ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

Is it bad that I'm disappointed this was the fake out?

TS: Baby Shark vs LDR

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19: Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex” – 282 points – 10 votes – 1 first place vote
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Lana Del Rey

oh nice!!

this makes me wonder if "venice bitch" is coming

good song but a little high especially since “venice bitch” is prob coming up

This song just makes me want to listen to Wicked Game.

lol xp

Gotcha! Sorry guys had to place the joke winner somewhere lower this year so you could fall into the trap.

Babyshark rules though.

allow me to be the first to say "I prefer Baby Shark"

voted "Venice Bitch" over this which is presumably still to come, but this is still one of her strongest

next year y’all should roll out a fake top 20

this song is like a weyes blood song without the, yknow, amazing songwriting imo

I did it at 20 AND 19 last, but 19 gave the joke away.

gr80 did a fake top ten up til like #7 one year, that was funny

"Baby Shark" is the first song I've listened to on this whole list so far.

i didn't think much of this one at first but it has slowly become one of my favorite LDR songs

i prefer baby shark to this, tbh

I don't actually like Baby Shark, it's just that as ar as my kids are concerned any three-syllable word or phrase with a OoO stress pattern is automatically followed by do-do-do-do-do-do and that's alright by me.

Lana Del Ray has had less of an impact on them, frankly.

This song just makes me want to listen to Wicked Game.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:26 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's worse things songs can make you want to do imo.

listening to this LDR song on spotify, is it badly encoded or is her voice really that compressed on the chorus? sounds like she's singing into a kazoo

had to check to see if I remembered to vote for "venice bitch" (I did)

'Mariners Apartment Complex (Home of Baby Shark, Grandma Shark etc)'

hahaha

I'd like to hear Lana's take on the Spongebob theme.

LDR has always sounded to me like she's singing into a kazoo; never understood the draw.

This song just makes me want to listen to Wicked Game.

Are you alluding to Siegbran's description of Chris Isaak as the male LDR? Because that was indeed otm.

LDR has always sounded to me like she's singing into a kazoo; never understood the draw.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:32 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk how i never caught it until now. is she singing into a fucking podcast mic wtf

imagine buying this on vinyl

xps the compression is intentional i believe. it's part of what she's calling her pre-album "fan songs" that i imagine are going for a lo-fi demo quality

that is maddening. the song is beautiful but that is fucking maddening

lol I can't imagine finding it 1/1000th as maddening as baby shark

you're supposed to be listening to it on your macbook speakers

I'm just gonna repost this here: https://www.wikihow.com/Emulate-Lana-Del-Rey

Behind in my listening: “Powerglide” just came up. Coming after 2 x 1975 and 2 versions of CatQ that song is massive. Thanking all the voters that didn’t forget about this tune!

looooove this track

To back up: "Powerglide" was my #1.

wtf this song has like 0.5% of the views of "Baby Shark"

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18: Pusha T – “If You Know You Know” – 285 points – 9 votes – 1 first place vote
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pathetic pusha t moments

Kanye West's new 2018 album

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25888

There’s precision here, especially in “If You Know You Know”’s first verse of endless variations on “boy.” That would read as sterile in the hands of nearly any other rapper, but Push has always turned technical perfection into something more than the words he sneers out: a protective armor of cool reserve. Perhaps it’s that reserve that explains his evergreen longevity; Nas, Jay-Z and even Pharrell have been growing increasingly threadbare in their old age. Unlike the rest, it’s clear that Pusha T is rapping only for himself, not for mass appeal. He uses the language of fraternity, of splitting the real and the fake throughout, and he’s matched by the sonics that Kanye West, in rare late period form lends him. It’s a gauntlet of buzzsaw guitars and ringing percussion that Pusha walks leisurely through, unscathed. He doesn’t need to be rushed; his career shows the fruits of patience. – Jacob Sujin Kuppermann

Two-plus decades on, rap’s smirking underdog snow-thrower can still make selling drugs sound like the most fun thing in the world. Pusha is not as nimble now as he was in his heyday and he’s liable to grin when once he would sneer, but age has taught him every bar matters. “I been hidin’ right where you can see me,” Pusha says and, testament to his talent, he sounds as good as ever. – Andy Hutchins

^probably my #1 rap track of the year

To back up: "Powerglide" was my #1.

grateful for more rap, not exactly thrilled it's pusha

^

can't recall exactly but this might be the least bad thing kanye did last year

daytona blew me away first listen, but got a lot weaker over repetition. this track suffered too.

if my two favorite rap songs of the year don’t place i’ll be bummed and weirded out but who knows

i was too suckered in by the beat drop to realize how annoyed i am with pusha's flow on this one

I liked Daytona well enough the first time around but it didn't last, no.

People really liked that track like that? Huh.

Powerglide >*