ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

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

Underworld music sounds like youtube highlights video of a footballer

if it was made by the BBC

lol

thrilled that saer is here

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

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

thrilled that saer is here

yes

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

wat

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

So far, this is my favorite post of 2017.

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

saer, i see u

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

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

Lol what.

nice

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

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

gonna lol if 3 Underworld tracks place

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

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

couldn't participate this year :(

but super happy to see the results!

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

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

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

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

looked it up after saer's comment

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

kind of a chicken/egg issue there

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

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

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

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

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

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

non

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

More French music.

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

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

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

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

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

Yay! Underworld!

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

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

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

yes

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

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

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

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

tuomassssssss

FP

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

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

Tuomas owning this thread. Kudos

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

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