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

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

This is what I was saying about DG on the other thread. I want them to kind of become the equivalent of FNM or the Beastie Boys where they screw around with other styles just for fun and release a big melting pot party record. But one can dream I guess.

probably going to need this once again

there's a knife now?

jjj, come eviscerate Ace Hood with me

i feel like i need to start at the beginning and go from there.

77. Drunk In Love - whoa this is one meandering ass song. low rent production, beyonce sorta just making shit up as she goes, and although he hasnt showed up jay-z hasnt done anything worth listening to in years. wtf at this surfboard garbage. trying to place the awfulness of the beat, its like a scrap track from a third tier youtube hit. yep, jay-z. mehhhhh. haha did he just say hes ike turner what in the hell is going on here. haha swirly reverbed out vanishing beyonce reintroduced with a distant airhorn this is fucking garbage.

Bookmarked.

I actually like "Drunk In Love" but the rapturous attention it gets is baffling

OTOH Blatantly Sexual Beyonce is my 2nd-favorite Beyonce behind Black Radical Beyonce

i am about to listen to beyonce #2 and it cant be worse so here we go

rrrrrreally interested in your opinion on Partition

76. Partition - much much better, im down with beyonce channeling missy elliot dipped in a light MIA sauce i guess. middle portion that starts with her saying drop the partition fast and some other stuff pretty much loses the plot although not completely at least. at times the production sounds a little like the third wacky remix that would show up on the CD maxi single. sorta falls apart at the end imo. big time diminishing returns here. still better than that first one, because no jay-z and the dude who wrote the beat doesn't sound like he's reading the fruity loops manual for the first time with his other hand while programming.

for me, this is "sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker" vs "driver roll up the partition please, I don't need you seeing 'Yonce on her knees"

I will also say this; I was lukewarmish on the entire Beyonce album until I watched the videos, at which point it turned into one of my top 5 albums of the year

75. days are gone - haim - i dont want to talk about this. chorus sounds like bananarama. i dont mean that in a good way. WTF WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS. lead singer sounds like she listened to beth ditto but she sounded too scary. jesus man why

im making a pledge to try to listen to the entire song here but fuck that with haim

the really good Haim song IMO is "Let Me Go"; this is another band I enjoy but am not rapturous over (and their songs that are straight-up Fleetwood Mac pastiche are kind of the end of the world)

haha and in advance i really doubt i will listen to 15 FUCKING MINUTES of bardo pond, no offense guys

there's no real reason to listen to the Bardo Pond song but it's kind of hilarious

it's great! like crazy horse with flutes.

^^^ OTM

Crazy Horse with flutes is not hilarious! It's great. Y'all are more shrieky than I expected based on the thread title.

74. rival dealer - burial - hah i have been talking all year to people who dont want to listen to me about the resurgence of industrolectroebm shit in pop music and for that i am sorry but this burial thing is so so on the mark for that that its hard for me to have a straight reaction to it honestly. i mean its def denser than the old stuff which seems to be the real growth stylewise from like idk a;grumh or w/e but its got the brooding thing down while being all whipneck fast and shit. i like it, mostly, speed limit 140+ presents sad harcore. or something. slice of life talky bits are dumb, they should cut that out.

back in the old days, this would also be 3 tracks instead of one long ass one.

i am buying the bardo pond LP based on recently hearing it. also i think the beyonce tracks are all pretty good individually but the album works best as a whole. i don't "get" haim.

im not trying to be shrieky! i just have opinions but i didnt vote and i always feel like a dick steamrolling in and being all "U R ALL STUPID THIS IS GARBAGE" on the main thread so i put this all here. and not that its all garbage. just that haim song.

wtf at this surfboard garbage.

lol. voted for this song almost solely on the basis of the "surfboard garbage".

I don't like Haim either. Shriek all you want, it's your thread! I thought the BP song was pretty accessible based on the original, but apparently I was wrong.

no one said it wasn't accessible! it's just long

I didn't really get into the Bardo Pond covers single that much but the album they put out last year (Peace on Venus) is really really good if you're into that mode of sludgy psych rock. But LOL at people being like "WHAT THIS SONG IS 15 MINUTES LONG?" It's not like it's 1962, songs can be longer than three minutes now, we have the technology.

those results threads are pretty funny for revealing a bit of conservatism about music that isn't super-immediate.

73. the creator has a master plan - bardo pond - i fucking love this, havent heard or thought about them in like idk 15 years? i take back my reluctance for 15 minutes, i am totally in, see you all in a while. trying to place it, its like what all those dudes from kranky and constellation could have done if they werent too busy flattening pennies on train tracks and being a half-assed Crass.

all of ILM is pretty funny for revealing a bit of conservatism about music that isn't Ciara

People can watch every single episode of 2 Broke Girls or whatever but their monocles pop out if a song is 15 minutes long.

haha OTM

fwiw the "hilarious" comment wasn't meant to be a knock on Bardo Pond, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to that song

tbh much of my reaction to 15 minute song was based in "technically i am running a business and am at work" but eh fuck work

all of ILM is pretty funny for revealing a bit of conservatism about music that isn't Ciara

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Both lol and ;_; about the truth of this statement.

yeah the distant vocals dropping in halfway through this track with swoopy space noises rolling around in the background is working really really well for me. i like this a lot. also, as the dude who listens to NWW on the board, im the last guy that should be whining abt long songs obv