That, too. For a group that seems intent on making beat music, they seem to have a remarkable lack of... beats.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry if it seems like I'm just negging on everything in this thread, btw. Most of the songs I haven't commented on are crazy awesome.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm amazed people like this enough for it to place so high (on this and other year-end polls). I can't get through the first minute.
― lou, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Back to Erykah Badu (no.24 or thereabouts) - this was the last thing I had on last night, just once, and it sounded amazing. Today I can't see what the fuss was about. Actually, that's not fair, it's very haunting and I do like it, but it could virtually be a Kate Bush tune (I'm thinking something off The Dreaming, maybe 'Leave it Open'). No bad thing, but I find it strange that it should be so exalted
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
not to be a dick but it takes a special kind of white person to make a beat as inept as the one in 'ready for the floor.'
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
^It's a great song but probably needs to be heard in context of whole album
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― all my single lobsters put a ring on it (tpp), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
looooooooool
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― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
loool CAD
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
haha xp
yeah I love Erykah/New Amerykah/"The Healer" but I never did get why everyone is SO crazy for that particular song (it won the 'best song on new amerykah' poll by a large margin) as opposed to, say, "Soldier" or "That Hump"...
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"ready for the floor" is a really sweet song - "you're my number one guy/ number one guy/ number number one one one one guuuyyyyy"
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There was a time in very early 2008 when Ready For The Floor felt like a genuine pop moment, in the the UK at least. It went top three over here, there were stories that Kylie tried to get it for her album. Those moments when an oddball band suddenly go from indie/hipster concern to actual High Street disco-friendly pop are still comparatively rare. I still wish it had actually gone to Number One because the last minute or so would have been perfect at the end of chart rundown shows.
Of course, then other ILM hobbyhorses like Wiley and Dizzee Rascal and MIA all had massive hits, and it stopped looking like such a novelty. I still love the song though, and its clunkiness works in its favour like a lot of the best Hot Chip songs. When they don't work, however, they can be awful, but the feeling that they're stumbling across great pop as much by accident as design, that the wheels could just come off at any point, comedy clown car style, is part of their appeal.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
15 - MGMT - Electric Feel151 points, 12 votes(2 votes, 27.5 points for Aeroplane Remix)18 in P&J
Aeroplane Remix
"electric feel" reminds me of something from the first two PRINCE albums, but with more production. I love when it comes on in the car.― nicky lo-fi
electric feel is the type of song prince would have written for the family (screams of passion) or shiela e or someone in the mid 80s.― titchyschneiderMk2
― miss precious perfect (musically), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
btw idk how you guys are tripping off the beat - it's got a great bounce to it
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah it's a great pop song, the vocals are what make it anyway
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"electric feel" = awesome. I don't really get their other songs but thats a great one.
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
The bounce is more in the synths and the bass than the beat though, they're what carry the song, the beat is almost an afterthought.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
(Sorry, I'm still on Hot Chip, meh to MGMT. Although the Aeroplane remix of Electric Feel is great, just transforms it texturally and harmonically).
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
well i guess i consider the synth and bass part of the 'beat' - but yeah i mean the synth pattern that comes in a minute in or whatever and powers the whole song
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
MehGMT
I still think Electric Feel is amazing. Shame about most of the album.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"electric feel" is a great disco ballad, str8 up
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:15 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I don't like the vocals either tho. :-/ Dude sounds so meek. I guess one thing about the two Hot Chip songs I've heard that I do like ("Playboy and "Shake a Fist") is that he parlays this meekness into sounding kind of spooked.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the meekness is the point and the attraction though - i mean the vocals are supposed to sound soft and vulnerable. i couldn't really imagine a more 'strong' voice singing hot chip songs
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
he's no Jonathan Richman.
― (a mess0 (Ioannis), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
man i had not taken MGMT seriously but both the songs that placed in the poll totally rule.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"Electric Feel" still sounds like an outtake from Midnite Vultures to me. I understand the Prince touchstones, but it doesn't swing at all.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
but it doesn't swing at all
Yes, exactly. 'Electric Feel' is really plodding and crude-sounding. I can't stand the singer's manner either, or maybe I just don't like his face.
― dubmill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
what does 'swinging' have to do with it - it's obviously supposed to move vertically not horizontally
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
by which i mean that i think it's supposed to be a lighters up anthem with a great bassline not some like sweaty dance workout
"Electric Feel" is the least of the three singles to come from the album, but still cool...I guess. "Kids" is my favorite of the three, though, so what the hell do I know.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i guess i don't think electric feel is trying to swing and i think hot chip is.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
man i had not taken MGMT seriously but both the songs that placed in the poll totally rule
yeah, me too
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe I just don't like his face
im going to use this as my defense as much as possible from now on.
"why don't you like joy division???""maybe i just don't like his face...ever think of that?"
also, agree that electric feel doesn't swing, ergo is somewhat useless. time to pretend was my no 1, and i don't think i picked any other mgmt tunes.
― rent, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
the vocals are supposed to sound soft and vulnerable (re. Hot Chip)
That's as may be, but to me it's more feeble and wimpy. I can't stand the beat either (as previously referred to). I keep thinking the proper beat is going to come in, but it doesn't. Not that I want some great big dance beat to come in, but something a bit more solid.
― dubmill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess the way it's constructed is intentional but I just don't like the rhythmic effect. It sounds leaden too me. No bounce.
― dubmill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i guess how it could be seen as leaden, but i think that just means your misconstruing the intent of the song. like i said i think it's basically a ballad - you don't dance to ballads. unless you're slow dancing, and i think you could slow dance to "electric feel"
also i think the bassline is pretty bouncy
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
It doesn't come across as a ballad (not the song but the arrangement). It's got this big heavy downbeat, 4 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.
― dubmill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
good for walking and high-fivin
― rent, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't "Electric Feel" around 100 bpm? A bit fast for a ballad, and the drums almost play a march. Beck doing "Road To Nowhere".
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
14 - Aeroplane feat. Kathy Diamond - Whispers158 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote240 in P&J, 31 in p4k
What I love about them as original producers - the sense that on every single occasion they're consciously trying to make the most enjoyable record imaginable. And their ability to mix pop-disco and e-transcendence and that sense of wide-eyed wonder without ever really coming over as twee or cloying or annoying. Whispers is my favourite single of this year by several light years.-Matt DC
― miss precious perfect (musically), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow! I'd never heard that Aeroplane track. Really, really good. Well done everybody else!
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
best song on the list so far
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that's very good. Lovely-looking video as well
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Hadn't heard this before tonight, may well have voted for it if I had. Based on their remixes for Friendly Fires and Grace Jones and this I think they'll have one of the albums of 2009 when it's released in the Autumn.
― Shallow Gravy (Billy Dods), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
It's got this big heavy downbeat, 4 beats to the bar feel to it, which is what I don't like.
― dubmill, Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:59 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Sry for pedantry, but most of the song is in 6/4 time.
― the Nigga who killed reggaeton (The Reverend), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
That was my #1 - I thought it might actually sneak into the Top 10 if the right people voted it high enough, but 14 isn't too bad at all :)
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
(Got a feeling the Friendly Fires song might be propelled quite high by a combination of original votes and remix votes, people seemed to keep nominating the remix at any rate)
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Not so nuts about the Aeroplane there, the vox don't do a lot for me. She's no Roisin Murphy is she?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Well no she's not on Roisin's level, but she's a pretty good vocalist... you should check out her album Miss Diamond To You lots of great production by Maurice Fulton.
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link