ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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

― JB, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:24 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

BOOM.

xp
I ended up putting it as my #1. I mildly regret that now, but I'm sure it will appear

maybe next lol

yessss this rules so much, it's so great to begin with and then there's the sudden move into the sunny guitar!

kept stumbling on it throughout the year and it was so nice to rediscover it each time

sensory overload jam no. 1. i forgot to vote for it lol

this is my fav stretch of the poll

Just such a monster of a record. Two minutes into Akrakabo is the single greatest musical MOMENT of 2017, when a completely different song seems to emerge from the skin of the old one and just carries on galloping without missing a beat.

holy shit, the switch-up!!!

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"

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:35 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink

Oh wow suddenly I want to listen to a Lorde song

xp to emil.y

i don't think RV or Twice sound particularly close to jpop generally (the kpop that does to me usually falls into innocent cute concept stuff though) & Red Flavor was even originally written for Little Mix. Blackpink are pretty distinctly kpop in their sound with the 3 songs stitched together thing

XP emil.y since their debut with Happiness Red Velvet have had a hyperactive signature sound that imo doesn't sound like any other k-pop, j-pop or western girl group, with a frantic sample use, borrowed bits of the schoolyard rhyme singing of f(x) and a jangly mash-up like production. That is, their 'Red' songs, the 'Velvet' ones can get safe and boring. I don't hear any j-pop there. You're right Blackpink are more like a western group but that's not a great compliment to me.

would love to hear any jpop recs though since i'm not that up on it

akrakabo is SO MUCH SONG

is serge beynaud generally this good

Not really, no. I threw a vote to the whole album, but Akrakabo towers over anything else he has done. But mind you, I also think it towers over anything else from 2017.

Somewhere there's a video of Didier Drogba dancing to another of his songs that's worth seeking out.

the Mondo Grosso would slot really well onto the Katamari Damacy soundtrack

the.... breakdown? about 2:30 into "akrakabo" is so great. the drums!

this feels like the one we can all agree on, there's a song like this that emerges every year

innocent cute concept stuff

hyperactive signature sound

Both of these things are where I see the intersection between RV & J-pop. They always strike me as very cutesy and peppy but not going as far as taking it into the realm of weird, which is where I like that style to be taken. I dunno, maybe this is just me, though.

best song I've heard that i didn't know before is Mondo Grosso.

the Richard Dawson track is excellent. i think his folk music side comes a bit from Shirley Collins, i sense an influence there.

Should fit yr maximalist needs lj :)

Love it.

the Little Big Town tune is also a really good one. they're perpetually overlooked but they're easily one of the best out there in the country genre today.

https://i.imgur.com/WlhZq0H.jpg

24 LIL UZI VERT "XO Tour Llif3" [280 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/WrsFXgQk5UI

RV aren't really cutesy by kpop standards, i'm thinking groups like Apink etc. which is a style that doesn't really interest me much unless something weird is done with it (and it is every now and then in kpop)

woah assumed this would be quite a bit higher

uzi too low imo

fuck yeah Akrakabo! a deserved placement. absolute BANGER and absolutely one of my faves of the year

Akrakabo is fuckin nuts, holy shit

Uzi placement feels right

hoped one of Akrakabo or Melanin would place, nice

Still hoping for Melanin, but would be surprised if it beats Akrakabo.

so done with nihilistic cloud trap

XO Tour Llif3 is a perfect pop song, with generation-defining ambitions that it nearly reaches. I had it in my top 15

xp i don't really care if you cry

glad this was such a hit this year

xo feels like a song that's going to age very well

also have a soft spot for the science project version