ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2011 (Los resultados!)

Seriously, if the vocals are the dealbreaker for many of you, try the second youtube linked up there. It's got kids!

On second listen I do actually f/w this. Probably would have been obsessed with it when I was 15.

I did my time with hardcore and can't say I want to go back there, even for good tunes.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:00 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No I don't want to act like a big h/c stan, I don't really rep for the genre (even though I was bigging up Weekend Nachos on that other thread) - but take out the vocals and Queen Of Hearts is a proper pop song. It's the vocals that trick you into thinking it's this big hoary angry track, but it's a love song essentially, and a sweet one at that.

The female vocals in the song are done by the girl from Cults, right?

Tbh, I'm not much of a fan of hardcore-style singing -- I like Fucked Up mostly for the melodic intertwining guitars.

I mean, despite my rep it's not like I am averse to songs with people screaming on them; this is one of my favorite songs of all time.

(although note that he's actually screaming on notes)

It's actually like Andrew WK rather than Blink 182 but that's hardl going to convince Lex.

aghhhh i hate andrew wk so much

lol @ all reactions to this track

Couldn't make out a word, but from transcribed lyrics, I kinda wonder if Fucked Up is going to follow the Crass path or the Chumbawamba path...

http://i.imgur.com/ZyezR.jpg

32 - TERROR DANJAH ft. RUBY LEE RYDER "Full Attention" (282 Points, 11 Votes)
P&J - 343
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/Y3GXcPyiWa8

I did my time with hardcore and can't say I want to go back there, even for good tunes.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:00 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No I don't want to act like a big h/c stan, I don't really rep for the genre (even though I was bigging up Weekend Nachos on that other thread) - but take out the vocals and Queen Of Hearts is a proper pop song. It's the vocals that trick you into thinking it's this big hoary angry track, but it's a love song essentially, and a sweet one at that.

I agree! That's why I said first that I like the song itself, and I like their songwriting in general quite a bit. I've had a problem with his vocals for years because of the hardcore associations with that style of singing.

TUNE!

YESSSSS now this is amazing. ruby lee ryder's voice <3

My only moan about FU (and the album in general) is that they went to all that work to make a concept album with a story and setting, and yet all the lyrics are basically indecipherable and all the songs are, well not "the same" but samey - there's no relief or release through the whole record and much as I can enjoy one/two songs max, I can't listen to a whole 70 mins.

yes yes yes yes yes yes

My #6, and another one I'd never have heard if it didn't have its own ILM thread.

ah woweeee
great shout

needs more fucked up vocals

i forgot to vote for it, but this song is the shit

Voted for this too! Yay! My number #8. So it's a decent tune - big bass sound but not too wobblecore. Singing is cool as well. Just generally like it.

i heard this somewhere but i don't remember where. maybe in a thread i was lurking? in any case it is niiiice so i'm glad it has been brought to my (full) attn again

Yeah! Full Attention! Glad it placed so highly.

Love the Fucked Up album, voted for this song,(my first pick to hit the list) but I get how the vocal might grate to those not into hardcore and such. By the end of the album I'm tired of it. His vocals remind of Sick Of It All.

needs more fucked up vocals

― nathey, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:10 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha, I can actually hear Fucked Up covering this in my head.

I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION!!!!

If he was attempting to scream on pitches, that alone would make it much much more listenable to me; as it stands, the beginning of that Fucked Up song is like listening to the "WAKE ME UP!" part of Evanescense's "Bring Me To Life" looped for two minutes.

It's not even the vocal quality as much as it is the full-on contempt for the voice as a musical instrument, really.

"Full Attention" coming in after this is kind of hilarious and yeah, actually I think dude's vocals could work really well on a track like this.

nice! was worried about this one when 3 people mentioned forgetting to vote for it on the voting thread

Good job ILX bringing this to my attention. Lots more detail in the programming than I'm used to from UK post-d'n'b. It could be from 1996, but with deeper sonics.

Is there a thread drawing attn to this sort of thing about?

It's not even the vocal quality as much as it is the full-on contempt for the voice as a musical instrument, really.

Or using it in a way that you don't approve of. If I make a track by hitting a de-tuned piano with a brick, that isn't me displaying contempt for the piano as an instrument, it's me using it in a way you don't.

I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION

I JUST WANT YOUR FULL ATTENTION

xp
for me, this track wouldn't work with shouty man vocals, the aggression in the production is balanced with the vocals. too much aggression would be ... too much

song is demanding

I totally dug "Full Attention"; I had never checked out the thread, so this was my first time hearing it

It didn't grab my attention on the longlist, but I wrote in and changed my vote.

i really need to start clicking on threads with capslock names, i kinda glaze over them in SNA a lot because i assume theyre joke threads or from ITR or something

lol i guess that thread might be where i heard it

Definitely a track that deserved its own hype thread.

have to say the lines FAST LANE, SWITCHIN LANES from the Friday rapper give me more joy than all of watch the throne

Hm. It's okay, but I'm not getting the mad love for it. xpost

Jamie OTM

haha

Or using it in a way that you don't approve of. If I make a track by hitting a de-tuned piano with a brick, that isn't me displaying contempt for the piano as an instrument, it's me using it in a way you don't.

As one of the board's biggest industrial heads, I do not buy that argument.

I accept that there's an aesthetic here that I don't like, but that aesthetic is not the one that everyone likes to ascribe to me. I like a ton of music with screamed/distorted vocals; I don't think this Fucked Up song works in the slightest. You have a dude shouting in an intelligible monotone that has no musical relation to the music underneath him with a level of aggression wholly out of step with the character of the music and mixed so low that half the power of his shouting isn't even present; at that point, why even bother screaming? What's he adding to the song?

I absolutely understand the mad love, and would have voted for this if I'd heard it before (10 minutes ago). So much action going on under the vocals, it puts me into the same sort of trance as Omni Trio in their heyday. Take me up.

http://i.imgur.com/F1RNH.jpg

31 - SEANY MAC "One of Those Days (Organ Mix)" (288 Points, 7 Votes, 2 First-Place Votes)
P&J - DNP
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/03j7VD5Hw_U

This guy is hard to find photos of, especially when there are currently 4 working artists known as Seany Mac. Also, this is from 2009...but whatevs.

why even bother screaming? What's he adding to the song?

But this approach acts as if that hasn't been the way he's been singing for countless albums, EPs, and 7" singles at this point. Thats his thing. The interesting evolution with FU, imho, is how the backing has evolved from hardcore punk singles to sprawling epics to this poppy concept album with Damian's voice the connecting link. It makes way more sense w/in the context of the band's larger career I think.

the Friday Rapper is quite a good stage name

xp Yeah, the beat goes so hard and RLR sings so beautifully, but still everything fits together. Some parallels with the Fucked Up song in a way.

better than Pato (apologies KBP)

But this approach acts as if that hasn't been the way he's been singing for countless albums, EPs, and 7" singles at this point. Thats his thing. The interesting evolution with FU, imho, is how the backing has evolved from hardcore punk singles to sprawling epics to this poppy concept album with Damian's voice the connecting link. It makes way more sense w/in the context of the band's larger career I think.

That kind of reinforces my opinion that it's a failure as a standalone song, frankly; needing to understand a band's entire career to enjoy a song is a pretty high barrier to entry.