ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

there were a few other songs i liked more on the album but it's still quite good.

just another day on earth where i listened to "undercover" and cried lol

she nails it every time live too

yeah this was something to behold

some days i feel like i'm in bizarro world; pretty sure this isn't even in my top three songs released in 2017 named "Undercover"

tbh, this might not be the highest-placing "undercover" on this poll

it almost certainly isn't, and I voted for both!

the final minute is mind-blowing.

Yep. Coming off Ten Love Songs, I was all "eh, so we're doing this now?" and THEN I got to the end of this.

didn't get into the album unfortunately but love this track

yeh the final 2 mins spook me in a good way

I admit I don’t really get Sundfor but I see she has a heavy following on ILM.

back to back "Undercover"s would be amazing but the Kehlani one was my most played track of 2017 so I'd like to see it as high as possible

i was VERY slow to warm to Kehlani's "Undercover" but I rediscovered it in November and it's been on heavy repeat since and i think i'm going to play it again now

Undercover is beautiful. That's all.

Undercover is great and when I heard her doing it live it reached new heights for me. Best voice.

https://i.imgur.com/9BiRyt3.jpg

22 YAEJI "Drink I'm Sippin On" [286 points, 11 votes]
https://youtu.be/xoxCItHxLiM

n1ck sylvester has his revenge!!

(this is good)

yes this is excellent -- i voted for it. had no idea sylvester was involved til later.

Just now checking out the J Hus album. Title track is so my thing.

Yaeji killed this rollout dead it seems.

i don't really get the yaeji hype or this track but raingurl was decent

This feels like hack shit to me, but ¯\(ツ)/¯

^^ new board description

Raingurl definitely better

this Octo Octa track is nice and I definitely prefer the more subdued origin than the compressathon of the remix

God, even I like XO Tour Llif3 and I'm usually bored shitless by stuff like this.

same

https://i.imgur.com/bM7Q0kn.jpg

21 LORDE "Green Light" [295 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/dMK_npDG12Q

Top twenty speculation can now run wild

this means saer will crack the top 20 \m/

"liability" was my jam from the Lorde album

i still want “palette” to place but uh it’s looking unlikely

I think I had to leave "Drink I'm Sippin On" off my ballot at the last minute, but I'm glad it placed.

I've been quite enjoying a bit of trap in the last couple of years but for whatever reason had only given the Uzi Vert track a cursory listen. It's okay but a little generic compared to some of the stuff the usual suspects (yeah Migos and Thug and Future) brought out this year. Does its job and goes. Maybe needs to sink in a bit more

much prefer raingurl as well

doglatin, i would bet XO will grow on you with time; it sure did for me

I actually heard the Lil Uzi Vert track out in the wild around my neighborhood. That's basically how I keep up with what's popular in mainstream rap...people driving by with the windows down.

love raingurl too!

Apparently I haven't been keeping up with Canadian music? I'm rather liking the Alvvays song too. It's a little heartwarming that music like this is still being made.

90s guitar indie is making a rather sizeable comeback, both of the jangle variety and the crunch distortion variety.

voted for green light, it took me a little while but i really love it, definitely her best track. whole chorus is great especially the "i'm waiting for it" vocals

as a non-trap fan, xo tour llif3 is much more immediate to me than most is

some predictions/hopefuls for the top 20:

Patek Water (hoping)
Mask Off (likely)
Self Esteem - Your Wife (hoping)
Living In The City (if only cos I whacked it at the top of the summer jams thread so)
Give Me A Reason (hoping)
Strike A Match (but more likely Sacred Paws will be in the albums poll)
I Feel It Coming (Likely? is this well liked by ILM?)
Bagbak (maybe?)
Common Sense (not a hit and maybe a bit blood sausage)

Yeah I had a lot of things to say about Palette in the even of it placing but I've given up so I put it on my notepad for me to post after the list is over.

feel like "feel it coming" missed its moment last year

especially the "i'm waiting for it" vocals

I'm waiting for it! That green light! I want it!

Some people toss around Kate Bush comparisons liberally and ad nauseam, but that part is very Kate Bushy to me.

Sweet, was getting nervous about "Akrakabo" (I'm the other #1 voter) - IIRC Francophone/coupé-décalé stuff hasn't done as well here c/f Anglophone/Lusophone stuff. The album's great if a little exhausting, but the moment the guitar emerges (as everyone else has mentioned) was 2017's sublimest musical moment.

Yaeji & Mondo Grosso videos complement each other, sort've!

Enjoying "Grafts", though just realised I'd meant to vote for Sarah Davachi but forgot.

The Chromeo remix salvaged "Green Light" for me, which was unbearably omnipresent in New Zealand - the inverse of our tall poppy syndrome is eternal slavish devotion to anything/anyone that succeeds overseas. Big ups the Ron Gallipoli cover at the NZ Silver Scroll awards.

xp to Brad - Yeah feels like that ones been around forever now. It's one of the few ones I really don't mind that get regular play on the work radio

feel like "feel it coming" missed its moment last year

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:08 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

then again i would've said this about childish garbaggio or whatever

my predictions

Kendrick x2
SZA x2
Kehlani
Future
CRJ
Paramore
Migos (the final victory of "T-Shirt")
Selena Gomez
Sun-el Musician
Tove Lo
Midland

and uh 7 other things lol

>:( at u brad

T Shirt will have to place although I vastly prefer Call Casting from the Migos album