ok here's an imo

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 03:40:11

1 2 3 4 is an unpleasant song

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-11-23 03:44:01

Tamlin said:
1 2 3 4 is an unpleasant song

I can agree with that.

Section42L · 2016-11-23 03:46:48

thenamelesssamurai said:

Tamlin said:
1 2 3 4 is an unpleasant song
I can agree with that.

Tre · 2016-11-23 05:50:59

Polite disagreement.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 06:06:01

What song is this? I assume it's that Plain White T's song which keeps coming up on Google.

Imipolex G · 2016-11-23 06:07:33

are we talking Feist or Coolio

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 06:09:04

Those are the other two but they're less recent.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 06:09:12

Sredni Vashtar said:
What song is this? I assume it's that Plain White T's song which keeps coming up on Google.

that one

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 06:10:12

Ahhhh.

Thankfully, I'm not acquainted with it.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 06:11:02

Sredni Vashtar said:
Ahhhh.

Thankfully, I'm not acquainted with it.

it's profoundly

treacley

Imipolex G · 2016-11-23 06:13:00

ah, never even heard that one!

Tre · 2016-11-23 06:20:24

Oh, I thought we were talking about the Feist song

I like Feist

Tre · 2016-11-23 06:21:57

the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.

Section42L · 2016-11-23 06:27:44

Oh, I thought it was the Feist song.

Feist isn't that bad, honestly. There's just something about her that turns me off, somehow.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 06:28:51

i have probably heard a feist song at some point but i would not recognize it as her

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-11-23 06:33:44

Tre said:
the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.

This would have been my reaction, until I heard it over 100 times from my work's radio station.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 06:34:53

thenamelesssamurai said:

Tre said:
the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.
This would have been my reaction, until I heard it over 100 times from my work's radio station.

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

THIS

THIS

THIS

THIS

THIS

Imipolex G · 2016-11-23 06:37:28

...I wonder if I hear it at work and don't know it

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-11-23 06:49:30

thenamelesssamurai said:

Tre said:
the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.
This would have been my reaction, until I heard it over 100 times from my work's radio station.

See also, "The Man who can't be moved" by The Script, "Rude" by Magic, "I just haven't met you yet" by Michael Buble, "Let's fall in Love again" by Jason Castro and the same 6 Taylor Swift songs they play over and over again. It's gotten to the point where "A thousand Miles" has become one of my favorite songs on the work radio just by being better than all of these songs.

Tamlin said:

thenamelesssamurai said:

Tre said:
the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.
This would have been my reaction, until I heard it over 100 times from my work's radio station.
YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

THIS

THIS

THIS

THIS

THIS

Oh jesus, you have to suffer that too? My co-workers and I have been joking that we can't wait for the Christmas season to start, just so we'll at least have something new to listen to.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 07:05:57

sometimes

like once a week

you hear Love Will Tear Us Apart or Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This and you cry tears of joy

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:07:57

thenamelesssamurai said:

thenamelesssamurai said:

Tre said:
the PWT song, ehhhhhh

I don't love it and I don't hate it. It exists.
This would have been my reaction, until I heard it over 100 times from my work's radio station.
See also, "The Man who can't be moved" by The Script, "Rude" by Magic, "I just haven't met you yet" by Michael Buble, "Let's fall in Love again" by Jason Castro and the same 6 Taylor Swift songs they play over and over again. It's gotten to the point where "A thousand Miles" has become one of my favorite songs on the work radio just by being better than all of these songs.

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 07:08:01

also, sometimes later in the evening you get this endless string of Country Ballads and endless soft r'n'b duets? it's Misery Itself

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:11:52

Naney I'm sorry but a country ballad is the greatest song ever recorded.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:13:04

Jane said:
Naney I'm sorry but a country ballad is the greatest song ever recorded.

actual fact this is the funniest song in existence

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 07:14:03

the country ballad I'm talking about has a man and a woman singing about how it's a quarter after one and I'm kinda drunk and I need you now *slide guitar noises*

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 07:15:32

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_You_Now_(Lady_Antebellum_song)

this

this

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:16:24

Oh no that's actually one of the worst songs that exists.

It's also one of my mom's favorite songs.

These things are possibly related.

Lady Antebellum are actual garbage. It's like.

ok

Nickelback :: Rock n' Roll

Lady Antebellum :: Country

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:16:53

I know that song.

It would be pretty excruciating if played on loop, although in isolation it's not that bad for what it is.

Hexartes · 2016-11-23 07:17:26

1 2 3 4 is legitimately one of my least favorite of the many songs on Wal-Mart radio that I hate

My very least favorite is this

And this is a close second

And this is a close third

(If it's gauche to post three videos in one post tell me and I'll edit it)

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:19:01

as far as actual country ballads go, John-Michael Montgomery's version of "I Swear" is also alright.

It's super maudlin but there is far worse in the genre and the song fits the style.

and there is "If I Had A Boat" by Lyle Lovett which is actually one of my favorite songs of all time, and I mean that seriously this time.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:19:31

You should probably make those links in case anyone's having an internet issue, but I don't think it's necessarily gauche.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:19:43

it'd just be me n' Trigger

and we'd go ridin' thru those movies

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:21:46

Jane said:
it'd just be me n' Trigger

and we'd go ridin' thru those movies

I grew up on this song and I still love it and much of the rest of Mr. Lovett's work to this day. Thank you for reminding me of it.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:22:53

It's actually the sole song by him I'm familiar with but I've loved it for years. I forget where I first found it.

I've liked it long enough that it was one of the first songs I ever sampled.

I don't know if anyone here remembers Mike K, but we were briefly working on a collaborative record together (it never came out) and one of the songs sampled the guitar loop in the beginning of that tune.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:25:36

The other one that immediately comes to mind is "L.A. County", which is just amazing (and very, very dark[ly funny]):

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:32:20

I have a soft spot for songs of that nature, just, strange melancholy songs by one person with a guitar and lots of interesting imagery. I think the best of them sound sort of haunted

this is one that is more well known

Obā-san · 2016-11-23 07:35:46

Jane said:
I have a soft spot for songs of that nature, just, strange melancholy songs by one person with a guitar and lots of interesting imagery.

Sell all ye have

Give it to the kittens

and pour the milk out

on Louis' grave

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:36:35

Don't recognize that one offhand?

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:36:50

technically there's drums in this one

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:37:01

Tamlin said:

Jane said:
I have a soft spot for songs of that nature, just, strange melancholy songs by one person with a guitar and lots of interesting imagery.
Sell all ye have

Give it to the kittens

and pour the milk out

on Louis' grave

Oh, speaking of songs that occasionally make me want to cry...! Great album.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:39:48

I'm a terrible person to listen to music with honestly because half the songs I like only I like, and the other half make me crumble instantly into a teary mess.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:40:04

Jane said:
Don't recognize that one offhand?

Current 93, "The Bloodbells Chime". It's dedicated to Thomas Ligotti, interestingly, although most of the imagery comes from the cat paintings that Louis Wain did during the Great War.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:41:21

Jane said:
I'm a terrible person to listen to music with honestly because half the songs I like only I like, and the other half make me crumble instantly into a teary mess.

I alternate in my general musical experience between rocking the fuck out and wanting to cry, either with happy or sad tears.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:42:02

Sredni Vashtar said:

Jane said:
Don't recognize that one offhand?
Current 93, "The Bloodbells Chime". It's dedicated to Thomas Ligotti, interestingly, although most of the imagery comes from the cat paintings that Louis Wain did during the Great War.

this is nice but it's not hitting me right in the heart

It's not a difficult thing to locate in a song for me. I know it when I hear it.

This is more like Iron & Wine, something I would throw on for atmosphere.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 07:44:42

Sredni Vashtar said:

Jane said:
I'm a terrible person to listen to music with honestly because half the songs I like only I like, and the other half make me crumble instantly into a teary mess.
I alternate in my general musical experience between rocking the fuck out and wanting to cry, either with happy or sad tears.

same

also some of the stuff that brings on happy tears is....not usual

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 07:45:08

I'm happy that you like it, at the very least. David Tibet's vocals tend to turn people off, so it's hard to refer people to their work.

It's the lyrics at the end that really hit me, after the vocals double.

Crystal · 2016-11-23 07:58:04

Eventually I'll find more music to add to the, I think, slim collection that hits me so hard I want to cry. Eventually.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 08:01:31

Wire's "Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºN" is one of those songs, particularly in the context of 154, because it so accurately conveys what it's like to try to intellectually process awe, in the lyrics and the music and the arrangement and how the last verse builds and builds into the last chorus and just *explodes* and I have actually wept listening to this song.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 08:01:57

and what a title!

(I jest)

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 08:03:16

It's a field in Iowa! :D

Odradek · 2016-11-23 15:39:20

Of the three Plain White Ts songs I've heard this is the worst

It goes

1: That one giving tree song

2: Hey There Delilah

3: This one

ok here's an imo

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