Didn't vote for this but it's really good imo. The album wasn't consistent but the two long songs at the end were killer. I might even have voted for Cool & Collected if someone had nominated it. This is great too though
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
let's eat gyllenhaal
https://www.pride.com/sites/www.pride.com/files/2019/01/14/velvet-buzzsaw.jpg
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
nice album closer
wasn't even nommed but "i will be waiting" was the track off this record i came back to the most
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:31 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hellll yeah
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019
fuck yes
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
went for the album instead but this would have been the track to make it
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
"Falling into You" was one of the last cuts from my tracks ballot but i'm very happy to see anything from I'm All Ears place
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Awesome! This was the song that won me round on them. The highlight of the year's biggest surprise for me.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Listening to Doja Cat for the first time now
https://media.giphy.com/media/gFwZfXIqD0eNW/giphy.gif
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
idg Let's Eat Grandma at all. I tried them in the wake of praises sung by people with good taste, but eeesh no thanks.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
V much in the 'first album good second album meh' camp regarding LEG
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
Ugh. I hope when they try to eat Grandma she lays them both out with a shovel to the head.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
This is also a rare example of a song named after another cultural object capturing the essence of that object almost exactly
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Who wouldn't rather eat Jake than Grandma?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
song only really gets going at about 8 minutes in when those big guitars come in
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to "Go to Town" rn and it is much more my speed― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:32 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:32 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Roll With Us and Candy are my favs off that album
― marcos smart (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
if someone w/ music theory chops beyond grade 1 cld pin down what is going on with the beat/flow interplay I wld be v curious because I am a slave to it
― ogmor, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:25 AM (fourteen minutes ago)
these are just slow-motion triplets right, ogmor?
― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:28 AM (eleven minutes ago)
I don't have those chops but the way the vocal melody descends has to be part of it too
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
damn y'all have a lot of time for long-ass songs this year
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cZ2VYzW.jpg
34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen” – 224 points – 6 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Tracey Thorn
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=24957
“Queen” is an entirely different song depending on whether you think Thorn has found love, and is marveling at the million tiny ways the world could have changed to prevent that (and a different song still if the thought makes her terrified, not awed), or if she hasn’t, and is scouring the past for the mistake. I think she means the former, but the song sounding exactly like “Thank God It’s Not Christmas” (“great things to say or do / aren’t done by you / obviously”) tips it back toward the latter for me. So many people I know feel as if the world’s been kicked out from beneath them. It’s not only the political climate — though that certainly doesn’t help — but the sense that their life suddenly happened and then unhappened. Everyone describes it differently, but they all independently come up with Hollywood terms: dying sitcoms, ex-child stars, the US version of royalty. Sometimes I imagine that myself-from-my-old-life is still out there, “Evil Doppelgangers“-style, younger, in a much glitzier locale, with more to say to more people. Is she queen? Does she ever find love? Whose odds are better, hers or mine? “Might have been” is a lot less limited than “is.” - Katherine St Asaph
“She’s blown her pipes,” I thought at first. On second listen, the newly serrated edges of Tracey Thorn’s voice add sardonicism to another synthed-up chapter in her ongoing project of limning the quiet lives of men and women who deserve more than they’re getting. “Am I queen or something else I might have been / a star backseat of a blacked-out car?” she sings, as usual, keeping her head while others lose theirs. – Alfred Soto
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
nice!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
No Xgau quote? Lol
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
Never heard of #35, but with an artist name - song title combo like, it would take some effort to convince me to listen to it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
do i ever find loooooooooove
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
My #1
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
good song
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
Oh wow, I didn't see this coming! So great to see Tracey making such excellent music this late into her career. Her solo albums have all been so strong and Record is up there with the best she's ever done. Queen is a great opener and I even dig the low budget video.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Okay so this list is definitely the right way round. Today >>>>> last couple of days.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Tracey Thorn is a treasure.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
I finally got around to reading her 2013 memoir, and, well, holy shit.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Oh, this is good. Nice blurbs also.
The Grandma song was taking too long to do anything.
― jmm, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Yeah but it does do something! Unlike...well unlike some other songs
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
I came back to this song (and to a lesser degree the album) so many times this year that it would've been dishonest for me to put anything else at the top of my ballot. Her finest single piece of work in 30+ years of doing it imo.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
I have a tough time deciding between Queen and Dancefloor as my favourite song on Record. The whole thing is so solid though.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
"Air" is so good.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
"Sister" was my album highlight iirc
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Given how irritating the apparently bottomless 80s-pop fetishism has become here, I liked Donnie Darko a lot more than I expected to. I'd prefer a different vocal approach though--they're sooo declarative and only work for me during the climax when they're not front and center
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Tried to like the Let's Eat Grandma album but "Donnie Darko" was the only track that ever did anything for me. Length felt key to that.
Speaking of length, thanks for the Talaboman remix! - loved "The Night Land" but slept on the remix EP and missed this on the nom list.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Love the Shura cameo on that one.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
feel a bit saer-ish about Queen, though I'm not sure which depressing modern social experience to namecheck
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
on second thought, this would make good hold music
>:(
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
Just barely.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
good hold music would be good
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
It's cool we got some middlebrow synthpop to wash the taste of weird elongated synthpop out of our mouths
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
to be less of a dick about it: obviously this song isn't bad, it just doesn't move me
"hold music" was just a joke about the final refrain
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7o0cyy8.jpg
33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW” – 236 points – 7 votesvideo
boo’d up • i like it • OTW
Listening to "OTW" for the first time and, gosh, that is a sumptuous four minutes of music. The beat is holographic in the way that old Jam & Lewis productions used to sound compared to their contemporaries. Like you know how they had an improbably long career where they just kept successfully updating their sound to the times for several decades? This is what I imagine they'd be up to if that streak were still going. A travesty that this never made it to top 40 radio, especially when Khalid is such a hot property right now off the back of comparatively beige material like "Eastside" and "Love Lies". – Champiness
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25530
I’m a sucker for singers that have a bit of ache in their voice no matter what they’re singing about, and from the “nah, I can be your booty call” chorus on down, this is so much less gross than a lot of its contemporaries — actually being happy in a relationship is presented as a good outcome, leaving the decision of whether to proceed up to the woman happens more than once, that kind of thing. It’s nothing major, and it shouldn’t be significant, but in 2018 just being relatively respectfully horny does make it stand out. – Ian Mathers
Where American Teen sounded like a lazy, carefree, day-drinking-filled afternoon, “OTW” is the sound of the creeping complexities of the evening. Khalid is still concerned with the potential of The Date, but there’s a clear shift — the cute, shyly teenage come-ons of “Location” (“I got a lot of cool spots that we can go”) have developed into suggestive adult R&B imagery: coastal highways, lingerie, sports cars. The result is a little darker and a little less distinct; but it’s a credit to Khalid that his inherent endearing goofiness still shines through the flexes — when he assures the girl riding beside him in his Porsche that he “kept the slip so you know it’s not rented”. – Claire Biddles
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
i can't believe this wasn't a proper hit when khalid has had so many other much worse hits
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
too low
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
beautiful song
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
continue to be baffled by this one's appeal tbh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
ridiculous
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link