The Pre-Poll Lobby - Tracks You Want People to Consider for ILM's Top 77 of 2020

The year’s other masterpiece (IMO):
Summer Walker - My Affection

Rounding out my top 3, terrific song, could have been this year’s “Boo’d Up”:
Mahalia - Plastic Plants

i would have thought the clear standout from b7 was obviously "borderline" but idk i guess it's a tougher choice for others

Borderline would be my second choice!

15 songs I loved:

070 Shake - Guilty Conscience
Bullion - We Had A Good Time
Cleo Sol - When I'm In Your Arms
Fiona Apple - Cosmonauts
HAIM - I Know Alone
Jessie Ware - Remember where you are
Mac Miller - Right
Moodymann - Let Me In
Oklou - Entertnmnt
Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song
SAULT - Wildfires
Selena Gomez - Rare
Tiwa Savage - Dangerous Love
Westerman - Blue Comanche
Yves Jarvis - For Props

I think most of the songs I held dearest to my heart this year where those that came in the first half of it. I don't know what it says about me, or my pov of what 2020 feels like, but seems like you could make a 'good times gone bad' playlist from most of this selection as it's a recurring theme of sorts.

Even though they're my favorite songs from their respective albums I could go for another song from the HAIM, Fiona Apple, Cleo Sol, Jessie Ware and Sault albums... I guess I'll follow the popular vote on those to avoid vote splitting.

Two cheerful summer tracks:
Disclosure & Fatoumata Diawara - Douha (Mali Mali). 2014 UK Funky, improved by inscrutable lyrics.
5K HD - Happy Fxxxing Life. Austrian La Roux vibes. Now happy Fugging Life.

And one for the winter:
KeiyaA - Negus Poem 1 & 2. ASMR soul

Morrisp: love that top 3. Mahalia song is amazing first time hearing it and I’m looping it.

:)

Selena Gomez - Rare

^the track that kicks off my playlist, top pop single of the year, a songwriting/production masterpiece

Love Rare, but imo Souvenir is her best track of the year and def the one I’ll be voting for. Oh and er also that one she did with BLACKPINK.

I would also vote for “Ice Cream” (the Blackpink feat. Selena song).

Deep Purple - Nothing At All
William Beauvais - Lydian Sunrise

A few more not mentioned yet:

Simmy (feat. Sino Msolo) — Nghihamba Nawe
Lido Pimienta (feat. Li Saumet) — Nada
Empress Of — U Give It Up
Rina Sawayama — XS
Sweet Crude — Ultimatum

ctrl+f "baby powder"

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Qh7j1yD8Y

Nice vibe!

yeah, enjoying it too. really good!

Another one I like.

Chuck Prophet — High as Johnny Thunders

at its finest shouldn't need lobbying, amirite?

The Soft Pink Truth - We

can someone link to the nominations thread? didn't realize we'd started alredy

Neither did I

I don’t think we have.

this is a pre-nominations enthusiasm thread

unprecedented but i think we can handle it

Yeah they’re both usually published at the same time but I like this format of having a “hype” thread to promote noms before the actual poll.

I’m gonna rep for this late-breaking track I discovered last night (it’s the 3rd thread I’ve ending up posting it in, not by design)... it’s very cool, and I think ILM would dig it:

Maeta - Teen Scene (feat. Buddy) (produced by Kaytranada)

Lingua Ignota – 'O Ruthless Great Divine Director'

100% vibe; she’s so great, super talented and awesome:

Kaash Paige - London

This jam won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s the kind of pop that earns no cred - but I played it 1,000 times last spring, and still enjoy it:

Josie Dunne - Back to It

Beautiful, weightless, dreamy:

Gwen Bunn - Pressure

Old school, new school, forever school:

Mariah the Scientist - Always n Forever (feat. Lil Baby)

Upsammy - Extra Warm

For your consideration:

Becca Mancari - First Time
Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
Horse Meat Disco ft Kathy Sledge - Falling Deep In Love
LAUREL - Scream Drive Faster
Hayley Williams - Watch Me When I Bloom
Cleo Sol - When I'm in Your Arms
Matt Berninger - Distant Axis
Allie X ft Mitski - Susie Save Your Love

My Kpop selections this year:

Stray Kids - Back Door - I can't get enough of that bassline
Stella Jang - Villain - "We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side" 
EVERGLOW - La-Di-Da - sparkly, widescreen disco awesomeness
GFRIEND - Apple - v dreamy and lush
Crystal Tea - Roman Porno - quirky J-pop/indie via Seoul 

cosign on “La Di Da”, “Apple” and especially “Back Door”, the absolute highlight of my scattershot Kpop year.

A few more I'm keen on:

Sarkodie - Oofeets (might count as very late 2019)
Eddie Chacon - Wicked World
Plone - Miniature Magic
Pye Corner Audio - Resist (John Talabot Remix)
Problem Child - Nasty Up
Saronde - Firewood
Mida the Jagaban - Part With A Jagaban

And also the album Warm nights by Reuben Vaun Smith

“Oofeets” and “Party With A Jagaban” both 🔥🔥🔥

I keep wanting to post here and then having to admit I haven't listened to a single thing itt that I didn't already know (actually I did listen to "Baby Powder" but already don't remember it well). Maybe we should have done a 1-track limit or some kind of relay system where you can only post after you've listened to the prev track...?

Anyway, this should have been a big single:
J Hus f. Koffee -- Repeat

"triumph" was my j hus jam this year, certainly the song that ran through my head the most (whenever i saw the words "respect," "violence," "alliance"_

should be a close parenthesis at the end lol

that one's great too yeah. Big Conspiracy is my big "oh right that did come out in 2020" release

Repeat feels like a while ago now too. Love it

Snoop Dogg's song from the Just Eat advert.

^ban

lol

I don't even know which song to rep but Material Girl - Tangram is one of the best albums of the year and would recommend to listen to Material Girl meets the Devil, Flood, Funeral Parade of Roses, Swoon... pretty much everything. If someone noms a track off of it I'd vote for it.

Ok I'll narrow it down to two:

Material Girl Meets the Devil Pt. 2
Not an album track. RYM classifies it under: Experimental Hip Hop, Post-Punk, Outsider House - it actually earns the combination of genres tags.

Funeral Parade of Roses Way different than the previous one. This ones goes Experimental Jazz Rap + Glitch Hop. It probably works best as an album song than as a single.

Hopefully got the formatting right

Jayda G - Both Of Us

Porij - 150

Glad to see you repping for Material Girl, Moka. I brought it up in the rolling weird music and hip hop albums for people who are clearly doing it wrong threads back in June and never got a reaction, so I figured people just aren't interested in 2020's very own Endtroducing.

Yeah it’s massively underrated considering the quality of it. 2020’s Endtroducing is apt as a comparison.