best of bluth appetit | finished xo

[bluth]

1 minute ago, madonnas said:

Red Velvet?

 

10 minutes ago, Penk said:

 

i tried listening to the War on Drugs but it kinda gives me dad rock teas eh. 

i think i’m the only person who dug it, my trash taste

5 minutes ago, madonnas said:

Wish you would have chosen another Rainbow track, but Woman is v good.

10-20-40 is really underrated round these parts of the internet.  My 2nd fave

POnyboy and Weighed Down are excellent.  Did you like V as a whole?

 

I wish I liked the Austra album but I gave it chances and now I'm completely over it.  I just can't.... idk.  Not my type? 

i liked v! it’s heavy as a whole but it manages to offset that with lighter moments

 

the austra album has two standouts + the rest is generally fine

3 minutes ago, Penk said:

Vince, St. Vince, Charli, Lorde, Selena, Kelela, SZA, Jay Som, Japanese Breakfast, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Ware, Susanne Sundfor, P!nk, Phoenix, Kero Kero Bonito, Kendrick, Julia Michaels, etc.??

impressive - 12 

[moonlight.]

Woman,  Pain, & Paradise  

[Lazuli]

On the Level, Die 4 You, Rose Colored Boy

Woman, Weighed Down, 10-20-40, Special, Pain  What a stellar set

[TheWayWeWere]

Woman is nice bop

just listened Rina's EP last night, and it's amazing tbh

[Playa Playa]

Ponyboy deserved this! Already one of Sophie's greatest achievements

[TayRianaPH]

Rose-Colored Boy 

Woman too 

comment on my best of too hun 

[Little Dark Age]

great list so far

NAO and GoldLink just sneaking in 

Acting is a bop but not one of my faves from Ariel's album

Water Me is nice but didn't have great replay value imo

Hot Thoughts is excellence 

 

Caramelo Duro, Slide, List of People, Havana, Cold Than Ice, Trash People, Holding On 

whew Sticky Situation and Friend Zone are so underrated glad they made it

 

[bluth]

Spoiler

 

14 hours ago, Lazuli said:

On the Level, Die 4 You, Rose Colored Boy

Woman, Weighed Down, 10-20-40, Special, Pain  What a stellar set

i'm glad u like it 

8 hours ago, TheWayWeWere said:

Woman is nice bop

just listened Rina's EP last night, and it's amazing tbh

yes get into it!

14 minutes ago, cdschart said:

great list so far

NAO and GoldLink just sneaking in 

Acting is a bop but not one of my faves from Ariel's album

Water Me is nice but didn't have great replay value imo

Hot Thoughts is excellence 

 

Caramelo Duro, Slide, List of People, Havana, Cold Than Ice, Trash People, Holding On 

whew Sticky Situation and Friend Zone are so underrated glad they made it

 

serving taste! 

 

 

going to do 30-21 songs later and, to spice things off, my worst 

Edited December 15, 2017 by bluth

[theblackestday]

Chanel deserved better

The 1-2-3-4 punch of #45-#42 (although Trash People is the worst song on Apocalipstick)

Sophie's song is a BOP. Excited for the new album if it sounds more like this than that other song.

btw, love your aesthetics

 

Edited December 15, 2017 by theblackestday

[Eeveelution]

Special is cute but... nothing special.  Angel's release disappointed me, honestly. Ultraviolence, sweetie...

 

Die for You is a perfect PG pick and Rina's song is really good too. I was so tempted to axe something from my list to include Ponyboy: it's just THAT bop and I'm excited to see what she brings in 2018.

[Tom Vercetti]

Your batches always have a nice amount of songs that I use. 

 

10-20-40 is probably my favorite Rina track as of now. Accelator/Pony Boy/Friend Zone/Pain also among highlights. 

[bluth]

 

30 - 21

 

30 MODERN WOMAN TENNIS

while yours conditionally often slips into snoozey territory, reminding us of the dull routine married life can fall into, it has a few moments wherein we snap away from mundanity for a second and become consumed by spontaneous emotion. modern woman is a cry for an old friend, but i guess it could also work on losing your identity as a woman, the song beginning quietly and ascending into a beautiful cry for the past 

 

 

 

 

29 EQUALIZER DENZEL CURRY

 

 

28 DEADLY VALENTINE CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

marriage is both a beautiful and terrifying thing - something we desperately crave from a fear of dying alone and, yet, we are constantly warned of its difficulty to sustain. charlotte gainsbourg has a great ear for melodrama and atmosphere, turning wedding vows into a breathy, six-minute italo disco number which feels fittingly as joyous as it is ominous

 

 

 

 

27 WHERE THIS FLOWER BLOOMS TYLER, THE CREATOR

i think flower boy was pretty consistent as a whole, but i guess the main charm of this song was hearing frank's vocals over production that reminded me of nostalgia ultra. meanwhile, tyler reminisces of pre-fame life, creating a song bathed in sun-drenched nostalgia which further underscores flower boy's summery aesthetic 

 

 

 

 

26 LOSSS BJORK

bjork spends a lot of utopia articulating a sense of optimism and wonder about the modern world, but one of its most powerful moments comes when - for a split moment - her utopia begins to shatter. the lyrics here are some of the most evocative of this year - "my spine curved erotically / tied ribbons on my ankles for you" - while arca's fragmented production underlines the idea of this world of beauty experiencing a cataclysmic destruction as its creator mourns loss

 

 

 

 

25 MOURNING SOUND GRIZZLY BEAR

i never got around to listening to this album (so kelela - lmk how it is) which is surprising given how much i actually liked this. mourning sound is  deep rumbling song punctuated by synths which feel like shafts of light piercing through a tree canopy, making for a song which feels so haunting and hollow in its presentation of loss 

 

 

 

 

24 WANNA SIP FEVER RAY

i spent a while deliberating on my favourite song from this album but eventually i just went with my original choice - wanna sip, being the first impression of this album, aptly takes a plunge, into the music. if there ever were a song in 2017 where emotion truly permeated every fibre of a song, this would be it - fever ray's vocals feel unhinged while she brandishes the music like a dagger, jabbing it back and forth in a way which is so exhilarating and aggressive

 

 

 

 

23 DRUGS CHARLI XCX

one of number 1 angel's most saccharine moments, only charli could make such a sugary, sardonic hook out of... well, drugs. i guess the song itself semi-ironically adopts the trope of glamourised hedonism in pop music, instead presenting it through the vernacular of a sugar-rush of a pop song that feels equally addictive 

 

 

 

 

22 SHARK SMILE BIG THIEF

sometimes the most powerful words are the smallest, the most powerful statements are the most concise. big thief understand how to make small, intimate moments feel colossal, and they do so by handling anecdotes and life events with the most caring, dexterous touch. shark smile narrates a life-changing event, but it elicits its emotional climax in a heart-breaking and hauntingly realistic portrayal of survivor's guilt with a few simple words - "and i said woo / baby, take me too" 

 

 

 

21 CALL TICKETRON RUN THE JEWELS 

part of run the jewels' success is their ability to offset their more political moments with more effortlessly fun ideas - call the tickerton being a visceral bop about performing at madison square garden. it's a fun track that begs to be unleashed on a crowd; even if they aren't performing at msg, this song feels like it needs to be 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

[Tom Vercetti]

I like Ronny J's Travi$ Scott impression on Equalizer. 

 

Top Bjork and Charli choices  

I feel Grizzly Bear had better singles than Mourning Sound, but not a bad choice. 

Deadly Valentine was the first song I heard from Charlotte and it convinced me enough to check her album out. 

[theblackestday]

Love Where This Flower Blooms. It has strings and Frank Ocean so it's automatically great.

Most people pay it dust but Drugs has always been my favorite track from N1A, so slay.

Wanna Sip and Shark Smile are perfection and yay @ Hairlosss, the best sing on Utopia

[bluth]

6 minutes ago, theblackestday said:

Love Where This Flower Blooms. It has strings and Frank Ocean so it's automatically great.

Most people pay it dust but Drugs has always been my favorite track from N1A, so slay.

Wanna Sip and Shark Smile are perfection and yay @ Hairlosss, the best sing on Utopia

not hairlosss i'm screaming glad to see more love for drugs <3

 

3 hours ago, theblackestday said:

btw, love your aesthetics

 

thx yew 

1 hour ago, Tom Vercetti said:

Your batches always have a nice amount of songs that I use. 

yours too!

1 hour ago, Eeveelution said:

I was so tempted to axe something from my list to include Ponyboy: it's just THAT bop and I'm excited to see what she brings in 2018.

u should consider it tbh! i hope she brings iT

17 minutes ago, Tom Vercetti said:

Deadly Valentine was the first song I heard from Charlotte and it convinced me enough to check her album out. 

hopefully u liked the album!

[World Eater]

Pain is on my bottom 3 from A Deeper Undestanding nn. Cute but maybe too immediate for me, idk. That 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 punch with #29-21 tho

[Eeveelution]

An update.  Deadly Valentine was so unexpected, I wasn't anticipating  such an artpop banger from her.The Big Thief, RTJ and Tyler songs are all album highlights and Drugs grew on me recently, tho it's not my Charli fav.

 

And let's pretend I included SOPHIE instead of Miley.

 

[Unoriginal]

Losss (from the one time I've listened to it ) and Shark Smile

[Red]

On 12/13/2017 at 5:09 PM, bluth said:

 

57 LIST OF PEOPLE (TO TRY AND FORGET ABOUT) TAME IMPALA

this is good but not i-can't-believe-this-wasn't-on-the-original-album-good so i guess we know who won the battle of the 2015 side b album rejects hihi. but it's still cute nonetheless and continues currents' aesthetic of turning social anxieties into beautiful, acidic landscapes of molten synths and viscous emotions

 

 

 

Well, there goes the angle that I was going to use for this song when I talked about it in 2018.

 

I expect "Chanel" to make my "Songs from the Past" list in 2018, if my hunch is correct. "Rose Colored Boy" is my favorite song on After Laughter, truth be told. "Hard Times" never really won me over as much as I assumed it eventually would. "Pain" is great, and don't worry, bluth...I'm coming to the rescue with my dad rock love.

[Vilppu]

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while yours conditionally often slips into snoozey territory, reminding us of the dull routine married life can fall into

I loved almost all of this album, the title track included, but this is correct n.

 

Mourning Sound was my favourite from Grizzly Bear's albern but all of it was really solid imo. Drugs is not my Charli fave but the last minute jdfhdja a highlight in her entire discography.

[madonnas]

EWWWWW A UTOPIA SONG.  

[Lazuli]

Lossssssss is top 3 on Utopia  

Shark Smile  

[MusicLoverDude]

Woman

 

[TheWayWeWere]

Deadly Valentine is just something absolutely stunning piece of music, Rest slayed me

Losss is one of the lesser evils on Utopia

Drugs

[prézli]

Drugs  Kween Charli DID THAT.