The 2017 song with "I need it every night!" as the refrain.

June 13, 2017 7:06 PM

The refrain goes: "Every Night! I have to have it Every Night!" where "every night" is pronounced "Ev. Ree. Night!" It has out-of-place world-music riffs interrupting now and again, but it adds to the disturbed nature of the song. I want to hear it more.

Google has failed me. It was on rotation on Slacker's "New Alternative Now" channel, but I haven't heard it in a while, and I failed to favorite when I shoulda. It's a haunting and intense song that takes musical chances, and fails with some of them, and wins with the rest.

posted by Slap*Happy to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Please let it be Cake by the Ocean (only one "every night" in there but I love this dumb song). Is the song you are referring to, did it come out this year, or you heard it this year and assume it's recent?
posted by jessamyn at 7:14 PM on June 13, 2017

Response by poster: No, tho the (apocryphal) story behind that is awesome. The Swedish producers completely mistranslated the cocktail "Sex on the Beach" to "Cake by the Ocean" and the band rolled right along with it.

The song I'm after is an intense and desperate, where there is something wrong, but it's not correctly identified or even recognized.
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:45 PM on June 13, 2017

Best answer: Arcade Fire, which has a zillion members, some of which know which way the wind is blowing, is doing Early '80's Disco-NewWave pastiche. Like Paramour. Only they are more intense and honest in their daze, I only knew them from their Bush II era twee-alt.

Slacker got tired of letting me listen to sanitized and boring co-opted retro-synth-alikes, and I got tired of listening to Mute Math's amazing new single on permanent repeat, and the service let slip for the first time in three weeks: the answer is "Everything Now" by Arcade Fire.

Also 311 has a new single, and it's like 1998 never ended, only now the lead singer has honest character and intensity to his voice reflected by the lyrics, and they're invoking the genre entire rather than their reggae-flavored corner of rap-rock. Nice.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:24 PM on June 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: An interesting point of order, even if you watch the Official Video on Vevo in Firefox, it degrades after each viewing. I don't get vocals anymore. Likewise Safari. On Slacker, it devolves to the lowest bitrate possible with the web client after the first viewing (the iPhone app client remains, as yet, unaffected.)

So, yes, piracy is back on the menu! To the torrents! Or anonymous browsing tabs. Either/Or. Or maybe charge Youtube what you're worth? Just a thought. They can prolly afford it.
posted by Slap*Happy at 9:11 PM on June 14, 2017

Response by poster: Buying Music is no longer an option. Getting paid for each play is. I will suffer any number of ads for good music. I'm of a generation who remembers being suckered into buying an album's worth of crap filler for the one good song... $40 in today's money to get the one good song I'd rip to put on my 'puter and share everywhere. I pay cash money every month for my streaming service, and I expect the artists I stream the most to cash in. If they do not, it's not the fans' fault. Lawyer up and go after the stream services. I'd pay more each month, a lot more, as I love my streaming service.

This is a weird place to put a manifesto. I'll stop, but you know it's true.
posted by Slap*Happy at 9:21 PM on June 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Youtube has actually applied this to all of their content - if the lyrics are recognizable and matched to the music, they are garbled and muted. Including the official content channels that were previously generating revenue with unskippable ads. Previously.

It's a bold move, Cotton, let's see if it pays off!
posted by Slap*Happy at 9:31 PM on June 14, 2017