ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

I got 2 polls

Spotify playlist link: https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5H3D65dNqJm1etOQZcaxw8

woooooo

http://i.imgur.com/JsKLGX4.jpg

77 CHAIRLIFT "Moth to the Flame" [167 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/8QfUuVyJlbg

one for the plug, one for the load

still just 77 tracks... no idea why but for some reason the board refused to let me start a thread called "ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016"

I just spent half an hour trying!

can a mod edit please?

hoped we were gonna get 777 tracks :(
anyway was a little disappointed with that chairlift album, can't remember specific tracks will have to give it a re-listen

It was about a year ago when I heard the Chairlift album. I liked this song and the album wasn't bad; she's been listening to Beyonce.

a little lower than the 182pts and 8 votes needed to come top 77 last year

oh damn forgot all about this

you're stuck, gr8080: 777 tracks or go home

if all saints rocked in at #778 i'm gonna be fuming

going to thank gr8080 in advance for what will doubtless be a job well done

I've fixed the title - although personally I was hoping 'One Dance' clocked in at #778.

(Can someone with access please start a Spotify playlist as well?)

forks was going to do that - might be a bit early for him though?

Never heard of this band, but the song is okay, though pretty generic. Reminds me of that '80s pastiche artist that got two songs in last year's top 77, can't remember her name? I guess ILM never grows tired of the synth pop + wispy indie singing combination? Anyway, this is a bit better than that last year's thing, 'cos the autotune in the chorus at least makes it sound not like a total pastiche, and the backing vocals are nice too. Bottom of the list is a fitting placement.

I voted for this! For some reason I didn't get into much new music over the first few months of the year and I had "Moth To The Flame" stuck in my head for weeks on end until I finally found something else to dislodge it. Album was boring though.

mahalo, matt dc!

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

76 CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS "Tilted" [167 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/9RBzsjga73s

i think i voted for this song in the 2015 poll

decided to vote for this album and no tracks
tilted is probs a standout all the same

Chairlift song is cute but I admit defeat to Turrican in the sense that I haven't returned to Moth nearly as much as Something. "Crying In Public" was the highlight from the record imo. The band is formally broken up now but hopefully Caroline can ditch her disposition towards instrumental albums and fluffy experimentalism and release the pop album she is capable of

I became very obsessed with TV performances "Tilted" this year but the song was a bit 2015 for me to vote for it

tidy innocuous shambhala isolationism feels sinister now - the shaved back & sides & long on top of music. two down, next

This is pretty good, clearly in the same genre as #77, but much more idiosyncratic! The backing has some cute and memorable synths, and the vocals sound like they wouldn't be out of place on some '90s singer-songwriter album, like Lisa Loeb, which is refreshing compared to the cliched breathy vocal style of the previous entry. Hard to understand why it needs to include French rapping, but that doesn't ruin it.

I googled the name, apparently the singer is French, I guess that explains it? The whole song could've been in French though.

It wouldn't be here (or a hit) if it was.

Are you sure? In this post- "Dragostea Din Tei" and "Gangnam Style" world, is language still such a barrier? Especially French, which a lot of people think is "sexy" even if they don't understand it?

Chairlift at Roskilde this summer was nice, but I'll admit I don't remember any of the songs they played...

i think i voted for this song in the 2015 poll

Could have been the 2014 one!

If language wasn't a barrier it wouldn't have needed to have been translated from French in the first place. The original is here:

https://youtu.be/rs40yxHjTxQ

tidy innocuous shambhala isolationism feels sinister now

I usually agree on this stuff, but the Christine album is genuinely huge now. Having said that I didn't feel the need to sling any of its individual tracks a vote.

I would have thought Christine and the Queens were Swedish. I'm not sure I approve of this kind of cultural appropriation.

Like nothing is shambhala if it's familiar to people whose main engagement with music is through watching Graham Norton.

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

74 (tie) THE WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK "Starboy" [168 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/34Na4j8AVgA

the colours are nice in that post

Ugh

This one has nice verses, they remind me of the non-Shaggy vocals in Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me". Chorus is a bit rubbish tho.

A motherstarring fuckboy.

Like nothing is shambhala if it's familiar to people whose main engagement with music is through watching Graham Norton.

― Matt DC, Monday, 23 January 2017 12:24 Bookmark

tell me more of your extreme liberal democracy lord haw haw

poll tryna put you in the worst mood ah

Wth are you even talking about? What does Shambhala mean in this context, I'm dumb?

look what you done

special bonus lol just for rob & longneck - https://soundcloud.com/deejay-theory-vip/starbwoy-theory-needlz-edit

xxp shambhala is the 'not pop not indie shambhala' thread which is mostly for the 'synth pop + wispy indie singing combination' you mentioned

moth to the flame was one of the best tracks on a very disappointing album

tilted is fine but maybe a bit too restrained for me, i'm not surprised she broke through in the UK this year though

its weird that starboy was such a big hit, production is fantastic sounding but it's a bit slight and i wish it had a much better bridge

http://i.imgur.com/14yCXjV.jpg

74 (tie) CHANCE THE RAPPER "All Night" [168 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/lkIUnRRH6l4

No #1 votes yet - had a few already at this same point last year.

voted for this. the horns!

I didn't vote for anything that's placed so far, but I feel like these results are catering directly to my tastes somehow.

http://i.imgur.com/v8h2V13.jpg

Voted for a different Chairlift song but Moth to the Flame is quite nice too.

Both parties involved in 'Starboy' sound like they're going through the motions.

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

73 UNDERWORLD "Nylon Strung" [172 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/SHhCiu5JA3g

I've never heard an Underworld track that wouldn't sound better as an instrumental, and this one's no exception. Well, at least here the vocals are just forgettable instead of actively irritating.

Two first place votes? Seriously?

I wonder if Cosmic Slop is one of them?

I have a lot of love for some Underworld but listening to that album was like listening to someone building a wall and this is no exception.

'Nylon Strung' and 'Low Burn' are two of their best 00s tracks easily.

Impossible, since Scribble is their best track ever.

Sincere greetings from this distant opposite pole of the same planet.

I have a lot of love for some Underworld but listening to that album was like listening to someone building a wall and this is no exception.

Yeah I didn't enjoy it either although to be fair I haven't loved an Underworld album since Beaucoup Fish.

I'm out till noon or so but here's your playlist for the moment... could a mod please edit to the top post?

ILM's Top 77 Singles for 2016

That Underworld track is pants, it reminds me of The Lightning Seeds.

Chance the Rapper is fun, otherwise decent but underwhelming electro seems to be the sound of 16 so far.

That Chairlift album was really disappointing compared to Something. Moth to the Flame is catchy enough but the 'He's that kind of man mama' part is unnecessary and a not a little bit cringey.

nary a flicker over here. something a little more dynamic now please

http://i.imgur.com/1evtxAa.jpg

71 (tie) CASE/LANG/VEIRS "Atomic Number" [172 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/x-81jnVsCQw

highlight of another album i didn't find myself going back to

hey, this'll do you know, even if the concept of the group is slightly more interesting than the results

this album has steadily grown on me since it came out

love the case/lang/veirs album

Not my kind of music really, but this is a-ok. Would've worked better as pure folk tho, the rock guitar in the right speaker is completely unnecessary.

Tho I guess that's what I always say about rock guitars...

Agree with the general opinion that the Chairlift album was a big disappointment after Something. There was a brilliant EP in there surrounded by a lot of filler. Moth To A Flame is one of the good ones. I voted for Romeo in my top five last year.

Tilted is a lovely song. I was really surprised it ended up being a bit hit. It sounded quite odd when it came on Christmas TOTP.

Starboy is so dull. I Feel It Coming is a hundred times better.

The Underworld album was fairly decent but I'm surprised just how popular it was on here.

I didn't vote for Atomic Number but I'm pleased to see it place. I would have voted for Best Kept Secret if I'd remembered to nominate it. The album is great.

This came close to being on my ballot so I'm pleased to see it placing. All the Case-predominant tracks on the album (this, Delirium, Behind the Armoury) are the best.

Like the Chance the rapper song too.

Oh wow, I really like "Atomic Number". I'm already listening to more by them. I bet the CD sounds great.

This Starboy song sounds so much like a rework of Olly Murs 'Kiss Me Like You Mean It' + swearing that I can't enjoy it in any objective way.

Totally disagree with Tuomas about the distorted electric guitar part, unsurprisingly.

I'm not sure I'd go back to the whole album much but this is the first song to place that's elicited much more than a shrug from me.

Atomic Number is a gorgeous song, their voices work so well together. I voted for the album instead but this track was one of my favourite singles of last year.

The caselangveirs cd is quite cool so far.

k d lang was marvelous at last year's EMP Pop Conference.

agree that the case songs are the best, 'supermoon' is my fav

Oh yeah 'Delirium' is my other favourite.

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

71 (tie) OLATUNJI "Oh Yay" [172 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/xVbS5CmYimE

This was one of those tunes/artists whom I know nothing about, but voted for it after having heard it on the Spotify playlist. So infectious!

YES!

my number 4. i played it all summer and all autumn and most of the winter and i'm still not bored of it.

Oh Yay! Would have voted for the remix if possible, but so happy to see it here anyway. Oh yay yay yeaaaah, oh yay yay yeah.

Afro-soca. Such a great ideal.

hooray 4 oh yay

also i didn't vote for "nylon strung" but i think it's 100 percent so beautiful

I love the way he sings "I don't know about you" in the chorus. Lyrics are unfortunately a bit dodgy and objectifying (especially the "bumper soft like butter cocoa" bit), but not so much it'd stop me from appreciating the awesome poppiness of the rest of it.

(xxxpost)

Another one I like.

Yeah, I like the "I don't know about you" hook too.

I don't know about you
But when I'm on the road
and I'm in the mood (or is it mode?)
you know I'm not so-ber.

I like all the tracks that've placed so far, though I voted for none.

I always have to play All Night twice, cause it's so darn short!

I don't think Moth To A Flame is anywhere near Chairlift's best song, but it is (fittingly) really, really addictive. I think the "he's that kinda man, mama" bit is a bit lame but it's a fun hook. CP said she wrote it while trying to learn how to make house music in Ableton https://genius.com/8516003

http://i.imgur.com/0HTv7lj.jpg

70 CELLARS "Nighttime Girl" [174 points, 4 votes]
https://youtu.be/yPCCioS75jY

I like the Underworld album and this it's one of the more pleasant things I purchased in the past year but the song I keep going back to and playing over and over is "If Rah", mostly because it bangs but also because for a while my sons would start singing "LUNA LUNA LUNA LUNA" unprompted

Wow, 4 votes got a song into the top 77?

Wow, I'm shocked that this Cellars song made it. It was my number three. It's been in my head every day since I heard it back in September. As I said on the voting thread, those rising harmonies in the chorus are so beautiful.

never heard of Cellars.

Heard of them/her, but not this track. It's aight.

The album is fantastic. Last year's most underrated album for me.

they sure did drape a nice guitar tone over the shapeless ghost of a song there

Love this! Think it was in my top 3.

This is okay, but again ruined by pointless rock guitar. Would work much better as pure synth pop.

xxpost, ha!

special bonus lol just for rob & longneck - https://soundcloud.com/deejay-theory-vip/starbwoy-theory-needlz-edit

― r|t|c, Monday, January 23, 2017 7:42 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is mental but that riddim is bulletproof. I wouldn't have blinked at this showing up on the ricky blaze album

that's a lot more fun than the original.

christine and the queens sounds like michael jackson and also like a the quiet bit in one of the world cup songs before there's some big chanting

starboy is soul crushing

:D

"Atomic Number" seems like exactly the kind of thing i'd like but I don't like it. The thudding way they deliver "Symbols of IN-FIN-UDDY"

http://i.imgur.com/wyj0EIG.jpg

69 COMET CONTROL "Artificial Light" [174 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/eN_erET606A?t=34m54s

I'm guessing this is indieprog of some kind?

Haha yaaaay, my #3! A psych ballad to end them all. What Spiritualized and Secret Machines strove in vain to create

i have never heard of this band
i like the album art tho

Glad to see this place. Best thing they've done so far.

warning to Tuomas - it's 100% pointless rock guitar.

Wow, I'm really surprised this made it! The whole album is really worth hearing

Never heard of them before but I like this. Is the rest as Spiritualized-y as this?

nice to see Olatunji though I didn't vote for him

next best so far is Case/Lang/Veirs, which passed me by until multiple people whose taste I trust put it high in their EOY lists; I like this, will get round to the album at some point.

only heard the French version of Christine & The Queens has have been listening to the French version of the album; English version makes it seem more pedestrian, not that I really got into the album much either.

Chairlift - third-tier synthpop from 2004
Underworld - lukewarm attempt at last-track-of-the-night emotion from 2004
Starboy - The Weeknd has stepped up his game to the level of a song I wouldn't turn off if it came on the radio but wouldn't notice either
Cellars - adequate song but how are ppl into this sort of thing not drowning in '80s pastiche yet

not 100% sure that YouTube link is to the correct song (its to where i *think* the track starts on a YouTube for the entire album)- feel free to let me/mods know if not.

Comet Control is the least memorable name for a psych-rock band ever.

surprised to see comet control on a tracks poll, i like both their albums tho

You got it, Grady

Oh shit sorry for real name

Never heard of them before but I like this. Is the rest as Spiritualized-y as this?

― Le Bateau Ivre

This is as spaced-out as they've gone on their two albums (or with prior band Quest For Fire). Most other stuff is somewhere between distorted updates of late 60s psych and heavier takes on the early 70s Pink Floyd sound.

Is this Bargain Basements tune on Spotify at all?

gr80 if it's possible to do a mod edit it'd be nice to spell Olatunji's name right for his entry!

This is as spaced-out as they've gone on their two albums (or with prior band Quest For Fire). Most other stuff is somewhere between distorted updates of late 60s psych and heavier takes on the early 70s Pink Floyd sound.

― EZ Snappin, maandag 23 januari 2017 16:09 (twenty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks, I'll take it, sounds good.

The rest isn't quite so blissed-out as this, but the strength of the songs is still there. Try 'Criminal Mystic' - that's the other standout track for me.

It is on Spotify. It isn't about the tune, it's about the SPACE

Olatunji my favorite so far, so SPRIGHTLY.

not really feeling anything posted yet :(

hearing the Olatunji song in a crowded basement club with an excellent soundsystem was one of the musical highlights of my summer. Shame there was an MC who kept barking the 'I don't know about you' part while holding the mic by the mouthpiece. Still, even he didn't ruin it.

I gave the Comet Control album a listen after it placed in the metal poll and thought it was decent but I'm not enough of a fan of that particular sound to ever love something like this. I mean I like Spiritualized's first few albums but I don't really have a hankering for *more* of it.

http://i.imgur.com/rlZLdu4.jpg

68 MIGUEL FT KACEY MUSGRAVES "Waves (Remix)" [174 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/XtS3SyevpvI

a musical hilight of the year for me was sitting next to alfred at p4k while we fanned out to miggy performing waves

Thumbs way up

oh think this is my first vote to place
love this version

beautiful version, I voted for it, who would've thought Kacey remixing Miguel would end up sounding like the xx

Didn't vote for this but yeah this is a great version.

wow

This is a terrible idea on paper and awesome in reality.

Other way round for me

case/lang/veirs album is great, nice to see 'Atomic Number' place though I voted 'Song for Judee'

getting a 'Torn and Frayed' vibe from the Comets track chorus

this is nice. always been hot and cold on miguel but this works really nicely. don't know if i've ever heard the original.

Enjoying the Comet Control. Reminds me of Dragon Turtle and King Black Acid, which is no bad thing.

The Olatunji is great, too. Making me nostalgic for The Gambia (not that that's a particularly safe place to be, right now).

I'd never heard this Waves remix before. This is a brilliant version.

i love the original, one of my favorite tracks from last year. this version is okay but not superior

this is nice. always been hot and cold on miguel but this works really nicely. don't know if i've ever heard the original.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin),

uhh have you seen him shirtless with his cat? Hot always hot.

http://i.imgur.com/SdrA75Q.jpg

67 ABRA "Crybaby" [176 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/-I-POWtEJ8U

liked this record, preferred 'rose' out of the two i know of

Hey, Comet Control! I voted for this!

read that as ABBA at first, like wtf is the joke entry doing this early

Great track. Didn't make my ballot, but I really like ABRA's output. Very cool.

that twinkling synth melody bursting in one-and-a-half mins into "Crybaby" is everything, it's so shapeshifting

Princess is a great EP - "Vegas" was actually my favourite song on it but "Crybaby" seemed to be the consensus pick

I like Chance The Rapper okay, but the song is vastly improved if you imagine he's singing 'All night I'm a chicken all night / All night I'm a chicken'

nice, Nylon Strung was my #1! beautiful tune imo, the whole album is easily Underworld's best since beaucoup fish. i like a hundred days off and oblivion with bells, but i think after a couple years of listening that barking is half pretty good, half complete trash.

Atomic Number was my #6, Nighttime Girl was my #7. good list so far!!

was surprised people ITT didn't seem to dig "Nylon Strung" a lot. it's totally gorgeous. though I did vote "Ova Nova" over it - hopefully that one places

Nylon Strung not too bad on earphones just earlier. Not my thing so much but I get how it hits home

Never really managed to get into post-beaucoup fish underworld. I keep trying.

the new one is the first one that has the feel of a peak-era Underworld album to me. i think it helps that it's pretty concise. maybe the work Hyde did with Eno helped too.

"crybaby" is like nu-freestyle. it's perf

"Crybaby" is the only thing on this list so far that i want to spend time with.

oh, sorry, Chance too

i missed the memo on Underworld getting Avicii onboard

wow – I wish The Jukebox had covered it.

haven't felt any of these really except, bizarrely, the psych/prog thing. might listen to full album.

(i like "starboy" enough as radio candy but not nearly enough to have voted for it)

my first impression of abra is that there's something interesting about it (other than the repurposing of 80s freestyle-type instrumentation) but that something about it, maybe the vocals, seem a little too slight?

the emotional obviousness of "nylon strung" is a feature not a flaw

http://i.imgur.com/o7QlVQg.jpg

66 BRANDY CLARK "Girl Next Door" [177 points, 8 votes]
https://youtu.be/HvtzVc--4Y4

xp

i don't hate Avicii! just an observation on first listen

"nylon string" doesn't go far enough though, feels like it wants to be the jacques lu cont remix of "mr brightside" but it doesn't go big or epic enough and also feels super-dated, and doesn't convince me that paying attention to underworld in 2016 was more worthwhile than paying attention to non-heritage dance acts in 2016

LOVE "girl next door"! voted for the album though

two choruses, so generous melodically

Surprised you're not feeling 'Oh Yay', NV.

i like brandy clark a lot but have never liked this song :(

Olatunji track is nice obv, but i wanted it to get bigger, more anthemic

sorry i missed it in the middle numbers for a minute

it's going on my personal playlist anyway

"nylon string" doesn't go far enough though, feels like it wants to be the jacques lu cont remix of "mr brightside" but it doesn't go big or epic enough and also feels super-dated, and doesn't convince me that paying attention to underworld in 2016 was more worthwhile than paying attention to non-heritage dance acts in 2016

hm well i think that it doesn't go far enough is the interesting part, it's just blushing (although they sure do pile on the layers of cheese in the 6 minute version, the abbreviated single version feels kinda lopsided). for me it's a really generous, open-hearted melody with all these bright digressions hanging around it

ofc "super-dated" is, like, whatever to me

I love disco-country.

i think i LIKE it because it reminds me a bit of some '90s faves, while being i think updated just enough to sound current. aside from the quality i like that their daughters are doing the backing vocals.

most of the tracks on that UW album don't build in a traditional way, which is sort of what makes it interesting to me. they definitely approached it with a "lets do something different" mindset.

Underworld music sounds like youtube highlights video of a footballer

if it was made by the BBC

lol

thrilled that saer is here

Never heard of Brandy Clark, but the tune is ok. (Except for the corny hair metal guitars, of course.) It's like Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" for the next generation, right? Would love to hear a dance/disco remix of this that'd ditch the cliched hard rock backing.

Would've voted "Crybaby" but now getting a little too self conscious about how many Resident Advisor tracks end up on my ballot.

thrilled that saer is here

yes

It's like Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" for the next generation, right

wat

Never heard of Brandy Clark, but the tune is ok. (Except for the corny hair metal guitars, of course.) It's like Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" for the next generation, right? Would love to hear a dance/disco remix of this that'd ditch the cliched hard rock backing.

So far, this is my favorite post of 2017.

Tuomas dude everything with a guitar is not "hard rock backing", especially not this Brandy Clark record, which I've never heard before but is terrific.

saer, i see u

http://i.imgur.com/IW49X9i.jpg

65 UNDERWORLD "I Exhale" [178 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/4izZYfo58-E

Lol what.

nice

i had no idea underworld had so many fans here! lol

you know what, i like a number of their tracks but the stuff that has placed here so far is just okay to my ears

gonna lol if 3 Underworld tracks place

gonna be really mad if "If Rah" doesn't

i'm not sure i have voted for any underworld tracks on any polls before ('always loved a film', maybe.) this album just hit the sweet spot for me, i guess the last three albums are decent-to-very good, but they didn't get me thrilled by the idea of another underworld album til i actually heard this one.

couldn't participate this year :(

but super happy to see the results!

i voted for 3 underworld tracks but not If Rah, as great as it is.

lmao at how well the underworld record is doing. i didn't vote for any of it and i thought approximately four people liked it here

One thing that happens when you wait until after midnight on deadline day to send in a list is that you forget obvious things -- like "Girl Next Door," which totally should have been on my ballot. Glad it ranked anyway.

I suppose I should give the Underworld album another chance then.

looked it up after saer's comment

the bbc apparently regularly uses underworld songs as background for football highlights

kind of a chicken/egg issue there

This Brandy Clark song isn't really my sort of thing but I do like the harmonies in the chorus.

'I Exhale' is great, couldn't really get into the entire record but love the opening

"If Rah" is definitely gonna place then, I thought that was the one most people were stanning for

my kid loves the "I Exhale" video, probably because hyde acts like a Muppet in it

http://i.imgur.com/tF35mTt.jpg

64 JEREMIH "Oui" [180 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/VtcP0PFifpE

non

love the jeremih tune so much but that was 2015???

More French music.

love the jeremih tune so much but that was 2015???

― marcos, Monday, January 23, 2017 11:55 AM (thirty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

year of (radio) impact, didn't place last year

(imagining ALS refreshing this page over and over with "non" in his clipboard ready to go)

anyway i love this song and didn't vote for it bc i felt very silly voting for it two years in a row. glad it placed

Yay! Underworld!

didn't understand why ppl liked this jeremih song so much in particular

meanwhile "pass dat" didn't become a hit :(

ps did the original version of "waves" place before?

yes

i can't remember if i voted for pass dat or oui last year

oui is nice, but the track with Jeremih I liked the most this year was enemiez

Wow, this second Underworld tune is awful! Never been a big fan of their vocals, but at least they used to have banging techno beats and cool, evocative synth loops underneath them... But this is just horrible mumblecore indie rock, not much better than The Fall.

"enemiez" was brilliant, "body" with dreezy was my jeremih fix of 2k16

tuomassssssss

FP

I like "Oui," I wanted to make a terrible joke.

Are people voting for underworld out of eager anticipation of the trainspotting sequel?

Tuomas owning this thread. Kudos

The people who liked the Underworld album REALLY liked it: Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future (Coming March 18, 2016)

As someone who kinda hates the Fall, I'm into the Tuomas trolling upthread (even though I like the Underworld track).

me too

Watershed moment: the Fall haters are coming out of their gritty, miserable holes. Thank you Tuomas, I'm taking note here.

Think a lot of Underworld naysayers might actually like 'Santiago Cuatro' from the album if nothing else.

I like the album generally but not 'If Rah' much at all.

The first Underworld track I ever heard was this one (the compilation I had labelled it as Underworld, not Lemon Interupt), when I was 14... I really, really liked the tune, it was so evocative and deep and mysterious (and being a geek I obviously dug the Akira sample at the end), and I thought they were some kind of experimental trance/ambient house act. Bought Dubnobass... and was disappointed to discover they had silly nasal singing on every tune, even the version of "Dirty". So my history with Underworld has literally been all downhill from that first counter, and that tune upthread is pretty much the nadir.

And yeah, I get it, my conception of them was misguided, they were always a rock band disguising as a techno act, but it's so sad, they had so much potential in them, if they'd just proceeded to the direction pointed out by the original "Dirty".

Watershed moment: the Fall haters are coming out of their gritty, miserable holes. Thank you Tuomas, I'm taking note here.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, January 23, 2017 7:24 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let a hundred flowers bloom

i love a good amount of underworld but not much from this one

it's so sad, they had so much potential in them, if they'd just proceeded to the direction pointed out by the original "Dirty".

they could have had a successful and critically acclaimed career, it's true....

The original 'Dirty' with its prominent rock guitar twangs.

Are there only three more tracks today?

Huh?

(xpost)

lol, I don't even like Underworld but "so much squandered potential caused by not pandering exactly to my tastes" is an incredibly perplexing sentiment.

someone please film Tuomas listening to Underneath the Radar

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/headphones.gif

loool

Well they could've been a great techno act! Instead of becoming a critically acclaimed crossover-whatever act for people who might not even like techno. Of course potential squandered to the left can be acclaim gained on the right, but I'm only speaking from my point of view, as a rock-hating tehno lover. They lost us while they claimed you.

(xpost to Emily)

the direction they went in was so much better, "Dirty Epic" >>>> "Dirty"

I bet you like rock music though?

underworld were great in the '90s but my interest in them in 2016 was nil, and these tracks don't change that; i hope newer house and techno artists will get a look in, too

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

63 KING "Native Land" [182 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/bHk4-GMsS78

imo this is like the tenth best song on the album, still great

Thought that was the best 'new' track on the album - nothing quite superior to the previously known songs though.

Yay! That was my #5! I'm not as huge a fan of the album as some others here (mostly because of the odd mixing), but that's one helluva jam, great way to end an album. Their best tune, IMO.

wonderful song, very moving final track

lots of closing tracks so far in this poll, sign of the times maybe

"Native Land"is the most beautiful song I heard last year.

Well they could've been a great techno act! Instead of becoming a critically acclaimed crossover-whatever act for people who might not even like techno. Of course potential squandered to the left can be acclaim gained on the right, but I'm only speaking from my point of view, as a rock-hating tehno lover. They lost us while they claimed you.

― Tuomas, Monday, January 23, 2017 7:42 PM (three minutes ago)

They didn't claim me, as you might have gathered if you'd actually read my post. FFS. (Also dude, I don't know if you've noticed but I frickin love electronic music, sorry that I've ~tainted~ myself in your eyes by also liking things with *gasp* guitars but prob NAGL to condescend to me on this issue.)

The combination of that incredible vocal and those beautiful synths are perfection. Probably my favourite KING song after Hey (Extended Mix).

back to crowd sizes again lol

woops wrong thread sorry to muck up this one

"native land" is a lovely outro

I'm not sure how many unifying techno records there were from last year but I'd stick a fiver on Avalon Emerson or Willow appearing.

Im sorry, Emily, I know you love electronic music... That "you" was supposed to mean "you all" in plural, not you personally. (Why doesn't English have different words for singular and plural second person, it can get confusing?)

youse is plural of you fyi

This KING song is just making me wish I was listening to Sade or Les Nubiens instead.

I wasn't aware of KING until 'The Greatest' placed in last year's poll so the whole album was new to me - 'Native Land' isn't my favourite but still happy to see it here.

oh hey cool this thing is happening. i voted for 'atomic number' (all songs about atomic weapons are great) + 'girl next door'

I wonder what the record is for most tracks placed from one album on these lists? In The Meantime, Mister Chameleon, The Greatest and now Native Land have all made it from We Are King so far. I'm guessing there will be another couple of songs still to come this year.

(i know it's not really about atomic weapons btw pedants that was just a joke) xp

most of the HAIM record placed over 3 yrs iirc but that doesn't have a ton of tracks

Yeah, Haim were the only ones I could think of who would come close. I think they had five or six songs make it over that three year period.

oh hey

http://i.imgur.com/ppx1mpp.jpg

62 KING "Hey (Extended Mix)" [185 points, 6 votes]
https://youtu.be/QQlGFyJ2kkk

there are others - CRJ placed 5 or so last year? probably something from several years ago that i'm forgetting too

named after an ilx poster iirc

likin' the grafix, gr8080

Supernatural is hopefully a lock as well?

Still only one track with at least one #1 vote so far. By this point in the rundown last year we'd had eight.

Native Land is the first one I've voted for to make the list, obv Hey is amazing but I didn't vote for it cause it's been around for at least 6 or 7 years

native land is gorgeous

Still only one track with at least one #1 vote so far. By this point in the rundown last year we'd had eight.

― nashwan, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:16 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone used their #1 on the same track this year (black beatles)

likin' the grafix, gr8080

― andrew m., Monday, January 23, 2017 3:15 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

This is probably my favourite post of last year.

"hey (extended mix)" makes me feel like this song loves me and cares about my well-being more than any person ever has in my entire life

― j. winters (josh), Saturday, January 30, 2016 7:29 PM (eleven months ago)

everyone used their #1 on the same track this year (black beatles)

Millions voted illegally.

hey is wonderful too

damn u guys really split the KING vote, i had 'hey' pegged for Top 3

the extended part is very welcome, especially since i could sink into Hey for about 1000 hours and wonder where the time went

"Hey" is very beautiful but even though it was a new mix it still felt like an old song to me. I just voted for the KING album instead as picking tracks from that was too hard

Im sorry, Emily, I know you love electronic music... That "you" was supposed to mean "you all" in plural, not you personally. (Why doesn't English have different words for singular and plural second person, it can get confusing?)

― Tuomas, Monday, January 23, 2017 1:58 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it does, it's "y'all"

original version of "HEY" placing in the 2011 or 2012 poll remains one of my best discoveries from the EOY 77 polls

one more KING track to wrap up monday....

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

61 KING BUBBA FM "Calling In Sick" [185 points, 7 points]
https://youtu.be/pebxJ4Z3PUQ

omg!

Such a great song.

calling in sick is my favourite discovery from the voting process, great song, i found it after i submitted my ballot though, so glad it placed!

My no.7 but should have been higher. Probably the only soca anthem that really grabbed me this year.

yeah only recently discovered this too so I didn't vote for it, but it is a banger

IMAGES FOR RESULTS 77 - 61 (imgur is buggy and terrible now so this may not work)

77 CHAIRLIFT "Moth to the Flame"
76 CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS "Tilted"
74 (tie) THE WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK "Starboy"
74 (tie) CHANCE THE RAPPER "All Night"
73 UNDERWORLD "Nylon Strung"
71 (tie) CASE/LANG/VEIRS "Atomic Number"
71 (tie) OLATUNJI "Oh Yay"
70 CELLARS "Nighttime Girl"
69 COMET CONTROL "Artificial Light"
68 MIGUEL FT KASEY MUSGRAVES "Waves (Remix)"
67 ABRA "Crybaby"
66 BRANDY CLARK "Girl Next Door"
65 UNDERWORLD "I Exhale"
64 JEREMIH "Oui"
63 KING "Native Land"
62 KING "Hey (Extended Mix)"
61 KING BUBBA FM "Calling In Sick"

also - thank you to whichever mod fixed my Olatunji typo!

Massive kudos for the images Gr4dester

Yes, fantastic pics throughout.

thank you :)

20 per day tomorrow, wednesday, and thursday.

will possibly be joined by forks tomorrow and wednesday

"Calling In Sick" is soooooo massive, way too low here

that comet control song sure is long

Probably the only soca anthem that really grabbed me this year.

it's fucking brilliant, probably my favourite too, but i don't know why nobody picked up on "Fraid Jab" which is barely behind it imo

so many Kings

xxpost, wait until 'The Hustle' shows up.

that King Bubba track totally rules and it is pleasing to see a big ol' ugly baldy in the mix.

Voted for Calling in Sick after discovering it on the Spotify playlist. Rum is me only medicine!

"The Hustle" is amazing and I will be sad if my non-voting costs it a placement

Crossing my fingers that that lapsley/dj koze remix shows up but I think I might be out of luck

heard lots of soca this year with some firm faves from Hypasounds, Fay-Ann Lyons, Kerwin Du Bois and of course Olatunji who also had the track 'Big Business' which was brilliant. feel like soca is on the tip of breaking into the global mainstream any point.

haha King Bubba FM looks like the Judge Dread of soca

meanwhile I just want to give a little shout out to breastcrawl, ShariVari, rob and especially longneck for their work on the various soca, dancehall and afrobeats threads. You are doing some absolutely Stirling work and informing my music listening more than p much anything right now

Only voted for new-this-year KING songs, but would be happy if each placed.

Crossing my fingers that that lapsley/dj koze remix shows up but I think I might be out of luck

I think that'll show up.

I've liked my share of post-BEAUCOUP Underworld, but Tuomas otm about their newest stuff

Awesome! I'm not familiar with half of these so we're on to a good start.

I did roll my eyes at some of the Tuomas posts but yeah that track did sound like the fall and it was totally wack

that Lapsley remix is pure ilm fodder. I'd place a reasonable amount of dosh on it getting in the top 12

Yeah "I Exhale" is like a bad version of "Hit The North". I don't get the big deal about the new album in general. They started to bore me after "A Hundred Days Off" although I liked some of the Hyde/Eno stuff.

The Olatunji track is the best discovery of the day

Chairlift: Like every Chairlift song I've ever heard, completely unmemorable.

Christine: Heard this on Fluxblog, loved it, but didn't remember that it was called "Tilted" or I would have voted for it. I spent much of 2016 telling people that things were "Actually Good" in a Matt Yglesias voice.

Weeknd: I still kind of hate everything this guy did after his first mixtape, and his constructed identity is so repellent. But this is way better than his MJ "Last Dance With Mary Jane" (but about coke) song from last year, or at least the verse is.

Chance: Like this guy but this was completely unmemorable.

Cellars: I like this, but only because I like the Genesis guitar bite.

Miguel and Kacey Musgraves: Ooh, this really works as a duet, and the Marc Ribot guitar/bass bits add a lot too.

Abra: Nice house-y feel but devoid of hooks, so no thanks.

Underworld: I haven't thought of these guys for years but I liked both of these. I'm particularly partial to the skronky, noisy bits in "I Exhale", which are a bit more novel than their normal chilly Luomo-ism sound. Nobody's listening to Underworld for the lyrics; maybe they could just sample an Adam Curtis voiceover (or a Pet Shop Boys a cappella) to save money.

Jeremih: I loved this song in 2015 and didn't vote for it this year on principle. But on reflection the YT track sounds awful---so distorted (?)---and it isn't as charming as I remember.

King Bubba FM: don't know anything about soca but this is good. I wish it hit a bit harder, somehow. (Was "Differentology" soca too?)

meanwhile I just want to give a little shout out to breastcrawl, ShariVari, rob and especially longneck for their work on the various soca, dancehall and afrobeats threads. You are doing some absolutely Stirling work and informing my music listening more than p much anything right now

Thanx, dog latin. Hopefully some afropop will place this year for a change, Tekno's "Pana" at the very least.

(Was "Differentology" soca too?)

yes

and yeah cheers DL

Someone requested a spotify playlist and I don't see one yet. It's a private collaborative playlist so if I'm not around and someone wants to edit feel free to do so.

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/18mDKKVGcU8NMzOqiZfho5

Forks is running one here: http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5H3D65dNqJm1etOQZcaxw8

Unfortunately, nobody's added it to the OP yet.

love this christine and the queens joint

Forks is running one here: http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5H3D65dNqJm1etOQZcaxw8

Unfortunately, nobody's added it to the OP yet.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

Oh, couldn't find it in this thread. Deleting mine then.

have to weirdly admit that i've never heard chance before this and...this guy is goon cru approved, right? because "all night" isn't much

I like a bunch of the stuff that's already placed. Love that case/lang/veirs' track a lot. I voted for it. But Song to Judee was also really good, gotta love a song about Judee Sill! Well, actually I liked the whole album, it's definitely my kind of thing.

I'm actually surprised the Comet Control track placed and many people like it! I was gonna nom. it but imago already had. Yeah, it's not that representative of the album it's on, their other tracks are a lot less epic.

I figured Calling In Sick would have placed higher, tbh. Seems like a song all of ILM can enjoy.

special bonus lol just for rob & longneck - https://soundcloud.com/deejay-theory-vip/starbwoy-theory-needlz-edit

― r|t|c, 23. januar 2017 12:42 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg lol no please stop this argh.

And thanks, dog latin. ILM is one of the few places where I still discover new music so it's good to be able to contribute.

As for a harder Calling In Sick, DJ Puffy has a nice roadmix that might work for you, structrural ambiguity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWJ3IE5ckHU

"oh yay" is dope. missed so much good stuff this year

have to weirdly admit that i've never heard chance before this and...this guy is goon cru approved, right? because "all night" isn't much

― k3vin k., Monday, January 23, 2017 4:18 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of a weird chance track to place. never even considered voting for it. how have you avoided him for the last couple of years? Other tracks will place here that should give you a better sample.

comet control is like prog band of horses. i dig this

All-time top 10 trax before this poll:

2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (1676 points, 45 votes, 7 #1 votes)
2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (1528 points, 48 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo) (1357 points, 37 votes, 9 #1 votes)
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky (1212 points, 38 votes, 3 #1 votes)
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 on (1190 points, 39 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2013 Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful (1138 points, 37 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212 (1111 points, 34 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2011 Lana Del Rey - Video Games (1107 points, 40 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2015 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen (1063 points, 37 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2011 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (1023 points, 33 votes, 3 #1 votes)

What's gotten the most #1 votes ever?

pop music moves so fast, those 2011 tracks seem alien now

Let's see:

77 CHAIRLIFT "Moth to the Flame"
This is ok if a bit inoffensive... listened to it a couple of times last year and kept forgetting about it.

76 CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS "Tilted"
I like this a lot but Shura did this sort of sound for me better this year.

74 (tie) THE WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK "Starboy"
I like 'I Feel it Coming' much better but both songs seem to me solidified by the Daft Punk guest spot not by the Weeknd.

74 (tie) CHANCE THE RAPPER "All Night"
This one was one of my most played songs this summer. Love that sort of video game beat

73 UNDERWORLD "Nylon Strung"
Had no idea Underworld had released anything this year but this is one of the best songs I've heard from them.

71 (tie) CASE/LANG/VEIRS "Atomic Number"
Thought I'd love this as I like them as solo artists but I'm not much of a fan of how their voices sounds together. I guess it's a grower but didn't like this on first listen.

71 (tie) OLATUNJI "Oh Yay"
I might like this if I heard it with warmer weather but right now the weather is dry and cold and miserable and I'm not in the right mood for it. Love having this sort of wild card on the ranking tho, so kudos for whoever voted for it.

70 CELLARS "Nighttime Girl"
I really like this, first time listening... Was about to comment that this sound very influenced by Ariel Pink and it turns out he is the producer behind it. I'm starting to get fed up with the 80's pastiche but I've always been a fan of AP's atmospheric approach.

69 COMET CONTROL "Artificial Light"
I'm not in the mood for this one right now as it appears to be a 10 min slowcore thing but I'll listen to it later.

68 MIGUEL FT KASEY MUSGRAVES "Waves (Remix)"
Oh wow I didn't know this one and it's amazing!!! That country guitar and steel guitar additions + Kasey puts the original version to shame. Had I known this one before I'd added to my ballot.

67 ABRA "Crybaby"
I'm sure I'd loved this a couple of years ago butI guess at this point I'm not feeling very interested in hearing anymore of this sort of lo-fi r&b unless it breaks some rules or goes somewhere unexpected.

66 BRANDY CLARK "Girl Next Door"
Sorry not feeling this one but I do loved 'Daughter' off this record.

65 UNDERWORLD "I Exhale"
This kind of reminds me of The Fall, well rather it reminds me of the Von Sudenfed project with Mark E Smith and Mouse on Mars... it takes time to build muscle but its nice once it gets going but still this didn't grab me as much Nylon Strung which deserved to be higher than this one imho.

64 JEREMIH "Oui"
The production sounds ok but there's better songs on the record. Also listening to this guy makes me want to listen to Miguel or Frank Ocean instead. I don't know what it is exactly but something about his voice grates me.

63 + 62 KING "Native Land" + "Hey (Extended Mix)"
I love these... every song I've heard of them feels so sensual and effortless. Hey has been on constant repeat throughout several playlists since its original release in 2011. RIYL The Internet and Badu.

61 KING BUBBA FM "Calling In Sick"
Same as Olatunji... can't really listen to this one right now.

What's gotten the most #1 votes ever?

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:02 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't imagine that anyone has beaten Realiti's 9 #1s

The Runtown remix of Oh Yay was on the ilx summer playlist. Heard it over and over all summer. People should check out that version as well. Also, how did Runtown's Bend Down Pause not get nominated?

there's albums that have gotten double digit #1s not sure about tracks

Only Ten Love Songs has double-digits #1s but there are a bunch with 9 and multiple with >2k points.

(in albums)

I listened to the Comet Control song twice today. Both times, I enjoyed it well enough but I couldn't remember a thing about it afterwards.

it is a bath of purest starlight, you don't necessarily need to remember it but it does wonders for your complexion

if pure starlight were to cause exfoliation and moistening rather than instant radiation scarring, that is

I forgot all about this! A ray of light in the darkness.

"calling in sick" is amazing, how had i not heard it before???

think my fav soca track of last year was gbm nutron and fay-ann-lyons' "scene"

I was ready to dismiss the Comet Control song as an enjoyable genre exercise but I didn't expect it to sound so much like Low in space - there's an emotional pull there that often isn't with this stuff even if it's pushing a load of totally obvious buttons.

Never heard Calling In Sick before but it's incredible. I immediately sent it to Mrs DC whose response was "I'm putting the stereo on to enjoy this incredible art before breakfast".

The beat on the Abra song is a jam but her voice is still like soggy cardboard so nah.

There is nothing to this Cellars track at all but that also means there's nothing that might alienate the average Popjustice reader so I assume it found an appropriate audience.

Abra sounded better when I saw her live than she usually does on record.

ha think i remember hearing this calling in sick track on the noms playlist
it's really fun

Only Ten Love Songs has double-digits #1s but there are a bunch with 9 and multiple with >2k points.
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Monday, January 23, 2017 7:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This surprises me. I thought Kaputt was the hands down winner in albums

I mean, for #1 votes...

And I just looked it up, and Kaputt got 12 of them

ok my bad

I want to say that Calling in Sick is overrated, because it's not as good as Oh Yay. But on the other hand, I've heard it over and over and over both yesterday and today, so...

good morning

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

60 YEMI ALADE “Koffi Anan” [188 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/ZoU3tUldZ9w

hell yeah

YESSSSSSSS.

Let me see you do the Koffi Anan.

morning!
i like how this years rollout seems to slowly moving through different ilm threads

This was another tune/artist I knew nothing about before encountering it on the nominations list, but it was so great on the first listen I had to vote for it.

I wonder if "Koffi Anan" is some kind of wordplay on Kofi Annan that foreigners don't get, because the lyrics refer to it as a dance routine and not the person?

(xxxxpost)

Ooooh that's good. Love that minimal bloop.

YES "Koffi Anan" such a huge anthem

I love the weary derision in her voice when she says "he come to my house with a bag of money and he say that he take me to Paris or Australia or somewhere".

Awesome! Would have voted for it if I'd followed the afropop thread closely enough.

Hope to see some K-pop on there also, probably not any bollywood :(

i'd be surprised to see kpop this year despite some real gems being nominated
had a couple of my longlist that got culled

When I asked her about the title she said it was just a positive Ghanaian reference that popped into her head (the song/dance was inspired by Ghanaian alkayida dance moves) and didn't have any other meaning - the song was a freestyle that wasn't really intended to be as huge a hit as it was (her second album Mama Africa is excellent but it's definitely more carefully structured and thought-out, and she's a singer who doesn't ever really rap like she does here usually)

Catching up on yesterday...the Brandy Clark song has a really cool tense postpunk/balearic thing in the verses, which works really well in the country context. Just wish the chorus was a little less...downhome. It coulda been the country Aerial. Still largely in favour

most bizarre take on "Girl Next Door": hard rock Meredith Brooks or balearic postpunk Aerial

oh that yemi alade album is fantastic through and through. I voted 'Ferrari' in the tracks poll and while I'm sure it's not even the best song on there, it was still such a prominent song for me this year.

I guess it needs a big country chorus to still be country, colours don't run &c &c

Just watched a couple of other Yemi Alade videos, she's great.

I didn't mean that it sounds like "Bitch", just that the persona and the message in those two songs is pretty much the same. And just to be clear, I like the lyrics of both.

xxxpost

'Koffi Annan' a very late cut from my ballot as I knew it had a good chance of placing.

Ghana has the best song/dance names. Alkayida. Lapaz Toyota.

http://i.imgur.com/dOUv9LY.jpg

59 BRUNO MARS “24K Magic” [189 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/UqyT8IEBkvY

what

I have such a deep loathing of Bruno Mars' corny mugging and horrible ersatz disco, fuck off to your office parties

shrewd move Bruno. if it ain't broke..

lex what happened at the office party

Always amazed that Bruno Mars is a person that ILM takes seriously. This is mostly because he has the worst look of any major pop star that isn't Robin Thicke.

i didn't even know we took him seriously no one gave me the memo

haha yeh don't get this at all but saw his album crop up on a surprising number of end year lists

this song did not do well to be posted during the UK shift

'24km' and 'crybaby' are when predispositions become personal prisons imo

lmk if i succeed in making brad cry

http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/6f6/675706329_1631528.gif

For a long time I thought Bruno Mars was some Dutch trance DJ, because his name sounds like that. Not sure if he'd be any better of worse if it was true.

'24km' and 'crybaby' are when predispositions become personal prisons imo

lmk if i succeed in making brad cry

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:12 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_;

not like i disagree tbh

Anyway, I guess there are worse building blocks to make pastichey pop hits from than '80s post-disco/boogie. And this one at least doesn't sound like such a blatant Kool & the Gang copy as "Uptown Funk".

u only have to listen to like 10 seconds of snoop dogg 'signs' or whatever again to see this bruno for the thin gruel it is

Uptown Funk is the best office party track ever. 24 k magic is a bad copy. Which is still ok.

not like i disagree tbh

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 Bookmark

i'm kinda fronting on crybaby it is transcendentally well executed

I looove original '80s boogie, even more than '70s disco, so I've nothing in theory against someone doing it in 2016. But this sounds a bit too clean & polished, seamless, committee-designed. I can see it working on a drunken disco night in my working class neighbourhood, but wouldn't probably listen to it just for fun on the headphones.

the only Bruno Mars I've remotely enjoyed was when he was ripping off the Police.

u only have to listen to like 10 seconds of snoop dogg 'signs' or whatever again to see this bruno for the thin gruel it is

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:17 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TUNE

the only Bruno Mars I've remotely enjoyed was when he was ripping off the Police.

― crawling in (sic) (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:25 AM (one minute ago)

tune

the best things about "crybaby" are when it stops nodding so obviously at freestyle/jam & lewis and goes down its own unexpected detours, and "vegas" is the better track anyway

http://i.imgur.com/5Mb4Cah.jpg

58 GROUPER “Headache” [191 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/Jh8ahc_YDeY

i just put 'signs' on and it turns out i was deeply mistaken... u only need three seconds

nice! xp

I'd never have expected a Grouper song to make the tracks poll so I'm intrigued by this. (Albums poll perennial obviously).

seems p nice
i remember really enjoying the first track to dragging a dead deer up the hill when it came out

Hmm, I guess this sort of weeded, sireny indie... stuff has to be included on every ILM list. Feels like it could've been released anytime in the past 25 years? Why putting a formless ditty through an echo filter would make it any better is beyond me, but seems like there's always an audience for it.

dreampop... wow... nice... kevin shields moobs feel like bags of sand

This track is 40 minutes too short or something. I'll check out the album.

five minutes that i could have spent listening to my boiler

headache is pretty as always for her but doesn't really compare to something like heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping

This track is 40 minutes too short or something. I'll check out the album.

This isn't on an album (yet) but Ruins is worth yr time.

This sort of music always sounds to me like someone took the first Cranberries album and slowed it down 50%, but without turning Dolores O'Riordan's voice into a goofy baritone. It's called "dreampop" then? I guess it could have a proper function in putting me to sleep, but OTOH a white noise generator would do just as well.

Tuomas, for us insomniacs, this kind of music is very important :) Not really in five minute chunks, though, at least not for me.

I think this single was a standalone so if you want an album length version listen to Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

always nice to remember how much of a monster jam "signs" is

GROUUUPERRRRR

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

57 DANNY L HARLE FT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN “Super Natural” [194 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/CrFcxR4Y6C0

really don't get this one at all, i hate the deliberately awkward pc music syncopation

i don't mind super natural
even if it's probably the worst thing either two have done in the past couple of years

this is a fantastic track

Yes!! This was #22 on my ballot. Danny L Harle's latest stuff feels to me like a shrewd sidestep away from PC music by its best producer. I can't not enjoy something this cute and over the top.

love zapp & squealing talk box goodness and have always had an odd affection for bruno mars (short&sweet? his grin? zoot suit?) but this only even tries to be p standard

Yesterday was a war of attrition. Today is already putting that into perspective with two records which are two career ending tackles on inner peace

That last one is literally an advert for anxiety

Ever since the first records I've found Grouper doesn't put enough echo on the songs. They're supposed to be hard to reach, that's part of the attraction. It's a formal move toward an only semi-lucid mimesis.

I didn't end up voting for Super Natural but it was one my best discoveries going through the nominations playlist.

I'm happy to standup for 24K Magic. It ended up growing on me a lot after initially being underwhelmed by it. The album was one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. There are actually better songs on the album. I was expecting Versace On The Floor to place over the title track. It's the best thing he's done.

"24k magic" is way more shiny assemblage than song so i'm also sorta wondering what it's doing here (iirc the thread was less a total endorsement than several people wondering if it sounded sufficiently like chromeo)

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

56 FAMM'IN “Circle” [198 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/_tHJwoSRcBc

man I gotta remember next year that it doesn't take many votes to crack this thing, the emo goons should assemble

That might be the first track in the countdown not on Spotify? (I've been hastily compiling a playlist for the commute...)

(and it's pretty good too)

"super natural" is a migraine ironed out into song form, i'll probably never know how i actually feel about it

For a long time I thought Bruno Mars was some Dutch trance DJ, because his name sounds like that.

lol

feel like emo goons could show up strong in albums this year, harder to build consensus for tracks in rock subgenres than pop

I'm still hoping (probably in vain) for some emo to creep into the tracks poll.

I didn't vote for the Harle/Jepsen but I do like it. All your emo dreams will be crushed by this cruel world btw

YAYYYY FAMMIN, my #2

Really happy this made it in.

had never heard of famm'in before but holy shit that's really incredible, i was rapt

This sounds pretty dope, and uncategorizable (to my Western old geezer ears, at least), which is always a bonus.

there's SO MUCH going on while the song swans gracefully around

this is my fav find so far

Yeah, I like it that you can't really tell what's gonna happen next, yet it all still sounds coherent and not like a dog's dinner.

Ok, wow at those synth bamboo flutes, such '90s flashbacks!

OK wow that is great

I am enjoying "Circle."

They're a supergroup (FEMM & FAKY & Yup'in = FAMM'IN), but tbh I love this way way more than I like the separate artists.

thrilled to see this make it, i voted for it but really wasn't expecting it to show up

i love "circle" and completely forgot about it on my ballot. palace built inside of a glacier.

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

55 RITON FT. KAH-LO “Rinse & Repeat” [200 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/f4oWpvJ0f8Q

Thanks to the five of you who made it possible for us to hear this! (Esp Emily with her #2 vote).

(I mean, I did get 200+ tracks into the 1000+ track Spotify shortlist after Xmas but I never reached this).

xp

this is not how I woke up but it's how I look now

v glad that Riton track made it, felt it was kind of ubiquitous over the summer and never unwelcome though it was just a distant memory for me by year end

I am into this one too! New to me but as I've said elsewhere 2016 was not a very music-filled year for me.

this is not how I woke up but it's how I look now

^^^ Also I genuinely love this lyric.

speechless @ 'circle'. no d∆wn can test this

i couldn't get my shit together this year to vote for various reasons, but if i had, that famm'in song woulda made my top 5 easy

riton was sub-redlight and the preditah rmx https://youtu.be/lteJcEf_1x0 by far preferred but yeah, all just seems a v long time ago

Wow, 'Circle' is great!

yeah "Circle" is totally doing my head in right now

and this was on Avex?? shouldn't have missed it

Enjoyed "Circle" too, but it just compelled me to put on Kenji Kawai's Ghost in the Shell soundtrack.

whoa this famm'in track is doooooooooooope

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

54 JENNY HVAL “Conceptual Romance” [200 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/EY7eLAVrfK4

this much happening in circle and im only two minutes in, yet there is all this room to breathe. what a great tune

jenny hval is awful

awfvl*

why do you think so brad?? she's always struck me as the kind of artist I should love more than I do and I'm never sure whether it's because I just don't give her albums enough tries or not

because it's painfully on-the-nose tripe with no sense of composition

don't put words/plastic in my mouth lj

this does indeed suck

I like Jenny Hval but I've never really been able to ~get into~ her stuff more than just going "yeah, that's pretty good".

Also really not sure how you can say it has no sense of composition? This is like saying Julia Holter is "artless", it's pretty much oppositeland.

jenny hval is awful

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson),

Famm'in is great

riton tune is good

i hate everything about this thread and everyone who posts on it and even i think the famm'in song is pretty great

The Hval album produced by Deathprod from a few years back (Viscera) still holds up. Maybe I can only enjoy being harranged with a neopagan subtext.

i think hval's lyrics are terrible which is a pretty big dealbreaker as they're extremely central to her music, like that seems to be where here energies are most devoted, to the "performance" in her "performance art." on the new one especially music just kinda hangs around indifferently and is reactionary and secondary and soporific cottony whatever encasing her words or her asmr breathing exercises, not that it was much better when it was whatever with some distorted guitar

this is exactly why I feel like I ought to appreciate Hval more than I do

I don't know what school of video direction the person behind the Riton video went to but it's the same one as the person/people behind The xx's "Islands" video and I love that school very very much

catching up from yday, the waves remix is so great

i regret in that earlier post holding back from describing jenny hval as "the new inquiry, but music"

conceptual romance is ok musically despite her being generally terrible for the reasons brad described

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

53 KEDR LIVANSKIY “Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)” [201 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/fK-eIZsPtLI

i have no idea what this is but i like it

yeh this sounds very nice

This is very nice indeed. Circle is whoa!

This is pretty, but again would work better as an instrumental. The singing is rather clumsy, and the extreme echo is just irritating. I'm not sure why so many female techno producers feel they need to add their own vocals to their tracks (see also: Nina Kraviz, Dinky, Ellen Allien, etc), even if that's not where their real strengths are.

i disagree :)

nice track, the singing is great

I think the vocals make this, I like the music but it's not even close doing anything new, whereas structuring it as a song allows it to create its own space to exist.

it needs some rock guitar

want more melancholic russian jams

Kedr Livanskiy is part of a collective called John's Kingdom who generally have a similar washed-out 90s techno urban despair aesthetic so may be worth investigating if you like that kind of thing:

https://johnskingdom.bandcamp.com/

I'm not sure why so many female techno producers feel they need to add their own vocals to their tracks (see also: Nina Kraviz, Dinky, Ellen Allien, etc)

I'm not sure why so many men feel they need to tell female techno producers what to do. (I know you don't intend it this way, Tuomas, but that's how it comes across.)

oh cool, thanks :) xp

and dude techno producers do it all the time too, and it's more reliably awful xp

xps, Ishome is also a good go-to for melancholy Russian jams:

https://soundcloud.com/ishome

Poppier but Luna too: https://youtu.be/lq2kC1gZyaY

have not caught up on all today's results yet but feel like saying that there had better be at least 3 or 4 more mainstream r&b tracks in the countdown (not by obvious artists like rihanna or beyoncé) to make up for the fact that "24k tragic" has placed. SMH. lex's office party comment otm.

cosign on the love for Circle, great discovery

Hval sounds good to my ears, lyrics work well enough too imo - nothing I'd vote for, but a very enjoyable listen

I'm not sure why so many female techno producers feel they need to add their own vocals to their tracks (see also: Nina Kraviz, Dinky, Ellen Allien, etc)

Yeah, I know, as soon as I posted I realised it may sound condescending, I'm sorry for that. And I'm not saying any of these artists should do otherwise, and each of them may have their own individual artistic reasons for doing what they do... But on a more general level it sometimes feels like being a woman who's producing techno is still used a selling point in itself, so I suspect there may be an incentive to emphasize gender by including vocals. I'm not saying it's always bad, people like TBA or Cooly G can do it pretty well, but with the three aforementioned producers especially I just genuinely enjoy their instrumental tracks much more, so the vocals feel like distraction.

Sorry, a copy+paste error there, this is the comment I meant to answer:

I'm not sure why so many men feel they need to tell female techno producers what to do. (I know you don't intend it this way, Tuomas, but that's how it comes across.)

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

52 ANDERSON .PAAK “Am I Wrong” [207 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/vvPeJLcK2Lk

i didn't vote because i don't know wtf i'm talking about re: 2016 music, but "conceptual romance" was my song of the year.

There are better songs on Malibu, but I'm glad .Paak is getting some shine. I've seen a lot of dismissive posts about him on here

I cooled on the album considerably but this track is crisp and taut.

Kedr Livanskiy's vocals are what make the song for me. If it were an instrumental I might not have even made it all the way through. I admit it reminds me of Russian women's speaking voices, which I tend to like. They seem to conventionally pitch their voices lower than women do in the west and I find it sexy. But the vocal line is also a pleasant enough melody winding through the song.

maybe the reception of Hval is slightly off in over-emphasizing lyrics, at least to my ears it holds up sonically, sounds beautiful, the lyrics work against this beauty in their overstated clumsiness, perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record - so yeah, i guess what I'm suggesting is sure lyrics are part of the package but I think you need to enjoy the sound to like the lyrics

I thought Hval's "Sabbath" from last year deserved single track recognition more than anything from Blood Bitch. I mostly like her. Thought the latest album was boring. Certainly much less going on musically than on Apocalypse, girl. Maybe all those collaborators helped.

perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record

The Kedr Livanskiy EP includes an instrumental and a cappella version. I think the vocals are what make the track, but you can check it out sans vocals if you think that might work better.

Don't have the energy to argue for Jenny Hval now, but I may try later.

i hate everything about this thread and everyone who posts on it

Would like to friend you.

I have such a deep loathing of Bruno Mars' corny mugging and horrible ersatz disco,

I completely agree...

fuck off to your office parties

wait what??

But on a more general level it sometimes feels like being a woman who's producing techno is still used a selling point in itself, so I suspect there may be an incentive to emphasize gender by including vocals.

Yeah, to be fair, this is tricky. It may be true that being a woman in techno is a selling point, but only by dint of rarity, and rarity is only achieved by keeping women out. I think when it's a marketing ploy, it's less about emphasising gender but more "putting women where they should be in the music industry", that is, the face and not the brains. There is also some kind of "girls = emotion = singing" bias in music, which is unhealthy, and it shouldn't be coerced by labels just because it sells. But equally, if somebody wants to express themselves, the most obvious way is through vocal communication, so shutting that area down is literally silencing women, and you really don't want to go there. And the female producers you've mentioned seem very much in control of their artistry, so telling them not to sing simply because sometimes that singing is indicative of a sexist industry, is in itself sexist. I know you're mostly telling them not to sing because you don't enjoy it, but you get what I mean, right? Does anybody get what I mean? I feel like I'm writing a very convoluted post, trying and failing to express a simple thing.

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

51 BEYONCÉ “Hold Up” [210 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/PeonBmeFR8o

probably the highest a track with a Father John Misty credit will ever place

Frankly I'm amazed we made it this far without either Knowles sister appearing.

perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record
perhaps similar to what Sun Kil Moon did on the Benji record

much as enjoy this type of mock posting, it often leaves me confused - was my comparison outrageous, is Benji a bad record, what's up?

sorry niels i think kozelek's word vomit is potentially Objectively Terrible

Yeah, I totally get it, and I definitely don't want to dismiss any female artist's individual choices, but on an aggregate level I sometimes feel it's used for gendering music exactly for the reasons you outlined better than me.

I like Jenny Hval a lot (voted for the album) but I can see how the lyrics might be a deal-breaker. There's definitely something in her music that's missing from most of the other gothy avant-electronica stuff out there, attention to detail maybe? Or attention to the right sort of detail? It works for me anyway.

by which i mean, your comparison is right on! xpost

Xpost to Emily.

That FAMM'IN track is incredible. Truly experimental pop music. That Kedr Livanskiy track was one of my faves from last year. I like its queasy early Aphex vibes

xp to emil.y

It's sadly just par for the course that female producers who also express through singing are going to be reduced to this 'gruff Russian singing is sexy' fucking nonsense. Women shouldn't be shut down for not having the strongest singing voices either, but then I am someone who actively enjoys 'bad' or discordant singing.

I love how Beyoncé stageblocks the chorus of "Hold Up" - hold up, slow down, back up, step down - it's like set dance moves.

Very taken by Kedr Livanskiy. Love the acid riff that comes briefly in around the 4 min mark

This Rinse & Repeat track is great! Favourite discovery of the rollout so far

I disagree with both Tuomas's premise that female producers sing proportionately more than male ones (plenty don't, and plenty of dudes do, and the latter is much worse), and with the idea that it should matter at all

"Hold Up" is too low IMO

I thought "Hold Up" was an album track hastily promoted as a single, but as the track I hear most on the radio I learned to love it.

"Hold Up" is only this low because of vote-splitting and people voting for the album instead, this always happens with big albums. I'm surprised it's the lowest Beyoncé to place and am wondering whether "6 Inch", "Daddy Lessons" etc are higher or missed out

xp brad aight that makes sense

Alfred does the album track/single distinction even make sense w/r/t Lemonade? When it came out radio stations had to essentially pick the singles for themselves.

no way "Daddy Lessons" doesn't make it

Women shouldn't be shut down for not having the strongest singing voices either, but then I am someone who actively enjoys 'bad' or discordant singing.

Ha, me too. Most of my favourite singers can't sing to any great standard, I tend to prefer that rawness to technically brilliant singing. Technically brilliant singers can be great too, and they can give life to complex musical ideas where a less able singer could not, but I tend to like those because of the ideas, not the technical prowess in itself.

6 Inch wasn't even nominated.

xp imo some people learning to sing is the worst thing they've done for their sound

Alfred does the album track/single distinction even make sense w/r/t Lemonade? When it came out radio stations had to essentially pick the singles for themselves.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 24, 2017

it's true, I suppose, but the label stressed several tracks over others. I heard "Formation" and "Daddy Problems" a lot but not quite at the level of "Hold Up" last fall.

Heh. "Daddy Problems"

xp Completely. The power of being able to communicate a message in whatever way >>> communicating nothing beautifully.

I don't know if multiple people put multiple Beyonce songs on their ballots but I would expect at least 2 of the following to appear based on the Lemonade thread, if not all three:

All Night
Sorry
Daddy Problems

"All Night" – oof. Still kills me.

oh yeah and Formation

wait was Formation eligible

"Formation" has to be a #1 contender right?

xp!

I regret not voting for "Formation" as my #1 (because I voted for the album)

came #68 last year

obv. I'm behind the roll-out by several tracks... just wanted to also proclaim amazement at Famm'in, very cool stuff!

And Jenny Hval isn't terrible, it just seems rather dull. It's like there's a really cool song (especially with the sing-talking parts) in there but she made it too pretty and edge-less for it to work.

next song's video is this thread

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

50 THE 1975 “The Sound” [211 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/FSnAllHtG70

:D

OH FFS NOT AGAIN

:D :D

got a feeling we have a few more of these coming up :)

I think I said this last year, but I don't have any understanding of how people can like this. Most things I can comprehend even if I disagree, but the 1975... nope.

Me whenever the 1975 come up in the ilx polls

I was reasonably onboard with them until I saw them live a few years ago and the lead singer is such a gross little turd. In retrospect this should really have been apparent from the lyrics.

https://media.tenor.co/images/20edb4a7e3b94a8fe94691dd666f05fd/raw

Wow, clearly I should have made listening to Beyonce a higher priority. Hold Up is amazing! What an elating video too!

Also haha aawww, emil.y otm.

And Jenny Hval isn't terrible, it just seems rather dull. It's like there's a really cool song (especially with the sing-talking parts) in there but she made it too pretty and edge-less for it to work.

Yeah, I listened to the Jenny Hval album a bunch of times this year thinking it would eventually click. It just feels like it's almost good, maybe with just some minor tweaks I could really enjoy this, but as it is it's pretty boring to me.

Wow, clearly I should have made listening to Beyonce a higher priority. Hold Up is amazing! What an elating video too!

I strongly, strongly recommend watching the entire visual album. I am adamantly against the opinion that it is superfluous to the album; the sequencing and imagery from the videos enhance and expand upon the songs, which I believe are best considered as a soundtrack to the video, especially considering the connecting monologues and how the whole thing is structured.

:D :D :D

This is one of the album's weakest tracks IMO

Is there a particularly strong 1975 track I might like? I've never gotten into them.

xp, I definitely will. To describe the video only as 'elating' is definitely doing it a big disservice too - I've liked stuff Romanek has worked on before, but this feels like the apex. I'm very excited to hear it all now.

IDK, it's some Stockholm Syndrome shit with me but The Ballad Of Me And My Brain is two minutes of lurid pop meltdown that you might enjoy xp

Is there a particularly strong 1975 track I might like? I've never gotten into them.

― Frobisher, T

"This Must Be My Dream" I'd recommend if you like a hybrid of Al B Sure! and Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes."

a reminder that the filibuster still exists for SCOTUS nominees

lol

Resistance is futile. Should be higher imo

lmao great wrong thread alfred

emily did you listen to the shoegazey parts of this album?

I'll check these out, thanks!

IDK, it's some Stockholm Syndrome shit with me but The Ballad Of Me And My Brain is two minutes of lurid pop meltdown that you might enjoy xp

― left hand hierarchy (imago), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:28 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically an audio version of "the sound" video too since someone calls them shit in the lyrics

xxp: I hope they fight Matthew Healy's appointment as SCOTUS justice strongly!

the reveal that "hot sauce" is her baseball bat is one of my fav things about the "Hold Up" video but overall I love that it's a celebration of property destruction in the service of emotional justice. CCTV scene the best!

I should really make time to watch the whole film again soon

how do you think Justice Healy will vote on matters of reproductive freedom

omg spoiiiiilerrrs

how do you think Justice Healy will vote on matters of reproductive freedom

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:36 AM (fifty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"it's not about reproduction, it's just all about me"

<3 1975 but when i saw them live right after the election matty gave a trite little "we need to listen to trump voters legitimate concerns" speech :-(

oh for fuck's sake

his hair is looking very Trump Youth these days

no YouTube for this next track

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

49 BRITNEY SPEARS “If I'm Dancing” [217 points, 8 votes]
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AzuAVNOs7yg0BozFJF09p

emily did you listen to the shoegazey parts of this album?

― gr8080, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:31 PM (seven minutes ago)

No, I've only heard the tracks that ilx insists on voting into EoY polls, those were enough to make me run screaming from these odious men.

hahahahaha omg yes

lol good job ILM

I top tenned this album.

The only people who praised "If I'm Dancing" are critics who contribute to this thread.

*marks the "alfred comments on an artists hair" square on bingo card*

The Sound has always reminded me of Alphabeat. It's not the best song on the album by a long way but I'm still happy to see it place. I can see at least another two of their songs making it.

Wow, I didn't expect any of the Glory tracks to actually make it. There was very little talk about the album. Love this song and just about everything else on there. Her best album that isn't Blackout for me.

I have to admit i've come around to The 1975 as of late

only reason I didn't vote for this ridiculously great bonus track (!) is bc I voted for its wonderful parent album. reminds me of so many Switch productions. love how gracefully Britney floats over those ludicrous breaks and springs and chirps

*marks the "alfred comments on an artists hair" square on bingo card*

― gr8080,

http://s3.photobucket.com/user/desperado74/media/Frey/tamphhote4_zpsa7a19ba4.gif.html

alfred apparently you missed all the vines. your loss

they were really fun!!

https://vine.co/audiotracks/1379925613107904512

only reason I didn't vote for this ridiculously great bonus track (!)

― lex pretend

It really needs to be a single anyway. This year's Super Bass.

https://vine.co/v/5O3VQZTlVOL

This is the point where we despair of our #1s in the hope of provoking their appearance, right

they were really fun!!

― maura, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:47 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://vine.co/audiotracks/1379925613107904512

― maura, Tuesday, January 24, 2017

you've made my afternoon

big fan of how "if i'm dancing" sounds like it's laughing

I love Britney

Underworld, Britney Spears... we def could do with some younger posters on ilm

Oi!

yay
man on the moon was my britney vote

Do Britney albums still chart anymore?

53 KEDR LIVANSKIY “Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)” [201 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/fK-eIZsPtLI

― gr8080, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 10:51 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loving this. kind of reminds me of some of the more upbeat dancey paavoharju stuff from years ago

Rinse & Repeat is so similar to 212

the 1975 is such a bizarre discontinuity in the ILMscape

how so? for a huge contingent they're basically ILM: the band

thought general consensus on the second album was two thumbs up

no YouTube for this one either

http://i.imgur.com/DXoiRl0.jpg

48 A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “The Space Program” [218 points, 7 points]
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kh8EGV2pe6AKoEfsCyXhw

catching up on today

60 YEMI ALADE “Koffi Anan” - This is a jam, sort of an Afrobeat "212"--can't wait to hear her take on antonio guterres

59 BRUNO MARS “24K Magic” - Bruno has never had an original thought in his head, but he and his cohorts do a decent job of pastiching styles and genres I like a lot. Zapp & Roger never really found traction on the Billboard charts (G-funk, excepted), so this is fine, but really it just reminds me how awesome "Electricity" by Midnight Star is.

58. GROUPER “Headache” - Pretty, but wispy--I feel like I should like Grouper a lot more than I do. But I don't.

57 DANNY L HARLE FT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN “Super Natural” - There's more room for the vocalist to breathe than in most PC Music tracks, but the production tricks flatten Carly Rae's personality and turn her into just another Hannah Diamond. Can't imagine I will ever listen to this again on purpose.

56 FAMM'IN “Circle” - I was initially baffled by this, and I still don't really know what to make of it, but I want to live in this instrumental--the first legitimately thrilling beat drop I've heard in a long time.

55 RITON FT. KAH-LO “Rinse & Repeat” - Another worthy successor to "212," this is deeeeeep, especially for a chart hit.

54 JENNY HVAL “Conceptual Romance” - Always threatening to break out into a tune, but never does. I don't think I could take a whole album of this.

53 KEDR LIVANSKIY “Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)” - I'm digging this but the foregrounded vocals break the trance (the background echoes are ok)--would love an instrumental mix.

52 ANDERSON .PAAK “Am I Wrong” - Commented on this before, love the song even if there are better tracks on the album. Love the climactic horns and the way the instrumental soars during Schoolboy Q's bridge.

51 BEYONCÉ “Hold Up” - "All Night" was my fav from Lemonade, but this is great too, with its unique slink. Every line is a hook.

50 THE 1975 “The Sound” - I don't remember if I voted for this or if it just missed the cut, but it hits the sweet spot of cheesy profundity in pop music with that guitar solo

49 BRITNEY SPEARS “If I'm Dancing” - I'm always happy to hear that's she's on her feet making new music and not just fading into her Vegas residency. She still has amazing taste in production and her voice sounds better than ever on this track.