Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

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oh boy - that's really really bad!
4
20%
ah that's pretty bad
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15%
that's not very good
8
40%
it's OK
5
25%
 
Total votes: 20

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Rayge » 11 Dec 2018, 13:14

Dor-Relip Hotels and Bathings wrote:I'm interested about the Blue Nile reference. Is there anything in that?


Oh, I could see what they meant by it straight away, in terms of the instrumentation, the declarative vocals and the general dynamic, atmosphere and structure of the song. But the Blue Nile's material sparkled and was fabulously well produced, and the players and the writers knew what they were doing. I can't comment on the lyrics because I couldn't hear them, but I suspect from what others have said that they are more whining millennial bullshit. They don't know they're born, Dog help us if there's another war, it was all Gracie Fields around here when I was a lad, etc.

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby naughty boy » 11 Dec 2018, 13:24

I hate to admit it, but I keep going back to it.

Maybe by the end of the week I'll love it.
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby sloopjohnc » 11 Dec 2018, 16:37

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Phenomenal Cat » 12 Dec 2018, 02:31

This is what I was hearing

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Count Machuki » 12 Dec 2018, 03:20

I didn't hate it but it's hard to shake the feeling that they're full of shit and might have let the internet write this song.

I heard lots of problems and no solutions here, but I sort of tuned out after a while. Dude's voice takes some getting used to, too.
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Count Machuki » 12 Dec 2018, 03:21

Phenomenal Cat wrote:This is what I was hearing



:lol:
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby The Red Heifer » 12 Dec 2018, 07:09

Oh I fucking LOVE this

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Dayodead » 12 Dec 2018, 08:01

Sounds like Coldplay, after listening to their Duran Duran and U2 collections and getting upset with the world, then not knowing how to articulate it, so they turn on the autotune...

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby never/ever » 12 Dec 2018, 10:37

I'll give Pitchfork a week to change that song over for this one.

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby harvey k-tel » 12 Dec 2018, 13:44

I listened to it while eating breakfast this morning and voted "It's Ok" because I thought it was. Just.

Then it got stuck in my head on my 40 minute walk to work and now I can't stand it.
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Minnie the Minx » 12 Dec 2018, 13:59

I have given it two spins now, the second time my rage grew like bamboo on the lawn. Additionally, and admittedly not very Christmassy, I looked at the video from about 2:31 onwards and thought about how if I worked in a shop and any of those people came to the counter I would think to myself ‘oh what the fuck do you want you whining rolled up trouser cunt’ and then I realised they had put among other things in the video an image of the Grenfell Tower ablaze and I thought of how they looked at the final version and all smiled a self righteous smile about how they would be taken ‘seriously now’ as people burned to death in their pop video and I thought about how much I loathed every bastard one of them.

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby northernsky » 12 Dec 2018, 17:07

Rayge wrote:
Dor-Relip Hotels and Bathings wrote:I'm interested about the Blue Nile reference. Is there anything in that?


Oh, I could see what they meant by it straight away, in terms of the instrumentation, the declarative vocals and the general dynamic, atmosphere and structure of the song.


Well, the tempo and the boxy rhythm track are very similar to”The Downtown Lights”. But the vocal melody and delivery are much less compelling.
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby clive gash » 12 Dec 2018, 17:10

Lads, it’s music for Millennials, you’re not really supposed to get it.
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby harvey k-tel » 12 Dec 2018, 17:12

Phew!
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Goat Boy » 12 Dec 2018, 17:13

Minnie Cheddars wrote:I have given it two spins now, the second time my rage grew like bamboo on the lawn. Additionally, and admittedly not very Christmassy, I looked at the video from about 2:31 onwards and thought about how if I worked in a shop and any of those people came to the counter I would think to myself ‘oh what the fuck do you want you whining rolled up trouser cunt’ and then I realised they had put among other things in the video an image of the Grenfell Tower ablaze and I thought of how they looked at the final version and all smiled a self righteous smile about how they would be taken ‘seriously now’ as people burned to death in their pop video and I thought about how much I loathed every bastard one of them.

It’s a ‘no’ from me


I didn't last that long when I watched it to notice Grenfell Tower.

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Minnie the Minx » 12 Dec 2018, 17:19

*does little bow*
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby sloopjohnc » 12 Dec 2018, 17:52

never/ever wrote:I'll give Pitchfork a week to change that song over for this one.



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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby Darkness_Fish » 12 Dec 2018, 20:57

Image
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.

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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby naughty boy » 14 Dec 2018, 10:46

Their album made number one in NME's year-end list:

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/bes ... 18-2419656
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Re: Pitchfork's SONG O YEAR

Postby The Red Heifer » 14 Dec 2018, 11:35

It finally came up today in the shuffled list. I liked it, but it isn't the best song of the year. Maybe I'll also grow more accustomed to it over time. In related list news I'm glad they found space for the awesome Camp Cope.
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