ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

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...

BTW, in case anyone didn't catch it, the playlist is updated and running

ILM's Top 77 Singles for 2016

i still would love to hear a version of "kiss it better" that had..... better taste wrt to the guitar

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2017 15:49 Bookmark

ahhhh this is so wronnnnnnng

yeah the guitar squalling away really elevates it, since when would tastefulness suit rihanna anyway

fuck your pride!

"work from home" has that same feel as 2014's "post to be" and i'm kind of tired of that sound

i love "no problem" ... as far as chance making his first genuine attempt at a radio hit it turned out about as good as anyone could have hoped, it stays true to his art and was also very successful on commercial terms which feels pretty rare

that said his parts on it are rather inessential aside from the concept of the song hewing close to his own personal mission -- it's a showcase for 2 chainz & wayne and luckily they both turned two of their best verses in several years. wayne in particular is a revelation on that song imo.

the ellen performance was also one of the best live tv things i saw all year

his art his personal mission yuh huh okay

i'm guessing it's definitely not placing but i love 2 chainz and wayne on the "key to the streets" remix

never really heard angel olsen before but this tune "sister" is great, kind of spaced out mazzy star country rock kind of vibe. is the rest of her stuff this good?

never really heard angel olsen before but this tune "sister" is great, kind of spaced out mazzy star country rock kind of vibe. is the rest of her stuff this good?

― marcos, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:57 AM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the rest of her stuff is definitely that stuff

ha

lol the second verse in kiss it better is different but only by two words, maybe stranger than if it was identical

Daydreaming was my number 2. The moment I heard it I knew my waning faith in this band was restored. The album is spectacular. Haters be fucked.

lol the second verse in kiss it better is different but only by two words, maybe stranger than if it was identical

― ufo, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:00 PM (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and not even a "do u see" kind of change that alters the meaning substantially. it is quite strange! she sings it as if she doesn't notice she's already sung it

She sings everything like that in fairness.