ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

Forks is running one here: http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5H3D65dNqJm1etOQZcaxw8

Unfortunately, nobody's added it to the OP yet.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

Oh, couldn't find it in this thread. Deleting mine then.

have to weirdly admit that i've never heard chance before this and...this guy is goon cru approved, right? because "all night" isn't much

I like a bunch of the stuff that's already placed. Love that case/lang/veirs' track a lot. I voted for it. But Song to Judee was also really good, gotta love a song about Judee Sill! Well, actually I liked the whole album, it's definitely my kind of thing.

I'm actually surprised the Comet Control track placed and many people like it! I was gonna nom. it but imago already had. Yeah, it's not that representative of the album it's on, their other tracks are a lot less epic.

I figured Calling In Sick would have placed higher, tbh. Seems like a song all of ILM can enjoy.

special bonus lol just for rob & longneck - https://soundcloud.com/deejay-theory-vip/starbwoy-theory-needlz-edit

― r|t|c, 23. januar 2017 12:42 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg lol no please stop this argh.

And thanks, dog latin. ILM is one of the few places where I still discover new music so it's good to be able to contribute.

As for a harder Calling In Sick, DJ Puffy has a nice roadmix that might work for you, structrural ambiguity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWJ3IE5ckHU

"oh yay" is dope. missed so much good stuff this year

have to weirdly admit that i've never heard chance before this and...this guy is goon cru approved, right? because "all night" isn't much

― k3vin k., Monday, January 23, 2017 4:18 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of a weird chance track to place. never even considered voting for it. how have you avoided him for the last couple of years? Other tracks will place here that should give you a better sample.

comet control is like prog band of horses. i dig this

All-time top 10 trax before this poll:

2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (1676 points, 45 votes, 7 #1 votes)
2012 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (1528 points, 48 votes, 6 #1 votes)
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo) (1357 points, 37 votes, 9 #1 votes)
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky (1212 points, 38 votes, 3 #1 votes)
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 on (1190 points, 39 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2013 Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful (1138 points, 37 votes, 4 #1 votes)
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212 (1111 points, 34 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2011 Lana Del Rey - Video Games (1107 points, 40 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2015 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen (1063 points, 37 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2011 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (1023 points, 33 votes, 3 #1 votes)

What's gotten the most #1 votes ever?

pop music moves so fast, those 2011 tracks seem alien now

Let's see:

77 CHAIRLIFT "Moth to the Flame"
This is ok if a bit inoffensive... listened to it a couple of times last year and kept forgetting about it.

76 CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS "Tilted"
I like this a lot but Shura did this sort of sound for me better this year.

74 (tie) THE WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK "Starboy"
I like 'I Feel it Coming' much better but both songs seem to me solidified by the Daft Punk guest spot not by the Weeknd.

74 (tie) CHANCE THE RAPPER "All Night"
This one was one of my most played songs this summer. Love that sort of video game beat

73 UNDERWORLD "Nylon Strung"
Had no idea Underworld had released anything this year but this is one of the best songs I've heard from them.

71 (tie) CASE/LANG/VEIRS "Atomic Number"
Thought I'd love this as I like them as solo artists but I'm not much of a fan of how their voices sounds together. I guess it's a grower but didn't like this on first listen.

71 (tie) OLATUNJI "Oh Yay"
I might like this if I heard it with warmer weather but right now the weather is dry and cold and miserable and I'm not in the right mood for it. Love having this sort of wild card on the ranking tho, so kudos for whoever voted for it.

70 CELLARS "Nighttime Girl"
I really like this, first time listening... Was about to comment that this sound very influenced by Ariel Pink and it turns out he is the producer behind it. I'm starting to get fed up with the 80's pastiche but I've always been a fan of AP's atmospheric approach.

69 COMET CONTROL "Artificial Light"
I'm not in the mood for this one right now as it appears to be a 10 min slowcore thing but I'll listen to it later.

68 MIGUEL FT KASEY MUSGRAVES "Waves (Remix)"
Oh wow I didn't know this one and it's amazing!!! That country guitar and steel guitar additions + Kasey puts the original version to shame. Had I known this one before I'd added to my ballot.

67 ABRA "Crybaby"
I'm sure I'd loved this a couple of years ago butI guess at this point I'm not feeling very interested in hearing anymore of this sort of lo-fi r&b unless it breaks some rules or goes somewhere unexpected.

66 BRANDY CLARK "Girl Next Door"
Sorry not feeling this one but I do loved 'Daughter' off this record.

65 UNDERWORLD "I Exhale"
This kind of reminds me of The Fall, well rather it reminds me of the Von Sudenfed project with Mark E Smith and Mouse on Mars... it takes time to build muscle but its nice once it gets going but still this didn't grab me as much Nylon Strung which deserved to be higher than this one imho.

64 JEREMIH "Oui"
The production sounds ok but there's better songs on the record. Also listening to this guy makes me want to listen to Miguel or Frank Ocean instead. I don't know what it is exactly but something about his voice grates me.

63 + 62 KING "Native Land" + "Hey (Extended Mix)"
I love these... every song I've heard of them feels so sensual and effortless. Hey has been on constant repeat throughout several playlists since its original release in 2011. RIYL The Internet and Badu.

61 KING BUBBA FM "Calling In Sick"
Same as Olatunji... can't really listen to this one right now.

What's gotten the most #1 votes ever?

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 12:02 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't imagine that anyone has beaten Realiti's 9 #1s

The Runtown remix of Oh Yay was on the ilx summer playlist. Heard it over and over all summer. People should check out that version as well. Also, how did Runtown's Bend Down Pause not get nominated?

there's albums that have gotten double digit #1s not sure about tracks

Only Ten Love Songs has double-digits #1s but there are a bunch with 9 and multiple with >2k points.

(in albums)

I listened to the Comet Control song twice today. Both times, I enjoyed it well enough but I couldn't remember a thing about it afterwards.

it is a bath of purest starlight, you don't necessarily need to remember it but it does wonders for your complexion

if pure starlight were to cause exfoliation and moistening rather than instant radiation scarring, that is

I forgot all about this! A ray of light in the darkness.

"calling in sick" is amazing, how had i not heard it before???

think my fav soca track of last year was gbm nutron and fay-ann-lyons' "scene"

I was ready to dismiss the Comet Control song as an enjoyable genre exercise but I didn't expect it to sound so much like Low in space - there's an emotional pull there that often isn't with this stuff even if it's pushing a load of totally obvious buttons.

Never heard Calling In Sick before but it's incredible. I immediately sent it to Mrs DC whose response was "I'm putting the stereo on to enjoy this incredible art before breakfast".

The beat on the Abra song is a jam but her voice is still like soggy cardboard so nah.

There is nothing to this Cellars track at all but that also means there's nothing that might alienate the average Popjustice reader so I assume it found an appropriate audience.

Abra sounded better when I saw her live than she usually does on record.

ha think i remember hearing this calling in sick track on the noms playlist
it's really fun

Only Ten Love Songs has double-digits #1s but there are a bunch with 9 and multiple with >2k points.
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Monday, January 23, 2017 7:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This surprises me. I thought Kaputt was the hands down winner in albums

I mean, for #1 votes...

And I just looked it up, and Kaputt got 12 of them

ok my bad

I want to say that Calling in Sick is overrated, because it's not as good as Oh Yay. But on the other hand, I've heard it over and over and over both yesterday and today, so...

good morning

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

60 YEMI ALADE “Koffi Anan” [188 points, 5 votes]
https://youtu.be/ZoU3tUldZ9w

hell yeah

YESSSSSSSS.

Let me see you do the Koffi Anan.

morning!
i like how this years rollout seems to slowly moving through different ilm threads

This was another tune/artist I knew nothing about before encountering it on the nominations list, but it was so great on the first listen I had to vote for it.

I wonder if "Koffi Anan" is some kind of wordplay on Kofi Annan that foreigners don't get, because the lyrics refer to it as a dance routine and not the person?

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Ooooh that's good. Love that minimal bloop.

YES "Koffi Anan" such a huge anthem

I love the weary derision in her voice when she says "he come to my house with a bag of money and he say that he take me to Paris or Australia or somewhere".

Awesome! Would have voted for it if I'd followed the afropop thread closely enough.

Hope to see some K-pop on there also, probably not any bollywood :(

i'd be surprised to see kpop this year despite some real gems being nominated
had a couple of my longlist that got culled

When I asked her about the title she said it was just a positive Ghanaian reference that popped into her head (the song/dance was inspired by Ghanaian alkayida dance moves) and didn't have any other meaning - the song was a freestyle that wasn't really intended to be as huge a hit as it was (her second album Mama Africa is excellent but it's definitely more carefully structured and thought-out, and she's a singer who doesn't ever really rap like she does here usually)

Catching up on yesterday...the Brandy Clark song has a really cool tense postpunk/balearic thing in the verses, which works really well in the country context. Just wish the chorus was a little less...downhome. It coulda been the country Aerial. Still largely in favour

most bizarre take on "Girl Next Door": hard rock Meredith Brooks or balearic postpunk Aerial

oh that yemi alade album is fantastic through and through. I voted 'Ferrari' in the tracks poll and while I'm sure it's not even the best song on there, it was still such a prominent song for me this year.

I guess it needs a big country chorus to still be country, colours don't run &c &c

Just watched a couple of other Yemi Alade videos, she's great.

I didn't mean that it sounds like "Bitch", just that the persona and the message in those two songs is pretty much the same. And just to be clear, I like the lyrics of both.

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