ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

I thought "This Life" was the automatic charmer

Yeah but you also haunt the metal threads, Brad.

I don't think it's any better or any worse than VW's usual fare.

Now I want to hear them do XTRMNTR.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Begging for a Keving Shields remix tbf

This is a pretty pop song about death, pretty pop songs about death are good, what's so hard about this

A Vampire Arkestra would be kind of cool, actually.

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I don't mind this song, actually. Enjoyed hearing it on the radio. Idg what makes it worse than other VW? I didn't vote for it, though, and tbh barely voted in the tracks poll at all.

Early VW had quirks and took unexpected turns, plus spent a lot more time incorporating flourishes that hinted at a wider world music appreciation that they used to give their songs a distinctive sound/style. They then jettisoned all of that and became Another Boring Band With An Okay Guitarist.

Now I want to hear them do XTRMNTR.

― pomenitul,

Wonder if Ezra is a better rapper than Bobby?

I think the Primal Scream piano would feel like a boring cliche if that were all that were there but I really like the back-and-forth between that and the little finger-pick guitar move. (Then again you could argue that some of the best Primal Scream itself was built on the alternation between the house piano and big acoustic guitar moves.)

quite likely!

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YOU AIN'T NOTHING, YOU GOT NOTHING TO SAY

Harmony Hall is more Paul Simon, This Life is more Fleetwood Mac. I went with Paul.

I liked Vampire Weekend for a while, but just can't muster excitement for them anymore.

This has certainly stuck with me more than "This Life" or anything else on the record; I have put this on by itself on purpose many more times than I've sat down to listen to the whole album.

and now I imagined Ezra covering "Liquid Swordz"

Tbph I don't hate VW, I just think it's fun to pick on them.

This is the second one in the poll I've heard before (after Vossi Bop). I went to get some supplies and we went past a grassy area outside City Hall and there were some people doing what I later found out is called Buttigiegaerobics. It is the closest I have ever come to calling the police

also:

ezra is beautiful

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:58 PM

sarge otm

From cultural appropriation to 'Fake niggas get flipped'.

"Primal Scream is too threatening and too old; can you fix that for me?"

Rapsody going with D'Angelo instead was probably a good choice.

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lol DJP tour description of earlier VW is precisely how I'd describe Father Of The Bride. We're hearing different albums entirely it seems.

FOTB is by far their quirkiest, most flourishy, most 'wider world' of what they've done so far. Don't get me wrong, I like the previous three but they're quite narrow and 'indie rock' compared to this one which is a whole world of styles

tbh I outplayed Harmony Hall and This Life and think the two 90 second tracks on the album are now my favorites but still voted for Harmony Hall bc I figured that's where the most votes would be.

FOTB is by far their quirkiest, most flourishy, most 'wider world' of what they've done so far.

*once again aggressively indicates contra*

anyways, on to something completely different

http://i.imgur.com/S9KSYDd.jpg
24: Rosalía and J Balvin featuring El Guincho – “Con Altura” – 324 points – 11 votes – 1 #1 vote

YouTube Video (1.2 BILLION views)

Rosalía (Post-Flamenco Art-Pop From Spain)

Singles Jukebox

YEAH

fotb = fall out the boy

Seriously dog latin, go back and listen to Contra again

Contra is a comparatively straightforward indie rock album (with great songs on it ofc) against Father

xps ooh I didn't know there was an El Guincho connection there, cool

hey con altura is a song i voted for

I like this one better than 'Aute cuture', but it's not something I'll be coming back to.

the catchiest shit in the universe

This has become a staple of Lyft drivers in Miami.

I love it.

there was a time in August when I'd order a Lyft vehicle to hear "Con Altura."

j/k

Didn't vote for it but 'Con Altura' is great. Also love that it has El Guincho on it, as I have very fond memories of dancing like a loon to his set at Primavera like a decade ago.

My #1. Nothing earwormier this year.

I'd argue that FOTB is p much a back-to-back assemblage of weird quirks and flourishes.

The opening track alone, a country duet based on a time stretched Maori wedding chant from Thin Red Line played as though the guitarist is reading from a tab book and having to flip the page over every couple of verses...

Anyway. Enough VW chat

El Guincho! looking forward to hearing this

I'll relisten to early VW, maybe. I think my lazy and hasty impression at the time was of a less-competent Police but it was a lazy and hasty impression. This song at least has memorable hooks. I tend to agree with Guyaquil about the piano/guitar on "Harmony Hall".

the el guincho connect is why i gave "con altura" additional listens and it ended up growing on me.

i would never have imagined that, in 2020, a song produced by el guincho would have a billion plus youtube plays

(late pass but this donato dozzy is dope)

The opening track alone, a country duet based on a time stretched Maori wedding chant from Thin Red Line played as though the guitarist is reading from a tab book and having to flip the page over every couple of verses...

You mean the one with the verses that sound like Green Day's "Time of Your Life"?

hey, it's something unpredictable

a time stretched Maori wedding chant

tbf this is the coolest part of the track. but i get nothing out of the song they built around it

also yes this is enough vw talk lol

whereas the percussion in "Horchata" is integral to the song and ties the whole thing together

BRAD ONE CAN NEVER TALK ENOUGH SHIT ABOUT CURRENT VAMPIRE WEEKEND, IT IS A BLOODSPORT

xxp hm... maybe it had personal resonance to me as I was listening to it just before being told my brother had canceled his wedding