ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I like This Is America a lot and voted for it, but the non-video version cuts out the sound effects which ruins 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?/

some solid 1975 lyrics right there

http://i.imgur.com/AkHGA9B.jpg

1: Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)” – 844 points – 30 votes – 2 first place votes
video

Peggy Gou

Her new single is so nice that I felt like I was going to run into breathing difficulties while I was listening to it. – NickB

It’s this year's “Inspector Norse.” – Matt DC

1: Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)”
2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It”
3: Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
4: Lana Del Rey – “Venice Bitch”
5: Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry”
6: Ariana Grande – “thank u, next
7: Jessie Ware – “Overtime
8: Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel”
9: Mitski – “Nobody”
10: Kero Kero Bonito – “”Only Acting”
11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”
12: Rosalía – “Malamente
13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”
14: Sheck Wes – “Mo Bamba”
15: Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2”
16: Krystal Klear – Neutron Dance”
17: The Beths – “Future Me Hates Me”
18: Pusha T – “If You Know You Know”
19: Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex”
20: Empress Of – “When I’m With Him”
21: Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn”
22: Eris Drew – “Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)”
23: Robyn – “Honey”
24: Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide”
25: Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend”
26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try”
27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”
28: Lizzo – “Boys
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
52: Autechre – “all end”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Phew.

yay!

bop

bobbins victory

wonderful

amazing

thanks ulysses and co.!!!!!

And that’s it!

Here’s the Expanded Top 177 Songs of 2018 Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0yTAFo3owpq3bCGwThZXNs?si=VfyJ4EnWS-CNxb2e7nG9hA

Let’s meet over here for the afterparty:
ILM 2018 Top 77 Song Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Recrimination, Statistics and Damned Lies

Happy 2019!

sublime track

first time I haven't heard the #1

Who was the other #1 vote then?

Excellent top 3!

yes, thank you!

844 points is a low amount for a winner though right?

Thank you forks!

Goes without saying that it's undeserved but at least it's not another Zeitgeist Encapsulator.

What was the non-joke #2?

black dresses was 78'd, apologies to lj

There is a justice in this world. Eat that 1975 fans :D
Thank you Moka and Ulysses and Seandalai !

Nice. Makes up for last year's trash #1 and then some.

good #1 and excellent job poll-running crew

Thanks ulysses, Moka and seandalai!

yay for itgehane, the people's champ

awesome work guys

thank you so much pollrunners!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39bejFPaKtw

yeah good work everyone, thank you forks

Lol Nabozo I suspect several 1975 fans also voted for Peggy Gou. I certainly did.

traditionally I mostly just care about the albums poll but damn this was an excellent list. thank you so much everyone

bobbins wins even tho the bobbins thread is in shambles, goes to show anything is possible when you like the best kind of music

Poll-runners did an amazing job, thank you!

pour one out for our #78: Black Dresses "Thoughts and Prayers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZFv53IrvSg

I won’t believe it until you’ve updated the playlist, forks

oh yeah last year was that one Charli XCX tune yeesh

Damn, Black Dresses was in my top 10, but not high enough...

great stuff as usual everyone. well, poll-runners anyway. voters we will have words ;)

ffs I could have made a difference. one goddamned place higher. thoughts & prayers. -_-

that would've been quite the way to kick off the poll

anyone doing an imgur set of the images

should i post my blurbs here or in the afterparty

Nice one, all you credible people!

first time I haven't heard the #1

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Might be the first time I've voted for the #1.

didn't vote for "it makes you forget" but have no complaints about it winning, this is the best and most ILM top 2 in a while and makes up for the relative uneventfulness of a lot of the results

a bad showing for kpop but at least afropop had a decent showing

thanks for running the poll seandalai, forks, and moka, great work

The #1 will have a shelf life shorter than Susanne Sundfor. But it is also the best song in the top 10 imo

Also, aside from my #1, I did the thing of not voting for any tracks by the same artists as I voted for albums. It's not a rule for me, but the spread worked better for me this year. Black Dresses may have made it if I hadn't done this. I'm sorry.

xp sundfør still very much on the shelf in my house

lol I just looked at my ballot and my only placement was my #25