ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

Old Town Road still stands up hundreds of plays after the supposed novelty should have worn off.

Farrah Abraham and 100 gecs are both great.

smh at only four votes for Holly Herndon’s Frontier. One of the most extraordinary things I’ve heard in years, sounding simultaneously like it’s from 500 years in the past and 500 in the future.

Great work Moka, Sean & Forks!

From the comments on the OTHER YouTube for "Balloon", which has an additional 10K views - Alliance Boss with the vision:

Alliance Boss
5 months ago
International song will do very good overseas for fans 🇯🇲💯🔥🔥🔥

This has been a pretty good time, though maybe a little rough and rowdy - which, consider the tenor of the country anyway. But I'm more hype for the albums results (as usual), probably because for whatever reason it's easier to come up with 25 albums I feel strongly about, not so singles/tracks.

I was one of the Frontier voters, its like having an entire choir of robots singing at once.

I would have voted for it if I hadn't voted for SWIM instead

So in the broader world "Balloon" isn't even close to being Busy Signal's most popular recent track. Like, by several orders of magnitude seemingly. Bless.

really enjoyed reading this thread, thank you ulysses, moka, seandalai!

Busy is the god btw. For anyone who thinks Balloon is good, you should dig into his discography.

Listening to "Jogging." I don't get it.

It's like running but not as fast.

Just listened to it. It's a really nice tune and harder-rocking than I expected from the previous album or two (and some of the comments on the thread). I still wish he were a better singer.

So this is not my genre: what makes "Balloon" a better song than "Toast" by Koffee?

balloon balloon balloon balloon balloon

He enumerates all the colors if balloons

Admittedly true

(I'm liking the melodic line of "Horchata" a lot btw. I do actually listen to the answers when I ask these questions. Also, horchata is good.)

what makes "Eleanor Rigby" a better song than "Respect"?

anyways, here's two other great songs from busy to explore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F62Izj2ghmE
from 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl1CsAdfaLk
from 2015

a lifetime of loving this (lately problematic) song is what gave me the grounding to embrace 100gecs
if any of you gecko's haven't heard it, i tear it up but i can pay for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NPpcEDZ84

OK, tbh, I didn't notice that "Toast" did place in the top 40 so the question was a bit off; nm that (although if someone ranked "Eleanor Rigby" 35 places higher than "Respect" on a list of best songs of the 60s, I think it would be fair for someone to raise that question and more so if it were ranked higher than "God Only Knows"). Anyway, thanks for the links.

i guess my point is that the points aren't the point. They're both very good!

Ranking for this year was, for the most part, narcissism of small differences; the point differential between #12 and #20 is only 28 points. One well placed vote would've upended almost anybody outside of the top 7.

I suppose if you want to talk about numbers, 1 to 7 is he group that really showed the explicit communities within the community and how much (limited) push they have... basically you needed consensus from 13 people to break the top 20 and over 15 to get in the top 5. It doesn't take a lot!

1: 831 points – 24 votes
2: 742 points – 21 votes
3: 625 points – 17 votes – 3 #1 votes
4: 563 points – 16 votes
5: 509 points – 21 votes
6: 457 points – 15 votes
7: 431 points – 14 votes
8: 413 points – 15 votes
9: 407 points – 13 votes
10: 393 points – 13 votes

this thread is a highlight every year and this one was particularly good - lots of interesting discussion and debate that was (mostly) healthy and fun to read, plenty of great records that were both new to me and very familiar, great striking images and a sense of community. I probably waste too much time lurking round these parts but it's things like this that make it so worth my time, thanks to the people who helmed this and everyone with good taste who voted

Octo Octa still wildly overrated though

Holly Herndon should've been #1

When does the album countdown start? Today?

Steady on dude, give us all a bit of a rest.

(I believe it starts on Monday)

Octo Octa still wildly overrated though

Her first album had more certified bangers, imo.

Balloon now up to 10k views lol

The AOTY top 30, bold placed in the 77, italics not nominated

1 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy #31
2 Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen #17
3 Lizzo - Juice #33
4 FKA twigs - Cellophane #111
5 Clairo - Bags #49
6 Big Thief - Not #2
7 J Balvin, ROSALÍA - Con Altura #24
8 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road Remix FEAT. BILLY RAY CYRUS #5
9 DaBaby - Suge #52
10 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall #25
11 Tyler, the Creator - EARFQUAKE #306
12 Lana Del Rey - The Greatest #100
13 Charli XCX - Gone FEAT. CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS #28
14 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
15 Angel Olsen - Lark
16 Lana Del Rey - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it #48
17 Pop Smoke - Welcome to the Party
18 Angel Olsen - All Mirrors #47
19 Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II #139
20 Normani - Motivation #54
21 100 gecs - money machine #6
22 Megan Thee Stallion - Cash Shit FEAT. DABABY 0 votes
23 Solange - Almeda
24 Dave - Black
25 Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
26 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings #34
27 Georgia - About Work the Dancefloor #343
28 HAIM - Summer Girl #45
29 Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me #120
30 Denzel Curry - RICKY #83

still on the 19k it rose to in the two hours after forks posted it

Guys, as noted above there are two videos for (the audio of) “Balloon”:

The one on the Busy Signal account currently has 19.174 views, the one on the Love Star Music account stands at 10.058 views.

I will report back to you in 24 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6oJDAA7Mnk

and this one has 692 million

BALLOON

of course you can get plenty of youtube hits if you're supplying children with nangs, ban this sick stunt

Lack of bold tags around Money Machine there is pure denial lol

I tried to put the bold tags on but got a weird error message about having an insufficiently large truck

Damn, that's some harsh waxing on Dawson last night o_O

Anyway, I managed to not have heard Balloon before this roll-out, but: balloon!

I'd even argue that Money Machine is musically proficient and interesting, let alone comic and novel. What's with that heavily-treated 0PN-esque quasi-harpsichord line? Every production choice works a treat imo

This is the first time ever I think that the top ten has been by far my favourite part of the rollout

xps Whenever someone uses "middle class" in that pejorative aesthetic way, I am always reminded of this:

>they sound like incredibly annoying people, too, middle-class nice'n'twees get out of my life
It's always good when you can take a break from the coal mines to join these discussions.

― imago bands and their discontents (_Rudipherous_), lundi 17 février 2014 10:23 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

ftr this isn't the argument-ending statement you think it is but as Matt DC and many other have said "nobody cares" but I thought to disabuse you of this notion.

It is proficient in that it sets out to be as irritating as possible and achieves its goal in spades.

xp

Happy to see ILM put some respeck on Busy's name. After all, he IS the most talented non-incarcerated living artist from Jamaica.

Here's the full thread of Moka's images: https://imgur.com/a/kuhNrFM

Astounding work, as has been noted. One small proofreading note, because such things jump out at me: Stormzy's #35 still says "Vop" for "Bop".

imago comparing [redacted pile of shite] to R Wyatt last night has left me in a black hole of depression and bereft of hope for the future of humanity. I didn't fp because I wouldn't have known how to stop :p

How about Robin Williamson?

I'm only familiar with the one from Take That! this is where I get fp'ed.

You said it, not me!

blasting out Cuckooland today and almost in tears at points.

not listened to it for years. Forest absolutely slays me.

hate D Gilmour/Pink Floyd with a passion and even his solo doesn't ruin it.

to his credit, dave gilmour was known to enjoy a balloon