ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

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this is my fav song from the weyes blood record so i'm glad it came out on top

There's something about "Andromeda" that I really don't like, I can't really explain it. I only started liking the album when I started skipping it.

same xp

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queen

I love how blown out Violence sounds, it’s like a dense fog of powdered scrap computer hardware

when i was going through my skinny puppy phase in december i would pretty much only take a break to listen to the new grimes songs and they exist in the same world imo

I feel all the promise of this top 20 is slipping away with every favourite deep cut off third favourite indie record pick.

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even "my name is dark"????????????????????????

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:25 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hadn't heard this yet. This is pretty good.

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4AM is the new Grimes track I quite liked

that one also rules

would probably like the new grimes stuff a lot more if it sounded as good as the poppy album, the way grimes records guitars is really lacking

Three female pop/alt-pop vocalists in a row, could we go for four?

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17: Ariana Grande – “Ghostin” – 348 points – 10 votes – 2 #1 votes

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Ariana Grande - "Thank U, Next" (the album)

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... whoa ok

oh wasn't expecting this to show up but glad that it did, i didn't vote for it but absolutely the highlight of the album

weird that ariana had two non-singles place though

i would feel v uncomfortable voting for this song but go off y'all

I thought the results were supposed to be surprising? So far the top 30 looks pretty much as expected.

Jesus Christ

there isn't anyone in pop music more overrated than Ariana Grande

good song imo

xp Well there's Grimes for a start

in retrospect there's no way that NASA was gonna be the only song from this record to show up (and only at #76 too)

Well okay, Justin Bieber, but that's mostly because Bieber is actively bad

Grande is a perfectly serviceable singer who has been elevated to THE SECOND COMING OF SONG status and it's 100% perplexing

i like andromeda, more harrison than lennon imo

tuomas no one was really expecting both a grimes track that ilm seemed fairly lukewarm on overall and an ariana album track to place

surprised at the number of Weyes Blood placements. Lovely album but it was all quite 'of a piece' and I'd figured 'Everyday' was the jewel in the crown

Unmoved by the majority of today's results. Sun-El and TCIC are nice, but y'all love some boring shit.

lol at tuomastrodamus with the "Fireboy DML track was a given" hot take

you can't fool a finn

ariana certainly a little critically overrated as of late (sweetener was really not that good especially when dangerous woman was criminally underrated) but there's no denying her highs like "ghostin"

i will say that inevitably during these countdowns my hit percentage of what i enjoy goes from about 75% at the start to more like 30% to 50% once we get in the top half.

I'd figured 'Everyday' was the jewel in the crown

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:39 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess it could still place

I do really like Andromeda though. it reminds me of Susanne Sundfor slightly

Ghostin was in my top five and is quite comfortably my favourite song she's ever done. I can understand why she had to be persuaded to put it on the album, but I'm really glad she did. It's such a moving vocal and the shoegazy backing is just perfect. Overall Thank U Next was such a strong return after Sweetener was so flat beyond a few tracks.

Don't agree with this idea that if there are two polls and I love a number of specific songs from an album I should just vote for the album.

This is decent but not great (I genuinely enjoy 'No Tears Left to Cry' so I'm not immune to her music).

if i have over four songs on the album i could vote for as singles, i just vote for the album.

Don't agree with this idea that if there are two polls and I love a number of specific songs from an album I should just vote for the album.

― Chris L, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

congratulations, you've won

I have a personal "no artist crossover" rule for the two lists (which I've broken only once, I think, for Algiers)

just like in 2001 it's different strokes for different folks

no one was really expecting both a grimes track that ilm seemed fairly lukewarm on overall and an ariana album track to place

Eh, they're both ilm favourites, it doesn't seem too out there to me. Mind you, I've been taking "crazy results" with a pinch of salt most of the way through this.

anyone else think that weyes blood song sounds a lot like the czars?

i broke the tracks/albums rule this year for tinashe ("touch & go" won't place but my god what a song) and burna boy, both deserved it

Okay, we’re gonna end things in the same way as we did yesterday: with everybody’s favorite, grammy-laden teenage mega-artist.

Top 15 to come tomorrow! Until then: discuss!

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16: Billie Eilish – “Everything I Wanted” - 354 points – 14 votes

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fwiw i haven't seen violence or ghostin on a single year-end list