ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

I think hating both her lyrics and her persona are pretty tightly coupled for a lot of people, myself included

I think we're agreeing in different words.

anyway we can resume this when "The Greatest" shows up.

Need a technological reference, an incongruous swear word, a location in LA, wistful memories of summer, and a famous person name drop to truly achieve LDR bingo

To move on to something else, I am not at all into Big Thief

"Killin Dem" is great and I wish Zlatan and Burna Boy were actually killing Vampire Weekend

lol DJP

two hands might be more your speed than ufof

xp

the other Big Thief song that's going to place (assuming it's the only one) is much better than Cattails imo

Is that LDR song about Siri because idgi

Siri Plath

Sorry, Siri Fucking Plath!!!

oh god yeah, aligning yourself with Plath!! i'm currently reading The Bell Jar and i mean...LDR has felt none of those things, ever

Raphael Saddiq is great but I also feel like I have used up my lifetime allotment of Raphael Saddiq Appreciation and I don't really ever need to hear anything else by him

Is that an appeal to authenticity? If so, please carry on.

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LDR has felt none of those things, ever

unlike me who would very much like to locate the nearest operational oven when I read this sentence

Holly Herndon sounds like what I expected Grimes to sound like

(this is a good thing, Grimes is mostly boring)

I don't understand how anyone can listen to LDR and not realize her tongue is firmly planted in her cheek at all times. Like, do we really think she sees herself as a modern day Sylvia Plath, c'mon.

I would like to like Normani more than I do. She is okay.

xp: I don't mind tongue-in-cheek at all; I do mind super fucking boring though

She doesn't actually think she's Plath but the namedrop connotes a certain superficial cool that I just can get enough of

So basically yeah, I'm with DJP here

"24/7 sylvia plath" is a terrible lyric bc sylvia plath was already 24/7 sylvia plath. her writing is full of filler words

LDR has felt none of those things, ever

oh shut up

anyway i think we've talked about ldr enough for this rollout

"24/7 sylvia plath" is a terrible lyric bc sylvia plath was already 24/7 sylvia plath. her writing is full of filler words

― american bradass (BradNelson)

LDR's too.

that zinger doesn't work bc i'm very familiar with plath's prose

To move on to something else, I am not at all into Big Thief

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP),

I resisted until October; it took a couple years of intermittent listening to understand what Lenker does with her voice. And the band's tight. This isn't usually my thing.

Her prose is worse!

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anyway I like a half dozen Plath poems. She was still an artist in the middle of development, unlike LDR.

i'm actually no longer sure what you're talking about alfred. plath's poetry is def better than her prose, both are several orders above the lyrics of lana del rey

uhh wow xp

and plath's prose was pretty pared down. you cannot refract my "filler words" criticism back on her xp

Listening to Starry Night again and realising that what it’s been subconsciously reminding me of this whole time is Daddy Cool by Boney M

now convinced she threw in the line just to tear this community in half.....truly an evil genius

lol sold xp

Great work so far Moka and poll runners. I mean, other than the fact ILM voted for completely the wrong tracks, this is a great poll.

I love that Vampire Weekend song. I love the whole album. it's been a nice little companion to me since just before Christmas when I woke up horrifically hungover and listened to it in bed one morning.
I love the opening lyric especially. And the bit where they apply a tremolo effect to Haim's voice on the 'cheating on cheating on you' part.
I just find this album's uncool floridness and exuberance of melody appealing.

I really hope Cattails doesn't become the Big Thief song that puts people off listening to them.
It's just a bit nothingy and I'm not keen on the stilted vibe. A sideways donkey of a song.
But yes, if anyone's interested I'd say get into the Capacity album first before their others.
I wasn't too into UFOF at first. It felt vaporous and took a while to really dig in. Now I love it of course.

Great to see Dumebi place. A real salve of a song that pleases my heart. Actually not heard a lot of the afro-pop/SA House tunes mentioned by breastcrawl and longneck upthread. funny what passes you by

I resent LDR even more for foisting this comparison upon us.

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Listening to Starry Night again and realising that what it’s been subconsciously reminding me of this whole time is Daddy Cool by Boney M

― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:53 PM (forty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

more posts like this thanks

I only got as far as Donato Dozzy in the playlist and that was v v much the wrong kind of monotonous for me

You’re crazy like a fool

Xp

surely LDR also has a song called Daddy Cool by now

Dozzy def my fave Bobbins so far

Clairo is pleasant

Still following from behind (how do you guys manage to listen to a 47-minute* track within a 14-minute frame?), but I can see the LDR convo overwhelming everything else even from here.

*It’s only 34 minutes on forks’s Spotify playlist!

dozzy track is a cool italian version of its grim up north

and plath's prose was pretty pared down. you cannot refract my "filler words" criticism back on her xp

― american bradass (BradNelson),

have you tried her magazine fiction? I agree if you mean The Bell Jar/

i mean the bell jar and no way am i reading her magazine fiction it's 2020

I wonder if Boney M at their peak would've made an ILM list if ILM had existed.