your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

this belongs in there too:

🇳🇬🇹🇹adekunle gold ft. nailah blackman • ag baby

(but I already cheated with the Kabzas...)

Pantayo - Kaingin
Gal Costa – India
Patrice Rushen – To Each His Own
Deniece Williams – Free
Living Colour – I Want To Know
Curve – Left Of Mother
Drugstore – Fader
Roni Size - Hi-Potent
L7 - Pretend We're Dead
Katie Dey - Dancing
KeiyaA - Hvnli

Deniece Williams – Free

oh dude. this is one of the single most serious jams of all time. good lord, what a beautiful song.

🇿🇦de mthuda ft. ntokzin & malumnator • dakwa yini
🇳🇬dj tunez ft. wizkid • cool me down
🇳🇬fireboy dml • lifestyle
🇹🇷gülşen & edis • nirvana
🇺🇸jazmine sullivan • lost one
🇳🇱jonna fraser ft. darkoo & diztortion • downfall
🇿🇦njelic ft. malumnator, de mthuda & ntokzin • tsotsi
🇳🇬omah lay • bad influence
🇫🇷70 shiine x nacho • domino
🇳🇬tiwa savage • koroba (+ the whole celia album really)
🇿🇦vico da sporo ft. sandile • luthando

🇫🇷aya nakamura • doudou
🇳🇬bella alubo • la la land
🇿🇦dj lace ft. khanye • izint ezinhle
🇿🇦kota embassy ft. cue • sugar mama
🇿🇦🇿🇼makhadzi ft. jay prayzah • kokovha
🇫🇷poplane • mo lé
🇿🇦simmy ft. da capo & sun-el musician • emakhaya
🇿🇦sun-el musician ft. nobuhle • never never
🇳🇬tems • the key
🇳🇬🇬🇧tiwa savage ft. hamzaa • pakalamisi
🇳🇬wizkid • no stress

sad to see so few other ilxors having (enough?) favourite songs anymore. give it a shot, folx (and feel free to stick to black and white)!

79rs gang - 79rs bout to blow
william bell - i forgot to be your lover
qotsa - first it giveth
mac dre - on my toes
entombed - seeing red
ac/dc - inject the venom
bob seger - 2+2+4
burna boy - bank on it
albert king - born under a bad sign
cat stevens - how many times
hi-c - say woop ft suga free

gene clark - lady of the north
chic - you can't go it alone
king von - i am what i am ft. fivio foreign
exploding flowers - mirror to mirror, face to face
the band - in a station
the beatnuts - props over here
gabor szabo - galatea's guitar
pharaoh sanders - colors
jacobites - all the dark rags
altered images - love & kisses
chief keef & mike will made it - bang bang

that bob seger song is supposed to be 2 + 2 = ? and it rules

oh wow, 79rs Gang is/are fantastic, am knee deep in the album now. thank you Spottie!

its really good front to back yah

Hard to believe it's been 12 years since I last posted on this thread. TBH I have no recollection of some of the songs I've previously posted here. I guess I should give them a re-listen. Anyhow, here's an updated list for today:

Billie Holiday feat. Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
Elvis Presley - Only the Strong Survive
The Miracles - What's So Good About Goodbye
West Side Story OCR - Gee, Officer Krupke
The Murlocs - Comfort Zone
King Krule - Stoned Again
The Garden feat. Mac DeMarco - Thy Mission
Say Sue Me - Old Town
Asphyx - Last One on Earth
Ne Zhdali - Knife

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Farm in the Middle of Nowhere
Inner City - Good Life
Zeroh - Aquamane
Sade - Be That Easy
Autechre - Leterel
Tom Zé - Toc
Yves Jarvis - For Props
Land of Talk - Footnotes
Loraine James - Don't You See It
Yo La Tengo - Roll On Babe
Cheryl Lynn - All My Lovin'

hot tub boys - yikes
motörhead - overkill
blind lemon jefferson - jack of diamonds
mandy smith - just can’t wait (cool and breezy jazz version)
reba mcentire- so, so, so long
billie eilish - ocean eyes
siouxsie and the banshees - cities in dust
judas priest - exciter
grant - bend
byrds - take a whiff on me (live)
rolling stones - if i was a dancer (dance part 2)

Nerija -Blume
Karl Hector & The Malcouns -Semai Thaqil
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Go my heart, go to Heaven
Lemongrass - Habla Mi Corazon - Kevin Yost's Otherside of the World Remix
Gregory Porter - 1960 What? - Opolopo
Kefaya - Symphony

David Walters - Pa Le
Missy Nouackshott - DuOud
Bedouin Set the Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Orange Alert - Metro Area
X & G - Gravity (feat Josh Pan) Josh Pan remix
Sivey - Slow Wave

Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
Blanck Mass - Sundowner
Gillian Welch - Picasso
The Bobby Fuller Four - Love's Made A Fool of You
Owen Pallett - Paragon of Order (Version)
Sault - Strong
Cleo Sol - When I'm In Your Arms
Gavin Clark - Bermondsey Stutter
Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Public Life
Stuart Dempster - Melodic Communion
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here

Omar S - Sloppy Joe
Underground Resistance - Timeline
Jeremih, Chance the Rapper & Valee - Are U Live
Jenevieve - Medallion
MV & EE - On The Hook (Doin'it)
Lucinda Williams - Faith & Grace
OZO - Nuclear Fuel
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Hard On For Love
Marcellus Pittman - Razz 09
Boof - Chicken With Waffles
Socialstyrelsen - Misär + Misär

chloe x halle - ungodly hour
luniz - put the lead on ya (ft. dru down)
ymtk - dizzy love (ft rexx life raj)
swv - weak
wizkid - blessed (ft. damian marley)
hall & oates - out of touch
ratt - givin yourself away (the hook is stuck in my head)
spice 1 - peace to my nine
lord paper - asabone
terrace martin - sweeter (ft leon bridges)
saba - so and so

lord paper - asabone

oh yes!💃🏻🕺🏼

very lively jam

🇦🇼ataniro ft. steve andreas • dios para den
🇺🇸avalon emerson • rotting hills
🇿🇦bee kay ft. manqonqo • imali
🇺🇸🇪🇸billie eilish & rosalía • lo vas a olvidar
🇿🇦dj obza ft. leon lee • mang’ dakiwe
🇬🇧d’vo • mbalax
🇿🇦junior de rocka x lady du ft. mr jazziq, mellow & sleazy • catalia
🇿🇦kelvin momo ft. sino msolo & souloho • madlamini
🇩🇪marianne rosenberg • er ist nicht wie du
🇳🇬olamide ft. bad boy timz • loading
🇸🇷tekisha abel • lolo bal

seems I never posted this one from two months ago, so off the record:

🇳🇬blaq jerzee ft. tekno • one leg up
🇿🇦busiswa ft. mr jazziq • makazi
🇳🇬eltee skhillz ft. niniola • lucy (remix)
🇯🇲jahvillani ft. skillibeng • smooth
🇺🇸jazmine sullivan • pick up your feelings
🇿🇦mthandazo gatya ft. dj manzo sa & comado • senzeni
🇳🇬omah lay • godly
🇳🇬rema • peace of mind
🇿🇦samthing soweto ft. de mthuda, da muziqal chef & malumnator • tilili
🇳🇱s10 • maria
🇳🇬🇯🇲wizkid ft. tay iwar & projexx • true love

Baseline - You've Gone feat. Lorraine Chambers
Venus Ex Machina - Mysterium
Heart Sphere - E​.​R. (Emergency Relief) (Guitar Mix)
bar italia - skyline
Yu Su - Xiu
Doja Cat - Streets
Sofia Kourtesis - La Perla
Benedek - Street Level
Derrick Cross - Never Too Much
Eyedress - Jealous
Muchos Plus - Nassau's Discos

* bar italia - skylinny

(damn autocorrect)

Ascending guitars - Smashing Pumpkins
Miss World - Hole
Softer, Softest - Hole
Try a little tenderness - Otis Redding
I wanna Be Adored - The Stone roses
Feuilles d'Album in A-Flat Major
Just to see you smile - instrumental - Spacemen 3
Clementine - Elliott Smith
Ivan's Boat - Rex
Top of the world - Carpenters

Good lord, I don't think I've ever seen this thread but a lot of the original posts reek of "don't you dare peg me as someone that reads Pitchfork! I listen to 67% shitty popular radio music along with my 33% canonical indie rock". Do people actually start becoming themselves further down or does it continue on like that up until the present day?

why don’t you just post your own 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck

breastcrawl otm

original 11s from 2004 are mostly great, simpler times

I feel like my choices are, as the kids say, basic.

The Downfall of Us All - A Day to Remember
Invalid Litter Dept - At The Drive-In
Red Dress - MAGIC!
Life Goes On - BTS
Hon'nou - Ringo Sheena
Can I? - Kehlani
Rain Doll Dancehall - The Neighbors Club
Like That - Doja Cat feat. Gucci Mane
Countdown - Cocco
Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute - Coheed and Cambria
The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening

Ultra Vivid Scene - Poison
Dillard & Clark - Why Not Your Baby
Café Tacvba - Las Batallas
Pizzicato 5 - My Baby Portable Player Sound
Jübl - Happy Sad
Os Mutantes - O Relógio
Wizkid - Sweet One
Ethyl Meatplow - Ripened Peach
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
Charlotte Adigéry - Bear With Me (and I'll stand bare before you)
Solex - Shoot Shoot!

Eyedress - Jealous

first Eyedress mention on ILM? I like that whole album -- 19 moods in 40 minutes

Eyedress was a TikTok find for me, along with the Doja Cat one. Which I guess is like the 2021 equivalent of "shitty popular radio music" ◔_◔

X.Y.Z. - Echoes of Time
Motorpsycho - N.O.X. II: Ouroboros (Strange Loop)
LFO vs F.U.S.E. - Loop
MDA Analog - Rainful Memories
Jane Weaver - Heartlow
Towa Tei - Technova
D.K. - The Goddess is Dancing
Fitz Gore & The Talismen - Gisela (Lions Rock)
Cluster - Ho Renomo
Eno Moebius Roedelius - Broken Head
SUSS - Echo Lake

Robert Paquette - Dépêche-toi soleil
Robert Paquette - Bleu et Blanc
US Army Band - Battle Hymn of the Republic
Peter, Paul and Mary - All My Trials
97th Regimental String Band - We Are Coming, Father Abraham
38th Army Band - When Johnny Comes Marching Home
38th Army Band - US Field Artillery March
Woody Guthrie - Tear The Fascists Down
Billie Holliday - Gloomy Sunday
Fairpoint Convention - A Sailor's Life
Bertha Tillman - Oh My Angel

Towa Tei - Technova

bom!

Ramsey Lewis - Dancin'
Barre Phillips - A-i-a
Louis Cole - Things
Jordan Rakei - Best Part
Alice Smith - Another Love
Stevie Wonder - My Eyes Don't Cry
The Foreign Exchange - Body
George Duke - Echidna's Arf
Weather Report - Young and Fine
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
D'Angelo - Another Life

here are the last eleven songs i've liked on spotify

bullion - o vermona
ryuichi sakamoto - venezia
eliane radigue - kyema
david blue - looking for a friend
the weather station - robber
stephen malkmus - cash up
beatrice dillon - square fifths
albaster deplume - visit croatia
yu su - xiu
sea oleena - horses
the rolling bears - i am waiting
the rolling bears - out of time

here my favorite 11 albums of the moment, fuck

death - human
death - individual thought patterns
atheist - piece of time
repulsion - horrified
kreator - pleasure to kill
immortal - battles in the north
death - scream bloody gore
death - leprosy
atheist - unquestionable presence
neil young - archives vol 2
d7y - d7y

this is tough for me because I spend so much time just listening to a giant playlist on shuffle, I don't even know what my current favorites are anymore. These are some tracks I like though.

Rush - Lock and Key
Judee Sill - The Lamb Ran Away with the Crown
The Roches - The Train
Swervedriver - I Am Superman
Stereolab - I Feel The Air (Of Another Planet)
Karenn - Crush the Mushrooms
O/V/R - The World Remade
Hen Ogledd - Skinny Dippers
Steely Dan - Pearl of the Quarter
Ralph Towner/Solstice - Nimbus
Charli XCX - forever

once you step on you might never got off of the commuter train :)

*get :(

🇿🇦bassie ft. boohle & t-man sa • sizani
🇳🇬crayon ft. rema • too correct
🇦🇿efendi • mata hari
🇹🇹kerwin du bois x teddyson john • see dem
🇬🇭🇳🇬kwesi arthur ft. joeboy • baajo
🇿🇦kwiish sa ft. njelic, malumnator & de mthuda • liyoshona
🇬🇭okyeame kwame ft. kuami eugene • yeeko
🇿🇦q l-v ft. bospianii • wena fela
🇳🇬rema • bounce
🇿🇦t-percx & vusinator ft. assert, king monopoly & rising blaqstar • shela ntombi
🇿🇦tyla ft. kooldrink • getting late

efendi • mata hari

This is Azerbaijan's Eurovision entry? Fascinating, although not really something I'd keep in rotation. You've also got some Soca in there, quite a variety!

Very nice vibe on Liyoshona tho. I also love the overall production on Shela Ntombi, the way it uplifts the vocals. Getting late is solid too if a bit more polished, but oof those gqom flavors on the bassline.

Seems like overall I should be focusing on SA more!

Any thoughts on Yaw Tog feat Stormzy Kwesi Arthur - Sore (Remix)? It sounds like drill to me which maybe isn't really your thing.

Delilah Holliday - Goddess Energy
Maestro Don & Jahvillani - Dutty Money
Charles Webster feat. Thani Draai - We Belong Together
Scorpion Kings & Tresor - La Vie Est Belle
System32 & Shal Marshall - All Day
Blaqbonez f. Amaarae & Buju - Bling
Intence - Money Nuff Funds
Motto - Uber Everywhere
Arooj Aftab - Last Night
Miguel - So I Lie
SZA - Good Days

(There's a bunch more amapiano and soca tempting me to do 11 more, but I settled for not repeating anything breastcrawl posted four weeks ago)

Go on then (you can tell I've been rinsing the Afrobeats, Soca and adjacent threads)

Rema - Bounce
Olatunji - Drunk History
Machel Montano - High Life
Kerwin Du Bois - See Dem
Bankulli ft. Not3s - Foreign
Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings
Young M.A. - Off The Yak
Nakkia Gold - Yea Yea
Okyeame Kwame - Yeeko
Prettyboy D-O - Police N Teef
Meryl - BB Compte

Got to DJ with some friends for the first time in forever at the weekend. Someone dropped "All Day" and it sounded so great over the speakers with people singing "Play more soca fi dem"

ugh that makes me sick with jealousy (but happy for you, seriously)

ah, sorry to rub it in. we're still in an "outdoors only, 6 people at a table, no dancing" situation here in the UK. so listening to soca sitting down is almost as frustrating as not listening to soca at all!

lol that would be its own kind of lockdown