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DON'T WANNA KNOOOW ABOUT THAT LOVE THANG!

Wannabe, Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1

a much lower strike rate than All Saints or even Eternal tbh

Those tracks are still great, but c'mon... 'Love Thing', 'Stop', 'Too Much', 'Viva Forever' ...

"Stop" is just a really boring pastiche and "Too Much" and "Viva Forever" are just really sludgy, inert songs that don't play to their strengths as a group or as individual singers. I've never knowingly heard "Love Thing" mind you

and importantly, it isn't just that those not-good songs are simply not good: ones like "Spice Up Your Life" and "Mama" are actively bad

spice up your life is actively good tho

importantly

it's not really though - where those early singles were like real situations of friendship, intimacy, trust, etc, "Spice Up Your Life" sounds like a hard sell for a branding project, albeit one where a line like "yellow man in Timbuktu" seems to have been overlooked

'Spice Up Your Life' was written and recorded in an afternoon, and is all the better for it. Have a look at 'Recording' here, it's a bizarre story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Up_Your_Life

"Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis was unimpressed with the lyrics, yet when comparing it to Aqua's "Barbie Girl", he found that its "unifying sentiment is more admirable"

:D

spice up your life bangs

meant bangs as a verb, but feel free to take the whole sentence as a command

It sounds like you’re sarcastically admonishing a long-dead rock critic to be more “poppist”

After being in love with rap for my whole life, 2018 has been the first time that I've felt like it has a very bad year for rap music. Dumb beefs, pointless deaths, lazy + phoned-in songs, bloated albums, and infuriating politics have become the centre of all discussions, with genuinely interesting and exciting music seeming to disappear completely. This is also a call for me to be proved wrong, please, if you do think there have been genuinely great things about in rap in 2018.

rico nasty, tierra whack and a lil b mixtape (the admittedly bloated platinum flame) are the only rap i've liked this year, but i'm not rap's best spokesperson

listen to those things though

Saba's Care for Me is quality.

i don’t get Durutti Column

― flopson, Freitag, 9. November 2018 20:37 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar

Saba's Care for Me is quality.

Really enjoying this, thank you.

I recall several covers. ELO?

Glad you like it, triggercut! 'Prom / King' in particular is a tour de force. I'll have to check out his debut as well.

the saba is very kendricky and agreeable

i feel deeply in love with the sheck wes record but that's less agreeable

Mudboy is ace!

Noname is doing great stuff as is Rapsody but they don't really fit into good narratives about what is cool in rap and also are women and too backpacker

Hadn't heard of Rapsody. Sounds cool, noted.

I can't think of a single Kinks song other than 'You've Really Got Me' that I'd ever like to hear again.

('You Really Got Me', rather.)

Agree. And I'd rather listen to Van Halen's version than the original anyway.

Good stuff.

I'd rather hear Come Dancing or Apeman than You Really Got Me.

"Father Christmas" is the best Christmas song

Hoping you mean Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas"

Hoping you mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3x_8cI2vY

I'd rather hear Come Dancing or Apeman than You Really Got Me.

I'd hardly call myself a Kinks fan, but Apeman is a sweet song.

Not only is Apeman a good song, but (controp alert) the soundtrack to the movie "Club Paradise" - on which it appears - is a good record. Jimmy Cliff. Yellowman. Elvis Costello. Mighty Sparrow.

The movie itself is a goof but it has its charms. Twiggy, Peter O'Toole.

apeman is certainly the kinks most racist song. it's not where I'd begin my defense of them

The absolutely gorgeous "This Time Tomorrow" is on the same album and we're stanning for Apeman? They have 3-4 dozen better songs

Is it more racist than "Black Messiah", ogmor? (I'd probably take "Black Messiah" over "Apeman", musically, though, if only by default.)

"A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" is my favourite of the Kinks songs I know. I don't really know why someone wouldn't also like "All Day and All of the Night" if they like "You Really Got Me".

I don't really know why someone wouldn't also like "All Day and All of the Night" if they like "You Really Got Me".

yeah this just weird to me, the sound of those records is just perfect

It had completely slipped my mind but yeah, I do like that song. Fuzzy Kinks are best Kinks.

Is it more racist than "Black Messiah", ogmor?

I was gonna say, "Black Messiah" is pretty much explicitly racist.

"Apeman" is by far my least favorite song on Lola, and the live versions -- especially in the '80s/'90s -- are atrocious. I'd take 3/4ths of the not-exactly-amazing Everybody's In Showbiz over "Apeman."

I don't really know why someone wouldn't also like "All Day and All of the Night" if they like "You Really Got Me".

yeah this just weird to me, the sound of those records is just perfect

― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:56 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always associated "Until the End of the Day" as part of that trilogy in my mind

worst Kinks song lyrically has got to be "Art Lover", no question. despite Ray's reputation as a world-class lyricist he has a tendency to be really clunky when he writes outside his niche.

I'd not heard black messiah... I think the accent is less straight up offensive than the one used to sing "i'm a king kong man, i'm a voodoo man, no i'm an apeman", it sounds more like sting.

How do we think the track Lola has held up on the problematic/unproblematic spectrum?

I think it's -- considering it's age -- remarkably good natured

i love the kinks but lola is embarrassing imo

I think the “worst” line is, ”Well I'm not the world's most masculine man.” Why couldn’t the narrator be a masculine man?

I think the story is even “better” if he’s a masculine man, no?

this song was written in 1970