ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

piss baby are you coming?

Can we get back to posting our ill-informed opinions, then? I have some.

I predict a lot more whinging.

i guess i'm wondering if "lose you to love me" will place

Aawww I hope so! I voted for it

I'll be so happy if Money Machine shows up in the top ten, lol. Had no idea it was so popular but love it. I don't think my #1 will show up. I was a bit unsure of what might happen to it, it felt like this very personal treasure, but I kept seeing people on twitter going 'hey, that album was disappointing, but, um, is [...] the song of the year?'

i've given up on the zventa sventana track placing but its particular oddness is very ilm

you lot all slinging around 'comfort zone' like some sort of insult when there's a brilliant little discount shoe shop round here called comfort zone that sells great value plastic shoes for old people and i bet they would never dream of torturing their clientele with the likes of weyes blood and vampire workmen

― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Bet they'll cope with 'juvenalia'.

Will take that as a yes then. I thought 77-31 was A-, 30-15 was more like C+

30: Zero12Finest featuring ThaMagnificent2 – “Baby Are You Coming?” – This is something I haven't heard before, every thirty seconds it does something new and unexpected.
29: The Comet Is Coming – “Summon the Fire” – Oh, this is the Sons of Kemet guy? Yeah this is very cool, sounds like the theme tune to a sci-fi detective series.
28: Chari XCX featuring Christine & The Queens – “Gone” – Had this in unweighted section, sounds like Christine has brought Charli back to those dark synth sounds from early 2010s, as much as I love her new stuff it's good to hear those again.
27: Sun-El Musician and Ami Faku – “Into Ingawe” – Really nice production, doesn't make a huge impresion on me otherwise.
26: Ciara – “Thinkin’ Bout You” – 317 points – Not mindblowing in any way, but think there's room for this sort of thing, and it's precision-engineered to fit that gap.
25: Vampire Weekend – “Harmony Hall” – Pleasant, won't listen to again
24: Rosalía and J Balvin featuring El Guincho – “Con Altura” – Sure I'm missing something with this, perfectly fine again, but can't get into groove and there's no buildup so
23: Sharon Van Etten – “Seventeen” – Feel like there are lots of these anthemic tracks which are well-rated by all and idgi
22: Fireboy DML – “Jealous” – Not that this isn't really nice, just kind of hard to get excited about.
21: Purple Mountains – “All My Happiness Is Gone” – I know this was the lead single, but Nights That Won't Happen towers over it.
20: Caroline Polachek – “Door” – Ok I guess, idgi
19: Grimes and i_o – “Violence” – Chose to ignore the silly video, the song feels like it has elements of everything I've liked by her in the past, just sounds like she's chosen to shift them to the background. If she shifted them to the foreground I would like it a lot more.
18: Weyes Blood – “Andromeda” – Think my problem here is that I just don't particularly care for 70s soft rock, and if I do occasionally want to scratch that itch I have the originals to go back to, have no need for more.
17: Ariana Grande – “Ghostin” – I don't know why this is here. It's perfectly nice.
16: Billie Eilish – “Everything I Wanted” - Ok, this is better, enjoy the subtle progression, her songs are so delicately constructed, nothing wasted.

yeah i've changed my mind now that lj isn't making it worse by responding, threadban xyz

Please ulysses save us *prayer emoji*

i know a lot of people hate khalid's "talk" but in my experience it was a breath of fresh air on the radio and the disclosure remix turns it into a masterwork. kinda disappointed that it won't place

i guess i'm wondering if "lose you to love me" will place

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:20 AM

That's in the ranked portion of my ballot, but I didn't think many other people rated it much.

see, Weyes Blood don't sound like '70s soft rock so much as she sounds as if she grew up listening to '70 soft rock.

I've had 4 placements so far and 2 remaining ones are locks, I think. I'd be shocked to see any of the others. So 10 tracks in '17, 7 last year, 6 this year (I believe). looking forward to being totally divorced from the tracks hivemind in a few years

"Lose You To Love Me" is bleh and I hope it doesn't place, is gonna be my only pre-today's-rollout bit of negativity

enjoying how CAAL's feelings on 30-16 are v similar to mine but expressed much more nicely lol, ty sensei

Rare works as an album more than as "repository of okay to pretty good singles."

I've been listening to "Andromeda" for like a year and keep loving it more and more.

My respect to them for sticking with the struggle. too many xps

I think this is the first time an artist I like has had such a strong showing in the year end poll

Xyzzz I'm gonna have to threadban you if this continues because the thread moves quickly enough as it is and nobody else cares. Please play nicely.

15. Banye Pest - Follow Mod

Sure Matt, won't play along. See how it goes.

i'm on my way out the door but it's been a long time and i shouldn't have left you without a strong rhyme / dope beat to step to

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15: Dua Lipa – “Don’t Start Now” – 357 points – 11 votes

YouTube Video

Dua Lipa

Singles Jukebox

and that's just what I won't do

xps Whenever someone uses "middle class" in that pejorative aesthetic way, I am always reminded of this:

>they sound like incredibly annoying people, too, middle-class nice'n'twees get out of my life

It's always good when you can take a break from the coal mines to join these discussions.

― imago bands and their discontents (_Rudipherous_), lundi 17 février 2014 10:23 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

welp there's one of the two for-sures from my ballot!

didn't care for any of what I heard from the previous album but this is an undeniable banger imho

my no. 4. wasn't sure what to expect from her after loving her first record, then i got confirmation-biased to death by this thing. some people here find the chorus deflating but it's just right for me, the bridge-chorus transition is like the song getting pulled by the ankle out of the heavens and getting dragged down to the floor sweat

also, as with "thinkin' bout you": the bass line

Good start. It was in my top 10. Contends with "New Rules" for her best song.

Saved again!

i've given up on the zventa sventana track placing but its particular oddness is very ilm

I still think my fav Dua track is ‘be the one’

Ok, we're back on track, this dua lipa track made my december. I mean, didn't make it enough for me to actually vote for it, but it's still good.
Yes, 'be the one' is still the best thing she's done.

This is pretty good for what it is and I quite like the cowbell fills.

i'm on my way out the door but it's been a long time and i shouldn't have left you without a strong rhyme / dope beat to step to

lol

Had hoped this would place higher, but it came out so late. My #2.

"Lose You To Love Me" is bleh and I hope it doesn't place, is gonna be my only pre-today's-rollout bit of negativity

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:32 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this may be an incredibly pointless post if it doesn't place, and also my cry-on-command response to this song is so quasi-pavlovian that idk if i can pretend to be even slightly objective about it, but: the way the general public felt about adele's "someone like you" is how i feel about this song, it delivers a very true sentiment so simply and directly that it just drives straight through all of my defenses. the subtle touches of production, where it sounds like the song is slipping into a vacuum, help elevate it above its one-glacial-piano-chord-at-a-time pop ballad peers, and i also just think it's a really solid piece of writing about a lesson i've had to learn multiple times over the course of my life, "made me think i deserved it / in the thick of healing" is so precise it hurts

^^^

<3

I agree with Brad on "Lose You to Love Me" in all regards. I had it high on my ballot, but there are times I kinda wish I put it at #1.

I'm firmly against evolving or self-betterment so that probably explains why it didn't resonate w me

that and I prefer to think of B**b*r as little as possible

Those Mystery Sonatas of his were pretty sweet tho.

:D

I hadn't realized it literally means 'beaver'.

Man, I love "Don't Start Now."