ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I'm not convinced it's a real problem, but I do think it's odd you can technically nominate more tracks or albums than you can put on a ballot

― rob, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:16 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nuh-uh! 50 vs 40

― imago, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:19 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm boring myself at this point, but I thought due to the "split between tracks & albums however you like rule" that you could technically nominate 40 trax or 40 albums? more to the point, I think I've seen at least one poster submit 40 album noms and no tracks

Just now listening to the second MGMT song. I think I would've been all over this in 2010 when there were several nu retro synth blogs that were super active (is that what bloghouse was?), but nine years later it sounds like cough medicine tastes.

fwiw that Drake song is on the extremely short list of Drake songs I enjoy

― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 3:23 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(the other one is "The Motto")

― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 3:23 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly an excellent top 2

Great rundown Will

I liked your Drake story Will

^yes, v good blurb

Funkystepz remix of The Motto is the best thing Drake's ever been involved with

My take fwiw: People should vote for their N favourite tracks of the year, whatever we decide N to be (currently 25) and there should be as few barriers as possible to expressing one's preferences. Discovering that your favourite track wasn't nominated is a barrier - in principle I would be open to a world with unlimited nominations or without a nomination process but that makes it really hard to tabulate. If we want to incentivise "real favourites" over ballot fillers we could reduce N, but many people really do have 25 tracks they love and want to vote for.

Hahaha I mean the stats don’t change, in my proposed system the stats would remain... it just starts in whichever number the repear artists pushed down the number so let’s assume the only repear artist for 2014 was Taylor Swift.

We don't do this for the rollout obv but there is a ranking where all points for an artist get totalled into one entry, e.g. this was 2016: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12dn1OxuFnFyVugIrSblHnLHWBHcEZOIHr880Iwxo95Q/edit?usp=sharing

here we go, let's try to keep this discussion in here

be it resolved that the ILM EOY tracks poll institute a one-track-per-artist-per-rollout limit

already voted nay

Funkystepz remix of The Motto is the best thing Drake's ever been involved with

― Number None, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:36 (twenty minutes ago) Permalink

that's great but the Drew Austin remix of "Find Your Love" beats it.

I still like JoJo's cover/remix of "Marvins Room"

that chats tune really does seem like a pale imitation of the cosmic psychos: behold the ugly splendour of these irksome layabouts

Regarding ILM’s infatuation with The 1975:

From the songs of their supposedly brilliant album from last year only “Love it if we made it” makes me believe the hype. That song sells me the whole thing and they sound unique enough instead of a copy of a copy, if the album had at least another song on that level I’d be on board... but the rest of the album is honestly not there for me and it just sounds like a lesser version of a better band or song. I kind of like their “rock band but not actually a rock band” thing they have but only when the results are songs like “love it if we made it”, “i always wanna die” or “tootimetootimetootime” make me want to listen to actual pop radio instead.

They could be Duran Duran, but they're just Power Station most of the time.

Hahaha that’s a simpler way to explain it... I’m stealing that one.

I'd say about a 1/3 of their songs are really good, but they spend way too much time in tedious ballad land.

Hrm, stoked All End made it, but now I wonder if my ballot was counted. I believe I had a mixed songs ballot with All End being #1. Can someone confirm? Maybe I shuffled it around the top 5 at the last minute...

all end was in my top 5 to, glad it showed up!

*too

my first ballot this year, only did albums, and already realized I forgot three picks which should have been top ten

the one thing I've been gathering from this list so far is that ILX really loves deadpan, disaffected vocals

― frogbs

Whenever I feel like voting for needlessly histrionic vocals and maximalist arrangements I watch The Voice instead.

Sorry bad joke but I’m actually being forced to watch a The Voice rerun in the tvs of the restaurant I’m drinking atm.

I think my favourite part of the countdown today was in the music video for Smoko when the lead singer calls the drummer who gets to be the guy working at Centrelink. The look on the lead singers face cracks me up, that and the drummer trying desperately not to laugh while he yells "I'm on Smoko" into the phone. Fun song.

I liked "Julia" enough to listen to the whole mewithoutyou album on the drive home tonight. I'm loving this tbh and am listening a second time.

hell yeah!!!!

i'm pro-"smoko" now

yesss

the Die Wilde Jagd track is the only track so far i hadn't heard of at all but it's quite cool. finding stuff like this is one of my favourite things about the rollout

the Mr Twin Sister, 1975 and Natalie Prass songs are all highlights off their great albums that i voted for

surprised MGMT placed twice but "Me and Michael" is pretty nice so i can't complain too much

Great rundown Will

― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:28 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I liked your Drake story Will

― rob, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:29 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^yes, v good blurb

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:31 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks for reading the opinions of the ilx countdowns resident dumb guy! I'll be here all week

yes, although I don't agree about your verdict on the Talaboman/Superpitcher, that track is great

I really think it should be listened to with headphone for the fractured vocals dispersed in the stereo field

*headphones*

I love this:

yeah, me and michael is like M83 and OMD joined at the hip

― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, June 30, 2018 9:58 AM (six months ago)

Where is Ross? Miss that guy.

i am hoping #54 may be the first saer-approved track

This was the Taliban track? Sorry no:( Didn't exactly dislike it but it didn't really have any particular charm.

I think the closest to an approval so far is probably the Natalie Prass track even though its one of a fair few in the rundown that sound like those bands that go on talk shows. I wouldn't be offended if it came on in a cafe. Felt like a lot of repeats of yesterday so nothing really to add elsewhere

xp I also miss Ross!

who da fuq is ross

like that quote, but Ross is obviously off on his own adventure

note to ||||||||, he was not all that great to begin with

would be glad to see him back though

https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/ilms-top-77-tracks-of-2018/pl.u-GoB6SZyPM8g

Apple Music crew, I got you - let me know if this works.

It does, thanks!

Really not feeling this year's rundown so far, so much of it sounds like a comfort-blanket genre exercise which is fine if you like whatever it is you're doing but there's not very much that feels essential or even particularly representative of 2018. That Smoko thing is basically a comfort-blanket genre exercise as well but at least it sounds like they're having fun doing it.

Everyone involved in that Talaboman/Superpitcher record has maybe 20 better tracks each.

Smoko should've been a minute long. Fake it if you don't know what you're doing.

at least it sounds like they're having fun doing it.

Was pretty horrible to listen to but can't argue with this. The vocals on most of the tracks in the rundown sound like they were done by paintings of dead people

lol

I personally hope that the Chats had no fun at all recording their terrible song!

I like its simultaneous embrace and satire of Australian bogan culture. We haven't had a song do that as effectively since Chris Franklin's parody of Meredith Brooks with 'Bloke' in 2000.

Ha, I'll readily admit that would be completely lost on me. I have to say we're not doing too badly as there have only been two songs so far I've had a strong negative reaction to. Matt DC's other point is interesting though, I know my own ballots (albums especially) were quite heavy on my comfort-zone genres this year.