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
sounds nice but dying for some personality
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
"sumptuous" otm champiness
I respect ty's effort as always
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
production on this is so gorgeous
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Beautiful song, missed it in '18 somehow
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rwUmYCx.jpg
32: Tirzah – “Holding On” – 236 points – 7 votes – 1 number one votevideo
Tirzah
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
This one will raise the heart-rate!
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
good album this
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
did not get this album at all which was a shame because "I'm Not Dancing" was pretty cool
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
This was my number one vote and I love her so if any of you dare badmouth her I’ll delete all the poll’s images
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
sounds like it was produced by john shuttleworth
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Sometimes it reminds me of Arthur Russell too
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB)
Is this a compliment because I like him too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6C7WZQU.jpg
31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo” – 246 points – 8 votesvideo
Donato Dozzy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
as I noted here, "Cleo" is fucking dope
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
aw, nice!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
ok this is gorgeous
― frogbs, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
holding on is a little wispy nothing of a track, like overhearing someone singing to themselves as they walk past. love the album and think it sounds better in that context, I picked a different track
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
<3 the b side "mindless fullness" too
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
another one for 2 Chainz here
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
couldn't wrap my mind around the tirzah record but "holding on" is p good in isolation
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
never heard of this but it's very cool, continuing to enjoy this year's bobbins placements a surprising amount
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
Didn’t vote for Cleo but I’m on board with this one too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
cleo gives me the hard fidgets
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
He does this sound better than almost anyone, right up there with Plays Bee Mask
― or something, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
hyperactive stillness
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link