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Song of the day [FINISHED]


Vilppu

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Completely unrelated to the entry btw, I just love Jeongyeon with all of my heart and wanted a cute gif to start with.

To cut straight to the point, for the next 31 days I'll be updating this with one new song, not entirely sure why I'm doing this, perhaps just for the kiis of my few months older self finding this and cackling at my current taste, whatever. I'll try to keep it at least half Western/non-Asian so no need to worry about finding exclusively generic, manufactured music you cannot understand here. Hope someone reads it and maybe finds something for themselves too. Also this could probably be posted in Music Mania but I don't want to pollute other sections, this blog is called unwanted opinions trademark sign for a reason.

Day 1: Kanye West - Guilt Trip // One of Ye's most underrated songs and quite possibly top 5 in his entire discography for me. Immaculate production and the mysterious, heavily edited yet enticing chorus are what grabbed my attention at first and after 4 years I still find them just as thrilling and exciting.

Day 2: Prince - Lovesexy (starts at 25:14 because he's extra and "artistic vision!!1") // Despite not being hailed as a masterpiece quite as much as Purple Rain or Sign o' the Times, Lovesexy is just as good as its predecessors. It's Prince at the end of his creativity peak and he ended it with a bang - a record that's fun, carefree, sensual but also varied and ambitious. Its title track embodies all that - and more - in a perfect way.

Day 3: Kelela - LMK // The entire album is great (stream here or, even better, buy there) but nothing has quite topped this for me, def top 10 songs of the year material.

Day 4: (BP) Rania - Style // Classy... sexy... crazy COUTURE...

Day 5: St. Vincent - Los Ageless // Her album is sahfjajas amazing and while the closer is probably currently my favourite, I just cannot stop replaying this pre-release single.

Day 6: Grizzly Bear - Morning Sound // Can't think of anything to say but I really love this sing xoxo.

Day 7: The National - Abel // As much as I like their recent album, it doesn't have a song which would live up to their greatest achievements, such as this one.

Day 8: Taemin - Move // At first listen this came off as really stale and uninteresting to me but started working in the context of the more laid back, subtle album. Unlike a lot of his previous songs, whether solo or as a part of SHINee, it doesn't pop off instantly and instead creeps up on the listener more with each repetiton of the chorus.

Day 9: DIA - My Friend's Boyfriend // After Eunice threw the first brick at Stonewall, she rode her minion to the studio to record this LGBT anthem, quite a productive day for her, I'd say.

Day 10: A.C.E - Callin' // This is esentially the exact same song as their last comeback Cactus, only this time they actually had some budget for the music video and didn't do a gaybait. Normally I'd be mad but Cactus was such an excellent track that for once I don't mind it.

Day 11: Beck - Colors // Although I've never really cared too much for Beck, this album was quite disappointing for me, especially considering how strong this opening track is. Nothing else managed to live up to it, unfortunately.

Day 12: Queens of the Stone Age - If I Had a Tail // I was reserving this spot for Jessie Ware but having heard her poor excuse of an album, I'm not even gonna entertain the idea of giving it more attention. This was somehow the first song which came to my mind otherwise and whew, it still goes off.

Day 13: Junho - Instant Love // How he managed to make Sana not annoying here, I will never know. The album version with additional verse is better btw but the video just has such a gorgeous aesthetic and therefore I'm linking this.

Day 14: Robert Plant - Heaven Sent // Something about is just really moody and atmospheric and I'm really feeling it right now.

Day 15: Epik High - Love Story // I'm kind of in awe that with all odds stacked against them (a k hip hop release under YG Entertainment? you could just ask to get punched in the face) Epik High managed to come up with one of the better Korean albums I've listened to this year. This was my fave, a really lovely song, even if carried mostly by IU's mellow vocal performance.

Day 16: The Horrors - Hologram // Their new album is the 12th best record of the year according to metacritic so you should obviously listen to it now xoxoxo this sing might have my favourite guitar solo of the year too?

Day 17: Fleetwood Mac - Dreams // Once every few months I like to remind myself how Rumours is one of the best albums of all time and how Dreams is one of the best songs of all time. Today is that day.

Day 18: Mariah Carey - Candy Bling // I feel like Sylk would have a heart attack if I didn't post it so for once I'll be a nice friend THE BEST SONG OF ALL TIME, WHITNEY IS ROLLING IN HER GRAVE, NO OTHER VOCALIST COULD EVER DELIEVER SUCH A STUNNING PERFORMANCE ETC. ETC. SKINNY LEGEND QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE.

Day 19: Eluveitie - King // Won't be able to update tomorrow at all but I'm going to see them live so I'll just assume their best song will be my song of the day <3

Day 20: Espers - Rosemary Lane // Heard it by accident today and am love, it's otherworldly beautiful.

Day 21: Oguogu (2/9 of gugudan) - Ice Chu // This is honestly just really fun, upbeat and never fails to cheer me up. The wind instruments give it such an adorable edge.

Day 22: Twice - Rollin' // As a hater-turned-Jeongyeon-akgae-turned-minor-fan I was expecting more from their new album, it feels rather empty and hollow BUT just as I was about to give up, this snatched me bald, by far and away the best album track of their career and second-best song overall.

Day 23: Nightwish - Scaretale // Happy Halloween!

Day 24: Ariel Pink - Feels like Heaven // This has been out for a while now but my lazy ass didn't bother until today and it just so happened to fit my mood perfectly.

Day 25: The Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side) // If there is anything my father taught me taste-wise, it would, above all, be The Doors' love. This song just brings so many good memories, I needed it today.

Day 26: Ame No Parade - You // Yes.

Day 27: The Cure - A Forest // Dedicated to a long-time-no-see friend whom I finally met today <3

Day 28: Faith No More - Easy // This was used in a random commercial I stumbled upon today and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since. Not that I'm complaining.

Day 29: Anderson .Paak - Lite Weight // Because black excellence.

Day 30: Camila Cabello - Havana // I'm a petty fag who went out of his way to avoid this for the longest simply because I could not imagine myself even entertaining the idea of enjoying a Fifth Harmony-related song... and yet here we are. Her voice is still disgusting btw.

Day 31: Laboum - Hwi hwi // It's just so happy and as tacky as whistling hooks are, they just don't go out of style.

Shocked I actually got it to the end, I was pretty sure I'd give up halfway through and there were days I genuinely forgot about it and had to update twice the next one but we're here, I guess. Thanks to everyone who viewed and commented, means a lot xo.

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1 minute ago, Sylk said:

OMG WIGGG AND THAT TOO YOU CHOSE CANDY BALLAH

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I mean, what else but a God-tier Memoirs hymn?

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2 minutes ago, Vilppu said:

I mean, what else but a God-tier Memoirs hymn?

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Okay serious talk though Candy Bling is truly amazing, the verses, the chorus, it's all gorgeous. the only complaint i would have is that one loud bit at "no matter what i do, well the memories are stacked" (am i the only one who hears that? i- ) other than that it's near magnum opus status. We stan VilGOD's immaculate taste! @Skyline found shaking in his goat pen 

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16 hours ago, Hunty Bear said:

black excellence is 100% right, especially when you factor in that Kaytranada produced it as well! 

oh totally, they both owned 2016 in my eyes and the collab was a cherry on top, although it took a while to fully grow on me

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5 hours ago, Vilppu said:

oh totally, they both owned 2016 in my eyes and the collab was a cherry on top, although it took a while to fully grow on me

for some reason I held off on getting into Anderson .Paak until this year, but it was totally worth it! 99.9% was my album of the year last year, though to be fair, 2016 was mostly abysmal compared to this year

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19 hours ago, Hunty Bear said:

for some reason I held off on getting into Anderson .Paak until this year, but it was totally worth it! 99.9% was my album of the year last year, though to be fair, 2016 was mostly abysmal compared to this year

I liked a decent amount of albums in 2016, this year I either couldn't bring myself to listen to full releases at all or ended up playing them once/twice and forgetting for some reason.

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7 hours ago, Vilppu said:

I liked a decent amount of albums in 2016, this year I either couldn't bring myself to listen to full releases at all or ended up playing them once/twice and forgetting for some reason.

 

can't say I feel the same! I also liked a decent amount of albums released last year, but it was just so dry in terms of my personal top faves coming through with album releases, especially compared to this year! this year also is filled with releases that I love by artists who I used to be on the fence about (i.e. SZA, Tyler, Lorde, Kelela to a lesser extent because I liked her a lot before, but way more now), whereas last year the no one really delivered for me bar the artists that I was already expecting to deliver and a couple more surprises

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