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
destroyer video should be a zine imo
― gr8080, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
oh glutes is really good
― marcos, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
TS: "Glutes" vs. Bicep
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
Glutes vs Glue.
(Judging by the list so far Bicep are definitely turning up at some point unless there's been mad vote splitting)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
I voted for the other Bicep track iirc. Sorry.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Way prefer Bicep to 'Glutes', though, if we're doing anatomical music comparisons. 'Glutes' is nice but it doesn't do anything to make itself stand out to me.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
I ended voting for the other nominated destroyer track. This one very good too though. I think the album is great, though not up there with his best.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Feel like I need to do the obligatory *yawn* at Destroyer, but tbh I can't even be arsed to do that. ILM gonna ILM.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Ken Destroyer sure loves the 1980s!
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
ILM gonna ILM.
I came sooooo close to prefacing the post with that, but deleted it at the last moment. Thankful 4 U.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
"truth" is a fantastic piece of music
― marcos, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
glutes didn't really do a lot for me, but patrick baumel totally reminded me that i never did read that other jerome k jerome book
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
i love destroyer but nothing from him this year came close to making my ballots
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/T5OaSol.jpg
47 DUA LIPA ft. MIGUEL "Lost In Your Light" [179 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes] https://youtu.be/r-AuLm7S3XE
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Yay, L'Rain! My #4! Literally the last change to my ballot befire sending it in Friday, what a great, origunal song!
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
wow 2 number ones, i should probably listen to this one
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
this was an ok miguel track but didn't really strike me as anything special
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
I voted for it (but I'm not one of the number ones). It's grebt.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
my no. 1
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
It's basically half the tracks from the first Miguel album mashed into one new song.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
I loved Lost In Your Light so much when I first heard it that both artists' subsequent albums felt like a letdown, then promptly forgot to vote for it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link