ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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

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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.

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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)

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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.

xp haha wow, does saer have a second YouTube account?

Did Childish Gambino send all the posters running for the exits?

Getting a bit of a Rotary Connection vibe from the first section of the Kamasi Washington.

Got halfway through the Destroyer and wondering how anyone could possibly vote that level of limp pastiche as their #1.

(That's not me being down on the KW by the way, it's nice)

i support bicep's rave nostalgia album but it isn't for me. 'just' was v good, so was 'celeste'

im angry that dan bejar uses the name "destroyer" tbh