ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I’m not sure what happened to ulysses though...

I've liked Dozzy projects before, but picking this as one of the best tracks of the year is entirely mystifying to me. At least the autechre had trolling value. Next year I'm nominating my cat's purrs and my white noise machine

a man has to eat! more delicious bobbins for you now.

http://i.imgur.com/3cOAg8c.jpg

30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)” – 246 points – 10 votes
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teengirl fantasy, miracles club, mi ami, 100% silk and the rise of HIPSTER HOUSE: S/D

Can we go down to 26 and then do a 15/10 split on Thurs/Fri?

We're going down to 29 today, 13 on Thursday and the top 12 on Friday.

have a feeling this won't be the only track to place from this ep

extremely lovely as always

29 had better be a change of pace lol

EP of the year xp p sure this is the first time I've voted for 2 tracks off the same EP but by different artists

^same for me

Last one for today!

http://i.imgur.com/E7DUJsZ.jpg

29: Marie Davidson – “Work It” – 247 points – 8 votes – 1 first place vote
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Marie Davidson (dark synth, she's been in a few bands but has had a few solo releases)

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26555

The “Work Bitch”/”Let’s Have a Kiki” mashup I never knew I needed, with deadpan delivery that is both threatening and genuinely motivational. I feel like a rich lesbian personal trainer has looked into my soul and told me I am not working hard enough and boy is it ever effective. – Alex Clifton

Over a spiky groove that builds like an assembly line, Marie Davidson guides you through the new mentality. It’s no longer enough to work to the bone; you have to love it, too. It doesn’t take long before she flips that aspiration into a taunt (“Well then you’re not a winner yet!”) and the colloquial notion of “work” into a menacing order. By the end, she’s just parroting the same platitudes (“You’ve got to work for yourself!”), the empty promises we’re told by others and ourselves to get by, knowing that in this system one cannot be a winner without crushing someone underneath. Perhaps that’s too bleak a reading. Perhaps we’re just in a funk, and all we need is to keep organizing and pushing and upending every system that got us here. But if it turns out we are marching toward the inevitable end, I’ll want it to sound like this. – Will Adams

WORK

EP of the year xp p sure this is the first time I've voted for 2 tracks off the same EP but by different artists

lol @ the top comment

This song made me drink a jar of coffee and register 3 businesses

Is sweat dripping off your balls?

love "Beam Me Up", "Work It" does nothing for me though

this song is so fuckin funky

love "Beam Me Up", "Work It" does nothing for me though

― ufo, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:25 PM

this

Idrg her stuff but at least it has some oomph

seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense

yeah this song... it's cool but I just can't quite tell if it's supposed to be ironic or deadly serious and that makes me uncomfortable, and that discomfort, I can only assume, is part of the appeal. Either way it's kind of a 21st century 'LOADSAMONEY' with a funky electro soundtrack

best day of the countdown

hoping at least one more kpop track will place tomorrow, there's one thread favourite that surely should make it?

"Work It" just takes a bit too long to really get into things for me

the Octa Octa track def my fave of the bobbins

If you’re into “work it” or you are not but love hearing about gear or the music making process search a youtube video of her at the red bull music academy. Apparently she does all her music on minimal, analog gear (gets some approving nods from Tatsuya Takahashi in the background) and she comes off as very charming. Also seeing her get in and out of character for this song is cool.

I'd be surprised if "Power Up" didn't make it but I am v far from a kpop expert xps

This track makes me think of those dumbfuck FIVERR subway ads

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mg_advert_depression_comp.png
http://i.imgur.com/gB4ZIrn.jpg
http://mikekosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fiverr_poster.jpg

also this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

all very jay mcinerney all over again

seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense

― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:27 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I had the same reaction

octo octa is amazing though, as is that EP

We're going down to 29 today, 13 on Thursday and the top 12 on Friday.

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “all end”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

it's been 17/20/20/20 in the past instead of 17/16/16/16/12 yeah

This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.

we used to not do Fridays because the euros would be out during the top 10 but now everyone's old and/or has smartphones

work it = britney's work bitch but make it goth

glad to see good bobbins still placing

Let's Eat Grandma are definitely in that 'bands I refuse to check out based entirely on their name'. May as well call yourselves 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'

<3 that octo octa split EP and all the breaky stuff like it that's been coming out these past couple years

dog latin i feel that

wait do euros get fridays off? why do i live in this country again?

Still thinking Talaboman is the highlight of the poll so far. I'm liking the Simmys from today though.

They don't xp

Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?

― pomenitul, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:34 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it just reminds me of something one of my partner's (Mtl) art students might make--or to put it another way, I think the Mtl connection makes it easy to decide the lyrics are parodic. also, I was pretty sure I was correctly identifying her accent, but wasn't 100%

Gotcha. I'm always a wee bit bemused by what the ROC makes of Montreal.

Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half

― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:33 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you don't like a relentless stream of good house and techno then idk man

Just not built for it -_- soz

this year's rollout has felt a bit less surprising overall, feels mostly like highlights from albums that'll certainly do well too, bobbins stuff aside

no idea what's going to do the best of what's left though

tbf the bobbins fugues are the reason i fell in love with this poll (cf. lindstrøm & prins thomas in 2009)