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

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?

47. haim dont save me - ugh what does anyone ever see in this band, this is so completely average and inert and at the same time grating and poorly made. is this the 2013 version of fawning over those crappy early taylor swift records? incomprehensible

Also I am about to see Purity Ring with cad ^_^

Re: Haim, I cut harmonizing siblings a lot of slack

I don't know if I'd buy Haim albums but I wouldn't change the station if they came on the radio

i know you played me the purity ring, and probably the santigold although i think i had stumbled across it already. that purity ring track is my school of seven bells aha moment of this year

if haim came on my radio i would slap at the tuner buttons like a scuba diver trying to escape a moray eel

haim is probably not actually the worst thing on the list because jessie ware and starships, but it for some reason the only thing thats making me like actively angry

really wishing this thread had stayed a secret

46. bruno mars - its like a really boring regatta de blanc era police cover band decided to start writing their own songs

Ha that is otm

Bruno will probably never top "Grenade"

hey gr8080 "hide this board on site new answers" your dreams they can come true

i like this thread. it brings back memories of watching MTv with my grandparents in the 90s

I disagree with a lot of what jjjusten's said, but I'm just like "ok pappa joe" and I want to hear more

is that the song that's p obv a police cover 'beat it' badly kinda effort

Worried that I'm agreeing with jjjusten's POV a little too much.

Whatever the case, this thread is worth it for this alone:

"enya got into the liquor cabinet again"

Is there a station or a play list with this music on it?

there's a Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/awesomewells/playlist/0MVP8scsWPfbXQ4ji7RoUI

other stuff was cobbled together on Youtube if possible

boy that ILX albums poll, there but for the grace of God...

XD

45. alex anwandter - this is fairly light and enjoyable, appeals to me in the same way that other semi-retrolectro stuff does, but im def not knocked out by it

44. spiritualized - coming to this biased because i have never understood what all the fuss is about, but ill give it a shot - its better than i remember other stuff by them but idk jingle jangle dylan/reedisms not my thing. theres something else there thats more spot on but i cant quite place it right now. it kind of reminds me of a brit-pop Cracker, and thats not good.

Yeah I don't get spiritualized love at all

43. john talabot feat pional - grabbing me straight off, neat build and nice stacking of elements, not crazy about the vocals except when they do the harmony explodo thing which is really nice actually, again this seems like my kind of audio wallpaper or w/e compared to a lot of the other sorta laconic stuff up until now. mainly because it keeps moving a bit more, progressing or whatever instead of comfortably settling in, but without losing focus. yeah i really like this, i am down.

42. nicki minaj stupid hoe - somewhere along the line nicki (who was always pretty fucking halfway to grating, but in a sorta refreshing way in the beginning) just turned up all of her little quirks to a volume where it is like someone SHOUTING AT YOU ALL THE TIME and this is prob the biggest dip into that w/o incorporating her patented and now i will sing for a little while and like a little kid telling you the same plot of a pokemon episode over and over again it seems cute and you feel like you should be nice but its actually really fucking annoying by the tenth time.

tbh I think "Roman's Revenge" and "Stupid Hoe" are the only Nicki songs I really need in my life (honorable mention to "Beez in the Trap" and "Come on a Cone" I guess)

41. neneh cherry and the thing - neneh cherry is never not a badass, and this is no exception, def like the moments of tortured sax more than some of the safer stuff but yeah very cool interplay going on here, the sneaking harshness in between phrases, this unsettling feeling of hearing something pretty but also dark and dirty and weirder than it seems at first, fucking fantastic

i am honestly worried abt listening to this miguel track because i feel like he is sort of a cause celebre on ilx atm and i dont want to get murdered in my sleep.

i havent heard it yet so maybe it will be totally badass? idk. spooky out there

40. miguel - ok its really good. i spend less of my time these days w/rnb than i probably should, but i know enough to hear something solid in pretty much every way, and this does that. great singer with an admirable knowledge of how to use his chops, very smooth but not in a negative sense - pretty much all the parts are set into motion and it does everything right, although theres a dreaminess and lushness to the background that takes away from the center just a little bit.

had a pretty good run here for a while, wondering what will be the next thing to fuck that up entirely

yeah Miguel is the real deal IMO

haha never mind found it

39. cheryl-t - the first bit of this would have been left on the 140+ bpm cutting room floor, and it just gets worse from there. theres a little something cool with the distorto bass synth stuff at the 1:30 mark but then its right back into the filling time while the dj has a smoke break vibe and yeah idgi

38. deathgrips - haha is this a push it breath sample in the beginning oh never mind here goes the song, wait srsly is this a slowed down push it sample? thats kind of awesome, but this is pretty weak sauce from these dudes other than that, i still like it but its nowhere near takyon and oh god i just realized that more than anything this reminds me of chuck mosely from faith no more hahahaha oh no i can never unhear that now

WE CARE A LOT

man if death grips put out WE CARE A LOT 2013 that would kick so much ass

otm

tempted to start one of those u.s. government petitions to force death grips to record an update of we care a lot