all end was in my top 5 to, glad it showed up!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
*too
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
my first ballot this year, only did albums, and already realized I forgot three picks which should have been top ten
― mh, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
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.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
hell yeah!!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
i'm pro-"smoko" now
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
yesss
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:30 (five years ago) link
Great rundown Will― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:28 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI 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
― 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
― suggest boban (Will M.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:56 (five years ago) link
yes, although I don't agree about your verdict on the Talaboman/Superpitcher, that track is great
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link
I really think it should be listened to with headphone for the fractured vocals dispersed in the stereo field
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
*headphones*
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:30 (five years ago) link
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)
― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, June 30, 2018 9:58 AM (six months ago)
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
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
― saer, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link
xp I also miss Ross!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:42 (five years ago) link
who da fuq is ross
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 05:45 (five years ago) link
like that quote, but Ross is obviously off on his own adventure
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link
note to ||||||||, he was not all that great to begin with
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
would be glad to see him back though
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― triggercut, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 07:55 (five years ago) link
It does, thanks!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 08:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:32 (five years ago) link
Smoko should've been a minute long. Fake it if you don't know what you're doing.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
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
― saer, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
I personally hope that the Chats had no fun at all recording their terrible song!
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― triggercut, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
amazingly enough I largely agree with Matt! although we'd best not bring Mitski up again
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Strong negative reactions are good not bad! It's a sign the music is worth caring about one way or another. So much of this list is just different flavours of wishy-washy, like Xeroxes of the already Xeroxy bands that appeared at the end of the last season of Twin Peaks.
(I'm happy to exclude Mitski from that fwiw, even if I don't like her music it at least has personality and feels like it has a point to it).
Is that Autechre track worth investing an hour in? Skipping through it it sounded like it was just an hour's worth of ambient drift?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
hop along were high enough on my albums ballot that i decided not to vote for them here (also because all those songs are incredible), delighted it placed though!
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
It basically is that so I guess it comes down to whether that would interest you - I think it's a beautiful piece although there are lots of other tracks from the Autechre set I like more (xpost).
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
I've already got a fridge to listen to if I'm in the mood for drone thankyouverymuch! At least there's not been too much (c)rap so far!!!
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
ogmor in a radge mood today. promises much
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
So much of this list is just different flavours of wishy-washy, like Xeroxes of the already Xeroxy bands that appeared at the end of the last season of Twin Peaks.
This is the thing for me - if I'm listening to a few tracks that sound like that I can really love them, they can take me into a space that's both comforting and eerie, the disaffectedness is really appealing. But then if I'm listening to a whole big list of things that sound like that and are also supposed to be the best tracks of the year then it's underwhelming as hell. I guess all I'm saying is that I understand why people vote for tracks like this (and I voted for some myself) but in the end it winds up a big pile of "meh".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I heard 'Smoko' and was underwhelmed by it earlier this year, but in the context of this list it really is a blessed relief. They are human people, goofing the fuck off, making a track that sounds alive.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
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...― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:24 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have "All End" as your #3
― seandalai, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
more like bæll end amirite
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
what do you think Autechre call their genitals?
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
haha!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
so here's another one that has, as far as I can see, no discussion on ILX at all... of course, it's awfully hard to search, so show me where the party's at
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rrV9G8r.jpg
44: Peach – “Silky” – 202 points – 7 votesvideo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
amazing tune!
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
xp though a search did lead me to this choice matt post:Simon Reynolds is a gobshite
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
belated note: "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" sounds to me like "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
oh this is on midland's label?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link