ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

xp's I almost started a thread a while back about tracks named "Teachers" (Daft Punk, Soulwax, Mumdance) but we could totally roll it into a list of songs that namecheck a list of bands

feel like Scooter pioneered this when they wrote "Hyper Hyper"

― frogbs, Thursday, February 7, 2019 9:28 PM

Scooter "Hyper Hyper" poll

I'm pretty sure we had a similar poll on Daft Punk's "Teachers" too. :)

wait'll you see the point delineation between #5 and #6
and then every one of the remaining albums!

I'm cool with giving this a Too Low, but then it was only #4 on my list so I guess I shouldn't complain.

is it a good time to admit that i haaaaate the lyrics on that record

on dirty computer? yeah, they were extremely corny imo

monae getting this high is... fine

lol I made my piece with this inevitability long ago

My #5, could easily have been higher. Incredible song after incredible song. She really is raising the bar for modern pop songwriting imo - this is her best yet and there appears to be no limit to her capacity to wring surprise, drama and ageless melody from the basic tools of indie and pop. Shout-out to her genius producer Patrick Hyland as well, who also recorded the only album in my top 5 that won't place (Trust Fund)

Is the album cover meant to look like it says "Be the Mitski Cowboy"? It's really irritating me.

(Not the Moka image, those are all excellent, the album itself)

can't remember the song that got me into mitski a few years back, was playing on the college radio station hm okay found it: "townie"

i love that song -- is this record anything like that ?

on dirty computer? yeah, they were extremely corny imo

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:31 PM (fifty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we'll put water in your guns / we'll do it all for fun

so corny, scans weird, second line is filler, just... agh. i don't even care about lyrics on pop records usually but dirty computer's are p awkward throughout

This placing lower than Puberty 2 did is fair and just.

monae's lyrics are bad in general

I've been out with a terrible cold since Monday so I've missed most of this but this seems like a very good time for me to appear and say too low

emil.y, you're not alone in feeling mildly perturbed by that particular style of sign text placement!

Another M coming up

i don't even care about lyrics on pop records usually but dirty computer's are p awkward throughout

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, February 7, 2019 1:35 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for me the problem isn't filler lyrics (all lyrics should be filler imo), it's when, idk yeah i guess when things are corny or out of place and you just think "why on earth would you try to stuff that idea or that commentary into this song in this way, i'm trying to groove here !!"

townie rules
my fav mitski tune

https://i.imgur.com/cQjgCJx.jpg
#5: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer - 748 points – 25 votes - 1 first place vote

Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer album/film

Andrew Trendell: "Throwing in rap, soul, pop, R&B, space-rock and whatever the hell she wants with her fearless message, Janelle Monáe doesn’t believe in walls or limits: this is a fluid celebration of freedom, raging and raving against the oppressors. In fact, only one label sticks – icon."

Charis McGowan: "'Dirty Computer' captures the plight of today's outsiders who are fighting back, forming the world to be. Monáe is 10 steps ahead, past the Trump era, embracing the robot-utopia that gives hope to an unprejudiced and equal world. She´s already there - now the rest of us have to catch up."

django jane is particularly wtf

dang you got this in before i could make a post Malone joke

xp at frogbs

oh man, modeselektor did their own version of "hyper hyper" too lol

dang you got this in before i could make a post Malone joke

― budo jeru

that's actually the next M coming up.

phew

1 point difference between Mitski and Monae!

congrats to everyone psychic enough to start the commentary before Monáe's album dropped in the list!

dorty compoter

congrats to everyone for cut and pasting the accent over the a!

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i don't even care about lyrics on pop records usually but dirty computer's are p awkward throughout

yea the more I listen to it the more I realize this is true

still a great record from front to back though. definitely deserves its high placing here; every time I listen to it I have a new favorite song

the next M will be Mid Air Thief

Fingers crossed for Aviary

oh man

I've just noticed Moka's album image template complements The 1975 cover art particularly well. Ye cannae see the join, colour-wise and you've got the sideways on text thing too. Was this in fact your starting point for all of these, Moka, or is that just a coincidence?

Alfred, you can just hold down on the key on a phone and it gives you the full diacritical list :D

I was psyched about this when it came out, but lost interest quickly. Corniness indeed! Still plenty of good-to-great tracks.

ditty compromiser

Fingers crossed for Aviary

― jmm, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:40 (forty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

said 'oh god' three times just now

anybody wanna name the top 4 in any order?

ok computer

I would be fine with Mr Eazi

dylan
dylan
dylan
dylan

has robyn really been 78'd?

I was holding out for Mr Fingers

Hell yeah! Amazing album, not a single bad or even mediocre tune on it! I don't mind the corny lyrics, because she has so much stuff on her chest and she's almost always on point. Dropping the whole theater school cyborg concept works for her favour here, IMO this album is where she finally fully realises on the promises first made by "Many Moons" ten years ago.

is the new Datarock album gonna make it

I'm way behind in my listening, but I'm just gonna post that I really like this Daphne & Celeste album and someone should have told me that someone is doing Max Tundra in 2018

I admit I can’t think of JM now without thinking of the line “Sex in a swimming pool...”

monae lyrics:

We gon' start a motherfuckin' pussy riot
Or we gon' have to put 'em on a pussy diet
Look at that, I guarantee I got 'em quiet
Look at that, I guarantee they all inspired
A-town, made it out there
Straight out of Kansas City, yeah we made it out there
Celebrated, graduated, made it pass/fail
Sassy, classy, Kool-Aid with the kale

(or siMMy, sad lol)

I'm so sure about the top 4 that I'm not naming them here. They'd constitute a spoiler.

when the D&C album came out I wrote it was exactly the sort of thing that was gonna go ignored for a long time and then get rediscovered 10-15 years later