ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2019

Happy to see ILM put some respeck on Busy's name. After all, he IS the most talented non-incarcerated living artist from Jamaica.

Here's the full thread of Moka's images: https://imgur.com/a/kuhNrFM

Astounding work, as has been noted. One small proofreading note, because such things jump out at me: Stormzy's #35 still says "Vop" for "Bop".

imago comparing [redacted pile of shite] to R Wyatt last night has left me in a black hole of depression and bereft of hope for the future of humanity. I didn't fp because I wouldn't have known how to stop :p

How about Robin Williamson?

I'm only familiar with the one from Take That! this is where I get fp'ed.

You said it, not me!

blasting out Cuckooland today and almost in tears at points.

not listened to it for years. Forest absolutely slays me.

hate D Gilmour/Pink Floyd with a passion and even his solo doesn't ruin it.

to his credit, dave gilmour was known to enjoy a balloon

and what year did 'animals' come out? 77

How about Robin Williamson?

― pomenitul, Friday, 31 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Lol no way!

I was deliberately rubbing salt in the wound so at least it worked on someone.

Btw I don't know if you've ever heard Robin Williamson, lj, but as an admirer of Northern (broadly speaking) bards, it would be remiss of you to praise Dawson whilst ignoring Williamson.

Lol ok Pom.

Don't think I've ever heard a solo album of his. I do appreciate the first three ISB albums though.

What's that supposed to mean, alphie?

That was to "deliberately rubbing salt in the wound", which is a weird thing to say. I wouldn't go as far as Calzino but it's pitiful for anyone to be hearing Robert Wyatt in this thing (I'm not even a huge fan of Wyatt or anything).

It was a joke, as I find calz's indignant reactions to Dawson's quite witty and amusing and hence worthy of being prodded on.

Anyway, I maintain that Nothing Important is an excellent album even though I've been unable to thoroughly enjoy his other material.

*Dawson's music

Just shared Balloon on my FB and my dancehall nerd friends are all 'whoa I never heard this!'

I wouldn't go as far as Calzino but it's pitiful for anyone to be hearing Robert Wyatt in this thing (I'm not even a huge fan of Wyatt or anything).

― xyzzzz__, Friday, January 31, 2020 12:41 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wasn't lj just saying he was the most lefty bard since Wyatt?

here's my favourite Busy Signal tune that isn't Balloon

https://youtu.be/3gFOOynqz8Y

Total fucking lol if an anti-jogging song (if that is what it was I left it on but was totally uninterested) is on a level to something like Shipbuilding xp

it confounds me that people don't get the appeal of Jogging. I can imagine not liking it, but to miss the point entirely takes some doing.

think it generally helps to listen to his songs whilst watching the videos at the same time though. the vid for Jogging really slammed it home. I've cried a couple of times to that song and it's always on the line 'there's no such thing as a quick fix' which sums the whole thing up in such a poignant way it destroys me

it's not an anti-jogging song,jfc

(I'm not even a huge fan of Wyatt or anything).

― xyzzzz__, Friday, January 31, 2020 4:41 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

stop posting and ban yourself somehow, for fucks sake

I think, with it placing at #3, a lot of people do get it DL. Comrade just has a bone to pick w/ LJ, and Calz is in it for the lulz (which is fine).

Lol Brad chill out. It's not going to happen.

dawson is a great songwriter but the plodding arrangement of "jogging" kills it for me, the riffage, strings & vocoder end up reminding me of muse of all things and his voice really doesn't work with the rest of it. it's fine though, i still have peasant to go back to which is a masterpiece

Wyatt is so deeply politicised it seeps through all his lyrics, often in sad beautiful unexpected ways, he's not fucking Billy Bragg. The song I was drivelling on about upthread is about the Roma genocide for example. This Dawson lad seems to be about facile attempts at social commentary to me, like fucking them silly cunts with the Jobseekers Allowance song!

Here's the full thread of Moka's images: https://imgur.com/a/kuhNrFM

Astounding work, as has been noted. One small proofreading note, because such things jump out at me: Stormzy's #35 still says "Vop" for "Bop".

And the artist name in #12 is "Big Thief" when it should be Octo Octa.

think, with it placing at #3, a lot of people do get it DL. Comrade just has a bone to pick w/ LJ, and Calz is in it for the lulz (which is fine).

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 31 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

LJs defence is non-starter but I don't like it because he hates it. The music was so bad it stopped me listening to whatever is good in it. At the moment it's appeal is the novelty of the persona, the first couple of lines from the lyrics, but no.3?!

If I was going to be fair, which is boring, I'd have sympathy for what ufo kinda said, in that Dawson seemed like he might have been doing something interesting and personal a couple of years back but has chosen to move in a terrible boring direction thru the urge to make statements and engage with indie rock

And novelty can go a long way but I think ppl care more about this than 100 gecs

I'm gonna bet the arrangement on 'Jogging' is a sardonic play on 'Eye Of The Tiger'

I much prefer Peasant too but I find Jogging to have a particularly idiosyncratic take on what indie rock (and yeah, it is an indie rock heelturn, his previous stuff was mad avant-psych-folk pop) should sound like. It's unique and I think it works, albeit not quite in the same outright magical way as the older stuff before he broke his guitar and had to rethink. This is more direct and anthemic (while still spry in its overall structure - see that extended bridge). For urgent times.

Yeah urgent times, we're leaving the EU today

Total fucking lol if an anti-jogging song (if that is what it was I left it on but was totally uninterested) is on a level to something like Shipbuilding xp

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 January 2020 11:51 (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

There's a Kurdish family on the ground floor
Had a brick put through their kitchen window
The police know who did this, still they do nothing
It's lonely up here in Middle-England

please leave the boards

Honestly that lyric is too on the nose and straight ahead to be particularly good regardless of the sentiments.

Is that a Cranberries song?

It's like slam poetry and...no.

I mean it's not teeth grindingly awful like the Belle and Sebastian lyric about the Asian taxi driver but still.

it follows a lengthy instrumental bridge with the most direct and pointed observation of the song, I think it works as a sock to the jaw. Ensuing chorus where he talks about the atmosphere round here growing nastier puts the whole lyric into context. yes we're leaving the EU today. this is how it's going to be

To be fair the lyric works much better in the context of the song than it does on its own.

https://genius.com/Richard-dawson-jogging-lyrics

Believe it is "in character" as he does not seem to be a graphic designer

Dawson’s single “Problem Child” as part of Hen Ogledd was one of my favorite singles of the last few years. Made me think of early solo Peter Gabriel.

Honestly that lyric is too on the nose and straight ahead to be particularly good regardless of the sentiments.

― Matt DC, Friday, January 31, 2020 12:32 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

As CaAL says, coming in about 3/4s of the way through the song, the verse works a lot better in context.

a sock to the jaw, fellas

stop posting and ban yourself somehow, for fucks sake

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, January 31, 2020 12:56 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, the song is more of a character piece and the lyrics should be viewed in that context.

Amazing how some people feel emotionally affected by music I am not personally interested in, it must be due to some sort of moral weakness