poll: barack obama's favorite tracks of 2018

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because we did it for 2017/because whoever puts this together at least assembled a non-consensus list

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel	7
Prince - Mary Don't You Weep (1983 Piano & A Microphone version)	4
Kurt Vile - One Trick Ponies	3
The Carters - Apeshit	2
BJ the Chicago Kid - Turnin' Me Up	2
Khalid & Normani - Love Lies	2
Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny and J Balvin - I Like It	2
Jupiter & Okwess - Ekombe	2
Ashley McBryde - Girl Goin' Nowhere	1
Courtney Barnett - Need A Little Time	1
H.E.R. ft. Bryson Tiller - Could've Been	1
Brandi Carlile - Every Time I Hear That Song	1
Tom Misch ft. Poppy Ajudha - Disco Yes	1
Tonina ft. Javier Limón and Tali Rubinstein - Historia De Un Amor	0
Leon Bridges - Bad Bad News	0
Lord Huron - Wait By The River	0
Fatoumata Diawara - Nterini	0
Hozier ft. Mavis Staples - Nina Cried Power	0
Chance the Rapper ft. Joey Purp - My Own Thing	0
Anderson East - King For A Day	0
J. Cole - Kevin's Heart	0
Jay Rock ft. Kendrick Lamar - Wow Freestyle	0

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link

warcriminal mixtape

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link

Drone Rock

― buzza, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link

"Make Me Feel," even if I don't quite get how it became the consensus pick off of Dirty Computer outside of it having been an early single. "Americans" would have made a bolder statement on this particular list (and is a better song besides).

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link

whoever puts this together at least assembled a non-consensus list

this is a joke right? the list practically looks focus-grouped.

― dyl, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link

the president's playlist.. it's..

http://i63.tinypic.com/plkrk.gif

― ((O))_____((O)) (esby), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link

i'm having trouble deciding between "bad bad news" and "could've been"

good for obama* including one of the good kurt vile singles!

― dyl, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link

"Make Me Feel," even if I don't quite get how it became the consensus pick off of Dirty Computer outside of it having been an early single.

"Several critics compared it to the work of Prince, while Monáe herself has stated that Prince helped create sounds for the album, including for "Make Me Feel".[1]"

― jaymc, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link

is it really the top consensus pick from that lp? i hope not but the world truly could be that boring.

― dyl, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link

(nb i like that song!)

― dyl, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link

yep it's easily "could've been", i've decided

― dyl, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link

xp yeah yeah morbs :)

I Like It

― Dan S, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link

I don't follow the year-end things as closely as I used to, but from those that I have seen--Said the Gramophone, Fluxblog, and (I think) Pitchfork--"Make Me Feel" is the one that keeps coming up. The Prince connection explains a lot (I like the song too, btw).

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:45 (five years ago) link

uh, the Prince song obviously...?

― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:51 (five years ago) link

i voted for "ekombe" even though it's a 2017 song because it's good and everybody else is going to vote for the prince song

― errang (rushomancy), Thursday, 3 January 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link

The BJ song came out in 2017 but that’s the correct answer

― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link

this is a joke right? the list practically looks focus-grouped.

― dyl, Wednesday, January 2, 2019 11:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm specifically talking about critical consensus here, feel free to compare for yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BwJaVJa_OZezUbbCE9Z6HpNdcl6wwmlPrCLWm3sKygo/edit#gid=0

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

fair

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link

Kurt Vile huh

as I figured out about 30 years ago, bad people can listen to good music

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link

a perfect post

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link

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