as mentioned on KKB thread, here's the way the band is playing the song live with implied mannequin challenge endinghttps://tinyurl.com/yalamppg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
We're being watched?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
oh yeah the radio edit's ending is incredible
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
10k reads in the past five minutes makes me think we shoulda done the roll out on twitch and bought a condo with the proceeds but monetizing has never been my strong suit, oh well
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
honestly releasing the video/album version at all is an awesome act of self-sabotage. I respect it xxp
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
everybody reading this please send 1 bitcoin to forks at Pueblo, Colorado, 81009
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
Yesssasssszzz at KKB making top 10, poll is redeemed, go on have your 9 1975 tracks now I don't care
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
ooh love this song
verses really remind me of blondie
didn't revisit the album too much unfortunately
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
im not convinced those numbers are accurate for 5 minutes but im sure theres eyes on these threads from other corners of the music internet
― ciderpress, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
Totally love 'Only Acting'; voted for the album (again).
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
video version of Only Acting is the superior one btw
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
how do you see that "top 50 most read" page?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
yay all the rollouts today! :D
― davey, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
On second listen, I need to give the album a second chance.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
obv video is best version
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
eephus: it's at the bottom of the "Boards" page
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
xp Yes, OBV!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
never had any doubt in kkb but lovely to see them so high
really surprised at the complete lack of consensus this year, there hasn't really been any sort of points jump at all
"high horse" was the weakest track from that album, i wish it sounded like air france or phoenix or any of those comparisons from the thread but it just felt a bit forced
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
Wasn't familiar with the video version. I've upgraded my cautious enthusiasm to a quasi full endorsement.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bVtBSHt.jpg
9: Mitski – “Nobody” – 328 points – 9 votes – 1 first place vote video
Mitski
There's a brilliant song in there trying to get out, but the way the band attack every beat of the bar with the same emphasis just traps it. The whole album feels stymied by these galumphing arrangements; the disco guitar sounds rhythmic and limber, but good god those piano chords, those drums, just bashing away with equal emphasis on every beat. – Matt DC
"Nobody" isn't disco. It's disco-influenced, uses disco as one might a citation in a paper. – Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
"Nobody" has a really nice build to a fairly predictable place, musically. But that’s enough for me because that chorus melody is incredible. – voodoo chili
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25894
An ode to nobody which brings to mind another — but where Toni Basil decries the body and wishes to dissipate altogether, to become nobody (“no body”) in a world that’s too full of senses and responsibilities; Mitski feels the absence, and wants something tangible and real in a world that feels like it’s disappearing. She wants a faceless “somebody”; she wants a nobody with a body. She forgets who she is and needs some one to be the mirror. (Who are we without one another?) Well! You know what, like the Toni Basil song, it’s existential, it’s depressing — and it’s a bop! – Rebecca A Gowns
When I first heard this I thought it was far slighter than “Geyser,” its indomitable predecessor; it wasn’t the disco beat itself, but how tinny it sounded, the guitars sounding like peashooters scratching into the side of my skull. Mitski’s melody was also off — a wandering thing that seemed to drift in and out of coherence before dissipating into nothing by the song’s end. And yet I still felt drawn to “Nobody,” listening to it over and over again as I laid in bed on a foggy June morning. And yet repeated listening brought me no closer to an understanding of “Nobody,” only a realization of its sublime jankyness. It’s a song about the vagaries of loneliness, of seeking connection in half-made up moments and glances, of blaming yourself and begging for something from the world, and it sounds like all of these things reflected through the facets of a disco ball. It’s triumphant in its own way, with its piano and guitar overwhelming you, tricking you to dance with its own ghost of a lyric. “Nobody” is slight because it has to be and because it wants to be — to accommodate the depth of its loneliness and make clear its magnificent strangeness. – Jacob Sujin Kuppermann
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Too low.
I guess this is a weird thing to be glad for, but I'm glad no Low tracks placed, would have hated to see anything divorced from the album
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Especially in light of what'll inevitably ensue.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
OK LOL I never even knew the radio edit of 'Only Acting' existed! Yeah the noise blowout ending is key for me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
the ending of "Nobody" creeps me out every time
"Too 'Low'"
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
guessing that either "anna wintour" or "overtime" is yet to place and the other is 78
or maybe "boo'd up" is 78? it didn't get nominated until super late?
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
Fantastic, wonderful song. It's about the seventh-best on the album.
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
wtf is " kero kero bonito "
― ||||||||, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
az banks is absolutely not placing
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
First time you've truly edgelorded ITT.
2xp
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
This was my #1. "I know no one will save me / I'm just asking for a kiss" gets me every time.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
I threw a LOT of points at Why Didn't You Stop Me? as I said before - but so many songs deserved votes. It was a shame to limit myself to one track per artist
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
imo this is a pretty good cardigans song
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
I like the implied existence of Lit Review Rock in Alfred’s comment
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
That's good. The Cardigans are good.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
Mitski rubs me the wrong way. Her songs ooze off negative energy and creepy lethargy.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
No one's mentioned it so far but could 'We Appreciate Power' still make it?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
This Kero Kero Bonito song is really good. They are a band that showed up in my spotify discover weekly a couple of times and I enjoyed those tracks, but not enough to check out more stuff. This is much better than what I expected.
― silverfish, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
Negative energy and creepy lethargy are my jams.
^sounds like good double bill
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
absolutely not, but actually it would have been a great fakeout entry
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
I like we appreciate power a lot and voted for it but grimes has fallen out of favor on ilx for reasons having little to do with her music and I'm fairly certain that song won't place
xxxp
― silverfish, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
we appreciate power was like fine but not really on the level of her past singles
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Poppy - X maybe ? Not that I hope for it.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Grimes is #78.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
i thought my #1 was a lock but maybe not
― ciderpress, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
i voted for We Appreciate Power, not sure it'd make it. ILM turning on her would be v predictable of course.
― omar little, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link