ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

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Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Scott <3

hmmm, true. but I view Zebra/Njena's relationship as less adversarial and more like wolves circling in on their prey.

yeah they're obviously allies against the song's object

I voted for this - haven't actually got my head around the album yet and settled for the lead track.

I really can't get into Scott Walker, what am I missing, where do I begin?

ooh, that reminds me of another amazing thing about "Ima Read"! how the way the voices circle around the stereo field contributes to that effect

What mix is this? It isn't the version on the Spotify playlist.

xp begin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZkU11CxNds

Well, when you say you can't get into "Scott Walker", do you mean the stuff he's putting out now?

xp

yeah they're obviously allies against the song's object

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:44 PM Bookmark

if anything, they're competing to see who can better read said object (Njena wins, obv)

xps: oh never mind, just got to that section about 2:30 in; I'd turned it off before that point last time

Yessss Scotty!

walker started out normal and got weirder so just start at the beginning and stop when shit gets too weird for you

^^ Not a bad tactic, tbh.

Walker Brothers rule, also.

What mix is this? It isn't the version on the Spotify playlist.

― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:45 PM Bookmark

the standard version? i have no idea what's in the spotify playlist.

I have Scott 4 and The Drift, based on enthusiastic recommendations, but haven't made it past like two or three tracks from either :(

Maybe I just need to make some time for it...

that aspect's played up in the mikeq/b. ames mix tho xxp

man i really don't like nu-walker. i mean i'm glad he's doing his thing and being an old weirdo and getting shine for it, but i wish he'd do more straight-ahead anti-crooner orchestral stuff like old-walker: http://youtu.be/N-zgdGQB4S4

basically "Ima Read" comes across to me like a super lazy half-assed Green Velvet pastiche; it's okay and all (there's only so wrong you can go with that template) but there is nothing about it that makes me want to play it again

he's not for everyone, it's ok! i'm not a massive fan and don't really like the new album that much but i like a lot of his older stuff

yay scott!

surprised there aren't any big songs about throwing shade yet considering that term seems to be wayyyyyyy more used than reading around the internet

Maybe you just don't like it, MIko? It's okay, we won't put you in the stocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6YWDm0GSU

My girlfriend's reaction to Ty Dolla $ign:

― MikoMcha, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:34 PM Bookmark

tbf, that's Ty Dolla $ign's reaction to Ty Dolla $ign too

"The Electrician" was the rosetta stone for me finally getting into nu-Walker stuff.

haha this Scott Walker song is super amusing in the "is he really doing this?" sense; if I ever had the patience to really sit down with this, I could grow to love it but there's not an immediate hook for me beyond "this is awesome self-indulgence"

actually I take that back because around 2:30 when the horns come in this becomes hilarious in the "I want to play this again" way

surprised there aren't any big songs about throwing shade yet considering that term seems to be wayyyyyyy more used than reading around the internet

nicki and angel haze have used the term a couple of times iirc

i usually like latter-day weird scott walker, or at least i'm awed by tilt and the drift even if i never listen to them, but the new one didn't hit me in the same way for some reason

i always imagined the indie record was kid a for some reason

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:15 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

t swift was 10 years old when kid a came out

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:16 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

willow smith is even younger and her new song is basically just singing over a radiohead sample...i think radiohead has become a sort of cultural institution as "good weird music" for normals by now, like pink floyd used to be in the 80s and 90s for kids

i think the traces of humour creeping into the forbidding brutalist edifice are why i didn't like this scott w album, actually :(

the beginning of the scott walker song is pretty great. nice percussion but as soon as he opens his mouth it's all over. he should have tried an opera career then we wouldn't have to listen to his insufferable mannered voice here.

There's humour in Tilt and The Drift, too. I guess it's more overt here, though.

'Bish Bosch' grew quickly on me, pitch black evening winter commute headphone listening helped.

haha radiohead as the new pink floyd is a wonderful thought

he should have tried an opera career then we wouldn't have to listen to his insufferable mannered voice here.

― miesepeter (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:53 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You don't have to. Turn it off, and fuck off.

pink floyd >>>>>>>>>>> radiohead

as this Scott Walker track goes on, I feel like I'm listening to a really drunk person attempting to recreate the score for Cowboy Bebop

also I thought Radiohead as the new Pink Floyd was already a given

Maybe you just don't like it, MIko? It's okay, we won't put you in the stocks.

Oh I know, there's just a lot of people who I really respect that are into him, but I'm just a bit baffled really.

Liking 'When Joanna Loved Me' tho.

as this Scott Walker track goes on, I feel like I'm listening to a really drunk person attempting to recreate the score for Cowboy Bebop

lol

Tough choice between which is worse of the last two.

Fuck yeah Epizootics!

Real club banger

surprised there aren't any big songs about throwing shade yet considering that term seems to be wayyyyyyy more used than reading around the internet

nicki and angel haze have used the term a couple of times iirc

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:51 PM Bookmark

lil kim did (in a possibly biggie-penned verse?) in 96!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDoQ2wGT6-k

my point was that to someone born in 1989, radiohead is probably more oldies/classic rock than "indie," so the pink floyd comparison makes sense

latter-day scott is so goofy, idk

my point was that to someone born in 1989, radiohead is probably more oldies/classic rock than "indie," so the pink floyd comparison makes sense

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:56 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey thanks for finally saying what your point was!

http://i.imgur.com/nBD6DvU.jpg

26. ANGEL HAZE "Werkin' Girls" [335 points, 13 votes]

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hey thanks for finally saying what your point was!

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:57 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Great track.

never fell for this the way I did for 'new york' but more angel haze is only a good thing