ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

Maybe it's that surprise #1

i will also say that today's Purple Mountains track, when i got around to hearing it, was indeed much, much better than yesterday's

My 5-year-old asks for 'Blessed' in the car, it's "the fast song". He calls 'Breathin' "the godzilla song." UK drill probably not suitable for 5-year-olds but luckily OW raps so fast you can't catch any words.

here's to fast songs and godzilla songs

i voted for one LDR track. i still haven't heard her debut, came late to Ultraviolence but really like it a ton, enjoyed Honeymoon, skipped LFL since i didn't like what i heard, really love the new one, enough to buy it. I never thought i would have an LDR LP in my collection - but i have it. on a whole though i think it's more of an album experience vs a singles experience.

Voted for Little Simz on my albums list. Kind of wish I'd put her higher now as the album has grown on me a lot. Not sure which tracks were nominated, but Selfish, 101 FM and Flowers are the highlights for me.

Selfish, 101 PM and Boss were nommed. Selfish was my highlight among those and is on my tracks ballot, but I also have it on my albums ballot pretty high. I'll be genuinely bummed if she's snubbed from either list. Hers was one of the best records of the year.

oops 101 FM

Yeah sorry about that! I double-checked quite a few of these features before posting but I mostly went with the nomination data.

I’m not very well versed in current afrobeat/afropop so this was the first time for me hearing these ones and by the time I realized Akulaleki had 3 feats I was already on mobile and it was too late to modify it.

I also made the “Soco” mistake last year I’m sorry :(

i'm skimming the playlist and man does ilx as a collective love tasteful mid-tempo pop with sonically retro signifiers or what

They keep being the discovery highlights for me every year in this polls so I should probably stary visiting the rolling thread often.

I wrote and deleted several "will ILM ever tire of gauzy dream-of-the-1908s pop?" because I voted for Oncle Jazz in albums

Moka, the "afro" thread can pile up with goodies. If you liked Akulaleki in particular, this one dedicated to gorgeous South African jazzy house-pop is more manageable: THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

will ILM ever tire of gauzy dream-of-the-1908s

judging from the activity in the latest classical poll, not at all.

Yes, this is definitely a thing here

lol I should check out that poll

xxp hahaha otm

I don't know classical too well, but holy shit that is a tight decade! ILM otm

Get in there and vote! Plenty of 1908 classics to pick from.

i was the #1 for "sad day" - a hyperemotional plea from the maelstrom where the kate bush comparisons (unlike 98% of kate bush comparisons) actually ring true? sign me up. i also voted for "juice", and i wonder if "juice" would've placed higher on this countdown had we not had so much distance from its release and also not had to endure so much "lizzo discourse" over the past twelve months.

pleased to see "paténipat" (another vote!) appear after all the slander earlier! i'm also glad carly placed with this (i went for an album vote) - it's a song that feels like it only lasts thirty seconds; the quickest way one could possibly pass (almost) three minutes. one of her best, most uninhibited vocal performances, and you can add "press you to the pages of my heart" to her pantheon of pithy lines about unbridledly crushing hard

Little Simz was 26th on my albums ballot :\

I probably should have weighted stuff. "Boss" + Grey Area would have been in... I don't know... the top 1/3 of my ballots, at least.

What about Rapsody then? Surely that single with the title I struggle to pronounce didn't end up out beyond #77?

Rapsody was one of those albums that started high when I heard it but kinda faded a bit as the year went on. Hope one of her tracks places. But I'd rather see Sampa the Great and Little Simz place ahead of her.

could be wrong but i feel like rapsody is a much better chance in albums than in tracks

yeah - Oprah was the song that was nominated that stuck out but wasn't close to my fav on the album so it didn't make my ballot. But as an album, it was really good and hope it places.

Oprah was my #26 track :/

seriously, so much amazing chick hop this year, Dawn Richard, Rapsody, Sampa the Great, Little Simz. All good albums with strong singles. good lord

did u just say chick hop?

shamefully left a lot of rap ladies just outside my ballot, but the one i regret not voting for the most is doja cat

chick hop

i'm sorry but this term has me screaming

anyway would be rad as hell if sampa the great appears in either countdown

gotsa be an album lock for top 77

still haven't forgiven you all for voting for 'moo' and not 'go to town' last year, what the fuck was that about?

i like moo

don't hate it, but it's a joke track and it puts a lot of people off

well axel f by crazy frog was seen as a joke track but we all lit the lighters for the rest of his catalogue

we shouldn't have supported him, we should have got him the help he so clearly needed

ha, blame france 2005

was really nice of gnarls barkley to record that tribute song for him though

Breastcrawl, i fixed the caption credits for akulaleki.

I am on deck for tomorrow's rollout.

Going waaaaaaaay back, is there a desire from the collective to reverse the playlist order from 77 to 1 instead of 1 to 77? Let me know here and if it's unanimous I'll flip the order and then reorder to 1-77 once we're done.

i hate that i can't follow the thread more closely but just wanted to jump in and say thank you to whoever is maintaining the YouTube playlist and join the chorus of praise (for moka, i think?) for the visuals. they are terrific.

xpost i, for one, like going from 77 to 1 ... the youtube playlist is this way.

btw for NYC ilxors who are just now checking out Adigery:
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/lpr-presents-charlotte-adigery-february-6-2020/

chick hop

i'm sorry but this term has me screaming

lol I kinda dropped that to get a response, but I definitely didn't mean any disrespect by it. My point was the music is killer.

lol dude rap can be called "dick hop" I guess haha okay I'll see myself out

sir hop and madam hop

Breastcrawl, i fixed the caption credits for akulaleki.

just a big 'ol
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3 tracks I voted for today, 2 of which were in my top 10 ("Want You In My Room" and "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings") and one which got a downballot slot ("Bags") but which I now kinda wish I voted for higher.

TBH I probably should have voted for "Juice" but I think I got sick of Lizzo discourse, as noted above, and took it out on her.

q: is sharon van etten’s “seventeen” gonna place

For Immediate Reference:

31: Billie Eilish - Bad Guy - 308 points - 11 votes
32: Wiley, Stefflon Don, Sean Paul & Idris Elba - “Boasty” - 266 points - 7 votes
33: Lizzo - “Juice” - 263 points - 12 votes
34: Caroline Polachek - “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings” - 260 points - 9 votes
35: Stormzy - “Vossi Bop” - 255 points - 7 votes - 2 number 1 votes
36 (TIE): Hatchie - “Stay With Me” - 254 points - 9 votes
36 (TIE): Koffee - “Toast” - 254 points - 9 votes
38: Schacke - “Kisloty People” - 250 points - 6 votes - 1 number 1 vote
39: Carly Rae Jepsen - “Want You In My Room” - 247 points - 7 votes
40: Underworld & The Necks - “Appleshine Continuum” - 244 points - 9 votes - 1 number 1 vote
41: Rema - “Dumebi” - 243 points - 8 votes - 1 number 1 vot
42: Samthing Soweto feat. Sha Sha, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small - “Akulaleki” - 237 points - 7 votes - 1 number 1 vote
43: Weyes Blood - “Movies” - 228 points - 8 votes - 1 number 1 vote
44: FKA Twigs - “Sad Day” - 222 points - 6 votes - 1 number 1 vote
45: HAIM- “Summer Girl” - 214 points - 8 votes
46: Charlotte Adigéry - “Paténipat” - 210 points - 8 votes
47: Angel Olsen - “All Mirrors” - 210 points - 7 votes
48: Lana Del Rey - “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It” - 210 points - 6 votes
49: Clairo - “Bags” - 206 points - 8 votes - 1 number 1 vote
50: Purple Mountains - “Nights That Won’t Happen” - 204 points - 6 votes
51: SAULT - “Up All Night” - 197 points - 7 votes
52: DaBaby - “Suge” - 195 points - 7 votes
53: Erika de Casier - “Intimate (Club. Mix)” - 195 points - 6 votes - 1 number 1 vote
54: Normani - “Motivation” - 194 points - 8 votes
55: Holly Herndon - “Eternal” - 192 points - 7 votes
56: Raphael Saadiq feat. Rob Bacon - “Something Keeps Calling” - 192 points - 5 votes
57: Big Thief - “Cattails” - 191 points - 7 votes
58: Shura - “BKLYNLDN - 186 points - 6 votes
59: Charlotte Adigéry - “High Lights” - 181 points - 6 votes - 1 number 1 vote
60: Peggy Gou- “Starry Night” - 180 points - 6 votes
61: Weyes Blood- “Wild Time” - 177 points - 5 votes
62: Rosalía- “Aute Cuture” - 175 points - 7 votes
63: Burna Boy feat. Zlatan- “Killin Dem” - 175 points - 6 votes
64: Vampire Weekend - “This Life” - 172 points - 6 votes
65: KH - “Only Human” - 170 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 vote
66: Kasper Marott - “Drømmen om Ø (Forever mix '19)” - 169 points - 6 votes
67: Jamila Woods feat. Saba - “Basquiat” - 168 points - 7 votes
68: Tayla Parx - “Me vs. Us” - 168 points - 5 votes
69: Mark Ronson feat. Angel Olsen - “True Blue” - 164 points - 6 votes
70: Purple Mountains - “Darkness & Cold” - 162 points - 7 votes
71: Cate Le Bon - “Daylight Matters” - 161 points - 5 votes
72 (TIE): Blanck Mass - “House vs House” - 160 points - 5 votes
72 (TIE): Anna Caragnano & Donnato Dozzy - “Parola (Rework)” - 160 points - 5 votes
74: Purple Mountains - “Margaritas at the Mall” - 158 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 vote
75: Jenny Lewis - “Red Bull & Hennessy” - 158 points - 5 votes
76: Ariana Grande - “NASA” - 157 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 vote
77: Mount Eerie feat. Julie Doiron - “Love Without Possession” - 157 points - 4 votes - 1 number 1 vote