Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2016: #20-#11 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11 Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: lockedintheattic https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2081670 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:34:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2081670 I completely failed to get my ballot in this year, but if I had King & Shura would have been right at the top. Shura is utterly adorable both live and on record and I can’t wait for more from her.

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By: James BC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2079110 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:39:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2079110 Big thumbs up for Shura (best album of the year), Christine and the Queens and Bruno Mars.

Obviously 24K Magic is inspired by Uptown Funk, but so what? It’s another great track in the same style, with enough hooks of its own to go beyond being a pale imitation. Much better than Sax by Fleur East, say.

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By: Eddie https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2078696 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:12:22 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2078696 If Bruno Mars wants to spend the rest of his life rewriting Uptown Funk, that is perfectly fine with me.

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By: thefatgit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2078321 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:43:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2078321 Wow! One of my picks is here.

24K Magic – Yeah, it’s no Uptown Funk. Seems like Bruno Mars is one of those artists who’ll continue down a particular path until he becomes a parody of himself. Not long now, judging by this.

Your Best American Girl – New to me. Might be tempted to check out more of Mitski, maybe someday soon.

What’s It Gonna Be? – Yeah, this indeed does have a “Boys Of Summer” vibe about it. New to me again.

Blackstar – The arse-end of 2015 gave us The Last Panthers on Sky Atlantic, and this was when I first encountered this song as it’s enigmatic theme tune. David Bowie was going to drop some new music; a new album in the new year. Something to look forward to after Christmas and New Year had drifted into hazy memory…

Burn The Witch – I might have been tempted to vote for this. This will soundtrack retrospective Brexit documentaries in a decade’s time.

The Sound – Are they being ironic? I can’t tell anymore.

Tilted – I voted for this. Chaleur Humaine is a terrific album, and if minimalism turns out to be this lush in its sparseness then who am I to resist?

Vice – Not as immediate as her last offering in this poll, but still quite enjoyable. Might be tempted to buy her album on the strength of these two offerings.

Formation – I tried listening to this without the visual stimulus of the accompanying clip. It’s not as strong as others off Lemonade, but hey! It’s still Beyonce, so there’s that.

The Greatest – I think it was Lex of this parish in his Guardian column that informed me of King, and this song in particular. This came within a hair’s breadth of making my 20. Smooth.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2077834 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 23:12:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2077834 So:
Not new to me
Bruno: Like Cryptopian says, Uptown Funk but much less so.
Beckenham’s David Jones: In the wake of his death, I realised I like more Bowie songs than I thought I did – although not to the point where I felt the need to own any more than one I do (Young Americans, obv). Is Blackstar impressive in some ways for someone who was in his late sixties? Yes. Is it something I’d actually want to listen to? Nope.
Radiohead: Really not that bad as Radiohead songs go – I voluntarily listened to it and lasted a couple of minutes, which is amazing for me and a prog act. It’s pretty OK.
The 1975: Not sure I know the names of any of their songs, but I know them by their videos. This video stuck in my mind, not necessarily in a good way, the tune didn’t.
C&TQ: Like I said about the other one: PG cSolusbury Hill, no?
B: Thinkpiece fuel. She’s done way better music than this.
King: I’m still not getting this. It should be the kind of thing I like, but it eludes me.

New to me
Mitski: Kat mentioning the Breeders had my 19-year-old self awaking from decades of slumber, but I don’t like that voice.
Shura: What Spotify has taught me this year is that there are an awful lot of young bands out there doing very competent recreations of a range of past musics, sometimes with historical precision, and sometimes – as here – more evoking a general idea of an era/genre. Impressive in that way and tuneful enough.
ML: Not sure about that lead guitar bit.

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By: cryptopian https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2017/01/the-freaky-trigger-readers-poll-2016-20-11/comment-page-1#comment-2077617 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:30:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=30110#comment-2077617 Two things I voted for here. My teenage music snob phase was all about Radiohead, but unlike Pink Floyd (the other band from that phase, because of course it was), I continued to like Radiohead afterwards. A Moon Shaped Pool is one of those albums I want to like more than I do, but it’s opening track is my sort of thing (also put a vote in for The Numbers).

Talking of things I want to like more than I do, Blackstar got a low vote from me too. Long enough to have a sense of adventure, well structured and produced. I will put my hands up as one of those awful people that didn’t really pay any attention to Bowie until he died.

As for some others, 24K Magic is fun, but felt like a weaker retread of Uptown Funk. C&tQ might have made the cut, but was a little too minimalist for my tastes. I never got why everyone was raving about The Sound, but it’s certainly been widely popular.

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