ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

this song made last year a little more fun in general so i'm not mad except in that it will prob be the highest placing rap song of the year

excellent joke post

Huzzah

good back to back

It is extremely stupid but in a fun way, unlike 1000 groks or w/e they're called

My only complaint here is that the non-Billy-Ray version wasn't nominated.

Three places higher than Gangnam Style managed.

This is a great single time for the fun haters of ilm to gather round

"Better than Luke Bryan" in no way, shape, or form implies "good" and really a collective shame on everyone for rallying behind this nonsense.

That said, it should have been played on country radio in its original mix nonstop for several months.

I heard this in a shop once and didn't hate it as much as the internet promised.

I am a well known fun hater; I don't hate this but I can't imagine voting for it in a million years.

It's so weird how Kanye and Taylor are finally about to place.

hat tip to Simon for new DN

When the big "is this country" debate I thought it was obviously country but somehow now I've heard it so much that it doesn't sound like country music to me at all, I think I was fooled by the prominent mention of horses. Or it might just be that this remix sounds way less "country" than the original, which is the one I was mostly hearing at the time.

it does but i also think there's a more unified album-oriented effect to what big thief do! which makes me feel like they are out of place in a tracks poll ("not"-excepted, that song is an explosion)

I feel the opposite. The albums are OK but they're really all about a few great songs for me.

xps "Old Town Road" just feels boring and go-nowhere to me. Fun = dud.

Did Miley ever get a top 5 song in an ILX poll?

Didn't vote for it but I like it - this song made last year a little more fun in general -> agree with this.

Re "bury a friend," this may be a middle-aged thing vs a teenage thing but I find the way "Harmony Hall" approaches the state of not wanting to go on living much more directly affecting than Ellish's take on same.

Also this is only the second US rap and the only country song to place.

I'm now singing "fooled by the prominent mention of horses" in my head to the tune of Squeeze's "Tempted"

Re "bury a friend," this may be a middle-aged thing vs a teenage thing but I find the way "Harmony Hall" approaches the state of not wanting to go on living much more directly affecting than Ellish's take on same.

Eh... It's much more a preppy thing vs a goth thing

When the big "is this country" debate I thought it was obviously country but somehow now I've heard it so much that it doesn't sound like country music to me at all, I think I was fooled by the prominent mention of horses. Or it might just be that this remix sounds way less "country" than the original, which is the one I was mostly hearing at the time.

"Old Town Road" sounds like someone covering Luke Bryan

(only not being as fucking annoying as Luke Bryan)

xp ts dead preppies vs dead goths

goths win every time

goths are already dead inside

This makes it two songs produced by a Dutch producer, after “Boasty”.

was that highwaywomen tune not country

Yesterday when I picked my 6-year-old from afterschool, all the kindergartners were singing along with the Kidz-bop version of Old Town Road (while simultaneously doing coloring sheets).

I would need to go to the tape to say for certain but I think this is the first time in 77 history where an artist has placed five songs as a lead artist in one year. I’m probably not spoiling the top three by stating this is Berman’s highest placing track.

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4: Purple Mountains – “Snow Is Falling in Manhattan” – 563 points – 16 votes – 2 #1 votes

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Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)

Songs build little rooms in time

Wow that is shockingly high

So did we ever figure out if this is a placement record?

I am not averse to flooding a poll with one artist but this is definitely a lot

can't think of a country single that everyone could've rallied behind last year, and i ... feel like i listened to a lot of country?

all five songs, damn

respect i guess

Forks wouldn't do a fake placement involving a dead man would he

I have been pondering how many of this guy's songs would have placed like this were he still alive

"Old Town Road" means nothing to me, but I did enjoy watching my nieces mime goofy dance moves and sing along with it all Summer.

this also means "balloon" is in the top three

I have been pondering how many of this guy's songs would have placed like this were he still alive

I mean, go off I guess

Good job putting "Run For Your Life" into the top 3, everyone

"Old Town Road" sounds like someone covering Luke Bryan

OK I just listened to "What Makes You Country" and point taken but jesus why did you have to make me listen to "What Makes You Country"

Hm guess I need to figure out how I feel about Balloon winning this

Balloon better be number one

yeah the reaction kids had to "old town road" is enough for me to be like sure, do your thing novelty single

I have been pondering how many of this guy's songs would have placed like this were he still alive

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague)

Probably still a lot, honestly. He was much-loved before he died.

Not my favorite on the PM album, but definitely the biggest earworm.

I have been pondering how many of this guy's songs would have placed like this were he still alive

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

you've been on a roll today between this and thinking róisín murphy was dead

I guess the album was his pretty comprehensive suicide note. Like...The Bell Jar!