EP of the year xp p sure this is the first time I've voted for 2 tracks off the same EP but by different artists
― or something, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
^same for me
― Dan S, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
Last one for today!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/E7DUJsZ.jpg
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It” – 247 points – 8 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Marie Davidson (dark synth, she's been in a few bands but has had a few solo releases)
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26555
The “Work Bitch”/”Let’s Have a Kiki” mashup I never knew I needed, with deadpan delivery that is both threatening and genuinely motivational. I feel like a rich lesbian personal trainer has looked into my soul and told me I am not working hard enough and boy is it ever effective. – Alex Clifton
Over a spiky groove that builds like an assembly line, Marie Davidson guides you through the new mentality. It’s no longer enough to work to the bone; you have to love it, too. It doesn’t take long before she flips that aspiration into a taunt (“Well then you’re not a winner yet!”) and the colloquial notion of “work” into a menacing order. By the end, she’s just parroting the same platitudes (“You’ve got to work for yourself!”), the empty promises we’re told by others and ourselves to get by, knowing that in this system one cannot be a winner without crushing someone underneath. Perhaps that’s too bleak a reading. Perhaps we’re just in a funk, and all we need is to keep organizing and pushing and upending every system that got us here. But if it turns out we are marching toward the inevitable end, I’ll want it to sound like this. – Will Adams
WORK
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
lol @ the top comment
This song made me drink a jar of coffee and register 3 businesses
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Is sweat dripping off your balls?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
love "Beam Me Up", "Work It" does nothing for me though
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
this song is so fuckin funky
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
― ufo, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:25 PM
this
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Idrg her stuff but at least it has some oomph
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
seeing she's from mtl makes this make a lot more sense
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
yeah this song... it's cool but I just can't quite tell if it's supposed to be ironic or deadly serious and that makes me uncomfortable, and that discomfort, I can only assume, is part of the appeal. Either way it's kind of a 21st century 'LOADSAMONEY' with a funky electro soundtrack
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
best day of the countdown
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
hoping at least one more kpop track will place tomorrow, there's one thread favourite that surely should make it?
"Work It" just takes a bit too long to really get into things for me
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
the Octa Octa track def my fave of the bobbins
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
If you’re into “work it” or you are not but love hearing about gear or the music making process search a youtube video of her at the red bull music academy. Apparently she does all her music on minimal, analog gear (gets some approving nods from Tatsuya Takahashi in the background) and she comes off as very charming. Also seeing her get in and out of character for this song is cool.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
I'd be surprised if "Power Up" didn't make it but I am v far from a kpop expert xps
This track makes me think of those dumbfuck FIVERR subway ads
http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/mg_advert_depression_comp.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/gB4ZIrn.jpghttp://mikekosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fiverr_poster.jpg
also this:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html
all very jay mcinerney all over again
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:27 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol I had the same reaction
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
octo octa is amazing though, as is that EP
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
We're going down to 29 today, 13 on Thursday and the top 12 on Friday.
This feels like an odd and possibly deliberate breakdown of the tracks that I don't recall being done before.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Brad and I seem to agree half the time these days - today has been the other half
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
Care to elaborate on the Montreal connotation?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
29: Marie Davidson – “Work It”30: Octo Octa – “Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)”31: Donato Dozzy – “Cleo”32: Tirzah – “Holding On”33: Khalid featuring 6lak and Ty Dolla $ign – “OTW”34: Tracey Thorn – “Queen”35: Let’s Eat Grandma – “Donnie Darko”36: Valee featuring Jeremih – “Womp Womp”37: Hatchie – “Sure”38: Simmy featuring Sun-El Musician – “Ubala”39: Simmy – “Umahlalela”40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!”41: The Beths – “Little Death”42: Kasper Marrot – “Keflavik”43: Beach House – “Lemon Glow”44: Peach – “Silky”45: MGMT – “Me and Michael”46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”47: Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”48: The 1975 – “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)”49: Hop Along – “How Simple”50: Die Wilde Jagd – “2000 Elefanten”51: Roísín Murphy – “Plaything”52: Autechre – “all end”53: Mitski – “Geyser”54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”55: The Chats – “Smoko”56: Christine and the Queens – “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush”58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break”59: Prince Kaybee - “Banomoya”60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”61: Wizkid – “Soco”62: mewithoutyou – “Julia (or, Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses)”63: Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”64: Fabiana Palladino – “Shimmer”65: Soccer Mommy – “Your Dog”66: Ravyn Lenae – “Sticky”67: Mr Twin Sister – “Echo Arms”68: Parquet Courts – “Total Football”69: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “Talking Straight”70: MGMT – “When You Die”71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up”72: Drake – “Nice for What”73: Helena Hauff – “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg”74: Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For”75: Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV”76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy”77: Kali Uchis – “In My Dreams”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
it's been 17/20/20/20 in the past instead of 17/16/16/16/12 yeah
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
we used to not do Fridays because the euros would be out during the top 10 but now everyone's old and/or has smartphones
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
work it = britney's work bitch but make it goth
glad to see good bobbins still placing
― davey, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
Let's Eat Grandma are definitely in that 'bands I refuse to check out based entirely on their name'. May as well call yourselves 'Eats Shoots and Leaves'
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
<3 that octo octa split EP and all the breaky stuff like it that's been coming out these past couple years
― davey, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
dog latin i feel that
wait do euros get fridays off? why do i live in this country again?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Still thinking Talaboman is the highlight of the poll so far. I'm liking the Simmys from today though.
― jmm, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
They don't xp
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 12:34 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it just reminds me of something one of my partner's (Mtl) art students might make--or to put it another way, I think the Mtl connection makes it easy to decide the lyrics are parodic. also, I was pretty sure I was correctly identifying her accent, but wasn't 100%
― rob, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
Gotcha. I'm always a wee bit bemused by what the ROC makes of Montreal.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
― imago, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:33 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if you don't like a relentless stream of good house and techno then idk man
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
Just not built for it -_- soz
― imago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
this year's rollout has felt a bit less surprising overall, feels mostly like highlights from albums that'll certainly do well too, bobbins stuff aside
no idea what's going to do the best of what's left though
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
tbf the bobbins fugues are the reason i fell in love with this poll (cf. lindstrøm & prins thomas in 2009)
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
i love catching up with the year in bobbins since it's not something i really keep up with and this year's been more to my taste than usual
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
work it is cool!
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:00 (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"This is very good - it sounds like, while the vocals are on beat, there are huge swathes of the song where everything else is offbeat, including the clicks and hi-hats. But the bass shifts between being on and off the beat every eight bars or so. It gives the whole thing a swing that's largely absent from a lot of post-Lex Luger rap.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
Luv the image of a Euro ILXor sitting in an mostly empty club early on a Friday night and following the final rollout of these tracks by glow of an iPhone, nursing a vodka tonic, while sad German techno throbs in the background
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
yep, song has huge pockets, feels caught in a constant yet subtle ectoplasmic shapeshift xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
Listened to the Talaboman/Superpitcher thing bc of jmm's praise and it was actually what I needed rn. "Nobody" was my Mitski vote btw but I do like "Geyser" a lot. I'm sure the Autechre track is great; just waiting to have a concentrated hour when I can listen.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
xps lol i used to do that but at the pub!
― nxd, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
40: Doja Cat – “Mooo!” – 206 points – 8 votes― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:23 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me listening to “moo":
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