ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

I loved Lost In Your Light so much when I first heard it that both artists' subsequent albums felt like a letdown, then promptly forgot to vote for it.

Destroyer live last year made me appreciate the album a lot more. Love the track.

I was the other number one vote for Lost In Your Light. There were a lot of really great song and video combinations in 2017, but this one was the most perfect. As Brad said on the Dua Lipa thread, "it totally embodies what it's like to listen to the song". Their voices blend together so beautifully. My favourite song of the year by quite a long way. It should have been as big as New Rules (which I'm sure is coming later).

destroyer video should be a zine imo

― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:09 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXH9KtanuI

At the risk of sounding like a scold, y'all know embedding youtubes in these threads is a no-no.

Voted for the other one and the album but this is great. Big take from the run down so far is I need to start watching music videos again

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

46 CHILDISH GAMBINO "Redbone" [181 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/Kp7eSUU9oy8

....

record collection rock

I suspect if I'd heard Glutes out I'd feel differently about it. The way I feel about Vertigo after hearing Michael Mayer drop it at a festival a few years ago. Nothing else by Patrice Baumel has ever stuck with me like that, his tracks are custom made to precision to blow the roof off

Here 4 it

JF, I didn't but noted!

Every generation gets their own Lenny Kravitz.

wasn't Childish Gambino a punchline a few years ago?

he is so much better at everything else than he is at music

xp it helps that he stopped rapping

record collection rock

I'm definitely a champion of any contempo r&b that pulls inspiration from Sly Stone.

wasn't this 2016, i know year of impact but im surprised that itd be that way for enough people to make it now if it didn't last year

that's good for you johnny feves

I kinda like this (was it really not nominated last year?).

I got a couple votes in last year's poll (didn't place), but it charted in August 2017. xps

connan mockasin "caramel" is a better tune and i don't really care about childish gambino but this is still a pretty good tune imo!

also just remembered the scene in Atlanta where that GC record cover is in shot (on the rich white ally dude's shelf) ha

Redbone got a lot of spins this year in Cincinnaaaatiiii :P

(xps)

also it was pretty good as used in "get out"

the thing is, "I'd Rather Be With You" and Isaac Hayes' "The Look of Love" (or even Jay-Z's "Can I Live") haven't been scrubbed from existence, so i can just listen to those songs instead of Glover's middling imitation

;_;

plus, those songs have singers that can actually sing

(btw, this fell in the unranked portion of my ballot, so my stanning here isn't really back up with force)

I will say that this is the first time a Gambino album was front to back corny af

*wasn't

voodoo chili that doesn't seem like enough songs to have in that vein and you should find some more songs like this if you like this kind of song

I like Redbone & support its placement on this poll

Every generation gets their own Lenny Kravitz.

I thought that role went to Bruno Mars.

Also Redbone placed at 495 last year.

https://i.imgur.com/PPQtC2s.jpg

45 BICEP "Aura" [182 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/Itp_XFFjsSw

voodoo chili that doesn't seem like enough songs to have in that vein and you should find some more songs like this if you like this kind of song

― nashwan, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:53 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a lot more, but those are the songs Glover borrowed from most liberally for redbone

glue and aura both rule

love aura, but i couldn't quite make room for bicep in my tracks or album ballot :(

not really down with this kind of comfort techno

was disappointed with the Bicep album when it first came out, but it really grew on me over time and I ended up voting for both Aura and Glue

nothing will beat 'Just' for me

Aura steps right to the edge of hands in the air corny in a way that's kind of perfect. left it off my track list and kept the album, but man is it great.

and yeah, Just is perfect.

^ xp for me too (at least nothing from them yet)

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

44 LOOΠΔ/ODD EYE CIRCLE "Girl Front" [187 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/tyInv6RWL0Q

girl yeah

Oh yeah, voted for both of these.

not really down with this kind of comfort techno

I am *totally* down with this kind of comfort techno.

Bicep voter here

Also I love the comments on that Bicep youtube: "The video is all the sesh gremlins skaggin on the bus back from life festival but they haven't quite stopped trippin and its a real grim overcast morning and so they're havin a bit of a shite trip cause they've gotta go back to their government housing estate which sucks but that's the way it is folks..."

One of the kpop tracks I didn't vote for, not because I don't like it, just hadn't listened to it enough. I've barely kept up with the various Loona constellations the last year, but enough to get that they've been weaving an interesting web of sounds and looks.