This worked.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
Start the thread and stop worrying about whether or not anyone will respond. Plenty of old ILM threads had one or two responses and then snowballed.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
only part of this i like is the second verse with the synths & strings
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
This works for me today for whatever reason. Has never been a highlight of the album for me, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
i'm guessing "los ageless" will also place
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
New York was a huge grower for me. It seemed too slight for a lead single. Now I'd probably put it just behind Slow Disco as my favourite on the album. I love her in sad mode (Prince Johnny and I Prefer Your Love were my favourites on the self titled).
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Relieved it's not higher tbh, such a gloopy record.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
hey JF, I was the #1 voter for Isbell, thrilled that it placed.
In a year with a deep bench but few absolute stunners, "If We Were Vampires" truly stood out for me, just a devastating ballad with lyrics that walk right up to the edge of corniness, but sound so good over that guitar line that it transcends the concept of "corniness" altogether. Like JF said, the central conceit is, "If we were immortals, relationships wouldn't mean anything," but Isbell takes it a step further and says, "so what?" Maybe it's death that makes life meaningful, but when you're with your soulmate, 40 years together, or 50 years or 100 years, is far too short. Beautiful, beautiful song.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
I didn't get the appeal of this latest St Vincent album at all
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
You, EZ and I accounted for 136 of its points, so go us!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Oh wait, bad math. 146 of its points.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
high five
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
one day, one of you will be high fiving, and there won't be another high five there to meet it ;_;
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/itXADk7.jpg
50 PATRICE BÄUMEL "Glutes" [175 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote] https://youtu.be/Abjbg2HYz14
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:20 AM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what is the sound of one high five clapping
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
yessss glutes!!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Patrice Bäumel is a very handsome man.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
so he is!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
whose number 1 was it?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
mine!
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
this is lovely, blows up in a great way at the 4min mark
― nxd, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
yeah, it keeps getting better as it goes along
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
Glutes was the last song I cut from my ballot. Listening to it now and I'm not sure why I did.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
My tracks ballot was mixed, and Glutes was in the unranked portion. Not sure how many points that means I gave it, but some.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
I didn't vote so I suppose I shouldn't complain but aside from Kelela, Laurel Halo, Kedr Livanskiy and Charlotte Gainsbourg, thus far this list makes it seem like 2017 was an awful year for music.
You didn't like L'Rain at all, pomenitul? Only real reason I didn't give it a vote is that I only got to listen to the album more than a couple of times before I cast my ballot.
Simon H. OTM re St. Vincent album.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
"New York" was a late nomination for me, and I was surprised at the time that no one else had nominated it. So I'm definitely surprised that it made the list (I projected ahead of time that 2 songs I voted for would make it, and this wasn't one of them).
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
I like this
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
I voted for New York btw
glutes was a MAJOR last chance find on the nominations list so thanks for that.
i was also another voter for "if we were vampires." track is very maudlin but it hits me where i live.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
All 4 Isbell voters now accounted for. :)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kvd5deQ.jpg
49 KAMASI WASHINGTON "Truth" [176 points, 7 votes] https://youtu.be/rtW1S5EbHgU
I'm still digesting The Epic (live show from that year was great); never even listened to this.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
xp "it's knowing that this can't go on forever / likely one of us will have to spend some days alone / maybe we'll get forty years together / but one day I'll be gone / and one day you'll be gone" that run of lyrics, in the aftermath of my partner's father dying and seeing how her mother is coping with being a widower, really gets me where i live
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
one of my most-listened to tracks in 2017, voted for the album though
― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
i think i overdosed on stuff that sounded like "glutes" in 2006
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Truth is great, and towers over the rest of the ep imo. Second of my votes.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
didn't vote for the album but "Truth" was my number three. Fred otm, "Truth" is an overture, mashing together all the best individual moments of the album into a towering, soulful statement. it's more epic than any of the individual tracks on The Epic.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
as a longtime fan, it's been bugging me that I couldn't get into this St Vincent album and now I think I know why. There's a sort of arch egocentrism she's emanating on this record that wasn't there on previous albums.It's like the caricature of the reclusive playground nerd who, once she's realised that her quirkiness and smartness can be harnessed into something endearing, is now over-egging it, wearing dark glasses and smoking foreign cigarettes while dropping references about her cool life in the city to anyone who'll listen... The songs on this album force you to hear them from her personal point of view whether you want to or not, and it feels a bit like being cornered at a party by a cokehead who insists on telling you all about a bunch of people you've never met and have no interest in.
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
that's how I respond to her other records!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
didn't really feel that Truth was any different from stuff on The Epic, a fine album that could easily have been filtered down into just 12 good songs
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
You didn't like L'Rain at all, pomenitul? Only real reason I didn't give it a vote is that I only got to listen to the album more than a couple of times before I cast my ballot.― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, January 23, 2018
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Based on a cursory listen, I did like it better than most of the other picks but further listening is required so I'll be sure to check out the album as a whole.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RaztCs6.jpg
48 DESTROYER "Tinseltown Swimming In Blood" [177 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote] https://youtu.be/h-N6jfO5NOQ
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
Tinseltown is one of the good songs on one of the year's most disappointing records.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
dig the marker-inspired video
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
kitchen person otm
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
tune *really* reminds me of something else, can't think what. do like it though, that understated vocal suits it pretty well
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:45 (yesterday)
Re 'Nightwork' it does remind me of Whitney Houston's 'It's Not Right But It's OK' due to its very similar staccato melodic pattern.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Heh. I nominated this at the last minute but never voted for it.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
saw Destroyer live on Saturday and it was amazing, this song rules
― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
mama "unmask me" is so good, wow. tbh maybe the only one today that has caught me
― marcos, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
The video is great (I love hair shearing videos.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 10:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i do too