best of Unoriginal's Best of 2017

[Unoriginal]

so i'll post 5 and 4 together then #3 then #2 then #1

[ultraviolence.xx]

1 minute ago, Unoriginal said:

omg have i not been rihplying to yours?  

the good sis JUST got it up and running

[Pink Matter]

2 minutes ago, Unoriginal said:

omg have i not been rihplying to yours?  

Just made it kii

 

1 minute ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

the good sis JUST got it up and running

 

[Dom]

rihply ~

[Unoriginal]

UNORIGINAL'S BEST OF 2017

2017's 50 Best Singles

5 - 1

 

#5

Rae Morris - Do It

The acoustic version of this was in my Discover Weekly a while back and I kind of loved it so I checked out the original version and kinda fell in love and I'm still hooked. The message is simple but it's an impossibly, infectiously fun song that starts off with simple production that builds itself up slowly before flowering in the second verse and solidifying Do It as one of the year's shining, best electropop/synthpop songs effortlessly. I'm fond of some of the adlibs in the second verse for no apparent reason too. The understated yet immensely effective production is the highlight of the song for me (along with the deceptively simple earworm of a chorus) but the vocal climax of the song at the end of the bridge is also a moment. The outro is amazing and, without being familiar with Rae Morris for very long at all, Do It has undeniably earned a place as one of my favourite singles of the year.

listen here

 

#4

The War on Drugs - Thinking of a Place

 

The War on Drugs' twelve minute minute synthy, rocky eleven-minute epic (and standout from A Deeper Understanding) is incredible. It has an ethereal quality to it that makes it sound distant yet incredibly close and from an outsiders' perspective yet painfully close to home for vocalist Adam Granduciel. It's these juxtapositions, and many more, within the song itself that make it so powerful. The ambient opening passage with its building, strong percussion is enigmatic and mysterious; the lyrics are about something relatively simple and relatable (loss of love) yet Granduciel makes it seem like the most arresting, painful thing one could ever experience; the guitar solos are beyond incredible and the twinkling outro feels like its own heartbreaking piece of its own. Even at eleven minutes Thinking of a Place doesn't overstay its welcome one bit. It's a perfect psychedelic ambient rocky piece that I can't fault anywhere.

listen here

[Unoriginal]

24 minutes ago, Pink Matter said:

Just made it kii

 

 

oh good i thought i was being a mess but turns out i'm just being a mess in a different way  

[Unoriginal]

#3

Lorde - Green Light

 

I wasn't sure where Lorde would go after Pure Heroine because, although it's great, it's an album that very much documents the late teen years of Lorde's life and it definitely wasn't a sound Lorde could continue or develop on much more than she had in my opinion. Green Light was the first taste of new Lorde and it was mind-blowing from first listen and still is equally flooring nearly two hundred listens later. It's nothing short of a stroke of pure genius: Green Light is cathartic, euphoric, danceable, heartbreaking and everything in between. It's one of Jack Atonoff's production highpoints of 2017 as well. Throughout the song, Lorde conveys her explosions of emotions incredibly and as a listener it's hard to deny Lorde the progression in her life she so clearly wants. Green Light feels hateful towards an ex-lover and hurt, betrayed of what Lorde thought she'd get with her lover and by the epic comedown at the end of the song the listener feels emotionally exhausted and drained in an amazing way: Lorde has taken all of your emotion, screwed it up and given you her pain, hurt and longing to move on and you feel exactly as she feels. Nothing short of faultless.

listen here

Edited December 21, 2017 by Unoriginal

[ultraviolence.xx]

a SONG  

[World Eater]

TOAP is just  I love their epics!

Green Light

[Unoriginal]

#2

Susanne Sundfør - Undercover

 

I only discovered Susanne this year. When I listened to Undercover and Mountaineers the first few times I was certain Mountaineers was the better song but the more I listened to them the more I fell in love with Undercover. The song starts off with Sundfør's vocals backed by nothing more than a piano (which she plays beautifully) and progresses with little less being added to that than a synth line and some gorgeous backing vocals in the chorus and some strings in the second chorus. After this the song reaches its climax; realistically I couldn't really call it a climax but the buildup is so subtle and slow it can equally hardly be called a buildup. Undercover blossoms into a piece decorated by Susanne's vocals whilst the instrumentation swells and rises to a beautifully heartbreaking, triumphant, stunningly cathartic second half that stuns me every time without fail. If anything, it's become even more incredible with successive listens; initially I was listening to the edit on Spotify but when I bought the full version something about the extra chorus made the song feel so much more tense and wrought with pleading it again floored me. Susanne is the epitome of less is more: instead of packing Undercover full of lyrical longing cliches, Susanne lets her voice and the instrumentation do all of the talking and emotional conveying to spectacular, almost unequalled, results.

listen here

do yourself a favour and find the full version

[ultraviolence.xx]

a SONG  

[Unoriginal]

so anyway... what the folk could be #1?

[Unoriginal]

1 hour ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

a SONG  

it IS

 

4 minutes ago, AlexisNeiers said:

TOAP is just  I love their epics!

Green Light

only TWoD could make an 11 minute long song that I wish was longer

is GL a bit too high iyo?

 

2 minutes ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

a SONG  

it IS  

Edited December 21, 2017 by Unoriginal

[World Eater]

Susanne snatching

 

Just now, Unoriginal said:

only TWoD could make an 11 minute long song that I wish was longer

is GL a bit too high iyo?

Right?

Yes  It's still the best single but there are better songs on the album imo

[Pink Matter]

The punch that is 2-3-4  

[Unoriginal]

10 minutes ago, AlexisNeiers said:

Susanne snatching

rightfully so

10 minutes ago, AlexisNeiers said:

Yes  It's still the best single but there are better songs on the album imo

agreed. WitD and Sober >>>> but singles-wise it's easily one of my favourites of the year but I'm also mildly basic so

 

8 minutes ago, Pink Matter said:

The punch that is 2-3-4  

okay I have faith you'll like #1 

[ultraviolence.xx]

but where is surprise #1 Bon Appétit  WE WANT CLOSURE

[Unoriginal]

12 minutes ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

but where is surprise #1 Bon Appétit  WE WANT CLOSURE

the writeup is long and messy and taking a while

[ultraviolence.xx]

Just now, Unoriginal said:

the writeup is long and messy and taking a while

did you decide to go with BBH100 #4 smasher Chained to the Rhythm instead? whew, the mess that's going to ensue!   

[Unoriginal]

Just now, ultraviolence.xx said:

did you decide to go with BBH100 #4 smasher Chained to the Rhythm instead? whew, the mess that's going to ensue!   

you're not ready  

[ultraviolence.xx]

1 minute ago, Unoriginal said:

you're not ready  

i'm not ...ready for it?

 

did you break the 1-per-artist rule for taylor and rush-release LWYMMD to the #1 spot (much like the BBH100)??

[Unoriginal]

#1

Fleet Foxes - Third of May / Ōdaigahara

 

listen here

[ultraviolence.xx]

all that waiting  a CTTR tea indeed

[Unoriginal]

well that's all for the Best Of Singles list for 2017! hope you liked (some of) it  I'll be back tomorrow with mentions for EPs non-ranked so stop by for that  

[World Eater]

Fool's Errand is my personal fav from Crack-Up but Third of May is definitely a good choice for #1