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59 BRUNO MARS “24K Magic” [189 points, 7 votes]https://youtu.be/UqyT8IEBkvY
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
what
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link
I have such a deep loathing of Bruno Mars' corny mugging and horrible ersatz disco, fuck off to your office parties
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link
shrewd move Bruno. if it ain't broke..
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
lex what happened at the office party
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Always amazed that Bruno Mars is a person that ILM takes seriously. This is mostly because he has the worst look of any major pop star that isn't Robin Thicke.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:09 (seven years ago) link
i didn't even know we took him seriously no one gave me the memo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
haha yeh don't get this at all but saw his album crop up on a surprising number of end year lists
― nxd, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
this song did not do well to be posted during the UK shift
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:11 (seven years ago) link
'24km' and 'crybaby' are when predispositions become personal prisons imo
lmk if i succeed in making brad cry
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
http://image.blingee.com/images18/content/output/000/000/000/6f6/675706329_1631528.gif
― nomar, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
For a long time I thought Bruno Mars was some Dutch trance DJ, because his name sounds like that. Not sure if he'd be any better of worse if it was true.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:12 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
;_;
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
not like i disagree tbh
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, I guess there are worse building blocks to make pastichey pop hits from than '80s post-disco/boogie. And this one at least doesn't sound like such a blatant Kool & the Gang copy as "Uptown Funk".
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
u only have to listen to like 10 seconds of snoop dogg 'signs' or whatever again to see this bruno for the thin gruel it is
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
Uptown Funk is the best office party track ever. 24 k magic is a bad copy. Which is still ok.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:17 Bookmark
i'm kinda fronting on crybaby it is transcendentally well executed
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
I looove original '80s boogie, even more than '70s disco, so I've nothing in theory against someone doing it in 2016. But this sounds a bit too clean & polished, seamless, committee-designed. I can see it working on a drunken disco night in my working class neighbourhood, but wouldn't probably listen to it just for fun on the headphones.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
the only Bruno Mars I've remotely enjoyed was when he was ripping off the Police.
― crawling in (sic) (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:17 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
TUNE
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
― crawling in (sic) (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:25 AM (one minute ago)
tune
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link
the best things about "crybaby" are when it stops nodding so obviously at freestyle/jam & lewis and goes down its own unexpected detours, and "vegas" is the better track anyway
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link
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58 GROUPER “Headache” [191 points, 7 votes]https://youtu.be/Jh8ahc_YDeY
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
i just put 'signs' on and it turns out i was deeply mistaken... u only need three seconds
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
nice! xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
I'd never have expected a Grouper song to make the tracks poll so I'm intrigued by this. (Albums poll perennial obviously).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
seems p nicei remember really enjoying the first track to dragging a dead deer up the hill when it came out
― nxd, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Hmm, I guess this sort of weeded, sireny indie... stuff has to be included on every ILM list. Feels like it could've been released anytime in the past 25 years? Why putting a formless ditty through an echo filter would make it any better is beyond me, but seems like there's always an audience for it.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
dreampop... wow... nice... kevin shields moobs feel like bags of sand
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
This track is 40 minutes too short or something. I'll check out the album.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
five minutes that i could have spent listening to my boiler
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
headache is pretty as always for her but doesn't really compare to something like heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping
― ufo, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
This isn't on an album (yet) but Ruins is worth yr time.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
This sort of music always sounds to me like someone took the first Cranberries album and slowed it down 50%, but without turning Dolores O'Riordan's voice into a goofy baritone. It's called "dreampop" then? I guess it could have a proper function in putting me to sleep, but OTOH a white noise generator would do just as well.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
Tuomas, for us insomniacs, this kind of music is very important :) Not really in five minute chunks, though, at least not for me.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
I think this single was a standalone so if you want an album length version listen to Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
― ufo, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
always nice to remember how much of a monster jam "signs" is
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
GROUUUPERRRRR
― Eine Kleine Nakh Musik (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
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57 DANNY L HARLE FT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN “Super Natural” [194 points, 7 votes]https://youtu.be/CrFcxR4Y6C0
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
really don't get this one at all, i hate the deliberately awkward pc music syncopation
― ufo, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
i don't mind super naturaleven if it's probably the worst thing either two have done in the past couple of years
― nxd, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
this is a fantastic track
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Yes!! This was #22 on my ballot. Danny L Harle's latest stuff feels to me like a shrewd sidestep away from PC music by its best producer. I can't not enjoy something this cute and over the top.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
love zapp & squealing talk box goodness and have always had an odd affection for bruno mars (short&sweet? his grin? zoot suit?) but this only even tries to be p standard
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday was a war of attrition. Today is already putting that into perspective with two records which are two career ending tackles on inner peace
― saer, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
That last one is literally an advert for anxiety
― saer, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
Ever since the first records I've found Grouper doesn't put enough echo on the songs. They're supposed to be hard to reach, that's part of the attraction. It's a formal move toward an only semi-lucid mimesis.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
I didn't end up voting for Super Natural but it was one my best discoveries going through the nominations playlist.
I'm happy to standup for 24K Magic. It ended up growing on me a lot after initially being underwhelmed by it. The album was one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. There are actually better songs on the album. I was expecting Versace On The Floor to place over the title track. It's the best thing he's done.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
"24k magic" is way more shiny assemblage than song so i'm also sorta wondering what it's doing here (iirc the thread was less a total endorsement than several people wondering if it sounded sufficiently like chromeo)
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link