ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

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I'm restraining myself so far tbf - but as soon as y'all lay into something I REALLY like then no holds will be barred. Only Acting will probably be a sparkpoint

sans bite

Things I still find amusing although I'm no longer 14: 'bite' (pronounced like 'beet') means 'penis' in French.

You assume I didn't know that ;)

Boringly the only thing from yesterday I actively hate is the Drake track, which I haven't listened to. Soccer Mommy was dull, not awful, just dull. Everything else was very good and you should all congratulate yourselves for voting for it.

My comment wasn't necessarily meant for the author of those lines. ;)

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(tbf, I knew it meant SOMETHING but I figured I'd leave the translingual pun to the gods - and how they delivered!)

sounds like something from quiet riot: the musical

lol, it's true. nickb also otm re: long as I live as well, my fav of what I hadn't heard

pick up is like a 10 second snippet from some avalanches mix left to loop maddeningly, simmering in its own yearning. it's both too long and wldn't be as good if it was shorter

the breakdown in nice for what is proper hectic and plays against drake's simpering softness

imo soccer mommy has a command of melody and economy that most other songwriters in her field do not have, i'm not sure "your dog" is wholly representative of that though. i was surprised johnny fever likes "skin" the most bc i have referred to it as her taylor swift song

'Dick' is a more appropriate translation tbf but I enjoying scanning it as 'sans penis'.

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I like almost everything that's placed so far, imagine hating so much music damn

Wait, this isn't Rolling Worst Music of 2018?

i was surprised johnny fever likes "skin" the most bc i have referred to it as her taylor swift song

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:28 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually i'd like to walk this back a little on revisit. something about her voice and the way she lingers on detail reminds me of swift regardless

check out the most recent album imo, but the answer is: 1. yes (and lighter shit too) 2. not really, “julia” is one of their few songs that is both gentle and aggressive, but if you like it you’ll probably like their other stuff

Liked (and voted for) Julia but couldn't get into the album bar one or two other tracks. Not a fan when the screaming is much higher up in the mix.

http://i.imgur.com/YtBE5Tr.jpg

60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It” - 181 points - 8 votes
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Bodak Yellow is:

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25750

Cardi B flips this most standard of boogaloo standards into Latin trap and has two of the biggest and so most demographically advantageous performers of urban Caribbean music jump on it with her. In a year when the fever-swamps of poisonous discourse and xenophobic hatred are way past critical levels, this celebration of a few of three Latinx stars’ favorite things stands out all the more for its full-throated self-regarding glee. – Jonathan Bogart

“I Like It” somehow manages the seemingly impossible task of salvaging a song that heretofore existed in the current popular American consciousness almost exclusively thanks to a fucking Burger King commercial. And it’s only like maybe the fifth or sixth best song on Invasion of Privacy! – Josh Love

there was a thread about this track vs boo'd up vs sth else

I don't

Massive airplay for this track in South Florida, thanks to its Latin roots. I find "I Like It Like That" rather obnoxious myself.

does make me wanna get a freakin' Whopper

oh wow that's surprisingly low

it's fine but only being exposed to "i like it like that" through its constant presence in commercials etc. doesn't make it easy to like

this song is like a YouTube advert and if you're lucky you get to click away after 5 seconds rather than the full 30. actually I think that's where I've heard it before

Voted for the album, this is probably my fifth favourite track off it.

that's about right

lol I have officially no clue what's likely for the top 10, not that I voted for this not-bad song

I'll take this one as a really bad joke if you guys haven't also voted for something off Vibras, like Mi Gente.

And "Reggaeton" obviously.

http://i.imgur.com/tin0ksz.jpg

59: Prince Kaybee featuring Busiswa and TNS - “Banomoya” – 184 points – 5 votes
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rolling afropop / afrobeats 2018

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26599

Store light bass leaps up and starts riding the pinpoint, juggling drums as washing froth synths drift in and over Busiswah’s authoritatively, aggressive voice, which sharply roots the song, allowing it to expand into the ozone layer as she pulls the tendrils into the soil. TNS comes in and clumsily tumbles around while Busiswah keeps putting back down roots he has already knocked out. As the block percussion sinks in, Prince Kaybee pumps more and more air as Busiswah places the last root. – Nortey Dowuona

They had me from the opening bass line. The spareness underscores the impact of those splashes of keyboard color. The sonic approach I’ve wanted from Blood Orange. – Alfred Soto

oh i didn't expect this to place at all, a total banger that i voted for

sounds like something from quiet riot: the musical

Trying to imagine the universe in which this is a bad thing.

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there was a thread about this track vs boo'd up vs sth else

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:48 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"otw," the best of the three, i expect it to do well here

i liked other Busiswa-related tracks more this year but this still owns so glad to see it show up

I think this is the first thing I've not heard of previously!

the beat on this is so good

anyone who likes this should really listen to Busiswa's album "Highly Flavoured" which is fantastic gqom the whole way through

hell yeah I've always been on the lookout for more stuff like that

Spectacular banger, one of the biggest hits of the year in South Africa. Kaybee’s previous hit from earlier in the year, “Club Controller” (which probably won’t place) is fantastic as well.

(and co-sign on the Busiswa album. Make sure to check out Highly Flavoured though, follow-up Summer Life, which she released in November, is not nearly as good, unfortunately)

http://i.imgur.com/3S7RVFm.jpg

58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break” – 184 points – 6 votes
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rolling pop 2018

i love this track but very reluctantly due to the dr luke production & co-write and didn't vote for it bc of that

great track, kinda got annoyed of it in the end as it opened my 2018 tracks list

this sounds utterly boilerplate to me but as I went to the trouble of finding it I'd better listen to it all

Surprised this one placed at all, let alone this high.

nobody from the singles jukebox could be contacted for comment

yea it kinda sounds like everything else on the radio to me

like it's really great to see a trans woman making great pop like this but it's very bleak that she's dr. luke's protege

i like the splattery drum sound, but everything else is meh

nice to see Banomoya, which I like a lot but didn't listen to enough during the year to vote for it. only 5 votes...maybe we'll get some more afropop today?

I'm certainly waiting on this year's Akrakabo

if this year has an Akrakabo i haven't heard it yet so hopefully i'll be surprised