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

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

True confession, I didn't even listen to the drake song. I'm sorry. That's unfair. But it's drake, so I'm sure that it's dull as shit and tepidly slow and yawn worthy, unless it's one of the ones where he does the "surprise everybody look out for fast drake!" In which case it's faster and still sucks, possibly more.

Ain't it fun - Paramore - ok Jesus, sarahell otm upthread, either I am hitting a bad shuffle streak or this backwards leaning pop thing is out of control. Here is this song, but done better in every way, you are welcome.

http://youtu.be/P0FKzPfsxA4

I know I am not supposed to "care" about lyrics in the modern day but Jesus this don't go crying to your mama living in the real world shit is so fucking embarrassing for a grown person to put on paper fuck man

I don't even know where any of these placed, why do I feel that might make it worse

ha

Paramore, I permanently revoke your fake gospel choir privileges.

jjjusten how dare you speak for women in the language of "Every Little Step"

I sort of like tegan and sara post-"career advice sesh with will.i.am" or whatever happened to them but didnt vote for them.

So good to me - Chris malinchak - I appreciate when an album/single cover gives me a heads up on what to expect, so thanks for that I guess. Bland, but would be fine if it was hanging/playing in a hotel lobby in the background. The minute this stops playing I will remember exactly nothing about it.

Honestly this whole list is basically just shit.

I'm trying to stay positive but yeah maybe I should take a break for a bit honestly

jjjusten, did you hear fka twigs?

No, did they make the list?

no ilm made the list

it was a collaborative effort

ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2013

No bookmark, on zing, no chance of loading last 50 messages for next hour and a half

I blame myself - sky ferraria - idk man just pick one of my last ten reviews and insert her name

This fka twigs is really really good as an aside

Strandbar - Todd terje- is there any reason for me not to just like listen to actual samba instead? To be fair, this is not my sort of stuff wrt electrowhatever, but it's def the best thing that's showed up in the rundown shuffle today. Improves as it goes along, actually actively enjoying it now that it's hit the 4 minute mark. Yeah, this is ok

Better than ok actually, and my baby enjoys it when I make his lion puppet dance to it, so 2 thumbs up

Keep returning to the fka twigs thing though. Huh I need more of this

yeah that fka twigs song is crazy good

yeah that was the song I went "wait where was I all year that I missed this" for

Shabba - a$ap ferg - good lord finally something that hits and hits well. I like pretty much everything about this.

I feel like is such a fine line between doing this well and doing it poorly, and most stuff falls on the other side. Are there problematic lyrical points well god yes, but hey I listen to eazy so I can hardly point fongers

Ueneo - rocko - and then on the other hand. It's like a bunch of dudes listened to biggies slow rolling delivery and thought "oh hey I can take that all the way to super boring" and are all trying to out bland each other and yeah so I hate this. Oh look rick Ross what a goddamn surprise.

yep. it makes no sense to me that people rate it.

We can't stop - Miley Cyrus - pretty sure this would qualify for worst chorus of the year but then again Katy perry probably released something. This song is such a torpid shitbag. Far more horrible than any of the controversial stuff she did this year (ok maybe not worse that that mtv performance but still this lasts FOREVER)

one of my biggest shocks of 2013 was desultorily playing the A$AP Ferg album with the full expectation of hating it and liking it so much that I went out and bought it that day

Echelon - angel haze - it's like someone took nicki minaj to a reeducation camp and taught her how not to suck. That's not even fair, because this has it's own thing going on but idk in some ways it reminds me of when minaj was a breath of fresh air, without all the trappings of awfulness, or hearing 212 for the first time. Whoa and just when I was going to say that it lacks a bit of the adventurousness, in comes the angel chorus and goddamn I am going to listen the shit out of this in the coming weeks. Redemption point for ILM!

pro-tip: skip the Angel Haze album, go back to her mixtapes, esp. Reservation