awesome design!
― nxd, Monday, 27 January 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Lemme get the (musical) naysaying ball rolling: I prefer Doiron on her own.
― pomenitul, Monday, 27 January 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Ok, here's the youtube playlist, will update as I listen (so intermittently) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgY-EgZm23_JMleMrv5Pq42eYRaWrPeVK
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
very low key start to the year. i haven't been able to sustainedly listen to any of the recent mount eerie records but respect to that dude
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
Song is OK. They harmonise well together. I liked how the arrangement filled out right at the end. Doesn't make me want to listen to the album though.
― Jeff W, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/n5Xxv5H.jpg76: Ariana Grande - “NASA” - 157 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 votevideoAriana Grande - "Thank U, Next" (the album)
The way “NASA” ends — gracefully, casually, poignantly, in the middle of a verse — is just exquisite. (“Get Well Soon” did something similar.)― yuh yuh (morrisp)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
i'mma need space!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
just missed my ballot, but easily the TUN highlight for me
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
imagine is also good
can i pre-order the images as a collectible playing card set? i guess one with 52 cards and 25 jokers?
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Yay! 😊
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
I didn't hate it.
― pomenitul, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
my favorite part is the intro, in which tommy brown and social house put the chorus through a wormhole.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
These lists should be collected outside of their threads with just the great images and made available somehow.
― abcfsk, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
NASA is definitely one of the standouts from the album, but Ghostin is the one that got my vote.
― kitchen person, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
usually someone makes a giant imgur post with all of the images in one link. if someone doesn't do it this time around, i'd be happy to do it. i love copying and pasting mindlessly
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
adding to the chorus on the images: beautifully done!
― rob, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bugCeHH.jpg75: Jenny Lewis - “Red Bull & Hennessy” - 158 points - 5 votesvideoJenny Lewis - The Voyager
I avoid people for whom Red Bull and Hennessy is a potent potable.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
I really do love the production and general sound of it all, in particular the keys, reverb and drum effects (like Josh brought up, similarities to Aimee Mann's work). A lot of great contributors - besides the Benmont Tench keys, many other seasoned session players, and Beck did some consulting and backup vocals. Definitely feeling those Heartbreakers / Travelling Wilburys / Springsteen vibes. Kind of incredible that Ringo Starr contributed to "Heads Gonna Roll" and "Red Bull and Hennessy".― Nhex
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
can't even tell you how routinely i forgot a jenny lewis album came out last year. really like this song still
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
moka's images look better than 99.92% of commercial book covers
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
whole album is really great, my vote went for the title track.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
I love the assertiveness and the drum sound.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
images are excellent!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
Glad you are enjoying the images! There's a very thin black line to the left of the images that shouldn't be there. The background base color is actually a rectangle with an enveloping black stroke that shouldn't be there but I didn't note it until now. So most images will have them and it's too minor a detail for me to fix for all 77 images. Sorry for that!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
*to the right I mean.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
images mood = a pack of John Player Special Lights x Presence
(not a criticism)
― Jeff W, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:18 AM (fifty-seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's v mick fleetwood
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
there's a stevie nicks edge to the vocal and songwriting too (repeating ascending chord progression, the way she snarls "i'm about to get wicked" in the first line)
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
Brilliant designs this year, moka
Voted for 77 and 76. Very pleased to see the Mount Eerie make it!
― Indexed, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
I voted for Red Bull & Hennessy. Love the whole album really but I feel like that is the standout track.
― silverfish, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
I wasn't terribly fond of the album -- Jenny Lewis albums tend to peter out for me -- but the first three songs are marvelous.
Also, her songwriting's changed since switching to piano.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
hfs at the images!!!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
I'm starting to think maybe I'll end up not having heard all 77which i don't mind :)
― nxd, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DWaGMMX.jpg74:Purple Mountains - “Margaritas at the Mall” - 158 points - 5 votes - 1 number 1 votevideoPurple Mountains (RIP David Berman, August 2019)
He definitely is channeling the same existential frustration that he did in "Time Will Break the World," but with so much more backbone this time. That song always felt overly lugubrious to me, like trying to hang out with a goth kid in high school who you knew deep down meant well but honestly you were embarrassed to be seen around. "Margaritas at the Mall" at least looks you in the eye when it talks. ― del griffith
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
the first of 3-4 PM entries I'm going to assume
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
I can so imagine a latter-day Steely Dan song called "Margaritas at the Mall."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
i have complicated feelings about david berman and will never listen to this album but rip
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
oh good, I've been meaning to ask: if someone never really listened to Silver Jews would 'starting' with Purple Mountains be a good move or no?
― rob, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
I gravitated most towards "Maybe I'm the Only One For Me" and "Nights That Won't Happen" but stuck to voting for the album
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
― rob, Monday, January 27, 2020 11:27 AM
Unquestionably. You might think he was always a tunesmith of the first order.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
Would've maybe voted for 'Nights That Won't Happen' if I'd submitted a tracks ballot.
― pomenitul, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
Woods work extremely well as his backing band.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
How long can a world go on under such a subtle God?How long can a world go on with no word from God?See the plod of the flawed individual looking for a nod from GodTrotting the sod of the visible with no new word from God
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
voted for a different PM song that might yet place.
tbh, haven't revisited the alb since he passed.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I would like to now more abt brad's Berman thoughts but I guess this is not really the time/place
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
they're personal!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
I've disliked most of the Silver Jews stuff I've heard but this album is great.
― Matt DC, Monday, 27 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
please could we get the Spotify playlist rolling? my new phone hates YouTube for some reason
― opden gnash (imago), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
ah sorry nvm!! xps
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
Forks has the spotify playlist closed and he's the only one who can update it!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
Had to check, but “Daz How Star Do” wasn’t nominated! It was on lex’s tracks of 2019 list tho, so maybe you saw it there? Anyway, it’s a real fun track. Are you familiar with Skiibii’s previous hit “Sensima”? I like that one even better.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 08:40 (four years ago) link
Ah, yes, I think you're right bc. And I am not familiar with Sensima, at least not as I recall, though i do have an immense capacity for listening to stuff and then forgetting about it until it pops into my head for no reason. (I woke up with Trini Dem Girls in my head the other day, a song I don't think I could have voluntarily retrieved at gunpoint). I will check it out!
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
Richard Dawson is amazing live - one of my favourite gigs last year, confusingly the other one was Dawn Richard.
Oh god, COLLABORATE NOW YOU GUYS.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
haha
― nxd, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Poll on whether their collaboration should be called Richard Richard or Dawn Dawson
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
Rawn Dichardson
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Badly Dawn Richard
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
omg
― TOO LOW, the Curator (imago), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
Badly Drawn Richard
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
take your pick
:D
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
Just tried listening to "Jogging" again. Nope.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
I agree, too resonant rn
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
I don’t f with the “old town road” with brc
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link
Were all the Balloon votes some kind of ILX in-joke that I don't get? Because it's not a very good song
― paolo, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
it was a joyous little upper in a bad year, if only we'd known how much we were gonna need that in 2020
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
I’d find some out of context quotes from barthelme’s “balloon” story but I’m too lazy
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
B A L L O O N
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.balloonsgalore.co.uk/uploads/images/adqxBrtqF25fIyurQa6WDbzov7rIn4th.jpg
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
half of the songs in these polls don't have a very long half-life. jogging and balloon are good examples.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
floating floating
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
Of the ones I didn't know beforehand, "Jogging" is the one that I came back to most, I think.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 April 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
almost all this music feels like it was released YEARS ago to me now, fuck this is a bad time
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 16 April 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
I'm fairly convinced High Lights is one of the best songs ever. Who knows. Maybe it will be diminished on play nth
― kraudive, Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
Every balloon is now potentially a colourful, joyful little capsule of plague. See what we've done.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtQ72qRpVVE
― na (NA), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
It’s good, but it says 2015.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 22 May 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
Many of these tracks (including Balloon of course) feature in my 2019 mix, which you can stream here
https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/01/07/2019/
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 January 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
I still think my fav Dua track is ‘be the one’
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:10 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think i still think this!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 February 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
& you're otm
― signe anderson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 7 February 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
"Jogging" still sounding great
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Monday, 7 February 2022 04:21 (two years ago) link