It's not the official Bond theme. It was rejected.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
Radiohead didn't do the official theme. That was Sam Smith. His version is 100000x more terrible.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
^ this might be true, actually.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Seems bizarre that Radiohead would have even been considered for this, and that they would have also agreed to it, but whatever.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
dog latin - fact that it's from a concept album called 'Reality Show' should clue you in a bit
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
i forgot this was starting, so pleased to see "mascara" made it. i voted for the superlative album but this fucking song...the nuances of the songwriting and the performance and the melodies blow me away every time.
yeah my hair and my ass fake, but so what? i get my rent paid with it, and my tits get me trips to places i can't pronounce righthe said he'd keep it coming if i keep my body tight
is probably up there with the best opening verses i've ever heard? i love the run-on lines throughout the whole song, every statement has a caveat or qualification or something that adds a different angle to it. and jazmine is so empathetic, she reminds me of brandy clark on this album. is the accordion line running behind it meant to be reminiscent of the-dream's "fancy"? it's retelling that story from the girl's perspective in some ways. "you're coach class and i'm in that g5" is really terius-like melodically as well, actually the entire middle 8 sceptically nodding to kendrick, terius and beyoncé in three consecutive lines works so well.
i wanted to read a million thinkpieces about this song & race & gender & economic inequality & the labour of beauty last year, it's all in there, this is just phenomenal and timely songwriting, she's the fucking best
and the one bit where she lets her voice crack, gets out of the character's psychic armour of defiance and just crumbles with "DON'T I DESERVE TO BE PRIVILEGED, DON'T I DESERVE TO GET THE VERY BEST" and strikes right at the heart of every one of those themes
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Rdw3TUj.jpg]
74 FLOATING POINTS "Silhouettes (I, II, III)" (186 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 233 / Youtube
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
(yawn)
(sorry)
― MikoMcha, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
I can't listen to the #74 tune right now, but the combination of the band name, track name, and the image in the post makes it seem like the most boring thing ever.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
the way I can't tell if this is supposed to be a happy or sad song (it's def bittersweet I'll give it that)
i think the narrator is trapped - by the conditions her men impose on her, by the poverty she came from, by the sheer work that goes into maintaining her beauty - but jazmine also makes it clear, imo, that her defiance should win out; we're not meant to feel sorry for her, the injustice is systemic, she's doing her best with what she has available to her and even if there's a weariness to her, the narrator is content with her choices and rejects any pity offered to her
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
great post Lex, I'll def be revisiting the song (and the album if I can get hold of it).
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
it's a really smart song.
Yeah, the character in the song is like, "You mean I follow the rules you created and you STILL won't love me?"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
Floating Points always seem to sound different on every track I hear by them. I'll give this a go. I really love 'Wires' from a few years ago.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
lex totally tom
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
otm
That Floating Points track with Katy B is good.
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's really brilliant, had i voted a week later i'd probably have included it
"silhouettes" is lovely too, definitely what i wanted from floating pts on an album that was perhaps a bit too low-key for me to really love
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
he is also a neuroscientist!
― gr8080, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
I'm not often fond of long, ambient music, but I've returned to this one Floating Points track a lot this year. It's very pretty and way less boring than you'd imagine. (Still didn't vote for it though)
― tangenttangent, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, January 18, 2016 2:24 PM (5 minutes ago)
The little Jazmine Sullivan I've heard has done nothing for me musically, but I did get this from the song, and I completely respect the sentiment. Great summation, lex.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Lex on Mascara <3
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
lol i just realized the first time i heard this track was at the top of an Uhh Yeah Dude episode
i had the album high on my ballot
― gr8080, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
(floating points)
― gr8080, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UySYOMc.jpg
73 JME FT. SKEPTA, SHORTY AND FRISCO "Don't @ Me" (187 points, 9 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube
Henceforth today, forks will be steering the ship. Enjoy!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
put it all in the bin don't at me
― gr8080, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
I ALREADY SAID DON'T WASTE MY TIMENOW I GOTTA TELL EM DON'T WASTE MY DATA
the state of twitter in 2015 made me play this song so much
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
was this track inspired by this famous twitter exchange?
https://twitter.com/itsyourboytadi/status/587973127205953536
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
lol
― gr8080, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, this song is class, but then it feels like everything Skepta touches these days turns to gold.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
or...the other way round
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
yeah i wondered.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
I dunno what to think about the resurgence of grime in 2014-15, but this track is pretty stellar.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
that radiohead track is trash
― Mordy, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
turn on your location if you're a bad boy, you prick
― woof, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
I both like the Floating Points track *and* think it's boring.
Love 'Don't @ Me'.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
'boring' doesn't automatically mean 'bad' in music sometimes I guess
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
don't @ me really brightened my year
― woof, Monday, 18 January 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
yeah don't @ me rules
― puppy enforcer (cajunsunday), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Yep. So good.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Love don't @ me but there were other Jme tunes I liked more
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's great, I put man don't care on my extended ballot
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Spotify Playlist is now updating!
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Nice!
― MikoMcha, Monday, 18 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7jNELfH.jpg
72 JANET JACKSON "No Sleeep" (190 points, 6 votes)Pitchfork - 37 / P&J - 75 / Youtube
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Gorgeous song.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 18 January 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
God this song.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah i voted for a deep cut ("promise of you") as my personal favourite off the janet album but this single really raised my expectations for her comeback
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
The J. Cole isn't the excellence I once thought, but who needs him when she'saw expressing her lust so well?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
(switched out the track on playlist... now with 100% less J. Cole!)
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
on it, thanks.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
I was reminded yesterday while at an outside afternoon party in very hot weather that I was a total chump for noting for "Lean On".
― Tim F, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
smh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry. I forget how good it is in that context b/w exposure events.
― Tim F, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
deej is just mad u get to go to outdoor parties in warm weather in january
― gr8080, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm mad I've ever had to hear "Lean On"
― The Reverend, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
I haven't taken the plunge on the new Gesu No Kiwami Otome album yet, since it looks to be about $30, but their Dress No Nugikata EP from 2013 is available at a reasonable price, and is a lot of fun too.
― o. nate, Friday, 5 February 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
KING added to playlist.btw, the KING album is out!
― ulysses, Friday, 5 February 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
Goddammit, I can't stop listening to Cool for the Summer tonight. WHY??
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
'cause i'm your body type
― some dude, Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:36 (eight years ago) link
Don't tell your mother, JF.
― Tim F, Sunday, 21 February 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
added "spectre" and "awoo" to the playlist.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 26 June 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
i'm still doing that 8k track playlist but i feel like i should zip through this list once or twice to see what i missed.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 26 June 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link