ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

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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

pretty much all of those are certain except tove and midland (no way did midland make it) xp to simon

a boy can dream

and drink

i fear that 2 is my lot as far as my votes placing will be, despite my breathless enthusiasm for a certain Re-TROS song

t-shirt in 1st place

Midland as in Final Credit right? its good but there's been so much better bobbins so far. Good year for bobbins, especially nerdy girl bobbins :-)

i voted for strike a match but i doubt it'll place at this point & j hus is probably a victim of vote splitting

likely to show but not yet mentioned:
charli xcx
dua lipa
slowdive
cardi b
kesha
maybe fever ray or stormzy? idk

Midland as in Final Credit right?

no as in "drinkin problem" (i assume)

yup

haha whoa what is this? totally different Midland loooool

oh right, Cardi B, Dua Lipa and Kesha for sure. Stormzy (and Wiley?), maybe.

I was hoping one of the Tove Styrke singles would make it. Doesn't seem likely now.

i like that yaeji tune

i loved mistakes but she probably got vote split

fwiw I thought you meant this bit of mershy house music https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVExpCA_H3A which it appears came out in 2016 but I heard out and about a lot this summer

Looks bleak for any dancehall or soca noms - guess artists like Shenseea or Bunji Garlin having strong years contributed to vote-splitting etc :/

4 of my 25 have placed, not expecting my #1 to place now. Of the others on my list the only ones I think may place are Tove Lo and The Black Madonna.

ooh yeah Black Madonna almost certainly I would think

I'm expecting something by Julien Baker to show up, but that might end up only doing well in the albums poll.

Handy recap for ur criticisms...

77 LUIS FONSI ft. DADDY YANKEE "Despacito" [146 points, 8 votes]
76 AVALON EMERSON "One More Fluorescent Rush" [149 points, 7 votes]
75 MINOR SCIENCE "Volumes" [150 points, 5 votes]
74 GOLDLINK ft. BRENT FAIYAZ & SHY GLIZZY "Crew" [151 points, 5 votes]
73 KELELA "LMK" [151 points, 7 votes]
72 LAUREL HALO "Moontalk" [152 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]
71 TORNADO WALLACE ft. SUI ZHEN "Today" [153 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
70 TAYLOR ALXNDR "Nightwork" [153 points, 6 votes]
69 KEDR LIVANSKIY "Ariadna" [156 points, 5 votes]
TIE-67 BULLION "Blue Pedro" [158 points, 5 votes]
TIE-67 TWICE "Likey" [158 points, 5 votes]
66 BLACKPINK "As If It's Your Last" [159 points, 6 votes]
65 FRENCH MONTANA ft. SWAE LEE "Unforgettable" [160 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE-63 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS "Wear Black" [160 points, 6 votes]
TIE-63 JESSIE WARE "Midnight" [160 points, 6 votes]
62 TAYLOR SWIFT "Look What You Made Me Do" [163 points, 5 votes]
61 BRIAN ENO with KEVIN SHIELDS "Only Once Away My Son" [163 points, 6 votes]

TIE-59 DRAKE "Passionfruit" [164 points, 8 votes]
TIE-59 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)" [164 points, 8 votes] [80 points for original]
58 BURIAL "Rodent" [165 points, 7 votes]
57 JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT "If We Were Vampires" [166 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]
56 NILÜFER YANYA "Baby Luv" [168 points, 5 votes]
TIE-54 YEMI ALADE "Mon Lo" [170 points, 5 votes]
TIE-54 L'RAIN "Which Fork/I'll Be" [170 points, 5 votes]
53 THE XX "I Dare You" [170 points, 6 votes]
52 MAMA "Unmask Me" [172 points, 4 votes] [48 points for "(Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix)"]
51 ST. VINCENT "New York" [172 points, 8 votes]
50 PATRICE BÄUMEL "Glutes" [175 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
49 KAMASI WASHINGTON "Truth" [176 points, 7 votes]
48 DESTROYER "Tinseltown Swimming In Blood" [177 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
47 DUA LIPA ft. MIGUEL "Lost In Your Light" [179 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
46 CHILDISH GAMBINO "Redbone" [181 points, 6 votes]
45 BICEP "Aura" [182 points, 8 votes]
44 LOOΠΔ/ODD EYE CIRCLE "Girl Front" [187 points, 7 votes]
43 ATELJE "50/50" [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
42 LITTLE BIG TOWN "Lost In California" [202 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]
41 WOLF ALICE "Don't Delete The Kisses" [202 points, 8 votes]

40 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Oh Baby" [208 points, 8 votes]
39 CHROMATICS "Shadow" [213 points, 9 votes]
38 RICHARD DAWSON "Ogre" [216 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
37 RED VELVET "Red Flavor" [220 points, 7 votes]
36 PLAYBOI CARTI "Magnolia" [228 points, 7 votes]
35 MONDO GROSSO "Labyrinth" [231 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
34 J HUS "Did You See" [234 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
33 S.A.M. "Pour Aisha" [236 points, 6 votes]
32 ALGIERS "The Underside Of Power" [238 points, 11 votes]
31 KELELA "Frontline" [244 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
30 ALVVAYS "In Undertow" [250 points, 8 votes]
29 LOOΠΔ/YVES "New" [250 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
28 KARA-LIS COVERDALE "Grafts" [256 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
27 OCTO OCTA "Adrift (Avalon Emerson's Furiously Awake Version)" [269 points, 9 votes] [93 points for original]
26 LORDE "The Louvre" [271 points, 8 votes]
25 SERGE BEYNAUD "Akrakabo" [276 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
24 LIL UZI VERT "XO Tour Llif3" [280 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
23 SUSANNE SUNDFØR "Undercover" [284 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
22 YAEJI "Drink I'm Sippin On" [286 points, 11 votes]
21 LORDE "Green Light" [295 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

20

bicep's glue could still show up

can't imagine it won't

at least 4 of mine have placed, possibly more. can't complain.

i have learned that lorde is not for me

Big For Your Boots by Stormzy is definitely placing in the top 20, maybe top 10 given he had no other songs nominated when I last looked.

Given the amount of bobbins in the list already then The Black Madonna's He Is The Voice That I Hear is in with a shout.

Reserve at least one place for whatever Carly Rae Jepsen released last year, because this is ILM. I'd guess Lemon by NERD/Rihanna and at least one Fever Ray as well.

I imagine Julien Baker got badly vote split, she had so many noms (I voted for "Funeral Pyre")