ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I always read that hollowness as part of her whole disaffected ennui

god I would kill for LDR to open one of her songs with "this california noir shit, it's not for everyone, it's a motherfucking vibe"

pomenitul has xposted us both now

Woo, my #1! I'm not even that huge a LDR fan but this song really floored me. I am probably alone in this but the thing it reminds me of the most is 'Rain Song' by Sunny Day Real Estate...

Well deserved placings for both Lana songs. She's been very consistent on our albums lists but isn't this the first year she's made the tracks list since Video Games?

venice bitch is like the millennial astral weeks

This would explain why I find it perplexing that people like it so much.

that SDRE album was one of my albums of 2018 fwiw

I was on smoko, what'd I miss?

people always talk about the noise jam but no one ever talks about that beautiful coda

SDRE comparison makes sense actually!

If there are indeed two 1975 tracks in this year’s top 3, a special amendment will be activated calling for the expulsion of the 1975 posse from ILM. May they roam happily ever after.

nice knowing y'all

RIP me

it's not polling if it's not with you

is there any other act that has this level of love/hate split on here

i'd love it if it 78ed

jk, it'll be number one

Used to be Hot Chip xps

oh duh that makes sense

we're fucking in a car
shooting heroin

anyway, venice bitch doesn't really remind me of astral weeks (i seriously can't find that quote, did i hallucinate it?), but the guitar does kinda remind me of this: https://youtu.be/99j0zLuNhi8

rest in peace lil peep

There is no way It’s Not Living is gonna be in the top 3, even if I love it

xp good thing to be reminded of

http://i.imgur.com/hIMOe0H.jpg

3: Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up” – 704 points – 22 votes – 1 first place vote
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ELLA MAI - ELLA MAI

boo’d up • i like it • OTW

Every time I've heard "Boo'd Up" in public has been an absolute still-unexpected joy.– Katherine

"Boo'd Up" gets me high. – Eazy

plot twist of the year is when ella mai reveals herself to be british at the end of “boo’d up”

— jord (@jordansarge) June 8, 2018

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25541

I can hear the affinities: honesty, precision, an appreciation of space. I don’t hear a false note. – Alfred Soto

At one point Wale was attached; at another point if Chris Brown had chosen not to hop on “Scream” it would have been a Kevin Hart (?!) song. Those averted potential futures make Ella Mai’s final version sound like even more of a miracle. Joy is precious, kids. Get it where you can. – Jonathan Bogart

tweet of the year

yeah i feel like i'm gonna be allowed back on ilm after this poll finishes

polling controversial things just for the hell of it

Nice

Too low!

I failed to vote for this, but def my favorite big pop song from last year

the other big boo'd up plot twist is that it's mustard on the beat

how smooth and romantic. a veritable jam

haven't heard this before

this getting to no. 1 would've been a nice rhyme with the year "2 on" topped the list

that Jessie Ware song is considerably better than I thought it was based on a past listen

I missed the KKB version discussion--which is the one on Spotify?

she is singing 'buddha' in the chorus fyi

too low

god what a fucking perfect song

if it was number 1 it would still be too low

the chorus quasi scatting is the cilantro of pop this year, making the whole song unpalatable to a select group (including me)

I'd nominate Richard Dawson as someone who has a similar level of love/hate divide on here as The 1975.

I don't see them having two songs still to come, yet at the same time it would be odd if Give Yourself A Try was the second most popular song from the album.

Yeah, I would like this but for the central pun(s?) of the chorus - it's too distracting.

Just to backtrack for a second, 'hollowness' and 'ennui' are the last words I'd use to describe Astral Weeks (except for 'Slim Slow Slider', maybe). VM's possessed utterances have nothing in common with LDR's smooth nihilism. Unless it was meant as a commentary on millennial disaffection, which may or may not be an actual thing.

Boo'd Up what a vibe. Well-deserved.

why is she singing 'hen fap' in the chorus

damn, I regret not voting for Ella and I'm also about to regret not waiting to vote in Simon's poll

Peggy Gou has to show surely?

Based on my first encounter with this song, I think I too am a member of that select group, Simon. Coriander rules though.

if peggy gou got 78'd there'll be hell to pay ilm

hell to pay