just putting this here so I don't forget - trad ILM EOY confusion thread

I'm bummed so many people think the Ear Murderers are good.

Well, people also think Taylor Swift and Tyler the Creator are good so it's not really a shock to me.

No Taste Zone

My brother gave me an album by The 1978ers for my birthday that I wish I'd heard last year because I would have been pushing it heavily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utniz5PWhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QYsE2VdoeQ

Basically this is what I wanted to listen to for most of the year and I didn't even know

This is the band you were telling me about! Wow, this is great.

The whole album is FAAAAAANTASTIC

These two songs smoke, so I'm adding it to the purchase list.

Took a break, not related, but did I miss some reevaluation where people decided Drake wasn't hilariously awful?

lets see how long i last this year

bookmarked

huh. a good start

77. Jazmine Sullivan - Mascara

This is pretty good! I don't think that's ever been my reaction any other year to the first track so hopefully not a jinx, only criticism is some clunk lyrics wise and the potential for getting a little audio wallpapery, doesnt so much end as just drift off somewhere, still 7/10

76. Radiohead - Spectre

This sounds exactly like "Radiohead writes a song for a James Bond film" which is somehow super super gross to me, not in a "oh how could they" way but in the terrible combination of the worst of both of those two things. Remember when a James Bond theme wasn't an automatic bullet full of dull shot into whoever was making it? not a radiohead hater but this is phoned in no effort garbage. 3/10

76 RADIOHEAD "Spectre" (184 points, 5 votes, 1 first-place vote)
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75 THUNDERCAT FT. FLYING LOTUS AND KAMASI WASHINGTON "Them Changes"

I think I can't be impartial about this because i bear the deep scars of guitar store lifetime but the noodly watery envelope filter bass shit in this is so fucking grating and unlistenable that i cant give it a fair shake. shades of shrapnel records if they had put out anything not made by the whitest people available in new jersey. i get grabbed for moments, theres hooks but then saxophone or "blurgle bluggle wuuba wubba squee squa" bubbles up again and i just cant fucking take that shit. still better than the radiohead track. 4/10

74 FLOATING POINTS "Silhouettes (I, II, III)"

kind of reminds me of up bustle and out except for that part where something interesting happens eventually 5/10

Following this on social media this year it's good

55 ROMAN FLÜGEL "Black Towers" (224 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)

I Love Employee Orientation Video Music

i don't know that song but me too

flugel is the man

i just cannot take the vocals on 99% of this stuff... at all

feeling old and musty rn

i like jasmine sullivan's vocals pretty well, though!

i started listening to the nominations playlist a few weeks back, and seriously considered voting, but then after about a dozen or so tracks of tepid garbage, I decided I would rather listen to Bach and Roedelius and it isn't like my voting would make any difference in anyone's life, so I just gave up.

ditto

hopefully gaz will place high

my one regret in not voting.

Also, I did not formally release my Trap Queen IDM parody in time to be nominated.

Twink Peen?

Yap Queen

i took a Trap Queen midi file and mapped it to dog sounds

lol

I'm behind but I'm not feeling bad about that

ok so do i just skip to the top ten or abandon all hope

listen to the higher-ranking Sundfor song

im loading something by somethig called the 1975 right now that placed at 20

oh

oh no

what the goddamn hell is this

20 the 1975 "Ugh!"

so this is a joke right. or knowing recyling of garbage irony or something. what the shit. take the worst pop music of the late 80s/pos and resultant paste aagghhgh fuck this song. 2/10

hahahahahaha

ha every year i decide to rejoin in progress at some random point and its always somehow at one of the worst songs in the countdown i think

lol oh dear. There is a lot of good stuff in this rundown after that abomination, I swear.

19 JACK Ü FT. JUSTIN BIEBER "Where Are Ü Now" (380 points, 14 votes)

this is innocuous mushy pop ballad sung well enough and then hamfisted uptempo then back to mush then back to yeah i get the idea 4/10

going to jump back and forth here a bit since the top ten is happening i think

10 DAVID BOWIE "Blackstar"

im about to piss of a bunch of people probably but uh. its ok? vocal doubling is dull, hate the saxophone intrusion, dont like the drum sound choices, moments where it almost catches my ear but yeah. not a fan so far. 4 minute mark might be turning that around though? ehhh as a guy who likes disjointed things more than most, this is kind of a mess. sorry, all respect but just no. 5/10

Blackstar album better than Blackstar song.

18 TOVE STYRKE "Ego" (381 points, 10 votes, 1 first-place vote)

every country gets its own kylie minogue i guess? or something? its..fine. i suppose. 5/10

9. DONNIE TRUMPET AND THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT "Sweet Candy"

So a series of reactions. Name prepared me for some twee fuckstick garbage shit. was wrong. saw this on SNL i think and thought it was horrible live. On record, it's apparently great. Yay suprises. 8/10

8. Missy Elliott - "WTF" feat. id rather not talk about it

It's Missy so clearly it rules, appreciate the mostly lack of Pharell although its less horrible than usual, maybe she yelled at him enough to suck less. there can alwaays be less pharell though. docked 1 point for pharrell content. 7/10

Pharrell is the cursed sword of pop music. -1 to everything.

sometimes i try to think about a song like, idk, "get lucky" by daft punk ft. anyone else and i like the song more.

17 GRIMES "Kill V. Maim" (384 points, 11 votes)

what little voice fucking whine shit nonsense is this all chirpy and terrible. its like everything people hate abt j-pop with a coda of evanescence thrown in at minute 2:45. or a whole song based around the worst instincts of lady gaga. people really miss kreayshawn huh. fuck this song. 1/10

the sixth best song on her masterful album art angels but still a solid 8/10. maybe 9.