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Post by Tweet on Nov 8, 2019 8:57:19 GMT -6
David Byrne signed off on this, therefore it is one of the best pop singles of the decade. It slaps. If you don't like this song you are pro-Lupus.
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Post by neader on Nov 8, 2019 19:36:41 GMT -6
The bar I'm at has a band playing and they are currently covering Love Interruption, with a harmonica.
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Post by Tweet on Nov 12, 2019 8:51:06 GMT -6
 R.G & G.R Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is currently before the United States Supreme Court, a case where 9 people will basically decide if trans people are actually people here in America. I’ll leave it to you to find your favorite think-piece on it ( here's mine) but the case hitting my consciousness leads me back to the fall of 2014. To be clear, people already “knew” Laura Jane Grace. By a dead-name, sure, but the reintroduction that came that January easy enough to swallow: 28 minutes of pop-punk for adults, with songs drawing a line between Osama Bin Laden and Jesus Christ and a song with the word fuck in the title. Typical stuff. For this sad boy on the internet, it would be just another album of the genre except that this was the first time in popular culture I had ever had the concept of who a trans person can be. I made a shitty drag show joke on the riot fest lineup that year about it without thinking twice. Turns out the 1.5 million trans people in the country never quite made it down to the suburban-country borderline I grew up in. If there was ever a time to learn, having a top-50 album of the year made it easy to do. It’s a good thing the album (when I listened to it 6 months late) slapped or was lit or whatever the word was then, cause I played the shit out of it that fall. Coincidentally, I started not just listening but comprehending discussions on gender identity and the like. Am I woke? No, and I never will be because it’s an ongoing process and woke happened, not happens. I like to think Against Me!'s first album with Laura Jane Grace made me a more empathetic person, understanding that transgender people are... well, people. I hope the Supreme Court learns that too. |
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Post by Xamnam on Nov 12, 2019 9:03:30 GMT -6
The lyrics are quintessential Darinelle. Oh so we're fighting today. |
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Post by Tweet on Nov 12, 2019 9:04:24 GMT -6
I don't see you generating #content
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Post by Tweet on Nov 13, 2019 9:17:40 GMT -6
Escape. Goddamnit, just escape. But know if you think you’re gonna just get in the car and go, you’ll be disappointed. That’s not how that works. Not in Jana Hunter’s world anyway. Escape sounds like the guitar and rhythm section were left on loop until they burst. That harmony when Hunter’s chorus kicks in: “Time will turn the tide”.... It’s the type of moment that’s liable to shoot goosebumps down your spine if you’re not careful. That’s life, and Hunter has said as much about the song in the past. The world will eat certain people alive. Escape when and while you can. |
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Post by teekoh on Nov 13, 2019 9:31:37 GMT -6
Great album.
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Post by Tweet on Nov 13, 2019 9:32:16 GMT -6
For sure gonna be on my list somewhere |
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Post by regionrat6337 on Nov 15, 2019 1:35:04 GMT -6
I think I’ve close to solidified my top 10 song list:
1. Nikes - Frank Ocean
2. Runaway - Kanye West
3. Marvin’s Room - Drake
4. Ribs - Lorde
5. It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You) - The 1975
6. Higher - Rihanna
7. Thinkin Bout You - Frank Ocean
8. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
9. Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers
10. Hannah Hunt - Vampire Weekend
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Post by neader on Nov 15, 2019 4:33:09 GMT -6
I'm very disappointed by the lack of Ribs on any list.
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Post by Timbo on Nov 15, 2019 17:17:36 GMT -6
Kinda bummed that I haven't (so far) seen "Turn Out the Lights" by Julien Baker on any lists. Listening to it now and it sounds better than it did the last time. Havent seen any of her songs on lists either.
Will for sure be in my top 50.
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Post by neader on Nov 16, 2019 7:17:24 GMT -6
Idk where Turn On the Lights will end up but Sprained Ankle is definitely top 10 and probably even top 5 for me.
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Post by Tweet on Nov 19, 2019 9:08:14 GMT -6
 There are two distinct memories I will always have of Yeezus, both based in the bar room of the fraternity house I allegedly spent a ton of time my junior and senior year of college. The first is of setting the beer pong table up to a soundtrack of “On Sight”. The song will forever be a proclamation that something is about to happen. The second is a night where after many substances were consumed, I found myself watching two strangers do something short of sex to “Hold My Liquor”. It was not my intention to voyeur and perv on these people, only that my brain had picked that moment to process that this album has the power to move people in ways completely unexpected. This will make you feel and see beauty. The 2-5-i probably helped too. In a lifetime of challenging society and often the patience of it, Kanye produced his most challenging work. At the time it felt baffling that he could break down the door again after MBDTF. It's not quite a 180 degree swing, but it's certainly different. The album is angry. The album is violent. It also had a ton of the major players of the decade baked into its DNA: Daft Punk. Arca. Travis Scott. Frank Ocean. Chief Keef. Justin Vernon. When you rip a room apart, anything can replace it. Genre and sampling and content can become something hard to imagine. Even blood on the leaves can be replaced with putting that ass in reverse. In 2013 the world had an opinion of Kanye, whether they wanted to or not. They still do in 2019, but back then, it felt like a moment. There’s an iconic image from a Saturday Night Live performance burned into my brain (albeit because of a certain boarder’s profile pic). A spotlight proclaims he is not for sale. There’ll forever be some irony in an artist swallowed by the Ticketmaster/Live Nation conglomerate proclaiming something like that, but at the time, it felt right and natural. In this moment, with this album, it was the unquestioned truth. Some guy kinda hit it right on the head a couple months after it came out: “It works because it’s beautiful — you either like it or you don’t — there’s no reason why it’s beautiful.” |
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Post by neader on Nov 19, 2019 9:32:21 GMT -6
Yeah that was without a doubt a pretty exciting time to be a Kanye fan. I look back on those moments fondly. I remember being really heavily into this and Acid Rap when I lived in Chicago (Fall '13) and just felt really part of something listening to these two amazing albums and living in the city where these guys are from. Will never forget taking the pink line home and listening to these almost every day while moving towards the beautiful Chicago skyline.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 19, 2019 9:34:23 GMT -6
Plenty of memories there too, but none more prominent than just walking around the college campus with it in my earphones. Silly to say, but I remember just feeling invincible while it was my own personal soundtrack.
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Post by thebosma on Nov 19, 2019 9:36:49 GMT -6
My friend with extremely religious parents wanted to listen to it so I burned him a copy and wrote “Hillsong’s Greatest Hits” on it in sharpie to throw them off. Realizing now that it was sort of prophetic in a way.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 19, 2019 9:37:32 GMT -6
....wow bosma ruined kanye
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Post by neader on Nov 19, 2019 9:40:11 GMT -6
Plenty of memories there too, but none more prominent than just walking around the college campus with it in my earphones. Silly to say, but I remember just feeling invincible while it was my own personal soundtrack. To be fair I still feel that way now. His current behavior hasn't soiled this for me thankfully. It still brings me back. I think I've already said this on here but this will definitely be my #1 of the decade. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 19, 2019 9:47:33 GMT -6
(this starts heavy but its really not) - my parents split up in 2012 and 2013 was the kids first real christmas season traveling between mom and dad...that car ride was so awkward, we just listened to Yeezus the whole way - and erupted in an enormous, radio-up-all-the-way singalong of "Bound 2" when it came up. Between the three of us sibs I really think that somehow meant something between us.
We listened to "Bound 2" on the way to dad's christmas every year until I moved. Haven't thought about it in a long time, and I think we'll do it again on Thanksgiving.
Just wanted to get that down somewhere I could come back and stumble upon it later. That'd be my most powerful yeezus memory.
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Post by sthubbins on Dec 10, 2019 10:06:02 GMT -6
Best album titles of the decade? question inspired by being reminded of The Black Ben Carson
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Post by sthubbins on Dec 10, 2019 10:13:09 GMT -6
Barter 6
Innocence is Kinky
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Tomboy
I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside
edit: FOTB but only when you mentally read it as "Fallout the Boy"
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Post by teekoh on Dec 10, 2019 10:25:44 GMT -6
I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside Stranger in the Alps Organ Music, Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything sovereign nose of (y)our arrogant face |
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Post by sthubbins on Dec 10, 2019 10:29:36 GMT -6
Does It Look Like I'm Here?
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Post by teekoh on Dec 10, 2019 10:41:06 GMT -6
I feel like I'm missing some good metal ones. The Body has some great ones, some of which are just other bands' lyrics:
Mental Wounds Not Healing
One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
You, Whom I Have Always Hated
No One Deserves Happiness
Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
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Post by Timbo on Dec 10, 2019 10:50:20 GMT -6
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 10, 2019 10:55:12 GMT -6
Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
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Post by neader on Dec 10, 2019 11:02:38 GMT -6
XXX
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2019 12:11:31 GMT -6
White Men Are Black Men Too
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Post by Timbo on Dec 10, 2019 12:27:15 GMT -6
Spooky Action at a Distance
Vaguely Ethnic
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
No Mountains in Manhattan
Act of Tenderness
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Post by andrewvb on Dec 10, 2019 13:42:01 GMT -6
Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit also among the worst |
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