ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

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36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp” – 221 points – 7 votes
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finally some rap

dope

good timing!!

also really love this song, fell off my ballot at the last minute

I forgot about this song but it rules

ridin with no co-sign, i get that bread, croissant

was my #7

"vlone" is the one imo but any valee is good

I can never resist this song

xp i hadnt heard "vlone" so thanks for mentioning it, has a great vibe

I should try this magic trick again. is any tropical fuck storm even gonna place this year???

i don't care if it's too pastichey when it get everything right like this

― ufo

This sums how I feel about Hatchie. The whole EP is so effortlessly joyful. Ended up voting for Sure and I'm delighted to see it place. Really hope she can maintain this level of quality over an album when it comes (hopefully soon!)

if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it

xxp if you do the trick twice, people figure out how it works

womp womp sounds like Neptunes to me... but good Neptunes!

tfs too votesplit

lol I know, I didn't even vote for any TFS tracks

these are just slow-motion triplets right, ogmor?

xps judging by hatchie's twitter she's almost done with her album so it's probably not too far away

would be very surprised if TFS don't at least do decently in the albums poll

Yay for double Simmy! Two tracks from my #1 album! I voted for “Umahlalela”, hoping to push it even higher here after the TSJ boost (it was their highest-scoring song of the year). Although I love “Ubala” as well, it doesn’t do nearly as much for me.

Womp Womp is good.

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35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko” – 223 points – 8 votes
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Let's Eat Grandma

I never thought I'd actually like a track called "Donnie Darko" but here we are. – Ned Raggett

oh hell yeah

let's eat gyllenhaal

hellll yeah

Didn't vote for this but it's really good imo. The album wasn't consistent but the two long songs at the end were killer. I might even have voted for Cool & Collected if someone had nominated it. This is great too though

let's eat gyllenhaal

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nice album closer

wasn't even nommed but "i will be waiting" was the track off this record i came back to the most

let's eat gyllenhaal

― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:31 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hellll yeah

― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019

fuck yes

went for the album instead but this would have been the track to make it

"Falling into You" was one of the last cuts from my tracks ballot but i'm very happy to see anything from I'm All Ears place

Awesome! This was the song that won me round on them. The highlight of the year's biggest surprise for me.

Listening to Doja Cat for the first time now

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idg Let's Eat Grandma at all. I tried them in the wake of praises sung by people with good taste, but eeesh no thanks.

V much in the 'first album good second album meh' camp regarding LEG

Ugh. I hope when they try to eat Grandma she lays them both out with a shovel to the head.

This is also a rare example of a song named after another cultural object capturing the essence of that object almost exactly

Who wouldn't rather eat Jake than Grandma?

song only really gets going at about 8 minutes in when those big guitars come in

I'm listening to "Go to Town" rn and it is much more my speed

― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:32 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Roll With Us and Candy are my favs off that album

if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it

― ogmor, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:25 AM (fourteen minutes ago)

these are just slow-motion triplets right, ogmor?

― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:28 AM (eleven minutes ago)

I don't have those chops but the way the vocal melody descends has to be part of it too

damn y'all have a lot of time for long-ass songs this year

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34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen” – 224 points – 6 votes – 1 first place vote
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Tracey Thorn

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“Queen” is an entirely different song depending on whether you think Thorn has found love, and is marveling at the million tiny ways the world could have changed to prevent that (and a different song still if the thought makes her terrified, not awed), or if she hasn’t, and is scouring the past for the mistake. I think she means the former, but the song sounding exactly like “Thank God It’s Not Christmas” (“great things to say or do / aren’t done by you / obviously”) tips it back toward the latter for me. So many people I know feel as if the world’s been kicked out from beneath them. It’s not only the political climate — though that certainly doesn’t help — but the sense that their life suddenly happened and then unhappened. Everyone describes it differently, but they all independently come up with Hollywood terms: dying sitcoms, ex-child stars, the US version of royalty. Sometimes I imagine that myself-from-my-old-life is still out there, “Evil Doppelgangers“-style, younger, in a much glitzier locale, with more to say to more people. Is she queen? Does she ever find love? Whose odds are better, hers or mine? “Might have been” is a lot less limited than “is.” - Katherine St Asaph

“She’s blown her pipes,” I thought at first. On second listen, the newly serrated edges of Tracey Thorn’s voice add sardonicism to another synthed-up chapter in her ongoing project of limning the quiet lives of men and women who deserve more than they’re getting. “Am I queen or something else I might have been / a star backseat of a blacked-out car?” she sings, as usual, keeping her head while others lose theirs. – Alfred Soto

nice!

No Xgau quote? Lol

Never heard of #35, but with an artist name - song title combo like, it would take some effort to convince me to listen to it.

do i ever find loooooooooove

My #1

good song