ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

this is p good yeah

will be interesting to see how many of these end up in here "It Is Happening Again": Tim writes about songs from 2017

Idly wondering how different this list would have been if everyone had voted in November, ie before most of the end-of-year lists were published. There's a lot of here that generated virtually no discussion here but appeared prominently in several lists and accompanying playlists.

The J Hus song is cool. Thanks for the introduction!

Like the album but my favorite track is "Fleeting Moments of Freedom (Wooo)."

Get in there! Original is great but the remix is a great big driving monster and probably the best thing avalon emerson has done so far ( which sayin' somethin')

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what I'm finding genuinely perplexing is the massive kpop showing when that rolling thread isn't really all that active/populated (with the possibly key difference that the last month is mostly "who should we vote for?" talk which I guess I should try for my own pet rolling threads). forapper as influential as Tim really

Grafts is pretty nice!

there are kpop lurkers

it was a very very strong year for kpop & i think enough non-thread regulars heard things via TSJ and nominations as well

Wow wow wow @ "Grafts". I can't believe I never listened to Kara-Lis Coverdale before.

but the remix is a great big driving monster

Right. The LP version is cold and not really my thing, but the Avalon Emerson embellishment is sort of...cozy?

It's totally enveloping yeah

xp it's the coldness of the original, with that ominous bass, that make it great imo!

I don't post all that much in the k-pop thread but I listen to k-pop all year long and talk about it elsewhere. I could've done a better job nominating some tunes this year though.

Massively on board with everything Avalon Emerson's doing

xp that said, they're both great, and I'm glad it placed

also loved and voted for Grafts, didn't expect it to show up

https://i.imgur.com/nlNuZj4.jpg

26 LORDE "The Louvre" [271 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/ZQkdwymDanE

If the K-pop thread has coalesced around a small number of songs then it makes sense they're well represented here. The afropop thread has hundreds of tracks on it and I'm sure a lot of them got one or two votes but there are relatively few rallying points this year - although I bet one or two are still to come here.

cor this avalan emerson remix is banging, much better than the original and the other AE track imo

the last section of grafts where it reverberates out into a tired evening sky always makes me feel better, what more could you ask for

everyone should not listen to this, but listen to the dawn richard song of this title instead, which lorde basically nicks the idea of and makes 300x worse

sorta hope "green light" didn't outpace this though i know it did

one of the better tracks on the record still

Well, both songs are named after the most famous art gallery in the world, but that's about it.

'grafts' is the first track that is totally new to me that i enjoyed, very pretty. 'adrift' remix is the avalon emerson that i voted for

guys, you can write and sing two excellent songs about losing your mind in The Louvre

everyone should not listen to anything imago ever says because he is an idiot with shitty opinions lol

only an afropop lurker but there's a few i really hope make it and some that i'd be surprised if they didn't

this was one of the best Lorde tracks but I hope this doesn't mean there's going to be any more than Green Light still to come

track is all about the muffled bass in the chorus

broadcast the boom boom boom

The Dawn song is sonically great but I've been able to take it entirely seriously due to the very solemn and reverant way she sings "your wonderful parts", which is supreme deadpan if nothign else.

I approve of the Lorde album even if I don't really care about 2/3 of it, but the "who cares, still the Louvre" line won me over first time I heard it.

and ofc "down the back, but who cares, still the louvre"

xp lol

her delivery on that is perfect yeah

both songs have a central lyrical conceit about hanging a person or people in the louvre! anyway w/e

"Homemade Dynamite" was my jam on this album.

homemade dynamite is the best one. it's the only song i've heard that seems to draw its influence directly from 06 nelly furtado/timbaland

GRAFTS MADE IT

xp i hear & like that but the song itself doesn't grab me much

tbc I like that so much kpop has shown. We've all read lots of eoy lists at this point, so getting a strong sample of stuff I don't encounter anywhere else is the ideal for this poll. That said, it feels like the poll has basically diverged from ILM itself at this point.

Akanamali should place. I figured "Mad Over You" would too, but not sure now. There were def an absurd number of afropop nominations (a problem I helped make).

everyone should not listen to anything imago ever says because he is an idiot with shitty opinions lol

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this is pretty tiresome

xxxp preferred 'van gogh' off Redemption

If I had to guess I'd go with 'Akrakabo' and 'Leg Over' but who even knows at this stage.

In general I can only think of 12 or 13 tracks which will definitely place and that leaves room for a lot of curveballs.

i love it when ilx polls tap into the subconscious and get ahead of themselves

My favourite thing about The Louvre is, "I overthink your p-punctuation use".

homemade dynamite is the best one. it's the only song i've heard that seems to draw its influence directly from 06 nelly furtado/timbaland

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:28 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think i've ever noticed this song's now incredibly obvious relationship with "say it right"

Akanamali should place.

Man I hope it does, that song rules

yeah I hope so too

I voted for it fwiw

i'd only be surprised if it didn't place

https://i.imgur.com/iKgBxq0.jpg

25 SERGE BEYNAUD "Akrakabo" [276 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/CgQ1CXd0sQc

Into the KLC & Octo Octa, both new to me.

RV also prob the least 'normal' of the four groups in terms of sound.

Completely disagree with this, btw, what's your reasoning? I think my issue w/ RV and Twice may be that they come across a bit like sub-par J-pop (and I listen to a lot of J-pop so am more snarky about this stuff) whereas Blackpink are more like a top tier Western girl group.

My #1! Amazing song.