ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

tsj blurbs not doing this one any favors christ

i'm just assuming no one making that comparison actually remembers what owl city sounds like because it's been like a decade since "fireflies" now and who would want to remember that

don't blame me I voted for "I Always Wanna Die"

Haha, I voted for both of these and I'm much less enthusiastic about The 1975 than most people on here. They are damn catchy songs though.

the only apparatus required for happiness is your pain and fucking going outside

is that Mike Pence on guitar?

it's a personal tradition to always post this if someone mentions owl city: https://youtu.be/ECN7C1QQyqk

^^^ thank you rob

I don't love either of these 1975 songs, but I totally get how someone could listen to the album a lot and get these songs embedded so deeply that it feels natural to vote for them at eoy time, despite them being super flimsy out of context.

HOT TAKE ALERT: i've listened to more 1975 than I ever had in organizing the poll. if i squint REALLY HARD i guess i can see what everyone likes so much about it but mostly this is as interesting to me as Oasis.

lol i'd never heard that rob

my personal favourite owl city video is this truly bizarre live version of fireflies: https://youtu.be/I6NSS-CC93o

would you believe that yours is the normal take, not the hot one xp

I'm certainly glad for Claire she can hear sincerity in an indie rock song.

I liked "Give Yourself a Try", but that's the first one

xp to brad - i suppose i would! but i'm in a strange sample size where everyone likes this stuff so i'm a little defensive.

were there really no ilm posts about this song to harvest

lol

Surprised to see Give Yourself A Try place, I thought it was seen as a slightly underwhelming lead single. I can definitely see the other two singles appearing now equaling the amount of songs that made it from the last album. No Haim style drop off for these guys!

I’ve mostly stayed away from caring one way or the other about The 1975, but “TooTime...” won me over. I think I had it at #3 on my ballot (love the video too).

"Toast" is awesome, thanks to whoever mentioned it

sorry for complaining about the blurbs so much forks, you're doing a great job on your own and i'm thankful for it, just a little cranky this morning

s'all good. there wasn't much revealing commentary on that song in the 1975 thread; trust me, i've looked. feel free to post anything you think i've missed... or better yet, talk about it here!

anyways, let's do the next 1975 song

http://i.imgur.com/xa9qH52.jpg

25: Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend” – 256 points – 10 votes – 1 first place vote
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Christine And The Queens (the Héloïse Letissier thread)

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25642

I will always rep for the “Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You” electric piano preset. – Kat Stevens

The lightbulb-like synths of “Girlfriend” are too airy to provide full camouflage for Héloïse Letissier’s unparalleled braggadocio, which she exaggerates to extremes here in her first new single since 2015. It’s interesting to contrast the lyrics of the chorus to “Girlfriend” and its French counterpart “Damn, dis-moi“; the word “girlfriend” is not included at any stage in the latter, and interrogatives are used in a resigned way, as though it appears the song’s protagonist has realized that a façade of armor is not worth “trippin'” over. The song generally flows better in French and I suspect that was how it was originally conceived, but I do like the slyness of the English version’s chorus, and how it reflects Letissier’s willingness to challenge traditional notions of gender and relationships. As products, I find both songs are best consumed one after the other, while dancing ’round a room in a crisp white shirt, brogues and culottes. – William John

Chris!

I'm still shocked this wasn't a massive hit.

I'm still kinda shocked that 'Tilted' was.

oh i wasn't quite expecting this to do better than "doesn't matter" but great track too

i've lost hope for "baby don't stop" at this point, guess kpop thread will have to try better next year

I'll take Greta Van Fleet over most of this stuff. 70s worship is less stale than its 80s counterpart in 2019 AD.

whose son is this

Jacob Bunter 6 months ago

my 40 year old dad binge listens to this song like wtf dad

I voted for "When the Curtain Falls", tbh. xp

I'll take Greta Van Fleet over most of this stuff. 70s worship is less stale than its 80s counterpart in 2019 AD.

now *that* is how you do a hot take

'did we really need another song like that' is my angle but i guess we did -_-

s'all good. there wasn't much revealing commentary on that song in the 1975 thread; trust me, i've looked. feel free to post anything you think i've missed... or better yet, talk about it here!

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i feel extremely owned by these lyrics

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I gave the 1975 a try and I like the guitar sound on "Give Yourself...". The riff recalls Joy Division's "Disorder" a little but is obv distinct. xps

xp Revealing!

it's a deliberate rip of "Disorder"

'did we really need another song like that'

The democratic answer appears to be 'yes'. Makes me less wary of totalitarianism.

Otherwise, they still feel pretty 'not my thing' but maybe it could grow on me in the right context. xp Oh ha. So I like the one part of one 1975 song that sounds like a Joy Division song.

but do we still like hip hop?

http://i.imgur.com/4VdARkX.jpg

24: Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide” – 260 points – 12 votes
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rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

Carly Rae Sremmurd

'Powerglide' is the fastest five and a half minutes in pop. – mr. raffles

Whenever "Powerglide" comes on, it tends to outclass whatever comes on before or after, but I don't hear it often on pop radio. It hasn't crossed over like 'Black Beatles,' so they're somewhat back to where we were exactly two years ago. – Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25230

At least rappers are now moving on to mid-2000s Three 6 Mafia after covering “Slob on My Knob” for the 20th time. Swae Lee bloats the track slightly by splitting his singing and rapping to two verses while Juicy J appears like a hanger-on rather than a stamp of approval. Even so, “Side 2 Side” didn’t do so hot during its time, so it’s nice to see Rae Sremmurd give a modest single from Most Known Unknown the upgrade it deserves. – Ryo Miyauchi

This seems endless - not in the turgid sense, but like a smooth loop of pleasure that slides into the background so you can ignore most of the dodgy lyrics. – Anthony Easton

metootime was by far my least fav song on a 1975 album that i otherwise liked a lot.

a song i keep forgetting came out last year

I like the idea of getting Dam-Funk to do a wicked keytar solo

fuck it i'm going for a lie-down

powerglide is a fine song, but it will forever remind me of "remember the name" by fort minor

I voted for this and knew it was coming

a song i keep forgetting came out last year

I joked about recency bias on the other thread but it would be interesting to see a release date breakdown when this is over

wasn't too keen on SR3MM overall but there were quite a few tracks i liked more than "powerglide"

i voted for Offshore, but that's really more a Thug song

the third record just kinda evaporated for me on impact, the proper rs record was fine and the solo discs were distinctly less than the sums of their parts. "powerglide" still plenty enjoyable tbf