ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

(if i'm wrong, please post links!)

I liked the video a lot but the song just never stuck with me.

"the moments we are happiest are the moments that we don't exist"

which way are ppl taking this?

― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:12 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from user hazeviii on genius.com:

This could have two meanings:

When they are the happiest, they have reached a sort of euphoria that leads them to feel as though they don’t exist. More simply, when Kali/Damon are no longer conscious and obsessive over their lives and selves, they are the happiest.

The happiest moments are when Kali/Damon aren’t in them. Because they live such tragic lives and are exposed to such horrible events, they live in dreams where their physical selves don’t exist and could never exist in.

I can see how it could read as a wish for oblivion / death / end of relationship too.

is this entire list going to be governed by a shady external institution known as 'the singles jukebox' ;)

I'd not voted before, and had little clue about the odds of selections placing. But that makes 2/3 so far.

xxp or you cld take it as arguing that happiness has an essential unreal/fantastic quality

http://i.imgur.com/J2iSdQq.jpg

74 (Tie): Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For” - 164 points – 6 votes
video

Andrew WK: C/D?

lol

adios, singles jukebox

i didn't vote for this but i approve

YESS

I've heard precisely 0% of this list so far.

lol very ilm

this is as close to metal as we're getting, I think. also the first of my votes to appear

the heroic intersection of bro-ish party metal and self-help

As someone who really adored the I Get Wet album and gave almost no fucks about anything he's made since then, this is no different. I Get Wet sounded easy. This sounds labored.

I voted for the more radical "I don't know anything"

that rapid bit of falsetto in the chorus made me cackle so i got more than i expected to out of an andrew wk single from 2018 at least

the painful intersection of hearing music and seeking help

xxxp close calls with brick walls, dude!!

all the stuff he's done since i get wet has dealt more or less openly with struggles against depression - that's where the laboredness comes in perhaps. i think it adds another layer myself

omg saer

I voted for a different Andrew WK song, but I'm glad to see this make it on here.

this one didn't do it for me like the old ones

Simon, we have a song that I would consider more "metal" than WK charting later this very day even!

!!

btw, saer's single nominations deserve their own thread and should be sought out on the youtube nomination playlist ASAP (hint: look for the white labels)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqiswAZfVPo7ukF0c4p8B55JCRt0jEA3

imago otm, the dark subtext of this is what makes the relentless positivity feel genuine.

(my first one to place too!)

Wow, Andrew WK still exists?

I am 99% sure I know what the other metal placement is

Youtube nomination playlist was a complete joy - doubt anything from it will place, so maybe a nice adjunct to the main poll.

nothing made the 77 with less than five votes
BUT
two songs missed the 77 with eight votes. guesses welcome.

i threw new australian national anthem 'smoko' by the chats low on my ballot and i suppose a few others did. would love it to place but that is my guess for missing out with 8

I am 99% sure I know what the other metal placement is

Poppy - X?

forks, have you not started adding to the Spotify playlist yet or is it just not refreshed on my end?

it's updated and currently includes our #73.

http://i.imgur.com/APYlVPT.jpg

73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg” – 167 points – 7 votes
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Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg

IDG what people who don't like this are looking for in music. - flopson

Dirtbox acid mournful synth, every track's a belter. AOTY. - kraudive

imo it's a worrying (or...exciting?) sign when something with its own ecstatic thread comes in this low

i had hoped i'd like this based on descriptions in the thread but it's not for me

ehhh it's more of an albums list thing xp

hadn't heard "girls on the tv" before, it's nice

it's totally your thing

eh sorta

ooh the gif Brad posted on the Hauff thread is v helpful

Gotta say i was weirdly nonplussed by the Hauff track; not getting much emotional resonance off it.

it's not about emotional resonance

it's about being hard af

tbf the clue is in the title

imo it's a worrying (or...exciting?) sign when something with its own ecstatic thread comes in this low

― imago, Monday, January 28, 2019 10:01 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilm is withered these days, probably gonna be lot of surprises. that thread, eg., only has like 25 posts on it

Are cigarettes back in style?

xxp Not getting that either I guess.

fantastic images; nice to see red velvet, went for power up! myself

fatalism prob back in style and cigarettes a part of that idk

__ Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!_
Since your list seems to be based on country of origin and not residence, according to Resident Advisor Peach is a Canadian who lives in the UK._

Thanks, Tuomas. Yes, I went with country of origin and/or self-identification, more or less. DJs seem to be more elusive than most in this regard, or require a bit more googling at least. Hope I didn’t make too much of a shambles of it...

and I have to buy an industrial fan instead

walked through a downtown commuter tunnel that's about to be filled with concrete yesterday, with industrial fans thundering breathable air from the streets above, and thought of this

i give "boo'd up" extra points for sounding distinctly like a huge R&B hit circa 2005. i thought it was telling that mariah basically repaid the homage by getting dj mustard to produce the same sort of glassy R&B song for her own album. the emancipation of mimi influence snake eating its own tail.

the starbucks on 43rd and madison by my old office was always playing R&B from like 98-06 and "boo'd up" could definitely have gotten some burn in there

I dipped into this thread briefly a couple of days ago, but just getting around to fully catching up with it now - I can't believe 'Give Yourself a Try' placed and 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' didn't. Can't fault the other 1975 tracks that placed.