ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

Mo Bamba is very minor Flockaveli, but very minor Flockaveli is preferable to no Flockaveli.

ffs this is horrible

Wow, beautiful one-two step!!!

Didn't hear the Holter album this year (as I have probably said many times, her doomy electronic songs were the ones that hit me and she moved away from those), but oooh the ending of that track is fucking gorgeous.

― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:49 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You may like this album, emily. It's less songwriting-focused than some of the last few, more about exploring diverse sounds and textures. Lots of Vangelis and free jazz inspiration. It's my favourite of last year and I wasn't a fan before.

xxp It's Colombian, and you should know better.

Moka outdid himself. I vote to replace the Spain flag with his postcard.

ha, nevermind it continues, 2 points wow.

can't decide if that was an intentional typo Alfred

argh xp

malamente also one of the best pop videos in years

didn't vote for any tracks but I'm pretty psyched for Rosalía to win the album poll, mostly to punish imago but still

this song is tight, rosalía good

ay beat me to the colOmbian joke

i for one am loving these back-to-back placements for bands/artists so we can just talk about them one time for longer vs. two times but for less long

Moka outdid himself

Moka's a woman, btw.

Rosalía seems like the kind of thing I'd like, but neither the singles nor the album quite clicked with me. To be fair, I was listening while trying to cram a bunch of other 2018 music last month, so maybe I should spend some more time with it.

was away, but that was a v good fakeout forks, I'm glad I learned about baby shark just in time to get it

among its many other attractive qualities, the Rosalía album is ~30 mins long

XP, never noticed the accent there before alfred -- i guess i've been pronouncing it wrong in my head all along.

are we rolling all the way to #1 today? thought we were saving the last 12 or 13 for tomorrow

*prepares for the whole class to get mad at me for reminding the teacher about the quiz today*

as I say, the rest of the album was growing on me. But ILM, you've basically handed 12th spot to an ambient intro track

I like 'Pienso...' a lot more than 'Malamente', the beat is great and the bridge section from about 2:20 in is lovely. Another album I need to check out.

sorry, I tend to forget to say "himself or herself" on the internet. Btw Moka, what font is it you're using ?

I meant to spend more time with Rosalía before voting, there's definitely something interesting about the mix of flamenco w/ this type of pop, and I like both of these tracks... I just didn't get round to deeper listening. Now is the time, I guess.

What's the proper pronunciation? I've been saying Rose-ahlia, which is probably wrong.

ILM, you've basically handed 12th spot to an ambient intro track

I get not liking it, but how on earth is this track "ambient"?

yeah that makes no sense

the equivalent of. anyway aaah sorry to play grinch as usual

Rosa-leeah.

xps

ANYWAY

1975x2
ariana x2
mitski
robyn
kacey x2
monae
a certain bromley-based indiepop group :D fuck y'all
sun-el musician
arctic monkeys?
lana del rey
baby fucking shark
sophie (x2?)
as matt has just said it, burna boy

that's 11

the Malamente video is great!

xxp I also missed the Julia Holter album this year, not sure why, will have to remedy that

You pronounce the "i" instead of doing the liaison, so that it sounds a bit more like Rosaliya

peggy gou surely to come btw

What's the proper pronunciation? I've been saying Rose-ahlia, which is probably wrong.

― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have a sinking feeling it's gonna be one of those things where it's the TH sound but if you do it like that you kinda sound like a dink but if you don't a dink corrects you. Real catch thwenthy thwo

Xp oh ok cool still posting this tho bc imo it's funny

Rosa-LEE-a

Xp myself - It wasn't even that funny ffs will get it thogether

xxp It's Colombian, and you should know better.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:05 PM

so should my Autocorrect

wish they would place but highly unlikely: ciara's "level up", mariah's "gtfo"

Love both Rosalía traxx and the album (and the album b4 that)

I wouldn't have predicted it would be this high, but I'm surprised that Jessie Ware's "Overtime" hasn't shown up yet.

The accent (Rosalía) is where it is for a reason, sometimes languages are simply that easy.

ffs this is horrible

― imago, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wth

okay, doing one more and then we'll do the top ten tomorrow morning... it's gonna have to be kinda early as I have appointments midday, so figure around 8.30 or so till 11 EST.

It would be amazing if Burna placed this high (with “Ye”?), but sadly my #78-79-80 prediction seems the more realistic one.

xp

http://i.imgur.com/b0Crib6.jpg

11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse” – 309 points – 9 votes – 1 first place vote
video

Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

Like Phoenix doing country. - Josh in Chicago

This song is definitely an outlier on the album in the sense that it's doing something experimental in a very specific way. The album in general sounds nothing like this but “High Horse" does give an idea of how fun the production can be here. – J0rdan S.

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25951

“High Horse” is about as disco as Kylie Minogue’s “Dancing” was country; that is to say: conscientiously and carefully, without threatening to intrude too far upon unfamiliar cultural spaces. Instead each settles on a kind of naff AM-radio appeal that as easily positions it alongside “Islands in the Stream” as it does “September” or even “Copacabana.” But where Minogue’s song stirs nostalgia, the faded polyester drift of Musgraves’s more Western sound fits her lyric’s exhausted contempt. The opening line — “I bet you think you’re John Wayne” — is sass worthy of Shania, but Kacey’s disaffection crystallizes in her more arch dismissal: “You’re classic in the wrong way.” The hand claps, popping bass, and very canned strings underline the point. – Jonathan Bradley

It’s everything I’ve ever wanted as a queer person who lives in the south who loves both disco and country! Kacey sounds amazing! I wanna karaoke this and point at random people in the crowd and tell them off for being snobs! I wanna rent a truck and blast this up and down the road! I wanna rent a truck and take this to the White House and blare it there, too! I want every song that comes out this year to make me feel as jazzed about being alive as “High Horse” does, and I won’t settle for anything less! – Alex Clifton

ye surely places. it is iconic

Do it, forks! Give me Burna at #11!

Suxx a little to be on West Coast and still sleeping and/or commuting thru most of each morning's rollout, but I know that's how the cookie crumbles...

Too late, mod delete post plz

I know this makes me a hypocrite but I'll be sad if this means "space cowboy" is out

Moka, your graphics are off the chain!