ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

I expect a lot of complaints about moaning but this really is a lovely song, restrained in ways I didn't know they were really capable of

I do wonder when when ILM EOY lists will stop to be populated with 1980s-sounding dance pop, feels like this has been going for 10 years or more? There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?

― Tuomas

Thanks for letting us know. There hasn't actually been that much 80s-sounding dance pop this year.

This is the best on the album imo. Not amazing, but not bad either

lmao a bunch of radiohead trax are gonna place

or at least this and "true love waits"

There are other kinds of dance music too, you know?

yeah like that alex anwandter track that's two places above it

This is the best song on the album by far. I actually quite like it. Rest of the album's a bit of a dirge but this is worth hearing

don't think true love waits was nominated, just this and burn the witch?

yeah like that alex anwandter track that's two places above it

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

thank you -- was gonna say. And Rokysopp. And several of yesterday's selections.

don't think true love waits was nominated, just this and burn the witch?

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:10 AM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh thank goodness

i like the album but i briefly got a "half of that vampire weekend album placed in the tracks poll" vibe

That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer.

i think this board has mellowed on radiohead considerably anyway, though maybe the albums poll will prove me wrong

That Royksopp song is awful and a terrible use of a great singer

I didn't care for this when it showed up in the nominations playlist, but listening now and pretending it isn't Susanne Sundfør is making it much more palatable.

FUCK RADIOHEAD

lmao

would be surprised if the Radiohead album didn't Top 10 at least, even if it didn't place particularly high it probably got on the most ballots

I got about 40 seconds into that and went and put on Paramore's Daydreaming instead.

Going by the results of the Pitchfork top 30 albums poll, I think the album will probably be right up there.

Same with the Mercury Music Prize poll.

FUCK RADIOHEAD

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:15 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gross dude, they're kind of old and weedy

i think this board has mellowed on radiohead considerably anyway, though maybe the albums poll will prove me wrong

― ciderpress, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:13 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the decline of ilx is REAL

I got about 40 seconds into that and went and put on Paramore's Daydreaming instead.

Lol, aaw. Not a bad idea

p sure they've always done very well on ILX polls? how would this signal a decline? xp

Cannot restate 'you're not listening to the right indie rock' enough. Also, if there are literally hundreds of albums like that Comet Control song, um, can I please hear them? I mean, I've heard as much 90's space rock as anyone should, and this feels more glorious than p much all of it, but maybe I missed a few hundred albums here and there?

― left hand hierarchy (imago), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:58 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sure you and emil.y are right about that and I'm sorry for writing off the entire "genre." idk what a better shorthand would be, acclaimed indie? the random indie that crosses my radar? as a lapsed indie listener, I remain surprised at how lots of it these days has turned into a kind of ritualized folk music, reproducing the same touchstones over and over

I wasn't really exaggerating about "hundreds of albums"--dude bought 10-20 records per week and while his tastes weren't entirely narrow, he did buy anything that could even remotely be described as space rock. those bands have all dissolved in my memory into a stew of astronomical references. idk, have you heard 7% Solution's first album?

I don't think I've ever heard a Röyksopp song that I've liked more than "Poor Leno"

there is nothing wrong with hating radiohead, can't they just fuck off, finally.

LOL Lex is that Radiohead's font?

p sure they've always done very well on ILX polls? how would this signal a decline? xp

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.),

This was my thought too. Doesn't this logic mean the board has been in decline pretty much since it started?

this doesnt even seem good for radiohead

iirc there was a fake david axelrod one on the album that sounded okay idk

http://i.imgur.com/mVyJq3N.jpg

33 RIHANNA ”Kiss It Better” [264 points, 10 votes]
https://youtu.be/49lY0HqqUVc

Yes! The highlight of Anti. One of the best songs she's ever done.

*heart eyes emoji*

Like but do wish that had been the duet with Miguel it seemed to be screaming out to be.

LOLZ at predictable fury that some people like a track by Radiohead. I'm not a fan, but have to admit that this & Burn The Witch are both pretty good, though I'd say Daydreaming doesn't get really good until about four minutes in.

love the beginning of this song so much, a chintzy sounding drum machine out of which lushness blooms, etc.

ft tuomas on lead guitar

lol

this rih is great and emblematic of the album as impulsive engrossing hot mess - never clear who is rly dealer or drugged and whose pride is at stake, and then the 2nd verse is just the 1st again lolz

lolz or repeated to underscore its ambiguity, whatever

catching up still but both "cry" and "no problem" are fantastic

i love how joyful "no problem" is

even wayne's verse is good

I like Radiohead and both this song and album but honestly who can be even remotely fucked to defend them against anyone in 2017?

Rihanna tune is great, maybe I should actually listen to the album - everyone had pretty much written it off by the time I even got round to thinking about it but it appears there's a reappraisal going on now?

man fuck your pride!

it is easily her best album as personal statement

oh my god broccoli is so good

who can be even remotely fucked to defend them against anyone in 2017?

yeah really, not like they're going to win new converts

as a liker of some rih things idrg "Kiss it Better" tbh

the rihanna album is a real mess, very high highs and very low lows. kiss it better one of the highs obv

i love the way the sped-up gospel choir on no problem feels constantly on the verge of explosion

i still would love to hear a version of "kiss it better" that had..... better taste wrt to the guitar, but i recognize it mostly as a minor classic and w/in the context of anti it's great

the four tet remix is also wonderful

and then the 2nd verse is just the 1st again lolz

― r|t|c, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:35 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the kind of thing that made me rub my eyes in disbelief that the album got talked up as High Art because of its Tortured Perfectionist Gestation. they literally didn't bother writing a second verse!

it's great anyway obv, who cares when it feels like crack

'i miss the old kanye' >>>>>>>>>>>> 'no problem'

i never noticed that they repeated the verses...