ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

you're 77.

does it matter

claim to wizened out of touch rockist status starts thirties EARLIEST, on this i am firm

Freaky Trigger results for comparison. Smaller voter base. A total of 448 tracks got at least one vote but only 69 got more than one. The top 40:

40. Spoon – “Hot Thoughts”
39. Fever Ray – “To The Moon And Back”
38. Methyl Ethel – “Ubu”
37. Harry Styles – “Sign of the Times”
36. Algiers – “The Underside of Power”
35. Susanne Sundfør – “The Sound of War”
34. The Killers – “The Man”
33. The National – “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness”
32. Sunny Sweeney – “Pills”
31. DJ Khaled ft Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance and Lil Wayne – “I’m The One”
30. Slowdive – “Star Roving”
29. Blanck Mass – “Rhesus Negative”
28. Lil Uzi Vert – “XO Tour Lif3”
27. St Vincent – “New York”
26. Wolf Alice – “Don’t Delete The Kisses”
25. The Magnetic Fields – “’83: Foxx and I”
24. St Vincent – “Los Ageless”
23. Clean Bandit & Marina & The Diamonds – “Disconnect”
22. MUNA – “I Know A Place”
21. Cardi B – “Bodak Yellow”
=19. Rina Sawayama – “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome”
=19. Jessie Ware – “Midnight”
18. Calvin Harris ft Frank Ocean & Migos – “Slide”
17. Angaleena Presley – “Wrangled”
16. SZA – “Supermodel”
15. Steps – “Story of a Heart”
14. Ibibio Sound Machine – “Give Me A Reason”
13. Saint Etienne – “Dive”
12. Big Shaq – “Man’s Not Hot”
11. Kendrick Lamar – “DNA.”
10. Steps – “Scared of the Dark”
9. Kesha – “Praying”
8. Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
7. Stormzy – “Big For Your Boots”
6. Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Deadly Valentine”
5. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut To The Feeling”
4. Lorde – “Green Light”
3. Charli XCX – “Boys”
2. Selena Gomez – “Bad Liar”
1. Paramore – “Hard Times”

much, much better #1

lack of akrakabo means i'm giving this to ilx though

34. The Killers – “The Man”

Redemption!

Simon i totally forgot to vote for The Man, would have been in my top 5. saw that u nommed it

I've been listening to Charly Bliss and Alvvays since this.

=19. Rina Sawayama – “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome”
=19. Jessie Ware – “Midnight”

My number 1 and number 2 tied together at the same spot.

Also, Steps? Really?

22. MUNA – “I Know A Place”

I'm surprised this song didn't get more traction in year-end lists. Prob just came out too early in the year.

iirc it was nominated last year. great song imo, was on my long-list.

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

That Atelje track is really really terrible compared to his earlier stuff. Reminds me of Foster The People or some other indietronic-ish thing c2009. The Meditations album was much better than this.

On the plus side my partner and I are now K-pop converts thanks to this thread.

just caught up with this

I like CXCX just fine, but this is the weirdest #1 in this poll since "Wut."

weirdest as in unexpected or weirdest-sounding? bcz Wut was a culmination, a peak, a joyous collective ILM event; this is just a result of a lot of people liking something moderately (which makes sense after a wonderfully disparate 77!)

I don't know any of the boys in the video except for Dave 1 & Pee-Thug, Diplo, will.i.am and The Fat Jewish

wut winning and yamaha #4 was why i signed up to ilm

Wut was a culmination, a peak, a joyous collective ILM event; this is just a result of a lot of people liking something moderately

As someone who never much liked "Wut," this is still true.

niels if you like pour asha, try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LkLmxcgIQ

I like CXCX just fine, but this is the weirdest #1 in this poll since "Wut."

weirdest as in unexpected or weirdest-sounding?

Unexpected, on a personal level, because I had no idea what "Wut" was until people began saying it was going to win, and I was like "WHAT IS WUT?" Same thing with "Boys." I did not follow CXCX at all in 2017, and had never heard "Boys" until listening to it after seandalai gave me the results.

xp had I voted, that might have been my #1 track of the year

nice Ross, I definitely like what I'm hearing! Is Skee Mask's other stuff similar?

btw I was happily surprised to find out SAM is from Denmark and actually a friend of a friend, small world

I'm late, but Thank you to everyone who ran the polls and everyone who voted. I started to make a ballot, but realized that I knew 1% of the tracks nominated. This poll was full of surprises. I've been putting off sitting down and going through this thread until finally, while coming down off a microdose acid trip last night, I went through every song on the list.

First off, I loved this one from the nominations YT playlist. It would have blown my mind if it had placed. The story about it is interesting too - https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8

My favorites in no order:
Twice - Likey
Bullion - Blue Pedro
Chromatics - Shadow
Playboi Carti - Magnolia
Mondo Grosso
J Hus - Did You See
Loona/Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
Loona/Yves - All My Life
S.A.M. - Pour Aisha
Susanne Sundfor - Undercover
Kehlani - Undercover
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
Black Madonna - He Is The Voice I Hear
Sun El-Musician feat Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling
Jason Isbell - If We Were Vampires
Patrice Baumel - Glutes
Kamasi Washington - Truth

Great poll. Really blew my mind a few times. Someone said that it's been one of the best polls ever. I agree. Can't wait to dig through the albums now!

we have similar tastes there mom, like almost weirdly so. A Mind was my nom.

we have similar tastes there mom, like almost weirdly so. A Mind was my nom.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, February 10, 2018 11:58 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's awesome ulysses! I'm glad you introduced me to that song. I love how moogy that filter on the bass sounds, like the tone is about to rip apart at the seams.

You know I noticed a common theme running through many of these tracks: an abundance of 7th chords, minor and major. 2017 seems to have really taken those tones to heart. (Not that 7th chords are uncommon to begin with, but they always strike my ear, and it seems like I heard them lots of tracks from this top 77)

Blue Pedro is in my head ALL THE TIME now

Thoughts and prayers.

Lol