That's alright. Million Years Ago sounds like it's from a different time
And as long as you're cool for the blommers! That's cool with me
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Your worst of list. The Sia description is accurate. Idk why she literally wants to sound annoying on record. I also agree about twenty one pilots' vocal hooks, especially on tracks like Heavydirtysoul, Ride, Polarize, Doubt, etc. They are lazy and show a lack of musicianship!
I haven't heard most of this, but your Wildheart description is accurate. Btw, nice vocab word with "carnal."
Thank you for agreeing about the pilots, I felt like I was the only one
Thank you for the vocal compliment also! Carnal is a fun word, and it's pulchritude is undeniable!
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Originally posted by enxe
Million Years Ago & C&W.
Baroness will probably appear on my countdown next year.
You know I will be perched for that countdown.
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Originally posted by Pedro
Baaabe! I love Million Years Ago!
Right?! It's so good Pedro
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Originally posted by prezli
Adele in the Top 10? Jesus. What's next? Coldplay at #1?
Coldplay is already gone I have been listening to their album and I kind of regret Coldplay not being here in the top 10
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Originally posted by Prismatic
Why does the title say "Blommers"?
It's kind of an inside joke. Nobody really gets my user name right, myself included
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Originally posted by Mark Rih
Million Years Ago is amazing. On my top 5 from 25 for sure.
It's a genius song from the time of the dinosaurs. What else is in your top 5?
Mine is:
MYA
All I Ask
When We Were Young
Water Under The Bridge
and Love In The Dark (maybe?)
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Originally posted by Topmaster 2
Punch Brothers
Jungle top 6
I love the Punch Brothers. They are so talented
The 6 man strikes
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Originally posted by Ewan Chaos
A touch surprised to see Miguel above Kendrick, but good album update! Especially happy to see Neon Indian so high up.
As for the songs I like your descriptions of them because most I haven't heard. Especially the Baroness song... Really wanna check that out. Jungle is good but I still need to check out that mixtape as a whole
Kendrick's album is good, but I think it's just a little too much as a whole. It's really effective in small doses I think. I like the Miguel album as an album more.
I say, if you are ok with rock. Listen to Baroness. It's not too out there and is kind of epic It's a very good song. And I think you know how I feel about the mixtape
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Originally posted by prezli
heh?
I'm considering a name change
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Originally posted by Tom Vercetti
Jungle is awesome as expected. If I ever get lost on an island and conveniently have my phone and wanted to play some music, I'd probably play that track first.
I have to agree.
That actually sounds kind of nice now that you say all that
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Originally posted by K$Ellie
Yaaaay Jungle is amazing
Million Years Ago is pretty good, that interview>>>
Cool For The Summer nearly making the Top 10
Legend and Coldplay
Jungle is everything
My friend showed me that interview a couple, but not a million years ago, and I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at an interview.
CFTS was sooo close. I really wanted it to make it. That hurt,.
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Originally posted by Legend E
Million Years Ago Definitely one of the best lyrically.
I'll check out the rest
I agree completely. It's magic and always gets me just a little bit
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Originally posted by AshleeSimpsonFan
Jungle is a good song! Drake really surprised me this year
Drake delivered some good songs that's for sure.
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Originally posted by Admiral Bobbery
I actually gave Miguel's album a listen last night/today, I really like it. I love how it's more rock oriented and psychedelic.
As for the countdown Jungle is pretty nice.
Really? Glad you liked what you heard! It definitely is a very sonically interesting album. There's not too many being made like it at the moment.
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Originally posted by Staryu
yas Jungle
Drake makes Jungle sound so great.
To be honest, if I ever explored it, I think this would be me:
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Originally posted by holocene
Please make it so that Drake is number two and blocked from the number one position I am BEGGING you
My list is already made up and I decided not to move anything so I wouldn't question any of my positions.
You'll just have to wait and see
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Originally posted by jose168
woah this is fantastic and here i am dropping the metal genre like that
Right? Metal has had some great stuff.
Glad you liked it!
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Originally posted by Superpower
That Adele song
Jungle tho
I will make a playlist of the songs in your top30 that I don't know tomorrow
Thank you Superlegend
Adele only made it to number 10. What a flop. It's a wonderful song though
I'll see if I can make up a list also! I probably should have done that, just to listen to these.
Let me see if I can finish off the songs tonight. I'm kind of wiped, so we'll see
5: Carly Rae Jepsen - All That
At the beginning of the year who would have thought Carly would offer up the second best slow jam of the year? I definitely would not have. Back in the day, I loved parts of Kiss, This Kiss specifically. Around the time of the I Really Like You release, I was thinking Carly might have been a two or three single wonder. I really really really liked IRLY and decided I was on board with her new era, and that I would judge her based on the follow up. All That hit me hard earlier in the year and never quite left.
Carly, Dev Hynes (one of my favorite producers even though he produced one of my least favorite songs of the past couple years, Tinashe's disgusting Bet), and Ariel the Mermaid cooked up a masterpiece of a song. The song just glistens as it gently unfolds. It's an alluring song in everyway imaginable. The warm light of a lighthouse calling you in, and it's impossible to deny the song's warmth.
There's just something about this song that just never gets old. It's a relatively simple song, almost deceptively so to the point that it can easily slip right past you on the first couple listens without making much of an impression. It's a near constant beat with plush synths padding out the song but that simplicity just adds to the song's charms. No Sleeep is effortlessly smooth and near weightless, breeezing right on by in a way that never gets overbearing. The song could probably get along on its sultry instrumental and be just fine, but Janet elevates it, steering it through the quiet storm.
I checked it out because of the hullabaloo around her comeback and I wasn't disappointed. It's been a consistent listen through the year. It was honestly the first Janet Jackson song I really really loved and it's just about perfect to boot.
Dance Like We're Making Love might be my favorite Ci-ngle to date, in impressive feat when your singles discography includes 1,2 Step; Goodies; Oh; Promise; Body Party; I Bet; and I'm Out. The whole song is polished to the point that it shines, and every second, every note of Dance Like We're Making Love, feels precise, deliberate, and measured out.
I really don't think any other artist would be able to pull of the song the way Ci does, they'd be too technical or too lose. Ciara however, builds up the tension of the song like a pro, gradually leading the song to a white hot climax. "Once I'm turned on, you can't turn me off" she Ci-ngs and on Dance Like We're Making Love, she's pretty unstoppable.
So Far: 10: Adele - Million Years Ago; 9: Baroness - Chlorine & Wine; 8: Vince Staples - Norf Norf; Punch Brothers - Forgotten; 6: Drake - Jungle; 5: Carly Rae Jepsen - All That; 4: Janet Jackson - No Sleeep; 3: Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love
The chiller songs just did it for me this year. What can I say
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Originally posted by holyground
I would've said Wildest Dreams
Idk why I never bothered with Janet and Ciara. Is it cuz they're black? Am I racist?
If Taylor would have just uploaded that radio remix of Wildest Dreams, it would have made my list! I was ready to give her my money and she dropped the ball there.
that didn't get into Ciara and Janet. There's always time though.
Majid and Drake last teamed up on the classic Hold On We're Going Home
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This song though has been My Love from first listen. The glassy beat that serves as the backbone for the song sounds fragile enough to be able to break into a thousand pieces. My Love is not quite the chill R&B song it feels like it's going to be in the first couple seconds. It's an increasingly manic song that captures the head games the guys play with themselves when they're conflicted over whether someone genuinely likes them or not. As self-doubt sets in, they question things more; the pulse quickens, the thoughts race... this song captures all that in musical form, nearly perfectly. For me, it's a cerebral song, but also one that is simultaneously a banger and downright gorgeous.
Drake's highest charting song here and he isn't even the main artist. It was by far the best thing he was a part of this year in my opinion [URL="http://i.imgur.com/KBFNgFQ.gif"](and that's including this). His singing has never sounded better (not that that's a huge accomplishment), and his verse on trophies, takes the song to new heights.
I can't wait for Majid's album to come out later this year, and I want an R&B album from Drake as soon as possible, or for this one to take off and become a huge smash like Tuesday .
My Love would have hands down been my song of the year had it not been for the next one...
So Far: 10: Adele - Million Years Ago; 9: Baroness - Chlorine & Wine; 8: Vince Staples - Norf Norf; Punch Brothers - Forgotten; 6: Drake - Jungle; 5: Carly Rae Jepsen - All That; 4: Janet Jackson - No Sleeep; 3: Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love
1: Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds
I've never been the biggest Rihanna fan. I've liked her music and own her discography, but she just never really got me excited and captured my interest the way other artists do. She was always kind of the person I paid attention to when my favorite artists were on break, or on the side to be honesty. I've liked her, but hadn't gotten around to loving her until FourFiveSeconds, which made me a stan.
She dropped the song, what was supposed to be the first single to the still-elusive R8 (aka Anti) close to a year ago, and FourFiveSeconds clicked just about immediately. At first I was just a little thrown off by the guitar; it wasn't the uptempo, highly polished product we've gotten used to from her. Instead, FourFiveSeconds felt kind of earthier, or unfinished, in a way that felt strange for pop music. It was just an enjoyable organic pop song.
I especially liked how weird the song was: there's Paul's strummed guitar and the subtly captivating guitar licks, the random organ, Kanye's randomly volatile verse, and the gremlin that somehow snuck into the recording studio... it all just worked together despite the fact that it shouldn't have and didn't seem to age, only showing off new idiosyncrasies with each listen. The song doesn't even seem to know what it wants to be. It seems happy and bright enough, when it's not fourfiveseconds from wilding; it's optimistic and positive when it's not confronted; it's just a little drunk; it's unpolished but still composed at the same time, it just fit Rihanna and Kanye's images perfectly.
I don't know what else to say, the whole song is like sunshine on a cloudy day. I couldn't think of a song that I played more consistently through the whole year or a song that I enjoyed more than FourFiveSeconds and this year, and in 2015 that's all I wanted.
So Far: 10: Adele - Million Years Ago; 9: Baroness - Chlorine & Wine; 8: Vince Staples - Norf Norf; Punch Brothers - Forgotten; 6: Drake - Jungle; 5: Carly Rae Jepsen - All That; 4: Janet Jackson - No Sleeep; 3: Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love; 2: Majid Jordan (feat. Drake) - My Love
And that's the end of my song countdown. Thank you so much to everybody that commented. I've had a lot of fun listing these! I'll go around and do some commenting, and be back tomorrow or the day after to finish off my album list