ILM Top 77 Tracks of 2018 Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Recrimination, Statistics and Damned Lies

ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

Discuss!

1: Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)”
2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It”
3: Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
4: Lana Del Rey – “Venice Bitch”
5: Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry”
6: Ariana Grande – “thank u, next
7: Jessie Ware – “Overtime
8: Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel”
9: Mitski – “Nobody”
10: Kero Kero Bonito – “”Only Acting”
11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”
12: Rosalía – “Malamente
13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”
14: Sheck Wes – “Mo Bamba”
15: Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2”
16: Krystal Klear – Neutron Dance”
17: The Beths – “Future Me Hates Me”
18: Pusha T – “If You Know You Know”
19: Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex”
20: Empress Of – “When I’m With Him”
21: Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn”
22: Eris Drew – “Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)”
23: Robyn – “Honey”
24: Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide”
25: Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend”
26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try”
27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”
28: Lizzo – “Boys
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “all end”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

ANNOUNCE 78 U COWARD

Here's the Top 77 Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4cb2Ds6UBJ5UmU2iFlp9uT

Here's the Top 177 Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0yTAFo3owpq3bCGwThZXNs

Can we have a top 177 for spotify refuseniks?

^^^

Black Dresses

four two-in-a-rows huh

cool to see Kokoroko round it out

#78 was Black Dresses "Thoughts and Prayers"

Seandalai will provide stats and links for the full poll soon enough, I'm sure.

my ballot, bolded didn't place, too high to figure out if that's the best way to present this info or not

Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Khalid ft. 6lack & Ty Dolla $ign – OTW
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Peach - Silky
Kim Petras - Heart to Break
Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Ciara - Level Up
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
tyga ft. offset - taste
Overmono – Daisy Chain
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joe Clausell's Harvest Remix)
Prince Kaybee - Banomoya
Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
Marsha Ambrosius - Old Times
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Omar-S - Games That We Play
Jacquees - You
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Wizkid - Fever
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
burna boy - ye

An even more disappointing year than usual for the country crowd.

weighted, bold did not place

Kacey Musgraves - Love Is a Wild Thing
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Robyn - Honey
Brigid Mae Power - I'm Grateful
Ashley Monroe - Rita
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Fever Ray - Wanna Sip
Robyn - Baby Forgive Me
Robyn - Send To Robyn Immediately
Lucy Dacus - Night Shift
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
The Breeders - Wait in the Car
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Low – Disarray
Khruangbin - Maria También
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Yugoslavia
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Gwenno – Tir Ha Mor
Mr Fingers - Crying Over You
Maisha - Osiris
Yumi Zouma - Powder Blue / Cascine Park
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance

Bolded didn't place, ranked:

ЛУНА - Спящая красавица
Nego do Borel - Me Solta
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Claire Laffut - Verite
Clément Froissart - Peupleraie
Talisto - Te Llamé
The Chats - Smoko
daKooka - Обещай
Anitta - Medicina
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Shortparis - Страшно
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
Komsomolsk - Всё исчезло
Blaya - Faz Gostoso
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
Julia - S.E.X.T.O
Pusha T - The Story Of Adidon
Vendredi sur Mer - Ecoute Cherie
Alyona Alyona - Відчиняй
Foie Gras - Red Moon
MC MM - Só Quer Vrau
Aly & AJ - Good Love
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Becky G and Natti Natasha - Sin Pijama

i suspect there are at least three country LPs that will place, possibly a fourth

ranked, bolded didn't place

The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Laura Jean - Girls on the TV
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
NCT U - Baby Don't Stop
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
BTS - Idol
Koutei Camera Girl Drei - Toronto Lot
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess
LOOΠΔ/Olivia Hye ft. JinSoul - Egoist
EL HITTA - Aww Yea
Khalid ft. 6lack & Ty Dolla $ign – OTW
Oh My Girl - Remember Me
Burna Boy - On the Low
APRIL - Oh! my mistake
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joe Clausell's Harvest Remix)
Hyolyn - See Sea
Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
Mitski - Geyser
Troye Sivan ft. Ariana Grande - Dance To This
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá

and here is where i campaigned mostly futilely for a fair few of them

can't believe ye didn't place

iconic track

Ranked. Only the bolded placed:

They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
The 1975 - I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
Andrew W.K. - Total Freedom
Leon Bridges - Bad Bad News
Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge
Robyn - Beach2K20

ranked, bold didn't place

Koffee - Toast
Rygin King - Tuff
Busy Signal - Stay So
Wizkid - Fever
Popcaan - Bulletproof
Burna Boy - Gbona
Nailah Blackman - O’Lawd Oye
Masicka - They Don’t Know
Starboy ft. Duncan Mighty & Wizkid - Fake Love
Mlindo the Vocalist ft. Sfeesoh, Kwesta & Thabsie - Macala
afro B - drogba (joanna)
Playboi Carti - Shoota
Aidonia - Big Baller (Benzema)
Olamide & Wizkid - Kana
Busy Signal - One Way
Popcaan - Silence
Octavian - Hands
Kranium - No Odda
Sudan Archives - Nont for Sale
EL HITTA - Aww Yea
GuiltyBeatz ft. Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo & Patapaa - Akwaaba
Kes - Hello
Govana & Jada Kingdom - Better Than That
Alkaline - Yaadie Fiesta
Wizkid – Soco

Weighted, Bold placed

Luckison - Mysticbanana
Lizz - Over Side
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Helium
Makcim & Levi ‎– On A Springroll
Disk - Levitane
Lee Burton - 1420hz
Charonne - Formule Stardust
Oden & Fatzo - Alpha Gorilla
Ish - Point Reyes
Reedale Rise - Recovery
Stark - All Forms Emerge
Mihai Pol - Sfarsit
Otis - Quackery
Rufus - Under The Line
Fede Lijtmaer - Undersea 540

taste didn't place either ? surprising because there's some trash on the list

unranked, bold DNP in the 77

The 1975 - I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
Sarah Mary Chadwick - Sugar Still Melts in the Rain
Cupcakke - Quiz
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Fucked Up - Normal People
Hop Along - Prior Things
Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up in a Fucked Up America
Kitten - I Did It!
Loma - Black Willow
Mitski & Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Kacey Musgraves - Space Cowboy
Boygenius - Bite the Hand
Meg Myers - Numb
Protomartyr ft. Kelley Deal - Wheel of Fortune
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Jeff Rosenstock - USA
Screaming Females - I'll Make You Sorry
SOPHIE - Faceshopping
Andrew WK - Music is Worth Living For
YG - Suu Whoop
The Armed - Luxury Themes
MGMT - Me and Michael

Mixed ballot, bolded songs placed:

Christine & The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de soleil)
Maggie Rogers - Fallingwater
Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Lizzo - Boys
Georgia - Started Out
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Raveena - Honey

Brame & Hamo - Roy Keane
Christina Aguilera ft. Goldlink - Like I Do
Delta Goodrem - Think About You
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Girl Unit ft. Kelela - WYWD (Remix)
Hatchie - Sure
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Jack River - Ballroom
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Laura Jean - Girls on the TV
Mariah Carey ft. Ty Dolla $ign - The Distance
Mitski - Two Slow Dancers
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Shawn Mendes - Lost In Japan
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini

Weighted ballot, bold did not place:

Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Hop Along - How Simple
YGG ft. Jon Phonics & Impey – Strikers
Corella – Trappin
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Middle America
Dengue Dengue Dengue – Buscando
Runaway Brother – Bully
Ssion, Ariel Pink - At Least The Sky Is Blue
The Radio Dept. - Going Down Swinging
IAMDDB - Kurr£ncy
LOOΠΔ/yyxy ft. Grimes – love4eva
Skengdo & AM – German Swerving
mr twin sister – Jaipur
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Richard Swift – Broken Finger Blues
Oso Oso – gb/ol h/nf
K Trap - Anything Else
Seinabo Sey – I Owe You Nothing
Novelist – No Weapons
Troye Sivan – Bloom
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Once Acen ft. WSTRN – Vice Versa

My mixed ballot (bold not placing)

Tracey Thorn - Queen
mr twin sister – jaipur
Yubin - Lady
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up

Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough
Guerilla Toss - Come Up With Me
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Lizzo - Boys
Seinabo Sey – I Owe You Nothing
Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Jenny Hval - Spells
Aly & AJ - With You
Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
The Internet - Roll (Burbank Funk)
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Cosha - Do You Wanna Dance
Khalid & Normani - Love Lies
Chromatics - Black Walls
Wild Nothing - Letting Go
Lonnie Holley – I Woke Up in a Fucked Up America
Rina Sawayama - Cherry

I really thought the Lonnie Holley would make it :(

i suspect there are at least three country LPs that will place, possibly a fourth

― omar little, Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:18 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Musgraves
Monroe
Pistol Annies

?

Holding out hope for Lori McKenna and Ashley McBryde. "Girl Goin Nowhere" was one of my top tracks of the year, but I slept on the noms...

Nice ballot, Simon! Lots from my longlist, though I think we only have one actual track in common this time.

I'm not certain of my ballot as I failed to save a copy this year. If it's not difficult, I'd be very grateful if someone could post my ballot if it still exists!

here are some banging goddamn tunes for your perusal. 'my brain on love' especially is the ilx classic it never knew

Snape - Waiting for Death
Trust Fund - Abundant
The Armed - Luxury Themes
Young Dreams - My Brain On Love
Machine Girl - A Decent Man
Mitski - Why Didn't You Stop Me?
Thumpermonkey - Make Me Young, Etc.
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
Army Of Moths - So Long
Suede - Life Is Golden
Sterbus - Mate In 4/4
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Bill Wurtz - Mount St Helens Is About To Blow Up
SOPHIE - Faceshopping
Fucked Up - Talking Pictures
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
Of Montreal - Writing The Circles/Orgone Tropics
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers I'M SO SORRY
Half Man Half Biscuit - Knobheads On Quiz Shows
Charlie Looker - Fascist Moments
Teleman - Submarine Life
The Chats - Smoko
Hen Ogledd - Problem Child
Fierce Friend - Introsong

i guess it makes more sense for me to put all of my new blurbs in here. there are a lot of them.

Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur” - kinda wish the instrumental went "level 2" at some point. when her voice kinda picks up and drops back down with no change it kinda just feels like a mistake somehow
MGMT – “Me and Michael” - i like a little pastiche from time to time but uhh i mean come on (editors note: i wrote this one before someone made the "top 77 pastiches" joke upthread so my crit is legit and not a pastiche of a previous crit) (editor's note 2 when i wrote that editor's note i thought i would be posting in the same thread not the afterparty thread)
Peach – “Silky” - i would like to know how they sampled/filtered those... lummi sticks? xylophones? whatever the melodic percussion parts. not enough to look it up tho, it's kinda the only part of the song that grabs me. voice and synths and drums not doing it for me
Beach House – “Lemon Glow” - Will M before listening to this song: "will this be the song where i finally 'get' beach house"
Will M after listening to this song: "no" (i mean its ok but)
Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik” - this is pleasant (editors note: i think i meant to write more here... uhh let's listen again.... this is pleasant. shit i already wrote that)

The Beths – “Little Death” - whoa hello, this is v v good! such a good voice, kinda hop along vibes but with those big rumbly drums, sick sick sick, god is bowling
Doja Cat – “Mooo!” - yall made my number one come below this milkshake duck-ass mirror-universe eurovision-on-weed song and im mad at all of you. top 77 fucking anime betrayals
Simmy – “Umahlalela” - i am enjoying this, but not as much as......
Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala” - oh wow, ok! this is, oooooh, this is good, i like this piano! see sometimes things can sound like things from the past without sounding exactly like them. take note, every other song in the top 77 this year. it's like a better version of the music from the mizuguchi video games. fuck now i wanna play tetris to this song SO BAD!
Hatchie – “Sure” - this sounds like a lot of things i like, but... err, kinda just makes me wanna listen to those things :/

Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp” - one of the more likely songs i'll put in a playlist and listen to too much in 2019. effortless cool is hard to pull off and this basically does
Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko” - cmon man, seriously with this artist/song name? re: song: i will need the appeal explained to me
Tracey Thorn – “Queen” - i didn't know she was still making stuff, cool! sounds a lil like chers believe but for a world that has seen the movie Drive (this is not necessarily a complaint)
Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW” - kinda phased out for the first 2 mins and came to like "was... was that all chorus until now?" it sounds nice but it's v samey
Tirzah – “Holding On” - wasn't sure how i was gonna dig it when they started playing 3 blind mice on a default synth setting but this one really comes together nice! i really like how clear her voice comes thru, it's a low key wonderful voice. if other songs are similar i could for sure see myself getting into this (in a way i didn't with e.g. nite jewel b/c i only liked one song)

dang, this was the only stuff i voted for that placed?
Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse

Well, maybe I'll do better with albums. Here are the unloved:
Andrew Bird – Bloodless
Charli XCX – Focus
Ariana Grande – God is a Woman
Cardi B – Be Careful
Cassie – Don’t Play it Safe
DJ Koze with Roisin Murphy – Illumination
Freddie Gibbs and 03Greedo – Death Row
Future – Walk on Minks
Gabriel Garzón-Montano – Golden Wings
Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlani – What I Need
IU – BBIBBI
Jeremih and Ty Dolla – Take Your Time
Lonnie Holley – I Woke Up in a Fucked Up America
Mariah Carey – A No No
Nicola Cruz – Arka
Red Velvet – Power Up
Robyn – Between the Lines
Sade – Flower of the Universe
Samora Pinderhuges – Concussion Protocol
Tessa Violet – Crush
T.I. – Laugh at Em
THEY – Pops
William Tyler – Fail Safe

THERE ARE SO FUCKING MANY AND THERE'S ONE SINGLE BROKEN BBCODE TAG AND I CAN'T FIND IT

Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur” - kinda wish the instrumental went "level 2" at some point. when her voice kinda picks up and drops back down with no change it kinda just feels like a mistake somehow
MGMT – “Me and Michael” - i like a little pastiche from time to time but uhh i mean come on (editors note: i wrote this one before someone made the "top 77 pastiches" joke upthread so my crit is legit and not a pastiche of a previous crit) (editor's note 2 when i wrote that editor's note i thought i would be posting in the same thread not the afterparty thread)
Peach – “Silky” - i would like to know how they sampled/filtered those... lummi sticks? xylophones? whatever the melodic percussion parts. not enough to look it up tho, it's kinda the only part of the song that grabs me. voice and synths and drums not doing it for me
Beach House – “Lemon Glow” - Will M before listening to this song: "will this be the song where i finally 'get' beach house"
Will M after listening to this song: "no" (i mean its ok but)
Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik” - this is pleasant (editors note: i think i meant to write more here... uhh let's listen again.... this is pleasant. shit i already wrote that)

The Beths – “Little Death” - whoa hello, this is v v good! such a good voice, kinda hop along vibes but with those big rumbly drums, sick sick sick, god is bowling
Doja Cat – “Mooo!” - yall made my number one come below this milkshake duck-ass mirror-universe eurovision-on-weed song and im mad at all of you. top 77 fucking anime betrayals
Simmy – “Umahlalela” - i am enjoying this, but not as much as......
Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala” - oh wow, ok! this is, oooooh, this is good, i like this piano! see sometimes things can sound like things from the past without sounding exactly like them. take note, every other song in the top 77 this year. it's like a better version of the music from the mizuguchi video games. fuck now i wanna play tetris to this song SO BAD!
Hatchie – “Sure” - this sounds like a lot of things i like, but... err, kinda just makes me wanna listen to those things :/

Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp” - one of the more likely songs i'll put in a playlist and listen to too much in 2019. effortless cool is hard to pull off and this basically does
Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko” - cmon man, seriously with this artist/song name? re: song: i will need the appeal explained to me
Tracey Thorn – “Queen” - i didn't know she was still making stuff, cool! sounds a lil like chers believe but for a world that has seen the movie Drive (this is not necessarily a complaint)
Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW” - kinda phased out for the first 2 mins and came to like "was... was that all chorus until now?" it sounds nice but it's v samey
Tirzah – “Holding On” - wasn't sure how i was gonna dig it when they started playing 3 blind mice on a default synth setting but this one really comes together nice! i really like how clear her voice comes thru, it's a low key wonderful voice. if other songs are similar i could for sure see myself getting into this (in a way i didn't with e.g. nite jewel b/c i only liked one song)

oh i found it maybe? ANYWAY, dear thesinglesjukebox.com, i am available on request:

Donato Dozzy – “Cleo” - this is definitely a song i woudn't mind being 20 mins long so i can just hang out in it a while
Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)” - I kinda wanna hear the stuff that is same genre but like nobody liked or cared abt so i can compare top 50 material to top nothing material...? in prev years i really feel like the bobbins MOVED me more yknow?
Marie Davidson – “Work It” - ok yeah she sounds exactly like several ppl i know in mtl so this gets automatic warm fuzzy points from me and its p funny and sharp too.
Lizzo – “Boys” - hahaha i think about the line that's like "little bitty boys, mississippi boys" from time to time and laugh. so great. the blurb saying james murphy doing missy elliott doesn't feel quite OTM but now i really want a "work it" dfa remix. imagine? anyway, lizzo is good, "boys" >>>> "girls" from last year in a WALK and yes im comparing bc of the names
The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” - NOTHANKSNOTHANKSNOTHANKS

The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try” - joy division records are literally still available AND streaming on spotify, why do you do this to yourselves jesus fucknig christ
Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend” - i like this one more than the last one, still kinda feeling like 2018's pastiche obsession is emptier than any year before it tho. maybe the light in my heart just went out in 2018 or something. i really feel like i have heard all of this before and HOLY FUCK, I DID NOT MEAN TO MAKE THIS SOUND LIKE I AM QUOTING WONDERWALL, DID I JUST HAVE A STROKE?
Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide” - i love strings like this lmao it makes everything sound so ~important~. rae sremmurd is exactly the same thing since the first one but that's still a p good thing. i hate that they are doing an offshoot of the fast and furious movies with the rock and statham as "hobbes and shaw" or whatever but we AREN'T getting a sequel tree based on tokyo drift. i am gonna write a script and call it FAST AND FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT: POWERGLIDE: ORIGINS and it's going to have 3-4 audio cues for this song to play. i'm gonna be rich. i don't even have a driver's license! i just hustle
Robyn – “Honey” - hey she made it! i wanted to vote for one of her songs, but it was missing u... surprised tihs one placed and not that one!! (i mean it ain't over yet but y'know)
Eris Drew – “Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)” - is it worth it lemme work it put my thing down flip it and reverse it from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon (could they have picked a MORE DISTRACTING SAMPLE?)... anyway i was bored until the breakbeat and the guitar came in, now i am kind of amused, wish it didn't take 2 mins, i almost bailed

Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn” - ahhhhh ok i think i "get it" now re: kacey musgraves, this is good. this is v v v charming. love the beijing part, really perfect encapsulates that moment where you're so out of time that you think about what time it is somewhere else to kinda put yourself into context (and in doing so alienate yrself temporally even more) -- that's 100% a "just me" thought but fuck it
Empress Of – “When I’m With Him” - huh??? isn't this another song i heard before??? what other song does the chorus sound exactly like? help
Pinkfong – “Baby Shark” - i use a juul and play pokemon go and i still wanna make fun of all of you
Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex” - i always v much like these good lana del ray songs, but it always weirds me out when i think like, there are ppl in this world who stan for her like i stan for mitski. what is your life like ldr stans? i can only imagine you spend hours a day crying in a flowy dress near a fan or something. also listening to this song on spotify right now, does it sound this weird/compressed in every format or just here? song is great but her voice is just squished into unlistenableness
Pusha T – “If You Know You Know” - the part at the beginning where every line ends with boy just makes me think of born slippy lmao. i love when the melody comes in tho, perfect time and v nice. i dunno kanye still has it sometimes imo

Krystal Klear – Neutron Dance” - i don't get it, how is this new order? it's like calling give yrself a try the best joy division song of 2018. neutron dance, good name, this is the jimmy neutron of songs (you right now: "what does that even mean?" me right now: "something something death of the author, my blurb is like an ontario license plate, it is YOURS TO DISCOVER")
Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2” - thank god she didn't make any mistakes, with all that delay we'd be hearing aobut it for minutes!!! haha jk everyone this is a good song shouts to holter skolter. this song sounds like she layered 6 different song intros on each other and it works somehow.
Sheck Wes – “Mo Bamba” i drafted mo bamba on every one of my fantasy basketball teams this year, and in my nba2k19 game, and i am losing in all of them, and no regrets because this song FUCKIN RULES. i hope ali eventually showed up with the motherfucking dope :S
Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá” - *extremely YouTube reaction video voice* ohh... ohh!! *says nothing for 30 seconds, bopping head* what is this? this is-- *stops talking again; 15 more seconds pass; rudely pauses song* man i really like this one. what language is this? i love it. it's perfectly enough of everything, never not enough nor too much *abruptly stars song again mid-chorus* yes. this was a good recommendation. thanks for watching ilx! *inset of me listening to the other Rosalia song in the top-right*
Rosalía – “Malamente” hmm, OKAY, OKAY... *solemn head bopping* okay, this is-- yeah! this is nice. i-- i like this. *very serious face* you know, I think I like the oth-- *pauses song* sorry, i know how mad you guys get when i tlak over the song too much. i think i like the other one more. *resumes song; inset of me angrily juuling to baby shark appears in top right*

Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse” - weirdly this sounds less like a country person trying to do a cross-genre thing and more like a pop person who had country explained to them in a tweet trying to reproduce country music. i'll have to listen again in a few days now that i kinda know what it is so i'm not surprised by it / making this face >:/
Kero Kero Bonito – “”Only Acting” - ahh yes good someone made "too many cooks" into a pop song (i rly dig this tho)
Mitski – “Nobody” - i've been big and small and big and small and big and small and still nobody loves me ;;;;;;;;;_______;;;;;;;;
Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel” - it's good, but like........... why wouldn't i just listen to the source material? am i just old and shitty now???? it used to feel like all of the pastiche has more thna one reference point before, maybe, and now it's just one reference point? i fuckin blame the 1975 for this
Jessie Ware – “Overtime” - ok but actually this is the kind of pastiche i can get into. it definitely feels A BIT like a jock jam, but enough NOT like one that it's its own thing? thank u ilx for this one

Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” - perplexed by the love for this song
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry” - not perplexed at all by the love for this song <3
Lana Del Rey – “Venice Bitch” - me: *has headphones that are better than $20 earbuds for, like, a week*
you:
me: IS IT JUST ME OR ARE THE VOCALS COMPRESSED

Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up” - holy shit i am out of touch, i thought it was 78'd at this point for sure. great song!!! it was one of my last cuts from the top 25 and one of the ones that hurt the most tbh. prob would've placed in my top 01 if i hadn't listened to it so much over the year and burnt out on it a bit? lmao at the brit plot twist tweet
The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It” - i could not have wanted to not like this song anymore, and yet, i listened to it so many times. i like it in spite of it being awful and anyone form real life who i show it to judges me. it's like the cum town of songs, in that sense
Childish Gambino - This Is America - thanks to this song, i got a trivia question right about Oaxaca once
Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)” - never change, ilx *wipes tear* this is my first listen and it has been called the inspector norse of 2018 in the thread. DO I AGREE? hmmmmm *5 min later* mmm no, it is its own thing and that is good and it is good. a worthy face champion, the people's champion, beating the heelish antics of the 1975 starring an adult man who calls himself matty. yes i will be listening to this song a good 100+ more times this year! thanks!!

weighted

Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
Troye Sivan – Bloom :(
Róisín Murphy - All My Dreams
Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá
Jessie Ware - Overtime
CHVRCHES ft. Wednesday Campanella - Out of My Head
Disclosure & Fatoumata Diawara - Ultimatum
Simmy - Umahlalela
Ciara - Level Up
Shawn Mendes - Lost In Japan
SHINee - Good Evening
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Mitski - Nobody
Robyn – Missing U
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Low - Always Trying To Work It Out
Rina Sawayama - Cherry
Aya Nakamura - Copines
Mariah Carey - GTFO
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Yubin - Lady
boygenius - Bite the Hand

Will, write to the folks at SJ; they are looking for new writers al the time!

something tells me i'm not a good fit for their editorial voice lmao

is it worth it lemme work it put my thing down flip it and reverse it from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon (could they have picked a MORE DISTRACTING SAMPLE?)

"take me to the mardis gras" has had a rich and extensive life as a sample

this is how I would have voted if I'd voted:

1 Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
2 Django Django ft. Self Esteem - Surface To Air
3 Master KG - Skeleton Move
4 Ought - Desire
5 Tiwa Savage ft. Wizkid - Ma Lo
6 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
7 Jus Now ft. Eva Lazarus - Hair Flip
8 L'Algerino - Va Bene
9 Teni - Shakeam
10 Tshegue - Muanapoto
11 Rygin King - Tuff
12 Kero Kero Bonita - Only Acting
13 Rhea - Bounce
14 Burna Boy ft. Lily Allen - Heaven's Gate
15 Eddy Kenzo - Gear Lever
16 Yxng Bane - Vroom
17 Ella Mai - Boo'd Up
18 Childish Gambino - This Is America
19 Khalid - OTW
20 Teleman - Cactus
21 Ross From Friends - The Beginning
22 Beths - Happy Unhappy
23 Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
24 Prince Kaybee - Club Controller
25 Juby - Look She Dey
26 Tiwa Savage - One
27 Dur-Dur Band - Diinleeya
28 Onipa - Open My Eyes
29 Autechre - violvoic
30 Spice - Black Hypocrisy
31 Wolfie - Contradiction (DJ Q Remix)
32 Makavelli - Nammiliki
33 Nihiloxica - Choir Chops
34 Domenique Dumont - Sans Cesse Mon Cheri
35 Marwa Loud - Fallait Pas
36 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Middle America
37 Patoranking - Suh Different
38 Cardi B - I Like It
39 Corine - Pluie Fine (Polo & Pan Remix)
40 Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide

that's a lotta bold LJ, but you still haven't got me beat (the only thing of mine that placed is the AWK track)

(though I did lose my ballots - could someone send 'em back to me through ilxmail? is that possible???)

SERIOUSLY tho':
http://i.imgur.com/J8R15g6.png

we missed u doglatin

is it worth it lemme work it put my thing down flip it and reverse it from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon (could they have picked a MORE DISTRACTING SAMPLE?)

"take me to the mardis gras" has had a rich and extensive life as a sample

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:32 PM (thirty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i figured this would be the case and yet i chose to show my ass here, why? because i'm honest and i'm honestly pretty stupid

dang Burna Boy getting vote split even in imaginary ballots :)

ahh yes good someone made "too many cooks" into a pop song

that's a lotta bold LJ, but you still haven't got me beat (the only thing of mine that placed is the AWK track)

I didn't have a single thing place, I had thought Blatters removal might have helped with the coefficients but it seems no

Ranked, bold didn't place:

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Mollusc - Anxiety
Kuunatic - Roho Ulio Toweka
Child's Pose - Feral
Marie Davidson - Work It
Lucrecia Dalt - Tar
Black Pink - DDU-DU DDU-DU
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
Rapid Tan - USAVE
(G)I-DLE - HANN (Alone)
Hen Ogledd - Problem Child
Yemi Alade - Bum Bum
BiSH - PAiNT it BLACK
Fire-Toolz - ✓ iNTERBEiNG
Slumb Party - Trophy
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Cantaloupe - Change the Record
ЛУНА - Спящая красавица
JPEGMAFIA - I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies
Gugudan - Not That Type
Audrey Chen - Heavy
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Pinkfong - Baby Shark

Where are the stats at this year? I want STATS.

u are too kind dorsalstop i barely know what a "song" even "is"

oh right, my ballot

Mitski - Geyser
Mitski - Nobody
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Sloppy Jane - Mindy
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
Saloli – Hey Ahh
Waax - Labrador
BiSH - PAiNT it BLACK
Little Simz - Offence
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Mitski & Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths
SOPHIE – Is It Cold in the Water?
Barbatuques - Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)
Drake - Nice For What
Negativ Gemini - Infin Path
Protomartyr ft. Kelley Deal - Wheel of Fortune
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok ft. Kendrick Lamar - Opps
lil baby & drake - yes indeed

i... don't even recognize my own ballot anymore. i shoulda used the extra week to re-submit

Seandalai will provide stats and links for the full poll soon enough, I'm sure.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:13 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

so much depends on this egg

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

thank you for your discretion

beside the white
clickings

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so much depends on this egg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

― rob, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for your discretion

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:49 PM

This is the funniest back and forth on ILM in ages.

enjoying Will M's write-up

seriously, what was with the Gambino joke number one at the end? did ILM hate it? have I missed something here? it's a good song

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

Pouring one out for Sonini, which I can't believe was not the consensus Sun-El/Simmy pick. Bold didn't place. Mixed ballot.

The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Hop Along - How Simple
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
Camp Cope – The Opener
Charly Bliss - Heaven
Rosalía - Malamente
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Drake – In My Feelings
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Hatchie - Sure
Kanye West - Ghost Town
katie dey - data

Laurel Halo – Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Marie Davidson - Work It
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini

Credible people do not think it’s a good song.

and i'm so not getting this Peggy Gou song. that said, I'd only heard one tune by her until now, and this wasn't it. It doesn't share much in common with Inspector Norse to my ears though...? Maybe need to go back to it.

MAN BEHIND CURTAIN says: as with baby shark, it seemed like the sort of oddball thing that could reasonably have either won the whole thing or not gotten a single vote

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

this is america was the #1 pick on nearly every critics EOY list but the consensus here was it's just ok at best

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:56 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm.. i guess it is intrinsic with the video but I like it well enough on its own.

And to be completely honest, i don't understand the love for Gou either; it's a perfectly nice song but I don't understand how it became the consensus thing that 30 people thought was best in its field, much less across all genres! Life is funny!

I plucked Sonini from my ballot in favour of more 'credible' SA house ;-p

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:57 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah yes. And 'Wut' too ofc

unweighted, bold placed

Dazion - Dragon Wave
Gil.Barte - Sssjp
Identified Patient - Weerloos
Patricia Kokett - Serpiente
Bill Converse - Landing
Jensen Interceptor - Route E
Kris Baha - Notion Of Dismay
Bufiman - Ba Hu Du (Wolf Muller's Unreleased Version)
Max Abysmal - Donna, Don't Stop
Barbatuques - Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)
EL HITTA - Aww Yea
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
Sky Ferreira - Voices Carry (Demo)
Keysha - Stop It!
Mr Twin Sister - Power of Two
Róisín Murphy - All My Dreams
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
mr twin sister – jaipur
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

surprised how much i had in common with the 77. i liked the Gou enough to vote for it, but it had little to do with most of the dance music i found exciting last year

Inspector Norse was 2012... Fuck me

Here's the tunes in my ballot, they were ranked but I forgot to save the ranked list, so they're in alphabetical order. "Koskematon" was my #1 on the ranked list too, though.

Bolded the ones that didn't place:

Adikia ft. Mon-Sala, Sofa, Donatella, F & Yas Lo - Koskematon
AK - Vlexaa
Barbara Panther - Feminine
Bucie & Mpumi - Soz'Uphinde
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Dladla Mshunqisi - Pakisha
Donato Dozzy – Cleo
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Heavy K - Ndibambe
Hollie Cook - Stay Alive
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Liisanpuisto - Itse teossa
Los Ángeles Azules ft. Natalia Lafourcade - Nunca Es Suficiente
Nao - Drive and Disconnect
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Niniola - Saro
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Rap Against Dictatorship - Prathet Ku Mee
Roberta ft. Lady Blacktronika - Pain & Pleasure
Rosalía - Malamente
Shy FX ft. Lily Allen & Stamina MC - Roll The Dice
Simmy - Umahlalela
Yemi Alade - Issokay
Zûg - Felicidad

I was a bit surprised Nao nor Neneh Cherry didn't make it to the 77, hopefully they'll do better in the albums poll... Their albums were pretty much my favourite pop records of the year, alongside Monáe.

I would never have pegged (ahem, sorry) 'Itgehane' for number one song of the year, but I voted for it, and it's the best track in the top ten so I'm happy.

like "inspector norse" "itgehane" came out towards the beginning of the calendar year and just felt inescapable on dancefloors for the twelve months that followed. i think that type of lead time helps on polls like this for bobbins tracks. also it's extremely warm and feel-good

"Itgehane" is nice, but I didn't like it enough to include it in my ballot, tho I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song. Still, it makes me wonder if ILX ever gets tired of this specific kind of retro sound in dance music, I certainly have.

it's a beautiful sparkling construction, glassy network of bell sounds otm

I'm listening to the Peggy Gou again and still not really getting it.

Without wanting to use the phrase 'wall-paper music', I feel like this arch, head-noddy vibe has been done to death. The combination of Gou's detached delivery and the two-chord keys scream 'pastiche' to me - a takeoff of mid-2000s hipster house culture or the kind of music that got played in trendy city bars as an aural cushion.

Listening closer, I'll say it is wonderfully layered and there's some quite nice bubbly 303 stuff, but track of the year?

I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song.

So sick of all the fartsy rock songs that place number one, year in, year out

Look, after last year's #1, I would have been happy with a recording of LJ farting and TT banging on a pot for 4:19.

xp re: Gou, it may well grow on me. I like house/bobbins music but this aesthetic isn't something I relate to in many ways

It’s pleasant and QuickTime but it sounds safe and ancient next to something like Midnight Starring.

https://youtu.be/b1wVpFCHeyM

i imagine the secret keys to Itgehane would emerge if you heard it out in the wild enough but that's just not my experience. it's good but i don't like it as much as six other electro tracks that charted far lower.

Not QuickTime, quirky, lol «smartphone»

That Midnight Starring song ain't no great shakes. Wanna try again?

I remember back in 2012 thinking that "Inspector Norse" was really great and nice and bouncy but being slightly surprised at all the praise, and then I spent the next five years watching it blow up dancefloors and fill everyone thereon with such joy.

I wouldn't be surprised if "Itgehane" has a pretty long shelflife actually.

JF - I had to check to remember what 2017's number one was and yep, I don't get that track either.

mixed ballot, bold ones placed:

Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Krystal Klear - Moonshake Miner
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Fatima - Westside
Shy Layers – Gateway
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Reckonwrong - Half A Pill
Mandar - String Theory
E Ruscha V - Woo Are You
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis

Black Gold Buffalo - Lay It Down
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
E. Myers - I Am Alive
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Hairband - Flying
Marie Davidson - Work It
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Pangaea - Bone Sucka
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini
Syclops - The Skipper
The Declining Winter - My Divided World
upsammy - Another Place
Wild Nothing - Letting Go
Yves Tumor - Noid

See now Inspector Norse had (and still has) instant appeal for me.

Midnight Starring is very cool. I feel like I could overload on SA house - most of what I hear is either very much in this style or more like Sun-El Musician, but there's usually some sort of curveball that sets each track apart. Busiswa is amazing.

Aww man, Black Dresses being 78 has bummed me out. I guess I did my part at least. Here's my mixed ballot:

Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Autechre - violvoic
Gazelle Twin - Little Lambs
Black Dresses - Hell Is Real
Bruce – What
Joanna Wang - I Dream We Will Be Together Again
Julia Holter - Les Jeux to You
No Joy / Sonic Boom - Obsession
Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour

Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
ACT! - Para
Underworld and Ø [Phase] - Dexters Chalk
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
ILL - Slithering Lizards
Nine Inch Nails - God Break Down the Door
Phase Fatale - Blackbox
Ghost - Danse Macabre (Carpenter Brut Remix)
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik

That's the good (ish) Holter song

Black Dresses will at least return in the albums poll

xposting for maximum scandal: here's some rough "by genre" breakdowns (with several of the songs appearing twice when overlap demands it) for the 77. Obviously, this is a very arguable attempt at classification, so let's argue about it! Extra Credit: WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEEEEEAN

Electronic / House / Ambient "Bobbins" -
1: Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)”
7: Jessie Ware – “Overtime
16: Krystal Klear – Neutron Dance”
22: Eris Drew – “Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)”
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
52: Autechre – “all end”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”

Rock / Indie -
2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It”
4: Lana Del Rey – “Venice Bitch”
9: Mitski – “Nobody”
17: The Beths – “Future Me Hates Me”
19: Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex”
20: Empress Of – “When I’m With Him”
26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try”
27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”

R&B -
3: Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Pop / Alt-Pop -
5: Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry”
6: Ariana Grande – “thank u, next
8: Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel”
10: Kero Kero Bonito – “”Only Acting”
23: Robyn – “Honey”
25: Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend”
28: Lizzo – “Boys"
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Country -
11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”
21: Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn”

Spanish Language -
12: Rosalía – “Malamente
13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”

Hip Hop -
14: Sheck Wes – “Mo Bamba”
18: Pusha T – “If You Know You Know”
24: Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”

Avant-Pop -
15: Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”

Afropop / Afrobeat -
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela"
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”

K-Pop -
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”

seandalai can you post my ballot? thank u egg-xt

Weirdly I voted for most of the things listed as missing from the top 177 playlist. Curious how they fared within that 78-177 block...

Thanks, btw, for all your toil ulysses, Moka and seandalai!

Almost every song in that pop category rocks harder than The 1975.

kind of side-eyeing "Spanish Language" as a genre, but then I organize my music geographically so...

well, it was either that, "Latin," or "Global" and then fold in the K-Pop and Afropop and none of those things felt appropriate. I suppose I coulda gone with "Flamenco" but then that's just Rosalía and nothing else!
I hear you though. I could use better definitions when it comes to some of this stuff.

Could you post my ballot too I honesty don’t remember

Actually it was interesting to run through the list and think about which other languages were represented. I miss, but am too lazy to reproduce, lex's geographic breakdown that he'd always have ready right at the end

i seem to recall him popping up last year JUST to deliver that list so perhaps we'll get a late xmas gift

He didn't participate in the 2017 threads except for that, but I think he at least voted. Did anyone get him to vote in 2018?

There's more rock/indie songs in there than any other genre? YOU FILTHY ROCKISTS

I think this was mine:

Django Django – Champagne
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Malfunction
The Orb - Doughnuts Forever
Mogwai - We’re Not Done
Hierroglyphic Being - The Melody Lingers
Erik Skantze - Jammy
Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
Django Django - Tic Tac Toe
Cave - San’ Yago
Howie B - Oh the Places You’ll Go
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Phase Modulation Shuffle
Holy Ghost – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)
Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
Django Django - Marble Skies
Yo La Tengo - What Chance Have I Got
77:78 - Chilli (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Find a Home
E-40 - The Pots & Pan Man
Nile Rodgers & Chic - State Of Mine (It's About Time)
Anderson .Paak ft. Kendrick Lamar - Tints
Candi Staton - Confidence
Lone - Pulsar

I find these posts to be more helpful in finding out about things I missed.

My list

Mitski - Nobody
Lake Ruth - Julia's Call
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Gold Purple Orange
Beach House - Drunk in LA
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Low - Always Trying To Work It Out
Let's Eat Grandma - It's Not Just Me
Laurel Halo – Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Parquet Courts - total football
Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Speedy Ortiz - Lucky 88
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
The 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
MGMT - She Works Out Too Much
Neko Case - Last Lion of Albion
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
JLin - Carbon 12
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Les Larmes D'un Ange Font Danser La Neige
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Neko Case - Bad Luck
Domenique Dumont - Sans Cesse, Mon Cheri

Have the 'nearest neighbour'-type stats been published yet?

I'm back! Eggs all taken care of.

gizza sec

What's little and large? A big egg!

^go back to lurking! (lol)

Ok!

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzfsaI__ThO3bvcUt4lYYTPBmNFDFteyVSzYgNlVvwE/edit?usp=sharing
Voter stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qead3e_uylrHxeAMI1pzfuVUqu-F6USOzpN8TJv9hlM/edit?usp=sharing
Artist results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11H0HCDx5tfKMNrlZyDyh1UHb7jtJwjYkgAyNKtfksBE/edit?usp=sharing

Ballots as requested:

frogbs

Datarock - Feathers and Wax
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Orbital - P.H.U.K.
Janelle Monáe - Americans
Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
Andrew W.K. - I Don't Know Anything
Autechre - violvoic
Andrew W.K. - Total Freedom
Daphne & Celeste - Song To A Succulent
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel

nashwan

Ssion, Ariel Pink - At Least The Sky Is Blue
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Fischerspooner, Caroline Polachek - Togetherness
Neon Indian - Heaven's Basement (Theme From 86'd)
En Vogue - Electric Cafe
Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
DJ Koze with Roisin Murphy – Illumination
Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 To 6000

Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco, Deep Throat Choir - Defender
Jon Hassell – dreaming
El Perro Del Mar - Fight For Life
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
Hannah Peel - Kiss Me First
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Tornado Wallace, Sui Zhen - Today (Move D Remix)
Mappa Mundi - Trance Fusion (Hunee Edit)
Kelela - Waitin' (Kaytranada Remix)
Kimbra & DAWN - Version of Me
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Nile Rodgers & Chic - State Of Mine (It's About Time)
Gwenno – Tir Ha Mor
Snoop Dogg, Fred Hammond - Call Him

oh and this was my ballot:

The Beths - River Run: Lvl 1
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Nite Jewel - On Your Own
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

Roisin Murphy - The Rumble
Mother of Mars - Hera in the Valley
Perfume - Mugenmirai
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Ravyn Lenae - The Night Song
Lizzo - Boys
Dustin Wong / Takako Minekawa / Good Willsmith - The Garden of Earthly Flanger
Juliana Hatfield - Physical
Otha - One of the Girls
Tess Roby - Borders
Midori Takada and Lafawndah - Le Renard Bleu
Planningtorock - Much to Touch
Barbara Morgenstern - Triggerpunkt
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Albatross (Blend)
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Kali Uchis - Your Teeth In My Neck
Hyolyn - See Sea
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch

obv you should check out all the ones in bold

tt asked earlier as well (I only say on her behalf as she's asleep) :)

Voters topping the charts

Most lonely: saer :(
Top blood sausage m8: toby
The fuxxoriest fuxxor: Indexed
The infinite antifuxxors: imago, breastcrawl, MarkoP, Dinsdale, kruezer2, tangenttangent, daavid, Odysseus, peepee, saer
Hivemind queen: Murgatroid

tangenttangent

Trust Fund - Abundant
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Snape - Waiting for Death
SOPHIE - Faceshopping
Tropical Fuck Storm - Chameleon Paint
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Hop Along - Not Abel
Mitski - A Pearl
Young Dreams - My Brain On Love
Hen Ogledd - Problem Child
Vennart - Immortal Soldiers
Superchunk - Erasure
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Suede - Life Is Golden
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
mewithoutyou - Winter Solstice
Bill Wurtz - Mount St Helens Is Going To Blow Up
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Jeff Rosenstock - Yr Throat
Joanna Wang - The Motorized Scooter Edo
Optiganally Yours - How Do You Feel?
EASYFUN - Be Your USA
Teleman - Submarine Life
Dashboard Confessional - Catch You
Clarence Clarity - W€ CHANG£

wau Gambino got 8 votes and still didn't place

LOL at me being the only voter for my number 1 choice ("Promises").

seandalai can you post mine for me pls

xp I know the feeling

that's especially odd though, since Tim and jaymc tied for most votes in the top 77

The funny thing is that I had equal highest representation of my votes in the top 77 (15/25), and of everything I voted for "Promises" was probably the biggest actual chart performer?

xpost

johnny crunch

lil baby & gunna - drip too hard
Drake - Nice For What
The Internet - Come Over
Cardi B ft. 21 Savage - Bartier Cardi
Drake – In My Feelings
Drake - God's Plan
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Saweetie - ICY GRL
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Nicki Minaj ft. Ariana Grande - bed
halsey - without me
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same
lil baby & drake - yes indeed
Kanye West - Ghost Town
Playboi Carti ft. Red Coldhearted - Middle of the Summer
flipp dinero - leave me alone
Post Malone ft. 21 Savage – rockstar
kanye west - no mistakes
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Panic! At the Disco - High Hopes

My list

The Beths - Little Death
Hop Along - How Simple
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Mitski - Nobody
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Charli XCX - Girls Night Out
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Kali Uchis ft. Bootsy Collins & Tyler The Creator - After The Storm
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Hatchie - Sure
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
The Radio Dept. - Going Down Swinging
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Lindstrøm ft. Ronika - Didn't Know Better
Raveena - Honey
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Le SuperHomard - Paper Girl
Lucy Dacus - Night Shift
Rina Sawayama - Cherry

Monotony my top neighbour. I think that's six years in a row now.

My weighted ballot. *'s placed.

Okkervil River - Famous Tracheotomies
Janelle Monae - Americans
*The 1975 - TooTimeTooTimeTooTime
John Prine - Boundless Love
Neko Case - Winnie
Carly Rae Jepsen - Party of One
Buffalo Tom - Roman Cars
*Toni Braxton - Long as I Live
*Hatchie - Sure
Titus Andronicus - Real Talk
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Superchunk - Reagan Youth
Downtown Boys - Fotos Y Recuerdos
Wussy - Aliens in Our Midst
Young Dreams - My Brain on Love
Jann Arden - All the Little Things
Laura Veirs - Lightning Rod
Christine Fellows - Cocoon
Camp Cope - The Opener
Marsha Ambrosius - Old times

Can’t copy and paste from my phone but that’s quite a long list of songs that get 1 first place and no other votes, my own number one included

"Rubber Bullies" getting 6 votes has me very optimistic about the TFS album placement

my mixed ballot, bold placed

Superchunk - Black Thread
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
mr twin sister – jaipur
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
Hop Along - Prior Things
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Valee ft. Jeremih - Womp Womp
Kali Uchis - Your Teeth In My Neck
Natalie Prass - Hot For The Mountain
Gunna ft. Lil Baby & Young Thug - Oh Okay
H.C. McEntire - Red Silo

Khalid ft. 6lack & Ty Dolla $ign – OTW
Amen Dunes - Believe
Arctic Monkeys - Four Out Of Five
The Breeders – Dawn: Making an Effort
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Rae Sremmurd ft. Young Thug – Offshore
Beach House - Black Car
Neko Case - Bad Luck
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Future - When I Think About It
Robyn - Send To Robyn Immediately
Screaming Females - I'll Make You Sorry
Westerman - Confirmation

I didn't nominate tracks but nevertheless ended up being the sole voter for these two. Many thanks to whoever nominated Bas Jan in particular. Hadn't even heard of them before the noms playlist!

Bas Jan - Walton on the Naze
Tirzah - Devotion

weighted (did not place, sole voter)

Marsha Ambrosius - Old Times
Kurt Vile - Bassackwards
H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller - Could've Been
Kash Doll - For Everybody
Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
Gerardo Ortíz - Egoísta
Khalid, 6lack & Ty Dolla $ign - OTW
Simmy ft. Sun-El Musician - Ubala
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Jacquees - You
Raymix - Oye Mujer
Sophie - Faceshopping
Mariah Carey - With You
Kim Petras - Heart To Break
Derez De'Shon - Fed Up
Ariana Grande - Breathin
Troye Sivan - Bloom
Taylor Swift - Delicate
Lil Baby - Cash
Trippie Redd - Topanga
Guayaba - Bye Bich (Dark Meat Remix)
MNEK - Tongue

great poll as always! i haven't gotten to the top ~20 or so yet but i can hold off for a little bit since as usual it looks to be the most boring part of the poll, at least based on the ones i know (yes i know some of the ones i voted for made it up there). whytf do ppl enjoy that particular mitski song. props to the pollrunners, voters and moka for the terrific graphics!!

last thoughts for now: both ariana grande songs that placed in the top 10 deserve to have been 78'd and are only impressive as seamlessly assembled, hyperefficient industry products. (yes i know i voted for a different ariana song that could also be described similarly.) i am starting to get sick of the 1975, the 'poptimist ;)' band for rockists, but alas one of my few heterosexual male friends has recently notified me that he really loves the new album (unsure if he'd heard any of the previous ones) so i guess i'll have to listen to it in full since i can't afford to lose any of those these days. i like "boo'd up" okay (not as much as "trip") but am sometimes perplexed by how little justification ppl seem to give for why they supposedly love it so much. surprised in a good way at how many ppl in the rundown enjoyed "long as i live" despite never having heard it before -- do turn on a grown-folks r&b station sometime! "before i do" not placing last year was a fucking disaster.

both ariana grande songs that placed in the top 10 deserve to have been 78'd and are only impressive as seamlessly assembled, hyperefficient industry products.

Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but you voted for that Kim Petras track, so... GTFO

Deafheaven - Honeycomb
The Nels Cline 4 - Imperfect 10
Mitski – Nobody
The Beths - You Wouldn't Like Me
Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
Amy Brandon/Julian Bertino - Intermountainous
Nick Omiccioli - the field well
awakebutstillinbed - fathers
Nick Omiccioli/newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble - Haunted Seas
Alice in Chains - The One You Know
Sons of Kemet - My Queen is Harriet Tubman
Ghost - Rats
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Mary Halvorson - Storm Cloud
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Andrew W.K. - Total Freedom
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Yandere
Deafheaven - Worthless Animal
Mitski - Geyser
Panic! At the Disco - High Hopes
Jack Tickner – Let’s Go
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
Greta Van Fleet - When the Curtain Falls
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up

seamlessly assembled, hyperefficient industry products

Leaving aside any general objection to this kind of description one might have, it seems to me that one can no longer (if one ever could) say from a production/creation standpoint that this description applies to "No More Tears Left To Cry" or "Thank U, Next" more readily than it does to much else studio-created "pop" in the broad sense - e.g. including, say, Wizkid.

What perhaps marks out Ariana, and these two singles in particular, is not anything about them as products in isolation but rather the systems of meaning into which they are received - their ready memefication (people posting instagram picks of themselves on profile in greyscale with a burst of rainbow light; the immediate sloganisation of "thank u, next"), largely made possible by ariana's status as the people's diva and locating her in a relationship of both similarity with and divergence from beyonce (sweaters with pink "surfboard" slogans; "I woke up like this"). You might describe the way they enter the new media slipstream as "seamless" and "hyperefficient" but there's nothing interchangeable with other pop products about those qualities.

It seems to me that if one was going to criticise them ("thank u, next" in particular) it would be to argue that much of their appeal is premised on these contextual effects, without which they're (it would be argued) weaksauce not hotsauce.

But since one does not have to divorce the songs from those effects, I ranked "thank u, next" pretty high up my list.

It’s also just a lazy description — you can literally hear the “seams” in “NTLTC,” that’s partly why it’s so compelling and unusual.

(It repeatedly employs an abruptly/harshly clipped vocal hook!)

kind of amazing that any "industry product" description of ariana's work, ESPECIALLY thank u next and no more tears to cry ignores the terrorist attack that intersected with her life only a year and a half before. both those songs are easily read and recognizable as deeply human responses. pop can be commercial and honest and it's silly to refuse to acknowledge that.

yeah I def reacted to "no tears..." specifically with that context in the front of my mind

and the association is still there

Tirzah – “Holding On” - wasn't sure how i was gonna dig it when they started playing 3 blind mice on a default synth setting but this one really comes together nice! i really like how clear her voice comes thru, it's a low key wonderful voice. if other songs are similar i could for sure see myself getting into this (in a way i didn't with e.g. nite jewel b/c i only liked one song)

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.)

This was one of my favorite songs of the year and one of my favorite albums of the decade. If I were a musician this would be the kind of album I’d love to create. It sounds like two good friends having fun with a 4-track and most of the time that’s the sort of vibe I look for in music.

Tim and jaymc tied for most votes in the top 77

― rob, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:55 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hivemind, baby! Unweighted ballot (bold did not place):

The 1975 - Love It If We Made It
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left to Cry
Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B - Finesse
Christine and the Queens - Doesn’t Matter
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Empress Of - When I'm with Him
Haley Heynderickx - The Bug Collector
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge
Iceage ft. Sky Ferreira - Pain Killer
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Kacey Musgraves - High Horse
Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
Laura Jean - Girls on the TV
Lizzo - Boys
Meshell Ndegeocello - Sensitivity
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Rae Morris - Do It
Raevyn Lave - Sticky
Robyn - Honey
Roisin Murphy - Plaything
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Mainland
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog
Sun-El Musician ft. Mlindo the Vocalist - Bamthathile
Tove Styrke - Say My Name

Just noticed that Phoebe Bridgers' "Motion Sickness" finished #94. I love it, but it came out in 2017, no?

i like the tirzah largely bc it reminded me (4 obv rzns) of mica levi's feeling romantic feeling tropical feeling ill tape, which is my favorite thing ever

do i need to post my ballot or will the overlords do this for me

Thursdays too forks got up early
and posted results in the blueblack cold,
then with jittery hands that ached
from perhaps an office job, who knows, made
ilxor hearts blaze. Everybody thanked Moka.

I’d wake and hear the votes splintering, breaking.
When the receptions were warm, he’d taunt us with fake-outs,
and slowly I would compose and then delete posts,
fearing the chronic angers of ilm.

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out Childish Gambino
and 78’d my #1 vote as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of music’s austere and lonely prejudices?

respect!

kind of amazing that any "industry product" description of ariana's work, ESPECIALLY thank u next and no more tears to cry ignores the terrorist attack that intersected with her life only a year and a half before. both those songs are easily read and recognizable as deeply human responses. pop can be commercial and honest and it's silly to refuse to acknowledge that.

i was going to post a glib suggestion that everyone stop 'overreacting' to my 'obviously' unserious quip but thank you for reminding me of this. y'all, i'm really sorry i went there. in retrospect i'm a bit ashamed i did. i hope i'll do better.

lol at "The Middle" only getting 36 points. One of the most ubiquitous songs around for at least part of 2018.

A lot of my votes came in at 78-150.

You know the drilo:

Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down
Thalia & Natti Natasha - No Me Acuerdo
MGMT - One Thing Left to Try
Yves Tumor - Noid
Pardison Fontaine ft. Cardi B - Backin' It Up
The Breeders – Dawn: Making an Effort
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Phase Modulation Shuffle
Ariana Grande – Breathin'
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - Land of Ra
Parquet Courts - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
Pusha T - The Story Of Adidon
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Royal Trux - Every Day Swan
Becky G and Natti Natasha - Sin Pijama
Greeicy - Mas Fuerte
Cardi B ft. Kehlani - Ring
Ariana Grande – God Is a Woman
The Armed - Luxury Themes
Ozuna - Unica
Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Gang Gang Dance - Lotus
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Kagney Necessary - Bombshell is Atomic

Thursdays too forks got up early
and posted results in the blueblack cold,
then with jittery hands that ached
from perhaps an office job, who knows, made
ilxor hearts blaze. Everybody thanked Moka.

I’d wake and hear the votes splintering, breaking.
When the receptions were warm, he’d taunt us with fake-outs,
and slowly I would compose and then delete posts,
fearing the chronic angers of ilm.

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out Childish Gambino
and 78’d my #1 vote as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of music’s austere and lonely prejudices?

― budo jeru

This is awesome

Thank you for posting my ballot, seandalai!

More poetry from Black Dresses fans in the next rollout, please. Great work!

Seandalai, would it be possible to send both my tracks and albums ballot to the email address I provided with the ballots? (I forgot to save the weighted lists.) Thanks!

mine, weighted

Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Nazar ft. Shannen SP - Airstrike
Autechre - all end
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Burna Boy - On the Low
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
LSDXOXO – Freakquency
Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
Amen Dunes - Miki Dora
Peach - Silky
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
OCB – Aquaquest Pt.2 (The Anticlimax)
700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop
Omar-S - Games That We Play
Tessela - Glisten
Nego do Borel - Me Solta
ANNA – Hidden Beauties (Original Mix)
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Jon Hopkins – Singularity (ANNA Remix)
Loidis – In the Place I Sit
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Lone - Pulsar
Bruce – What
Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)

First time hearing Black Dresses and they’re great. Where do you usually discuss them in here? Is there an esoteric thread I’m missing?

We haven't started a time-travel thread (i.e. weird/alt shit) this year yet but there's a dedicated BD thread basically: OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

new album in 4 days!

Uhhh any link to the stats yet? I didn't save my ballot locally. If not I'll just post my ballot here after the albums results I guess. One thing I do recall is that probably more than half my tracks list placed, which is an ILM first for me.

Oh never mind found the link!

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzfsaI__ThO3bvcUt4lYYTPBmNFDFteyVSzYgNlVvwE/edit?usp=sharing
Voter stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qead3e_uylrHxeAMI1pzfuVUqu-F6USOzpN8TJv9hlM/edit?usp=sharing
Artist results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11H0HCDx5tfKMNrlZyDyh1UHb7jtJwjYkgAyNKtfksBE/edit?usp=sharing

― seandalai, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:33 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you poll runners for another great poll! Electro/bobbins and afropop selections again held the best surprises for me - work kept me busy throughout 2018 so I mostly stuck with my comfort genres.

I went from mild indifference to the 1975 to active dislike throughout the rollout, thank fuck Peggy Gou saved us all.

Weighted ballot:

Mitski & Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
NCT U - Baby Don't Stop
Red Velvet - Bad Boy
SHINee - Good Evening
Tracey Thorn - Queen
Lucy Dacus - Night Shift
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Sunmi - Siren
(G)I-DLE - HANN (Alone)
Hyolyn - See Sea

Kimbra & DAWN - Version of Me
Robyn - Baby Forgive Me
Mariah Carey - GTFO
Melody's Echo Chamber - Desert Horse
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Troye Sivan ft. Ariana Grande - Dance To This
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
Rina Sawayama - Cherry
Simmy - Umahlalela
William Doyle - Millersdale

Lighting a candle for NCT U's "Baby Don't Stop", beloved favourite of K-pop thread regulars, absolutely no traction anywhere else.

Wow, I'm positively surprised that two other people besided me voted for "Koskematon", that's two more than I expected for a feministi rap tune (mostly) in Finnish. :)

Sad to see that only one other person besides me voted for Nao's "Drive and Disconnect"... For some reason I thought she was well-liked here? Hopefully the album'll do better in the poll.

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
Chief Keef - Bestie
Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Django Django - Champagne
Fisher - Losing It
Julia Jacklin - Head Alone
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing
Kidd Kenn - Slide Remix
Little Big - Skibidi
Low - Fly
Luckison - Mysticbanana
Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Shreya Ghoshal & Swaroop Khan - Ghoomar
They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
Tirzah - Guilty

Why does Christine & The Queens appear twice in the artists results (41 & 50)?

well, it was either that, "Latin," or "Global" and then fold in the K-Pop and Afropop and none of those things felt appropriate. I suppose I coulda gone with "Flamenco" but then that's just Rosalía and nothing else!
I hear you though. I could use better definitions when it comes to some of this stuff.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), 1. helmikuuta 2019 2:23

I think it would make sense to simply put them in the appropriate genres, for example the Rosalía tracks clearly are (among other things) pop, so why not file them under that? Lumping her with Latinx artists and styles is especially problematic, since she's from Spain and does pop music inspired by Spanish idioms - I think this kind of thinking might be a bit offensive to Latin Americans, who obviously have a very different and rich history of popular music styles, and many of whom have no great love for Spain, for obvious reasons.

For example, my wife (who's Costa Rican) found it problematic that in my record shelves, arranged by genre, I had a separate shelf for "world" music, i.e. records in non-Western genres. So I'd have Fela Kuti albums there sitting next so Elis Regina and Sheila Chandra and Johnny Pacheco. And she's right, "world" is not a genre and lumping all these artists together is quite Eurocentric, so nowadays I try to organise them according to their actual genres.

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme

ha, i'm listening to this now and i didn't even have to scroll up to know this was an emil.y pick <3

here's my mixed ballot

Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
t e l e p a t h & Agia - Desolation Of Darkness
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Red Velvet - Power Up
Domenique Dumont - Sans Cesse, Mon Cheri
Pilar Zeta - Moments of Reality

700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop
ACT! - Para
Bastion - Molitva
Dawn Richard & Mumdance - Guardian Angel
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Dumblonde - White Hot Lies
Fire-Toolz - ? iNTERBEiNG
joey B - stables
Mitski & Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths
Mother of Mars - Hera In The Valley
No Death - Angel Tech
Reckonwrong - Half A Pill
Robyn – Missing U
Simmy - Umahlalela
Sophie - immaterial
Shy Layers – Gateway
The Internet - Roll (Burbank Funk)
UNINAMISE - Rise of the Wolves
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Yandere

just two votes placed, doja cat and surprisingly my #1

forgot to vote for peach who did place, but also surprised not to see immaterial in the top 77

great year all round, many thanks to forks, seandalai and moka
big shout out to "stables" too

oh haha i had another 2 place that i hadn't realised i even voted for

Thanks poll-runners, brilliant job.

My unweighted ballot

Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Les Larmes D'un Ange Font Danser La Neige
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
Lizzo - Boys
Mac Miller ft. Thundercat - What's the Use
Simian Mobile Disco, Deep Throat Choir - Defender
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Videopath - And So Do Eye
YOTA ft. MF DOOM - Drop the Bomb
MEUTE - You & Me (Flume Remix)
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Daphne & Celeste - BB
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
Caroline Rose - Jeannie Becomes a Mom
Empath - The Eye
Gila – 106 Slipper
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
Childish Gambino - This Is America
MNEK - Tongue
mr twin sister – jaipur
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Shackleton - Wakefulness And Obsession
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms

die wilde jagd a great time travel success story. start this year's thread and i may even chip in a bit

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:

i know we don't rly get to be part of this as we basically double our voting power every year (to what avail?) but tt and i were the only voters for each other's #1s as well

oh i was wrong! DWJ were only rly ever mentioned on the 'your ten favourite albums of 2018 so far' thread

haha rip time travel (i'll start a new one in the next couple of weeks when i've done listening to the new euglossine and mukqs)

Just realised that (a) I forgot to vote for Doja Cat - Go To Town and (b) my vote would've put it up to #70.

what is this Doja Cat thing? People refused to vote for Gambino but went for this instead?

And Baby Shark? Ilxors are so old these days

Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá
Wizkid - Soco
Teni - Askamaya
Prince Kaybee - Banomoya
Niniola - Bana
Koffee - Toast
Burna Boy - Gbona
Skepta ft. Wizkid - Energy (stay far away)
Rosalía - Malamente
Kali Uchis - In My Dreams
Prince Kaybee - Club Controller
Burna Boy - Ph City Vibration
Julia Holter - Les Jeux to You
Mount Eerie - Earth
Kali Uchis - Tomorrow
Drake - God's Plan
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Kali Uchis - Tyrant
Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars
Julia Holter - Why Sad Song
Popcaan - Bulletproof
Busy Signal - Stay so
Jenny Hval - Spells
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
King Princess - Pussy Is God

Had I known about them, I would have definitely voted for: Itgehane, Octo Octa, potentially Hop Along and Powerglide. Feel a little bad for not giving votes to Sun-El, Simmy or Musgraves. Others: All my Dreams (Roísín Murphy), Le Soleil dans le Monde (Dumont).
My album poll should be more conventional.

nice list. I feel bad about Sun El too. I just didn't think anything on the album was quite (quite!) up to the majesty of Akanamali, but Sonini and a few others came very close.

thanks for running the poll! not a lot of traction here but just happy kkb made it!

Chief Keef - Bestie
Open Mike Eagle - Microfiche
Oso Oso – gb/ol h/nf
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
Deafheaven - Worthless Animal
JPEGMAFIA - I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies
Mitski - A Pearl
E-40 - The Pots & Pan Man
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Middle America
Rae Sremmurd - Touchscreen Navigation
Swearin' - Future Hell
70th Street Carlos - Change on Me
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake - King's Dead
Faith/Void - Theme from 'Embrace Nothingness' (Part Two)
No Age - Stuck in the Changer
Half Man Half Biscuit - Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Beach House - Black Car
SOB x RBE - Paramedic!
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Z-Money ft. Valee - Two 16's
The Armed - Luxury Themes

Unweighted, in descending order of chart position:

1 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
5 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
8 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
16 Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
25 Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
28 Lizzo - Boys
34 Tracey Thorn - Queen
39 Simmy - Umahlalela
47 Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
69 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight

87 Raveena - Honey
95 Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
126 Tracey Thorn - Dancefloor
133 Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
140 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
147 Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
146 Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
149 Robyn - Because It's in the Music
155 Disclosure & Fatoumata Diawara - Ultimatum
353 sun-el musician – sengimoja
373 Ashley Monroe- Hands on You
373 Róisín Murphy - Jacuzzi Rollercoaster
532 Joe Armon-Jones - Almost Went Too Far

And I was the only voter for:
676 The Shapeshifters ft. Teni Tinks - When Love Breaks Down
676 Jayda G & Alexa Dash - Praise The Groove

I'll be sure to check out your neglectorinos, saer. I've an anal quibble, however: Mihai Pol's 'Sfârșit' appears to be from 2015.

weighted, bold dnp:

Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Barker – Look How Hard I’ve Tried
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Peach - Silky
Nathan Micay - First Casualty
The 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess
Vendredi sur Mer - Ecoute Cherie
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Ariana Grande – God Is a Woman
Holy Ghost – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joeĺ Clausell's Harvest Remix)
James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead
Joe Armon-Jones - Almost Went Too Far
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Gang Gang Dance - Lotus
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Delicate Features - Attached
DJ Koze with Roisin Murphy – Illumination
Ghost - Danse Macabre (Carpenter Brut Remix)

Ffs bolded Ella Mai instead of Barker

Tuomas, first off: I don't think I knew you were married! Mazel! I've been on this board too long; still think of everybody as being in the same state in their twenties that they were when i first came on board.

Second, I don't argue with any of your points there; my designations of genre there follow the radio standards of the early aughts moreso than my own listening tastes and were intended at least partially as didactic enough to incite just the sort of comments you made. Certainly part of what makes Rosalía's work so interesting is how it takes an out-of-the-pop-sphere style and infuses it with the contemporary... but I don't think it would get pop radio airplay stateside. Influx of Bad Bunny and BTS and a bunch of other things may be changing that now tho'!

And yes, "global" is increasingly unhelpful as a demarcation of style, if it ever was. Classifiers gotta classify!

Mixed:

Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Carly Rae Jepsen - Party For One
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Mr Twin Sister - Power of Two
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
charlie puth ft. kehlani - done for me
Simmy - Umahlalela
Raveena - Honey
Georgia - Started Out
Datarock - Feathers and Wax
Pale Waves - One More Time

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan - 1999
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Peach - Silky
Man Power - Barranquila Trife (Ruf Dug Zouk Mix)
The Regrettes - Helpless
Omar-S - Games That We Play
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Sade – Flower of the Universe
Farao - Marry Me
The Orielles - I Only Bought It For The Bottle
The Aces - Volcanic Love
mewithoutyou - Julia
Jimothy Lacoste - Subway System

Poor old Jimothy Lacoste. Same number of votes as Robyn & Julia Holter yet finishes way down in 108th place

Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Moses Sumney - Rank & File
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
Janelle Monáe - Americans
Kanye West - Ghost Town
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
BTS - Idol
Daphne & Celeste - BB
Dirty Projectors - Break-Thru
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Naira Marley - Issa Goal
Naza - Putain de merde
EXO - Tempo
Yves Tumor - Noid
Migos - Stir Fry
Simmy - Umahlalela
Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá
Cardi B ft. Chance the Rapper – Best Life
Aya Nakamura - Djadja
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
Post Malone - Sunflower
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan - 1999
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide

I don't quite get what happened here. How did something like Idol not place? I'm getting old :(

My favourite song in the Top 177 that I hadn't heard before was 'Dancing With Character' by Rae Morris.

"Idol" not placing is just the usual kpop problem of 'too niche and too much vote splitting between the few fans here'. even though BTS have had actual US chart success and even some radio play now i get the impression that's more from just having a huge cult fanbase rather than truly having made it into the mainstream as anything more than a fringe presence

I was taking some agents round a private school residence a few months ago, and judging from the posters everywhere, BTS are the biggest group in the world right now (or possibly there were a load of Korean girls staying there)

I have very faint hopes that the Rae Morris album might place next week.

My favourite song in the Top 177 that I hadn't heard before was 'Dancing With Character' by Rae Morris.

Was hoping that would place.

Will be surprised if the album doesn't sneak into the 77

My unweighted ballot; bold = dnp, bold italic = sole voter

A Certain Ratio ft. Barry Adamson & Tony Wilson - Dirty Boy
Aly & AJ - With You
Axolotes Mexicanos - Doble Check
Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown
Calibro 35 - SuperStudio
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Mannequin Metric
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Such a Remarkable Day
cupcakKe - Duck Duck Goose
Dawn Richard & Mumdance - Guardian Angel
DJ Koze - The Love Truck
Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby
GIRLI - Day Month Second
Kali Uchis - In My Dreams
Le SuperHomard - Paper Girl
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Nao - Drive and Disconnect
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Raveena - Honey
Red Velvet - Bad Boy
Rhye - Song For You
Riton ft. Kah-Lo - Ginger
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
TWICE - Sweet Talker
ZHU and Tame Impala - My Life

Bonus content - nominated songs that I voted for in the Freaky Trigger EOY poll but not in this one:

Christine and the Queens ft. Dâm-Funk - Girlfriend
Tove Styrke - On the Low
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity
Mariah Carey - A No No
Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2

Bold didn't place, mixed ballot.

Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Tracey Thorn - Queen
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Find a Home
Marie Davidson - Work It
Neko Case - Halls of Sarah
Neneh Cherry - Fallen Leaves
Nightmares on Wax - Citizen Kane
Janelle Monáe - I Like That
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Tracey Thorn - Dancefloor
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Juliana Hatfield - Physical
Kali Uchis - In My Dreams

Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
Hayley Hendericks - Oom Sha La La
Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Lizzo - Boys
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Richard Hawley & Corinne Bailey Rae - I Still Want You

Ha, just realised I voted for #1 and #77, very pleasing.

ha well, i srsly think i only started two threads on ilm this year: one was for peggy gou, the other was for kali uchis!

Ha, just realised I voted for #1 and #77, very pleasing.
Snap!

I could easily have voted for many things on your ballot, actually.

And yet the algorithm sez you are not my nearest neighbour *shrug emoji*

weighted

Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Yves Tumor - Noid
Mitski - Why Didn't You Stop Me?
Wye Oak - It Was Not Natural
Yo La Tengo - What Chance Have I Got
Low - Always Trying to Work It Out
The Breeders - All Nerve
Yves Tumor - Lifetime
Miss Information - Theme
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Spellling - Hard to Please
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Middle America
serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart
Yves Tumor ft. James K - Licking an Orchid
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Frankie Cosmos - Caramelize
Neneh Cherry - Kong
Kali Uchis - Tomorrow
Tirzah - Holding On
Natalie Prass - Hot for the Mountain
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
The Spook School - Still Alive
Smokescreens - Someone New

Voters topping the charts

Most lonely: saer :(
Top blood sausage m8: toby
The fuxxoriest fuxxor: Indexed
The infinite antifuxxors: imago, breastcrawl, MarkoP, Dinsdale, kruezer2, tangenttangent, daavid, Odysseus, peepee, saer
Hivemind queen: Murgatroid

― seandalai, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:43 (fourteen hours ago) Permalink

Curious to know how I got the highest fuxxor but matched to Spin. There were a handful songs I wanted to vote for that no one nominated...my own damn fault.

Could you please post my ballot?

another try.

ranked, bold didn't place:

Low - Fly
Die Nerven – Niemals
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
okkervil river - famous tracheotomies
Snail Mail - Speaking Terms
Hollydays – L’odeur des joints
The Breeders - MetaGoth
Beliu – Win Everyday
J Mascis - See You at the Movies
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Malakoff Kowalski - My First Piano
The Beths - Little Death
Grouper - Parking Lot
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Melody's Echo Chamber - Shirim
Parquet Courts - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
The Nels Cline 4 - Imperfect 10
Tocotronic – Bis uns das Licht vertreibt
Richard Thompson - The Storm Won't Come
Aimee Mann - Drive
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Element of Crime – Am ersten Sonntag nach dem Weltuntergang
Johnny Marr – Hi Hello
Tracey Thorn - Smoke

house and techno bobbins 2018 ranked

Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Mandar - String Theory
Kettenkarussel - Maybe
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
DJ Koze - Pick Up
TRP - Things Won't Change
Baba Stiltz - Serve
Shakedown - At Night (Peggy Gou's Acid Journey Remix)
Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough
Marie Davidson - Work It
Jimpster - Curve
Kettama - B O D Y
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake (Danny Krivit Re-Edit)
Gene On Earth - Crimbo 16
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Helium
Lone - Pulsar
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joe Clausell's Harvest Remix)
Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Monolithic - Time
Ross from Friends - John Cage
Nathan Micay - First Casualty
River Yarra ft. Elen Huynth - Respiration Alternée
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis
Butch – Countach

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out Childish Gambino
and 78’d my #1 vote as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of music’s austere and lonely prejudices?

― budo jeru, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Gene On Earth - Crimbo 16
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Helium

― davey, Friday, 1 February 2019 17:05 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

🍻🍻 - another starry eyed docker on shore leave has appeared

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
Chief Keef - Bestie
Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Django Django - Champagne
Fisher - Losing It
Julia Jacklin - Head Alone
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing
Kidd Kenn - Slide Remix
Little Big - Skibidi
Low - Fly
Luckison - Mysticbanana
Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Shreya Ghoshal & Swaroop Khan - Ghoomar
They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
Tirzah - Guilty

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love Is A Wild Thing was my #1 -- i have no problem w/the other two Kacey songs that placed but I think it's pretty insane I was the only one to vote for this!

cheers to you, saer!

my magical music moment of the year: when low played fly in the festsaal kreuzberg. for me this is the song of the rise of lazarus, unbelievably uplifting.

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:
Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
Chief Keef - Bestie
Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Django Django - Champagne
Fisher - Losing It
Julia Jacklin - Head Alone
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing
Kidd Kenn - Slide Remix
Little Big - Skibidi
Low - Fly
Luckison - Mysticbanana
Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Shreya Ghoshal & Swaroop Khan - Ghoomar
They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
Tirzah - Guilty

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sigh. I feared this would happen :( Come on people, isn't this the nicest thing ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SciUYMSnBs

As a complete ilm noob, pretty please, what's a fuxxor and antifuxxor, and a blood sausage ?

wait, someone put the demo version of "Last Wave" as #1 !? that's kind of amazing

I did not get around to voting this year but this would have been my ballot:

Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok ft. Kendrick Lamar - Opp
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Orbital - P.H.U.K.
Let's Eat Grandma – Hot Pink
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Post Malone - Sunflower
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Drake - Nice For What
Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
Underworld and Ø [Phase] - Dexters Chalk
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake - King's Dead
Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars
Let's Eat Grandma - It's Not Just Me
serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Low – Disarray
Let’s Eat Grandma- Snakes & Ladders

I also would have tried to write in "Skylarking" by FACS, "THE BLUES" by Tobe Nwigwe, "Before the Sun Goes Down" by The New Respects, and "Ocean" by Goldfrapp/Dave Gahan

oh, and "Skibidi"

Little Big - Skibidi

This was my entire tracks ballot.

I left you out to dry ;_;

*sigh*

As a complete ilm noob, pretty please, what's a fuxxor and antifuxxor, and a blood sausage ?

― Nabozo, Friday, 1 February 2019 21:04 (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

titles in the peerage of ilmovia

Some further explanation here: ILM 2015 Tracks Poll Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Community-wide Anomie

Why does Christine & The Queens appear twice in the artists results (41 & 50)?

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 1 February 2019 07:46 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehh...because I had a bug in the code. Fixed now! Thanks for spotting.

Ballot of Indexed

Robyn - Honey
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Chance The Rapper - 65th & Ingleside
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode

MGMT - when you die
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Patawawa - Patagonia
now, now – knowme
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Valee – Vlone
Christine & The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de soleil)
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Troye Sivan – My! My! My!
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Snail Mail – Pristine
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Nabozo:

Fuxxor Quotient = the proportion of tracks on your ballot that were in Pitchfork's top 100. I believe the term derives from 'corny indie fuXXor', which is a very old ILM in-joke / term of abuse / badge of honour. (Search old threads for 'corny indie' for examples.)

Antifuxxor Ratio = your ILM Hivemind score divided by your Fuxxor Quotient. A high ratio means your taste is much closer to that of ILM than to that of Pitchfork. Infinite antifuxxor ratio = supposedly a good thing.

Blood Sausage Index = The average points total for tracks that didn't appear on the most well known online/critics' EOY lists. Essentially, whether you love songs that nobody outside of ILM cares or knows about. I can't remember why 'blood sausage' though.

xxxp

Thx seandalai, those stats are fun. I guess 6.5 anti-p4k and 68-ilmonly is not bad for a first poll here :P Longneck is my best pal.. and I DO read The Guardian v_v

Oh thanks Jeff for the additional explanations, I like those obscure names.

I remember "blood sausage" morphed into an ILM/ILX in-joke but I don't remember how

wow i finally know what blood sausage index is

blood sausage = only the british like it? lots of Manic Street Preachers and the like?

Thank you, seandalai!

Bolded didn't place. Underlined are ones I believe I discovered on the nominations list.

Robyn - Honey
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Chance The Rapper - 65th & Ingleside
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode

MGMT - when you die
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Patawawa - Patagonia
now, now – knowme
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Valee – Vlone
Christine & The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de soleil)
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Troye Sivan – My! My! My!
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Snail Mail – Pristine
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Singles I would have voted for had they been nominated:

Ashley McBryde - Girl Goin Nowhere
boygenius - Me & My Dog
Foxing - Nearer My God
Charlie Puth - Boy
Whitey Morgan & The 78s - Around Here
Belle Plaine - For All Those Who I Loved

it was whiney related xp

Search 'pippa's arse'

Alexa, what's the newsy wewsies?

british for blood sausage is black pudding xps

/tests out random tracks
more than half of this list is just dance club music

someone once told me, and i will eating a black pudding is like eating a giant scab

never forgetting that comparison

still tasty

that eating*

Late to discussion re appeal of "Itgehane": I agree with characterizations such as "extremely warm and feel-good", "beautiful sparkling construction" etc, BUT would add that as well as being top bobbins it also works p well as an actual words-and-tune song. (The Orielles cover really brought this out for me.) This most likely broadened its appeal even more, I'd guess.

^^^ cosign. if you missed it, the peggy gou remix of "at night" was nominated and is similarly gorgeous and euphoric.

My weighted infinite antifuxxor tracks ballot:

bold: did not place, italic: sole voter

Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli - Soco (#61)
Starboy ft. Duncan Mighty & Wizkid - Fake Love (#152)
Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNS - Banomoya (#59)
GuiltyBeatz ft. Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo & Patapaa - Akwaaba (#226)
Olamide - Logba Logba (#517)
Burna Boy - Gbona (#97)
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry (#5)
Olamide & Wizkid - Kana (#337)
Prince Kaybee ft. LaSoulmates, TNS & Zanda Zakuza - Club Controller (#196)
Lalo Ebratt - Mocca (+ Remix ft. J Balvin) (#622)
Wizkid - Fever (#143)
DJ Spinall ft. Kizz Daniel - Baba (#661)
Zinaro ft. JB of Thee Legacy & Dust - Dali Wami (#676)
Simmy - Umahlalela (#39)
Burna Boy - On the Low (#207)
DJ Spinall ft. Wizkid - Nowo (#840)
DJ Tunez ft. Reekado Banks & Wizkid - Turn Up (#868)
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss (#147)
Idowest ft. Davido - Ji Masun (#921)
Mayorkun ft. Davido - Bobo (#940)
Aya Nakamura - Djadja (#392)
Saad Lamjarred - Ghazali (#965)
Rayvanny - Chombo (#979)
Eddy Kenzo - Your Value (Super Dopa) (#423)
DJ Snake ft. Ozuna, Cardi B & Selena Gomez - Taki Taki (#1002)

Tracks I nominated that got sole votes from others:

Rosalía - Di Mi Nombre (#517)
Dladla Mshunqisi ft. Nokwazi & Prince Kaybee - Wangibamba (#661) (yes!!!!)
Wande Coal - So Mi So (#882)

Special shout out to the other person who voted for Eddy Kenzo’s “Your Value (Super Dopa)”, as their #4 no less!

...and to my top neighbour, longneck (who’d have thought!)

Oh, and honorable mention for best discovery from the rollout: “2000 Elefanten” by Die Wilde Jagd.

Re: the Burna bloodbath: not surprised by the vote splitting, but the dismal showing of “Ye” is kind of shocking nonetheless. It does bode extremely well for the album poll though. Looks like we have at least 8 people who have Outside very high on their ballot.

Actually it was interesting to run through the list and think about which other languages were represented. I miss, but am too lazy to reproduce, lex's geographic breakdown that he'd always have ready right at the end

― rob, vrijdag 1 februari 2019 1:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I’m late to this thread, so I saw this post only now, but you're in luck: I posted a country breakdown in the rollout thread yesterday. Here it is, in a slightly tweaked version (cheers, Tuomas!):

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

YOUR *UPDATED* OFFICIAL COUNTRY BREAKDOWN:

AUSTRALIA (4): Hatchie, The Chats, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Laura Jean
CANADA (3): Marie Davidson, Peach, Drake
COLOMBIA (5⁄6): [Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny &] J Balvin (⅓), Kali Uchis (½)
DENMARK (1): Kasper Marott
FRANCE (1½): Christine and the Queens [ft. Dâm-Funk] (1½)
GERMANY (4⅓): Die Wilde Jagd, [Talaboman/] Superpitcher (⅓), Kim Petras, DJ Koze, Helena Hauff
HONDURAS (½): Empress Of (½)
IRELAND (2): Krystal Klear, Roísín Murphy
ITALY (1): Donato Dozzy
JAPAN (1): Mitski (2 x ½)
NEW ZEALAND (2): The Beths (2)
NIGERIA (1): Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli
PUERTO RICO (⅓): [Cardi B ft.] Bad Bunny [& J Balvin] (⅓)
SOUTH AFRICA (3): Simmy (ft. Sun-El Musician) (2); Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNS
SOUTH KOREA (2): Peggy Gou, Red Velvet
SPAIN (2⅓): Rosalía (2), Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
SWEDEN (1⅓): Robyn, Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
UK (13): The 1975 (4), Ella Mai, Jessie Ware, Kero Kero Bonito, Tirzah, Tracey Thorn, Let’s Eat Grandma, Autechre, Jon Hopkins, Fabiana Palladino
USA (32 5⁄6): Lana Del Rey (2); Ariana Grande (2), Janelle Monáe, Mitski (2 x ½), Kacey Musgraves (2); Sheck Wes, Julia Holter, Pusha T, Empress Of (½), Eris Drew, Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J, [Christine and the Queens ft.] Dâm-Funk (½), Lizzo, Octo Octa, Khalid ft. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign, Valee ft. Jeremih, Doja Cat, Beach House, MGMT (2), Mr. Twin Sister (2); Natalie Prass, Hop Along, Cardi B [ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin] (⅓), mewithoutyou, Toni Braxton, Soccer Mommy, Ravyn Lenae, Parquet Courts, Andrew W.K., Kali Uchis (½)

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

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

Re: the Burna bloodbath: not surprised by the vote splitting, but the dismal showing of “Ye” is kind of shocking nonetheless. It does bode extremely well for the album poll though. Looks like we have at least 8 people who have Outside very high on their ballot.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, February 2, 2019 9:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think I've voted for it. I only vote for real music on the albums poll, the singles here are just for kicks.
*checks, no I lie, I did vote for it.

I only vote for real music on the albums poll, the singles here are just for kicks.

haha this is my approach too

Albums are just singles with more extra tracks on them

Most of the time, yes. Anyway, cheers to rob, breastcrawl and everyone else keeping the afro-caribbean threads rolling. Wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.

Spoilers: the albums poll has way more genre variety than the singles one and ilm delivers better results than most eoy lists

You're preaching to the choir :) I think that self-congratulation is probably exactly what gives us 1975 feasts though :P

this year's tracks poll just felt like there was barely any consensus at all so it was mostly just established ILM favourites doing well by default? at least compared to say the last two years which felt a little more unpredictable over the first few days

The albums poll is where it's at, though I'm pretty sure not a single one of my classical noms will place. Not that I did much in the way of campaigning, mind you.

My focus is totally on singles/individual tracks. Every year, there are at the very least 50 tracks that I could put on my tracks ballot with good conscience. Whereas with albums, there are only about a dozen that I’ve lived with enough throughout the year to confidently place them. This is purely a matter of priorities and time management. There’s many more albums that I know I like because I’ve listened to them once or twice (and I do fill up the rest of my ballot with those), or would/could like if I’d only make time for them, but first things first, you know, and the genres I (want and need to) listen to the most are heavily singles-focussed.

Amen.

(And of course, I’m missing out on a lot, but aren’t we all? As we speak, I’m listening to my “2018 catch-up albums” playlist, filled with albums that sounded by their recommendations (mainly here on ILM) like stuff I would like, and “Warrior Dance” by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids came up, and wow, just wow!)

tracks poll > albums, idk why but it’s more exciting to me

A nice thing about the tracks poll is that you can listen and comment on the rollout in real time (unless some hour-long ambient thing gets in). Albums are generally too long to do more than sample them. It also helped that I was hearing almost everything for the first time.

Still, I'm excited for the albums rollout.

Historically the tracks rollout makes for a better thread since people can listen to the songs more or less in real time, or at least do those end of the day round-ups, and talk about them so it tended to be the livelier one. (xpost)

Usually I'm with breastcrawl and longneck on tracks over albums, but this year I think I'm slightly more invested in my top albums than my top tracks? Plus if Burna Boy and Popcaan both place (latter is a little doubtful), the resulting list will better reflect my taste than the tracks did--it also helps that I got into a bunch of jazz last year. That said, I didn't even vote for a full 25 albums while culling my tracks ballot was as hard as it always is.

The whole Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids album is awesome!

I'm more of a tracks person than an albums person in general but the albums poll has been consistently more diverse, surprising and interesting than the tracks poll for the last few years. And you can set up months' worth of listening from it.

Yes, as Simon might point out, it probably helps that you can't generally nominate multiple albums from a single artist

Strong list this year. Of the tracks that I hadn't heard before (ie almost all of them) I particularly enjoyed Mo Bamba, Mariners Apartment Complex, Holding On, Powerglide, Donnie Darko, Womp Womp, Lemon Glow, Smoko, Nice For What, Girls On The TV and In My Dreams, so thanks to whoever nominated them and thanks to all the organisers.

Here's my list, unweighted

(7th) CB - Talk On My Name
(Hit Squad) Mad Max x (Zone 2) Karma – Facts
Ambush - Man Can't
Cadet x Deno – Advice (Dele Alli)
Carla Dal Forno - Summertime Sadness
CS + Kreme – Husk
DigDat - Air Force
Dizzee Rascal - Don't Gas Me
Domenique Dumont - Sans Cesse, Mon Cheri
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Headie One X RV - Know Better
J Hus - Dark Vader
James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead
Jay Glass Dubs - The Sweetest Dub
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
K Trap - Anything Else
Kasper Marrot – Keflavik
KO - Never Know
Lady Leshurr – RIP
Mr Fingers - Crying Over You
Ossia - Dub Hell
Parris - Puro Rosaceae
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Shackleton - Wakefulness And Obsession
Unknown T – Homerton B

The whole Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids album is awesome!

oh I did, yes thank you!

not sure what the Ackamoor album's chances are. tbh I heard it so late in the year that I didn't even rank it very highly (see also: Simmy), but given its mix of jazz and afrobeat (singular) it could have wider appeal than some of the jazz I'm assuming is going to show

My comment above was half-trolling half-teasing, but since a conversation emerged I'll weigh in.
I appreciate >sum-of-their-parts albums just as I appreciate albums that go for bang / rely on track strength. No album that contains 3-4 bangers can be bad in my experience, and I prefer to tolerate filler next to greatness than settle for applied, well-crafted, consistent mediocrity. Many genres have always sit in-between being track-based or album-based (even dad-rock albums had their focus on hits for ex.) and that's maybe the ideal combination to have the best of both worlds. And nowadays we have this movement presenting pop more and more as albums, more and more perfected (well, it's not really new). Just as indie did, and ILM at least seems convinced or we wouldn't have it appear in the tracks poll. It's not easy and pointless to cut in the middle. So, based on the same genres and taste, I think I still get surprises and that pushes me to be flexible, like I almost get to choose how I want to experience and keep something.

I thought the 2017 tracks results were garbage, and 2018's tracks are a huge improvement. Also congrats to ILM on getting over your guitar phobia.

Slightly preferred 2017 I think? Had L'Rain, introduced me to Akrakabo. TBH I miss the days when Jute Gyte and Oranssi Pazuzu could just mosey on in amongst the pop-house

Oh and Blue Pedro ffs!

OK I've scrolled through last year's tracks 77. It's about 10x more interesting, diverse and fun as this year's imo

as/than

tough to separate the two

must've been the lower participation

I don't recall any huge discoveries from last year's list, although the tracks results from every year as long as I can remember help me re-discover stuff I forgot. The big one from last year for me was "Girl Front."

lol i was listening to "girl front" when i opened this thread, such a good song

for anyone enjoying the ongoing genre-blind listening mix and looking to get a jump on 2019, feel free to join us here:
Listening to ILM Listen: February 2019 - Collaborative Listening Project

another re-discovery from 2015's results. the song that got me into ty$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzOQO1jBIU

I got *extremely* lucky and found a sealed vinyl copy of Raveena’s “Shanti” EP on vinyl (filed under “S”, lol) for a few bucks. Released awhile back, purple wax, OOP R@RE! Eight tracks including Honey and...she is really, really good.

^ weirdly, this was released by VNYL, that bullshit subscription service from the “shady scams” thread (i think)

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sorry, didn’t mean to throw water on your find, which is awesome !

just thought it was peculiar

Heads up for anyone planning on voting in 2019 who doesn't quite feel plugged into that ILM vibe that I've been on the watchtower pulling tracks from all the yearly genre threads and organizing them by month. If you wanna take a blind stab at the past eight months of talked about music (or, you know, about the 75%-85% of it that shows up on spotify), give these 1100+ songs a go and you'll be zeitgeisty as can be:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=7iX5VgKHTOeZxvbfG8Pb5w

13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”

think this would've been #1 on my ballot if I'd heard it soon enough