I don't keep up with bobbins, but this Eris Drew is great and I appreciate that bobbins in the top 77 are more often than not ranked in the order in which I will appreciate them.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
always surprised that "slow burn" is the non-singles pick off the album, as great as it is
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
my sound engineer friend wouldn't stfu about how good the production on this album was this year. i don't really have an ear for that, but it really does sound incredible
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
the whole Kacey Musgraves album sounded extremely good this past summer, it soundtracked a lot of sunset drives around L.A. for me.
― omar little, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
xpwell what confused me was what emil.y pointed out: it's quite old at this point so I didn't get why it would be under contention for this year
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
"love is a wild thing" would have been my musgraves track vote
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
Feel like the whole TIA thing is going to be like when we were predicting Gangnam Style would miss the 77 altogether and then it went straight into the top 10.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
Love to see gr80 back for this! \m/
Lol at the 1975 double whammy
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/luOqzzx.jpg
20: Empress Of – “When I’m With Him” – 282 points – 10 votesvideo
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26271
Los Angeles is an inherently isolating city, with every neighborhood splattered across its sprawl and a commute culture consisting of personal transportation boxes. Even natives can’t help but feel disconnected from the city that birthed them, one that can’t help but push its people away. “When I’m With Him” is, by itself, a masterful exploration of loneliness in love; the panic attack toms and prom-ready synth glaze make your heart feel like it’s trapped in amber, while Lorely Rodriguez’s weathered wail reaches out through the darkness. But watching Rodriguez smolder through the streets where I grew up in the song’s video only deepens “With Him”’s resonance, especially after several years away. You can live inside L.A. your whole life and still feel like an outsider. Watching it through that lens, Empress Of’s pointed Spanish asides cut even deeper: “I distance myself more and you can’t see it.” There’s nothing more crushing than giving all of yourself to something that doesn’t need you. – Julian Axelrod
Since long before I was old enough to understand it, September has filled me with a penetrating, intangible malaise — the watery sun, receding daylight hours, florid leaves (magnificent, but undeniably terminal). “When I’m With Him” captures this soft decay exquisitely. Set against a fuzzy, sepia-hued drift, Rodriguez sings of the autumn of a relationship; the inexplicable, irreversible atrophy of romantic feelings. It’s a close cousin of Solange’s “Losing You,” and like Solange, Rodriguez’s timbre is one of resignation, undercut with a profound sadness; listen for the beautiful, poignant waver on “trying but don’t know why-y-y” in the middle eight. She’s submitting to the change of season, but still reluctant to let go of the vestiges of the one that’s already disappearing into the rearview. – Vikram Joseph
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
hmm, too high
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
yeah
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
perfectly fine shambhala but i wish it did something more with the bridge? but yeah this feels too high
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
kind of a nothing chorus imo but nice enough
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
It’s a close cousin of Solange’s “Losing You,”
accounts somewhat for my weird indifference to it despite it containing a lot of stylistic flourishes i love
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Is this a Dev Hynes production? Kind of sounds like it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Best part of "Slow Burn" is obv. when it opens up in the 2nd verse
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
no, but hynes does contribute to the album it's from xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
it's a better version of the one song Dev Hynes wrote a lot of times, mostly because the drums are a little better, but he's not involved here
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Is this drippy Instagram filter shit? On paper it certainly sounds like it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
it reminds me of Haim's Falling, but without a chorus
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
actually i still probably wouldn't rate it over "Losing You" or "Everything is Embarrassing" but i do like that it doesn't have Dev's One Drum Loop Forever thing
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
After listening to the Song Exploder episode on this song, I realized that most of the stuff I like about this song comes from the beat/loop that it's based on, which was written by some dude named Jim-E Stack.
― enochroot, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
we're all glad I don't have earphones rn
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
All the good Empress Of songs over the last 6 years and this is the one that finally places? You guys.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
There's a good Song Exploder episode about "When I'm With Him":http://songexploder.net/empress-of
Even though it feels a little cookie-cutter, I still like it a lot.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
(oops, x-post!)
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
I voted for this one but now even I agree it’s too high. I love it though
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:54 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's a distant cousin at best, and also nowhere near as brilliant as Losing You.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
It's funny to have Slow Burn followed up by this dross.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
I like not knowing what Baby Shark is. I do even own a smart TV.
― nashwan, Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
"losing you" p easily the critically beloved song of the past decade that i dislike the most, we don't have to talk about it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
good tune
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
why would ppl vote for baby shark tho, is ilm for babies now
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
are you all babies?????????? i'm gonna cyberbully fuckin all of you if that song is in the top 10
JF otm, i was really let down by Empress Of last year and even though this was the only good song on the album it's the least interesting she's ever been
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
i would vote for boban shark
xp
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
Still got time for Empress Of - preferred the previous album but the part-Spanish 'Trust Me Baby' has been stuck in my head a lot.
― nashwan, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
Jelly.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
this is dope... it sounds like solange's EP
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
boban shark would be an entirely different situation, that sounds sick and cool and for adults
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
so, about that...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0WVlkZt.jpg
19: Pinkfong – “Baby Shark” - 282 points – 10 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Pray to your chosen gods that your child never finds the Pinkfong channel on YouTube. Do it with all your heart. – jjjusten
Yesssss
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
ahahahaha awesome
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
If this is real then I am so mad
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
Perfect visual design on top of it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
weird time to introduce the fake out forks
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
"1 first place vote"
― enochroot, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
IT'S THE END
― jmm, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
finally some actual music
― nashwan, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link