Bloomers Best Of 2015: Complete. Thank you! - Page 26

JGibson

1/5

Bad Blood <33

Jorge

Bad Blood at #38

Bloomers

Finally added my write-ups back

I think I said everything there I originally said.

I'll add another album set in a bit.

minho

Worth It!!

I liked Bad Blood for a while and I even bought it (I rarely buy individual singles) but I ended up getting tired of it surprisingly quickly

I only really listen to it when I listen to 1989 in full. I love how they did the remix though, it completely changed the song!

Tom Vercetti

Worth It is my favorite from the set for obvious reasons

Kenny just had to insert himself to BB, but it's all good since he made the song a bit more tolerable.

Kingie

I've been following your whole countdown, I love your taste, I've just been forgetting to comment because I keep not logging into atrl and only viewing as a guest

I haven't heard Big Sean's album, outside of Research which I listened to for Ariana, but I really liked Sean on it. I feel like I should check it out at some point, I've heard lots of great things about it. Let me listen to this track now.

Worth It

I actually struggled to get into it when Amethyst dropped, because I kept comparing it to the 5H song which I used to prefer. Once it clicked however, it became my second fave on the mixtape

that groove

I actually liked the Bad Blood remix when it came out, but I got bored with it after like a week

Throw Sum Mo, what a bop

Legend E

yay prezli's fave

Bad Blood is cute

You know what, I won't even imgzoom that

Ivan_brit

Bad Blood is my fave from this 5

Here My Countdown:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=916889&page=10

Changes

Paradise & Throw Sum Mo

jongshic

I like Bad Blood & the calculated publicity stunt Taylor used

However, I don't think Kendrick was necessary in the song, it was basically Kendrick (feat. Taylor)

The hook production on Kendrick's version is superior though

holocene

Quote:

. The song was glossed over, given a movie poster as a single cover, the hottest rapper in the game was chosen to work on the song as a trusty sidekick

Poor Drake.

Managed to get betrayed by his entire ATRL fanbase in a mere sentence.

Green

Not a big fan of Bad Blood but at least the remix is better than the album version

prézli

Quote:

Originally posted by Legend E

yay prezli's fave

Bad Blood is cute

You know what, I won't even imgzoom that

**** you

it's scary as f

mathuss

Bad Blood is a great track!

ColdKeane

3 | 5

Nothing But Thieves

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41. CZARFACE - Every Hero Needs A Villain

This was one of the more fun albums I listened to this year. The album is more of a throwback to classic 90s hip-hop, probably because it was made by rappers that have been working since the 90s. Anyway, it's practically a comic book in album form about a super villain. It was just a fun listen with plenty of entertainment value and some goofy rhymes. A definite stand-out in a year when everybody seemed to be overly serious with their music. Any album with a conversation about whether or not Greedo shot first will make a best of here.

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40. Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu's Hotline Bling inspired mixtape album (released as an Apple Exclusive) was one of the more stranger projects released this year and definitely one of the most enjoyable. I'd like to imagine that Erykah and Drake planned discussed this mixtape over tea. However it came about, I loved this project. I liked how Erykah took the phone concept (which was apparently a thing this year?) and ran with it, examining all the connections that phones allow, or prevent.

There are some obvious Drake allusions here. Phone Down jacks Wu-Tang Forever's beat and the song becomes a come-on about enticing a love to put down a phone, and there is even an imitation Drake on a couple tracks, not to mention the better-than-Hotline-Bling Cel-U-Lar Device. It was a great listen and a very interesting one. The project also helped push what a mixtape could do this year and showed off one of the strengths of the mixtape format. Even if all that isn't interesting or appealing sounding, the music is just near perfect, R&B.

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39. Iron Maiden - Book Of Souls

Newer artists didn't seem to do it much for me this year. Unlike last year, where some of the better projects were debuts, this year saw a lot of veterans from Bjork to Janet Jackson to Iron Maiden coming back with very strong albums. The Book Of Souls is definitely one of Iron Maiden's better albums and was a fun listen this year. I mean, it's not often that a metal album will hit the top 5 of the Billboard 200, let alone a good one.

Iron Maiden always deliver some bombastic epics and for me, it's hard not to love their dramatics. The guitars go big, song lengths sprawl out, Bruce Dickinson's vocals soar, and you get titles like If Eternity Should Fail and Death Or Glory. It's all very life or death stuff. The only thing really holding this one back is that it's a serious time investment at about 90 minutes in length.

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38. Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon

Honestly, I downloaded this album the week it came out because I loved the cover. I had no idea what to expect from them, I had never heard of them before, and honestly, I thought they were a metal band. I was expecting to be hit hard with guitars when I pressed play, and then was pretty surprised when the opening synthesizer and jungle noises came at me instead.

After that, I decided that I would stop trying to guess where the album was taking me and just go along for the ride. Mostly, the album is a jazzy experimental record. I'd hate to call it outright jazz, because it's no Miles Davis or Coltrane, but it's also not rock or outright R&B either. If I'm being honest, the music at times most reminds me of music from the Sims, but that's under selling it. It's playful, adventurous, and really, liable to change. Sometimes, the instrumentation gets in the way of the songs a little bit, but that also gives the songs a lot of character, making the album feel very lived in and unique.Musically, the sound is somewhere between Sade, Quadron, Little Dragon and maybe Steely Dan or something. Choose Your Weapon was a consistently enjoyable album to listen to through the year, working great as study music, walking, or driving music, although the album is a little on the long side.. I also caught them as an opener for Little Dragon and they were pretty great.

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37. Adele - 25

Everyone knows the story behind 21. Step 1: Adele was in a relationship which ended. Step 2: She wrote an album on the relationship and released it. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit. She took over the world with 21 , achieving unparalleled success in a collapsing industry, success that wouldn't even be considered in most artist's wildest dreams. It wasn't about the success for Adele. At least, it seemed not to be. She slowly became the biggest thing in music and just kind of went quiet.

Then, all of a sudden, in fall, she released Hello, announcing her return to music, and in the process, allowing us to see what direction she decided to take with her new music. There are no hardcore EDM anthems, no moves toward rock, no club bangers, it was almost exactly what anybody would have expected the sequel to 21 to sound like. There's no more break-ups surrounding the album, although there does seem to be some weariness over the future. 25 is Adele's quarter-life crisis album

The album is pretty solid. She seems focused on living in the moment with the realization that the future can drastically change everything at a moment's notice; she is, afterall, sitting on the other side of one of the biggest break-out albums in recent memory and is one of the biggest things in entertainment.

Like 21, she is at her best when she is more restrained and the more bombastic tracks at the beginning of the album hold it back. Hello, while a huge hit, doesn't really say anything interesting, although it does say everything dramatically and did serve as a nice reintroduction; Send My Love, the Max Martin production, is a neat little song, but feels more like a fun toss-off (Adele imagining what it might be like to be another pop star) than anything too substantive; it's really at When We Were Young when the album opens up and hits its stride, with a more raw atmosphere that Adele just works better in. Lyrics about photographing a moment to preserve it for the uncertain future and imaging missing your mother and closest relatives and examining what makes Adele Adele fill the remainder of the album. It's very good, and easy listen that is sure to grab the listener with something every time. Also, the cover is kind of incredible. It's an extreme close-up and immediately looked like a classic.

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Kang.

Oh I been meaning to listen to Czarface, that's kinda funny how it's like all Inspectah Deck is doing at all these days, but still alwayz pleasantly surprising to realize how much solid Wu stuff there is coming out at any given moment

Staryu

All of those album covers are like insane and then we get to 25 and its just Adele's face