Every Friday, we give away a gift voucher – currently trading at TWENTY FIVE EUROS – to spend at any of the many Golden Discs branches nationwide.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play at an unspecified time next week.
This week’s theme: Song of the year.
What original choon [Irish or international release in the past 12 months] burrowed its way earworm-stylee in to your consciousness and took up tenancy during 2017?
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‘The best thing I’ve heard all year is_________________________________’
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The best thing I’ve heard all year is, High Flying Birds’ by Noel Gallagher.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is “Golden Slumbers” by Elbow.
I know haters gonna hate. Yes, it’s a cover. Yes, it’s a cover of THE BEATLES (for crying out loud). Yes, it was (probably) commissioned for commercial purposes. I don’t care.
His voice is likely drinking liquid velour…my that’s smooth.
I’m off to listen to it right now…
Starlings is my Elbow drug. “You’re the only thing in any room you’re ever in”, lyric of the century.
I saw them playing in the Ambassador years ago. I love them, but was kind of put off by how much he loves his own voice. So do I, obv, but it was weird.
Though to be honest the real reason I didn’t enjoy it was probably because I was driving. Gigs are no fun sober.
Sober. Gig. No, what’s that? Drawing a blank here.
Bodger should start a “most disappointing gig” thread…..
I fell asleep at Portishead. I was a bit “tired and emotional” and thought it would be a good idea to rest my head as I listened.
I also fell asleep at a Brad Mehldau Trio concert in Vicar Street.
The National in the O2 a few years back was a total anticlimax I thought.
Yeah. I left after about half an hour.
Funny. I saw them very early on (must’ve been 2007 maybe? I think it was just after that Fake Empire album came out) in the Olympia and they were amazing.
Heh. I’ve just looked them up. They were formed in 1999. Very early on my ass. Look at me showing off, not realising I’m a total fool.
I was at those ambassador gigs. Pete broke his leg in the Gresham hotel. Guy was hammered. It was great.
That really is an awesome lyric in an excellent song. I also like the line “If she says she needs me, everything is going to have to wait” and there’s so, so much excellence in Bones of You.
I adore Elbow..so many great lyrics
Councillor Trevor Gilligans xmas song
+ 1
Is that a sarcastic 1up or is it worth the risk?…
:-J
There’s only one winner here and it’s That’s When you Know it’s Christmas by The Festive Spirits.
What?
The best thing I’ve heard all year is What We Do (and also I Don’t Need It Now) by Le Boom. Cracking band and their live shows are stompers.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Dublin City Gs by Versatile. Is it a comment on Dublin or is it just a bit of craic? Maybe not for everyone but I find it good for a laugh. Go on Casper and Eskimo Supreme.
The best thing I’ve heard this year is an old song
Jake Thackray
Lah di dah
https://youtu.be/xod5YAw1_mI
I may make it my new karaoke song
That is a very odd ditty, Bertie.
Odd is good sometimes :)
True dat.
One for Christmas Day, Bertie. Let us know how it goes :-)
I bet they’re expecting ‘his latest flame’ again… this’ll shock ’em :)
I still think Addicted to Love, Christmas Day, 2007 was your best ever.
Oh come on, we all know it was your red lipstick and Croydon facelift backing vocals that stole the show that night.
Let’s just say I wouldn’t argue if you insist it was the case.
That’s some stocking filler !
By jaysus, I remember him from my younger days…a blast from the past.
Good man, that’s a classic,
He reminds me of a northern / mid-lands English Johnathan Richman at his best…
Nothing ever beats a good and rare folk singer from anywhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5NkEkaXHQ
:-J
The best thing I’ve heard all year is, “the Microdisney tickets have arrived”. Also Pure Comedy by Father John Misty.
The cover of that album is great.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is “Say Something Loving” by XX from way back at start of the year. They seemed to find some happiness for this album compared to their debut, and this song puts on show much of this new joy.
Great album too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9tcrIeJ48
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Seven sticks of dynamite by Awolnation.
Jaysus. Never heard that before. Class.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Rag n Bone man, that voice is just class.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Seamus Fogarty’s Short Ballad for a Long Man.
Great video too.
Goosebumps.
Seamus Fogarty’s album is the best by an Irish artist in donkeys years. My favourite track is the Curious Hand but I wouldn’t overrule your choice either.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Our Gallows by Sugarmen. Great new Liverpool band.
Surprised myself liking this, but like it I did ~
youtu.be/4TPqUvy1vYU
Link doesn’t work for me. What is it?
Nathan Carter, Wagon Wheel.
You can stop clenching now
Hush now, pet. Husssshhhhhh.
can’t. too excited.
I imagine the next move to be a kind of Rick from the Young Ones squished up face followed by damp patch on pants.
umm hmm
and how do you feel when you imagine that?
Dead inside.
Oh.
Oh, that was colder than the deep empty vacuum of space. That may have actually reversed global warming. Frosty the Snowman caught hypothermia from it.
she’s hard and cruel, nigel
https://youtu.be/zR-IQlpQASg
The best thing I’ve heard all year is ‘element’ by kendrik lamar, where he details his dislike and actual allergy to pussy ass n******, while making it look sexy.
That sounds delightful.
I’m wildly out of touch with any new music this year due to sheer laziness. That said, Arcade Fire’s Everything Now hooked me immediately.
It’s like the took some (not all) of the best bits of their back catalogue and listened to a lot of ABBA to make a glorious pop/rock single that doesn’t or won’t age at all. Even the normally awful panpipe manages to not annoy throughout this track.
On it’s surface, It stands alone as a wonderfully, catchy pop song. One that is easily to sing along to and one for the crowds. Dig deeper and listen carefully and there is a lot of anxiety in the lyrics.
Classic Arcade Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC30BYR3CUk
This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze is good too…
Just heard that Arcade Fire song this morning! It is quite catchy.
I am also out of touch with a lot of new music. *high five*
(if you consent to say high five that is.)**
**That is the most 2017 thing i’ve written all year.
John Kelly is playing this song a lot recently:
Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Iggy Pop – The Pure and the Damned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzZ6-OqjoIg
It’s from the soundtrack of a film called ‘Good Time’ starring Robert Pattinson.
And it’s from 2017.
You might have heard of Aldous Harding. My brain seems to connect her to This is the Kit for some reason. She had an album out this year.
Besides that Iggy Pop tune, the only other 2017 music that got stuck in my head was the intro music to Mindhunter, which would morph into ‘Big My Secret’ (from The Piano soundtrack) as it played in my head.
There’s also Myles Manley. He released a video/song this year. And he’s Irish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTHriUmym8A
It didn’t get stuck in my head though. But it’s pretty good… At least, I don’t think that’s patriotic bias talking. He should be getting more coverage in general, imo.
I’ve surely posted enough comments now.
Minor ok tracks from 2017: ‘Piel’ by Arca
‘The Neverending’ by James Holden & the Animal Spirits. Actually that whole album: also minor ok-ness worth at least checking.
Four tet released an album this year. Got a 5 star review from Q magazine (although that magazine has gone to the dogs in fairness.) My sister wants the album for christmas. I didn’t warm to it that much, and i’d be a bit of a fan from when I was younger. Some tracks are pretty good though.
I think that’s it. I think that’s all my brain spilled out here.
John Kelly has also been playing tracks from this album:
Aromanticism by Moses Sumney
https://mosessumney.bandcamp.com/album/aromanticism
Falls a bit too much under the category of ‘coffee table gloss’ to be a personal favourite of mine, but Bandcamp have decided to call it their album of the year for 2017, and it’s hard to deny the quality of the 2 tracks I’ve heard JK play, which are ‘plastic,’ and ‘quarrel’ I think.
Old Starsky and Hutches
The best thing I’ve heard all year is “This city doesn’t feel like home to me” by Columbia Mills, absolutely amazing live. I really don’t think these guys get the credit that they deserve.
If if allowed to pick a second, it would be “stick” by duggee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05N2jqFHc8
Mildred and I were talking about that earlier.
Stick, that is.
Sticky sticky STICK stick.
Too late. It’s LICK now.
‘The best thing I’ve heard all year is Brass Bed With Allison Bohl – He Needs Me, well maybe not the best thing but certainly best ear worm contender. Ray Donovan as always proving to be a source of some very interesting and varied music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlHUAIKvr8
A different version of ‘He Needs Me’ features in the film ‘Punch Drunk Love,’ directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Adam Sandler. If you haven’t seen the film, it’s very good, imo.
(Don’t let the presence of Sandler put you off, he is excellent in that particular role.)
Fantastic movie.
Shelley Duvall sings He Needs Me. I love that song.
Agreed,.its brilliant and Sandler is superb.
He’s also fantastic in The Meyerowitz Stories on Netflix.
Punch Drunk Love is a great film, also agree on Adam Sandler in that role. Shelley Duvall plays Olive Oyl and sings He Needs Me in Popeye, the movie, with Robin Williams as Popeye. It was his first movie role after TV series Happy Days, back in 1980. Rest in Peace Robin Williams. Shelley Duvall is most famous for her role as Wendy Torrance in The Shining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFgj8mqPk0
The best thing I’ve heard all year is not from this year. It’s ‘Gentle on My Mind’ by Glen Campbell.
Also Abner Jay – My Middle Name is the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFMMCQ__f4
(That whole EP is very good btw. If you can get your hands on it.)
Also heard this recently and thought it was good:
Nic Jones by The Humpback Whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOmNXW2Mzc
Best tchune was Everything Now! by … guess who, huh? & best band was 3rd Eye Blind in the Academy as i was expecting nothing and was rewarded with a great night by an honest band …
Easily the best thing I’ve heard all year was Hillary Rodham Clinton saying “what happened?”.. and pretty much anything that the sex offending orangutan prez. Drumpf says, because unintentionally he is pure surealist gold. ..
On the other question and regardless of recent politics….
..The best song I’ve heard all year is easily “Spent the day in bed” by Morrissey.
It’s an original, thoughtful, heartfelt and poetic expression wrapped up in a great little catchy pop tune. Many other fine songs came close and I never thought it would be picking a pop song sung by Morrissey.
May we live in interesting times…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmAi9XmlIo
Bah humbug…
:-J
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Little Ruin by Glen Hansard…class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVF50I_9YU
The best thing I’ve heard this year is something I don’t even know the name of. I’ve heard snatches of it in different places. There is an insistent driving rhythm and the lyric “Morning came too soon”. A tale about a night of smooth skin and tenderness. For me it’s earworm city, can’t shake it out of my head. If anyone can let me know what the song is I’d be grateful. I’ll buy the album!
It’s called ‘Morning Came Too Soon’ it’s by The Waterboys and the album is called, ‘Out Of The Blue’.
Thanks Naomi,
That’s the one:)
My favourite is a couple of years old.
Lovely voice,nice lady,shame the video is pants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuBwEeQ2FI4
I would have thought yours would be “Tumblin’ along with the tumbling tumbleweed” No? Strange.
‘The best thing I’ve heard all year is Los Ageless from MASSEDUCTION by St Vincent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TlaYxoOO8
The last days of the sunset superstars
Girls in cages playing their guitars
But how can I leave?
I just follow the hood of my car
In Los Ageless, the waves they never break
They build and build until you don’t have no escape
But how can I leave?
I just follow my hood to the sea, go to sleep
The best thing I’ve heard all year is …’Oblivious’ by Mick Blake (‘The Legend of Leitrim’) from the debut album of the same name.
The lyric and video imagery are self explanatory.
This song has to be a serious contender for original song of the year. Even though Christy Moore covered this anthem it still sounds better from the source.
Thanks for your consideration BS.
Good luck & Up The Rebels!!!
Factory Girl – Lisa O’Neill & Radie Peat on This Ain’t No Disco.
Never heard of either singer before this but both are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiZ89WKiBE
Was about to say The Granite Gaze by Lankum. Maybe a Radie Peat 1 and 2 so..
https://youtu.be/cZo5qs2VamE
Yes, found ‘the depressed paddys’ recently but haven’t seen them as yet.
RE: That Factory Girl video with Lisa O’Neill & Radie Peat.
That’s an amazing harmony that kicks in around the 2 minute mark. But there’s something about the whole performance, a solemn lifelessness, that bothers me.
(Just one performance though.)
R. Peat is fantastic in this for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LiUR1wDPDU
The best thing I have heard all year is John Ryan singing Alfie.
On the Telly
Somebody REALLY wants chocolate.
Is there chocolate?
What’s that all about!
What’s Jinx’s favourite Christmas song Johnny?
Bark!!! the herald angels sing ….
Jinks’s Bells! Ovbs!
https://youtu.be/Lo8EvrzsUL8
Best thing I heard all year was an oldie that featured in season 3 of Fargo: Prisencolinensinainciusol.
https://youtu.be/gU4w12oDjn8
Here’s a fascinating Metafilter thread that explores its barmy genius:
https://www.metafilter.com/86065/Prisencolinensinainciusol-Ol-Raight
I love that! How did they work it into a show?
It was a scene during a bridge tournament. Worked brilliantly in a season thst was a bit uneven.
The best thing I’ve heard all year is “Fkj & Masego – Tadow”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8CH0Z3L54&feature=youtu.be
A beautiful improvised funky jam between two multi-talented musicians; all filmed as it happened.
I see it’s pushing 17M views now after only 6 months. Gone viral so it has.
The best thing I’ve heard all year was ‘Chi Mai’ by the great man Ennio Morricone at the 3Arena, on his farewell tour….magical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0
BIG RECOMMENDATION.
I’ve just listened to something today I never heard before. It’s from the Alan Lomax* collection:
Southern Journey Volume 8: Velvet Voices – Eastern Shores Choirs, Quartets, And Colonial Era Music
https://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-journey-vol-8-velvet-voices-mw0000028869
I know I’ve waffled on far too much on this page but some of this is f***ing amazing.
If this area of music sounds in any way your cup of tea I would recommend you request it from your local library (It should take about a week to get it back to you. BTW I have it out at the minute. Irish Libraries are a great resource for cd’s/dvd’s and such. And it costs next to nothing.)
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lomax
SON also known as Susan ONeil.
She’s bleedin’ deadly!
https://youtu.be/WjxfKa2ShVw
The best thing I’ve heard all year is Beehive by the Mark Lanegan Band.