...I DO remember choosing to bury+suppress the memory of that terrible "We Didn't Start the Fire" remake though.I think I showed it to one person (who stopped talking to me for a while afterwards) before realizing, partway through our weird giddy forced-listening interaction, that I was actively harming someone I had always considered a friend, in service of... it's hard to say what. Mocking bad music? Feeling superior to some imaginary distorted projection of our own selves? Pure nothing, sans meaning??
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
C'mon, how did that Beck track get on this list? That's the catchiest thing he's done in years.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
I dont have the guts to listen to all of these to give my inane opinion on each one.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 04:06 (seven years ago) link
that train song is easily the worst thing i've heard in ages
― josh, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
I've said these exact words no less than three times in my life
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
This reminds of that time I read an epic takedown of "Rude" (by MAGIC!), which I had never heard, but sounded just awful. So of course, I had to check out the video, which they had so thoroughly skewered, and then of course I couldn't get that song out of my head for like 6 months.
Which is to say, I'm definitely going to trawl through this playlist for the best song of 2016 that pitchfork neglected to tell me about.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Europe - The Brexit Countdown
i gotta hear this
― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Mercifully, the Ruth B song didn't seem to make much of a dent in the public consciousness, but it was still the worst thing I heard last year.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Fergie - M.I.L.F.#
this is killing me
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
okay it's actually "M.I.L.F.$" which is marginally more sensible and still hilarious
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
from the original thread and from 2012 so not eligible but may i (not) recommend Daniel Dahmer, Lil Debbie and Kitty Purrari - Hello Kitty Mobbin'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXfGTBVe_Kc
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Have to presume Fergie's track is an MIA-style expose of the financial backers of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
omg y'all don't sleep on Spraygun War - "OMG" , a humorless atheist pastiche of RATM + bad 90s industrial featuring the former frontman of, uh, Buckcherry
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
Rostam - "Gravity Don't Pull Me"
^^ the first song from this list that is even remotely tolerable as background music for household chores(SIDENOTE: why did I think it would be a good idea to combine these two activities??)
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Comment on the Spraygun War video:
It's like a can of dog food decided to cover a Death Grips song
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
voting for that shitty Lucas Graham song
― Darin, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
Lukas Graham deserves to win this poll.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
^^
― niels, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 08:33 (seven years ago) link
pff, he doesn't deserve to win owt.
Especially when that song that goes "I wasn't expecting that" exists.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Finally getting a chance to listen to the Spotify playlist today... I keep wanting to pull the trigger and vote, then I realize that I'm only like 4 songs into the list.
Strong contenders:
In the end, I have to go with Throwing Shade - hashtag IRL, since it just fails on every level: as a piece of music, as an amusing novelty, as a tossed-off
― enochroot, Friday, 20 January 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I love that Kula Shaker still have enough profile to make this list
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Saturday, 21 January 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link
Avalanches, for most disappointing after a long wait
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 21 January 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
I suppose it was inevitable that the "sharing economy" propagandic bullshit would make its way, however loosely, into song concepts. can't find a real job, ladies? don't worry, you can spend your time cheerily sexting your boyfriend, who has retconned "Bo$$"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:09 (ten months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKRWV0yjqJ0
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 January 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Lil Yachty is the worst thing on the playlist, but isn't in the poll. So, Naomi Elizabeth gets my vote.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 21 January 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
that's a very strange choice for 'worst' imo
nearly finished the playlist. lukas graham still possibly in the lead, but bloc party and lewis del mar are not far off. all to play for heading into the final stretch
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Saturday, 21 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 22 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 23 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Woo, go Grunk!
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 January 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
We listened to every fucking song on the list then forgot to vote
Would have voted for the winner though :)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 23 January 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember if I ever heard the winner; or rather, since I probably did, what it sounds like. I could easily solve this, I know, but why not spare myself?
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 January 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
"work from home" is still terrible sorry
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 23 January 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link