see how all the artists have been different? hasn't that been exciting? (starting my rules change campaign early )
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
lol but true xp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
Love the album, voted for it. If I'd voted for a song it would probably have been Dangerous. On Hold placed last year, right?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I believe so.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
Not sure about combining points for originals and remixes that can be voted for separately. What's to stop someone heaving 98 points onto a single placement? Anyway, it's decent-ish disco so w/e― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:47 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:47 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You can't vote for more than one version of a song, just like you can't vote for the same song twice.
― ? (seandalai), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I may like or dislike an artist, I may like every other measure of a particular song, but the second I hear a fucking "oh whoa oh" part I check out.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
(Not throughout pop history...just in recent years. Y'all know that "oh whoa oh" I'm talkin' 'bout.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
may like or dislike an artist, I may like every other measure of a particular song, but the second I hear a fucking "oh whoa oh" part I check out swoon.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
After their totally forgettable second album and Jamie's dreary solo one, I really didn't think I needed another XX album in my life, but I went back to I See You a lot last year. Might be my favourite album of theirs now.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
much has been writ of the millennial whoop
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
I suspect I'd like the XX a lot more if it wasn't for the dude singing literally everything in exactly the same way regardless of what it is. I get about a verse into any of their songs, whichever era it's from, and it's just such a chore.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
coexist was much better than i remembered when i revisited it recently, though it has few duds and i see you is definitely better
i wish the songs with romy from in colour had just made their way onto i see you instead
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
the oh whoa ohh in I Dare You doesn't count as a millenial whoop imo
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Why? It sounds exactly like every other one.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yUHlTBR.jpg
52 MAMA "Unmask Me" [172 points, 4 votes] [48 points for "(Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix)"] https://youtu.be/riJZxSiXyqU
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
I voted highly for the XX track, sucker for anything with a Glitterbeat. I voted for another glam influenced track, but if that places expect the board to go into meltdown.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
YES
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
>1000 views on Youtube! a victory for ILM. vocals reeeeally remind me of something
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
get a kind of, I want to say, Nicolette? vibe
― rob, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Mask track was new to me going thru the entire playlist but def stood out, not just for the length. co Nicolette OTM
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:35 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:38 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really enjoying how much more meaningless "millennial whoop" is now and it was meaningless to begin with
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
yes I was gonna say 'one of the Massive Attack collaborators'!!
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
a split second "oh hooo" is a millennial whoop now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
As a label, it's meaningless. As a device, it torments me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
I really dig this Mama track btw. The video is great (I love hair shearing videos.)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
this was my no. 6 and is the first song on my ballot to place since "nightwork"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
I know people say this every year, but a few of the placing tracks having been *barely* mentioned on the borad makes me think we could stand to have a few more longshot threads on individual songs
― rob, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
<1000 views on Youtube, I meant to say. got overexcited
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
i also voted for the ashley beedle mix even though the original is also staggering
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
I didn't vote so I suppose I shouldn't complain but aside from Kelela, Laurel Halo, Kedr Livanskiy and Charlotte Gainsbourg, thus far this list makes it seem like 2017 was an awful year for music.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Just not longshot threads about "Kill White Fragility" workshops. Otherwise they devolve into weird discussions on snare sounds and 311.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
never heard of unmask me before but it's got a nice groove
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
we could stand to have a few more longshot threads on individual songs
I know my own tastes and how they vibe with the ilm pop at large, so it's almost always a fruitless endeavor for me. Also, it seems like I burn out on such songs and never return to the thread.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7p60lxU.jpg
51 ST. VINCENT "New York" [172 points, 8 votes] https://youtu.be/4TPqUvy1vYU
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
This worked.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
Start the thread and stop worrying about whether or not anyone will respond. Plenty of old ILM threads had one or two responses and then snowballed.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
only part of this i like is the second verse with the synths & strings
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
This works for me today for whatever reason. Has never been a highlight of the album for me, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
i'm guessing "los ageless" will also place
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
New York was a huge grower for me. It seemed too slight for a lead single. Now I'd probably put it just behind Slow Disco as my favourite on the album. I love her in sad mode (Prince Johnny and I Prefer Your Love were my favourites on the self titled).
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Relieved it's not higher tbh, such a gloopy record.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
hey JF, I was the #1 voter for Isbell, thrilled that it placed.
In a year with a deep bench but few absolute stunners, "If We Were Vampires" truly stood out for me, just a devastating ballad with lyrics that walk right up to the edge of corniness, but sound so good over that guitar line that it transcends the concept of "corniness" altogether. Like JF said, the central conceit is, "If we were immortals, relationships wouldn't mean anything," but Isbell takes it a step further and says, "so what?" Maybe it's death that makes life meaningful, but when you're with your soulmate, 40 years together, or 50 years or 100 years, is far too short. Beautiful, beautiful song.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
I didn't get the appeal of this latest St Vincent album at all
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
You, EZ and I accounted for 136 of its points, so go us!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Oh wait, bad math. 146 of its points.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
high five
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
one day, one of you will be high fiving, and there won't be another high five there to meet it ;_;
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/itXADk7.jpg
50 PATRICE BÄUMEL "Glutes" [175 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote] https://youtu.be/Abjbg2HYz14
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:20 AM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what is the sound of one high five clapping
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
yessss glutes!!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link