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I challenge all of you to post one song which manages to push as many of your musical buttons as is possible, a song which could have been written by the world's best market-research team, with a target demographic of you. It doesn't have to be your favourite song (shouldn't be, one could argue) but it does have to come as close as any song can to summarising everything you love about music.

My profferance is Whateley by Thumpermonkey, who deserve some ILX exposure, especially for having composed something this preposterously widescreen and perfectly suited to my most egregious indulgences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCT7kioyXSU

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

once a week is ample, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqUGfQpmcs

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFv53VolRj8

sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fn-xyaGHE

It's this particular performance as much as the song(s); the aggression, the rhythmic drive, the wildness of the solos (especially the guitar and bass solos)...I have the CD of this performance and have listened to it too many times to count.

誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link

Can - Mother Sky

Trip Maker, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link

Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle (the long "World of..." version)

fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PakAiTZWAs

gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link

actually more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzctEOvsh4

gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link

I love questions like this but it's hard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNt0x8FVHw

jim, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link

^ actually NSFW (sorry)

jim, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link

Hybrid's "If I Survive" was a surgical strike on my demo in 2000: trance & breaks dilettante that treasured Julie Cruise/Twin Peaks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6nMEjCUrE

‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

i'm a bit burned out on it these days but it's hard for me to argue that this doesn't contain pretty much everything that makes a song rule for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSgGBPrIuM

linalooool (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link

ha crooot

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHFbzaf8FX8

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VttRxzhAXLg

bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMqpxHY2nFs

bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipknPnm1x4A

flopson, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link

Not my favorite song or even my favorite artist, but everything I love: Poppy, hooky arrangement, female vocals, decent bass playing, smart (or "smart" depending on yr POV) lyrics, a melancholy at odds with the arrangement, chimey guitars . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItXkcLvFn8

a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7CU9QIHAA

vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiESshnj6A

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeSoJn3NI1s

*triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link


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