ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2016

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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'Koffi Annan' a very late cut from my ballot as I knew it had a good chance of placing.

Ghana has the best song/dance names. Alkayida. Lapaz Toyota.

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59 BRUNO MARS “24K Magic” [189 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/UqyT8IEBkvY

what

I have such a deep loathing of Bruno Mars' corny mugging and horrible ersatz disco, fuck off to your office parties

shrewd move Bruno. if it ain't broke..

lex what happened at the office party

Always amazed that Bruno Mars is a person that ILM takes seriously. This is mostly because he has the worst look of any major pop star that isn't Robin Thicke.

i didn't even know we took him seriously no one gave me the memo

haha yeh don't get this at all but saw his album crop up on a surprising number of end year lists

this song did not do well to be posted during the UK shift

'24km' and 'crybaby' are when predispositions become personal prisons imo

lmk if i succeed in making brad cry

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For a long time I thought Bruno Mars was some Dutch trance DJ, because his name sounds like that. Not sure if he'd be any better of worse if it was true.

'24km' and 'crybaby' are when predispositions become personal prisons imo

lmk if i succeed in making brad cry

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:12 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;_;

not like i disagree tbh

Anyway, I guess there are worse building blocks to make pastichey pop hits from than '80s post-disco/boogie. And this one at least doesn't sound like such a blatant Kool & the Gang copy as "Uptown Funk".

u only have to listen to like 10 seconds of snoop dogg 'signs' or whatever again to see this bruno for the thin gruel it is

Uptown Funk is the best office party track ever. 24 k magic is a bad copy. Which is still ok.

not like i disagree tbh

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 Bookmark

i'm kinda fronting on crybaby it is transcendentally well executed

I looove original '80s boogie, even more than '70s disco, so I've nothing in theory against someone doing it in 2016. But this sounds a bit too clean & polished, seamless, committee-designed. I can see it working on a drunken disco night in my working class neighbourhood, but wouldn't probably listen to it just for fun on the headphones.

the only Bruno Mars I've remotely enjoyed was when he was ripping off the Police.

u only have to listen to like 10 seconds of snoop dogg 'signs' or whatever again to see this bruno for the thin gruel it is

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:17 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TUNE

the only Bruno Mars I've remotely enjoyed was when he was ripping off the Police.

― crawling in (sic) (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:25 AM (one minute ago)

tune

the best things about "crybaby" are when it stops nodding so obviously at freestyle/jam & lewis and goes down its own unexpected detours, and "vegas" is the better track anyway

http://i.imgur.com/5Mb4Cah.jpg

58 GROUPER “Headache” [191 points, 7 votes]
https://youtu.be/Jh8ahc_YDeY

i just put 'signs' on and it turns out i was deeply mistaken... u only need three seconds

nice! xp

I'd never have expected a Grouper song to make the tracks poll so I'm intrigued by this. (Albums poll perennial obviously).

seems p nice
i remember really enjoying the first track to dragging a dead deer up the hill when it came out

Hmm, I guess this sort of weeded, sireny indie... stuff has to be included on every ILM list. Feels like it could've been released anytime in the past 25 years? Why putting a formless ditty through an echo filter would make it any better is beyond me, but seems like there's always an audience for it.

dreampop... wow... nice... kevin shields moobs feel like bags of sand

This track is 40 minutes too short or something. I'll check out the album.

five minutes that i could have spent listening to my boiler