ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

I voted for Money Machine :)

Of the *names* I was unfamiliar with prior to the rollout, Charlotte Adigéry is the revelation so far and will likely remain so.

I can't listen to this stuff at work but I am really looking forward to a deep dive over the weekend

Money Machine is my #25, starting to wonder if I should've given it a bigger bump.

Money Machine is pretty high up on my ballot.

I somehow managed to miss Everything I Wanted but yeah gorgeous stuff. There can't be enough Eilish in the 77 for my liking.

well i guess there's gonna be one gec then >:|

No gecs plz thx.

my hope that the other FKA twigs song in the countdown will be "fallen alien" or "here with you" instead of "cellophane" is fading rapidly

surely Jogging will place... High?

don't be silly dog latin nobody's heard of that

*caroline polachek voice* you vote for a gecs to another gecs to another gecs to another gecs to another gecs

will i ever be rid of the specter of richard dawson

britshers gonna britisher

I was expecting The Barrel by Aldous Harding to make some sort of appearance but I assume she's just not that we'll loved here.

Shuga by Sefa and Majesty by DJ Tunes / Busiswa are the two afrobeats noms I like a lot that are very unlikely to place

"shuga" is amazing and i have no hope whatsoever that it'll place

"Jogging" rules and even I, a relative non-convert, voted for it but I have a hard time imagining it this high

i actually just listened to "jogging" and enjoyed myself, it has a good hook

It's my #5

Ever more fearful me not voting for tracks (except saer’s track) will rob jogging of the top spot. I’ll be ostracized, exiled to Ask A Drunk.

oh yeah of course "jogging" will show up lmao

still hoping I Need You shows up

Somehow I'm just realizing I had never heard "everything i wanted" before

i actually just listened to "jogging" and enjoyed myself, it has a good hook

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:40 PM (fifty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's not too displaced from the manics tbh, at least before it turns into robot grunge

lbi you will be processed and reassigned

I love the 'oh noes too English!' reaction to Richard Dawson.
'Like.. oh my gawwwd what even IS a busker, am I right you guys? Wonder what? How the heck am I supposed to understand this my dudes? Then we ate Twinkies.. '

omg genuinely shocked and delighted that "Jealous" placed so high! (I was the #1 vote)
I doubt it will knock anyone's socks off, but that kind of beautiful, daydreamy elegance is absolute catnip to me

I deserve no less.

I deserve no less. Xxp

Lmao DL

what is the most 'americans gonna america' track yet to come, apart from old town road lol

ime "busker" has successfully crossed the atlantic

what is the most 'americans gonna america' track yet to come, apart from old town road lol

― opden gnash (imago), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:44 PM (forty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

big thief

"busker who?" is what we call that Rick Dawson guy here

I love the 'oh noes too English!' reaction to Richard Dawson.
'Like.. oh my gawwwd what even IS a busker, am I right you guys? Wonder what? How the heck am I supposed to understand this my dudes? Then we ate Twinkies.. '

That's not the reaction. The reaction is "what is it about this hack that makes otherwise reasonable people fall all over themselves"

call it "The Streets Syndrome"

xxp probably something like The Highwomen*

*note: I have never heard The Highwomen

'Busker' is common in Canada so it crossed the Atlantic a long time ago.

No other country crossed over to ILM, right right? only a handful of us love Mirnda Lambert, and I didn't vote for her singles.

"Busker" is also common in the US

ftr I very nearly voted for Not

my fellow Americans: I feel like the fact an artist named Purple Mountains keeps placing makes this argument moot

I mean, I'm not into those songs either

I voted for a few country tracks (including “Pretty Bitchin’”)

"Jogging" sounds like a charmless Tom Vek song with a lot of unnecessary guitar slapped onto it to me

I used 'busker' because it was p much the only thing in that song that I could possibly imagine an Americaner not understanding, but of course it's in use. Hey we have trap on mainstream radio over here so we know what 'molly' is.

i "do not get" big thief at all

i may have told this story before: i was hanging out with a guy a few years ago who i was just getting to know who, when i told him i worked tangentially in music industry, trepidatiously asked "um do you know big thief because one of those guys was my ex-roommate" and when i said "sure, they're a big deal right now" he said "i mean, i don't like the guy and i don't like their music... do YOU like their music?" and i was able to take some comfort in assuring him i did not but man he seemed kinda like his sense of the universe bending to aesthetic beauty was really shaken

i adored peasant and dawson is still a great lyricist but i did not like the arrangements on 2020 at all

Did he live with shirtless hippie bass dude?

xp

Is it because of Lenker's vocals? (I'm tired of being utterly alone on this one.)

2xp

how is old town road less than a year old, it feels ancient, primordial even