ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I'd love it if you did it

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2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It” – 808 points – 23 votes – 4 first place votes
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My friend Jay Bond's 1975 yearbook

I consider the pastiche of "Love It If We Made It" to be saying something quite different from "lol how could anyone think or say these things" - almost the opposite, in fact. The song is saying "These are things that people think and say and do and there is no answer to any of it." It's elegiac, and the only irony is in the delivery of that elegy in the sense of not explicitly spelling out what it's doing. – Tim F

“Love It If We Made It”” is just on another level, something I could have never seen them pulling off or even trying five years ago. – kevin k

Increasingly convinced that “Love It If We Made It” is song of the year - ufo

Gonna be an anthem for this age, I think. - nxd

I’m pretty firmly in the camp that "Love It If We Made It" is the best, most poignant song of the year. - ilxor

I find the lyrics to this song emotionally moving, but also obsequious and pandering. – flamboyant goon tie included

I hate to admit it but “Love It If We Made It” has found its way into my head and I’ve played it non-stop this week. - Moka

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26097

If anyone else tried this zeitgeist-quotes lyrical trick - and it’s barely a trick! - I would hate it, but I’m hugely predisposed to The 1975 and their inherent miraculousness somehow makes them the exception to every rule. The lyric tries to hold the enormity of the world and so does the music — each electronic whoosh and whizz is a digital overspill from the heady whole, like even something this maximalist and ambitious isn’t quite enough for them. – Claire Biddles

I have to give credit where credit is due: this is an evil song that utilizes its structure as a means to elevate and justify its conceptual gambit. Matt Healy reads off a list of provocative phrases that act as a simulacrum of the discouraging news headlines, ironic shitposts and self-impressed hot takes that crowd numerous corners of the Internet. The pulsating beat and claustrophobic mix amplify that particular dread, and the swirling harp is the only sound that feels unstuck from it all. It hints at a hope that is later projected in the chorus, but it turns out to be nothing more than a red herring. I don’t expect Healy to provide answers — I’d argue that he took the more effective route in providing a moment of release over anything concrete — but I don’t believe him at all when he says he’d “love it if we made it.” This is the sort of dude who finds joy in crassly exploiting the tragedy of others for the sake of art, and it finds its roots in how he decided on the band’s name. When the chorus finally breaks free from the monotony, his voice has a smugly arrogant tone that snaps everything into place: Healy is eager to be the source of relief for the trigger warning-necessary lyrics that he doled out in the first place. He can only be a savior for the bullshit he pushes on you, and he’ll cover it up by touting we instead of I. As a political statement, this has virtually no worth. As a piece of music, the bridge makes exceedingly clear that this is just an edgy “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” As a depiction of narcissistic manipulation, this is excellent — perhaps the best of the year. – Joshua Minsoo Kim

AND I'D LOVE IT IF WE MADE IT https://t.co/fKqyFxSHO0

— Mark Pytlik (@markpytlik) November 29, 2018

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1: Childish Gambino – “This Is America” - 844 points – 30 votes – 2 first place votes
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Anyone else hear the new Childish Gambino record?

The critical about-face on Gambino as the world’s most unnecessary punch line rapper to the world’s most important political auteur is staggering. – Whiney G Weingarten

I find it difficult to read "This Is America" as any kind of 'pastiche' or overly-studied intellectual performance piece, as much as something that seems to emerge pretty seamlessly from where contemporary black music is as an idiom right now! Gambino is now a very successful mainstream recording artist with bona fide hits under his belt, even though his most recent and biggest to date clearly *was* pastiche of a bygone musical era. That his next would bear the aesthetics of today's mainstream rap should not be even remotely surprising, even considering his past as a punch line-rapper (which apparently many of us can't let go of). - dyl

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25544

This is America? No - this is America. – Alfred Soto

I’ve listened to this one the past two weeks about as much as I listened to “Plug Walk” last month, so here we are. – Will Rivitz

no

you did it again

lol

v good

good one

compulsory joke #1 post thanks forks for keeping the tradition alive

Should've swapped 'Baby Shark' for 'This Is America' tbh.

Yesss! Peggy!

love it if we faked it

Incredible

Credible people do think it’s a great song.

childish..

INSPECTOR NORSE 2018

So Plug Walk is the real #1?
If so, cool.

My friend Jay Bond's 1975 yearbook

"Love It..." made my list but it bothers me like "Born in the U.S.A." did -- its ironies get walloped by the sheer force of the music.

I surrender to the blue air
It creates a wave in me
I float and submerge in it and receive the morning
The Flow makes a smile on my lips
Flow 는 내입가에 미소를 만들고

i'm just saying sada baby wld make for a great graphic

Credible people do think it’s a great song.

New board description.

"Love It..." made my list but it bothers me like "Born in the U.S.A." did -- its ironies get walloped by the sheer force of the music.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:01 PM (twenty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a good comparison that i haven't thought of or seen, much better than the usual we didn't start the fire comparison

I like that we up the fake game a little every year. looking forward to the all-fake rollout in 2054

I'm guessing that TIA is a joke, but does that mean MORE FUCKING 1975 is a joke too? Plz plz?

no ppl legitimately like this song

Rich the Kid was robbed

fake or not, i'm happy that I made it into a blurb

lads, it's not a joke

the downtown lights is the real number 1

forks save us
modernity has failed us

I much prefer 'This Is America' to any of the 1975 tracks that have placed.

sure. "not" a joke. mmmmhm.

oh wait, I may have made a slight mistake here

props to forks for keeping up appearances on the playlist

There would be a poetry in a silent majority making "This Is America" #1

I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this it? Is this not it and is there even worse to come? Or will be we all be saved in the nick of time?

PLUG WALK!

Think next year the joke entry should be like #58 and not revealed until just before #1

I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this it? Is this not it and is there even worse to come? Or will be we all be saved in the nick of time?

― breastcrawl, Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:04 PM (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new website description

An okay song at best.

Rooting for Itgehane as a surprise winner.

― monotony, Friday, February 1, 2019 8:13 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

called it!!!

I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this it? Is this not it and is there even worse to come? Or will be we all be saved in the nick of time?

― breastcrawl, Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:04 PM (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new website description

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:05 PM (six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seconding

very confused

I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this it? Is this not it and is there even worse to come? Or will be we all be saved in the nick of time?

some solid 1975 lyrics right there

lol

I actually really like This is America when I was in the "genius video, decent song" first
But it's Itgehane

i guess sonini isn't gonna place then

also sorry for missing the kali uchis gag earlier my excuse is it's morning here and i'd only skimmed through the thread

ladies and gentlemen and nonbinaries, your ACTUAL #1 song of 2018:

Most of my non-crit friends loved "This is America."