ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

Is that the longest track to make any of these singles polls?

no - Nyan Cat and Bieber extended beat it by a fair few hours I think

You do need to listen to all 10 hours of Nyan Cat to get it.

Also true of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo

imo you don’t particularly need to listen to all of the nts sessions but i’d recommend at least listening to the beginning of nts 4 just to get the sense that “all end” is not necessarily a singular, ground-breaking, mind-bending drone (though it is mind-bending) but is more of a destination

NTS 2 is more fun though.

(yes I'm turning this into another Autechre thread)

Maybe silly to vote for a destination in a tracks poll tho?

I dunno, you kids and your polls

my brain is broken because it just came up with "baby shark (extended autechre mix)"

bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop

Maybe silly to vote for a destination in a tracks poll tho?

well i didn’t vote for it! but as part of a listening experience i can see why ppl isolated it, it is a massively heavy and impressive end to the project

Yeah I wasn't singling you out Brad I just think "tracks" and voting gives people odd ideas sometimes, like it's not a natural unit of listening for some pollsters but they chime in anyway

like not everyone could agree on the more scrambled and runic autechre tracks from the sessions but almost everyone agreed that “all end” melted their brain down into pancake batter

xp

I thought Nyan Cat was like 3 minutes and someone just extended it to 10 hrs on YouTube, as they do

lmao @ the Bieber thing making it. slow year

ranked, bold didn't place:

Low - Fly
Die Nerven – Niemals
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
okkervil river - famous tracheotomies
Snail Mail - Speaking Terms
Hollydays – L’odeur des joints
The Breeders - MetaGoth
Beliu – Win Everyday
J Mascis - See You at the Movies
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Malakoff Kowalski - My First Piano
The Beths - Little Death
Grouper - Parking Lot
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Melody's Echo Chamber - Shirim
Parquet Courts - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
The Nels Cline 4 - Imperfect 10
Tocotronic – Bis uns das Licht vertreibt
Richard Thompson - The Storm Won't Come
Aimee Mann - Drive
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Element of Crime – Am ersten Sonntag nach dem Weltuntergang
Johnny Marr – Hi Hello
Tracey Thorn - Smoke

wrong thread, sorry.

this is the Autechre thread now

btw have they 19 new live albums out yesterday, so 80% of your albums AND tracks ballot is done for next year

And every video had a play count more than 100x the population of my canton, these are entrepreneurs at work doing a bang up job at the youtube coalface, the edicts allow for the occasional downvote!

― saer

Hahaha <3

That's Our Saer! tm

Burna Boy song has a nice ominous vibe. Almost funereal

btw have they 19 new live albums out yesterday

they really don't half-ass anything, huh

i would have voted for Raveena's "Honey" if i'd heard it in time, wtf omg

Yeah, people started hyping that one after I'd voted, and I was mostly happy with my ballot, so I didn't resubmit.

^the repping for Raveena just caught me in time for my ballot to include it. This was very nearly exhibit A as to Why Campaigning Works; one more vote would have done it.

But then, Kali Uchis would've been 78'd and that would never do.

The 1975 watch: for those keeping score, I managed 1'33" of Love It If We Made It.

your credibility is in tatters

you didn't even make it to the worst part!!!!!

(xp to jeff re: 1'33")

i can't believe anyone can start listening to "make me feel" and not want to immediately turn it off and put on "kiss"

"screwed" is easily the best song on that album to me

extremely otm re: Make Me Feel

what if "kiss" was a little bit more like "stuck in the middle with you"

I also preferred Screwed, but thought it didn't have any traction, otherwise would have voted for it instead.

she definitely walks a tightrope with that stuff but given 1) the fact that her and Prince were buddies 2) Prince's recent death and 3) Janelle being an equally electric performer I think it gets a pass. I don't think it's inferior to "Kiss"...just, sorta the same. Ditto for "Americans" and "Lets Go Crazy"

it's definitely inferior to kiss, but it's a good imitation

A good 95% of recorded music is inferior to "Kiss" so I don't really hold that against "Make Me Feel"

J0rdan otm, yes. Make Me Feel makes me feel aggravated.

Personally, I am surprised that people like "Boo'd Up" that much. Like, it's fine. That's about it.

Also this thing where everyone has decided Lana Del Rey Is Good, Actually is just embarrassing for everyone involved

Boo’d Up is sublime. It’s also a very fun thing to say and sing.

"Boo'd Up" is competent.

ultraviolence was a great record

counterpoint: nah

LDR rules and I love that she did so well with what seeem to be just digital loosies

make me feel doesn't quite aggravate me, i like it well enough when it comes up in the wild, but i would definitely rather just listen to kiss if it's me picking a song to listen to

Personally, I am surprised that people like "Boo'd Up" that much. Like, it's fine. That's about it.

I agree w/this (and have assumed I must be missing something).

feels weird to say it but Neil Cicierega ruined "Kiss" for me, every time I hear the original I just hear this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXCh816pj4

To me "Kiss" is the funk "Yesterday": wonderful song, world-historic classic, I never wanna hear it.

Took me about 5 or 6 listens over a month to really get into Boo'd Up, it's that sort of slow-burn summer hit, also the video version doesn't have the sub-par spoken outro which kind of sours me slightly on it.

i give "boo'd up" extra points for sounding distinctly like a huge R&B hit circa 2005. i thought it was telling that mariah basically repaid the homage by getting dj mustard to produce the same sort of glassy R&B song for her own album. the emancipation of mimi influence snake eating its own tail.

but i also think "boo'd up" is a pretty incredible piece of songwriting... the phrase "boo'd up" is a new way of saying a thing a million songs have been written about and then rendering that phrase into a very literal onomatopoeia as a hook is just genius to me. overall just a really smooth super fun song to me.

I think it's fair to say that "Make Me Feel" is Janelle Monae doing a Prince pastiche; that doesn't make "Make Me Feel" a bad song, it doesn't mean Monae does a bad job of it, and it doesn't mean that the structural similarities between "Make Me Feel" and "Kiss" go beyond the superficial "they are both sparsely arranged songs that use a blues progression" (which, in fairness, may be all that people hear when they play them next to each other).

xp: "boo'd up" isn't a new phrase, though; iterations of it pop up on Urban Dictionary (of all places) dating back 10-11 years.