ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

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9: Burna Boy – “Anybody” - 407 points – 13 votes – 2 #1 votes

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here comes the AFRICAN GIANT / Burna Boy (2019)

too low

Adore is wonderful. I voted for Mirage instead, but agree that the next JW album is going to be a delight.

Corny indie fuxx was an insult but let's not pretend ILM wasn't stuffed to the rafters with Belle and Sebastian fans from day one.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:57 PM (thirty-six seconds ago)

lex pretended it wasn't

Don't rush to judgments...Money Machine is easily the least obnoxious gecs song...

woulda maybe voted Secret if nominated but this is good too

So much going with Octo Octa!

Catching up.

Dua Lipa - great. Couldn't decide between this and "Future Nostalgia". Both were late cuts from my ballot.

I keep meaning to check out the Aldous Harding LP but never quite get to it. She's managed by the same guy who manages Stereolab / runs Duophonic. "The Barrel" hasn't exactly got me excited, but there's something in there...

"Loops For Healing" (also on the EP) was my Octo Octa jam this year. I think I even nominated it, but then didn't bothered to vote for it because "I Need You" (which I'm still not feeling) was obv the one with traction.

Róisín - magnifique; another late cut

Jessie Ware - not much of a song here, but the overall swoon of the track is the attraction here, I guess. The "Table Manners" podcast was still her best cultural contribution of 2019 though.

Burna Boy - already said my piece on him upthread. Good use of sax on this one.

She's managed by the same guy who manages Stereolab / runs Duophonic.

lol I literally work for this guy, he gave me a Stereolab fridge magnet last week

you guys aren't taking about afro tracks so i gotta make sure you're paying attention by giving you another afro track

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8: Tresor featuring Msaki – “Sondela” – 413 points – 15 votes

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“This is the most beautiful thing.” - breastcrawl

“It's now my most-listened track of 2019. So smooth, so beautiful!” – Chuck_Tatum

lol I literally work for this guy, he gave me a Stereolab fridge magnet last week

― opden gnash (imago)

where's my scratch card record?!?! j/k

This is not the Octo Octa track I voted from that EP (it was "Loops for Healing", which is even more gorgeous), but I'm happy she made it so high! The EP and the album she released last year were dope, hope we'll see the latter on the album list.

I'd not heard Adore You before but it's an excellent payoff for waiting for something interesting to happen in the Roisin Murphy song.

SONDELA!!!!!

this is the best top ten ever

I decided to listen to the new tricot album, everyone bookmark it for your 2020 EOY ballots

it's so good

Re: Octo Octa I feel something needs to be said about the breakbeat revival and how a bit more rhythmic looseless suddenly feels so fresh after maybe a decade of increasingly stale straight down the line house and techno.

djp please also listen to the poppy album

my first and no doubt only vote to place. yay

I knew it! And yes, it still is the most beautiful thing! Actually feeling proud right now for introducing ILM to this song.

This kind of swoony swingy laid-backness isn't usually my jam but am finding this lovely.

I decided to listen to the new tricot album, everyone bookmark it for your 2020 EOY ballots

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP)

Yeah!

Speaking of Phil Collins, the first 30 seconds of this sound exactly like

https://youtu.be/PNMDYGGv4fg

and I am here for it

DJP, I did my best to get Clipping in the mix but apparently it was not enough :/

Oh I meant that to embed, it's "Man on the Corner" should you not wish to Phil Collins-click

tuuuune

oh wow!

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii just wanted you to know my smile belongs you oh!

Haven't heard this before, it's lovely. Thanks, hivemind

Speaking of Phil Collins, the first 30 seconds of this sound exactly like

https://youtu.be/PNMDYGGv4fg🕸

and I am here for it

djp please also listen to the poppy album

I listened to the Poppy album a little while ago

My general reaction was "I want to like Babymetal but it's too metal and too Japanese; can you fix that for me?"

Loving the sax dancing around in Burna Boy!

that's a fair description of the first song! xp

forget the grammys, billie got the coveted ILX 77 hat trick. and she's so young!

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7: Billie Eilish – “Bury a Friend” – 431 points – 14 votes – 1 #1 vote

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billie eilish

Singles Jukebox

YES

love the way this song lumbers and crunches around like a silent hill monster

good song you had to know was showing up

Four out of four in the Top 10 so far.

I was the #1 vote for this song

"I wanna end me" a little tryhard but that's what being a #teen is all about iirc

Apropos of nothing, actually I guess apropos of this countdown, I was listening to the radio this morning and Phil Collins "Take Me Home" came on, and I felt a powerful certainty that if Phil Collins had never been known to the world and had suddenly released this song in 2019, it would be really beloved by ILX.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), donderdag 30 januari 2020 18:17

Speaking of Phil Collins, the first 30 seconds of this sound exactly like

https://youtu.be/PNMDYGGv4fg

and I am here for it

― Guayaquil (eephus!), donderdag 30 januari 2020 19:25

Great setup too, eephus!

Yay, my Eilish choice! Figured it wouldn't miss out, glad to see it so high.

has this artist got an album to check or is it a bunch of singles?

apologies for my naivety

my favorite part of this song is every part of this song but especially the incredible melody she introduces in the bridge ("the debt i owe gotta sell my soul cuz i can't say no no i can't say no")

I remember seeing Billie Eilish's name appear everywhere seemingly overnight and thinking "Who is this? What does she even sound like?" so I went to Youtube and searched for her; the video for "Bury a Friend" came up. I was at work so I switched to a less conspicuous tab and let it play in the background. I was thinking "hey, this is surprisingly creepy and cool" and just enjoying myself until the "I wanna end me" line hit, at which point I audibly said "wait, WHAT" and switched the tab back up front, just in time to see a bunch of hands come out of nowhere behind her and jerk her body around like a rag doll.

I bought the album on Amazon immediately.

Surprised this ended up being Billie's highest song. It's never been one of my favourites.