ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

Honestly if you voted for five songs by the same artist and also the album then you probably just weren't into music that much this year.

as has been noted, people are free to use the data to see what the top 77 looks like with only 1 or 2 song songs per album, I expect someone will post it

more gecs

Here we go:

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3: Richard Dawson – “Jogging” – 625 points – 17 votes – 3 #1 votes

YouTube Video

Richard Dawson (raucous experimental UK folk racket w/ intense picaresque realness vox)

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2: Big Thief – “Not” – 742 points – 21 votes – 6 #1 votes

YouTube Video

Big Thief - Two Hands

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1: FKA Twigs – “Cellophane” – 888 points – 22 votes – 2 #1 votes

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FKA twigs

Singles Jukebox

People should pick whatever they like the problem isn't numbers it's dullness

Ohhhh

"cellophane" didn't place and no. 1 is "balloon"

Lol of course people didn't like Cellophane that much

I agree with brad.

These are all fake imo

If that's real then duck you ilm and really duck you Richard ducking Dawson

I'm guessing both fka Twigs and Big Thief are the fakes

nah not the Big Thief

Wish I'd been around for that, would have fought in your corner. xp to Simon and yeah, 2 tracks per album sounds better

Oh shit its the top 3! omg what

We discussed "Jogging" so much that I'd forgotten it hadn't actually placed yet!!

The year that Gaz Coombes won, that was funny.

FKA got to be fake...

yeah, 2 tracks per album sounds better

so technically big thief adhered to this nonexistent rule this year by releasing two different albums

I liked Cellophane and Jogging, thought the Big Thief album was meh so Big Thief will definitely place.

"not" is the fake because ilm wouldn't let a song with a killer guitar solo into the top 77

I'm the fake.

this is funny

i-is the greatest not gonna make it? not even in the top 77?

Honestly if you voted for five songs by the same artist and also the album then you probably just weren't into music that much this year.
― Matt DC, Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:24 PM bookmarkflaglink

Counterpoint: If you didn't vote for multiple songs from the same album, then you didn't fall hard for any specific album the way the PM faction did.
(or you just like you lists more curated)

i'm thrilled we will not have another ldr conversation until the albums poll

thats the big thief song i actually like so its probably real

Is this real? Or just a poor fake.

I just realized RICKY didn't place wtffffff

Congratulations to Richard!

Could this be... a forgereeeeeeeeeeeeee?

this list is wild btw, as advertised, good job everyone, my favorite 77 ever despite some complaints as always

I just realized RICKY didn't place wtffffff

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:29 PM (thirty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i fuckin love ricky i should've voted for it

nice work forks, nobody can agree on the fakes

Ulysses you card

I'm convinced "Not" is real, my guess for fake is "Cellophane".

alright then, done here, we gonna start posting our lists now?

I didn't vote for this because how do you vote for something so ubiquitous. It would be like voting for the air

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs),

Come on forks we’re all anticipating

forks has to post the real no. 1 xxp

2020 had the arduous task of following up two of the best albums I've ever heard, and while it took many laudable risks it wasn't quite of the same quality. But it was still excellent, and in Jogging it had the anthem of a subdued and ruined nation and my song of the year. The melodies, the rickety production, the beautiful word-choices, the roller-coaster bridge and above all that tearjerking, pathos-soaked climax...it was everything I needed

It is a pretty unusual top 10, but wouldn't be totally surprised if the whole lot was a fake-out either

Melodies would be a good idea

I gestured at this earlier but "Jogging" is a deceptively beautiful song and it took on extra resonance for me following the Tory landslide (inasmuch as I get to feel emotional about that as a non-UK-er)

many people are saying that this thread is the equivalent of the first performance of rite of spring

one year it would be good to announce the fake entries like a month later

this confusion IS the future! it is the point. that's what they didn't understand at the time

i say we all riot and trash the theater on our way out

I stepped away briefly and this thread just charged along, glad to at least catch the final moments.

I'm happy 100 gecs got so much love, and I know ILM lurker and progeny Datapod will be super pumped because they are his favorite group.

Ok this Big Thief song is very boring and I can absolutely believe its in the top three.