Why does ILM like these pitch-perfect past pop pastiches so much? I thought people here were forward-looking?
― Tuomas, Monday, January 18, 2016 1
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― 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!
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― 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
If Suiyoubi no Campanella don't make it and this bollocks does I will be incredibly angry.
It has to grab my ear and force me to relisten.
Yeah, I guess we're different here, pop tunes that sound exactly like the pop tunes that were on the radio when I was a kid don't really grab my ear, no matter how well they're made, I already heard enough of that stuff as a kid.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
david rose 6 months ago Your about to get so famous..Amazing song and album, thank you...changed my perspective on life...
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
That Shura track is deadly dull. I thought Haim had put the last nail in this coffin a few years ago.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
That's like saying in 1983, "I won't listen to Culture Club, they sound like certain Motown songs *crosses arms*"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
tbf the Flowers album did boast a couple of fall-down-on-your-face embarrassing moments; that's the deal with this fool.
got no issue with backward-looking pop but shura feels totally boxed in by her influences and the flowers song just isn't very good
also the whole 80s teen movie romance aesthetic isn't boring in 2015-16 bc it's old but bc it's ubiquitous
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
like i haven't heard from dev hynes in a long time THANKFULLY and yet it feels as if i'm still hearing his style everywhere, and even more inert
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
The Killers anticipated Dev Hynes imo
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
the killers were fucking dreadful landfill indie and we all know it. this, at least, is a bit better than that
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Which Motown songs sound exactly like Culture Club, though? I don't mind borrowing elements from the past, even large chunks of them... I love how The Knife appropriated the synth riffs of the Eurodance of my youth, for example. But if you're doing nothing creative with those elements, it's kinda boring. The Flowers and Shure tunes sound like they could've literally been made 30 years ago.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
yeah i just don't know what's supposed to be so special about those two songs. The Shura track sounds like any electro-pop ILM 77 track from the last 10 years. Did Robyn have a year off or something?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
and neither of those songs float through the dullest opaque chord changes ever imo so dev is a limited comparison
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I loved the Flowers album and appreciate Alfred stumping for it, as late-period Killers wasn't exactly bringing it. Bummed I didn't nominate 'Dreams Come True' in fact.
Is there a spotify playlist of everything?
― campreverb, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
lmao i am so indiff to that Flowers song but this lil spat got me like popcorn.gif
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
xp is that the link in the first post?
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Which Motown songs sound exactly like Culture Club, though?
"Uptight."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
"white light"'s appeal is probably more visible in the 7 minute version of the song tbh
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
If my only contribution in 2015 is getting "Watashi Igai Watashi Ja Nai No" to place I'm okay with that. And "Sweetie" is pretty boss too.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Was going to defend Shura here but TBH I find White Light a bit inconsequential, so will save it until we get to 2shy.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Not going in on Shura - reasonably pleasant but inconsequential is something I'll let others get angry about. But I viscerally dislike the Flowers. Ugh ugh ugh.
― emil.y, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
save us forksclovetofu
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
gaz coombes
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
the #1 vote for radiohead's james bond song is inexplicable
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 18 January 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
Well if the Brandon Flowers track is any indication of where this list is going, the next song will obviously be: https://youtu.be/zD77kyQYifc
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
lol I actually love that Vannelli song.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
ok i'm caught up now, good shit all around so far
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
all we need is one of my votes now
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GoHqvqU.jpg
67 KENDRICK LAMAR "The Blacker the Berry" (201 points, 7 votes)Pitchfork - 21 / P&J - 33 / Youtube
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
haha shit i really nearly voted for this, it's at like 30 on my extended vallot
feels low here
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
I like the Kendrick album loads but other than King Kunta, I can't seem to think about it as a collection of individual tracks at all. I was looking forward to hearing BtB in that context but the video is blocked in the UK.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
probably my favorite single (if it can be called that) from the album
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
I'm with emil.y. that Brandon Flowers love is inexplicable to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
I don't dislike anything else so far. Although Jasmine Sullivan is another ilx sweetheart I don't really care about.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
kendrick is gonna be all over this tracks thread huh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
definitely at least two more kendrick cuts but not necessarily all over the countdown
― dyl, Monday, 18 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
this whole thread is going to be a repeating tricolor of Kendrick/Future/CRJ tracks
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
I like the Kendrick album loads but other than King Kunta, I can't seem to think about it as a collection of individual tracks at all
"king kunta" and "alright" seem to be the obvious tracks that took on a life outside the album in 2015. didn't "the blacker the berry" originally come out in 2014? it's one of the highlights of the album for me but
pls pls pls let this not happen
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
listening to BtB outside of the context of the album and yeah it's smokin
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
The Jazmine Sullivan is fantastic - I'd never got around to listening to her at all before but definitely will now.
Was interested to hear Floating Points but that just didn't sound distinct enough to be make me wanna look further.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link