ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

ooh, this is quite good

This Fabiana Palladino is nice, finally some proper pop with ups and downs. Wouldn't have voted for it, but better than most on the list so far.

I like this!

Wow yeah I like this a lot

it's a great headphone track btw; the "shimmer" constantly moves left to right

lol I think I hate this :/

"additional production by jai paul" lol yo what's up dude!

I need to engage with the lyrics of the Soccer Mommy track, clearly, but the foundations made me think of being bored by it on Jools Holland.

I like Shimmer, but I rekkun it's benefitted from being top of the noms playlist.

Peak shambhala.

Indeed.

this also sounds like an indie song with listless vocals

ups and downs where?

"additional production by jai paul" lol yo what's up dude!

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, January 28, 2019 1:50 PM (twenty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit, i was trying to figure out what the backing track reminded me of, and turns out it's "jasmine" with some actual production value

getting close to the end of the time I have allocated to do this so let's knock out the last three a bit faster and then it's free-for-all discussion till tomorrow

http://i.imgur.com/q9aZVII.jpg

63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live” – 178 points – 6 votes
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Toni Braxton - Classic or Dud?

I like Shimmer, but I rekkun it's benefitted from being top of the noms playlist.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:50 (forty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nominate early, nominate often

This may be my least favourite so far (Palladino).

xps

Toni!

lol i love how the voting/campaigning threads are always hugs-all-around 'wow that's awesome even tho i prob won't vote for it!' and then when the actual countdown starts everyone hates everything

Toni has been quietly turning out some of the best material of her career over the last few years. Glad to see this place (I voted for it).

thank fuck this placed, so sick of mainstream r&b getting passed up on these polls

toni too low

my first vote to place so far

mine too i think!

holy shit, i was trying to figure out what the backing track reminded me of, and turns out it's "jasmine" with some actual production value
― voodoo chili

lol i love how the voting/campaigning threads are always hugs-all-around 'wow that's awesome even tho i prob won't vote for it!' and then when the actual countdown starts everyone hates everything

― dyl, Monday, January 28, 2019 1:52 PM

it's true

Yeah, this poll really isn't for me.

It is funny to me how much dragging is going on here... I would think this would be the thread for basically celebrating these tracks!

"long as i live" landed in the middle of my ballot, which was also too low, wtf me

re: this Toni song. I love that good r&b today is still powered by the same slow galloping beat Al Green was riding in 1972.

just realized the video for this song fits the recent ilm thread about music videos with industrial fans

lol morrisp: talking nonstop shit in these threads is a yearly tradition! We're still due for at least one huge temper tantrum and angry argument.

I liked Sex and Cigarettes well enough but "Long As I Live" doesn't quite do it for me.

Just wanted to let everyone know: I Love Music

haha ok :)

here's the song that's "more metal than WK;" please do not have a huge temper tantrum and angry argument with me about how it's NOT METAL... i'm just saying it's more metal than WK!

http://i.imgur.com/zOJ9EYr.jpg

62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)” 180 points – 5 votes – 1 first place vote
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https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=107911

The other night - while high - I compared “Julia” to taking a shower but instead of water, it's guitars. God, it’s the best song ever made. - BradNelson

Best song of the year, although I have no idea what any of it means. - ArchCarrier

wrt DJ Koze: doesn't the sad 10-minute techno track always somewhere between #11 and #17? What's it doing all the way out here?

huh, the full album didn't connect with me but this single grew on me in a huge way

dj koze track isn't sad enough and is actually fairly boring. i would know b/c those #11-17 sad techno tracks are always catnip to me

Toni has been quietly turning out some of the best material of her career over the last few years. Glad to see this place (I voted for it).

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, January 28, 2019 1:53 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank fuck this placed, so sick of mainstream r&b getting passed up on these polls

― dyl, Monday, January 28, 2019 1:53 PM (nine minutes ago)

yes and yes!

aw I'm so sure this song will not sound as good to me as Brad's description that I' not sure I should listen

HOLY SHIT

the temper tantrums and explosive arguments that precipitate from these polls are pretty excellent. i seem to remember some wonderful ones centered around black eyed peas, "empire state of mind", that one song by girls, perhaps some others i'm forgetting

ok y'all i'm sorry, this song/album is not for everyone, but i'm so thrilled

This is good guitars.

i didn't even vote for it!

Long AS I Live was the last song I cut and as I submitted my ballot, I had instant regret. Glad it still made the list. Probably my favourite song of hers apart from You're Makin' Me High.

Really happy to see Shimmer and Sticky make the list. Those were two songs I didn't know that I fell in love with on the Spotify playlist. My first two votes to appear!

Good song.

Oh god, this Toni Braxton song is massive! Why didn't I listen to it before voting, surely it would've been in my ballot... By far the best tune in this poll so far!

xps i would go so far as to suggest that part of the reason the yearly poll is such a beloved fixture of ILM is BECAUSE it sets off so much free floating emotion. "How dare Drake show his face in here" is a feature, not a bug.

#62, on the other hand, is horrible. Is grunge back for good? I hope not.