ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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"The Truth" does a pretty good job of summing up Washington's thing.

I should clarify that I wouldn't change anything about "Lost In Your Light" at all, especially the tiptoeing interaction between Miguel and Dua in the bridge, which to me is a perfect preface for the final chorus.

― monotony

Completely agree with this. The bridge is great and what Dua does with her voice as it goes back into the last chorus was my favourite moment in music last year. It's a perfect song.

A day late but yes, I did arrange the backing vocals on “Rain In Soho”

Also I had my ballots ready to go and then life/work/birthday got in the way and I never submitted them

RIP Drab Majesty ;_;

44 LOOΠΔ/ODD EYE CIRCLE "Girl Front"
my #2, overflowing with hooks and I love the fizzy syncopated synths. the whole LOOΠΔ project was the pop highlight of 2017. I guess there's a small chance New could still place as well but I'm the only one who loved the perfect Emotion-esque sugar rush of Everyday I Love You that much I think

43 ATELJE "50/50"
haven't paid much attention to what Lissvik has been up to but I guess I really should have, really ike this

42 LITTLE BIG TOWN "Lost In California"
pleasantly dreamy but I don't feel strongly about it

41 WOLF ALICE "Don't Delete The Kisses"
this took a few listens, somehow missed the way it builds at first, but now I love it. voted for the album though. hadn't thought about life without buildings wrt the vocals but good call

Taking bets how many Kendrick songs in the top 40

2.

really doubt anything other than DNA and Humble will show up at this point

Favorite discoveries so far from today: Childish Gambino (who I think I've avoided because of the name but doesn't sound like what I expected) and Dua Lipo.

Starting to think I should have voted for the L'Rain album. I did vote for the track that placed.

Baby Luv is kind of nice too. Lost in California probably the most nondescript song I've heard this year. Congratulations. Destroyer: annoying vocals.

Childish Gambino vocals are more annoying than Dan Bejar’s vocals :(

xp Holding out hope for LOVE

really doubt anything other than DNA and Humble will show up at this point

― ufo

I think this will be right. At this stage I can't really think of anyone who will have more than two songs in the list. I can imagine it's been a year of major split voting.

Childish Gambino vocals are more annoying than Dan Bejar’s vocals :(
that's because Dan Bejar's vocals are not annoying :)

Speaking of annoying vocals. I've somehow never heard Passionfruit before today and I really enjoyed it. Probably the first Drake song I've had that feeling about.

Biggest discovery today is the Wolf Alice song. I'm sure I listened to a couple of their songs on the playlist, but they didn't make much of an impression on me at all. Don't Delete The Kisses is fantastic. I'll have to give the album a listen. I didn't really rate their debut that much.

Visions of a Life is a big step up from their debut

I'm listening now and it is indeed great. People on their thread are right, this is one varied record.

Glad "Lost In California" made it; <3 the band's description of it as "hillbilly Sade" & Tim F's writeup.

"Which Fork / I'll Be" was a discovery from the campaigning thread - thanks, uh, LJ. Big fan of Sui Zhen's output from a year or two back, so glad she's getting wider exposure via Tornado Wallace - the video reminds me of her solo stuff, to boot.

I get a headache trying to figure out the LOOΠΔ empire/hive/organisation.

No problem! BTW how do you rate the chances of Beijing's own kosmische funsters making it today, or have we votesplit it to oblivion? :P

also Blackpink has emerged as my favourite of the Kpops this year; its chorus leapt into my head unbidden this morning

what else

the Childish Gambino song is kind of not great but then the outro is kind of great *shrug*

Is this the first time you've heard Drake?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:50 (yesterday) Permalink

no! I heard all the ones in the poll of last year too. I don't remember anything about them but they were surely there!

I don't usually pay that much attention to the names of artists though as it interrupts reverie so sometimes I get them mixed up with footballers

xps glad u enjoyed blackpink
cool list so far! the rest of yesterday wasn't too much my thing but 40 to 21 is normally a pretty rad run

The music to Passionfruit is totally generic and unexceptional, there are like a million watery house tunes in that vein.

sounds like a step up

i don't think drake even placed last year thankfully but hotline bling placed pretty high in 2015 and passionfruit is much better than that

Saer - sorry, it was just supposed to be a lame joke about how bad Drake is.

Btw, enjoy reading your very different takes on these tracks, but can't help wondering why you put yourself through listening to them if you find the experience so unpleasant.

Great records hide in many unexpected places, you just never know where something good might be hiding!

and there are only 20 a day to listen to, my next door neighbour drinks 20 pints a day and it hasn't done him any harm!

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

40 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Oh Baby" [208 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/mrc1zGEPPmg

oh ffs

just when things were going so well...

This album ended up not being as bad as I expected it to be—I even liked a full half of the songs—but why people gathered around this plodding bore is a mystery.

i quite liked the ending to the titular track

don't get why this placed, ok but far from a highlight on their worst album

mourning for all the songs i voted for that won't place atm

jesus christ, this sounds like the band suicide reimagined as a lump of uncooked pastry dough

not one of the two or three pretty-good songs off that album, disappointing development

yeah i'm not so biased as to not concede that one of the tracks (think it's 'i used to') is decent, and i guess one could be allowed to like 'call the police' as well

And the 2007 poll continues with...

https://i.imgur.com/n0hmugI.jpg

39 CHROMATICS "Shadow" [213 points, 9 votes]
https://youtu.be/IGUboLZx3Tk

ok sorry but 2007 or not this is a fuckin jam

fell in love with this song immediately
a wonderful end to a wonderful start of a wonderful series

continued lol at Johnny Jewel's refusal to ever release the fucking album

Justice vs Simian next.

haven't seen TP3 yet so uh no spoilers pls

They stand on a stage and sing this song.

"Shadow" is great, especially for Twin Peaks fans, although it does bite a classic Sonic Youth track.

lol xp

the lift from "Wish Fulfillment" is pretty damn brazen though I must say (xxp!)

i think i voted for this in 2015. the 9 minute 'last dance night of the club edit' which seems to have been scrubbed from existence was fantastic i remember