ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2020

Oh this is a pleasant surprise! Felt morally obliged to put them on my list but didn't think they'd show up

can't believe I votesplit this and it still placed looool, so glorious

ok this one is insane

"jazzidisciples" roughly 1000 places too low

the disrespect from lj will not go unnoted

I’m so uh surprised this made it in! My god am I glad I got my first nominations in so early. I’ve listened to this on more or less every journey I’ve had to make over the past year as it adds a delightful urgency. The key change is glorious too.

longneck, yeah i have built some amapiano into my sets. as i say, i'm not against it at all, and even enjoy a fair bit of it, it's just i find it samey after a while

I had never heard of this track or band before, and I can't say I feel like my life was much worse off for it.

YMM are exactly my sort of thing and I do love some of their stuff, but I find that they're just not, um, surprising enough for me to really love them. Also weren't they the ones who did the video with them all in blackface? (I might be wrong about this and it was another JPop group who I'd previously liked, and you can be all 'culturally different meanings in Japan' if you want, but it was not good.)

heheh this You'll Melt More track is VERY INSISTENT on me enjoying it

why would anyone listen to this more than once

^^ this

between this and jazzidisciples i can feel our attention spans at war lol

Am I just super-jaded or is "Surpriser!" not actually that surprising?

xp with emil.y, lol

Video is giving me bertie bassett vibes, song is about as sugary too

recommend the album

Dragonball Durag! <3 <3

Like, it's always funny how people will gripe about more conventional pop music that places and then go wild when something they voted for shows up and it's...this stuff.

why would anyone listen to this more than once

― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Monday, January 25, 2021 6:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

you mean the ILM Top 77?

victoria monét track totally rules, i missed it last year!!!!!

you guys wanna play dirty huh

It’s just so kitsch and unapologetically garish and there are like a hundred different melodic pockets. I love the sped up chorus so much.

There are some Dempagumi Inc bangers that should've showed up on other 77s before this tho

This sounds like vomiting fruit punch feels.

(ftr emil.y I'm not having much luck connecting You'll Melt More! to a blackface video)

The song sounds to me like someone liked Babymetal but got scared by the guitars

I also think with YMM that nothing's ever going to top this remix from five years ago, so I don't have a strong need to dig any more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEF7hDyrhPE

xposts, oh I think it might have been Dempagumi actually with the shitty video! Sorry to YMM for that.

The song sounds to me like someone liked Babymetal but got scared by the guitars

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP)

Well, Babymetal are Jpop mixed with metal, so this is a little back-to-front in the cause and effect attribution!

(ftr emil.y I'm not having much luck connecting You'll Melt More! to a blackface video)

I believe in you dan, keep at it!

more like ymmv, imo

this is not what i'm usually looking for in j-pop

the tune is kinda dull generic anime op

with a bunch of nonsense happening around it

the last maximally bonkers j-pop group i really went for was momoiro clover z, who had tunes, and who from a quick google definitely appeared in blackface once fuckin yikes

Well, Babymetal are Jpop mixed with metal, so this is a little back-to-front in the cause and effect attribution!

My point was less that this was something influenced by Babymetal and more that this wasn't anything particularly special about the genre based on my exposure to it.

Oh jesus, did they? I still go back to 5th Dimension a lot.

xpost

ha yeah that was the band that came up when I was searching

Fuuuuck. There's no fucking excuse.

save us from the generic music forks

I also think with YMM that nothing's ever going to top this remix from five years ago

This is wonderful, thanks. The video...

save us from the generic music forks

are you proposing that we delete this thread?

:D shhhh

imago, are you up on Tomoe Shinohara?

I fully support throwing a Whiney style poll tantrum and abandoning the tracks rollout, just start the albums on monday with no comment and never reveal the results to anyone

no but always keen to check out mental nonsense xp

note to Moka: re: “Jazzidisciples”, dust* [h]/=obscure amapiano reference/ in the wind, but you misspelled Zuma...[/h]

I voted for Surpriser. Love the insane chaos of it all and it never fails to make me smile

Here's a hyperactive maximalist j-pop track from the previous year that surpasses this one imo

This is her 1996 album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4R4HiowbixsBsdSXAqiTFf?si=6nOSbvZCR4WN3E6LOytUAg

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