ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

You’re crazy like a fool

Xp

surely LDR also has a song called Daddy Cool by now

Dozzy def my fave Bobbins so far

Clairo is pleasant

Still following from behind (how do you guys manage to listen to a 47-minute* track within a 14-minute frame?), but I can see the LDR convo overwhelming everything else even from here.

*It’s only 34 minutes on forks’s Spotify playlist!

dozzy track is a cool italian version of its grim up north

and plath's prose was pretty pared down. you cannot refract my "filler words" criticism back on her xp

― american bradass (BradNelson),

have you tried her magazine fiction? I agree if you mean The Bell Jar/

i mean the bell jar and no way am i reading her magazine fiction it's 2020

I wonder if Boney M at their peak would've made an ILM list if ILM had existed.

That Underworld thingie ain’t the worst that I’ve seen tho

xp

almost all short stories are bad anyway xxp

I would have def voted for “Rasputin” that year!
#iwasthere

xxp

almost all short stories are bad anyway xxp

― american bradass (BradNelson)

I'd rather read a bad story than a bad poem; the latter is more soul-killing

Charlotte Adigery is pretty cool

ldr should try to write like brian evenson, i'd like her more

counterpoint: bad poems are (usually) shorter

almost all poems are bad too. i was a huge plath fan in middle/high school though and still value her work

LDR should stop singing like a querulous ferret, I'd like her more

I really hope Cattails doesn't become the Big Thief song that puts people off listening to them.
It's just a bit nothingy and I'm not keen on the stilted vibe. A sideways donkey of a song.

Hm, I think it's my favorite song of theirs. I find it hypnotic.

I wonder if Boney M at their peak would've made an ILM list if ILM had existed.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:01 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how is this even a question?

I would have def voted for “Rasputin” that year!
#iwasthere

― breastcrawl

But did any of the Boney M band members actually feel any of the things Rasputin went through or were they just namedropping with superficial cool connotations?

cattails is a great song, but it's the kind that earns the kind of fleet foxes comps that turn people off

Boney M needed to remix "Cattails."

xps its a colossus reference

ugh don't compare my favourite recent rock band with fleet foxes jesus

I like HAIM's take on "Walk On The Wild Side"

xp: dog latin I hate to break it to you but that Big Thief song was basically Fleet Foxes in a sun dress

oh i like "patetinpat" a lot more than "high lights" this is very cool

"cattails" is all about the piano at the end

I don't understand the Big Thief/Fleet Foxes comparison at all.

I still love "sad day" by FKA twigs a lot; not my favorite on the album (hi dere "here with you" and "fallen alien") but great nevertheless

xp: I'm just trying to make dog latin mad

These threads exist for us to make other people mad.

Hmm, still only one track from my ballot has placed (Parole Rework), and I doubt anything else from it will be in the top 30, unless more people rate Park Hye-Jin than I assumed... And here I was thinking I was more in sync with the hivemind this year than normally.

That said, I really liked the Charlotte Adigéry tracks and ended up buying the EP, probably would've voted for her too if I'd been familia r with the tracks before. So thanks, ILX, for that discovery! :)

never heard sault b4, this stuff is great

Samthing Soweto and Rema are both very appealing

So far, "Akulaleki" is the best of the day I hadn't heard before.

― Jeff W, dinsdag 28 januari 2020 17:41

However, the original Akula song it's based around is an all-time banger.

― ShariVari, dinsdag 28 januari 2020 17:51

Акулалэки

I don't understand the Big Thief/Fleet Foxes comparison at all.

― kitchen person, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:16 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

me neither, it's a very superficial thing. p4k approved, acoustic prettiness.

the first minute of "appleshine continuum" is pretty great but i am not sure if i am in the mood to listen to the other 46 minutes. quite nice background music. more aural wallpaper than anything else though. five minutes in. i am slowly getting into the groove. six minutes in and i am starting to get bored. but i have to admit there is more variation in this than i presumed. proud to have lasted 8 minutes. enough for me. i can't take this anymore without substances.

well you completely missed the necks, so great job

is the necks part head and shoulders above the underworld

if the Sault song had that synth part going the whole way through then I would have probably voted for it tbh

is the necks part head and shoulders above the underworld

― nxd, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:53 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's a continuum

well you completely missed the necks, so great job

are they still repeating the same patterns over and over or have they actually developed?

“Up All Night” is a good representation of the SAULT sound but my pick would be “Let Me Go”. It has a very krautrock + gospel groove which is perfectly aligned with the sort of sounds that I fall instantly for. It was the first song I heard from them and it made me buy the album before repeating it. I can see why they have a sound perfectly fit for “advertising” but it’s just too fun for me to care.

In general they tick too many boxes of things I love: minimal ESG-styled basslines + Jaki Liebezeit-styled drums + Northern Soul-styled vocals + afrobeat-styled guitars.

brb, making alex in mainhattan a mixtape that is 95 minutes of "Pullover" by Speedy J

nothing wrong with having a short attention span i guess

My favorite SAULT is "Don't Waste My Time", but I didn't think we needed another one of their tracks nominated when there were already so many to choose from.

are they still repeating the same patterns over and over or have they actually developed?

completely missed The Necks’ entire career, it seems.

Koffee is too low. Like way too low. wtf ilm

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), dinsdag 28 januari 2020 18:47

It was my quite in my top tier of African house tracks this year but great to see Rema place. “Akulaleki” is flat out brilliant though - hopefully more to come!

yeah iirc i voted for "toast" last year which is why i didn't put it on my ballot this year