shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

is this the "ilm is shitter than ever" enclave?

haha well it certainly has its moments of that

ok i am really happy this thread exists now that people are gnashing their teeth abt the injustice in this miguel track taking third place

65. japandroids - sub against me! yowl rock, done a million times better by at least 40 bands that are playing in shitty bars in your hometown right now.

64. guru - at least this is interesting right off the bat, and now that i am aways in, its heads above everything up until now. not in my general wheelhouse but yeah i could see working this into rotation. yep, this is pretty good, will be returning to it for sure.

see i dont hate everything! just most of this list so far

trivia - guru is the only song that i have been able to get all the way through without skipping ahead

ok i know this song and im not listening to it again, i fucking hate hate hate the chorus, but that is set in stark relief to the totally different way i hate the verses

so OTM

Just checked out that song via youtube. Is it on purpose where she looks like Richard D. James in Windowlicker?

do i really need to listen to a track made by someone who chooses to call themselves donkie punch

only if you're down with dumbfounded incredulity at your fellow ilmers

63. donkie punch & lorenzo - i kept jumping around on youtube thinking i was stumbling onto the same terrible basement remix of this song, but it appears this is actually the original. wtf

62. nick hannam and a bunch of other people - this is an ok meh limp house track i suppose but theres gotta be better stuff in this vein i imagine. ugh who is this second idiot. yck. this dude is awful why is this happening

62 could be mediocre ok if it was just the lady and none of this terrible guy

61. tame impala - is this another animal collective spin off? its not the worst thing of the day but it is also nearly impossible to imagine people getting excited about it

no wait, this is wretched and endless

so out of the first days rollout i like exactly one song, which is that guru track

I like this rollout better jjjusten. I don't want to slap you and tell you to get a hold of yourself. You should make this a thing.

I dunno he's been pretty much OTM so far

I like the Dawn Richard tracks but otherwise yeah, jjj otm

I def don't dislike the dawn Richard tracks, I just like them less than I expected/remembered

I dunno he's been pretty much OTM so far

that's what i was saying!

For god's sake will ye not shit on yr own doorstep, ilm?

but if we don't, who will?

I am really anticipating jjj's reaction to Cher Lloyd; I have no idea which way it will go

haha i know that song so i can predict that my response would be

-how is it possible that ILM stops just short of suggesting that jessie j should be stabbed to death in a back alley somewhere and then vote this to spot 54 on its end of year list

hahahahaha yesssss

its good to finally know the artist name because i honestly spent half the year wondering who had convinced jessie j that a half-assed nicki minaj impression on the chorus was a good move.

60. keith fullerton whitman - holy crap i love this. a lot.
59. haim forever - so this is basically dumbed down bored out tune yards meh hot garbage. booooooring. it brings out sort of a special place of hatred from me. irrational yes but god i really really hate this.

How does Haim remind you of tuneyards??

the same way foster the people reminds me of mgmt, it just seems like the blippy vocal punctuation and the quirky boppy almost subsaharan rhythm and guitar lines have some shared lineage, but done so much less compellingly.

i mean point of ref there would be "the bizness" to "forever" i guess - the quirky luaka bop vibe without anything behind it. idk.

58. angel haze - pretty much had me from the word go, love the track, love the little captured inhalations in the way she is recorded, same sorta O_O reaction i had when i first "212", but with more lasing power i think and less minajisms. chorus is fucking awesome, yeah this is killer top to bottom. thx ilx!

hey before i get to 57, is this a remix of jaga jazzist, or am i on the wrong youtube or ?

57. Mungolain Jetset - sounds like somebody spent a lot of time listening to SAW. not a bad thing necc, and its getting more interesting as it goes, i was worried i was going to spend 6 minutes in the intro loop there for a while. completely pleasant, but not what i am looking for.

56. jessie ware running - ok first things first i have to stop trying to figure out what this bloopy synth intro reminds me of because that is driving me crazy. dont like this. this woman cant sing for shit, and sounds like she is using sade (who is good) to pass off a totally mediocre vocal. never mind, its not just mediocre, she is awful. cant wait to shut this off and skip to the next track OH NO

55. jessie ware wildest moments - background music might be better on this one, but she hasnt started singing yet so. i hate this less but oh man what the fuck she has srsly one of the most annoying vocal characters and its just so dull.

hmm, I have successfully avoided both Fester the Peehole and MGMT to the point where I think I only halfway get the link you're making; I'd have leaned way more in the direction of "The Bangles cover Pink" for Haim comparisons

also I have no idea what Jaga Jazzist is or which Angel Haze Youtube you were looking at

54. cher lloyd - weve covered this already

53. hot chip - cant find a non-live youtube of this and its hot chip so i dont care to try very hard

you're gonna get to saint etienne and braek my heart w/yr revulsion

I was very pleasantly surprised by Saint Etienne! (not enough to, you know, actually listen to the album, but I liked it more than the general "oh this is nice" reaction I've had to most of their material)

i was thinking a st et/pet shop boys split EP where they each cover two songs by the other band would be the most amazing thing in the world.

we can discus further upon jjj's reaction to their entry.

52. grimes - seems to start up with sort of a "enya got into the liquor cabinet again" woozy tunelessness, but we'll give it some time. probably should avert my eyes from the video because its next level annoying, and that shouldnt really count against it. ok intro is over, and musically it seems like it could go somewhere ok maybe, and yay the vocals dont seem to suck, until oh my god they sure do. the gauzy 4ad tm vocal side was ok, but the bleaty shit going on here is a huge misstep. theres something there i can get behind, but an unfortunate tendency to go cutesy at all the wrong spots. i am still half into it though? but the half i dont like is reaaaaaaaally irritating.

^^^ Grimes in a nutshell

"enya got into the liquor cabinet again"

lmfao

51. burial - jesus man 11.5 minutes? appealing darkness and off kilter shit going on right away, massive tricky attack something, finally something with an actual active beat, digging the destructo garble nastiness, meh shut up vocals no need for you (mitigated slightly as we go, but i request an instrumental version if at all possible) liking the manipulated vocals that are rolling out now better, god the fact that this is so refreshingly abrasive has to say something abt everything up until now (and ha its not even really that abrasive in my world of old people but you know). another bright spot, why is there not more music like this in the countdown idgi.

despite the length, listened to all of burial fyi. that makes 4 things so far? guru, keith fullerton etc, angel haze, and now burial.

burial might just maybe slightly overstay its welcome, but not if i was in a diff environment ie not listening to youtubes at work

that track is the first time something by Burial actually clicked for me, which as you say does say a lot about the stuff that had placed up to that point

4ad has been pretty busy huh.

50. twin shadow - spoken word intro what the fuck is this the silver mt. zion? do they quit this ever? come the fuck on. oh wait i take it all back, i would rather listen to dumb spoken word than mumbly joe here. you ever have a song that just makes you instantly disinterested, yeah this is that.

49. santigold - haha i know this song already and i didnt realize who it was. good shit, and again, refreshingly busy without being stupid. dont dig it as much as her earlier stuff but still, its solid.

48. purity ring - i already knew this one also, but this is doing right exactly what so much of the other smoothy 4adish stuff on the list does totally wrong - you can make things that are audibly pretty and pleasing without sucking all the life out of them. fantastic.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think I played both of those for you last time I was MN?