ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

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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).

me too

Watershed moment: the Fall haters are coming out of their gritty, miserable holes. Thank you Tuomas, I'm taking note here.

Think a lot of Underworld naysayers might actually like 'Santiago Cuatro' from the album if nothing else.

I like the album generally but not 'If Rah' much at all.

The first Underworld track I ever heard was this one (the compilation I had labelled it as Underworld, not Lemon Interupt), when I was 14... I really, really liked the tune, it was so evocative and deep and mysterious (and being a geek I obviously dug the Akira sample at the end), and I thought they were some kind of experimental trance/ambient house act. Bought Dubnobass... and was disappointed to discover they had silly nasal singing on every tune, even the version of "Dirty". So my history with Underworld has literally been all downhill from that first counter, and that tune upthread is pretty much the nadir.

And yeah, I get it, my conception of them was misguided, they were always a rock band disguising as a techno act, but it's so sad, they had so much potential in them, if they'd just proceeded to the direction pointed out by the original "Dirty".

Watershed moment: the Fall haters are coming out of their gritty, miserable holes. Thank you Tuomas, I'm taking note here.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, January 23, 2017 7:24 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let a hundred flowers bloom

i love a good amount of underworld but not much from this one

it's so sad, they had so much potential in them, if they'd just proceeded to the direction pointed out by the original "Dirty".

they could have had a successful and critically acclaimed career, it's true....

The original 'Dirty' with its prominent rock guitar twangs.

Are there only three more tracks today?

Huh?

(xpost)

lol, I don't even like Underworld but "so much squandered potential caused by not pandering exactly to my tastes" is an incredibly perplexing sentiment.

someone please film Tuomas listening to Underneath the Radar

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/headphones.gif

loool

Well they could've been a great techno act! Instead of becoming a critically acclaimed crossover-whatever act for people who might not even like techno. Of course potential squandered to the left can be acclaim gained on the right, but I'm only speaking from my point of view, as a rock-hating tehno lover. They lost us while they claimed you.

(xpost to Emily)

the direction they went in was so much better, "Dirty Epic" >>>> "Dirty"

I bet you like rock music though?

underworld were great in the '90s but my interest in them in 2016 was nil, and these tracks don't change that; i hope newer house and techno artists will get a look in, too

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

63 KING "Native Land" [182 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/bHk4-GMsS78

imo this is like the tenth best song on the album, still great

Thought that was the best 'new' track on the album - nothing quite superior to the previously known songs though.

Yay! That was my #5! I'm not as huge a fan of the album as some others here (mostly because of the odd mixing), but that's one helluva jam, great way to end an album. Their best tune, IMO.

wonderful song, very moving final track

lots of closing tracks so far in this poll, sign of the times maybe

"Native Land"is the most beautiful song I heard last year.

Well they could've been a great techno act! Instead of becoming a critically acclaimed crossover-whatever act for people who might not even like techno. Of course potential squandered to the left can be acclaim gained on the right, but I'm only speaking from my point of view, as a rock-hating tehno lover. They lost us while they claimed you.

― Tuomas, Monday, January 23, 2017 7:42 PM (three minutes ago)

They didn't claim me, as you might have gathered if you'd actually read my post. FFS. (Also dude, I don't know if you've noticed but I frickin love electronic music, sorry that I've ~tainted~ myself in your eyes by also liking things with *gasp* guitars but prob NAGL to condescend to me on this issue.)

The combination of that incredible vocal and those beautiful synths are perfection. Probably my favourite KING song after Hey (Extended Mix).

back to crowd sizes again lol

woops wrong thread sorry to muck up this one

"native land" is a lovely outro

I'm not sure how many unifying techno records there were from last year but I'd stick a fiver on Avalon Emerson or Willow appearing.

Im sorry, Emily, I know you love electronic music... That "you" was supposed to mean "you all" in plural, not you personally. (Why doesn't English have different words for singular and plural second person, it can get confusing?)

youse is plural of you fyi

This KING song is just making me wish I was listening to Sade or Les Nubiens instead.

I wasn't aware of KING until 'The Greatest' placed in last year's poll so the whole album was new to me - 'Native Land' isn't my favourite but still happy to see it here.

oh hey cool this thing is happening. i voted for 'atomic number' (all songs about atomic weapons are great) + 'girl next door'