ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

v much looking forward to her record this year

the guitar solo really makes this

I love nitpicking and I hate fun but I'll give this a fair crack

i was an early Lizzo booster on this board and I certainly don't begrudge her success (or, nearly as important, what it means culturally for her to break through to the pop world) but the kind of pseudo-Bruno Mars, funk faking arena anthem rock she's doing with "Boys" is anathema to me.

This is way better than her early stuff, I don't begrudge its placement at all.

the guitar solo really makes this

― ufo, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:39 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep, opens up the song

"Juice" is way better.

thankfully "juice" came out in 2019

Was hoping this would make #1 so the top track would have the same name as last year, also it's much better than the other Boys

"akanamali" definitely crossed over from tsj. the discussion on his album's thread has been reasonably active all year so i think simmy's music must have come up there quite shortly after being released, no tsj-acclaim needed.

"amablesser" was nominated btw, so it could still make it! (tho honestly i doubt it would place above "ubala" et al.) i nominated it but didn't end up having room for it on my ballot lol.

"banomoya" might be my favorite of all the songs i hadn't heard before from this poll so the post upthread stating that it was a big hit in south africa tells me that i should probably just start listening to south african radio already

― dyl, Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:30 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

“AmaBlesser” was a big pop hit there too (just like “Akanamali” itself, the other Sun-El singles did very well too). The Mlindo and Simmy albums are both currently top 10 streaming in SA. It’s actual popular music. Finding the right radio station would be a treat, no doubt!

xp

― breastcrawl, Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:51 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i listen to a couple durban stations online at times. try Ukhozi 90.8 FM or Gagasi 99.5. i don't know any stations in Joburg or Capetown though.

"Juice" is way better.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:41 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thankfully "juice" came out in 2019

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:41 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly I'll be shocked if it's not at least top 20 next year

same tbh

only way i could see it not being is if she releases an even better single

12 months is a loooooong time

"Juice" almost inspired me to post my first selfie video a couple weeks ago.

i was an early Lizzo booster on this board and I certainly don't begrudge her success (or, nearly as important, what it means culturally for her to break through to the pop world) but the kind of pseudo-Bruno Mars, funk faking arena anthem rock she's doing with "Boys" is anathema to me.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:40 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think it's in ILM's contract that there has to be one of these in every countdown

a dissenter?

Here's a young plucky band y'all may have heard of.

http://i.imgur.com/cfga6PR.jpg

27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” – 252 points – 8 votes
video

the 1975

Lyrically I think “TOOTIME” is really simple and direct in a way that complements the breezy atmosphere of the music well. – kevin k

"TooTimeTooTimeTooTime," which may be the catchiest thing they've ever done. - ilxor

oh fuck I didn't think this one was going to place lol

this really grew on me, it seemed relatively slight for them at first but now it just feels delightfully breezy

i wasn't sure if this would place, guess they're probably getting 4 tracks lol

ffs we're getting all four aren't we

possibly five

i thought they only placed one time, maybe it was two times
it'll probably be three times

one of which will be #1

Can I change my vote in Simon's poll?

i thought they only placed one time, maybe it was two times
it'll probably be three times

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9

fuck you -- I was about to post this

can't be more than four times?

you place these boys sometimes

I like this song and no I will not be reflecting on what this says about my hatred for drake

it's much more joyous than any drake song

good song

great video too just sayin

only time Healy's been cute in a video ever

yeah the video rules

it's probably the happiest-sounding song about relationship drama i've ever heard and i'm not sure how they pulled it off

Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn) at 2:57 31 Jan 19
one of which will be #1

ffs we're getting all four aren't we

― imago, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:57 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if they place four times i can't decide whether the other one will be "give yourself a try" or "it's not living"

prob the former i guess

but also i really hope they don't place four times lol

think we'd need to rewind at that point

love it if they made it

the poll reform accelerationist in me is hoping for 5 placements

i reckon five

only time Healy's been cute in a video ever

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:01 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had no idea the lead singer of this band looked like Shia Labeouf pretending to be Ben Whishaw.

anyway, this might be the least hatable 1975 song I've ever listened to?

five would be wretched, especially as imo LIIWMI is the only great song this time around. the last album was so much better!

okay, let's give something completely different a try.

http://i.imgur.com/GbYx0K7.jpg

26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try” – 254 points – 9 votes
video

the 1975

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25726

“Give Yourself a Try” spills over with sincerity and solemnity. These characteristics have always been present in The 1975’s music, hidden with irony, or in the last two tracks of a long, long album, or buried in parenthesis — “Before you go (please don’t go)” — but they have never been so pronounced. From the gentle encouragement of the title to the wise old man lyrics (a sort of millennial “My Way”), any worries of self-help corniness are instantly dampened by Matty Healy’s careful, generous, knowing delivery. The characteristic musical steals are earnest too: Joy Division, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Postal Service, all bashed-up CDs on a Mancunian teenager’s shelf; the return to the parental home in a crisis. There are quotes from their own songs, too, because The 1975 are the only (white, rock-adjacent) band audacious enough to position themselves as equals to their greatest musical influences. Irony is present (“getting STDs at 27 really isn’t a vibe”), but spoken in the deadpan voice of a friend who has only ever been able to tell you that he wants to kill himself in the format of a joke. There are the familiar competing layers of profundity and jokes psyching each other out: Matty’s wide-eyed tribute to sincerity in the context of getting clean and surviving his 20s that introduced the song’s first radio play is repeated almost verbatim from a therapist’s couch by the coked-up rock star cliché he plays at the start. He knows that advice from a famous rich man is laughable, but he’s going to do it anyway… and I’m glad he has. Maybe I’m projecting, but I can hear the exhaustion that comes from rapidly switching emotional states for months and, specifically, the hopeful exhaustion of getting to the other side. It’s a culmination of the self-knowledge, the diagnosis, the reflection, the therapy. Even though I don’t know him, and it’s childish, it feels like Matty is two steps ahead of me, like he always is. Listening to “Give Yourself a Try” feels like readying myself to be exposed to the viscera of life while having my hand held by the person I love the most after months and months and months of mutual struggle. – Claire Biddles

Millions of people in their late 20s will deeply relate to the words of Matty Healy in “Give Yourself a Try”, not because he’s a bearer of truth — he’s equally prophet and charlatan — but because these are times so confusing, we tend to turn to the unreliable narrator to make some sense of them. Only in this generation, where the lines between irony and sincerity are so blurred, could we use (and need to use) the language of self-deprecation to convey hope, speak of isolation to form of communal bond, and co-opt a freakin’ Joy Division guitar line for a track that we all agree to call uplifting. - Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa

Both albums are equally bogged down by the leaden ballads.

xpost

come on

I mean at least it's outside the top 25

lmao