ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

does anyone wanna go to the mat for the ella mae album? i never ended up listening to it

I haven't encountered "Trip" yet, or if I have I don't remember it.

I nomm'ed tracks that could def. be played in Starbuxx (and maybe are); but if I had heard them for the first time in such a setting, I would have gone -- "What is this?"

"screwed" is easily the best song on that album to me

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I also preferred Screwed, but thought it didn't have any traction, otherwise would have voted for it instead.

My #1, we could've made it happen!!

you could play mo bamba at a starbucks if you wanted to tear the fucker up

― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Friday, February 1, 2019 3:41 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

does anyone wanna go to the mat for the ella mae album? i never ended up listening to it

― J0rdan S., Friday, February 1, 2019 4:50 PM

I don't know about going to the mat, but it's pretty good if too damn long.

I voted for Americans, but would definitely had put Screwed on there as well if I'd thought it had traction. Love both tracks, the highlights of the album.

she definitely walks a tightrope with that stuff but given 1) the fact that her and Prince were buddies 2) Prince's recent death and 3) Janelle being an equally electric performer I think it gets a pass. I don't think it's inferior to "Kiss"...just, sorta the same. Ditto for "Americans" and "Lets Go Crazy"

― frogbs, Friday, February 1, 2019 2:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tip on it!

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Also would have voted for She Works Out Too Much by MGMT and 5 Dollars by Christine & The Queens

like not everyone could agree on the more scrambled and runic autechre tracks from the sessions but almost everyone agreed that “all end” melted their brain down into pancake batter

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, February 1, 2019 8:00 AM (eight hours ago)

👍

The first part of the Kero Kero Bonito didn't really entice me at all but after the discussion of it getting noisy, I listened to the whole thing and, wow, it did not go where I expected. By the way, if you like the CD skipping trick, check out Theo Bleckmann's and Ben Monder's version of "I Remember You" - they do the trick live in real time.

I guess I hadn't realized how, uh, disco new country could get, listening to the Musgraves.

I had been foolishly hoping and assuming that "post-flamenco art-pop" meant there would be rasgueados on nylon-string guitars but "Pienso En Tu Mirá" is interesting anyway.

I know you’ve all been waiting for this one, a valuable tradition started (afaik) by Lex, here it is, beter late than never...

YOUR OFFICIAL COUNTRY BREAKDOWN:

AUSTRALIA (4): Hatchie, The Chats, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Laura Jean
CANADA (2): Marie Davidson, Drake
COLOMBIA (5⁄6): [Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny &] J Balvin (⅓), Kali Uchis (½)
DENMARK (1): Kasper Marott
FRANCE (1½): Christine and the Queens [ft. Dâm-Funk] (1½)
GERMANY (4⅓): Die Wilde Jagd, [Talaboman/] Superpitcher (⅓), Kim Petras, DJ Koze, Helena Hauff
HONDURAS (½): Empress Of (½)
IRELAND (2): Krystal Klear, Roísín Murphy
ITALY (1): Donato Dozzy
JAPAN (1): Mitski (2 x ½)
NEW ZEALAND (2): The Beths (2)
NIGERIA (1): Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli
PUERTO RICO (⅓): [Cardi B ft.] Bad Bunny [& J Balvin] (⅓)
SOUTH AFRICA (3): Simmy (ft. Sun-El Musician) (2); Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNS
SOUTH KOREA (2): Peggy Gou, Red Velvet
SPAIN (2⅓): Rosalía (2), Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
SWEDEN (1⅓): Robyn, Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
UK (14): The 1975 (4), Ella Mai, Jessie Ware, Kero Kero Bonito, Tirzah, Tracey Thorn, Let’s Eat Grandma, Peach, Autechre, Jon Hopkins, Fabiana Palladino
USA (325⁄6): Lana Del Rey (2); Ariana Grande (2), Janelle Monáe, Mitski (2 x ½), Kacey Musgraves (2); Sheck Wes, Julia Holter, Pusha T, Empress Of (½), Eris Drew, Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J, [Christine and the Queens ft.] Dâm-Funk (½), Lizzo, Octo Octa, Khalid ft. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign, Valee ft. Jeremih, Doja Cat, Beach House, MGMT (2), Mr. Twin Sister (2); Natalie Prass, Hop Along, Cardi B [ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin] (⅓), mewithoutyou, Toni Braxton, Soccer Mommy, Ravyn Lenae, Parquet Courts, Andrew W.K., Kali Uchis (½)

Of course, Drake cheated by crediting neither Big Freedia, nor 5th Ward Weebie, nor Lauryn Hill, and DJ Koze would have done well to credit Gladys Knight - but then again, US artists are overrepresented anyway \_(ツ)_/¯

Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!

lol thanks!

i’ve never been in a starbucks and i’m not interested in the sort of music they may or may not play inside

Their coffee is way burned.

i’ve never been in a starbucks and i’m not interested in the sort of music they may or may not play inside

― budo jeru, Friday, February 1, 2019

I dont believe you

lol

what do they play in dunkin donuts tho

it makes me happy that "It Makes You Forget (itgehane)" won this poll

I dont believe you

”You’re a liiiiiar! Play it fuckin’ loud!

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he acts like he’s never drank dreck

i’ve never been in a starbucks and i’m not interested in the sort of music they may or may not play inside

― budo jeru, Friday, February 1, 2019

I dont believe you

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday,

these lads need to get thisen in a Greggs, £1.40 brexit beans coffee, fist bumps and garage bangers all before 11am

thanks to Moka and forks and all the voters! pretty good consistency this year, with no insanely wild highs, nor hideous turds apart from The 1975

anybody NOT want me to go ahead with this? Just want to make sure i don't get yelled at in an hour.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, February 1, 2019 6:53 AM (two hours ago)

yes, me, I'm having trouble keeping up obv (and so was another following-along exlxor I talked to in a bar last night)

Today makes two months since I've last smoked a cigarette after smoking for 26 years, so I'm pretty over them now. That's a hot photo though.

CONGRATULATIONS JOHNNY FEVER!

NB to UK/AU ILXors: i had never heard the term "Smoko" before this song

had UK ilxors?

or you can listen to it here: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98703-autechre-nts-sessions-1-4

I accepted cookies in two different browsers and this still didn't work. now Sheffield has my n00dz and I have to buy an industrial fan instead

Did you know “Hang With Me” is a cover? The original is an shy, intimate, almost folky love song, to which Robyn adds the “recklessly, headlessly” chorus

worth noting the reversioning, but Klas Ahlund re-arranging and re-recording one of his own songs (yet again) isn't exactly Robyn covering. since the Body Talk writing credits* break down when she contributed lyrics to a song, seems likely that the new chorus was him too.

*(16/19 by Klas, 14/19 by Robyn)

going back to Robyn's earlier work after Honey was disappointing, a fair few great singles but not any great albums

tbf she's only had two proper solo albums (post her teenpop era), and this is the first one released in the US

monae gives me the same ilm-bait vibes as that big boi record that won the albums poll here and then no one really talked about again
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I had Shutterbug on and off my running playlist for a good while

I went back to a few jams from the album last month, still bangs

I rate the Janelle album very highly and it made the top three on my ballot I think but 'Make Me Feel' is the only one I ever feel the urge to skip, it's just too on-the-nose as homages go. (And it's definitely a homage first and foremost rather than a pastiche, although it might be that as well).

I realize I've been sort of conflating Kero Kero Bonito and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. I'm probably not the first.

Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!

I voted for Americans, but would definitely had put Screwed on there as well if I'd thought it had traction.

I thought 'Americans' was the best song on the album, and have a strict 1-song-per-artist rule, unless there's a good reason to have two songs on, such as Screwed having a shot at making it.

Ok, I get it, but based on the discussion here it seems the reason "Screwed" didn't have a shot at making it was because people who liked it thought it didn't have a shot at making it. So, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

_ 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.

i’ve never been in a starbucks and i’m not interested in the sort of music they may or may not play inside

― budo jeru, Friday, February 1, 2019

the world is a starbucks by war

saw this in tunbridge wells earlier today, good luck uk

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__ 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.