ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

"definitely more african stuff than years past"

Some way toward making up for the lack of rap.

Yeah the S African entries were a highlight for sure, and my vote didn't even place!

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Everyone itt listening to "Balloon"

ILM Tracks Poll 2019: Thread of Stats and Balloon Emojis

Is Balloon just an ILM phenomenon? 18k views on Youtube.

Balloon

Awesome result. Balloon was one of my last cuts. Figured it didn't need my help.

Thanks to the pollrunners for putting his all together.

"some plodding clever clever dadfolk dirge"

TORIES AMONG US!

I totally thought that was a still from The Loved Ones and had to check - pretty close tbh xp

Anybody shd've been higher yeah but Burna just couldn't match the sheer musicality and joy of *checks notes* some plodding clever clever dadfolk dirge

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:50 (forty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry dude but this is a risible mischaracterisation. also lol I know you're baiting xyzzzz but Dawson is like the most obvious lefty UK songwriter since like Robert Wyatt

Aesthetically reactionary old white man music is the real Toryism alph

Gecs still suck.

Anybody was my #1, Not was my #2

balloon

sorry dude but this is a risible mischaracterisation. also lol I know you're baiting xyzzzz but Dawson is like the most obvious lefty UK songwriter since like Robert Wyatt

― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, 30 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

lol he def isn't.

Seriously Robert Wyatt, wtf

every everybody

had seen the name 100 gecs but this is the first time hearing/seeing them...

friends of ilm this is very bad music

Aesthetically reactionary old white man music is the real Toryism alph

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:55 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the actual fuck

friends of ilm this is very bad music

― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:57 PM (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

balloon

Aesthetically reactionary old white man music is the real Toryism alph

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Someone revive Roger Scruton, get him to write this up!

I have only previously heard 2 songs on this list.

OK I'll lay off Dawson now I'm sure it has a place like Idles it helps old people feel like they still like music I just don't think that place is number 3 in a poll above dozens of tracks of actual music

10 tracks from my ballot placed, 9 from my top 14 in fact, and I blew up the number one? I am hivemind now? wtf

ILM, bless your heart

Old people of ilm be raising their game, listen to better music and stop voting Tory.

Idles comparison, ouch. But at least I know it's baseless

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floating floating

Actually, I've heard 3.

and I blew up the number one?

I see what u did there

breastcrawl there is a Churchill quote in there lol

Msaki, who’s on “Sondela” with Tresor, is also the singer on the similarly gorgeous Guy Mantzur remix of Black Coffee’s “Wish You Were”, which was one of the late-in-the-game dark horses of this rollout, but didn’t place higher than #92 unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eciqirTIk

breastcrawl there is a Churchill quote in there lol

Oh fuck, Just Off Wave missed out by ONE POINT

Songs build little rooms in time

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Thursday, January 30, 2020 2:13 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This was my favorite musical moment of 2019 and this song would have been my #1.

That being said, I sort of agree that lots of songs off the same album make for less fun polls.

Oh, yeah:

Balloon.

can someone post 78-150 here? My phone hates Sheets

balloon! :)

Spencer with the traditional stealth howdy

Balloon being #1 is amazing and dissolves my reservations

― rob, donderdag 30 januari 2020 20:48

posts that make you very happy

from the other thread:

a 77 w/ no repeats would have featured Algiers, Denzel Curry and possibly Clipping :( :( :(

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.)

can someone post this itt?

thinkin bout you should have new *much* higher imo. delighted to see Fireboy JML, Killin Dem and Margharitas in the Mall and of course...

balloon

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Hi, all!

Update:
4 now with the "Black Coffee" remix thanks to a Tim F. FB post.

Could this be... a forgereeeeeeeeeeeeee?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:29 (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

underappreciated post

Late to the party and playing lapidary catchup:

1: Busy Signal – “Balloon” – BALLOON
2: Big Thief – “Not” – same reservations as ever
3: Richard Dawson – “Jogging” – not British enough to get this
4: Purple Mountains – “Snow Is Falling in Manhattan” – good but way too high
5: Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” – ehhhh
6: 100 Gecs – “Money Machine” – absolute fucking trash, even when viewed as novelty music
7: Billie Eilish – “Bury a Friend” – good
8: Tresor featuring Msaki – “Sondela” – plein de bons sentiments
9: Burna Boy – “Anybody” - good
10: Jessie Ware – “Adore You” – ok
11: Roisín Murphy – “Incapable” – meh
12: Octo Octa – “I Need You” – good
13: Big Thief – “UFOF” – same old same old
14: Aldous Harding – “The Barrel” - ok

Ok, I had no idea what "Balloon" was before today, but it's pretty fun! Doesn't feel like it has too much replay value, so I probably wouldn't have voted for it even if I'd heard it, but I would definitely dance to it the deejay played it at a club.

ILM has fully entered the meme era.

Great outcome! Thank you pollrunners! Best top 20 we’ve done?

Of today’s run I voted for Roisin, Octo Octa, Tresor and Busy Signal, and fully support and endorse the appearances of Burna Boy, Jessie Ware, Dua Lipa and Big Thief.

The Roisin track I think of as maybe her ultimate effort with her most perfect lyrics, but that may only be apparent if you are already invested in her persona and how many ways she has sought to negotiate the space between seduction and inaccessibility.

As for Balloon, this is why I love it (from an earlier thread):

“Balloon, balloon, balloon, balloon.” When I’m not listening to “Balloon” (and I had to turn it off to write this sentence) I feel like its unexpected offering of Busy singing about the multitude of balloons at (it seems) a wedding is personally very relatable, gesturing towards that vague sense that maybe you’re focusing on the wrong things; taking pleasure in the surface ephemera rather than forging deeper connections. But once I turn the music back on, this idea falls away, because this song is the furthest thing from elegiac: Busy is really fucking excited about all these balloons. I’ve mostly struggled to strongly connect with dancehall these past few years, hoping its obsession with sickly sweet “summery” synth work-outs (too much current actual-dancehall sounds like an imitation of Ellie Goulding’s fake-dancehall 2013 non-hit “Burn”) would work itself out of Jamaica’s system, to no avail, but there’s always the odd exception that proves the rule; “Balloon”, compulsive and silly and joyous and bug-eyed and irresistible, couldn’t be more exactly what I wanted.

Oh yeah I also love (but did not vote for) “old town road (Remix)” and “bury a friend”.

I dunno, feels like a replay of that year (2011?) when that "Wut" tune won... That one had a whole lot of noveltyish charm too, but has anyone played it since then?

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