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This should work, I've known some users have had trouble with Topic in the past but this is the full song (also available on Bandcamp).
Cool, thanks! Gotta try using Topic one of these days, seems great.
As far as these songs are concerned, Smile is not top tier Wolf Alice, but it's still good. Do You Know Her? Is likable, fun, noisy affair which is easily digestible and lacks... something. Anything. It's nice, don't get me wrong, but it's not particularly exciting or new to my ears. Wouldn't mind either going through, voting Smile. _________________ Finally updated the overall chart
... this track of them all of Blue Weekend? Feel like there are far more songs with better songwriting & actual personality, but I guess there is a kind of tounge-in-cheek attitude in making a song that would seem like an artifact even in '99. Title of Record.
But then again not like WAOHO is the most original thing, but still one of my most listened to bands during the quarantine and so I guess there's already a soft spot for it, kind of like Times New Viking going the more earnest singer-songerwriter route. Guess shouldn't have gone with the more accessible track.
Yeah, I could've picked a far higher caliber song in terms of artistry, but I picked a song that was a bit more accessible. It's also a banger. I don't see it as an "antique", but ok lol.
I'm one of the few people on this website who did not like that Wolf Alice album and Smile wasn't a standout to me. Do I Know Her is not that much greater but at least it has a more focused emo/indie rock aesthetic that makes me vote for it. _________________ My Top 100 :
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I'm not big on Wolf Alice. Saw them 3-4 years ago on a whim and was thoroughly unimpressed. I'm still a little confused about the heaps of praise Blue Weekend got (both on BEA and elsewhere). Don't get me wrong, it's solid, it just doesn't seem like anything special. IDK, different strokes for different folks!
Having said that though, "Smile" is a fun song, banger is right. I totally get what cestuneblague is saying about it sounding like an artifact in 1999, it's got huge vibes of Elastica/Hole/Breeders, or other grunge-ish bands that were more popular at the end-ish of the grunge trend. But unlike those 90s bands, "Smile" is well produced and definitely has a clear modern tinge to the grunge influences. I also wouldn't consider it grunge itself I don't think.
"Do You Know Her?" was fun as well, haven't listened to it before, but it didn't really make me want to explore the band further. I'll give it a shot though, seems like there's more to WAOHO than just this song's style.
... so that's why I'm really not vibing it, even if the execution is still much better. Guess it's also more of a 99-early 01 range. I just think Blue Weekend was so much better when it was drawing it's influences from a more heartfelt Mazzy Star-ish route than doing yet another take on Nu-Industrial that a lot of artists are doing these days. Again this is probably also why I'm not latching on to the Mall Punk revival of sorts that seems to be happening since I don't really want flashbacks to the Awkward Phase days.
Again it's also clear there aren't many latching on to Human so I guess potato-frittata
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