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| The Field: all songs ranked (FINISHED)
blessed artist near-perfect discog let's make this a quick one | | 41 |  | The Field
Cupid's Head
Cupid's Head
Potentially his most grating sample ever, this one just feels off from the get go. Not generally a fan of this album's approach to vocal splicing and this is a nadir of sorts for it - at least it's relatively short! | | 40 |  | The Field
Infinite Moment
Made of Steel. Made of Stone
Not a huge fan of this - lumbering beat seems to be reaching for something epic, but the soundscape is rather bland? Weakest Field opener | | 39 |  | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Sweet Slow Baby
The main reason this is so low is that it's more epilogue than closer (Then It's White wraps up Looping State of Mind perfectly well on its own) and I really do not love how it forces the album to overstay its welcome. I do, however, appreciate the way he plays with broken ambient melody on here - as we'll see much, much higher up the list, this is something he improved on later | | 38 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
A Guided Tour
Innocuous, not particularly memorable but not disastrous. Bass tone is quite cute here. | | 37 |  | The Field
The Follower
Monte Veritá
Pretty much the definition of an 'average' Field tune, which means it's pretty good but way low in his discog. I love the vocal hook on this, but it doesn't quite hold the floor enough to sustain 10+ minutes (and the chord changes aren't quite It). Bass in the second half kinda fucks though | | 36 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
They Won't See Me
This one has a pretty engaging opening and then takes its sweet time to capitalise on it. Don't feel as much chemistry between individual layers as on most Field songs, but it's a decent enough start for his weakest album | | 35 | | The Field
The Follower
Pink Sun
Ditto most of Monte Veritá, but minus the distracting chord changes and add some lovely lovely subtle stereo vocal shenanigans. Not his most addictive atmosphere, but the first one on the list that I can really get lost in | | 34 |  | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
From Here We Go Sublime
Complete opposite of Sweet Slow Baby - I would never listen to this as a standalone song, but it's an absolutely perfect closer for From Here We Go Sublime. Love the feeling of erosion as it all comes to a rest. Hard to rank this one. | | 33 | | The Field
Infinite Moment
Infinite Moment
Of all the Field's albums, Infinite Moment benefits the most from being heard in one sitting and I feel a little iffy breaking it up like this. The t/t is a much more satisfying closer than Made of Steel... is as an opener, but there's still something a little diffuse about it that holds back a higher placement | | 32 | | The Field
Infinite Moment
Hear Your Voice
Much more of that Infinite Moment diffuse weary wavy out-of-time-ness here, but it's got a near 6/8 bass groove to back it up and some neat peripheral vocal action here. I pretty much view this as a hungover version of Soft Streams, so stay posted for that one | | 31 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
20 Seconds of Affection
Nice spacey closer - not the best ambient Field track by a long shot, but a nice situational piece for sure | | 30 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
The Little Heart Beats So Fast
Okay, maybe a controversial placement - this is kinda a *bop* but only for the first minute. Picks up erfectly from Good Things End's early downer in sequence, but I'm not sure how well-suited the acid bass is to that catchy af staccato sample mix. Somehow manages to be one of the shortest Field songs *and* one that most clearly overstays its welcome. Still a fun song. | | 29 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Then It's White
Never sure exactly how to feel about this one. Looping's ending combo always felt like a letdown to me because this is too kitsch (and tbf that piano sample is pushing it) and Sweet Slow Baby is extraneous in sequence, but the percussion here is a really treat and makes for a great space-out as an individual listen. It's *such* an obvious closer that it has more life if you take it out of sequence I guess? Nice song. | | 28 | | The Field
Infinite Moment
Something Left, Something Right, Something Wrong
We're now in a funny patch of the list where I basically like every song but not enough to prioritise them when I dip into the Field. This is one I should probably change this for - it's a patient listen for sure, but the way he plays with glitch and static(-esque synth layers) is quite unique in his work and almost makes me wish it was even less percussion-focus. A sleeper, maybe | | 27 | | The Field
Infinite Moment
Who Goes There
The (I guess?) second best track on Infinite Moment is less languorous than most of its fellows and ties a load of familiar Field tropes together without saying too much of its own. I do not have particularly strong feelings for this (good) album lol | | 26 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Burned Out
Another example of a Looping song with a slightly twee melody, but the counter-melody that appears around halfway in this ties the whole thing together beautifully. Strong beats. Suffers a bit from a lacuna placement in between this album's two pairs of highlight songs, but it's still cosy enough in its way | | 25 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
The Deal
THE DEAL with From Here We Go Sublime is that the first 2/3rds of the album are a shockingly compact collection of *songs* and then in comes The Deal/Sun & Ice combo and you'd better be feeling sublime because two are 15+ minutes of hazy expanse. 'Arid' is usually an unflattering descriptor, but both pieces wear it very well and although I come back to them very little individually, I love that this otherwise sugar-happy record flexes its minimal chops and dishes out such an atmospheric attention starve. Beautiful stuff, if situational. | | 24 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
Black Sea
Pretty much the blueprint for black cover-era Field: long runtime, patient addition and subtraction of multiple layers of melody, extended second half (in this case more of a coda with some enjoyably edgy bass), subtle vocal sampling (though I'm not sure about those oohs and aahs in said coda). First half in particular is lush and lovely - trade this for either of the weakest songs on the Follower, and it'd both fit seamlessly and cement that album within the Field's top 3. | | 23 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Sun & Ice
The Deal pt. 2. I like this one marginally more because it's shorter, more danceable and has a wavy psychedelic wash-out to some of its later layers, but also I'm unsure of this because The Deal's central loop is potentially stronger. Birds of a feather with an accidental oil slick between them whoops. | | 22 |  | The Field
Yesterday and Today
Yesterday and Today
Yesterday and Today's t/t is dominated by off-kilter synth clashes, but these belie a leisurely zany piece that lands perfectly in sequencing and makes for a highly viable siesta cut. I don't love it quite as much in isolation, but this is solid on all fronts and has particularly taste intro and outro segments - and shit the bed, *this* is the weakest song on Yesterday and Today? Unreal album, virtually all of it hits the top half of the list and ig it claims the title of Most Consistent as such. | | 21 | | The Field
The Follower
The Follower
I took a while to warm up to The Follower - compared to every other Field opener, I found this one's opening run of squelchy, squelchy synthscapes disorienting and borderline nauseous. I then realised that the entire second half bops like hell and just about justifies a set-up that zany (and while the first-second half switch feels extremely pronounced, it's amazing how many layers he actually conserves from one to the other; deceptively subtle track). Bit of a grower, but an excellent start to this excellent record (of which, need I remind you, there is still 50% to come). Hype etc | | 20 | | The Field
Yesterday and Today
I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet
The other day I think I claimed this was the weakest Field opener. What the hell?! Its first half is maybe a little slight, but this is so good? Perfect warm hug of a fade-in that gently (slowly) eases us into the more expansive songwriting style he adopted after Sublime. | | 19 | | The Field
Infinite Moment
Divide Now
Infinite Moment's big highlight is... well, great enough to make it to the top 20, but not quite enough to save it from being the first Field album to peace out entirely. This one's first section especially is a real zinger, easily the most individually engaging moment on the record and always hype to come back to - got a lot to say for the midway breakdown too (so disconcerting to hear a straight breaks sample on a Field album, but it works as a showstopper), but the second half settles down into Good territory thanks to slightly overbearing chord choices. Could have seen this going higher for many people, but it's a respectable peak anyhow. | | 18 | | The Field
Yesterday and Today
Sequenced
Oof this is where things get rough - the following 4-5 places were a nightmare to decide, all of them great pieces but a little too limited in whichever respect to go toe-to-toe with the absolute monsters higher up.
Sequenced comes first because a) I feel least strongly about arguing its case, but mainly b) it's the most demanding and situational listen. This thing is an absolute powerhouse of a victory lap at the end of Yesterday and Today, but I find that it *needs* an album's worth of momentum to burn off and works not so well as a standalone listen. Very cool track though, love the way he takes a single motif, gradually the rhythm and then subtly (when?!) shifts the sample forward one half beat to fuck with our heads. Things only get denser from there, but the last two minutes of this song kinda make it for me - love how it finally opens up long after you've abandoned any expectation of it being more than one relentless interrogation of one idea. | | 17 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Silent
Silent is lovely and so, so, so sentimental - the central sample here is one of the warmest and most inviting pieces in the whole Field discog, but it doesn't has as much going for it as Sublime's other sugary cuts - the central idea is great, but because he directly builds on it for the whole runtime and doesn't ever suggest anything to play it against or transition it into, it finds itself stretched a little thin. Pure ear candy, perhaps a little too pure. | | 16 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
It's Up There
I initially heard It's Up There as a less aggressive comedown from Is This Power's wallop of an opening, but the more time I've spent with it alone, the more convinced I am that it's actually not too far off as far as in-your-face Field goes. That pairing of a deceptively pushy one-bar stutter with one of his clubbiest beats? This one is still pretty immediate, but the real charm is the way he layers it into something far airier and more expansive than the sum of its parts would have you think. It's made it this far because I like both aspects; it doesn't get any further because it's a halfway house and works better as a balancing act than through any nuggets of individual brilliance as we'll be seeing on the songs further up. | | 15 | | The Field
Yesterday and Today
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
Something tells me this one's sacrilegiously high, especially compared to the rest of Yesterday and Today, but I don't care - incongruous as those REAL LIFE TALKING HUMAN vocals are on a Field track, the way he alternates them with that dreamboat of a chopped-up chord loop is just perfect. Chimes on this are perfect too - this somehow simultaneously appeals to the part of me that loves melodic ambient glitch, scales everything I enjoy about chiptune (the unnaturally fast attack on those chord hits!) into hi-fi, and sustains an absolutely wondrous atmosphere that works perfectly in this record's warmer first half. Perfect one-and-done dream pop blissout, the boi's an angel. | | 14 | | The Field
The Follower
Soft Streams
This song is FUN AS HELL and wildly underrepresented in Field discourse! Seriously - that 6/8 feel combined with a bassline so smooth the whole thing feels like it's fleshing out some funked-up underwater kingdom? Could listen to this for ages. Somewhat out of sorts amidst the rest of the Field discog (bar maybe the Follower t/t) - shit is as close as he gets to a big goofy grin. At a slight disadvantage in that respect because it's not what I normally turn to him for, but still a hard KEEP. | | 13 | | The Field
Yesterday and Today
The More That I Do
Much like our lord and saviour TRIFOLIUM, I also used to get this once confused with Good Things End - the rhythm in the intro 'verse' (by Field standards, this one is strangely close to verse/chorus territory) and the sparseness of the progression have a similar feel to them somehow. The atmosphere and the heavenly Lorelei sample, however, do not! This song is bright and zany in way that nothing else on Yesterday and Today really approaches - it feels like more of a voice-driven song than Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime despite having not discernible lyrics or free-flowing vocal samples, and it's maybe the most melodically busy song on the album (loads of subtle countermelodies at work in the periphery here). I like it best in sequence, but this is a somewhat dazed-out ray of sunlight in any context. | | 12 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Over The Ice
Over The Ice makes it this far purely for the eerie sense of intrigue that it's never ceased to evoke in me since I first heard it. The switch between this rather oblique, atmospherically foregrounded production showcase and the instant endorphin rush of A Paw In My Face is one of my favourite first impressions of any record from the last few years, and I'm always astounded how well this brings back the same feeling of wonder. Absolutely blessed start to the discog. | | 11 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Arpeggiated Love
Silent's older, wiser sister - this one takes a slightly more patient, though no less outwardly tender fragment, and milks it for all it's worth. I find the progression here a lot more organic than Silent's; the gentle cutaways add a great deal and the atmosphere feels a lot less emotionally overbearing. Just a perfect Field moment-in-time that could have been 5 minutes longer or shorter and I'd hardly have noticed. Beautiful piece. | | 10 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Is This Power
This song fucks. Pretty much every other Field opener is a relatively patient ease-in, but in keeping with Looping's comparatively robust feel, Is This Power kicks it off with absolutely monstrous combo of stabbing synth and growling basslines (this song in general is perhaps the bass highlight of his whole discog). It's by far the most aggressive thing he's put his name to, but also wears his trademarks perfectly - why ain't it any higher? Well, wait and see... | | 9 | | The Field
Cupid's Head
No. No...
No. No... is at once the best song on Cupid's Head by an astronomical margin and my least favourite (though still thoroughly excellent!) in that small but elite pocket of his work that we shall call Dark-Field. This song is so bleak! What caused this? What is behind those no(no no no nonononono no)s? We may never know, but I love how oppressive this one is - the disintegrating layers on the periphery add so much to the central idea. One of his best ambient pieces too - and, spoilers spoilers, his ambience has an even higher ceiling than his darkness... | | 8 | | The Field
Looping State of Mind
Looping State of Mind
The Looping State of Mind t/t opens with (and mines to perfection) one of the most immediately recognisable grooves in the Field discog - where his pieces tend to thud, stutter or sway within what one imagines must be a relatively modest geometric space, this one *lopes* ahead and is easily the track I'd turn to first if we were approaching him in dance-all-night mode. Alas, we are not - the Field for me is a thoroughly sedentary experience, at most a walk-around-town soundtrack - and so it finds itself at a slight and probably unfair disadvantage, but mmmboi this song is so fantastically constructed and just oozes movement like nothing else. | | 7 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Everday
Everday is so *busy*! Everthing about this song sparkles with life and hooks and excitement - easily one of the most accessible Field songs, but also one of his most fun to return to! Slightly higher tempo lands a treat in Sublime, and that 2:37 DROP (in a Field song!) is legendary. Iirc Pitchfork at one point claimed that Sublime was actually a closet trance album, which - though hilariously off-base as a general statement - does kinda hold true for this one. Give me those zazzy laser beams in min techno, and then even more of those gorgeous second half vocals. There's a load of Field I love to space out or study to, but this one puts colour in my cheeks. | | 6 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Good Times End
More dark Field - this one definitely scans as an early precedent for No. No...'s doomscape, but damn I think it might be even bleaker? Its simplicity works wonders - rare to describe a song this good as 'stifling', but its refusal to allow anything else to interfere with its lurch of a beat and down-shifted, bodiless vocal sample does have that effect. I *love* how bold this is in sequence - just as A Paw In My Face seems to have blown Sublime wide open, this one sucks the air right out of the room and immediately sets you on edge. Doesn't lose anything on a standalone listen either. Really poignant track, one of his most haunting. | | 5 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Mobilia
...aaaand rounding off that top 10 hat trick of darker Field songs is this slightly under-discussed *gem* from Sublime! Where Good Times End and No. No... bring the doom, Mobilia is all noirish suspense - a vibe that takes so naturally to the Field's sound that I'm honestly surprised he hasn't done anything quite like it since. I love how paranoid this one sounds! I love the creeping melodies he weaves in and out and how it sidesteps into different sections without ever seeming to progress or depart from its central idea. Not too much more to say for this one - it's just absolutely gripping. | | 4 | | The Field
The Follower
Reflecting Lights
So this is I guess the most underrated track in the Field discography, and tbqh I don't really understand why - though its opening half certainly takes a while to churn the song into gear, opening and closing to allow rays of light to trickly through a decidedly murky ambience in the lower-frequencies, it's a perfect set-up to the second half --- and *that* is easily one of the most beautiful things he's ever made. A stuttering piano sample, just a single interval between two notes (and a third cut out so early its presence is spectral), the interval occasionally shifted upwards to uplifting effect as the song finds its momentum, only to settle back down each time.
Perhaps it's a little kitsch, a little less oblique than most of his absolute bests, but I find so, so much refracted through that sound. It took me a few listens to get there, but at this point it's a fundamentally important moment of the Field as a whole to me - it's a candle flame flickering as it holds onto life; it's the sun coming up at the end of a night you never thought you'd see the end of; it's a reminder of things that make you smile in a strange place where you thought you might escape from yourself.
He hadn't done anything quite like it since A Paw In My Face, but where that song found melodic wonder by splitting the atom, this one feels as though it's snagged onto the tail feathers of a great upwards force and is clutching onto it for all it's worth, riding it up and and up tenaciously, impossibly, and, somehow, incredibly gracefully. The distorted bass in the final two minutes is absolutely beautiful and adds so much to that subtle tenacity. Fuck me this song is a vision. Its great length (second longest track?) is very much earned and does not need to be any longer or shorter - I love the way it just *stops*, no kitsch fadeout to flex that it could go on forever. It finds its natural limit and lets go in dignity. It is a blessing. | | 3 | | The Field
The Follower
Raise the Dead
Of every song on the list, Raise the Dead's appeal is the biggest struggle to put into words - while its layerings and texture are far from the sparsest, it's one of the least outgoing or prone to obvious developments. It's full of ambient shimmer, with a distant hint of light suggested but never fully embraced, and it arguably achieves the most with one single cut of a single sample (it does shift a little 6ish minutes in but sssh not now not now). The atmosphere is just *perfect* from the get go; part of me wants to argue similarly to No. No… that the magic is in how he builds around the track, but the details here are so subtle that you'll have to press your nose to the speaker to make out anything more than a hazy outline. Maybe that's it - this piece thrives on suggested space rather than distinct contour. I dunno. Don't need to know - just never tired of getting lost in this. God-tier study jam. | | 2 | | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
A Paw in My Face
One of the most obvious Field classics and for good reason - this one's approach to cut-up melody is instantly effective and so, so inviting. The way the intervals (between notes) and the stop-start rhythms share the same tension and release is just astoundingly intuitive. So rare to find that in something so concertedly mechanical. Love everything about this - love that the sample plays out at the end; it's like he opens up this utterly transportive pocket universe only to drop the curtain to give us a candid glimpse of his process; the magic isn't in the artifice of those stuttering loops, but in the vast amount of warmth he suffuses them with, and getting to hear things from his side (however briefly) only strengthens that. I adored this from first listen and its magic has hardly worn off since - could easily see it being someone's favourite. | | 1 | | The Field
Yesterday and Today
Leave It
As if it was going to be anything else lol. Towering banger of the highest calibre.
This whole top 10 is one of my favourite sets of songs in general, top 3-4 are jams I can't imagine living without at this point, but *this* is a category of 1 in practically any company whatsoever.
Absurdly good song. | |
JohnnyoftheWell
06.21.23 | Hold my beer let's go | Trifolium
06.21.23 | Johnnnnyyyyyyyyyyy yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💚💖❤️ | Trifolium
06.21.23 | Agreed about Monte Veritá, will consider other placements tomorrow zzzzzz. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.21.23 | we are OFF goodnight zzzzz big peace to you | JohnnyoftheWell
06.21.23 | okay, almost halfway - gonna SHOWER and finish later | neekafat
06.21.23 | this will be perfect to go with my discog run ((: | JohnnyoftheWell
06.21.23 | y e s, although you cannot rush a good thing. am hoping what's up already doesn't put you off post-Looping Field (best is defs still to come for that era, stay posted!) | PotsyTater
06.21.23 | I don’t remember if I like the field please advise | JohnnyoftheWell
06.21.23 | Everyone likes the Field! Could see his approach to melody being a bit bright for you, but jam either of his first two and find out ig | PotsyTater
06.21.23 | I think I only jammed looping state of mind | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | Looping is v good, but those first two are on another level
Bump - just about over the halfway mark. Into the difficult patch now, the exact order for the ~25-11 stretch is v hard to determine | Avagantamos
06.22.23 | have just been thinking how hard it is to rank even his albums; kudos. didn't expect the t/t to be the lowest ranked for Yesterday & Today though. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | tbh neither did I (and the Moon/Internet was initially lower), but I think its overall placement hopefully says more about it | Ryus
06.22.23 | id put 23 muchhh higher | Trifolium
06.22.23 | "and shit the bed, *this* is the weakest song on Yesterday and Today? Unreal album, virtually all of it hits the top half of the list"
Yesterday best Field album ever forever. | dedex
06.22.23 | woooo hype!!! | markjamie
06.22.23 | Yay! Thanks for doing this. Most of my favourites still around, but last few minutes of Black Sea push it into top 10 territory for me and I love The Follower. On point with Monte Veritá and Pink Sun - by far the weakest from that album. Cupid's Head is definitely his least great album in my opinion and most of it is here already. | izakaya
06.22.23 | oh SHIT !!
there are a few things I disagree with (Cupid's Head > The Follower & Infinite Moment) but this is a sick list. discog is so consistent I can't think where I'd begin with this | izakaya
06.22.23 | most of my favourites are still to come but Yesterday & Today t/t done dirty. from leave it onwards that album's flawless imo
agree on the little heart being one of the weaker individual tracks on FHWGS. love it's placement in the tracklisting though | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Glad there is no sign of Raise the Dead yet, indeed a super lovely, quiet, calm, soothing moment.
"discog is so consistent" agreeeeeeeeeeeeeed. | Trifolium
06.22.23 | "The other day I think I claimed this was the weakest Field opener. What the hell?! Its first half is maybe a little slight, but this is so good? Perfect warm hug of a fade-in that gently (slowly) eases us into the more expansive songwriting style he adopted after Sublime."
Also glad you saw the light here Johnny, it is indeed a wonderful track. | Trifolium
06.22.23 | 🚨🥉 Triple post alert 🥉🚨
Curious whether your No. 1 is Leave It...
And where Is This Power ends up (that BASELINE!!!!)... And Sequenced (THAT EVERYTHING!!!!!)!
I guess what I'm saying here is: hype! | Demon of the Fall
06.22.23 | Silent #1
thread / | Demon of the Fall
06.22.23 | I am here for this, certainly pleases me that it exists | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Oooooh yes Silent!!!
So many good ones still to come I think we must conclude that Johnny understands... | Pangea
06.22.23 | what even is my fave field track hmm. looping t/t maybe or leave it | Pangea
06.22.23 | also then it's white is done dirty here! | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Pan I'm currently listening to...... Leave It 💚😍 | Pikazilla
06.22.23 | subscribed | Pangea
06.22.23 | a paw in my face is also a worthy shout for #1 maybe thats my pick actually | izakaya
06.22.23 | a paw in my face is my pick, yeah
hm to everyday, leave it and the more that I do | Trifolium
06.22.23 | RE The Deal: ever since first hearing it in 2007 I'm legitimately scared of that one moment (you know the one) for all of its 10 minutes. That painfulllll sonic stab about halfway through. Apprehension of broken eardrums. Eeeeeeeeeeeek. | Trifolium
06.22.23 | The More That I Do goooooooooooood pick!!! I've recently realised it's The Field goes Cocteau Twins, especially with that vocal sample 😮💞
Paw too agreeeeed Pan, it's almost like this dude only makes ultra good tunes or something!!!?!??!?!
Another shout to Good Things End. That one's like a warm, cosy hug. | izakaya
06.22.23 | haha yeah it's Lorelei isn't it
his samples are always pretty cool when you realise what they are. gotta love putting Coldplay, Lionel Richie, Fleetwood Mac and Springsteen on a techno album | Pangea
06.22.23 | "it's almost like this dude only makes ultra good tunes or something!!!?!??!?!"
you might say that he's the best in his...... field 😎 | Demon of the Fall
06.22.23 | 'a paw in my face is also a worthy shout for #1 maybe thats my pick actually'
this is also a good shout | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Hehe Pan 🤭
Yeah it's Lorelei, no wonder it's a super good tune. | Demon of the Fall
06.22.23 | what this about Lorelei? 😍 | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Pay close attention to the vocal sample used in Good Things End. It's taken from Lorelei. Needless to say it's perfect.
EDIT Ugh I meant The More That I Do of course. Very distinct indeed! | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | updates are COMING ranking is being crash tested
and yeah the way he conserves the ends of vocal cadences in *The More That I Do is v distinct. great use of that sample | Trifolium
06.22.23 | H Y P EEEEEEEEEEE!!! | Gyromania
06.22.23 | I tried LSoM twice and the boredom nearly killed me | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | lol of all the things in the world to get filtered by | Gyromania
06.22.23 | Maybe I’ll try a different album | Gyromania
06.22.23 | Hmmm I’m reallllly liking Arpeggiated Love atm, maybe I should listen to this again | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | Arpeggiated Love (spoilers) is awesome - maybe peep Sublime? That one has his highest share of immediate songs (although Looping isn't far behind)
also update woah | Havey
06.22.23 | who asked for this lsit | JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.23 | some of the younger carers at your retirement home clubbed together and petitioned for something they could dance to without distressing any of the hacks in their charge - how could i turn them down | Trifolium
06.22.23 | Nice placements of this new batch too! I would personally put Sequenced higher (surprise, surprise) but I like where this is going. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.23.23 | bets on the top 5 let's go | Kompys2000
06.23.23 | 15 is his most-played track on Spotify by over 6 million listens- never underestimate the power of vocals, I guess | Avagantamos
06.23.23 | top 5 will be no, no..., raise the dead, looping state of mind, is this power, leave it
in some kind of order | Avagantamos
06.23.23 | that would leave 4 tracks from Sublime in 6-10 though so maybe not | Trifolium
06.23.23 | Oooooh we're getting up there!
Predicting top 5 in progress.... | Trifolium
06.23.23 | Your top 5 will certainly include (in every possible order):
Leave It
No. No...
A Paw In My Face
Good Things End
Is This Power
| Trifolium
06.23.23 | Especially Is This Power. It should be in the top 5. Otherwise I'll be a little sad (only a little). | JohnnyoftheWell
06.23.23 | One update, just to stir the pot... | Pangea
06.23.23 | Oh no trif's sad now | Trifolium
06.23.23 | No no no I'm happy! 10th place! Also 100% agreed on that baseline, it's so tasty. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.23.23 | there are like 3 god-tier basslines on that song and i still think i know the one you mean lol | Trifolium
06.23.23 | Ahahah yeah I think you do.
Hyped for the rest!!!!! | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | the end is NEAR | Avagantamos
06.24.23 | Is this power and looping state of mind outside of top 5 = unsubscribed as hell | Trifolium
06.24.23 | Almoooossstttttttt!
"the disintegrating layers on the periphery add so much to the central idea." Part of why I like No. No... so much. | izakaya
06.24.23 | hmm so reflecting lights and raise the dead in the top 6? iiiinteresting
never been two tracks that did tons for me tbh (though still good ofc). def wouldn't put them above any of 7-14 | Trifolium
06.24.23 | Same. Loooooovely tunes of course, certainly top 20, but wouldn't put them in top 6 either. They remind me of GAS and hello is that a good thing. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | it is PODIUM time
won't comment too much on Reflecting Lights/Raise the Dead here other than that they are perfect and easily on par with his best. Absolutely deserve the same respect as the top end of Looping at the very least | Trifolium
06.24.23 | Yeah they're amazing for sure. Certainly understand why you would put it up there.
Glad my fave made it to top 3, we'll see where it ends up... 😍💞 | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | well um CROSS THOSE PAWS we are done! | Trifolium
06.24.23 | 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 No. 1
What a track.
What a discog too. Crazy. | Ryus
06.24.23 | 22 might be my 1, tbh. 1 is also amazing tho | Trifolium
06.24.23 | Ahaha yesssssss Ryus Yesterday & Today love. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | now who's next?? | Ryus
06.24.23 | unwound | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | Always down to discog binge Unwound, but done that one already hmm | Ryus
06.24.23 | haha i had a feeling actually
SONIC YOUTH for an extremely large undertaking
maybe bjonk for something more reasonable but less cool
| JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | Oh damn haha SY ranking would be hysterical and maybe not possible. Tempted. | Ryus
06.24.23 | i am wincing just thinking about it | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | Think the worst part would be hacking the list interface and pressing "add new" enough times to produce 200 entries ugh pain | Pangea
06.24.23 | Just do two parts like the rest of us plebs | JohnnyoftheWell
06.24.23 | that would require just as many clicks and produce a 100-entry list of throwaway songs | izakaya
06.24.23 | And it's done!
1 & 2 are perfect (I'd inverse em but it's who cares rly). Great write ups all round :)
Get your points on 3 & 4 but do disagree I guess. I like both tracks and they fit well within the context of the album but ultimately, when doing an individual song ranking, that style of more ambient techno isn't really what I come to the field for and doesn't stand out enough to elevate above others in the genre or his other stuff | izakaya
06.24.23 | "now who's next??"
do Burial | Ryus
06.24.23 | oooh yes | izakaya
06.24.23 | burial did his own ranking (of post-Untrue) with Tunes so got to see how Johnny's compares | Havey
06.24.23 | you can add 200 entries in one click tho make it loop! | Gyromania
06.25.23 | Just gonna go ahead and say I was very very wrong about The Field | Trifolium
06.25.23 | In that he is actually really really good? | Gyromania
06.25.23 | Yes | Trifolium
06.25.23 | Good. | Trifolium
06.26.23 | The More That I Do love: 💞🌞
So wonderfully produced HMMMMMMMMMMMM. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.26.23 | The More That I Do top 1 Field to cover on steel pans? | Trifolium
06.26.23 | Oh!!!
I'd like to hear a No. No... version of that too. | JohnnyoftheWell
06.26.23 | No. No... steel pans would be hilarious lol, cannot imagine the gloom surviving at all | Trifolium
06.26.23 | Ahahahah OR it will be the spookiest thing ever. Maybe. | Gyromania
06.27.23 | This list changed my life | gnardude
06.27.23 | this was fantastic and i appreciate you doing this. | MiloRuggles
06.27.23 | Christ Johnny, you're crazy as a coconut. Great list, probably great rankings but I suck at track titles. Either way, you capture what The Field do supremely well (although your gentle decrying of dance-Field has hurt my soul) | markjamie
06.27.23 | That was a wonderful read. Sad to see A Guided Tour so low. I've been listening to a great mix of Field songs on YouTube someone made for years, and that song opens it, so I have a sentimental appreciation for it that maybe it doesn't deserve. Mix is worth listening to by the way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb-VeOzmD7c | Trifolium
06.27.23 | Good Things End would probably make my top 3. What a track. | Avagantamos
06.27.23 | I've been pondering a lot and I think I might have decided on a top 9
looping state of mind #1 for sure
is this power
yesterday and today
black sea
the follower
leave it
reflecting lights
a paw in my face
raise the dead
#10 spot is just too hard to pick |
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