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

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

Yeah so far the standouts are the a$ap ferg, angel haze, bardo pond and uh kacey musgrave ? Wrt stuff I hadn't heard before.

Duly noted xpost

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nb can't throw stones because "Get Lucky" was my #1

Bipp - Sophie - ok this string of stuff is giving my pessimism a much needed break. This is fucking super cool. I mean there's obv roots in old school here but this is how you make that work. Vocal just on the right side of chirpy w/o ruining everything, great weirdo vibe. Yeah, another winner here.

Disclosure track slightly less annoying on second shuffle listen, but I still wish they had realized that 4 repeats of the fire line would have been enough with maybe a few partial recalls not the whole damn song.

the entire Disclosure album is comfort food; every song basically makes its point in about 2 minutes and then repeats itself, whether that's good or bad is entirely dependent on how much you liked those first 2 min

(ftr I really, REALLY liked it)

Looks like get lucky took number one so lemme just go ahead and say how much I hate that song and forever have since the first moment and also fuck that album forever.

NA super otm.

Ya hey - vampire weekend - putting a weird noise in your chorus does not save you from meandering into being a bland boring indie band, it just makes you a bland boring indie band with a weird noise dropped thoughtlessly in your chorus. I wasn't a hater or a lover out of the gate w/this band like lots were (that me and your sister or whatever song was ok) but woof, I am so done w/ these people at this point judging from this song.

I really hate the new Vampire Weekend album, and I really liked the first two

On the production side I want to hunt down their vocal reverb guy and kill him

I like Vampy Weekend

Gave the album another go this morning and it's largely horrible apart from Step and Hanna Hunt. Loved the first two records.

Most of this stuff I'm just like "I'm sure this is great but it's just not my thing" but I listened to the Paramore songs because I thought they were a "rock band" and they are so awful.

Ugh I feel like I'm being so negative on this thread, sorry. I don't know why these polls bring out the worst in me. And I knew ahead of time the tracks poll would be weighted toward stuff I don't like/care about and it still made me angry.

This is the thread for being negative without starting a big fight, though, right?

I agree on Paramore - I was led to believe that they'd added pop to their rock, not just taken away the rock completely. Very disappointing.

whoever called them nu-Roxette on the poll thread was so, so OTM

the reactions from some people on the thread are hilarious, like anytime something that isn't pop enough shows up it's like a DJ dropped a bad song into their rave.

The lyrics for "Still Into You" are too obvious and the music does nothing for me. I can see how it would have broad appeal but I prefer my romance several steps removed from "I remember meeting your mom" and I like my rock music to rock a little more.
Oh well. Not my thing.

Paramore reminds me of No Doubt.

Paramore reminds me of No Doubt.

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:15 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i said this on the poll thread! no doubt probably still had better songs tho.

Paramore reminds me of No Doubt.

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:15 PM (30 minutes ago)

Oh there we go! That is the missing link.

there was a run of 3 songs earlier today where the vocals sounded almost exactly the same all by 3 different acts. I like the backing music on Sky Ferreira tracks better than most of the other stuff of her ilk, but whoever compared her to Suicide is just .... talk about serious disappointment of the Analympics/Animalympics variety

hahaha yeah that threw me off

i might start a poll thread for "most Rong statement" from the trax poll thread

nominees include:
Sky Ferreira - Suicide comparison
dog latin's Hot Fruit - Ascension comment
j0rdy's insight about swastikas

pls add
Paramore = poignant love song

i guess that's not as rong as the others

hot fruit/coltrane definitely brought the most lols for me

maybe it is poignant to the 15 yr old girls I saw at Target the other day who looked like they listen to Paramore

dog latin's Hot Fruit - Ascension comment

Haha, yeah, I loved this. A champion move.

probably "pompous drumming" should also go on the list

yeah, it's definitely poignant to someone, just not me and i am not fit to be an arbiter of poignance on this planet or any other.

which song featured pompous drumming?

lol deafheaven i think, where the drumming is pretty workmanlike and dull for the genre

really not feeling many of the songs on the tracks-list. making me feel old and unhip, i guess.

and deafheaven gives me a headache, so i know i'm old.

definitely made me feel my age -- mainly because of how retro a lot of things were.

unhip - nah dude, you voted for Vatican Shadow

any vatican shadow or prurient tracks make the list

whoa synchronicity xp

no (xp)

I mean, i posted that before reading any posts ittxp

maybe the album will make it, it rules.

no chance.

i also don't get the over-the-top love for one artist in particular. i mean, i like her, too, but not

I WOKE UP THIS WAY
I WOKE UP THIS WAY

levels of love.

I am totally singing "I woke up this way" next time that song comes on