ILM Top 77 Tracks of 2018 Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Recrimination, Statistics and Damned Lies

i... don't even recognize my own ballot anymore. i shoulda used the extra week to re-submit

Seandalai will provide stats and links for the full poll soon enough, I'm sure.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:13 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

so much depends on this egg

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

thank you for your discretion

beside the white
clickings

Yes I will do this, I just got back from the airport and I need to cook an egg but right after that.

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If anyone wants their ballots posted just shout and I will also get to it post-egg

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so much depends on this egg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds like a euphemism but I won't pry

― rob, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for your discretion

― seandalai, Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:49 PM

This is the funniest back and forth on ILM in ages.

enjoying Will M's write-up

seriously, what was with the Gambino joke number one at the end? did ILM hate it? have I missed something here? it's a good song

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

Pouring one out for Sonini, which I can't believe was not the consensus Sun-El/Simmy pick. Bold didn't place. Mixed ballot.

The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Hop Along - How Simple
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Doja Cat - Mooo!
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
Camp Cope – The Opener
Charly Bliss - Heaven
Rosalía - Malamente
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Drake – In My Feelings
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Hatchie - Sure
Kanye West - Ghost Town
katie dey - data

Laurel Halo – Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Marie Davidson - Work It
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini

Credible people do not think it’s a good song.

and i'm so not getting this Peggy Gou song. that said, I'd only heard one tune by her until now, and this wasn't it. It doesn't share much in common with Inspector Norse to my ears though...? Maybe need to go back to it.

MAN BEHIND CURTAIN says: as with baby shark, it seemed like the sort of oddball thing that could reasonably have either won the whole thing or not gotten a single vote

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

this is america was the #1 pick on nearly every critics EOY list but the consensus here was it's just ok at best

it got a lot of upturned noses in the nominations thread, and as the results were rolling out, plenty of folx here consider it more of the audio segment of a video stunt than a song in its own right

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:56 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm.. i guess it is intrinsic with the video but I like it well enough on its own.

And to be completely honest, i don't understand the love for Gou either; it's a perfectly nice song but I don't understand how it became the consensus thing that 30 people thought was best in its field, much less across all genres! Life is funny!

I plucked Sonini from my ballot in favour of more 'credible' SA house ;-p

the relationship to Inspector Norse is that it's another surprise bobbins track that bubbled up and won its respective polling year... i think way back in 2012?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, January 31, 2019 10:57 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah yes. And 'Wut' too ofc

unweighted, bold placed

Dazion - Dragon Wave
Gil.Barte - Sssjp
Identified Patient - Weerloos
Patricia Kokett - Serpiente
Bill Converse - Landing
Jensen Interceptor - Route E
Kris Baha - Notion Of Dismay
Bufiman - Ba Hu Du (Wolf Muller's Unreleased Version)
Max Abysmal - Donna, Don't Stop
Barbatuques - Baianá (Wolf Müller's Drum Drop)
EL HITTA - Aww Yea
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
Sky Ferreira - Voices Carry (Demo)
Keysha - Stop It!
Mr Twin Sister - Power of Two
Róisín Murphy - All My Dreams
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
mr twin sister – jaipur
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

surprised how much i had in common with the 77. i liked the Gou enough to vote for it, but it had little to do with most of the dance music i found exciting last year

Inspector Norse was 2012... Fuck me

Here's the tunes in my ballot, they were ranked but I forgot to save the ranked list, so they're in alphabetical order. "Koskematon" was my #1 on the ranked list too, though.

Bolded the ones that didn't place:

Adikia ft. Mon-Sala, Sofa, Donatella, F & Yas Lo - Koskematon
AK - Vlexaa
Barbara Panther - Feminine
Bucie & Mpumi - Soz'Uphinde
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Dladla Mshunqisi - Pakisha
Donato Dozzy – Cleo
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Heavy K - Ndibambe
Hollie Cook - Stay Alive
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Liisanpuisto - Itse teossa
Los Ángeles Azules ft. Natalia Lafourcade - Nunca Es Suficiente
Nao - Drive and Disconnect
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Niniola - Saro
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Rap Against Dictatorship - Prathet Ku Mee
Roberta ft. Lady Blacktronika - Pain & Pleasure
Rosalía - Malamente
Shy FX ft. Lily Allen & Stamina MC - Roll The Dice
Simmy - Umahlalela
Yemi Alade - Issokay
Zûg - Felicidad

I was a bit surprised Nao nor Neneh Cherry didn't make it to the 77, hopefully they'll do better in the albums poll... Their albums were pretty much my favourite pop records of the year, alongside Monáe.

I would never have pegged (ahem, sorry) 'Itgehane' for number one song of the year, but I voted for it, and it's the best track in the top ten so I'm happy.

like "inspector norse" "itgehane" came out towards the beginning of the calendar year and just felt inescapable on dancefloors for the twelve months that followed. i think that type of lead time helps on polls like this for bobbins tracks. also it's extremely warm and feel-good

"Itgehane" is nice, but I didn't like it enough to include it in my ballot, tho I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song. Still, it makes me wonder if ILX ever gets tired of this specific kind of retro sound in dance music, I certainly have.

it's a beautiful sparkling construction, glassy network of bell sounds otm

I'm listening to the Peggy Gou again and still not really getting it.

Without wanting to use the phrase 'wall-paper music', I feel like this arch, head-noddy vibe has been done to death. The combination of Gou's detached delivery and the two-chord keys scream 'pastiche' to me - a takeoff of mid-2000s hipster house culture or the kind of music that got played in trendy city bars as an aural cushion.

Listening closer, I'll say it is wonderfully layered and there's some quite nice bubbly 303 stuff, but track of the year?

I'm definitely happy it won instead of some fartsy rock song.

So sick of all the fartsy rock songs that place number one, year in, year out

Look, after last year's #1, I would have been happy with a recording of LJ farting and TT banging on a pot for 4:19.

xp re: Gou, it may well grow on me. I like house/bobbins music but this aesthetic isn't something I relate to in many ways

It’s pleasant and QuickTime but it sounds safe and ancient next to something like Midnight Starring.

https://youtu.be/b1wVpFCHeyM

i imagine the secret keys to Itgehane would emerge if you heard it out in the wild enough but that's just not my experience. it's good but i don't like it as much as six other electro tracks that charted far lower.

Not QuickTime, quirky, lol «smartphone»

That Midnight Starring song ain't no great shakes. Wanna try again?

I remember back in 2012 thinking that "Inspector Norse" was really great and nice and bouncy but being slightly surprised at all the praise, and then I spent the next five years watching it blow up dancefloors and fill everyone thereon with such joy.

I wouldn't be surprised if "Itgehane" has a pretty long shelflife actually.

JF - I had to check to remember what 2017's number one was and yep, I don't get that track either.

mixed ballot, bold ones placed:

Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Krystal Klear - Moonshake Miner
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Fatima - Westside
Shy Layers – Gateway
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Reckonwrong - Half A Pill
Mandar - String Theory
E Ruscha V - Woo Are You
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis

Black Gold Buffalo - Lay It Down
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
E. Myers - I Am Alive
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Hairband - Flying
Marie Davidson - Work It
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Pangaea - Bone Sucka
Sun-El Musician ft. Simmy - Sonini
Syclops - The Skipper
The Declining Winter - My Divided World
upsammy - Another Place
Wild Nothing - Letting Go
Yves Tumor - Noid

See now Inspector Norse had (and still has) instant appeal for me.

Midnight Starring is very cool. I feel like I could overload on SA house - most of what I hear is either very much in this style or more like Sun-El Musician, but there's usually some sort of curveball that sets each track apart. Busiswa is amazing.

Aww man, Black Dresses being 78 has bummed me out. I guess I did my part at least. Here's my mixed ballot:

Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Autechre - violvoic
Gazelle Twin - Little Lambs
Black Dresses - Hell Is Real
Bruce – What
Joanna Wang - I Dream We Will Be Together Again
Julia Holter - Les Jeux to You
No Joy / Sonic Boom - Obsession
Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour

Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
ACT! - Para
Underworld and Ø [Phase] - Dexters Chalk
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
ILL - Slithering Lizards
Nine Inch Nails - God Break Down the Door
Phase Fatale - Blackbox
Ghost - Danse Macabre (Carpenter Brut Remix)
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik

That's the good (ish) Holter song

Black Dresses will at least return in the albums poll

xposting for maximum scandal: here's some rough "by genre" breakdowns (with several of the songs appearing twice when overlap demands it) for the 77. Obviously, this is a very arguable attempt at classification, so let's argue about it! Extra Credit: WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEEEEEAN

Electronic / House / Ambient "Bobbins" -
1: Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)”
7: Jessie Ware – “Overtime
16: Krystal Klear – Neutron Dance”
22: Eris Drew – “Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)”
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”
30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”
42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
44: Peach – “Silky”
52: Autechre – “all end”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”
73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”

Rock / Indie -
2: The 1975 – “Love It If We Made It”
4: Lana Del Rey – “Venice Bitch”
9: Mitski – “Nobody”
17: The Beths – “Future Me Hates Me”
19: Lana Del Rey – “Mariners Apartment Complex”
20: Empress Of – “When I’m With Him”
26: The 1975 – “Give Yourself a Try”
27: The 1975 - “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME”
37: Hatchie – “Sure”
41: The Beths – “Little Death”
45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”
48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”
49: Hop Along – “How Simple”
53: Mitski – “Geyser”
55: The Chats – “Smoko”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”
68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”
69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”
70: MGMT – “When You Die”
74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”

R&B -
3: Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”
63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Pop / Alt-Pop -
5: Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry”
6: Ariana Grande – “thank u, next
8: Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel”
10: Kero Kero Bonito – “”Only Acting”
23: Robyn – “Honey”
25: Christine and The Queens featuring Dam-Funk – “Girlfriend”
28: Lizzo – “Boys"
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”
47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”
56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”
58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”
64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”
75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”
77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”

Country -
11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”
21: Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn”

Spanish Language -
12: Rosalía – “Malamente
13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”

Hip Hop -
14: Sheck Wes – “Mo Bamba”
18: Pusha T – “If You Know You Know”
24: Rae Sremmurd featuring Juicy J – “Powerglide”
36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”
72: Drake – “Nice for What”

Avant-Pop -
15: Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2”
32: Tirzah – “Holding On”
35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”
46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”
62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”
67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”

Afropop / Afrobeat -
38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”
39: Simmy – “Umahlalela"
59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”
61: Wizkid – “Soco”

K-Pop -
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”

seandalai can you post my ballot? thank u egg-xt

Weirdly I voted for most of the things listed as missing from the top 177 playlist. Curious how they fared within that 78-177 block...

Thanks, btw, for all your toil ulysses, Moka and seandalai!

Almost every song in that pop category rocks harder than The 1975.

kind of side-eyeing "Spanish Language" as a genre, but then I organize my music geographically so...

well, it was either that, "Latin," or "Global" and then fold in the K-Pop and Afropop and none of those things felt appropriate. I suppose I coulda gone with "Flamenco" but then that's just Rosalía and nothing else!
I hear you though. I could use better definitions when it comes to some of this stuff.

Could you post my ballot too I honesty don’t remember

Actually it was interesting to run through the list and think about which other languages were represented. I miss, but am too lazy to reproduce, lex's geographic breakdown that he'd always have ready right at the end

i seem to recall him popping up last year JUST to deliver that list so perhaps we'll get a late xmas gift

sorry, didn’t mean to throw water on your find, which is awesome !

just thought it was peculiar

Heads up for anyone planning on voting in 2019 who doesn't quite feel plugged into that ILM vibe that I've been on the watchtower pulling tracks from all the yearly genre threads and organizing them by month. If you wanna take a blind stab at the past eight months of talked about music (or, you know, about the 75%-85% of it that shows up on spotify), give these 1100+ songs a go and you'll be zeitgeisty as can be:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=7iX5VgKHTOeZxvbfG8Pb5w

13: Rosalía – “Pienso en tu mirá”

think this would've been #1 on my ballot if I'd heard it soon enough