ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015

"No Sleeep" missed my ballot but i'm happy to see it here. such a relaxed, unlikely comeback single.

janet's album went overrated to underrated really really fast

love No Sleeep but it didn't quite make my ballot

Didn't vote for it but glad it made the cut!

76 RADIOHEAD "Spectre" (184 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 465 / Youtube

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Who voted for first place - WE NEED NAMES!

http://i.imgur.com/8TmVz12.jpg

71 SHURA "White Light" (192 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube

good couple of years for shura
voted for 2shy iirc

ended up voting for 2Shy over this but glad to see it make it

Never heard of this before - I like it, it's cool.

Have tried and tried with Shura but her songs just never stick with me.

hadn't any idea who this was until recently but my first impression is that i like this better than "2shy" which is too ~precious~ for me to actually want to listen to it

This was one of my best discoveries from listening to the Spotify playlist. I liked 2Shy a lot too but White Light made my list. Hope her album is coming soon.

shura's music never clicks w me either, it feels very on-the-nose and effortful, you can hear the checklist of trends being ticked off in her major label meeting and they get an ok, adequate-not-great song out of it but i am unsurprised that the general public doesn't care

never heard that before, I could be on board with that being the 71st best song of the year

I voted for this. Factory Floor Remix is banging too.

So here's some interesting (to me at least) metrics with regard to the 77's inclusion in spotify's catalogue: of the 77 placing tracks, only eight are not available in the US... so something less than 10% of the winners. One of those tracks is available in the UK and one other will almost certainly be added to the service's catalogue once the album the song's on is released.

Thus far, we're lacking Radiohead's "Spectre", which will likely be a b-side sooner or later and BOTH of the tied songs that fall next at #69 on the countdown.

http://i.imgur.com/05R9KAu.jpg

TIE-69 GESU NO KIWAMI OTOME "Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" (194 points, 5 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 465 / Youtube

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

TIE-69 HEAVY-K FT. NOKWAZI "Sweetie" (194 points, 5 votes)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube

The Heavy-K song IS available on UK spotify and has been added... it'll read as invisible to 'Murricans.

Both those tracks are awesome btw and deserve your ears ASAP!

ahhhh the heavy-k single i didn't vote for has placed, it's brilliant AND it gives me hope for both the heavy-k single i did vote for, and more afrobeats in general

what the heck are these things? they look fun.

SWEETIE SWEETIE!

ooh dang, never heard this before but so far this is the first of the rollout that i'm really feeling

"sweetie" that is

Oh that's sweet the Gesu track made it. They've been putting out stuff like this for a while and sorta blew up this year. Jazz hands that's not annoying just a lot of unpredictable fun.

G.N.K. Otome was a Singles Jukebox pick last year and a lot of people on here place it highly, me included. It's a stupid fun song!

it sounds like three different songs at once that have been nicely synced, which is to say it's prog i suppose.

yeah this gesu track is good. reminds me of la case azul or something but not as egregiously twee. some nice math-rocky flourishes here and there.

My second or third favorite track of the year. I love how well it develops its parts.

Voted for the Gesu track as well. And they just released their new album last week.

sweetie is just a big powerful club song with meaty vocals and killer percussion.

How have I not heard this Heavy K track before?

I really like Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No but forgot to vote for it. will have to check out their new album soon. hadn't heard Sweetie before but it's really nice too

this rollout is already better than my ballot

Really don't like the Gesu No Kiwami Otome track. I think it's the same reason I couldn't bring myself to vote for Joanna Wang this year... the ideas behind it are fine, but right now "arch and perky" is an aesthetic I cannot bear.

my god "sweetie" is just blowing me away and i'm only on my second listen 0_0

how is it arch? I'm curious.

i think the support on 'Sweetie' comes from Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2015 thread

Everyone should bookmark the 2016 thread; there's already a number of bangers on there:
Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2016

damn and i thought i'd been following the acrobats (AFROBEATS GODDAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT) thread closely this year. Must have missed a bit.

That Gesu track is pretty 'arch' to be fair.

"Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" is not my type of music, but the video was fun to watch. "Sweetie" on the other hand is pretty awesome, gotta pay more attention to those Afrobeat threads.

Yeah, I remember saying I would pay more attention last year, completely failed.

The Shura tune is nice too, better than "2Shy". I wish she had some new angle to her pastiche, but at least this one has a proper dance groove, "2Shy" is just too much 80s syrup.

http://i.imgur.com/Wmht4Eo.jpg

68 BRANDON FLOWERS "Between Me and You" (194 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube

So is this guy like the son of Mike Flowers? He sounds like him.

Flowers' album caught me by surprise: no idea he could write ridiculous-good instead of ridiculous-bad at this point in his career.

We were doing so well. What happened?

(to be honest, I've not heard this before but I can't imagine liking it)

*listens*

yeah this is cobblers.

I would've voted for "Can't Deny My Love"

can't deny my love for this record, nowhere near my top 25 but cool to see it here

(could some britisher please fix the playlist? it's a pain to manage on the web interface. just put sweetie between the brandon flowers and shura songs; it's collaborative at the moment to allow for this. thanks!)

Why does ILM like these pitch-perfect past pop pastiches so much? I thought people here were forward-looking?