The metal poll could also benefit from such visual professionalism (not throwing shade, just saying it would be awesome).
― pomenitul, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
cosigning; Moka's done a bang up job on all these!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
alas all metal band photos are the same
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
shocking admission - i have never knowingly listened to andrew wk before and now ilx is making me listen to andrew wk. that song is um, like if the darkness had grown up listening to kiss instead of queen?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
and just for clarity, i hate the darkness, i hate kiss, and now i hate ilx
http://i.imgur.com/g0Ln4as.jpg
72: Drake – “Nice for What” – 170 points – 5 votesvideo
Drake - Scorpion (June 29, 2018) ~it's a double album~thread for pics of Drake looking ridiculous
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25353
At this point, his personality is so firmly established that the little Drake offers here — lackluster rapping and familiar lyrics — is all we really need. He’s simply a peripheral but recognizable hypeman for the listener, offering supportive nice-guy-schtick in a way that can be comfortably ignored with an eye roll. If anything, the actual empowerment of women on “Nice for What” comes from how easily they can recognize his presence as superfluous. It turns out that Drake is at his most benevolent when he stands outside the frame, allowing the rest of the song to become a space for people to “hit them motherfucking angles.” – Joshua Minsoo Kim
Fucking Drake as master of ceremonies in party-starter mode, gliding (“roll on” and “slow song” should not rhyme so well) over an utterly unstoppable Murda Beatz-made gumbo with just the right touch of “Triggerman” and an airy flip of “Ex-Factor.” Unlike “Hotline Bling” and “One Dance” before it, “Nice for What” features its chameleonic creator straining only to let the influences he’s synthesizing shine in their own right. Drake has been making #1 songs like these for a long time but not all of them have let Big Freedia be an indomitable (if lamentably uncredited and unseen) force or been creative triumphs so profound that it’s worth putting aside cynicism. – Andy Hutchins
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
good song
― lowercase (eric), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
uuuuuuuuuuugh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
xxxxxps to Simon:
I don't know man, Vargrav's studded classicism and Severoth's pensive druidism are worlds away.
― pomenitul, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
appropriately low for a drake song i've enjoyed
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
I will never click harder on anything than I will when the "mute" option goes live on Spotify Desktop and I head to the Drake page
a lot better than average for a drake song but i didn't quite understand why this was acclaimed as it was elsewhere (very controversially i like "in my feelings" more), this placement feels about right
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
can't wait till he finally gets cancelled for grooming underage women
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
"comfortably ignored with an eye roll" is right
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
Drake is not worse than "Nice for What" is well produced and that's as good a compliment as I can give it. That said, the old adage about mixing 10 gallons of ice cream and a half gallon of horseshit yielding 10 1/2 gallons of horseshit still applies.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Wtg Andrew WK!
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
I'm always surprised when Drake shows up in the EOY polls because I remember there's a bloc on ILM that actually doesn't think he's a clown?― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:22 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:22 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he's the biggest pop star of the past decade & ILM is ostensibly receptive to popular music so that might have something to do with it
― ⅋ (crüt), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
We aimed for the customary #78 and just missed
― seandalai, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
also WOO POLL
drake has killed the thread. people are still in 'if you can't say anything nice, say nothing' mode
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
tbf I took care to say something not nice
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
there's really so little to left to say to clown on drake at this point, everyone's probably tired of doing so at this point
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
we could clown those singles jukebox writeups instead i guess
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
In an alternate universe, Drake became a kind of Coxsone Dodd/ Berry Gordy figure and I don't find him nearly so tiresome
― rob, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
I'm actually impressed how little Drake there has been in our lists over the years.
― kitchen person, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gJsiQC9.jpg
71: DJ Koze – “Pick Up” – 170 points – 7 votesvideo
dj koze - kosi comes around
'Pick Up' seems destined for many a sunrise set in Ibiza this summer. – Thee Macallan 18 Year
I know it's everyone's favorite, but I'm pretty obsessed with “Pick Up”. It’s like a melancholy Air France… so basically the best music ever. – k3vin k.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
the very extended version of “pick up” is the ideal way to listen to it imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Oh man the explosion of color in that image card is beautiful!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
didn't vote for it / not hugely my thing, but this seems low!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
great tune
― nxd, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Expected this to make the top 20
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
this drake song is less bad than most drake I've heard
― silverfish, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
k3vin otm
didn't quite make my ballot but yeah this seems very low
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
The images are excellent! Reserved Koze for my albums ballot
― rob, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Images are excellent, but I also appreciate the blurbs. Great work, everyone!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
Pick Up is great, a late cut on my ballot
― silverfish, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
The Hauff is very nice. I might prefer it without the synth melody at 3:30, which takes over a little too soon.
― jmm, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
Hooray for the rollout and lovely images!
Didn’t vote for the Andrew WK track, but happy to see it here and bodes well for the albums poll.
― tangenttangent, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oD52Nmu.jpg
70: MGMT – “When You Die” – 171 points – 5 votes – 2 first place votesvideo
Congratulation to MGMT for their upcoming album
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
wow, I assumed "Me and Michael" was the only thing off this record that had a shot
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
Oh wow ok I guess it's 2007 again
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
this song and the album are just fine which was a huge improvement over their previous dreadful one
― ufo, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
The title track was good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Ulysses, do you want to start a mod request thread to pick up mistakes in the roll-out posts? I'm happy to get them and it'll make it easier for people to follow.
― emil.y, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Ah damn, that was meant to be an anonymod post. FFS.
― emil.y, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Sure thanks! will do that when i get off this call.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
really happy to see Andrew WK make the list. way to go, buddy. you did it
― frogbs, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
I'm still so surprised how much I ended up enjoying the MGMT album. It's their first album that actually manages to be good all the way through.
― kitchen person, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
i'm guessing this is one of those tracks that did well mostly because of the video
― imago, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link