Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2018: #40-#31 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31 Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 04 May 2023 10:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Garry McK https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2324124 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:10:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2324124 I totally forgot Tune-Yards released an album. I heard this track but never followed-up. I’m long been a fan and this continues the love.

George Ezra had an all-pervasiveness which ensured I heard this track despite me missing most music released in 2018. It has even somehow become a household fave.

Otherwise nothing here really grabs me.

My aim for 2019 is turn my listening earn back on and be in a position to be able to vote for stuff.

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By: Rory https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322955 Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:51:03 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322955 Okay, I’ll fess up, I voted for George. “Shotgun” was one of my and my kids’ singalong songs on our camping trip last summer, and I happily slaughtered it in karaoke (and learned that it’s easier to sing than “Paradise”), so it gets my vote still.

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By: cryptopian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322837 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:45:50 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322837 Good selection so far! I voted for a different US Girls track and Only Acting. After Bonito Generation, I never thought I’d see people online comparing KKB to Death Grips. The moment where the mix smash cuts from mental breakdown no. 1 into a screaming guitar solo is awesome.

Probably would’ve voted for Strangers if I remembered. That beat.

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By: dollymix https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322816 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:52:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322816 I voted for none of these, although I did vote for another Musgraves songs, and I had other songs by Tune-Yards and Clean Bandit on my shortlist.

The Nite Jewel was new to me and is quite good. None of the others do it for me though. The Kero Kero Bonito might have been salvageable if it didn’t use the chords from Pachelbel’s Canon. The Arctic Monkeys starts okay but gets really tiring after a couple minutes.

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By: lockedintheattic https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322767 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:12:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322767 Of these, I voted for other Ciara, Sigrid, Kacey tracks, And would have voted for ‘Rosebud’ but only discovered that after I’d voted.

KKB is great, and that TuneYards is wonderful

Ezra is predictably awful, the Monkeys depressingly so.

Also – a shout out for the Fatman Scoop / Missy remix of Level Up – it dials up the bonkers somewhat with Fatman shouting Ciara! Missy! in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcibsrXg0OI

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By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322327 Sun, 13 Jan 2019 22:49:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322327 Voted for KKB, took me a few listens to accept their new sound, but ultimately it works, if it didn’t it would be a terrible thing all rounf
Also voted for Strangers, I love her sensible clothes and face-pulling, also she generally surprises me with her astute musical choices throughout.
Should have voted for Heart Attack, but it slipped my mind somehow, which makes me feel guilty as she’s been very unfairly ignored the last few years
Level Up is good! Will add to my very important list.
On Your Own, Rosebud and Solo pleasant enough, will give them a few more plays.
Four Out of Five is different enough to be interesting, not different enough for me to care about it the following January though.
Lonely Weekend is the kind of low-key alt-country I still don’t really get.
Fear I am never going to have time in my life for George Ezra. I do enjoy how his name always reminds me of Henry Pratt though.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2322254 Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:19:25 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2322254 ‘Rosebud’ was my favourite track of last year so nice to see I’m not the only one as I was surprised to see it sneak into this list. US Girls seemingly most popular tracks from her two most recent albums tend to be more overtly visceral (‘Woman’s Work’, ‘Damn That Valley’) or more directly reliant on groovy homages (‘Window Shades’, ‘Mad As Hell’) for propelling the (melo)drama whereas despite the “It’ll hurt I promise you” refrain I found this uncannily soothing listening throughout the recurring disarray of 2018.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2321760 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:38:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2321760 Voted for: none (suspect this is going to be a theme. It often is).

I did vote for another Kacey Musgraves song, although while I’d totally defend her right to add some sheen and a touch of disco to her music, I listened Golden Hour to a small fraction of the times I listened to her first two albums.

Level Up I like – Ciara is reliably good, I think.

I don’t think I understand Kero Kero Bonito.

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By: LucaZM https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2321441 Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:30:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2321441 I voted for Rosebud and Level Up, and elsewhere for Kacey, Sigrid and Arctic.
Rosebud was my favourite this year. It took me a while for me to get into the album, but this song kept bringing me back to it, and once I listened to it more carefully I only loved it more.
I think I probably listened to Heart Attack at some point last year, but hearing it now, I love it. Could have made my list.
Also, Nite Jewel is ok, but Little Boots probably made the better Little Boots vein song this year.

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By: flahr https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2321226 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:25:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2321226 The Arctics album was apparently partially inspired by INFINITE JEST.

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2320827 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:25:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2320827 There is another Shotgun video, though I don’t know that it’s less nauseous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_B3qkp4nO4

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By: katstevens https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2320783 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:41:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2320783 I can confirm no-one voted for Sigrid in the 2017 poll :)

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2320778 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:15:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2320778 Didn’t vote for any of these but KKB, Ciara, Arctic Monkeys and Tune-Yards are all on my long list of “2018 choons” so fair enough. Both sides of this Nite Jewel single are on my (even longer) Spotify 2018 playlist, though I had not listened to either since added last June. Better songs to come in the countdown from both Sigrid (“Strangers” is from 2017!) and Kacey, I hope/suspect.

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By: Phil https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2018-40-31/comment-page-1#comment-2320748 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:27:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31677#comment-2320748 Blimey, Tune-Yards! The missing link between the Temptations and cLOUDDEAD, and I never even knew there was one.

Also listened to half each of Kacey Musgraves (too dull*) & the Arctics (too annoying**).

*Shame, I loved her first album
**Shame, I loved their first… well, anyway. What are they doing? Why would I care about somebody grumbling about the star ratings of an imaginary takeaway on the Moon? Sorry, lads, but you’re no Sudden Sway.

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