#BILLIE IDLE

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First Summer Uika

[homicidols]

50 Greatest Alt-Idol MVs of All Time: #41 - 50

The Homicidols community has been busy for the past couple of months. We first asked our readers to tell us their five favorite alt, indie and/or underground idol MV’s. We then compiled those entries into a massive list of 127 music videos and again asked our reads to rate each and every one on a scientific and rigorously valid Likert scale.  The results have now been compiled into this…

[jpopstreaming]

🚫「 LAST ORGY 」 single by BILLIE IDLE still isn't available for streaming worldwide on Spotify. We'll keep you updated! 🎶 Let us know which country you're in and can't access it!

[thaern]

One of the many reasons to why George is my favourite musician and artist is the fact that even when he was raised in a small town with many closed thoughts he didn't let that or even the fame construct a image of him as utterly masculine and stereotypical, with his friends (different from Paul) for him showing love to everyone being physically close to them or hugging them no matter the gender, was something normal, a simple act of love.

Just like Olivia once said, George had romantic relationships with all of his friends because he was so full of it that it didn't scared him to show it, being making presents or just giving a hug, he did not let the fragile masculinity and conservative speech stop him from being himself.

And that, for a man raised in the late 50s is something to admire

[cacturnia]

playing around with capcut sound effects

[wakeupthemembersofbylernation]

[dailysounds]

The DAILYSOUNDS 4x4 of 2024

The @dailysounds 4x4 is a year end round-up of 16 albums we reckon you should hear! Albums are in no particular order

Our first edition list consists of:

Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

ALT POP / DARKROOM / 43:45

Jack White - No Name

BLUES ROCK / THIRD MAN / 43:03

Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

FOLK / 4AD / 43:31

IDLES - TANGK

ART PUNK / PARTISAN / 40:06

Jamie xx - In Waves

ELECTRONIC / YOUNG / 44:44

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

GOTHIC ROCK / FICTION / 49:13

Fontaines D.C. - Romance

ALT ROCK / XL / 36:57

The Smile - Wall Of Eyes

ART ROCK / XL / 45:16

Kendrick Lamar - GNX

WEST COAST HIP-HOP / PGLANG / 45:16

Geordie Greep - The New Sound

JAZZ ROCK / ROUGH TRADE / 62:55

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

SYNTH POP / MOM + POP / 53:36

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

INDIE ROCK / COLUMBIA / 47:00

Clairo - Charm

JAZZ POP / INDEPENDENT / 38:02

Los Campesinos! - All Hell

INDIE ROCK / HEART SWELLS / 49:51

Charli XCX - Brat

HYPERPOP / ATLANTIC / 41:23

The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

BAROQUE POP / ISLAND / 41:08

So, what did you think? Let us know your opinions - did we miss anything?

This is Bee, and this has been @dailysounds's first year - 2024. See you next year!

These, of course, are not the objective best albums (why would we have authority over that?) nor the only good albums that came out this year. Keep listening to music. Don't let critics tell you what to enjoy. Be your own person. Get out there. Make that art.

[vwllansdi3s]

elas quer rolê. . .

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀na minha silverado 🛻

[beepingmemesauce2727]

I'm so normal about this

[aeolianblues]

I think that Father Of All… would’ve probably been considered a really good album if it was anyone BUT Green Day’s album. Seemed kinda foreshadowed by Green Day’s own legacy, it was a catchy album. Were this a new band we’d have been talking about how cool the dance punk vibe was. Or maybe we weren’t yet that into ‘new rock’. A lot of that seemed to happen through and after the pandemic.

[paul-simon-juggling]

As a Scottish person I feel it's my duty to share with you this picture of Paul Simon with Billy Connolly.

[newmusickarl]

Albums of the Year 2024: Honourable Mentions

2024 – what a year for music hey?!

We had The Last Dinner Party in Spring, a well-documented BRAT Summer, a Fontaines Fall and, finally, The Cure for the Winter. We also had a couple of big reunions: the Gallagher brothers delighting everyone by reuniting Oasis, nu-metal icons Linkin Park returning with a new vocalist and then, just last month, indie darlings The Maccabees announcing some live shows for 2025. Both the Electronic and Country music genres seemed to have a particularly great year, while artists dissecting toxic relationships also seemed to be a thematic favourite over the last 12 months. We also had plenty of memorable moments and some incredible festival performances but, above all else, we had some bloody great new music.

You’ll be pleased to know that while this blog took a backseat to some other hobbies and ventures in 2024, my listening habits certainly didn’t slow down. My Apple Music Replay tells me I’ve listened to 587 albums from 983 different artists, 4,758 songs and a whopping 35,886 minutes of music. Just like previous years, I’ve whittled this mass of new music down to my favourite Albums, EPs and Songs of the Year – starting as always with the albums.

From my own (more accurate) tally that I keep every year, I’ve actually listened to 220 Albums in 2024, with that 220 then broken down into my Top 50 Albums of the Year, my 50 unranked honourable mentions and then sadly 120 albums that didn’t make the final cut. As ever, the top albums come from a multitude of genres: pop, rock, indie, hip-hop, R&B, country, electronica, shoegaze, punk, post-punk - it’s all here! So, although there is a good chance you won’t enjoy everything on this list, hopefully there is at least something for everyone.

For those who are following my annual countdown for the first time, I have a basic criterion that has treated me well over the last decade when collating my final Album of the Year list. Generally, I’ve favoured the records that:

Had the biggest impact on me

Was a landmark culturally or within the wider music world

Showed ambition or had something unique to offer

I played the most during the year

Ultimately produced my favourite front-to-back listening experience

So, before the Top 50 countdown officially begins with the albums that finished 50-41, I wanted to just shout out the albums that I thoroughly enjoyed this year but ultimately just missed out on the Top 50 spots. This includes some fantastic debuts (Been Stellar, Dolores Forever, Fat Dog, Sprints), some surprise returns to form (The Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, The Libertines), some late career highlights (Gruff Rhys, Maxïmo Park, James, Los Campesinos!) and plenty of the year’s biggest and most acclaimed projects (Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kamasi Washington, Waxahatchee).

So, officially kicking off year-end season, here are my 50 Honourable Mentions for 2024 in alphabetical order (by artist):

Arab Strap - I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍

Been Stellar - Scream From New York, NY

Beyoncé – COWBOY CARTER

Bill Ryder Jones - Iechyd Da

Billie Eilish – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn

Caribou – Honey

Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To, She Reaches Out To She

Daudi Matsiko - The King of Misery

DEADLETTER - Hysterical Strength

Dolores Forever - It's Nothing

Du Blonde - Sniff More Gritty

Fat Dog - WOOF.

Fazerdaze - Soft Power

Four Tet - Three

Geographer - A Mirror Brightly

Goat Girl - Below The Waste

Green Day - Saviors

Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

Hovvdy – Hovvdy

The Howl & The Hum - Same Mistake Twice

Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull The Rope

IDLES - TANGK

Jack White - No Name

James - Yummy

John Grant - The Art of the Lie

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

The Libertines - All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade

Lime Garden - One More Thing

Los Campesinos! - All Hell

Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me

Maxïmo Park - Stream of Life

MGMT - Loss of Life

MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

Mount Eerie - Night Palace

NewDad - MADRA

nothing,nowhere - Dark Magic / Hell or Highwater / Miserymaker

Orlando Weeks - LOJA 

Rahim Redcar - HOPECORE

Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips

Sega Bodega - Dennis

Sick Love – Champagne

The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei

The Smile – Cutouts

Sprints – Letter to Self

Tycho - Infinite Health

Vince Staples - Dark Times

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

So that’s what didn’t quite make it!

Now, join me throughout December as I reveal my Top 50 Albums of the Year, My Favourite EPs of the Year, My Favourite Live Shows of 2024 and My Top 100 Songs of 2024 Playlist.

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Billy Hargrove // Teen Idle 🚬🚬

[chaosdotorg]

why do you keep swaying. is it like,a nervous motion??

" i have autism . "

[ he answered bluntly , giving a thumbs up and continuing to sway side to side . ]

[thischarmingamy]

Favorite Music of 2024

There was so much brilliant music that came out in 2024! I’m having the worst time narrowing down my list of faves. Luckily, my two cats, Candy O. and Ada Monroe, have been assisting me. Ada Monroe looking mad because I wasn’t playing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the time It’s my hope that at least one person finds something they dig through this post. If you’re a Spotify person, do check out…

[tillthereweretangents]

(we don't have a photo of George with Jurgen, but he took this one)

George and Klaus

George and Paul

Ringo and George

George and Eric Cl*pton

John and George

Eric Idle and George

Billy Preston and George

George and Bob Dylan