shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

Oh I accidentally skipped that one too

it's okay?

69. closer - lulu james - part of me likes this, but her voice is losing me, holy shit she should stay out of her upper vocal range omg that was bad. now shes spending more time in there. ick. can she not sing? she can not sing. not up there at least. pro tip, if you honk in your upper register, stay the fuck out of your upper register. wait, more of her range is sucking now. what is going on. aaaaggghhhh nooooo. damnit, this seemed promising for a short like 20 seconds but yeah nope can not get past her voice. oh and also its really really boring.

haha dan listen again, i think u will want to drop the same vocal hammer here

haha thank you for saving me an update post

she sounds like she is a quarter-step off the pitch almost the entire song

i know it is so bizarre

it actually does get worse right? or does it just build to a fever pitch of "oh you poor thing, stop"

for me it was "this is an interesting affectation, it's bringing tension into an otherwise unremarkable song... okay ENOUGH OF THAT"

idk her voice sounds fine to me

i'm a terrible singer though

it's not really her voice, it's that she is consistently slightly off the note, which starts out interesting and then starts making me grind my teeth

67. merry go round - kacey musgraves - haha ok first of all from the intro i keep expecting a muppet to jump in and take a verse. the verses are oddly clever actually, esp for what i can only assume is a mainstream country deal. Her voice is sorta by the numbers album radio, but theres something actually kind of compelling. song writer is really pretty fantastic, manages to toe the line of clever and not too clever, like the round and round and round turn quite a bit. huh. i wish she was just a tad less innocuous, but theres nothing to fault here really. i am impressed, and fairly surprised. i dont think there is anything special here w/o the writer though, so unless she is the writer i am somewhat concerned, wouldn't mind a more compelling vocalist taking a stab at this really.

IIRC she is the writer

basically I feel like she's the artist everyone keeps trying to convince me Taylor Swift is

That's good, maybe she should just be that more

She's quite an accomplished writer for other people too. Interesting to hear her version of Mama's Broken Heart back to back with Miranda Lambert's super-campy one.

66. Fall Back - Factory Floor - basically i just want this to turn into the telex song that it really wants to be, idk man i think i just like this sort of stuff with some weird german dude yammering over the top of it or robot voices and not with a bored sounding lady getting all breathily unenthused all over it. its...fine i guess?

i am honestly really glad to hear that abt musgraves, shes really one hell of a writer

judging from this one song i heard that one time on the internet lol @ me

that's the CW about her so you're playing into an already-established narrative

she and Brandy Clark are kind of the go-to "authentic young country voices" of 2013 afaict

65. she will - savages - time travelling music, appreciate the unburied guitars, and just when i was abt to slog it off as retro masturbatory factory worship, in comes the drum break and moves it to something more than that. theres a lot of badassery going on here actually, motherfuckers know how to build, thats for sure. i dig it, old better pj harvey before she got all pleasant sounding filtered through JD/NO transition stages. im sure this will get pinged with the retro tag but honestly, i dont think thats fair, and also saddled with asshole female band novelty media blitz, but thats a huge misstep, its a really good band, who gives two fucks abt the fact that they happen to all be women (which implies the tokenism that undercuts women as musicians, which is a personal fucking sticking point being stuck in the lunkheaded industry i am in). stands 100% on its own merits, like thousands of other women populated groups that get dragged down by assholes making their gender the prime narrative, while leaving the unsaid bias against women in rock intact.

Not really about Savages, but the 'who gives a fuck if they're women' thing is a double-edged sword. Being in an all-female 6-piece we've had to talk about whether we put it into our blurbs or not, and we've so far decided that we should. Not for men, but for other women, because when you're growing up as a girl into male-dominated shit it's good to find that there are women out there doing what you want to do.

I mean, obviously there are plenty of women out there who won't give a shit either.

because when you're growing up as a girl into male-dominated shit it's good to find that there are women out there doing what you want to do.

definitely. I haven't heard any of the gender-based hype or backlash re Savages. They are pleasant to listen to in that they sound a lot like other music I like a lot, but Savages just makes me want to listen to said other music rather than them.

So far the only song that I voted for is ... "Shabba"

There should be separate ILM polls for the U.S. and the UK.

Not for men, but for other women, because when you're growing up as a girl into male-dominated shit it's good to find that there are women out there doing what you want to do.

this is a really good point btw, and i would have less of a visceral reaction in general if 90% of where i hear it wasn't some jim derogatis type basically yelling "you'll never believe this, but all of the band is ACTUALLY WOMEN" every 4 sentences like its akin to finding a youtube where a chimp builds an endtable or something

Haha, yeah, I totally get that.

like its akin to finding a youtube where a chimp builds an endtable or something

link pls?

more shrieking plz

Ha can someone post the spotify link here, then I can iphone the rest while baby juggling

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/6aanFh0UkiNJlrvg3kZgmI

Thkng u

So huh I can only shuffle play from iphone. That's dumb

Damn u technology that does almost everything for me I want more

that is not true*; expand the cover art of the currently-playing song and uncheck the shuffle function

* this may only work for premium/unlimited Spotify

I am low rent spotify, so nope.

Well then, I'll do them in random order, because the overall list is somewhere in the middle of 4000 posts or whatever in that thread.

The Wire - Haim - way less horrible than the other haim song, and actually fairly ok to listen to. Thankfully less bananarama this time (meaning better singing). Slightly confused as to why we need a saxophoneless Quarterflash in the 2013, but yeah, I don't mind this at all.

Also as a plus, listening to Burial a second time and much more into it this time around.

Betty who - somebody loves you - what the hell is wrong with you people

Ok I should expand. This is the sort of shit that made me pissed when it would stink up Americas top 40 when I was an early teen. Lifeless anthemic dumb shit about nothing backed with paid intern synth lines, "wacky" retro multi tap reverb vocals. Plenty of stuff that I haven't liked at all, but this is the first one to make me actively mad at you guys.

I mean phosphorescent made me mad too, but mostly at him

I like the idea of your sitting there growling.

take it to the gay thread

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:18 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got the baby on my lap right now, so I have to internalize the growling, but trust me it's there

Type of way - rich homie quan - ok first I have to start by shaking the initial chuck mosely totally unfounded reaction I am having here, so I paused it for a second. Something in the way he bends his voice on certain vowels maybe? Death grips guy having a better day drunk on White Russians and high on ludes? Ok. Don't hate it, don't like it, difficult to care about it at all really. This is a looooooong 4 minutes Jesus.

Haha it just keeps not ending

I do not get this Amel Larrieux song at all

Closer - tegan and Sara - ok first let's start with the fact that people still caring about tegan and Sara strikes me the same way that a song by Lou Bega placing would, but hey that's just me. Weren't these the nasal harmony are they or aren't they deal from like 10 years ago? Canadian? Jesus man so much mall fodder muck showing up here, but this is similarly egregious to me. If this is the direction of pop you fuckers can have it. This is all because I'm old isn't it, def getting a "you fuckers don't understand I LIVED THROUGH IT THE FIRST TIME" vibe from lots of this list.

Hold on we're going home - drake - are u fucking kidding me