ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

no kpop isn't surprising at all, everyone agreed it was a very mediocre year without much in the way of even one consensus single to rally behind

43: Weyes Blood - “Movies” - 228 points - 8 votes - 1 number 1 vote

This is vile lol. May the cinema die.

😘

Here is the top 25 tracks from the AOTY list aggregate. Bold have already placed, italics were not nominated.

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2019/

1 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy #31
2 Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
3 Lizzo - Juice #33
4 FKA twigs - Cellophane
5 Clairo - Bags #49
6 Big Thief - Not
7 J Balvin, ROSALÍA - Con Altura
8 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road Remix FEAT. BILLY RAY CYRUS
9 DaBaby - Suge #52
10 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
11 Tyler, the Creator - EARFQUAKE
12 Lana Del Rey - The Greatest
13 Charli XCX - Gone FEAT. CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS
14 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
15 Angel Olsen - Lark
16 Lana Del Rey - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it #48
17 Pop Smoke - Welcome to the Party
18 Angel Olsen - All Mirrors #47
19 Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II
20 Normani - Motivation #54
21 100 gecs - money machine
22 Megan Thee Stallion - Cash Shit FEAT. DABABY
23 Solange - Almeda
24 Dave - Black
25 Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

Not about you, fuck off xp

This is the best two day rollout. I'd just list everything I liked but that would include everything from 60-48 lol.

lol how can that be anything other than an attempt to bait me you sad berk, if you have actually functioning ears you wouldn't say that, nor compare her to john lennon

Plenty of people liked this hence why its on the list. Stop.

just weird how you'd single that one out while claiming to like almost literally everything else

Post here when you want to shit on someone passive aggressively until they see it and start a fight with you ITT

anyway, looking forward to some of the tracks CAAL has mentioned above placing. one in particular

xp aha fucking hell you already did. sorry, not trying to be a cop here.

I don't get "John Lennon-isms" re: Weyes Blood, like at all. I don't know what it means.

Echoes of the 70s = John Lennon. Or something.

I don't need to explain myself lol.

pvmic

I don't know that acronym btw.

'Posts very much in character'.

Post, rather.

I don't need to explain myself lol.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:03 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You don't need to, no. But you could.

Well, we are all posting very much in character here, aren't we?

Indeed.

i like the aoty aggregate counting old town road and its remix separately, it would have been second if you combine them

aggregating them still wouldn't have put it over 'bad guy'?? man the critics really fell for that one didn't they

They also have another remix of it at #47!

Still would be 115 points vs 127 though

xp to ufo

i guess i'm not 'everyone' because there was loads of kpop i loved last year

LBI - like has Weyes Blood last gone to the cinema in 1947 (yes I know she is probably younger than that)? More in terms of the sentiment than the music. On her previous track yeah it was an echo or something that is vaguely composiitonally tight in a very dry way that seems like late Beatles (?!), a kind of bourgie adult pop almost, but I am not going to check on everything before I post.

The Old Town Bad Guy Down The Road Remix (feat. Justin Bieber, Young Thug & BTS)

xp

I don't say this lightly, but it looks like it may be too late for John McDonnell

bourgie adult pop

inadvertently describing the koenig/haim pop machine here, inasmuch as i'm willing to tolerate a class-based critique of music you know nothing about

It wasn't a bad year for kpop but most of what I liked was on the outskirts of mainstream k-popy kpop-- Hiphoppers and so on. It def lacked that huge consensus banger. Also I didn't nominate anything in time so shame on me.

We've seen before in our polls what kinds of records can be unleashed

what kinds of records can be unleashed

Yngwie Malmsteen actually put out a new one last year.

like has Weyes Blood last gone to the cinema in 1947 (yes I know she is probably younger than that)? More in terms of the sentiment than the music.

you’re gonna have to keep explaining yourself

at one point a few years ago it seemed like every pop song to place in these polls was some '80s style indie-friendly synth pop tune with vaguely wistful arrangements and "cool", unaffective vocals. If we're finally over thant, thank god!

― Tuomas

... ... ...

(is this an intentional joke or???)

i feel like there’s a lot less of that this year as well

I'm fine with bourgie adult pop as a descriptor for Weyes Blood, it's consciously going for a kind of sophistication and doesn't need to be a pejorative.

something that is vaguely composiitonally tight in a very dry way that seems like late Beatles

It's nothing like that, but thanks for clarifying, thought you heard some Lennon-esque activism or something.

not enough comedy entries too tbf

Yeah, but it's still there by the bucketful! It's ilx food.

xxp

no point arguing, lots of chords = bourgie

I think it's more the white Cali genteelness.

Does Webern have lots of chords?

Sometimes he does.

always a good sign when i open this thread in the morning and i have to load all messages to see what i missed

As to one of the other conversations going on right now, I voted for a tonne of pop from East Asia but off the top of my head I can't think of the biggest K-Pop banger on there... maybe 'Piri' but I dunno if other people like ghosty Dreamcatcher as much as I do?

the bit i have the most problem with is calling it 'dry' though - it's about the least dry thing so far! the arrangement is like, so lush. 'dry' makes zero sense whatsoever

you’re gonna have to keep explaining yourself

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

My problem is I'll need to listen to this again to unpack, so I'll trust my hate for it instead.

(And come on imago, Weyes Blood is totes as bourgie as LDR)

she like, quit school at 16 to be the bassist for a fucking noise band