ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

alas all metal band photos are the same

shocking admission - i have never knowingly listened to andrew wk before and now ilx is making me listen to andrew wk. that song is um, like if the darkness had grown up listening to kiss instead of queen?

and just for clarity, i hate the darkness, i hate kiss, and now i hate ilx

http://i.imgur.com/g0Ln4as.jpg

72: Drake – “Nice for What” – 170 points – 5 votes
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Drake - Scorpion (June 29, 2018) ~it's a double album~
thread for pics of Drake looking ridiculous

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25353

At this point, his personality is so firmly established that the little Drake offers here — lackluster rapping and familiar lyrics — is all we really need. He’s simply a peripheral but recognizable hypeman for the listener, offering supportive nice-guy-schtick in a way that can be comfortably ignored with an eye roll. If anything, the actual empowerment of women on “Nice for What” comes from how easily they can recognize his presence as superfluous. It turns out that Drake is at his most benevolent when he stands outside the frame, allowing the rest of the song to become a space for people to “hit them motherfucking angles.” – Joshua Minsoo Kim

Fucking Drake as master of ceremonies in party-starter mode, gliding (“roll on” and “slow song” should not rhyme so well) over an utterly unstoppable Murda Beatz-made gumbo with just the right touch of “Triggerman” and an airy flip of “Ex-Factor.” Unlike “Hotline Bling” and “One Dance” before it, “Nice for What” features its chameleonic creator straining only to let the influences he’s synthesizing shine in their own right. Drake has been making #1 songs like these for a long time but not all of them have let Big Freedia be an indomitable (if lamentably uncredited and unseen) force or been creative triumphs so profound that it’s worth putting aside cynicism. – Andy Hutchins

good song

uuuuuuuuuuugh

xxxxxps to Simon:

I don't know man, Vargrav's studded classicism and Severoth's pensive druidism are worlds away.

appropriately low for a drake song i've enjoyed

I will never click harder on anything than I will when the "mute" option goes live on Spotify Desktop and I head to the Drake page

a lot better than average for a drake song but i didn't quite understand why this was acclaimed as it was elsewhere (very controversially i like "in my feelings" more), this placement feels about right

can't wait till he finally gets cancelled for grooming underage women

I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?

"comfortably ignored with an eye roll" is right

Drake is not worse than "Nice for What" is well produced and that's as good a compliment as I can give it.
That said, the old adage about mixing 10 gallons of ice cream and a half gallon of horseshit yielding 10 1/2 gallons of horseshit still applies.

Wtg Andrew WK!

I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:22 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's the biggest pop star of the past decade & ILM is ostensibly receptive to popular music so that might have something to do with it

We aimed for the customary #78 and just missed

also WOO POLL

drake has killed the thread. people are still in 'if you can't say anything nice, say nothing' mode

tbf I took care to say something not nice

there's really so little to left to say to clown on drake at this point, everyone's probably tired of doing so at this point

we could clown those singles jukebox writeups instead i guess

In an alternate universe, Drake became a kind of Coxsone Dodd/ Berry Gordy figure and I don't find him nearly so tiresome

I'm actually impressed how little Drake there has been in our lists over the years.

http://i.imgur.com/gJsiQC9.jpg

71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up” – 170 points – 7 votes
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dj koze - kosi comes around

'Pick Up' seems destined for many a sunrise set in Ibiza this summer. – Thee Macallan 18 Year

I know it's everyone's favorite, but I'm pretty obsessed with “Pick Up”. It’s like a melancholy Air France… so basically the best music ever. – k3vin k.

the very extended version of “pick up” is the ideal way to listen to it imo

Oh man the explosion of color in that image card is beautiful!

didn't vote for it / not hugely my thing, but this seems low!

great tune

Expected this to make the top 20

this drake song is less bad than most drake I've heard

k3vin otm

didn't quite make my ballot but yeah this seems very low

The images are excellent! Reserved Koze for my albums ballot

Images are excellent, but I also appreciate the blurbs. Great work, everyone!

Pick Up is great, a late cut on my ballot

The Hauff is very nice. I might prefer it without the synth melody at 3:30, which takes over a little too soon.

Hooray for the rollout and lovely images!

Didn’t vote for the Andrew WK track, but happy to see it here and bodes well for the albums poll.

http://i.imgur.com/oD52Nmu.jpg

70: MGMT – “When You Die” – 171 points – 5 votes – 2 first place votes
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Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album

wow, I assumed "Me and Michael" was the only thing off this record that had a shot

Oh wow ok I guess it's 2007 again

this song and the album are just fine which was a huge improvement over their previous dreadful one

The title track was good.

Ulysses, do you want to start a mod request thread to pick up mistakes in the roll-out posts? I'm happy to get them and it'll make it easier for people to follow.

Ah damn, that was meant to be an anonymod post. FFS.

Sure thanks! will do that when i get off this call.

really happy to see Andrew WK make the list. way to go, buddy. you did it

I'm still so surprised how much I ended up enjoying the MGMT album. It's their first album that actually manages to be good all the way through.

i'm guessing this is one of those tracks that did well mostly because of the video

how many are we doing today folks

77-61 as usual, right?