ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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

oh that's "last dance of the night club edit" lol

Great this made it.

Oh Baby is one of the songs I listened to the most in 2017, might be the best SONG James Murphy has ever written. Especially the great ending where the drums finally kick into the next gear, and then it only lasts a few seconds, and then he stumbles on. Murphy will never be as important as he was ten-fifteen years ago, but I think he became a better songwriter in his retirement. I'll take something like Yeah! over it any day of the week, but Oh Baby is great in a different way.

Somebody's gotta explain this one to me.

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

38 RICHARD DAWSON "Ogre" [216 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/jfaW-yD7DoA

it's the best song of the year, p simple

2 #1s, woah

loved the album but "soldier" was my fave jam from it

this should be a fun listen for the bobbins cru

yeh i went back to 'ogre' more than i did the album tbh, great song love the ending

Second thing to place from my ballot

Voted for the other Dawson nom but yeah this rules

full disclosure: the two #1s were me and tt

kind of expected it to be higher, guess we'll have to wait for the albums poll for that though

after a first half of glimmering and beautiful melody, the second half feels like i'm participating in some ancient pagan ritual as the whole world spins beyond my consciousness. it's too much almost

I would much prefer game show host Richard Dawson (r.i.p.) singing the best of Skinny Puppy to this audio travesty.

voted for the album but that was the highlight from it, great track and what a climax

Great song. Ogre and Soldier are the twin... erm high points of the album for sure but I gave my vote to the LP.

also it's a brexit anthem, done classily: the townsfolk blame an ogre for their troubles and pursue it madly, ritualistically...but it is not there...

Voted for the lp, but could easily have voted for Ogre as well.

I'd have probably voted for it if I'd had more slots

Hang on, I'm thinking of Beggar rather than Soldier.

https://i.imgur.com/ZQ9vJ8U.jpg

37 RED VELVET "Red Flavor" [220 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/WyiIGEHQP8o

As a k-pop agnostic, I do kind of like this one

yay, just missed out on my ballot, fav kpop tune of last year behind blackpink

Ogre!

love dawson's guitar playing first & foremost and there are some glorious turnarounds on ogre

Will admit that I sometimes wish he were (or employed) a better singer. I like the tunes, the playing, the ideas, the feel, though.

love red flavor & had it very high, it's pure excitement and the percussion is fantastic.

no idea what's with the 'interviewing fruits' mv concept though.

i don't expect any more kpop to place at this point but 4 tracks is a great showing

Ogre was #5 for me. Should be a hit!

so tasty!

I thought Richard Dawson was unlistenable shite the first time I heard him. The video for "The Vile Stuff" helped me cross that line. Voted for "Soldier", but this is a close second favourite.

I would reverse the order of all K-Pop entries so far. "Likey" is clearly the best, "Red Flavor" the worst.

https://i.imgur.com/byl1Psb.jpg

36 PLAYBOI CARTI "Magnolia" [228 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/oCveByMXd_0

<3

Enjoyed the Destroyer song, although it suffers from being right next to the Kamasi Washington.

wtf is that "Ogre" song? :/

It's like somebody hacked my brain and then combined everything that I find annoying into one song.

I thought Richard Dawson was unlistenable shite the first time I heard him.

still at this stage, perhaps forever who knows

magnolia is ok but i like wokeuplikethis* way more & voted for it, idk if itll show up though

Probs won't place but I preferred and voted Location, which barely feigns interest in being a rap song

too low

smdh at richard dawson

both "magnolia" and "red flavor" are awesome

this situation is becoming increasingly antagonised & i can no longer promise to be on my best behaviour

playboi carti seems goofy rather than malevolent tho, and the production's decent

Location is excellent too

Richard Dawson's one of these folks I like the idea of in theory, but the reality is such a chore.

my first vote to place. my little brother has been finding his own taste lately and playboi carti is something we agree on. watching his enthusiasm as he drunkenly danced around the kitchen rapping along to this was a v charming 2017 moment

I didn't have a Dawsony year last year so no votes from me, but figured the LJ team would make the album do well - glad to see a track place as well.

I find Red Velvet a bit too normal and cloying for my tastes, but then I think I've got it in my head that "I don't like Red Velvet" because I hated 'Ice Cream Cake'. I'd probably dance to this out, tbh.

think I preferred Ice Cream Cake to this :/

Okay, to counterpoint all the Dawson negativity - RICHARD DAWSON IS REALLY GOOD, YOU FUCKOS VOTED FOR FUCKING PLODDING MIDDLE-AGED COUNTRY, LET US HAVE OUR PAGAN BRITISH FOLK HORROR.