Every December I discover an album I should've blasted earlier in the year.
This December it was Kali Uchis'.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Great start, probably my favourite track on the Kali Uchis record. Great image too.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 28 January 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
I wish "Your Teeth in My Neck" had been a single.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wC4LrbU.jpg
76: Red Velvet – “Bad Boy” – 164 points – 5 votesvideo
Kpop 2018
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25005
The vocal performances are great, the melody is sticky, and it’s one of the few songs I can think of that actually feels sexy rather than aiming for it and missing. – Alex Clifton
That subtle “way-o way-o” buried in the chorus is the tune’s most insidious hook, though it took a couple plays to find. – Al Soto”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
I only cast an albums ballot but gl hf all.
― pomenitul, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
Al Soto?! Is my dad writing reviews too?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
I always mean to check out more kpop during the year, but the poll always ends up being where I find out about it all. This is good.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
not one of my kpop picks this year but still a delightful track, very happy to see this place. love the way the vocal lines intersect in the chorus
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
you'll always be al to me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
love this one
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
xp (if you'll be my bodyguard)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
fuck the images are OUTSTANDING
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
"Bad Boy" also got an official English version for those curious: https://youtu.be/1_0LRhtdUBo
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Yay. "Bad Boy" was produced by The Stereotypes and I really enjoyed this video about how they made the track.
― Roz, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
both the Korean and English "Bad Boy" are on the playlist fwiw; that'll be the plan for anything that has multiple language versions
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
Don't forget to vote in the metal poll! Voting is only open for two weeks!
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 2nd!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
\m/
hoping for 1 or 2 metal-adjacent things in this poll. let's seeeee
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
"in my dreams" is quite delicately framed
"the moments we are happiest are the moments that we don't exist"
which way are ppl taking this?
― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Good start to the countdown. I voted for a different Kali Uchis song, but In My Dreams is a lovely song. Certainly the best thing Damon was involved with this year.
― kitchen person, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
i voted for 2 kpop tracks this year up from my usual 0 so you folks finally got me
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/viLzKw7.jpg
74 (Tie): Laura Jean – “Girls on the TV” – 164 points – 6 votesvideo
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25856
A tale of dashed female friendship akin to Who Will Run the Frog Hospital or Cat’s Eye; what it loses in prose it gains in a kaleidoscopic, wistful arrangement. It fills its six minutes well; like memory itself, it alternates between immediate and almost photorealistic (that one deep synth around 0:30), then languid and ungraspable. – Katherine St Asaph
I’m unaccustomed to hearing such brusque, direct, and yet tender third-person storytelling in modern synth-pop. Jean’s memories of sitting in front of rage on a Saturday morning when young serve as an access point into an important story that deserved to be recounted. – William John
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
This checks off all the boxes of something I'd be predisposed to liking, but I never got much out of it. Huh.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
lovely song
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
just a great opening run so far
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
wow way too low, i was hoping the TSJ high score might push this into like the top 20 as sometimes happens? my #2, just a perfect groove with an affecting narrative
i really recommend the album version which lets things groove out for another few minutes: https://youtu.be/G1egX_w_msM
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
Way close to my #1.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
Another one that lost out in my final cull, such a beautiful track.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
I've never heard of this. Do the TSJ-only quotes mean no one on ilm ever posted about it?
― rob, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
basically, or that commentary was limited to "i like this" more or less.now's the opportunity to discuss!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
(if i'm wrong, please post links!)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
I liked the video a lot but the song just never stuck with me.
― Roz, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
"the moments we are happiest are the moments that we don't exist"which way are ppl taking this?― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:12 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:12 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
from user hazeviii on genius.com:
This could have two meanings:When they are the happiest, they have reached a sort of euphoria that leads them to feel as though they don’t exist. More simply, when Kali/Damon are no longer conscious and obsessive over their lives and selves, they are the happiest.The happiest moments are when Kali/Damon aren’t in them. Because they live such tragic lives and are exposed to such horrible events, they live in dreams where their physical selves don’t exist and could never exist in.
When they are the happiest, they have reached a sort of euphoria that leads them to feel as though they don’t exist. More simply, when Kali/Damon are no longer conscious and obsessive over their lives and selves, they are the happiest.
The happiest moments are when Kali/Damon aren’t in them. Because they live such tragic lives and are exposed to such horrible events, they live in dreams where their physical selves don’t exist and could never exist in.
I can see how it could read as a wish for oblivion / death / end of relationship too.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
is this entire list going to be governed by a shady external institution known as 'the singles jukebox' ;)
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I'd not voted before, and had little clue about the odds of selections placing. But that makes 2/3 so far.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
xxp or you cld take it as arguing that happiness has an essential unreal/fantastic quality
― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/J2iSdQq.jpg
74 (Tie): Andrew W.K. – “Music Is Worth Living For” - 164 points – 6 votesvideo
Andrew WK: C/D?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
lol
adios, singles jukebox
i didn't vote for this but i approve
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
YESS
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
I've heard precisely 0% of this list so far.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
lol very ilm
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
this is as close to metal as we're getting, I think. also the first of my votes to appear
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
the heroic intersection of bro-ish party metal and self-help
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
As someone who really adored the I Get Wet album and gave almost no fucks about anything he's made since then, this is no different. I Get Wet sounded easy. This sounds labored.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
I voted for the more radical "I don't know anything"
― ogmor, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
that rapid bit of falsetto in the chorus made me cackle so i got more than i expected to out of an andrew wk single from 2018 at least
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
the painful intersection of hearing music and seeking help
― saer, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
xxxp close calls with brick walls, dude!!
all the stuff he's done since i get wet has dealt more or less openly with struggles against depression - that's where the laboredness comes in perhaps. i think it adds another layer myself
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
omg saer
I voted for a different Andrew WK song, but I'm glad to see this make it on here.
― MarkoP, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
this one didn't do it for me like the old ones
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
you could play mo bamba at a starbucks if you wanted to tear the fucker up
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Friday, February 1, 2019 3:41 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Friday, 1 February 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
does anyone wanna go to the mat for the ella mae album? i never ended up listening to it
― J0rdan S., Friday, February 1, 2019 4:50 PM
I don't know about going to the mat, but it's pretty good if too damn long.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
I voted for Americans, but would definitely had put Screwed on there as well if I'd thought it had traction. Love both tracks, the highlights of the album.
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 February 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
she definitely walks a tightrope with that stuff but given 1) the fact that her and Prince were buddies 2) Prince's recent death and 3) Janelle being an equally electric performer I think it gets a pass. I don't think it's inferior to "Kiss"...just, sorta the same. Ditto for "Americans" and "Lets Go Crazy"― frogbs, Friday, February 1, 2019 2:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― frogbs, Friday, February 1, 2019 2:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tip on it!
https://t411435.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/tightrope-cover-photo.png
― jaymc, Friday, 1 February 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Also would have voted for She Works Out Too Much by MGMT and 5 Dollars by Christine & The Queens
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
like not everyone could agree on the more scrambled and runic autechre tracks from the sessions but almost everyone agreed that “all end” melted their brain down into pancake batter
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, February 1, 2019 8:00 AM (eight hours ago)
👍
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
The first part of the Kero Kero Bonito didn't really entice me at all but after the discussion of it getting noisy, I listened to the whole thing and, wow, it did not go where I expected. By the way, if you like the CD skipping trick, check out Theo Bleckmann's and Ben Monder's version of "I Remember You" - they do the trick live in real time.
I guess I hadn't realized how, uh, disco new country could get, listening to the Musgraves.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:37 (five years ago) link
I had been foolishly hoping and assuming that "post-flamenco art-pop" meant there would be rasgueados on nylon-string guitars but "Pienso En Tu Mirá" is interesting anyway.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
I know you’ve all been waiting for this one, a valuable tradition started (afaik) by Lex, here it is, beter late than never...
YOUR OFFICIAL COUNTRY BREAKDOWN:
AUSTRALIA (4): Hatchie, The Chats, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Laura JeanCANADA (2): Marie Davidson, DrakeCOLOMBIA (5⁄6): [Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny &] J Balvin (⅓), Kali Uchis (½)DENMARK (1): Kasper MarottFRANCE (1½): Christine and the Queens [ft. Dâm-Funk] (1½)GERMANY (4⅓): Die Wilde Jagd, [Talaboman/] Superpitcher (⅓), Kim Petras, DJ Koze, Helena HauffHONDURAS (½): Empress Of (½) IRELAND (2): Krystal Klear, Roísín MurphyITALY (1): Donato DozzyJAPAN (1): Mitski (2 x ½)NEW ZEALAND (2): The Beths (2)NIGERIA (1): Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza MilliPUERTO RICO (⅓): [Cardi B ft.] Bad Bunny [& J Balvin] (⅓)SOUTH AFRICA (3): Simmy (ft. Sun-El Musician) (2); Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNSSOUTH KOREA (2): Peggy Gou, Red VelvetSPAIN (2⅓): Rosalía (2), Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)SWEDEN (1⅓): Robyn, Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)UK (14): The 1975 (4), Ella Mai, Jessie Ware, Kero Kero Bonito, Tirzah, Tracey Thorn, Let’s Eat Grandma, Peach, Autechre, Jon Hopkins, Fabiana PalladinoUSA (325⁄6): Lana Del Rey (2); Ariana Grande (2), Janelle Monáe, Mitski (2 x ½), Kacey Musgraves (2); Sheck Wes, Julia Holter, Pusha T, Empress Of (½), Eris Drew, Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J, [Christine and the Queens ft.] Dâm-Funk (½), Lizzo, Octo Octa, Khalid ft. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign, Valee ft. Jeremih, Doja Cat, Beach House, MGMT (2), Mr. Twin Sister (2); Natalie Prass, Hop Along, Cardi B [ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin] (⅓), mewithoutyou, Toni Braxton, Soccer Mommy, Ravyn Lenae, Parquet Courts, Andrew W.K., Kali Uchis (½)
Of course, Drake cheated by crediting neither Big Freedia, nor 5th Ward Weebie, nor Lauryn Hill, and DJ Koze would have done well to credit Gladys Knight - but then again, US artists are overrepresented anyway \_(ツ)_/¯
Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 2 February 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
lol thanks!
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
i’ve never been in a starbucks and i’m not interested in the sort of music they may or may not play inside
― budo jeru, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
Their coffee is way burned.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:02 (five years ago) link
― budo jeru, Friday, February 1, 2019
I dont believe you
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
what do they play in dunkin donuts tho
― budo jeru, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link
it makes me happy that "It Makes You Forget (itgehane)" won this poll
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:35 (five years ago) link
I dont believe you”You’re a liiiiiar! Play it fuckin’ loud!https://gaslightrecords.com/assets/img/feature/dylan-1966-melbourne.jpg
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 2 February 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link
he acts like he’s never drank dreck
― budo jeru, Saturday, 2 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday,
these lads need to get thisen in a Greggs, £1.40 brexit beans coffee, fist bumps and garage bangers all before 11am
― saer, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:17 (five years ago) link
thanks to Moka and forks and all the voters! pretty good consistency this year, with no insanely wild highs, nor hideous turds apart from The 1975
anybody NOT want me to go ahead with this? Just want to make sure i don't get yelled at in an hour.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, February 1, 2019 6:53 AM (two hours ago)
yes, me, I'm having trouble keeping up obv (and so was another following-along exlxor I talked to in a bar last night)
Today makes two months since I've last smoked a cigarette after smoking for 26 years, so I'm pretty over them now. That's a hot photo though.
CONGRATULATIONS JOHNNY FEVER!
NB to UK/AU ILXors: i had never heard the term "Smoko" before this song
had UK ilxors?
or you can listen to it here: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98703-autechre-nts-sessions-1-4
I accepted cookies in two different browsers and this still didn't work. now Sheffield has my n00dz and I have to buy an industrial fan instead
Did you know “Hang With Me” is a cover? The original is an shy, intimate, almost folky love song, to which Robyn adds the “recklessly, headlessly” chorus
worth noting the reversioning, but Klas Ahlund re-arranging and re-recording one of his own songs (yet again) isn't exactly Robyn covering. since the Body Talk writing credits* break down when she contributed lyrics to a song, seems likely that the new chorus was him too.
*(16/19 by Klas, 14/19 by Robyn)
going back to Robyn's earlier work after Honey was disappointing, a fair few great singles but not any great albums
tbf she's only had two proper solo albums (post her teenpop era), and this is the first one released in the US
monae gives me the same ilm-bait vibes as that big boi record that won the albums poll here and then no one really talked about again->I had Shutterbug on and off my running playlist for a good while
I went back to a few jams from the album last month, still bangs
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 2 February 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
I rate the Janelle album very highly and it made the top three on my ballot I think but 'Make Me Feel' is the only one I ever feel the urge to skip, it's just too on-the-nose as homages go. (And it's definitely a homage first and foremost rather than a pastiche, although it might be that as well).
― Matt DC, Saturday, 2 February 2019 09:50 (five years ago) link
I realize I've been sort of conflating Kero Kero Bonito and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. I'm probably not the first.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 2 February 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link
― Tuomas, Saturday, 2 February 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
I voted for Americans, but would definitely had put Screwed on there as well if I'd thought it had traction.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
I thought 'Americans' was the best song on the album, and have a strict 1-song-per-artist rule, unless there's a good reason to have two songs on, such as Screwed having a shot at making it.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
Ok, I get it, but based on the discussion here it seems the reason "Screwed" didn't have a shot at making it was because people who liked it thought it didn't have a shot at making it. So, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
_ Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!_Since your list seems to be based on country of origin and not residence, according to Resident Advisor Peach is a Canadian who lives in the UK.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link
the world is a starbucks by war
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
saw this in tunbridge wells earlier today, good luck uk
https://i.ibb.co/jbBx1py/4-B076-D0-D-F9-E1-4-EE7-89-B8-763544455-A89.jpg
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Saturday, 2 February 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
__ Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!_Since your list seems to be based on country of origin and not residence, according to Resident Advisor Peach is a Canadian who lives in the UK._Thanks, Tuomas. Yes, I went with country of origin and/or self-identification, more or less. DJs seem to be more elusive than most in this regard, or require a bit more googling at least. Hope I didn’t make too much of a shambles of it...
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
and I have to buy an industrial fan instead
walked through a downtown commuter tunnel that's about to be filled with concrete yesterday, with industrial fans thundering breathable air from the streets above, and thought of this
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
i give "boo'd up" extra points for sounding distinctly like a huge R&B hit circa 2005. i thought it was telling that mariah basically repaid the homage by getting dj mustard to produce the same sort of glassy R&B song for her own album. the emancipation of mimi influence snake eating its own tail.
the starbucks on 43rd and madison by my old office was always playing R&B from like 98-06 and "boo'd up" could definitely have gotten some burn in there
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
I dipped into this thread briefly a couple of days ago, but just getting around to fully catching up with it now - I can't believe 'Give Yourself a Try' placed and 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' didn't. Can't fault the other 1975 tracks that placed.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link