ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

itgehane/han jan double bill to finish up

god. I think boo'd up was my #1. song was a huge part of my year.

"Boo'd Up"!

can someone explain j0rd's tweet :X

I regret not pitching an essay on her album; we'll still be talking about it in a few years.

how can you be fresh out of fucks forever?

can someone explain j0rd's tweet :X

― diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:48 PM (eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the brit one?

cos she sounds american until the spoken word at the end of the song?

the video version omits that, you gotta listen on a streaming service or find audio elsewhere to hear it

“Boo’d Up” is sounding pretty good right now, but I never got past “nice vibe” with this one. Still don’t get it, it’s too retro to feel really special to me, I guess.

ah

Also she's gorgeous in that clip

Thinking my #1 & #2 are going to place #2 and #1

https://youtu.be/IWhNSfeNeoU?t=242 - here ya go

what's cool about Boo'd Up is that it's a song about being boo'd up

otm

that probably also helps explain why idc about it tbh

i sitll ahve never even watched the video i guess i shd correct this

xp
sorry boo

my boo and i have been united by our apathy towards the song tbf

boot up

save us forks

take us home

I've heard Boo'd Up on the radio a lot. I didn't know credible people think it's a great song. The beat compares unfavorably to like every R&B DJ Khaled beat

Go Peggy!

and i’d love it if we made it

but it's the best song about being boo'd up

Another silent prayer for Itgehane to top Pitchfork hegemony

name one better song about being boo'd up. I'll wait

*drumroll*

Credible people do think it’s a great song.

Save us Uly sseser!

what about being boo'd up....with heroin

lol

lmao simon

thank you simon, very cool

(Unless it's more 1975, in which case: save us, Satan! Bring forth your darkest daemons and slay us all!)

okay, shall we do this?

one two punch

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm guessing heroin = 1975 ... ?

I'd love it if you did it

http://i.imgur.com/FXO7hlb.jpg

2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It” – 808 points – 23 votes – 4 first place votes
video

My friend Jay Bond's 1975 yearbook

I consider the pastiche of "Love It If We Made It" to be saying something quite different from "lol how could anyone think or say these things" - almost the opposite, in fact. The song is saying "These are things that people think and say and do and there is no answer to any of it." It's elegiac, and the only irony is in the delivery of that elegy in the sense of not explicitly spelling out what it's doing. – Tim F

“Love It If We Made It”” is just on another level, something I could have never seen them pulling off or even trying five years ago. – kevin k

Increasingly convinced that “Love It If We Made It” is song of the year - ufo

Gonna be an anthem for this age, I think. - nxd

I’m pretty firmly in the camp that "Love It If We Made It" is the best, most poignant song of the year. - ilxor

I find the lyrics to this song emotionally moving, but also obsequious and pandering. – flamboyant goon tie included

I hate to admit it but “Love It If We Made It” has found its way into my head and I’ve played it non-stop this week. - Moka

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26097

If anyone else tried this zeitgeist-quotes lyrical trick - and it’s barely a trick! - I would hate it, but I’m hugely predisposed to The 1975 and their inherent miraculousness somehow makes them the exception to every rule. The lyric tries to hold the enormity of the world and so does the music — each electronic whoosh and whizz is a digital overspill from the heady whole, like even something this maximalist and ambitious isn’t quite enough for them. – Claire Biddles

I have to give credit where credit is due: this is an evil song that utilizes its structure as a means to elevate and justify its conceptual gambit. Matt Healy reads off a list of provocative phrases that act as a simulacrum of the discouraging news headlines, ironic shitposts and self-impressed hot takes that crowd numerous corners of the Internet. The pulsating beat and claustrophobic mix amplify that particular dread, and the swirling harp is the only sound that feels unstuck from it all. It hints at a hope that is later projected in the chorus, but it turns out to be nothing more than a red herring. I don’t expect Healy to provide answers — I’d argue that he took the more effective route in providing a moment of release over anything concrete — but I don’t believe him at all when he says he’d “love it if we made it.” This is the sort of dude who finds joy in crassly exploiting the tragedy of others for the sake of art, and it finds its roots in how he decided on the band’s name. When the chorus finally breaks free from the monotony, his voice has a smugly arrogant tone that snaps everything into place: Healy is eager to be the source of relief for the trigger warning-necessary lyrics that he doled out in the first place. He can only be a savior for the bullshit he pushes on you, and he’ll cover it up by touting we instead of I. As a political statement, this has virtually no worth. As a piece of music, the bridge makes exceedingly clear that this is just an edgy “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” As a depiction of narcissistic manipulation, this is excellent — perhaps the best of the year. – Joshua Minsoo Kim

AND I'D LOVE IT IF WE MADE IT https://t.co/fKqyFxSHO0

— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) November 29, 2018

http://i.imgur.com/nWo9eld.jpg

1: Childish Gambino – “This Is America” - 844 points – 30 votes – 2 first place votes
video

Anyone else hear the new Childish Gambino record?

The critical about-face on Gambino as the world’s most unnecessary punch line rapper to the world’s most important political auteur is staggering. – Whiney G Weingarten

I find it difficult to read "This Is America" as any kind of 'pastiche' or overly-studied intellectual performance piece, as much as something that seems to emerge pretty seamlessly from where contemporary black music is as an idiom right now! Gambino is now a very successful mainstream recording artist with bona fide hits under his belt, even though his most recent and biggest to date clearly *was* pastiche of a bygone musical era. That his next would bear the aesthetics of today's mainstream rap should not be even remotely surprising, even considering his past as a punch line-rapper (which apparently many of us can't let go of). - dyl

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25544

This is America? No - this is America. – Alfred Soto

I’ve listened to this one the past two weeks about as much as I listened to “Plug Walk” last month, so here we are. – Will Rivitz

no

you did it again

lol

v good

good one

compulsory joke #1 post thanks forks for keeping the tradition alive

Should've swapped 'Baby Shark' for 'This Is America' tbh.