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1 | ONLY | GOOD | MEMORIES | jeremy | d | larson |
2 | the best little moments | i want to remember | from songs i enjoyed in 2019 | lyrics, production, themes.. | riffs, feel.. | vibe, etc... |
3 | ARTIST | SONG | BEST PARTS | LINK | ||
4 | 100 gecs | stupid horse | "stupid horse i just fell out of the porsche" // half time + group vocals at end | https://100gecs.bandcamp.com/album/1000-gecs | ||
5 | 21 savage | can't leave without it | "i got my cane from osama bin laden/lil ni-ga he signed this shit" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5M64JuiZAE | ||
6 | 2 chainz | NCAA | advocacy for college atheletes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmvBsxd3WxE | ||
7 | aldous harding | treasure | big rubato on the chorus | https://aldousharding.bandcamp.com/album/designer | ||
8 | aleksi perälä | NL-L56-18-07443 | colundi sequence | https://aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/album/sunshine-1 | ||
9 | angel olsen | lark | huge bass hit, falling strings @ 5:10 | https://angelolsen.bandcamp.com/album/all-mirrors | ||
10 | ariana grande | imagine | little vocal run on "imagine a world" @ 1:13 // whistle register at end | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rftpd0u0U | ||
11 | ari lennox | BMO | hoo ha got you all in check bassline | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf06109Zivo | ||
12 | babytron | goat talk | "bro walking around sticked up like a shishkabob" // sampling freestyle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oS5817W4k | ||
13 | bad bunny | ni bien ni mal | "NO SÉ, ENTRE TÚ Y YO, YA NO HAY CONEXIÓN" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krhh4Jmiru8 | ||
14 | bedouine | bird | loose phrasing on first verse | https://bedouine.bandcamp.com/album/bird-songs-of-a-killjoy | ||
15 | better oblivion comunity center | dylan thomas | AABCCB rhyme scheme throughout | https://betteroblivioncommunitycenter.bandcamp.com/album/better-oblivion-community-center | ||
16 | big thief | not | the "not" lyrical conceit how it inverts previous big thief songs that liked to list things // guitar solo | https://bigthief.bandcamp.com/track/not | ||
17 | big thief | ufof | noisy bridge // swell into last verse | https://bigthief.bandcamp.com/album/u-f-o-f | ||
18 | billie eilish | bad guy | "duh" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI | ||
19 | billy woods | western education is forbidden | "'shorty can't eat no book' what i told ta-nehesi coates" | https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/ | ||
20 | bill orcutt | odds against tomorrow | frigid sunrise guitar tone | https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/odds-against-tomorrow | ||
21 | black midi | bmbmbm | drummer's relationship to the 1 throughout | https://bmblackmidi.bandcamp.com/ | ||
22 | blood incantation | awakening from the dream of existence to the multidimensional nature of our reality (mirror of the soul) | section that begins @ 7:20 // the title | https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-history-of-the-human-race | ||
23 | bon iver | holyfields | absence of instruments | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIzFg4eEvbQ | ||
24 | bon iver | hey ma | new colloquial use of "full time" juxtaposed with the older colloquialism "tall time" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAKS18Gv1U | ||
25 | boy scouts | get well soon | "'get well soon' a phrase you know and could hope to ruin by failing to succeed" | https://boyscouts.bandcamp.com/album/free-company | ||
26 | bruce springsteen | hello sunshine | "miles to go is miles away" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJjlg5e6l8 | ||
27 | caracara | better | vocals, sync'd with drums, 8va: "thought. you. knew. me. better" @ 4:39 | https://caracaraphilly.bandcamp.com/album/better | ||
28 | caribou | you and i | pitch-shifting synths on chorus | https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/you-and-i | ||
29 | carly rae jepsen | julien | escalator melody on "i'll be whispering julien" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0a5VJX0_6s | ||
30 | cate le bon | the light | sudden off-key saxophone @ 2:27 | https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/album/reward | ||
31 | charli xcx / christine & the queens | gone | all the rests in the verse contrasted with no rests in pre-chorus // chris saying "wait" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chSZCtLrgz8 | ||
32 | charlotte cornfield | silver civic | what the teeth and tongue do when you sing "when every silver civic was your car" | https://charlottecornfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-shape-of-your-name | ||
33 | clairo | bags | the utter surprise of "walkin out the door with your bags" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HYJbe9Y18 | ||
34 | club night | path | the throwback ecastactic ponytail vibe of it all | https://clubnight.bandcamp.com/ | ||
35 | the comet is coming | timewave zero | snareless snare drum lick throughout // bass comes in @ 2:00 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5epgWNEdzQ | ||
36 | croatian amor | point reflex blue | synth lick @ 3:12 | https://croatianamor-poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/isa | ||
37 | dababy | goin baby | "i'm goin baby on baby" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0seYxfaoG0 | ||
38 | danny brown | dirty laundry | "dime, penny, nickels, actual change" | |||
39 | daphni | sizzlin | unclear bass level on the edit until drop @ 2:15 | https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/sizzling-ep | ||
40 | deerhunter | what happens to people? | bradford's softness throughout // the grain on voice he sings "rusting out" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCcUUOYCr8 | ||
41 | default genders | checking in with the old gang | "the way we all come together as the tempo spikes" | https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/main-pop-girl-2019 | ||
42 | default genders | when it's over | the early '90s r&b bells // the echo of annie lennox's "no more I love yous" in background vocals | https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/main-pop-girl-2019 | ||
43 | denzel curry | ricky | the advice given | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHm6tfvKlk | ||
44 | destroyer | crimson tide | bejar singing "chicken shit" // main piano lick that sounds like orbital or underworld or some huge 90s rave song | https://destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/have-we-met | ||
45 | diiv | taker | shifting, growing guitar arrangements throughout | https://diivct.bandcamp.com/ | ||
46 | dogleg | fox | hitch drum fill @ 1:16 | https://dogleg.bandcamp.com/ | ||
47 | faye webster | room temperature | weirdly processed ride cymbal hits throughout | https://fayewebster.bandcamp.com/album/atlanta-millionaires-club | ||
48 | fennesz | in my room | doppler radar bass carrying the song | https://fenneszreleases.bandcamp.com/album/agora | ||
49 | fka twigs | cellophane | vocal slide on "i" // piano treatment like the end of nine inch nails' "closer" // drums is just someone whispering a drum part to themselves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLjqFpBh84 | ||
50 | floating points | les alpx - extendend | as ever, the shift to the IV @ 3:38 | https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/crush | ||
51 | florist | as alone | "and nothing brings clarity to what makes me me except knowing that some kind of sadness is freed from the words and the sounds that I sing to myself" | https://florist.bandcamp.com/album/emily-alone | ||
52 | fontaines d.c. | too real | the irishness of "oh ye boyaaaaaaaa" | https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/album/dogrel | ||
53 | frankie cosmos | tunnel | "and baby I got hair now that’s never even heard of you" | https://ingridsuperstar.bandcamp.com/ | ||
54 | gerry read / dj koze | it'll all be over (koze remix) | cowbell rolls @ 2:30 and beyond | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgnICl60-P4 | ||
55 | girl band | going norway | four on the floor bass when vocals get intense // falsetto vocals in middle part | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZrAwszmfY | ||
56 | greys | arc light | sludge fest at "dasvidaniya.... I don't mind" | https://greys.bandcamp.com/track/arc-light | ||
57 | have a nice life | lords of tresserhorn | comically blown out guitar sound | https://haveanicelife.bandcamp.com/ | ||
58 | h.c. mcentire | houses of the holy | subtle use of robert planty tape echo | https://hcmcentire.bandcamp.com/album/houses-of-the-holy | ||
59 | helado negro | running | something happens where it sounds like he double taps the "d" in "fading true" every time | https://heladonegro.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-how-you-smile | ||
60 | the hold steady | denver haircut | "it doesn't have to be pure, it doesn't have to be perfect just sort of has to be worth it" | https://holdsteady.bandcamp.com/album/thrashing-thru-the-passion | ||
61 | holly herndon | frontier | whole song built on open fifths | https://hollyherndon.bandcamp.com/track/frontier | ||
62 | inter arma | citadel | guitar solos soon to join @ 3:03 | https://interarma.bandcamp.com/album/sulphur-english | ||
63 | jacques greene / cadence weapon | night service | "night service, saturday mass" | https://jacquesgreene.bandcamp.com/album/night-service | ||
64 | jai paul | do you love her now | heartbeat rhythm song is built on // "i wanna be wrapped in your arms" --> no vowels in "wrapped" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKOmW_KYcEA | ||
65 | jay som | devotion | proggy heavenly part 2 of song | https://jaysom.bandcamp.com/album/anak-ko | ||
66 | j. cole | middle child | self-awareness expressed throughout // horns | |||
67 | jenny lewis | wasted youth | "do-ood do doo do" in sync with "the cookie crumbles" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8bdQRpmGU | ||
68 | jessica pratt | this time around | "this time around has it gone so grey that my faith can't hold out" | https://jessicapratt.bandcamp.com/track/this-time-around | ||
69 | joy overmono | bromley | rubber-band sound of toms // glitchy sample | |||
70 | julia jacklin | don't know how to keep loving you | momentary unison guitar and vocals at 4:50 | https://juliajacklin.bandcamp.com/album/crushing | ||
71 | kazu | salty | the song slowly reversing @ 3:41 to end | https://adultbabyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/salty | ||
72 | kelsey lu | due west | the way she sings "due west" // unique phrasing on chorus | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32tjfmyHzYk | ||
73 | kh (four tet) | only human | nelly furtado back // toms sound like those bamboo japanese water fountains | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peHvj5TedFI | ||
74 | lana del rey | hope is a dangerous thing... | "hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the ipad calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say hi dad" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2LUmLw_DQ | ||
75 | lil uzi vert | free uzi | "this my i-don't-even-know-um-what-happened face" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX31tDuoDdY | ||
76 | mannequin pussy | drunk ii | "i still love you you stupid fuck" | https://mannequinpussy.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-ii | ||
77 | mark ronson / camila cabello | find u again | twisty chord change on "tears in your eyes" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLYYRqU_iqE | ||
78 | maxo kream | meet again | the grim family stuff in second verse | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmuI_kyEeQ | ||
79 | mega bog | diary of a rose | "a troll eating her skin" | https://megabog.bandcamp.com/album/dolphine | ||
80 | moon tooth | trust | major-key slap-bass hoedown @ 3:33 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0D3oVfOxc | ||
81 | nilufur yanya | in your head | leapy vocal melody on "paranoia" | https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/album/miss-universe | ||
82 | normani | motivation | the no-seriously urgency of "oooooo think about it" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXSh14svlQ | ||
83 | oso oso | one sick plan | "i got one sick plan to save me from it" | https://osoosoband.bandcamp.com/album/basking-in-the-glow | ||
84 | panda bear | inner monologue | stacked harmonies on "one" in the chorus // production sounds like he's in a small wooden box | https://pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com/album/buoys | ||
85 | peaer | in my belly | big open guitar chord coming in on the 2 @ 0:46 | https://peaer.bandcamp.com/ | ||
86 | pedro the lion | my phoenix | the weight of believing in your second-coming juxtaposed with christ imagary juxtaposed with love of actual town | https://pedrothelion.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix | ||
87 | pile | the soft hands of steven miller | vitriol at fascists transitioning from articulate burns to pure rage | https://pile.bandcamp.com/album/green-and-gray | ||
88 | polo g | battle cry | "lotta shit happened too fast i ain't have time to heal" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rTY2JhYFtQ&feature=emb_title | ||
89 | pop smoke | welcome to the party | sliding voice off every line | |||
90 | possible humans | born stoned | 7-minute guitar solo | https://possiblehumans.bandcamp.com/album/everybody-split | ||
91 | pup | morbid stuff | "i was bored as fuck sitting around and thinking all this morbid stuff like if anyone I've slept with is dead and I got stuck on death and dying and obsessive thoughts that won't let up it makes me feel like i'm about to throw up" | https://puptheband.bandcamp.com/album/morbid-stuff | ||
92 | purple mountains | that's just the way that i feel | "when i try to drown my thoughts in gin i find my worst ideas know how to swim" | https://purplemountains.bandcamp.com/album/purple-mountains | ||
93 | purple mountains | all my happiness is gone | "friends are warmer than gold when you're old and keeping them is harder than you might suppose" // "icy bikechain rain in portland oregon" | https://purplemountains.bandcamp.com/album/purple-mountains | ||
94 | purple mountains | snow is falling in manhatten | "salts the stoop and scoops the cat in" // "songs build little rooms in time and housed within the song's design is the ghost the host has left behind to greet and sweep the guest inside, stoke the fire and sing his lines" | https://purplemountains.bandcamp.com/album/purple-mountains | ||
95 | richard dawson | jogging | "i know i must be paranoid when I pick up the groceries one of the girls who works the check-out tuts under her breath and it destroys me for a week" | https://richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com/album/2020 | ||
96 | rico nasty | time flies | "i just signed a deal and got a really big back porch" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIYgNhz2ty8 | ||
97 | rod wave / lil durk | heart on ice | wah wah guitar in production // switch from aggro to soft "mama say it's my fault, it's my fault i wear my heart on my sleeve" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMLg4FPFhQ | ||
98 | rosalía | aute cuture | soft horns on verse that sounds like they are crouching in bushes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFUhty8EF4 | ||
99 | (sandy) alex g | gretel | the bass notes after "good people gotta fight to exist, uh huh" | https://sandy.bandcamp.com/track/gretel | ||
100 | sharon van etten | seventeen | time collapsing telling her youngerself that she's "afraid that you'll be just like me" | https://sharonvanetten.bandcamp.com/ |