shura's music never clicks w me either, it feels very on-the-nose and effortful, you can hear the checklist of trends being ticked off in her major label meeting and they get an ok, adequate-not-great song out of it but i am unsurprised that the general public doesn't care
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
never heard that before, I could be on board with that being the 71st best song of the year
― skip, Monday, 18 January 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
I voted for this. Factory Floor Remix is banging too.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 18 January 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
So here's some interesting (to me at least) metrics with regard to the 77's inclusion in spotify's catalogue: of the 77 placing tracks, only eight are not available in the US... so something less than 10% of the winners. One of those tracks is available in the UK and one other will almost certainly be added to the service's catalogue once the album the song's on is released.
Thus far, we're lacking Radiohead's "Spectre", which will likely be a b-side sooner or later and BOTH of the tied songs that fall next at #69 on the countdown.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/05R9KAu.jpg
TIE-69 GESU NO KIWAMI OTOME "Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" (194 points, 5 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - 465 / Youtube
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tbEeoWp.jpg
TIE-69 HEAVY-K FT. NOKWAZI "Sweetie" (194 points, 5 votes)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube
The Heavy-K song IS available on UK spotify and has been added... it'll read as invisible to 'Murricans.
Both those tracks are awesome btw and deserve your ears ASAP!
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
ahhhh the heavy-k single i didn't vote for has placed, it's brilliant AND it gives me hope for both the heavy-k single i did vote for, and more afrobeats in general
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
what the heck are these things? they look fun.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
SWEETIE SWEETIE!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
ooh dang, never heard this before but so far this is the first of the rollout that i'm really feeling
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
"sweetie" that is
Oh that's sweet the Gesu track made it. They've been putting out stuff like this for a while and sorta blew up this year. Jazz hands that's not annoying just a lot of unpredictable fun.
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
G.N.K. Otome was a Singles Jukebox pick last year and a lot of people on here place it highly, me included. It's a stupid fun song!
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
it sounds like three different songs at once that have been nicely synced, which is to say it's prog i suppose.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
yeah this gesu track is good. reminds me of la case azul or something but not as egregiously twee. some nice math-rocky flourishes here and there.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
My second or third favorite track of the year. I love how well it develops its parts.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Voted for the Gesu track as well. And they just released their new album last week.
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
sweetie is just a big powerful club song with meaty vocals and killer percussion.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
How have I not heard this Heavy K track before?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
I really like Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No but forgot to vote for it. will have to check out their new album soon. hadn't heard Sweetie before but it's really nice too
― ufo, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
this rollout is already better than my ballot
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Really don't like the Gesu No Kiwami Otome track. I think it's the same reason I couldn't bring myself to vote for Joanna Wang this year... the ideas behind it are fine, but right now "arch and perky" is an aesthetic I cannot bear.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
my god "sweetie" is just blowing me away and i'm only on my second listen 0_0
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
how is it arch? I'm curious.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
i think the support on 'Sweetie' comes from Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2015 thread
Everyone should bookmark the 2016 thread; there's already a number of bangers on there:Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2016
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
damn and i thought i'd been following the acrobats (AFROBEATS GODDAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT) thread closely this year. Must have missed a bit.
That Gesu track is pretty 'arch' to be fair.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
"Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" is not my type of music, but the video was fun to watch. "Sweetie" on the other hand is pretty awesome, gotta pay more attention to those Afrobeat threads.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I remember saying I would pay more attention last year, completely failed.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
The Shura tune is nice too, better than "2Shy". I wish she had some new angle to her pastiche, but at least this one has a proper dance groove, "2Shy" is just too much 80s syrup.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Wmht4Eo.jpg
68 BRANDON FLOWERS "Between Me and You" (194 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)Pitchfork - DNP / P&J - DNP / Youtube
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
So is this guy like the son of Mike Flowers? He sounds like him.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Flowers' album caught me by surprise: no idea he could write ridiculous-good instead of ridiculous-bad at this point in his career.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
We were doing so well. What happened?
(to be honest, I've not heard this before but I can't imagine liking it)
*listens*
yeah this is cobblers.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I would've voted for "Can't Deny My Love"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
can't deny my love for this record, nowhere near my top 25 but cool to see it here
― nxd, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
(could some britisher please fix the playlist? it's a pain to manage on the web interface. just put sweetie between the brandon flowers and shura songs; it's collaborative at the moment to allow for this. thanks!)
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Why does ILM like these pitch-perfect past pop pastiches so much? I thought people here were forward-looking?
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
(re: Flowers and Shura)
oh my god the countdown is so awesome so far
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 1
cheekbones
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
To answer your question, Tuomoas: listening to things because they're "forward looking" is not how I listen to pop. It has to grab my ear and force me to relisten.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
The last seconds of the Flowers song even quotes Cars' "Drive", if it wasn't obvious enough already!
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
re: spotifyshould be in order now, tracks kept disappearing on mine
― nxd, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
What the hell, ilx?
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
there should be a word for the moment you realise halfway through a song striving really hard for transcendent emotion and classic melody that it's not going to get there. it's akin to second-hand embarrassment but it winds up close to boredom as well. anyway that's what i feel on first listen to the brandon flowers one
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
We are indie Tuomas, haven't you noticed?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
thanks for fixing nxd!
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
the brandon flowers record is great, and that's the best song from it imo
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Seriously. What. The. Fuck.
This is awful.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link