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

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

He didn't participate in the 2017 threads except for that, but I think he at least voted. Did anyone get him to vote in 2018?

There's more rock/indie songs in there than any other genre? YOU FILTHY ROCKISTS

I think this was mine:

Django Django – Champagne
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Malfunction
The Orb - Doughnuts Forever
Mogwai - We’re Not Done
Hierroglyphic Being - The Melody Lingers
Erik Skantze - Jammy
Jon Hopkins – Emerald Rush
Django Django - Tic Tac Toe
Cave - San’ Yago
Howie B - Oh the Places You’ll Go
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Phase Modulation Shuffle
Holy Ghost – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)
Daniel Avery – Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
Django Django - Marble Skies
Yo La Tengo - What Chance Have I Got
77:78 - Chilli (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Find a Home
E-40 - The Pots & Pan Man
Nile Rodgers & Chic - State Of Mine (It's About Time)
Anderson .Paak ft. Kendrick Lamar - Tints
Candi Staton - Confidence
Lone - Pulsar

I find these posts to be more helpful in finding out about things I missed.

My list

Mitski - Nobody
Lake Ruth - Julia's Call
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Gold Purple Orange
Beach House - Drunk in LA
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Low - Always Trying To Work It Out
Let's Eat Grandma - It's Not Just Me
Laurel Halo – Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Parquet Courts - total football
Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Speedy Ortiz - Lucky 88
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
The 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
MGMT - She Works Out Too Much
Neko Case - Last Lion of Albion
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
JLin - Carbon 12
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Les Larmes D'un Ange Font Danser La Neige
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Neko Case - Bad Luck
Domenique Dumont - Sans Cesse, Mon Cheri

Have the 'nearest neighbour'-type stats been published yet?

I'm back! Eggs all taken care of.

gizza sec

What's little and large? A big egg!

^go back to lurking! (lol)

Ok!

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzfsaI__ThO3bvcUt4lYYTPBmNFDFteyVSzYgNlVvwE/edit?usp=sharing
Voter stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qead3e_uylrHxeAMI1pzfuVUqu-F6USOzpN8TJv9hlM/edit?usp=sharing
Artist results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11H0HCDx5tfKMNrlZyDyh1UHb7jtJwjYkgAyNKtfksBE/edit?usp=sharing

Ballots as requested:

frogbs

Datarock - Feathers and Wax
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Orbital - P.H.U.K.
Janelle Monáe - Americans
Andrew W.K. - Music Is Worth Living For
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
Andrew W.K. - I Don't Know Anything
Autechre - violvoic
Andrew W.K. - Total Freedom
Daphne & Celeste - Song To A Succulent
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel

nashwan

Ssion, Ariel Pink - At Least The Sky Is Blue
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Fischerspooner, Caroline Polachek - Togetherness
Neon Indian - Heaven's Basement (Theme From 86'd)
En Vogue - Electric Cafe
Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
DJ Koze with Roisin Murphy – Illumination
Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 To 6000

Fever Ray - Wanna Sip (Olof Dreijer Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco, Deep Throat Choir - Defender
Jon Hassell – dreaming
El Perro Del Mar - Fight For Life
Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury
Hannah Peel - Kiss Me First
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Tornado Wallace, Sui Zhen - Today (Move D Remix)
Mappa Mundi - Trance Fusion (Hunee Edit)
Kelela - Waitin' (Kaytranada Remix)
Kimbra & DAWN - Version of Me
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Nile Rodgers & Chic - State Of Mine (It's About Time)
Gwenno – Tir Ha Mor
Snoop Dogg, Fred Hammond - Call Him

oh and this was my ballot:

The Beths - River Run: Lvl 1
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Domenique Dumont - Le Soleil Dans Le Monde
Nite Jewel - On Your Own
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry

Roisin Murphy - The Rumble
Mother of Mars - Hera in the Valley
Perfume - Mugenmirai
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Ravyn Lenae - The Night Song
Lizzo - Boys
Dustin Wong / Takako Minekawa / Good Willsmith - The Garden of Earthly Flanger
Juliana Hatfield - Physical
Otha - One of the Girls
Tess Roby - Borders
Midori Takada and Lafawndah - Le Renard Bleu
Planningtorock - Much to Touch
Barbara Morgenstern - Triggerpunkt
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Albatross (Blend)
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Kali Uchis - Your Teeth In My Neck
Hyolyn - See Sea
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch

obv you should check out all the ones in bold

tt asked earlier as well (I only say on her behalf as she's asleep) :)

Voters topping the charts

Most lonely: saer :(
Top blood sausage m8: toby
The fuxxoriest fuxxor: Indexed
The infinite antifuxxors: imago, breastcrawl, MarkoP, Dinsdale, kruezer2, tangenttangent, daavid, Odysseus, peepee, saer
Hivemind queen: Murgatroid

tangenttangent

Trust Fund - Abundant
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Snape - Waiting for Death
SOPHIE - Faceshopping
Tropical Fuck Storm - Chameleon Paint
Black Dresses - Thoughts and Prayers
Hop Along - Not Abel
Mitski - A Pearl
Young Dreams - My Brain On Love
Hen Ogledd - Problem Child
Vennart - Immortal Soldiers
Superchunk - Erasure
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Out of Time
Suede - Life Is Golden
Kero Kero Bonito - Only Acting
mewithoutyou - Winter Solstice
Bill Wurtz - Mount St Helens Is Going To Blow Up
Die Wilde Jagd - 2000 Elefanten
Jeff Rosenstock - Yr Throat
Joanna Wang - The Motorized Scooter Edo
Optiganally Yours - How Do You Feel?
EASYFUN - Be Your USA
Teleman - Submarine Life
Dashboard Confessional - Catch You
Clarence Clarity - W€ CHANG£

wau Gambino got 8 votes and still didn't place

LOL at me being the only voter for my number 1 choice ("Promises").

seandalai can you post mine for me pls

xp I know the feeling

that's especially odd though, since Tim and jaymc tied for most votes in the top 77

The funny thing is that I had equal highest representation of my votes in the top 77 (15/25), and of everything I voted for "Promises" was probably the biggest actual chart performer?

xpost

johnny crunch

lil baby & gunna - drip too hard
Drake - Nice For What
The Internet - Come Over
Cardi B ft. 21 Savage - Bartier Cardi
Drake – In My Feelings
Drake - God's Plan
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Saweetie - ICY GRL
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Nicki Minaj ft. Ariana Grande - bed
halsey - without me
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same
lil baby & drake - yes indeed
Kanye West - Ghost Town
Playboi Carti ft. Red Coldhearted - Middle of the Summer
flipp dinero - leave me alone
Post Malone ft. 21 Savage – rockstar
kanye west - no mistakes
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Panic! At the Disco - High Hopes

My list

The Beths - Little Death
Hop Along - How Simple
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch
Mitski - Nobody
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Charli XCX - Girls Night Out
Musya Totibadze - Останусь с тобой
Kali Uchis ft. Bootsy Collins & Tyler The Creator - After The Storm
Jessie Ware - Overtime
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Hatchie - Sure
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
The Radio Dept. - Going Down Swinging
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Lindstrøm ft. Ronika - Didn't Know Better
Raveena - Honey
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Le SuperHomard - Paper Girl
Lucy Dacus - Night Shift
Rina Sawayama - Cherry

Monotony my top neighbour. I think that's six years in a row now.

My weighted ballot. *'s placed.

Okkervil River - Famous Tracheotomies
Janelle Monae - Americans
*The 1975 - TooTimeTooTimeTooTime
John Prine - Boundless Love
Neko Case - Winnie
Carly Rae Jepsen - Party of One
Buffalo Tom - Roman Cars
*Toni Braxton - Long as I Live
*Hatchie - Sure
Titus Andronicus - Real Talk
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Superchunk - Reagan Youth
Downtown Boys - Fotos Y Recuerdos
Wussy - Aliens in Our Midst
Young Dreams - My Brain on Love
Jann Arden - All the Little Things
Laura Veirs - Lightning Rod
Christine Fellows - Cocoon
Camp Cope - The Opener
Marsha Ambrosius - Old times

Can’t copy and paste from my phone but that’s quite a long list of songs that get 1 first place and no other votes, my own number one included

"Rubber Bullies" getting 6 votes has me very optimistic about the TFS album placement

my mixed ballot, bold placed

Superchunk - Black Thread
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
mr twin sister – jaipur
Sada Baby & Drego - Bloxk Party
Hop Along - Prior Things
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Valee ft. Jeremih - Womp Womp
Kali Uchis - Your Teeth In My Neck
Natalie Prass - Hot For The Mountain
Gunna ft. Lil Baby & Young Thug - Oh Okay
H.C. McEntire - Red Silo

Khalid ft. 6lack & Ty Dolla $ign – OTW
Amen Dunes - Believe
Arctic Monkeys - Four Out Of Five
The Breeders – Dawn: Making an Effort
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
Hoodboi ft. Tkay Maidza - Glide
Rae Sremmurd ft. Young Thug – Offshore
Beach House - Black Car
Neko Case - Bad Luck
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Future - When I Think About It
Robyn - Send To Robyn Immediately
Screaming Females - I'll Make You Sorry
Westerman - Confirmation