ILM Top 77 Tracks of 2018 Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Recrimination, Statistics and Damned Lies

that's a lotta bold LJ, but you still haven't got me beat (the only thing of mine that placed is the AWK track)

(though I did lose my ballots - could someone send 'em back to me through ilxmail? is that possible???)

SERIOUSLY tho':
http://i.imgur.com/J8R15g6.png

we missed u doglatin

is it worth it lemme work it put my thing down flip it and reverse it from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon from your fliminipit oh yeah cmon (could they have picked a MORE DISTRACTING SAMPLE?)

"take me to the mardis gras" has had a rich and extensive life as a sample

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:32 PM (thirty seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i figured this would be the case and yet i chose to show my ass here, why? because i'm honest and i'm honestly pretty stupid

dang Burna Boy getting vote split even in imaginary ballots :)

ahh yes good someone made "too many cooks" into a pop song

that's a lotta bold LJ, but you still haven't got me beat (the only thing of mine that placed is the AWK track)

I didn't have a single thing place, I had thought Blatters removal might have helped with the coefficients but it seems no

Ranked, bold didn't place:

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Mollusc - Anxiety
Kuunatic - Roho Ulio Toweka
Child's Pose - Feral
Marie Davidson - Work It
Lucrecia Dalt - Tar
Black Pink - DDU-DU DDU-DU
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
Rapid Tan - USAVE
(G)I-DLE - HANN (Alone)
Hen Ogledd - Problem Child
Yemi Alade - Bum Bum
BiSH - PAiNT it BLACK
Fire-Toolz - ✓ iNTERBEiNG
Slumb Party - Trophy
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Cantaloupe - Change the Record
ЛУНА - Спящая красавица
JPEGMAFIA - I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies
Gugudan - Not That Type
Audrey Chen - Heavy
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Pinkfong - Baby Shark

Where are the stats at this year? I want STATS.

u are too kind dorsalstop i barely know what a "song" even "is"

oh right, my ballot

Mitski - Geyser
Mitski - Nobody
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Sloppy Jane - Mindy
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
Saloli – Hey Ahh
Waax - Labrador
BiSH - PAiNT it BLACK
Little Simz - Offence
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Mitski & Xiu Xiu - Between the Breaths
SOPHIE – Is It Cold in the Water?
Barbatuques - Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)
Drake - Nice For What
Negativ Gemini - Infin Path
Protomartyr ft. Kelley Deal - Wheel of Fortune
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok ft. Kendrick Lamar - Opps
lil baby & drake - yes indeed

i... don't even recognize my own ballot anymore. i shoulda used the extra week to re-submit

Seandalai will provide stats and links for the full poll soon enough, I'm sure.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:13 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

so much depends on this egg

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

thank you for your discretion

beside the white
clickings

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so much depends on this egg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

― rob, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for your discretion

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:49 PM

This is the funniest back and forth on ILM in ages.

enjoying Will M's write-up

seriously, what was with the Gambino joke number one at the end? did ILM hate it? have I missed something here? it's a good song

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

Pouring one out for Sonini, which I can't believe was not the consensus Sun-El/Simmy pick. Bold didn't place. Mixed ballot.

The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Hop Along - How Simple
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
Camp Cope – The Opener
Charly Bliss - Heaven
Rosalía - Malamente
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Drake – In My Feelings
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Hatchie - Sure
Kanye West - Ghost Town
katie dey - data

Laurel Halo – Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Marie Davidson - Work It
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini

Credible people do not think it’s a good song.

and i'm so not getting this Peggy Gou song. that said, I'd only heard one tune by her until now, and this wasn't it. It doesn't share much in common with Inspector Norse to my ears though...? Maybe need to go back to it.

MAN BEHIND CURTAIN says: as with baby shark, it seemed like the sort of oddball thing that could reasonably have either won the whole thing or not gotten a single vote

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

this is america was the #1 pick on nearly every critics EOY list but the consensus here was it's just ok at best

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:56 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm.. i guess it is intrinsic with the video but I like it well enough on its own.

And to be completely honest, i don't understand the love for Gou either; it's a perfectly nice song but I don't understand how it became the consensus thing that 30 people thought was best in its field, much less across all genres! Life is funny!

I plucked Sonini from my ballot in favour of more 'credible' SA house ;-p

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:57 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah yes. And 'Wut' too ofc

unweighted, bold placed

Dazion - Dragon Wave
Gil.Barte - Sssjp
Identified Patient - Weerloos
Patricia Kokett - Serpiente
Bill Converse - Landing
Jensen Interceptor - Route E
Kris Baha - Notion Of Dismay
Bufiman - Ba Hu Du (Wolf Muller's Unreleased Version)
Max Abysmal - Donna, Don't Stop
Barbatuques - Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)
EL HITTA - Aww Yea
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
Sky Ferreira - Voices Carry (Demo)
Keysha - Stop It!
Mr Twin Sister - Power of Two
Róisín Murphy - All My Dreams
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
mr twin sister – jaipur
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

surprised how much i had in common with the 77. i liked the Gou enough to vote for it, but it had little to do with most of the dance music i found exciting last year

Inspector Norse was 2012... Fuck me

Here's the tunes in my ballot, they were ranked but I forgot to save the ranked list, so they're in alphabetical order. "Koskematon" was my #1 on the ranked list too, though.

Bolded the ones that didn't place:

Adikia ft. Mon-Sala, Sofa, Donatella, F & Yas Lo - Koskematon
AK - Vlexaa
Barbara Panther - Feminine
Bucie & Mpumi - Soz'Uphinde
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Dladla Mshunqisi - Pakisha
Donato Dozzy – Cleo
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Heavy K - Ndibambe
Hollie Cook - Stay Alive
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Liisanpuisto - Itse teossa
Los Ángeles Azules ft. Natalia Lafourcade - Nunca Es Suficiente
Nao - Drive and Disconnect
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Niniola - Saro
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Rap Against Dictatorship - Prathet Ku Mee
Roberta ft. Lady Blacktronika - Pain & Pleasure
Rosalía - Malamente
Shy FX ft. Lily Allen & Stamina MC - Roll The Dice
Simmy - Umahlalela
Yemi Alade - Issokay
Zûg - Felicidad

I was a bit surprised Nao nor Neneh Cherry didn't make it to the 77, hopefully they'll do better in the albums poll... Their albums were pretty much my favourite pop records of the year, alongside Monáe.

I would never have pegged (ahem, sorry) 'Itgehane' for number one song of the year, but I voted for it, and it's the best track in the top ten so I'm happy.

like "inspector norse" "itgehane" came out towards the beginning of the calendar year and just felt inescapable on dancefloors for the twelve months that followed. i think that type of lead time helps on polls like this for bobbins tracks. also it's extremely warm and feel-good

"Itgehane" is nice, but I didn't like it enough to include it in my ballot, tho I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song. Still, it makes me wonder if ILX ever gets tired of this specific kind of retro sound in dance music, I certainly have.

it's a beautiful sparkling construction, glassy network of bell sounds otm

I'm listening to the Peggy Gou again and still not really getting it.

Without wanting to use the phrase 'wall-paper music', I feel like this arch, head-noddy vibe has been done to death. The combination of Gou's detached delivery and the two-chord keys scream 'pastiche' to me - a takeoff of mid-2000s hipster house culture or the kind of music that got played in trendy city bars as an aural cushion.

Listening closer, I'll say it is wonderfully layered and there's some quite nice bubbly 303 stuff, but track of the year?

I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song.

So sick of all the fartsy rock songs that place number one, year in, year out

Look, after last year's #1, I would have been happy with a recording of LJ farting and TT banging on a pot for 4:19.

xp re: Gou, it may well grow on me. I like house/bobbins music but this aesthetic isn't something I relate to in many ways

It’s pleasant and QuickTime but it sounds safe and ancient next to something like Midnight Starring.

https://youtu.be/b1wVpFCHeyM

i imagine the secret keys to Itgehane would emerge if you heard it out in the wild enough but that's just not my experience. it's good but i don't like it as much as six other electro tracks that charted far lower.

Not QuickTime, quirky, lol «smartphone»

That Midnight Starring song ain't no great shakes. Wanna try again?

I remember back in 2012 thinking that "Inspector Norse" was really great and nice and bouncy but being slightly surprised at all the praise, and then I spent the next five years watching it blow up dancefloors and fill everyone thereon with such joy.

I wouldn't be surprised if "Itgehane" has a pretty long shelflife actually.

JF - I had to check to remember what 2017's number one was and yep, I don't get that track either.

mixed ballot, bold ones placed:

Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Krystal Klear - Moonshake Miner
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Fatima - Westside
Shy Layers – Gateway
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Reckonwrong - Half A Pill
Mandar - String Theory
E Ruscha V - Woo Are You
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis

Black Gold Buffalo - Lay It Down
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
E. Myers - I Am Alive
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Hairband - Flying
Marie Davidson - Work It
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Pangaea - Bone Sucka
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini
Syclops - The Skipper
The Declining Winter - My Divided World
upsammy - Another Place
Wild Nothing - Letting Go
Yves Tumor - Noid

See now Inspector Norse had (and still has) instant appeal for me.

Midnight Starring is very cool. I feel like I could overload on SA house - most of what I hear is either very much in this style or more like Sun-El Musician, but there's usually some sort of curveball that sets each track apart. Busiswa is amazing.

Aww man, Black Dresses being 78 has bummed me out. I guess I did my part at least. Here's my mixed ballot:

Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Autechre - violvoic
Gazelle Twin - Little Lambs
Black Dresses - Hell Is Real
Bruce – What
Joanna Wang - I Dream We Will Be Together Again
Julia Holter - Les Jeux to You
No Joy / Sonic Boom - Obsession
Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour

Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
ACT! - Para
Underworld and Ø [Phase] - Dexters Chalk
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
ILL - Slithering Lizards
Nine Inch Nails - God Break Down the Door
Phase Fatale - Blackbox
Ghost - Danse Macabre (Carpenter Brut Remix)
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik

OK I've scrolled through last year's tracks 77. It's about 10x more interesting, diverse and fun as this year's imo

as/than

tough to separate the two

must've been the lower participation

I don't recall any huge discoveries from last year's list, although the tracks results from every year as long as I can remember help me re-discover stuff I forgot. The big one from last year for me was "Girl Front."

lol i was listening to "girl front" when i opened this thread, such a good song

for anyone enjoying the ongoing genre-blind listening mix and looking to get a jump on 2019, feel free to join us here:
Listening to ILM Listen: February 2019 - Collaborative Listening Project

another re-discovery from 2015's results. the song that got me into ty$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzOQO1jBIU

I got *extremely* lucky and found a sealed vinyl copy of Raveena’s “Shanti” EP on vinyl (filed under “S”, lol) for a few bucks. Released awhile back, purple wax, OOP R@RE! Eight tracks including Honey and...she is really, really good.

^ weirdly, this was released by VNYL, that bullshit subscription service from the “shady scams” thread (i think)

??

sorry, didn’t mean to throw water on your find, which is awesome !

just thought it was peculiar

Heads up for anyone planning on voting in 2019 who doesn't quite feel plugged into that ILM vibe that I've been on the watchtower pulling tracks from all the yearly genre threads and organizing them by month. If you wanna take a blind stab at the past eight months of talked about music (or, you know, about the 75%-85% of it that shows up on spotify), give these 1100+ songs a go and you'll be zeitgeisty as can be:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=7iX5VgKHTOeZxvbfG8Pb5w

13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”

think this would've been #1 on my ballot if I'd heard it soon enough