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

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

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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.

ah i got wind of this in the voting thread
vocals are perfect

amazing track. so glad it placed. i didn't even know about it until i had already submitted a ballot!

I think we were discussing whether the Seany Mac song wd place or not in outloud last night

Diggin this, hadn't heard it before. I have an enormous weak spot for this bassline type stuff, though.

I considered voting for "One Of These Days" but cut it at the last minute because it felt unfair to what I was actually listening to this year

'we were discussing' = rev & brainwasher & maybe EZ, whilst me & Turrican are typing "C'mown!" intermittently

xp to myself

Yeah, but DJP, lots of people have said they have enjoyed the song on first listen. I'd see the statement you're responding to more akin to the discussion about Kate Bush's career than what you're saying.

(Also, you don't have to reiterate that you like screaming vocals, but what I was responding to was your very limiting list of when you think they work.)

Jeez, I'm not even a Fucked Up fan, why am I trying to defend this so much?

Admittedly I hate a lot of late-'90s/2000s punk/hardcore singing styles - just hate the snotty, bratty Blink 182-ish intonation, but I def don't hate the FU style, and I don't really understand what DJP is saying about Damian's vocal being weak or buried or even off-tune...? That opening salvo of a line: "Sun rises above the factory but the rays don’t make it to the street" has such great delivery in itself - and the music goes really well with that image too; cF: the searing sunray guitars on the breakdown etc..

Don't quite share the ILM mad love for Seany Mac but I'm happy to see it here.

Really loving the last two songs; wish I would have heard them before I voted!

needing to understand a band's entire career to enjoy a song is a pretty high barrier to entry.

Eh, thats not the point I was trying to make, but I'm distracted by about four different things right now so thats my fault. I think his voice is just fine and in no way disrespectful to his instrument.

OMG this seany mac track is amazing, i'd never even heard of it before! omg that house piano, it's kind of like the sweet summer sister of "full attention"

i got fussed at for this before but the fucked up dude sounds like the mighty mighty bosstones guy. which may be while people don't like his voice.

yeah seany mac was number one... me and alex in mtl were freaking out over it after it popped up in that physical therapy mix -- it's really, intensely amazing

'we were discussing' = rev & brainwasher & maybe EZ, whilst me & Turrican are typing "C'mown!" intermittently

Mainly Rev & brainwasher, with me nodding sagely while you two drove Rev & brainwasher nuts.

xpost to D.A.M.

Damn, this Seany Mac song is nice!

yes, love the seany mac track

I don't think it matters if a track is not from 2011 since it is relatively unknown and there is a groundswell of support for it

smh at none of you telling me about it j0rdan/alex/brainwasher

off tune = the monotone of Damian's vocals functions as a drone within the song and manages to maintain a certain consistency throughout it (except for when the girl starts singing; the drone reveals itself in its absence)

Damian isn't Lou Reed (let alone Lennon or Dylan); he is John Cale