ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

my tolerance for indistinct fuzzy freeformness seems to drop year by year so I'm a bit sceptical about trying this third album but I'm still gonna give it a go

the guitar in blue pedro isn't an actual mike oldfield sample is it? it is v fine and much more deft than the rest of the track

It sounds like a sort-of interpolation of the Blue Peter theme, but not quite the same.

To be fair I only said the Laurel Halo track was playful compared the rest of the stuff I've heard by her, which is anything but.

The Blue Pedro sample is from Barnacle Bill by Herbert Ashworth-Hope, which the Blue Peter theme is based on but it's not a direct sample or an interpolation.

as it's the only thing i voted for that's appeared so far, and fyi for one brief (drunken) moment on friday night it was as high a first place on place on my ballot, i suppose i ought to say a bit more about blue pedro

have actually really enjoyed people mocking it tbh and it hasn't shaken my love of it at all - it's something that revels in its own absurdity in the tradition of lieutenant pigeon or penguin cafe or leyland kirby in his v/vm guise or even aphex twin (is it just me or does that grinning guy in the video not have the same sinister edge as afx on the cover of the richard d james album?)

dog latin mentioned dreadzone yesterday and i think you'd really have to squint your ears for a whiff of their ciderdelic skank, but you could perhaps argue that it's maybe coming from the same place as a track like 'little britain', which also plays with ideas of british heritage by fucking about with traditional military-associated music. and although i think it might be taking it too far to see blue pedro as some sort of lampooning of the ukip mindset, literally every other thing that my eldest boy sees when he's watching 'the inbetweeners' or whatever on All 4 catch-up is a fucking recruitment advert for the royal navy, so I definitely welcome our daft hornpiping around the kitchen table together to blue pedro as an accidental corrective to that.

also i genuinely carry an enduring (crum)horn for pretty english folk music be it john renborn or indeed mike oldfield in blue peter/portsmouth/moonlight shadow mode (and let's not forget mike's own cosmic disco credentials with foreign affair), and this hits exactly the same bit of my brain and i don't really care if it's ironic or not (i'm not sue it is?)

ogmor, i don't know if it's bullion himself, but this is someome playing the guitar line, it's def not a sample:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcKplEIhi__/?taken-by=bullionness

xp that's been bugging me, cheers. i've now read a whole wikipedia entry about Blue Peter trying to work it out

Nice writing NickB. 'Dreadzone' wasn't my comparison (Maybe Tom E's?), although despite loving it to bits it does skirt dangerously close to the pip-pip chappiness of electro-swing, albeit with its tongue firmly in cheek.

sometimes the diddle-diddle is grandiosely presented in a way which makes it hard not to cringe, but the embarrassment has gone too far, sometimes it's tight and syncopated and nutritious, gurning optional

gr8 post nick

Indeed.

I don't think its tongue is in its cheek, I think it's sincere in its appreciation. It'd be insufferable otherwise.

Obviously there only needs to be one record like this ever.

could be a banner year for the english pastoral, with stuff getting in on 5 votes i almost wonder if there's an outside chance dbh's funny might slip in, but I don't think brigadiers vote

I'm sorry but almost every one of these just sounds like anxiety in a box

― saer, Tuesday, January 23, 2018

are you sure this is true about "Despacito"?

That's closer to "Dick in a Box."

Yeah great writing NickB. My problem with Blue Pedro is entirely down to my dislike of the reels and jigs side of UK folk.

the best side

my fav swae lee feature of the year (non-“perfect pint” bracket, was it rtc who compared that hook to sade?) was prob his hook on davido’s “pere,” whole song shifts around him

saer winning EOY so far (would we expect any different?)

Day 2 begins at the top of the hour...

xp until ienjoyhotdogs inevitably shows up

great day yesterday, lots of songs i had no idea existed which i immediately fell for
ariadna probs my fav of the bunch, volumes is a very interesting one

"Wear Black" has a real Warren Zevon vibe to it

I was trying to place it. This sounds OTM.

https://i.imgur.com/9VHaKBf.jpg

TIE-59 DRAKE "Passionfruit" [164 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/UfCuu-dp2Bw

are you sure this is true about "Despacito"?

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 12:23 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Permalink

Perhaps more than any of them. The minute it came one I felt my core tense up like when the phone goes and its someone selling insurance for a car I don't have (which is partly why I gave the phone away to a local fistfighter)

Though there are two kinds of anxiety in a boxes out of these. The visceral ones like that one where the wrongdoing is happening in real time, and then the foreboding boat capsizing West Brom type ones. In these ones its like the terror is partly about the dismal resigned moroseness currently happening and knowing that a despacito like kick to the face is imminent in the next one. In this case the wrongdoing is a half today and half tomorrow like feeling, and that never works, might be better to get it over with. its a dilemma

As far as Drake songs go, this is one I made it all the way through.

damn it I was hoping we might have a drake-free countdown for once

Aubrey is forever.

saer winning EOY so far (would we expect any different?)

OTM

passionfruit is decent but i kinda wish it had a bridge or something, it just drifts along without going anywhere

the yaeji & paramore covers were both much better

The minute it came one I felt my core tense up like when the phone goes and its someone selling insurance for a car I don't have (which is partly why I gave the phone away to a local fistfighter)

reading these words is sweet respite from drake

I wanted to start a Drake thread similar to this one: post your made-up tom waits lyric but I realised that by now it would be way too easy and not very funny

Though there are two kinds of anxiety in a boxes out of these. The visceral ones like that one where the wrongdoing is happening in real time, and then the foreboding boat capsizing West Brom type ones. In these ones its like the terror is partly about the dismal resigned moroseness currently happening and knowing that a despacito like kick to the face is imminent in the next one. In this case the wrongdoing is a half today and half tomorrow like feeling, and that never works, might be better to get it over with. its a dilemma

― saer, Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Come over around 6:30 p.m. and explain this to my seven-year-old niece.

the yaeji & paramore covers were both much better

This isn't too bad as far as Drake songs go but yeah, OTM.

I might have voted for Blem. Passionfruit is cool though.

this song is total knobrot, and i quite liked Hotline Bling

https://i.imgur.com/qDedGlO.jpg
TIE-59 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)" [164 points, 8 votes] [80 points for original]
https://youtu.be/wISc326_7OM

much better

(haven't heard and won't listen to passionfruit)

This Soulwax remix reminds me of Robbie Williams' "Rudebox."

I prefer the original I think

this one is good

This just snuck on the bottom of my ballot. Nice chill build, nice appropriation of Rise bassline

it's quite long innit?

reminds me a little bit of a disco edit of Why? by Carly Simon but not as catchy or as good

https://i.imgur.com/F0jZpuh.jpg

58 BURIAL "Rodent" [165 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/wqBiYJIlyzo

so it's gonna be controversy day huh

Re: Gainsbourg, was it a 50:50 split votes wise? I voted for the original (first of my votes to show), but the remix is good too.

This is alright. I can't imagine it being one of anybody's favorite 25 songs of last year, tho.

80 points for the original, 84 for the remix, apparently xp

we're going back to a 'vibe' and that 'vibe' is ILM c2009