ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

her voice reminds me of hem

i think i listened to an aldous song, maybe off saidthegrammophone, seemed plesent

I agree that it's boring to have lots of repeat tracks but it's not a case that anything should be done about it, it's just a thing that happens and is a bit disappointing.

I kinda like it

Chris L absolutely on the money. I hated all that 2009 wispy folk-indie Grizzly Bear/Fleet Foxes sad lumberjack type of music with a passion and had BT come out around then it would be hard not to lump the last two albums in with that vibe. But I don't think of them in that way ever ever ever

I love the string arrangement on/of this

(a brief note which will ultimately be erased when the image is updated: Moka made a slight error with the picture for #12 and didn't accurately reflect the artist's name in the image. Moka is out of pocket and unable to upload a revised image as of now, so we're just going to post the image as is. We're aware the artist here is NOT "Big Thief" and also aware that naming is important. The error isn't intended disrespectfully in any way and will be fixed when we're not plowing through the actual countdown. Apologies to the artist in the meantime.)

the above aside, i absolutely love this track.

http://i.imgur.com/Fg3WFEJ.jpg
12: Octo Octa – “I Need You” – 370 points – 10 votes – 2 #1 votes

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Octo Octa &c

her voice reminds me of hem

― nxd, Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:23 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well they're both women, i guess

Simple. Do the albums poll in November every year so we know what places and then bar those artists from the tracks poll in January. Lol

Or just keep doing it this way and hope eventually people will feel worse each time they vote for multiple tracks from an album in the tracks poll.

yay!

this album is an album of all time

heck yeah

re: rules

i love hate reading these threads and their attendant nuttiness

emil.y's take does feel like the compromise we've arrived at.

trying to be as detached as possible, it is remarkable that the tracks results are what they are on a board where "corny indie fuxxor" was the harshest of insults back when I started posting

Just a little teaser: I've been mulling over this album tracks problem, and I'm planning to dig into the final results when they are available to test out one or two alternative ranking methods and see what they might look like.

deep connections is probs my choice cut

I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL

OCTO OCTA!!!!

not sure if you're being serious or not Moodles, but iirc Simon H did that exact thing last year and not enough people were swayed

Oops wrong track

mokas done such an amazing job its all cool x

Corny is good now:

https://youtu.be/b2o546cYVmU

xps

Not really been feeling the Octo Octa album but this track has been in my head more lately.

2009 wispy folk-indie Grizzly Bear/Fleet Foxes sad lumberjack type of music

LOL

I'm not necessarily trying to sway people, just want to see what it would look like. Also, I like playing with spreadsheets. I'm curious to know what method Simon tried.

i love the Octo Octa record but i don't love it as much as Where Are We Going?

finding this discussion confusing bc this track is not from the octo octa album

my two cents, and I'm sure I'm repeating others but haven't followed the debate closely: multiple people preferring different tracks from the same album - thereby resulting in multiple tracks ranking - is totally legit. However, one person voting for four or five different tracks from the same album (and presumably the album itself) is a very different thing that among other absolutely unforgivable transgressions, indicates the person didn't listen to much music in the year. Simple solution is to politely ask people not to vote for any more than X tracks from the same album. 2 seems reasonable.

also this track is magnificent and very moving thank u based octo

dog latin pinpointed 2 of the acts that helped ruin indie rock for me for years. Yeah, BT ain't them.

xxp yeah it's from the earlier For Lovers EP

I thought the album (which this isn't on) was pretty good but not amazing but this, this is amazing. Expected top 5 or 10 tbh

lol sorry i dont read track titles xps

The circling piano line in this is really good

yeah lol all my mp3s just lump together

http://i.imgur.com/aibpGlD.jpg
11: Roisín Murphy – “Incapable” – 376 points – 15 votes – 1 #1 vote (36 included total points from the Dmitri from Paris and Aeroplane Remix)

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YouTube Remix Video

RÓISÍN MURPHY

Singles Jukebox

omg this Octo Octa track is gorgeous! I also tried the album but didn't connect with it--is the rest of the EP this good??

this fell off of my ballot and didn't need my help at all! goddamn

xp it is! all of octo octa is good

people you were surprised to discover were still alive

I voted for Octo Octa and figured this track would place.

I also voted for Aldous Harding and it's the only song in this vein I slung a vote to, it's crazy how much better it is than anything else on the album.

Octo Octa <3

doesn't she make the 77 every single year

xxp

It wouldn't be one of our polls without Roisin! Great single.

ilm is incapable of not voting for Roisin

people you were surprised to discover were still alive

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:47 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wth

roisin to ilm is as kate bush to the brit awards

It wouldn't be one of our polls without Roisin!

Murphy’s law