ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

77: Mount Eerie feat. Julie Doiron - “Love Without Possession” - 157 points - 4 votes - 1 number 1 vote

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Mount Eerie - No Flashlight


Yes i did forgot to add the image lol. here it goes again.

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77: Mount Eerie feat. Julie Doiron - “Love Without Possession” - 157 points - 4 votes - 1 number 1 vote
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Mount Eerie - No Flashlight

4-vote threshold puts a lot of things into play...

oh boy another year of incredible images, way to go moka (i'm assuming you're making them)

Wow, extremely stylish images! Great job.

Thirded.

amazingly sick image design

fifthed

Yep, awesome image design, love it!

awesome design!

Lemme get the (musical) naysaying ball rolling: I prefer Doiron on her own.

Ok, here's the youtube playlist, will update as I listen (so intermittently) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgY-EgZm23_JMleMrv5Pq42eYRaWrPeVK

very low key start to the year. i haven't been able to sustainedly listen to any of the recent mount eerie records but respect to that dude

Song is OK. They harmonise well together. I liked how the arrangement filled out right at the end. Doesn't make me want to listen to the album though.

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76: Ariana Grande - “NASA” - 157 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 vote
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Ariana Grande - "Thank U, Next" (the album)

The way “NASA” ends — gracefully, casually, poignantly, in the middle of a verse — is just exquisite. (“Get Well Soon” did something similar.)― yuh yuh (morrisp)

i'mma need space!

just missed my ballot, but easily the TUN highlight for me

imagine is also good

can i pre-order the images as a collectible playing card set? i guess one with 52 cards and 25 jokers?

Yay! 😊

I didn't hate it.

my favorite part is the intro, in which tommy brown and social house put the chorus through a wormhole.

These lists should be collected outside of their threads with just the great images and made available somehow.

NASA is definitely one of the standouts from the album, but Ghostin is the one that got my vote.

These lists should be collected outside of their threads with just the great images and made available somehow.

usually someone makes a giant imgur post with all of the images in one link. if someone doesn't do it this time around, i'd be happy to do it. i love copying and pasting mindlessly

adding to the chorus on the images: beautifully done!

https://i.imgur.com/bugCeHH.jpg
75: Jenny Lewis - “Red Bull & Hennessy” - 158 points - 5 votes
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Jenny Lewis - The Voyager

I avoid people for whom Red Bull and Hennessy is a potent potable.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I really do love the production and general sound of it all, in particular the keys, reverb and drum effects (like Josh brought up, similarities to Aimee Mann's work). A lot of great contributors - besides the Benmont Tench keys, many other seasoned session players, and Beck did some consulting and backup vocals. Definitely feeling those Heartbreakers / Travelling Wilburys / Springsteen vibes. Kind of incredible that Ringo Starr contributed to "Heads Gonna Roll" and "Red Bull and Hennessy".
― Nhex

can't even tell you how routinely i forgot a jenny lewis album came out last year. really like this song still

moka's images look better than 99.92% of commercial book covers

whole album is really great, my vote went for the title track.

I love the assertiveness and the drum sound.

images are excellent!

Glad you are enjoying the images! There's a very thin black line to the left of the images that shouldn't be there. The background base color is actually a rectangle with an enveloping black stroke that shouldn't be there but I didn't note it until now. So most images will have them and it's too minor a detail for me to fix for all 77 images. Sorry for that!

*to the right I mean.

images mood = a pack of John Player Special Lights x Presence

(not a criticism)

I love the assertiveness and the drum sound.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:18 AM (fifty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's v mick fleetwood

there's a stevie nicks edge to the vocal and songwriting too (repeating ascending chord progression, the way she snarls "i'm about to get wicked" in the first line)

Brilliant designs this year, moka

Voted for 77 and 76. Very pleased to see the Mount Eerie make it!

I voted for Red Bull & Hennessy. Love the whole album really but I feel like that is the standout track.

I wasn't terribly fond of the album -- Jenny Lewis albums tend to peter out for me -- but the first three songs are marvelous.

Also, her songwriting's changed since switching to piano.

hfs at the images!!!

I'm starting to think maybe I'll end up not having heard all 77
which i don't mind :)

https://i.imgur.com/DWaGMMX.jpg
74:Purple Mountains - “Margaritas at the Mall” - 158 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 vote
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Purple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)

He definitely is channeling the same existential frustration that he did in "Time Will Break the World," but with so much more backbone this time. That song always felt overly lugubrious to me, like trying to hang out with a goth kid in high school who you knew deep down meant well but honestly you were embarrassed to be seen around. "Margaritas at the Mall" at least looks you in the eye when it talks. ― del griffith

the first of 3-4 PM entries I'm going to assume

I can so imagine a latter-day Steely Dan song called "Margaritas at the Mall."

i have complicated feelings about david berman and will never listen to this album but rip

oh good, I've been meaning to ask: if someone never really listened to Silver Jews would 'starting' with Purple Mountains be a good move or no?

I gravitated most towards "Maybe I'm the Only One For Me" and "Nights That Won't Happen" but stuck to voting for the album

oh good, I've been meaning to ask: if someone never really listened to Silver Jews would 'starting' with Purple Mountains be a good move or no?

― rob, Monday, January 27, 2020 11:27 AM

Unquestionably. You might think he was always a tunesmith of the first order.

i am still totally flabbergasted by the popularity of this third rate song.

i did not submit a ballot this year due to not listening to enough, but i am sad to see that Haunted House by Sir Babygirl would not have made the 77 even if I had thrown it a #1

I tried! 5th on my ballot. Her hysterical, intentionally flat shrieks were just perfect on that track. Maybe there’s an outside chance the album will place?

i hope so! i found that song when i was combing thru the noms and it completely won my heart. enjoyed the rest of the album too!

But Flirting With Her is so much better?

And my #2

flirting with her took a hit by being the second one i heard

Really hope the album places, and I did my part. Sandwiched in-between votes for Sunn O))) and Deathspell Omega.

now with new and improved Octo Octa image!

couple of post vote things. i *really* enjoyed saer’s youtube list of his noms. a reminder to pay more attention to the bobbins thread this year.

don’t know who nommed Daz How Starz Do, (maybe rob or breast crawl?) but it became a favourite, so thanks. tho not thanks for having “ten million, ten million for a show” going round my head.

poured one out for one of my favourites of last year - Destra and Spice - Trouble.

And just to say with Nick B that Richard Dawson is amazing live - one of my favourite gigs last year, confusingly the other one was Dawn Richard.

Had to check, but “Daz How Star Do” wasn’t nominated! It was on lex’s tracks of 2019 list tho, so maybe you saw it there? Anyway, it’s a real fun track. Are you familiar with Skiibii’s previous hit “Sensima”? I like that one even better.

Ah, yes, I think you're right bc. And I am not familiar with Sensima, at least not as I recall, though i do have an immense capacity for listening to stuff and then forgetting about it until it pops into my head for no reason. (I woke up with Trini Dem Girls in my head the other day, a song I don't think I could have voluntarily retrieved at gunpoint). I will check it out!

Richard Dawson is amazing live - one of my favourite gigs last year, confusingly the other one was Dawn Richard.

Oh god, COLLABORATE NOW YOU GUYS.

haha

Poll on whether their collaboration should be called Richard Richard or Dawn Dawson

Rawn Dichardson

Badly Dawn Richard

omg

Badly Drawn Richard

take your pick

Richard Dawson is amazing live - one of my favourite gigs last year, confusingly the other one was Dawn Richard.

:D

Just tried listening to "Jogging" again. Nope.

I agree, too resonant rn

I don’t f with the “old town road” with brc

Were all the Balloon votes some kind of ILX in-joke that I don't get? Because it's not a very good song

it was a joyous little upper in a bad year, if only we'd known how much we were gonna need that in 2020

I’d find some out of context quotes from barthelme’s “balloon” story but I’m too lazy

B A L L O O N

https://www.balloonsgalore.co.uk/uploads/images/adqxBrtqF25fIyurQa6WDbzov7rIn4th.jpg

half of the songs in these polls don't have a very long half-life. jogging and balloon are good examples.

floating floating

Of the ones I didn't know beforehand, "Jogging" is the one that I came back to most, I think.

almost all this music feels like it was released YEARS ago to me now, fuck this is a bad time

I'm fairly convinced High Lights is one of the best songs ever. Who knows. Maybe it will be diminished on play nth

Every balloon is now potentially a colourful, joyful little capsule of plague. See what we've done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtQ72qRpVVE

It’s good, but it says 2015.

Many of these tracks (including Balloon of course) feature in my 2019 mix, which you can stream here

https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/01/07/2019/

I still think my fav Dua track is ‘be the one’

― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:10 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think i still think this!

& you're otm

"Jogging" still sounding great