ok if the poll motivated you to listen to that for the first time, then I love poll
― rob, Friday, 22 January 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
If memory serves correctly I voted for 4 afropop albums and 4 tracks, but guess I should avoid naming which ones for spoiler purposes.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 22 January 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
a+ bop:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopfgeXDlKABankulli x Not3s • Foreign (killer production by DJ Coublon)
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
shocker! TSJ not in agreement with my tracks ballot!
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
breastcrawl* > tsj
*I voted for the album, but not the song
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 23 January 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
Omah Lay is a good example of the plateau problem I had with 2020 in general: so much sustained quality that I struggled to pick highlights from genres or even artists
― rob, Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
"godly" >
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
really hope it places, it was my favourite Omah song so far, but I fear he is another one who might (have) be(en) vote-splitted away
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
*is* my favourite...
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:03 PM (one hour ago)
lol I guess that might be true, but I basically liked everything I heard him on last year...and thus didn't vote for any of them sorry!
― rob, Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
Really digging KPK
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
mutual satisfaction guaranteed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkcBuc-52oDJ Spinall ft. WurlD & Niniola • Pure Water
(from Spinall's Grace album mentioned upthread)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
that's really good! some naijapiano has sounded weirdly truncated to me (I know, I'm the goldilocks of 'piano) but that's perfect
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92St1TBJL2EPeruzzi - Southy Love feat. Fireboy DML
We're easily at more than 50% Naijapiano by now.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
Even Davido joins the bandwagon (The Best feat. Mayorkun), but he still sounds like himself
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
so still unlistenable dross? :)
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
Lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
Ha, I may have exaggerated on the 77 tracks thread cause it's hard to make afro pop unpleasant, but after he peaked in 2017, his rehashed singing has become really tired by now, grating even, it's physical. A bit like I can't stand Drake repeating his same modulations over and over. And the fact that he comes from money and gets the sunshine other artists deserve does not help. The exceptions for Davido might be his dancehall collabs (Dun Rich, Risky). "The Best" is no exception.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
he's hit or miss for me too, though I loved "FEM" last year and "Aye" is in the running for favorite afrobeats of all time
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
i've liked both of the lsat two albums a lot -- there's a lushness and a romanticism in his music that i really respond to. he's kinda working the same sound on both albums but it's pretty sui generis to me so i don't mind it.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
I could not decide on any sort of Omah Lay song so I just saved my vote for him for my albums bracket. I think I would have voted for "Bad Influence" if I had to pick 1.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Even Davido joins the bandwagon (The Best feat. Mayorkun🕸), but he still sounds like himself
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
*he’s* got...
Bad Influence is the omah lay choice for me as well
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
like I said earlier I couldn't narrow down my Omah picks but was I the only one who really flipped for "Ye Ye Ye"?
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
I put all my Lay’s chips on “Godly”(I mean, if he can get away with Get Layed...)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
snort
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
his next should be Omah Gerd
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Omah Layrd?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
OmahLaya Rodrigues
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
i’ll stop
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Omah x Lay
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
O, MahndaLay!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Nomah Playse
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
exclusive preview of the artwork for the new album:https://i.imgur.com/nNlOZK1.png
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW6aSuuJBUgNSG - Kate Winslet feat. Unknown T
I can't say I really get the challenge but the song is making waves. It's chill. I could post it under the Afro UK but I find it closer to the Nigerian sound than usual.
― Nabozo, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
ha to be clear, that def wasn't aimed at anyone round here! I still get a ton of enjoyment and value out of the board, just less so the eoy poll than times past― rob, Thursday, January 21, 2021
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
Lol are you fact-checking my enjoyment of the poll?
Okay: I'd say yes and no. The poll rollout/experience is definitely enjoyable (I do apologize that that post implied otherwise), and I genuinely appreciate your, Moka, and seandalai's work. But it's less valuable to me these days, because it's now very rare that I hear new tracks that I love via the results. I'm honestly not sure why. I'm open to the possibility that it's my fault! Maybe my tastes have calcified and I'm less open-minded than I think I am; writing this post I remembered I like the Selena Gomez song and should revisit it. But while I'm glad there was no repeat of the purple mountains fiasco, I can't say it's objectively better to have three Jessie Ware songs either just because I like her and not PM.
Anyway, the point of my posts upthread was that I am bored and a more than a little embarrassed by my tendency to (pre-)hand-wring over the results every year, and I wanted to not do that this year. On further reflection, I should absolutely add "ILM was better back then" to the boring + embarrassing post topics list--that's both simplistic and a pointless thing to whine about.
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
lol i was just being bitchy! in any case, the poll encompassed a significant amount of handpicked afropop/beats this year; figured you might be more into it. i'm aware it provides different people with different things; all good regardless!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
lol sorry, woke up feeling crabby today
I suppose I was also trying to be high-minded and not say the poll is good now because more stuff I like placed :)
But, yes, to be earnest -- and to echo you and breastcrawl -- the growting interest in African music is a very cool turn of events for ILM!
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
you say crabby, I say bitchylet’s call the whole thing off
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
some people on this board professed some interest in Angolan afrohouse of the kuduro kind – it’s a known fact you can’t go wrong with producer DJ Vado Poster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ORsmIGBT48Cleyton M ft. DJ Vado Poster • Já Está
but that one is too new to have a video yet, and of course half the fun are the crazy-ass videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHNHF__VMYKing Defofera ft. Marcos Robem • Segura a Mandioca
(this one is actually one year old, but the video only six months, and the track only got uploaded to Spotify this year)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
your valentines for the day:Niniola • Promise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TowFIy1k8c(from her upcoming r&b project)CKay ft. Bianca Costa • Skoin Skoin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFgHl0waqG0(from his Boyfriend EP, which also features Amaarae)Joeboy • Door:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5thBLIAnw8(produced by Tempoe, of “Godly” fame, from his Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic album)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
the Joeboy album is very good btw, ”Oh”, the *other* Tempoe track, is the bigger banger, but it’s not as valentine-y.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
yeah it's a great album
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
the whole ckay ep is great
― ufo, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand that the only place this jam is a hit seems to be my home.luckily I have the excuse that there’s a video out now so I can repost it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAAEltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
(if you don’t like Eltee and Niniola’s vocals (as if), you could just put that isolated beat in the final 35 seconds (from 3:24 in the video) on endless repeat)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
from the same early January batch: that video link broke, but the official video just dropped today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq3ijdk0E8DJ Kaywise ft. Phyno • High Way
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
nominating Pronto’s “Baga” for best Schweizerdeutsche afropop track ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9ilxcyBFo
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
wow. nomination seconded.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
Bounce is my track of the year in any genre so I'm noming it whatever
Yeah I love that Dunnie song. Really sweet
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
Loke Loke by Oluwa Kuwait and Teni is also a sleeper hit in my listening. Every time it comes on I'm impressed by it.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
Burna Boy and Wizkid have a song out called B. d'Or. I am sure Messi appreciates. It's totally perfunctory though.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
spotify fed me this new amapiano remix of Angeliqe Kidjo's "Agolo" - by Da Capo's Touch? or something? It's lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-wy0wyuoYQ
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Nice.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
i have regretfully late passed this whole thread but I just ran into Yeeko on the best-of-the-year nominations and I need ya'll to know this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbi2Jvls7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdJcmvQ0DFc
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 December 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
idgi, what's the connection?
― rob, Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
Wasn’t delirious released like a decade ago? I think it even made it to the ILM poll
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 1 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
https://travelnoire.com/missed-afrochella-2021-heres-what-went-down-in-ghana?item=3
Brief look at afrochella 2021 with Wizkid and more
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
I suppose Yeeko does sound a bit like Delirious
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
rolling afropop 2022
― rob, Friday, 21 January 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
xps, yes i definitely hear Delirious in Yeeko
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link