ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

though tbh radio edit >>>>>> album/video version

i like this band fine but had no idea ilm did

Not a massive fan but still several cuts above most of the other picks.

i was really hoping the two spaces in my predictions list were open for curveballs like this

never got around to this record but i like them. and... gotta say this song kicks ass?

"A potentially decent indiepop song ruined by wacky student antics. Why did they do all that noise shit at the end? Painful. Sophomoric, even" - Matt DC or whatever. I don't fucking care, my #8

I go away for an hour and come back to MOAR ROLLOUT YESSSS

never heard this

I do think the "noise sh*t" takes it down a notch or two (sorry)

shocked to discover I voted for the album instead of this track!!

though tbh radio edit >>>>>> album/video version

― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:03 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely

cause of the noise thing that everyone said, yeah

I voted for the EP and the track. EP >>>>>> album

WTF at this btw:
http://i.imgur.com/v9X7r7j.png

this poll has been kind of a de facto lurker poll for a couple years now

there have always been a ton of lurkers on this board

as mentioned on KKB thread, here's the way the band is playing the song live with implied mannequin challenge ending
https://tinyurl.com/yalamppg

We're being watched?

oh yeah the radio edit's ending is incredible

10k reads in the past five minutes makes me think we shoulda done the roll out on twitch and bought a condo with the proceeds but monetizing has never been my strong suit, oh well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

honestly releasing the video/album version at all is an awesome act of self-sabotage. I respect it xxp

everybody reading this please send 1 bitcoin to forks at Pueblo, Colorado, 81009

Yesssasssszzz at KKB making top 10, poll is redeemed, go on have your 9 1975 tracks now I don't care

ooh love this song

verses really remind me of blondie

didn't revisit the album too much unfortunately

im not convinced those numbers are accurate for 5 minutes but im sure theres eyes on these threads from other corners of the music internet

Totally love 'Only Acting'; voted for the album (again).

video version of Only Acting is the superior one btw

how do you see that "top 50 most read" page?

yay all the rollouts today! :D

On second listen, I need to give the album a second chance.

obv video is best version

eephus: it's at the bottom of the "Boards" page

xp Yes, OBV!

never had any doubt in kkb but lovely to see them so high

really surprised at the complete lack of consensus this year, there hasn't really been any sort of points jump at all

"high horse" was the weakest track from that album, i wish it sounded like air france or phoenix or any of those comparisons from the thread but it just felt a bit forced

Wasn't familiar with the video version. I've upgraded my cautious enthusiasm to a quasi full endorsement.

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

9: Mitski – “Nobody” – 328 points – 9 votes – 1 first place vote
video

Mitski

There's a brilliant song in there trying to get out, but the way the band attack every beat of the bar with the same emphasis just traps it. The whole album feels stymied by these galumphing arrangements; the disco guitar sounds rhythmic and limber, but good god those piano chords, those drums, just bashing away with equal emphasis on every beat. – Matt DC

"Nobody" isn't disco. It's disco-influenced, uses disco as one might a citation in a paper. – Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

"Nobody" has a really nice build to a fairly predictable place, musically. But that’s enough for me because that chorus melody is incredible. – voodoo chili

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25894

An ode to nobody which brings to mind another — but where Toni Basil decries the body and wishes to dissipate altogether, to become nobody (“no body”) in a world that’s too full of senses and responsibilities; Mitski feels the absence, and wants something tangible and real in a world that feels like it’s disappearing. She wants a faceless “somebody”; she wants a nobody with a body. She forgets who she is and needs some one to be the mirror. (Who are we without one another?) Well! You know what, like the Toni Basil song, it’s existential, it’s depressing — and it’s a bop! – Rebecca A Gowns

When I first heard this I thought it was far slighter than “Geyser,” its indomitable predecessor; it wasn’t the disco beat itself, but how tinny it sounded, the guitars sounding like peashooters scratching into the side of my skull. Mitski’s melody was also off — a wandering thing that seemed to drift in and out of coherence before dissipating into nothing by the song’s end. And yet I still felt drawn to “Nobody,” listening to it over and over again as I laid in bed on a foggy June morning. And yet repeated listening brought me no closer to an understanding of “Nobody,” only a realization of its sublime jankyness. It’s a song about the vagaries of loneliness, of seeking connection in half-made up moments and glances, of blaming yourself and begging for something from the world, and it sounds like all of these things reflected through the facets of a disco ball. It’s triumphant in its own way, with its piano and guitar overwhelming you, tricking you to dance with its own ghost of a lyric. “Nobody” is slight because it has to be and because it wants to be — to accommodate the depth of its loneliness and make clear its magnificent strangeness. – Jacob Sujin Kuppermann

Too low.

I guess this is a weird thing to be glad for, but I'm glad no Low tracks placed, would have hated to see anything divorced from the album

Especially in light of what'll inevitably ensue.

OK LOL I never even knew the radio edit of 'Only Acting' existed! Yeah the noise blowout ending is key for me.

the ending of "Nobody" creeps me out every time

"Too 'Low'"

guessing that either "anna wintour" or "overtime" is yet to place and the other is 78

or maybe "boo'd up" is 78? it didn't get nominated until super late?

Fantastic, wonderful song. It's about the seventh-best on the album.

wtf is " kero kero bonito "

az banks is absolutely not placing

First time you've truly edgelorded ITT.

2xp

This was my #1. "I know no one will save me / I'm just asking for a kiss" gets me every time.

I threw a LOT of points at Why Didn't You Stop Me? as I said before - but so many songs deserved votes. It was a shame to limit myself to one track per artist

imo this is a pretty good cardigans song