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
imo this is a pretty good cardigans song
― 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
― Nabozo, Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:25 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mitski is a better songwriter than ilx deserves
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XpfdNiG.jpg
8: Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel” – 336 points – 13 votesvideo
Janelle Monae
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer album/film
The way “Make Me Feel” builds and builds and then explodes in the bridge is so good; this is maybe her best single yet. - ufo
“Make Me Feel” is pretty good but I think they went one too far bringing in the guitar lick on verse two; it just brings the "Kiss" comparison a little too in focus. – upper Mississippi sh@kedown
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25156
The overwhelming pushing pleasure of it, from the mouth clicking, to the tidal synths, and the stabbing horns–plus all of the ways her voices work–the whisper and the belt, has a polymorphous quality that is not quite perverse. When she sings about being a “sexual bender”, all of this pleasure centers into a very queer channel. I keep thinking about that idea of bender, and kids these days–their identities more labile, children who refuse the binary, and see someone like Monáe, who is butch/femme in ways that are ever blooming, ever variant, and am so overjoyed a hero exists, and is making music about that which cannot be defined. There is a lot of talk about this inheriting Prince, which is inarguable, but it’s as much that as James Brown, Little Richard, Sylvester, or Gladys Bentley. The music slaps and tickles through a century of black gender variant weirdness, making formal statements about the liquidity of queerish pleasures, but makes sure that one can dance. This is a movement, but one that moves indefatigably through every dance floor it can conquer. – Anthony Easton
Here, finally, it is: after years of “homages” suggesting our Prince might forever remain in another castle, a track that invokes him not via vague funk and dutiful sexiness but through virtuosic glee in musicianship and uncontained, full-throated libido. And, unlike too many inferior homages, it doesn’t rely on its pastiche; the squelchy track, like soap on rubber, Monáe’s sly chromatic verse-endings and the bridge breakdown would be revelatory even for someone who hadn’t heard a note of Prince. – Katherine St Asaph
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
just grateful this isn't #1 tbh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Just saw an interview with Mitski where she was asked about The Cardigans. She's a long time fan, but was not thinking about them specifically when she wrote this song. However, she says she hears the same similarity that everyone else is hearing there.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
it's true about how tight the points still are, damn
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
Her best album imo
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
It's crazy that we're still at 336 yeah
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
oh this was my guess for #1
love it and had it pretty high, it's very prince-derived obv but she still makes it her own with the build and the "it's just the way that i feel!" bridge. so good
― ufo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
xp point totals start opening up A LOT with the #7
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
I'm too busy at work to fully catch up with today's rollout, but from what I can see this has been a great day. Almost nothing but classics!
― kitchen person, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:32 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's splitting hairs but it's more "carnival" than "lovefool" for me
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
Make Me Feel is my 3rd or 4th favorite from Dirty Computer, but it definitely seems to be the consensus pick from that album.
― enochroot, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
it's certainly the prince-iest
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
didn't love the album, but this song grabbed me right away. a lot of people imitate prince, but few people can do that kind of hermetically sealed groove and actually pull it off.
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
Still waiting for the silent majority.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
yea she's one of the few who can get away with doing this
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
I've cooled on Dirty Computer since it came out, but this track is undeniable.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
"Make Me Feel" blew me away with its greatness the first time I heard it but I've cooled on it since. Still love the descending sequence of notes in "sexual tender." Don't think I buy it when she says "Good god" and "Damn."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
amazing colours on that image
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
I've kept Monae for the album poll but Make me Feel is exactly the kind of jam I expect ILM to promote. The quality of the songs was a pleasant surprise, very focused, not too "conceptual".
I think now would be a good moment for Sonini to place
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kI6stuv.jpg
7: Jessie Ware – “Overtime – 364 points – 12 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Jessie Ware - 110% (and everything else she's done)
Can we get a whole Jessie Ware & Bicep album? – ufo
The slightness of the production gives her so much space to command, there's a genericness that in lesser hands would be anonymous rather than formulaic impressiveness, the point where a template becomes a model. - boxedjoy
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26460
Last year, Jessie Ware began podcasting with her mother, inviting guests around to her house — the likes of Clara Amfo, Sadiq Khan and Nigella Lawson have made appearances — for a meal, and recording the ensuing conversation. Listening to the way Ware playfully teases her mother as they talk about desert island meals and culinary propriety has inspired me to throw my own dinner parties, which I find fulfilling and an antidote to the loneliness often involved in “going out.” “Dinner party music” is a descriptor that’s been attributed to Ware’s oeuvre since the beginning of her career, and especially to her most recent record Glasshouse, perhaps her coziest and most sentimental album, in spite of its severe title. It’s a term that suggests something pleasant and non-irritating, but also bland, as if it’s only worth hearing in bits, between mouthfuls. It’s an unfair term I think, because dinner parties shouldn’t be bland — they should be filled with vibrant laughter, plates of warm vegetables slathered with butter and salt, simple pleasures, invigorating discussion. It sort of makes me think that those that use “dinner party music” as a pejorative just haven’t been to any good dinner parties. Certainly they’ve not been to a dinner party where, once dessert is over, the chairs are shifted aside and the highlights of Overpowered are thrown on at a loud volume. I’ve no doubt that, on certain occasions, this is precisely what happens chez Ware when the Table Manners microphones are turned off, and “Overtime” and its hollered, dazzling disco chorus seems to confirm my theory. – William John
Jessie Ware is usually at her best when she finally embraces the house vocalist she is destined to be, but “Overtime” succeeds for other reasons. Here, she finally mingles her initial work’s penchant for pensive, reflexive, soulful pop — the musical equivalent to a beautiful yet harmless painting standing over at a museum — and her most recent output, the cathartic pop whose emotional outpouring needs immediate release. It’s the stylistic crossover that feels logical when given thought, yet pleasantly unexpected. For the first time in a while, her whispers are not only romantic suggestions. They come off as a command. – Danilo Bortoli
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
yes good
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
excellent
― omar little, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Lol, if Ariana has the top two spots...
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
ha, called it
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
Still not crazy about Monae, sorry.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
perfect combination of two perfect acts
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
oh hey good a surprise!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
also i love this song that i didn't vote for
ooh the janelle graphic is great!
Glad to see High Horse place higher than Slow Burn given my earlier comments. That's the track I voted for and the one I think will be most memorably of this time and album in ten years' time. It's also just a ton of fun and such a break out moment for her and country internationally.
― Indexed, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
monae gives me the same ilm-bait vibes as that big boi record that won the albums poll here and then no one really talked about again
― ciderpress, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
"Overtime" has made briefly excited again bout Jessie Ware.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
― ciderpress, Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:48 PM (
except that people under 30 love Monae and look at me funny when I say she released her best album last year
I didn’t spend a lot of time with this song - soooo many other sounds taking priority - but it sounds extremely good now. I’ll take it. List needs more Patapaa, is the gist of it though.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
7 is a banger
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