your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

i wanna hear that spectre capleton remix.

Can't beat that

“Untitled two minute noise loop recorded on 4-track”
it’s enchanting but not finished -- 4 tracks is not enough. There was a bird in my house this morning.. I played this and it flew out

J-Kwon - “Tipsy”
I haven’t actually listened to it in days (no I haven’t been leaving the house), though I sing it every time I’m drunk, which is almost all the time. I really need a job.

Balinese Gamelan and Ketj - “Golden Rain (Hudjan Mas)”
It’s really gorgeous and evocative. And then like 5 minutes in this really low bass percussion part comes in and makes me want to fuck shit up.

Don Covay - “Mercy, Mercy”
The simplest song with the best performance never fails

The Rapture - “I Need Your Love”
See titular sentiment

Yoko Ono - “Mind Train”
When you are drinking with your friends you can say “Hey who wants to listen to Yoko Ono?” and they will say yes for the novelty value. You can’t do this with Can, and this song is in fact much better than Can

Kevin Drumm - “Turning Point”
Strangely pleasant and reassuring

Beyonce - “Naughty Girl”
It seems completely aimless and it’s best that way

Al Green - “Have You Been Making Out OK?”
It’s in my mom’s car and I listen to it every time I borrow it. I sing along every time it gets to the “I wanna know can you make it on your ooooooooowwwn” part even though I’m nowhere close to in tune.. very satisfying

Leonard Cohen - “So Long, Marianne”
The way he strums his guitar you can tell he wants to smash it. I find this noble.

"Love and Happiness" Al Green
"Numbers" Kraftwerk"
"Sehnsud" Mouse On Mars
"Bo Diddley" Bo Diddley
"Towers of Dub" The Orb
"Put Your Filas On" Schooly D
"Earn It" ESG
"I Can See Clearly Now" Johnny Nash
"Johnny" Ui
"Think About It" Lynn Collins
"Scotch" Circle

really?

7. Gregory Isaacs "Mr. Brown" ...the mix where Sly goes crazy

I like your list, peepee.

Phoenix "Holdin' On Together"
Phoenix "If It's Not With You"
Gene Serene "Electric Dreams"
Armand Van Helden "Hear My Name"
McLusky "She Will Only Bring You Happiness"
Ce'Cile "Hot Like We"
AC Newman "The Town Halo"
AC Newman "Secretarial"
Spektrum "Kinda New"
Weird War "Chemical Bank"
George Michael "I Want Your Sex (parts one and two)"

Babys, "Midnight Rendevous"
Magnetic Fields, "Punk Rock Love"
Weezer, "Buddy Holly"
Usher, "U Make Me Wanna"
Red House Painters, "Shock Me"
Poison, "I Want Action"
Al Green, "Full Of Fire"
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Going To A Go-Go"
John Mayer, "Home Life"
Afghan Whigs, "Somethin' Hot"
Michael Jackson, "Rock With You"

Morrissey - You Know I Couldn't Last

Stat Quo's freestyles off DJ Green Lanterns Countdown to Armageddon (esp the long one - daaam)

Rifle Sport - Bloodline (live)

Bridge Club - Gashhound

Mission of Burma - The Set Up

Decemberists - Red Right Ankle

Oneida - The Last Act, Every Time

Devin the Dude - Who Is That Man, Mama?

NWA - Appetite for Destruction (thread inspired!)

Charlie Parker, Miles, etc - Now's the Time (just read Milestones)

The Stunning - We Keep It Dark

Iron and Wine - Jesus the Mexican Boy
Loretta Lynn - Little Red Shoes
Peaches - I Don't Give a Fuck
Washboard Sam - Who Pumped the Wind In My Doughnut
MC Chris - Fette's Vette
Orbital - Acid Pants
Sufjan Stevens - Size Too Small
Kermit - The Rainbow Connection
CocoRosie - Butterscotch
George Michael - The Grave (Live)
Biz Markie - Throwback
Prince - Musicology

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Gimme Back My Bullets
This has a great guitar riff. The droning piano line in the background is kind of reminds me of the overdubs John Cale put on the first Stooges record.

Atomic Rooster- Death Walks Behind You
Why wasn't this a big FM rock radio song? The production is great for 1970, especially compared to Sabbath or some of their contemporaries.

Deep Purple- Mandrake Root
The version I am enjoying is a crazy 30 minute jam from 1970. Blackmore and Jon Lord go into spazmotic fits and the song goes all over the place. There is a spacey part in the middle where I think Jon Lord pulls out a hoover or something. I like it.

Black Sabbath- Wishing Well
Martin Birch flat out knows what he is doing in the studio. I love the sound of the bass and drums on this one.

Thin Lizzy- Don't Believe a Word
I put this onto a compilation I made and have given it a few listens, it is quite catchy.

Free- Don't Say You Love Me
This song is intense and quiet. Free was a really good band.

Iron Maiden- Sanctuary
It doesn't really sound like Maiden, but it is.

Yes- Roundabout
The arrangement on this one is great, I like all of the little overdubs that are placed throughout the record. It is very well crafted.

The Yardbirds- Ha Ha Said the Clown
This song cracks me up. It is one of the last Yardbird singles, but I swear it sounds like a Dukes of the Stratosphear outtake. Keith Relf even sounds like Andy Partridge or is it the other way around?

ZZ Top- Brown Sugar
I have no good reason why this wasn't a hit other than the Stones had a song with the same title come out. ZZ's song is much, much funkier and Billy Gibbons plays some ruthless guitar on this one. I can't believe I never heard this until a few months ago, but I had never heard the first ZZ Top album.

Funkadelic- I Bet You
This song is great.

I guess that makes eleven.

Anthony, I'm interested in what capacity "Punk Rock Love" is a favorite ?? It's never been something I listen to so much as hear and say "aw cute." Do you ever actually sit and listen to it on repeat or anything?

earlnash's list makes me want to listen to things I would never listen to!!

It cracks me the hell up! Plus since that list was an inverted mirror image of my previous list moodwise (see up thread) it was the one that came to mind my the Mag Fields that fit the bill.

and 12, because I can: Honeymoon Suite, "Wave Babies"

I still have to hear that new Mission of Burma record. It isn't going out of print any time soon, so I will probably wait and cherry pick a used copy.

Never heard of House of Freaks, seems like it might be something I might like. There are so many bands.

Don Covay is one of those singers that seems like it would be interesting music, but I haven't come across any of his records. I'm due to get obsessed again by r&b/soul sometime soon.

I am very streaky when it comes to my listening obsessions. I get into one era or sound for a few weeks on end until it loses my interest and then I jump to another sound. I'll listen to jazz fusion then get into punk/post punk then listen to idm/detroit techno then listen to well you get the point. For some reason, I don't tend to mix it up much.

Ah man...House of Freaks got no respect in their day. Cakewalk is such a great, understated album with big huge hooks and a strident melancholy twang (kept feisty by Johnny Hott's hyperkinetic odds'n'ends percussion...I tell ya, the man coulda been in Cop Shoot Cop) that is still breaks my heart a decade a change later. They sorta got stuck in the limbo between "college rock' and the alt.country boom that puts dubious folks like Ryan Adams on a fuckin' pedastal. I love that album, goddammit.

I would best describe them as the middle ground between Joy Division and Naked Raygun...The live album (Live at the Entry/Dead at the Exit) is prob. the one I see around the most...apparently their local label - Ruthless Records (not that Ruthless!) was the local label that put their stuff out....Well worth checking out if you like 80s midwest post-punk...

I've heard good things about their two studio albums...you could try record stores in Minneapolis, there tends to be alot more of their stuff around here used for cheap...try these two they might be able to help you track it down:

www.landspeedrecords.com
www.letitbe.com

"Welcoming" Badawi
"Liberty City" Mark Stewart and the Mafia
"Various Times" The Fall
"Southern Mark Smith" Jazz Butcher
"Eyen" Plaid
"Wood Beez" Scritti Politti
"The Jam (Pt.2)" Renegade Soundwave
"Midget Submarines" Swell Maps
"Shine" Bailterspace
"The Way I Walk" Jack Scott
"$1000 Wedding" Gram Parsons

2. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water
Cool bass.

3. Clock DVA - 4 Hours

4. Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Drumming by Charles Hayward from This Heat!

5. Beta Band - Assessment
Can't wait to hear all the new album

6. Dallas Crane - No Through Road

7. Alternative TV - Life

8. Jimmy Shand and his Band - Bonnie Strathyre (with Stuart Gordon singing)
From Jimmy Shand's Party, which is in my opinion the best tradition Scottish music record to invite comely young ladies over for a jig and to drink scotch. Or gin.

9. Wire - Silk Skin Paws

10. Robert Wyatt - Sea Song

11. Swell Maps - Cake Shop

and stop calling me 'fuck'.

1. Agoria - "Stereolove" (me and timy mix)
2. Hell and Tiga - "Listen to the hiss" (Tiefschwarz mix)
3. Green Velvet - "Fake and phony"
4. Snowy Red - "Euroshima/Wardance"

At medium volume:

5. Cam'ron - "To the top"
6. Supremes - "Workin on the chain gang"
7. Lalo Schiffrin - "King Kong"
8. Scsi 9 - "Krol Menta V Pol Bita"

At modest volume:

9. Neko Case - "Deep red bell"
10. Detroit Experiment - "There is a god"
11. Gillian Welch - "Wayside/back in time"

Ascending guitars - Smashing Pumpkins
Miss World - Hole
Softer, Softest - Hole
Try a little tenderness - Otis Redding
I wanna Be Adored - The Stone roses
Feuilles d'Album in A-Flat Major
Just to see you smile - instrumental - Spacemen 3
Clementine - Elliott Smith
Ivan's Boat - Rex
Top of the world - Carpenters

Good lord, I don't think I've ever seen this thread but a lot of the original posts reek of "don't you dare peg me as someone that reads Pitchfork! I listen to 67% shitty popular radio music along with my 33% canonical indie rock". Do people actually start becoming themselves further down or does it continue on like that up until the present day?

why don’t you just post your own 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck

breastcrawl otm

original 11s from 2004 are mostly great, simpler times

I feel like my choices are, as the kids say, basic.

The Downfall of Us All - A Day to Remember
Invalid Litter Dept - At The Drive-In
Red Dress - MAGIC!
Life Goes On - BTS
Hon'nou - Ringo Sheena
Can I? - Kehlani
Rain Doll Dancehall - The Neighbors Club
Like That - Doja Cat feat. Gucci Mane
Countdown - Cocco
Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute - Coheed and Cambria
The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening

Ultra Vivid Scene - Poison
Dillard & Clark - Why Not Your Baby
Café Tacvba - Las Batallas
Pizzicato 5 - My Baby Portable Player Sound
Jübl - Happy Sad
Os Mutantes - O Relógio
Wizkid - Sweet One
Ethyl Meatplow - Ripened Peach
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
Charlotte Adigéry - Bear With Me (and I'll stand bare before you)
Solex - Shoot Shoot!

Eyedress - Jealous

first Eyedress mention on ILM? I like that whole album -- 19 moods in 40 minutes

Eyedress was a TikTok find for me, along with the Doja Cat one. Which I guess is like the 2021 equivalent of "shitty popular radio music" ◔_◔

X.Y.Z. - Echoes of Time
Motorpsycho - N.O.X. II: Ouroboros (Strange Loop)
LFO vs F.U.S.E. - Loop
MDA Analog - Rainful Memories
Jane Weaver - Heartlow
Towa Tei - Technova
D.K. - The Goddess is Dancing
Fitz Gore & The Talismen - Gisela (Lions Rock)
Cluster - Ho Renomo
Eno Moebius Roedelius - Broken Head
SUSS - Echo Lake

Robert Paquette - Dépêche-toi soleil
Robert Paquette - Bleu et Blanc
US Army Band - Battle Hymn of the Republic
Peter, Paul and Mary - All My Trials
97th Regimental String Band - We Are Coming, Father Abraham
38th Army Band - When Johnny Comes Marching Home
38th Army Band - US Field Artillery March
Woody Guthrie - Tear The Fascists Down
Billie Holliday - Gloomy Sunday
Fairpoint Convention - A Sailor's Life
Bertha Tillman - Oh My Angel

Towa Tei - Technova

bom!

Ramsey Lewis - Dancin'
Barre Phillips - A-i-a
Louis Cole - Things
Jordan Rakei - Best Part
Alice Smith - Another Love
Stevie Wonder - My Eyes Don't Cry
The Foreign Exchange - Body
George Duke - Echidna's Arf
Weather Report - Young and Fine
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
D'Angelo - Another Life

here are the last eleven songs i've liked on spotify

bullion - o vermona
ryuichi sakamoto - venezia
eliane radigue - kyema
david blue - looking for a friend
the weather station - robber
stephen malkmus - cash up
beatrice dillon - square fifths
albaster deplume - visit croatia
yu su - xiu
sea oleena - horses
the rolling bears - i am waiting
the rolling bears - out of time

here my favorite 11 albums of the moment, fuck

death - human
death - individual thought patterns
atheist - piece of time
repulsion - horrified
kreator - pleasure to kill
immortal - battles in the north
death - scream bloody gore
death - leprosy
atheist - unquestionable presence
neil young - archives vol 2
d7y - d7y

this is tough for me because I spend so much time just listening to a giant playlist on shuffle, I don't even know what my current favorites are anymore. These are some tracks I like though.

Rush - Lock and Key
Judee Sill - The Lamb Ran Away with the Crown
The Roches - The Train
Swervedriver - I Am Superman
Stereolab - I Feel The Air (Of Another Planet)
Karenn - Crush the Mushrooms
O/V/R - The World Remade
Hen Ogledd - Skinny Dippers
Steely Dan - Pearl of the Quarter
Ralph Towner/Solstice - Nimbus
Charli XCX - forever

once you step on you might never got off of the commuter train :)

*get :(

🇿🇦bassie ft. boohle & t-man sa • sizani
🇳🇬crayon ft. rema • too correct
🇦🇿efendi • mata hari
🇹🇹kerwin du bois x teddyson john • see dem
🇬🇭🇳🇬kwesi arthur ft. joeboy • baajo
🇿🇦kwiish sa ft. njelic, malumnator & de mthuda • liyoshona
🇬🇭okyeame kwame ft. kuami eugene • yeeko
🇿🇦q l-v ft. bospianii • wena fela
🇳🇬rema • bounce
🇿🇦t-percx & vusinator ft. assert, king monopoly & rising blaqstar • shela ntombi
🇿🇦tyla ft. kooldrink • getting late

efendi • mata hari

This is Azerbaijan's Eurovision entry? Fascinating, although not really something I'd keep in rotation. You've also got some Soca in there, quite a variety!

Very nice vibe on Liyoshona tho. I also love the overall production on Shela Ntombi, the way it uplifts the vocals. Getting late is solid too if a bit more polished, but oof those gqom flavors on the bassline.

Seems like overall I should be focusing on SA more!

Any thoughts on Yaw Tog feat Stormzy Kwesi Arthur - Sore (Remix)? It sounds like drill to me which maybe isn't really your thing.

Delilah Holliday - Goddess Energy
Maestro Don & Jahvillani - Dutty Money
Charles Webster feat. Thani Draai - We Belong Together
Scorpion Kings & Tresor - La Vie Est Belle
System32 & Shal Marshall - All Day
Blaqbonez f. Amaarae & Buju - Bling
Intence - Money Nuff Funds
Motto - Uber Everywhere
Arooj Aftab - Last Night
Miguel - So I Lie
SZA - Good Days

(There's a bunch more amapiano and soca tempting me to do 11 more, but I settled for not repeating anything breastcrawl posted four weeks ago)

Go on then (you can tell I've been rinsing the Afrobeats, Soca and adjacent threads)

Rema - Bounce
Olatunji - Drunk History
Machel Montano - High Life
Kerwin Du Bois - See Dem
Bankulli ft. Not3s - Foreign
Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings
Young M.A. - Off The Yak
Nakkia Gold - Yea Yea
Okyeame Kwame - Yeeko
Prettyboy D-O - Police N Teef
Meryl - BB Compte

Got to DJ with some friends for the first time in forever at the weekend. Someone dropped "All Day" and it sounded so great over the speakers with people singing "Play more soca fi dem"

ugh that makes me sick with jealousy (but happy for you, seriously)

ah, sorry to rub it in. we're still in an "outdoors only, 6 people at a table, no dancing" situation here in the UK. so listening to soca sitting down is almost as frustrating as not listening to soca at all!

lol that would be its own kind of lockdown

what's especially annoying is seeing someone you haven't seen in months sitting at another table and all you can do is wave and gesture, perhaps a quick hello as you pass on the way to the loo. still, can't complain too much

Floatation - The Grid
Ruff Rollin - Lord of the Isles
Alone (paradise) - Don Carlos
Golden Dreams - Deux
Things Fall Apart - Cristina
Be Wela - Zazou Bikaye
Tu Es Foutu - In-grid
Polymono Plexusgel - Drexicya
Comin' Back - Kurt Harman Project
We Need A Resolution - Aaliyah
Looking For Love - Karen Ramirez

Barry White - playing your game, baby (instr.)
Air Suspension Club Band - seaside in the twilight
Cléon - jaylis & family
Menahan Street Band - the telephone song (instr.),aka tired Of fighting
Footshooter – hibiscus (ft. Allysha Joy)
Super8 & Tab ft. Anton Sonin - black is the new yellow
Sébastien Léger at the Great Pyramids of Giza - firefly (40:40-47:43)
Manabu Namiki - sally + vertex (DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu OST)
Spiral Drive - space train
Charlotte Brandi - frist
Matt Berry - covered in clowns

mora - 512 ft. jhay cortez
rauw alejandro - cuando fue
03 greedo - liar, liar
big moochie grape - standing ovation
burna boy - question
esperanza spalding - formwela 10
tiwa savage - tales by moonlight ft. amaarae
zz top - heard it on the x
labi siffre - watch me
super cat - mud up
dj manny - signals in my head

Soak - knock me off my feet
Everly bros - I wonder if I care as much
Bettie serveert- palomine
Temptations - you’ve got my soul on fire
Soulja slim - souljas on my feet
Tinashe - let me down slowly
Peewee longway - pink salmon
Devin the dude - BREAK-fast
Tink - selfish
Tone stith - keep it real
Karen nyame kg - koko

anthonie tonnon - leave love out of this
miss grit - impostor
zapp - computer love
realyoungphil - everything we need
bandgang masoe - top of the key
bad boy chiller crew - footsteps on my shoes
lil bean - pull thru
su'lan - 6pm on melrose ft. baby stone gorillas
teddy pendergrass - when somebody loves you back
kero kero bonito - well rested
lojay x sarz - lv n attn ft. wizkid

Suarez - Exursiones
Alex Cameron - Sara Jo
Duncan Dhu - En Algun Lugar
No Te Va Gustar - A Las Nueve
Real Life - An Oral History of My First Kiss
Half Man Half Biscuit - Grafting Haddock in The George
Grupo Niche - Una Aventura
Freddie Gibbs, Madlib - Crime Pays
The Liminanas & Laurent Garnier - Que Calor!
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Neil Young - Unknown Legend

Madlib - The Call
The Fall - Middle Mass
Amaarae - SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY (Vigro Deep Amapiano mix)
Rema - Calm Down
Hatchie - Quicksand
Purple Mountains - Margaritas at the Mall
Max Romeo - Norman
Prince Far-I - Head of the Buccaneer
The Weather Station - Parking Lot
Sprints - Little Fix
Loski - P.U.G.

the long version of Norman btw

hound dog - dale hawkins
soul dazzle - u-god
2 bugs & a roach - earl hooker
call the police - stephanie mcdee
whiskey bottle -nicodemus & matchez
tiger man - rufus thomas
treat em right chubb rock
baby hold on - stars in the sky
i shitted in dat hoe house - ice mike
dead - carolyn sullivan
cool mac daddy - ultra violet

baby hold on - stars in the sky

“norman” and cloakroom’s “doubts” each would have made my list if i’d made one between aug and feb

Alex Cameron - breakdown
Audiobooks - the doll
Charlotte Adigéry - it hit me
Dale Hawkins - hound dog
Billy Joel - pressure
Real Lies - an oral history of my first kiss
Real Lies - dream on
Keith Whitley - miami, my amy
Jimmy Campbell - half baked
Seamus Moore - transit van
Happy Mondays - tart tart

as I noted elsewhere, I’m quite ambivalent about the whole Adigéry + Pupul state of affairs, but “It Hit Me” is def the highlight of their album for me

Talk Talk - Happiness is Easy
Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na feat. Anoushka Shankar
King Sunny Adé - Ja Funmi
Novos Baianos - Mistério do planeta
Cherrelle - Saturday Love feat. Alexander O'Neal
Rosalía - La Combi Versace
Silvana Estrada - Te Guardo
The Feelies - Loveless Love
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space
Bobby Hutcherson - Verse

Stacks - Above Ground
Hubbabubbaklubb - Fjellet (Bjørn Torske Remix)
Smoke Point - Waterwheel
Bad Bunny - Me Porto Bonito feat. Chencho Corleone
KH - Looking at Your Pager
Sofia Kourtesis - Estación Esperanza feat. Manu Chao
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
DJ Chrysalis - Melodie
Ella Mai - Feels Like
Kabza De Small - Rekere 2 feat. Stakev
Moonshine - Obomi Nga feat. MC RedBul, Uproot Andy & MC Azas

ah, new Moonshine, always welcome!

also: Kabza! Kabza!! Kabza!!! that album is pure gold!

Steve Lacy - Bad Habit
Confidence Man - Holiday
Ashee - Country Classic
Fontaines DC - I Love You
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Life in The Void
Steve Silk Hurley - He Loves Me 2
Jack Adkins - American Sunset
Big L - Put It On
Tom Waits - Time
Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly
Yard Act - 100% Endurance

Stacks - Above Ground

nice

Jack Adkins - American Sunset

listened to this on a drive to the smoked fish spot near the beach a couple days ago and it felt right

k michelle - ciaras prayer
gary stewart - drinkin thing
lloyd banks - power steering ft jadakiss
burna boy - common person
gunplay - aunty hold up
rema - addicted
koffee - pull up
tinashe - naturally
saba - come my way ft krayzie bone
duke deuce - just say that ft glorilla
young bleed - dat water

really digging stacks, thanks to the above

little feat - easy to slip
bad bunny - andrea ft. buscabulla
duke deuce - crunkstar
asake - peace be unto you (pbuy)
sly & the family stone - runnin' away
the remains - don't look back
depeche mode - policy of truth
sonic youth - catholic block
cash cobain - slizzy like
26ar - hottest in my city ft. rob49
dehd - bad love

Been listening to a lot of new stuff over the summer, so here's another 11:

Dea Barandana - Licik (Tribute)
Beyoncé - COZY
Robot Boii, Mellow & Sleazy, Soul Revolver – Salary Salary feat. Shaun MusiQ & F Teearse
Amber Mark - Bliss
Steve Monite - Things Fall Apart
Peggy Gou - I Go (DJ Koze Remix)
Aurora Halal & DJ G. - Off The Top
Nu Genea - Vesuvio
Priori - Winged (Priori Rezone)
Wanitwa Mos, Master KG & Lowsheen – Sofa Silahlane feat. Nkosazana Daughter
Mystic Jungle - Hold On Your Dreams

We've Got Tonight, Boy - Fragile
Dream On (El-B Remix) - Real Lies
Belfast (David Holmes Remix) - Orbital
Addicted - Rema
Feels Like A Different Thing - Confidence Man
Cut - Working Mens Club
Room to Jack - KiNK
Flowers - Ron Trent
Cathedral - The Primitive Painter
Happiness - Bohannon
Cliche (Soulwax Remix) - Charlotte Adigery + Bolis Pupul