haha this is fun
― suggest boban (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
Hm, enjoyed Soccer Mommy more than I expected to from the band name.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
NB to UK/AU ILXors: i had never heard the term "Smoko" before this song
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
ogmor really summed it up in the voting thread:
so lowest common denominator it's a jam because of not in spite of its australiosity, blew up in 2018, v powerful hair and energy in the vid
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
reminds me of a bunch of local bands that'd have a song or two people could get behind, to the bewilderment of anyone who hadn't seen them before. maybe just slightly more cohesive, good enough to release
― mh, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
imo every 77 needs one hilarious "outsider art" placement and this is very far from the worst we've had
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
im on smoi koi
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
xxp I'd never heard the term "smoko" either, but it didn't exactly take me long to put together what's going on here
― mh, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
MES looking down from the firmament and coughing up a phlegm of approval
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
someone check on saer
― rob, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
"smoko" is better than anything by local bands i heard while growing up near where they're from but that's not saying much
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
i am hoping #54 may be the first saer-approved track
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
☑
a folk classic
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
Finally, we're getting somewhere.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
'filmed and edited by Matisse Langbein'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
should be only 90 secs though
Yeah, they should have gone for the Pink Flag effect and just stopped after the first chorus.
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UpGoYoc.jpg
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)” - 187 points – 7 votes - 1 first place votevideo
John Talabot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
sick af
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
oh havent heard the remixes
loved the talaboman record a couple of years back
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
this one stood out on the noms thread, i love it
― . (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
this is pretty amazing btw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
Dude looks like a bit like Stockhausen on that pic.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
Never heard of "Smoko" before, but it sounds like if someone had made an actual song based on what older people were who didn't like punk rock in the '70s imagined it sounds like. Well, at least it doesn't evoke indifference like most other rock songs on the list rather than revulsion.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
*in
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
BUT WHAT DOES SAER THINK ABOUT A DINS EL LLIT
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
This is really good btw.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
oh this is cool. not sure why i never spent more time with the talaboman album back when it came out
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
exactly what i expected when i saw the artists involved--tactile, never-ending awesomeness
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
Oh this is great, should've been on my ballot really.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
i still jam The Night Land
ooooh this should be good, I always like Talabot-connected stuff
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
2018 was long enough for me that I puzzled about whether I had heard any songs by Soccer Mommy, when I had in fact seen them live back in July
yeeesh
― mh, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Needs to start with the organ break and intensify from there. Good but calibrated slightly too chill for my tastes
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
this was my #1
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nSKHTlX.jpg
53: Mitski – “Geyser” - 188 points – 7 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Mitski
gentle start with instantly queering touches like quietening organ drone, crazy glitch. no beats to even galumph over. slowly a tambourine enters, chords are lush. drums playing sparse 3-time beat. then suddenly the keyboards lurch in and the guitars and it's not so much galumphing as CRUSHING and SOARING at the same time, it is violent and the only way some people can process this is by saying 'oo er the drums and keys are playing every beat' but actually if u listen properly it's got a swinging sea-shanty beat, there's a canon between guitars and keys, there's a lot going on obviously but u say it like she is just banging away like some teenage punk and that is bollocks, there is so much craft here. – imago
Geyser is so colossal; it has been my favorite song of the year since the day it came out. – Will M.
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25622
Maybe it’s the organ tones in the intro serving as bait, but “Geyser” reads as religious in a deep sense — not godly but ritualistic. It helps that the lyrics are less verses than chants, psalms to the very art that Mitski practices. This is the lushest that Mitski has ever sounded, all cascading horns and rolling drums, and she wears these grander things magnificently. The only shame is that the song is so short — it’s a holy experience that feels like it could be carried on for a bit longer. – Jacob Sujin Kuppermann
“Geyser” is several songs at once. It begins foreboding and mystic, almost terrifying (I hate how jarring the glitch noise is every time, although that’s the point), and suddenly transforms itself into a love song of purest passion. Beginning at a melancholic point and ending somewhere happier not even two minutes later is emotional whiplash at its finest, and it somehow makes me cry every time I hear it. – Alex Clifton
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
let the great votesplitting commence
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
i don't really "get" mitski in general (and this song in particular) but it seems to resonate with so many people whose tastes i appreciate that I kinda feel obliged to let it be.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
good song imo
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
I went with Why Didn't You Stop Me? as my Mitski vote. This doesn't mean that Geyser isn't one of the best songs of the year, which it is.
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
like i just relistened to geyser for like the tenth time and i still can't get anything out of it... seems like a kate bush cover gone wrong
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
This is a great song, but yeah, vote splitting is real and there were so many good options on this album.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
it is a good song, too short though
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
btw did u absolutely have to choose my post when I was incoherently arguing at Matt DC for the blurb lol
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
ulysses otm. this song is also very "the food is bad and such small portions"xp
― rob, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
LJ: virtually nobody does longform single discussion on ILM anymore; i think your para there was the only one explicitly devoted to "geyser"... so yes, I absolutely DID have to choose your post or else it was just gonna be SJ comments and i know how much you love those.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
haha it's np really :)
― imago, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
this is the best song on a record that ended up doing v little for me
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
like i was impressed by the expanded arrangements but they also walled me off from the songs
Classic yet not my favourite off the album.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
maybe we should take the next hour off so everyone can listen to #52?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link