List of 10 of the best Tame Impala songs
It's time for another top 10 countdowns today. I'm gonna be taking a closer look at all of my favorite songs from the psychedelic pop and rock project from Kevin Parker known as Tame Impala, of course, it's Kevin in the studio playing all of the instruments the mastermind himself, but in a live setting it is a full band featuring cam every and more.
I was introduced to Tame Impala shortly after the release of "Lonerism." So, probably in late 2012 or early 2013. I found the sounds to be extremely captivating. The early days of Tame Impala were in line with the 60s and 70s psychedelic movement, but as we've grown in recent years along with Kevin Parker we've gotten Current, and The Slow Rush which is a little bit more synth pop-oriented.
I hope that you enjoy this countdown of the top 10 best Tame Impala songs.
P.S: Honorable mentions can all be found down below of the article.
P.S.S: Let us know your favorite Tame Impala songs in the comments section.
10. The Less I Know The Better
You can attempt all you like, however, it's basically difficult to oppose 'The Less I Know The Better'. Future music researchers will come to contemplate the sparkling gem in the 'Currents' crown and wonder about its bunch of entrancing disco-pop properties.
That bass riff (really recorded utilizing a guitar with an octave pedal), the relatable lovelorn melodious topic (screwing Trevor), the unobtrusive instrumental twists which yield up once in a while (elevating synths, the congregation chimes, the ringtone guitars) — what more would you be able to need?
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Sounds like a retro 70s synth pop banger on Tame Impala smash hit "The Less I Know The Better." Kevin totally broke it open with this blending of worlds driven by the unstoppable bass group. That's among my favorites of all time.
It's instantly recognizable given that it's the first thing that you hear when you put it on but beyond that, there's this massive wave of feelings that slowly pulls you out to see. This song works so well because it's so self-aware he knows he's being Petty and tries to simultaneously push away the notion of this girl being with another man.
While admitting his own insecurities, and that was probably a huge part of why things didn't work out in the first place. You've likely heard this banger even if you're not that familiar with Tame Impala, so if you dig this gorgeous instrumental that pairs up so nicely with Kevin's voice keep digging into that discography.
I was doing fine without you
'Til I saw your face, now I can't erase
Giving in to all his bullshit
Is this what you want, is this who you are?
P.S: Can we get an F in the comments for Trevor?
9. New Person, Same Old Mistakes
This 'Currents' song is so totally shaped, executed, and addictive that when it highlighted on Rihanna's 'Anti' in 2016 she changed decisively screw regardless of — from trading out Kevin's vocals for her own, tweaking the title and adding an extra 35-seconds of instrumental. Fundamentally, she made it her karaoke hymn. That is how great it is.
"New Person, Same Old Mistakes," is the swansong for the eargasmic wavelength that is Currents the album that fully won me over detainment Tame Impala and one of my favorite records of the 2010s. This particular song gloriously ropes in all of the records best elements from drippy psyched-out scents to distant foreboding lyrics that have been both space and time universally.
Speaking Kevin Parker speaks up loud and clear from a distance with a message that captures the idea of walking in place on the treadmill of life, destined to repeat our past failures. Despite this constant attempt to rebuild ourselves, it's depressingly optimistic but then again isn't that one of Kevin's biggest calling cards and music around the halfway mark.
His voice elevates to an even higher octave making for an angelic intermission, before slowly bringing the song back to that irresistible scent loop with some extra pizzazz to the instrumental that seriously just sets my mind on fire and makes me hungry for another listen.
Man, I know that it's hard to digest
But maybe your story ain't so different from the rest
And I know it seems wrong to accept
But you've got your demons, and she's got her regrets
8. One More Hour
The end track on 'The Slow Rush' begins as field song rock as Tame Impala get — eager piano notes and splashy cymbal assembles offering a route to a progression of intensity harmonies and amazing 'In The Air Tonight'- style drumming — before sinking into a vaporous shutting second as gliding vocal tunes whirl and even a superficial guitar solo is tossed in.
The last 2 minutes of this is truly "eargasmic." I personally listen to the ending part of the song on loop! I guess every other Tame Impala lovers do so. It's just so damn perfect, that your thirst for listening to to to that part again and again never ends!
Just a minute, baby, right before we go through here
All these people said we wouldn't last a minute, dear
I'm with you and I can roll into another year
7. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Moving together all of Tame Impala's central abilities into one major gooey pop mass, 'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards'' contains an appealing as screw theme while a thick murk of suppressing bass and incautious drumming unleashes turmoil underneath the gleam.
At the point when Kevin Parker initially wrote this beast of lighters noticeable all around hymn he was resolved he had composed a Backstreet Boys tune — and doing so appeared to flick a switch. On 'Currents' Kevin completely loaned into his outward-looking side, moving Tame Impala from sketchy psych anomalies to genuine celebration main events simultaneously. Everything began here.
It feels like I only go backwards, darlingEvery part of me says, "Go ahead"But I got my hopes up again, oh no, not againFeels like we only go backwards, darling
6. Alter Ego
One of those Tame Impala tracks that figure out how to swallow your brain, body, and soul entire with its blend of rattling drums, endless guitar versus synth duels, and Kevin's reverb-doused vocals.
Get them to love you
While they may, depending on your words and wealth
The only one who's really judging you is yourself
Nobody else, nobody else
5. Elephant
It is days as Tame Impala's particular track may have blurred in this post-'Currents' scene, yet this gathering beginning serving of hallucinogenic glitz rock will consistently be adored by fanatics of Kevin Parker. For the individuals who missed the buzz of 'Innerspeaker', 'Elephant' was probably the typical prologue to Tame Impala and the ensuing passage to 'Lonerism' and Parker's sound past.
Also, all things considered, as well. Kevin destroying on his guitar while emphatically moving over his belongings board? Check. A synth-drove instrumental waist that curves your melon and makes enough energy to turn 1,000 disco balls? Check. Significant verses about a hotshot washout getting his collar gotten and crying the entire way home? All things considered, we didn't realize we required that, however, check! There's even an ideal opportunity for a smaller than normal drum solo toward the end — and some way or another, it's completely pressed into three minutes and 30 seconds of sheer splendor.
He's got friends but they got the feeling
Wouldn't care too much if he just disappeared
Oh, look, see there he is now coming down the stairs
4. Mind Mischief
Besides 'Elephants' tub-pounding riff, this is verifiably Parker's catchiest guitar second. 'Mind Mischief' isn't hesitant to stroll around aimlessly, and this laidback lick is the one driving it. Continually revolving around the channel, it's just during the tune's last third that there's even an endeavor to coordinate new components in with the general mish-mash – yet everything returns to that entrancing guitar line.
Feels like my life is ready to blow
Me and my love we'll take it slow
I hope she knows that I'll love her long
I just don't know where the hell I belong
3. Why Won't They Talk To Me?
The sleeve workmanship for 'Lonerism' – taken by Kevin Parker on a film camera – peers through the iron doors of Luxembourg Garden in Paris, the city where Tame Impala's genius wrapped up making his second full-length.
'Is there any valid reason why they won't Talk To Me?' trudges around what is conceivably the French capital getting grabs of others' energized discussions: in one heavenly expressive piece, it gets appropriately glum. "Yet, I don't think about it at any rate," Parker added, "I wouldn't tune in to a word any of the state/They just talk about themselves all day/ One day I’ll be a star and they’ll be sorry."
Clearly, this is a typical example of 'the artist doth fights excessively' – maybe that is the punchline. This spacey cut urgently aches for the association, and can't be tried to put forth the attempt simultaneously. Exceptionally relatable.
But I don't even care about it anyway
I wouldn't listen to a word any of them say
They just talk about themselves all day
One day I'll be a star and they'll be sorry
2. Let it Happen
Seven minutes in heaven arrived at number two on "Let it Happen." Another pick from the landmark 2015 record "Currents." If I ever had any doubt going into this record cold, this song body-slammed them right out of me; because this is one of the best songs to ever fill the airwaves!
Heading down a specific direction without ever really committing to just one angle, this tracks motif a pure adrenaline rush for the senses that never hits a roadblock, never gets stuck in traffic, just a humdinger that draws heavily on psychedelics as he rocks you back and forth like watching a pocket watch Dingle before your eyes, as you slowly become hypnotized.
Laser points cents that never missed the mark, cooing vocals that ride a high tide of emotion, and a grand finale guitar solo that feels like pulling a ripcord out of thin air only to vanish like the beautifully evasive ghost that trusts me, you want this in your life, and if you don't it's fine. You know it's okay, we just can't be friends anymore!
...And I want my Xbox back!
Baby, now I'm ready, moving on
Oh, but maybe I was ready all along
Oh, I'm ready for the moment and the sound
Oh, but maybe I was ready all along
1. Apocalypse Dreams
Finding your own voice despite your fear of the future was one of the biggest recurring dreams Lonerism served up. And one of the biggest highlights to be harvested from that gold mine is "Apocalypse Dreams."
A feeling of floating through the air carries you home, on this anxiety-ridden tune that slowly carries you over a rainbow; until that rainbow explodes with color by the time the song is ended. This has always been a very visual moment for me in the Tame Impala catalog.
I guess that's probably pretty common given the psychedelic tendencies of Kevin's music, but it's really just easy to dive into Apocalypse Dreams given how lush its instrumental is! It's absolutely [ fu__g ] incredible to me how Kevin Parker can create a steady looping rhythm and make it so intricate and entertaining the entire duration of the song.
This is probably the song that the diehards roll their eyes, at when I mention it as a jumping-on point for Tame Impala, but if I'd never heard it on the radio and subsequently seen the album at my local record shop who knows how long it would have taken for me to make that discovery, brandishing a sludgy chugging rip and some icky piece hooky as has ever recorded that song never sits still, despite that consistent guitar riff driving the song there's a handful of one-liners that really just jump out to you.
Nothing ever changes
No matter how long you do your hair
Looks the same to everyone else
Everything is changing
I guess I should warn my mum
But she'll just be excited
Honorable Mentions:
Vital Signs, Suns Coming Up, Eventually, The Moment, Taxi's Here, Half Full Glass Of Wine, Keep On Lying, Disciples, Posthumous Forgiveness, Endors Toi, 'Runway, Houses, City, Clouds'...............................
Note: This list only represents the author's Top 10 Favorite songs of Tame Impala- this is not meant or does not demand to be the obvious or ultimate list.
