll on instituting a one-track-per-artist limit as opposed to just whining about it again

xpost
is your name michael?

Got it in one

how would that work Simon?

Most of us probably did vote one track per artist, but enough people voted for different tracks by some artists that they all made it in?

the one thing I've been gathering from this list so far is that ILX really loves deadpan, disaffected vocals

Warning, this Mr. Twin Sister song is not a cover of the still stunningly beautiful after all these years "Jaipur" by Mountain Goats

https://youtu.be/CMe06gXIPHA

The highest vote getter per artist places, all others by said artist are dq'ed. Sounds easy. xps

I don't even remember the earlier Mr Twin Sister track, but "Jaipur" is really good, probably the best new-to-me track so far

Mr. Twin Sister's "Jaipur" really makes apparent the continuity with the earlier records by this band, when they were called "Swing Out Sister"

okay I’m back to hating mgmt again now, that one is fucking ghastly, order is restored unto to the world

The highest vote getter per artist places, all others by said artist are dq'ed

Yep. With the full results and "pure" placements shared after the poll is done, ideally.

I don't like that myself but see what the people think

so if I vote for ten 1975 songs, only one of those ten votes counts? tbc, I would also prefer no repeats, just trying to think through how this would affect the poll

let's save this discussion for the poll

ok

tbh if applied to this poll it would kill Geyser, which I am slightly loath to accept tbh as I prefer it to Nobody and it's here on merit

here's an idea: every year we do a best of the 80s poll simultaneous to the EOY poll so y'all can get this shit out of your system

I'm also someone who preferred the previous Mr. Twin Sister album, but I'll have to give Salt another chance. I do think that "Keep on Mixin'" is a great lead-off track (love the polyrhythmic beat), and "Jaipur" sounded nice just now in the poll playlist.

If you're voting for 10 tracks by the same artist, may I interest you in the albums poll?

if y'all are having this conversation now i'd like to suggest it should've happened in 2013 or whenever vampire weekend had like thirty tracks in the 77

from a record i liked!

I never vote for tracks that appear on albums I vote for, but that's me.

I've probably been suggesting this every year since around then lol

so that would boot out like, 15 songs, give or take? what's the #92 result look like in terms of votes and such?

there'd definitely a strategic element to this, for example "Music is Worth Living For" was not my favorite song on the AWK album but I ranked it higher b/c I knew it was more likely to place than say, "Break the Curse"

I almost never have any tracks/albums overlap, but I made a couple exceptions this year