Where's the "Party"?
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Madonna to thread.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Broken Hipster (Broken Hipster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
i wish people in the press would stop comparing them to franz ferdinand
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 14 February 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
but much better! (and i love the first Adorable LP)
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 14 February 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Opinion of album = !!!!!!!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahah -- a fellow writer friend down here was complaining about BP precisely because of a Blink-182 similarity. (He preferred the Futureheads, which I admit I've not yet heard.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― TayBridge, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
This never does anything for me.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
New single played on 6music as we drove to work. As it finished Em said simply "That was shit. What happened to them?"
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
this might all explain is why kele looks so unhappy/pissed off in all their recent publicity shots.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
He is also now absolutely MASSIVE, like he's been pumping steroids and sacks of satsumas straight into his muscles. I'm always slightly suspicious of people who bulk up like that.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link
he sounded like hes been having a bit of an ongoing personal/identity crisis in that NME interview, which might be related to his new beefiness.
i think different drugs is meant to be his unfinished symphony, the phrasing is very similar to shara nelson.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link
fortress is good actually. prob his best, most tender singing on this album from what ive heard so far (im not really listening to the lyrics, which might help). its a tiny bit like fka twigs' closer. is his solo stuff like this? i think i might like it more than the BP album if so.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
the other guy from the original line up has gone kind beefy as well, he used to be a super-scrawny pencil neck indie kid
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b3gDjVR8bTc/UPkLaq983RI/AAAAAAAAFu8/NfSF2KFBEjg/s400/2+Bloc+straight+cream.jpg
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/59763/a6d59e64.jpg
(he's the one on the far right in both pictures)
― soref, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
wait, second from the right in the first picture
― soref, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEsqSr0jG0
Oh ffs what even is this band anymore
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:18 (seven years ago) link
A band that's completely over, yet they still keep on going...
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Any thoughts on Kele's _Fatherland_? Has a real nice streak from tracks 6-10 (less 7). "Yemaya", track 6, has a Shack musical vibe that I love, but it's also very much the album's highpoint for me, though the track with Corinne Bailey Rae (# 8, "Versions of Us") is lovely.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
there you go-golooking like a snackcute like bambimeet me in the boom boom room
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
intimacy sounds great today
― ivy., Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
Their best
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
fuck, are you right????
― ivy., Sunday, 10 September 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link
no way!!! half is good-to-great but the other half is mediocre-to-'wtf were they thinking'
― ufo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link
Could barely make it through one listen of this album. Such a huge fall off from Silent Alarm to Weekend in the City to this
― Vinnie, Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
possible that "talons," "better than heaven," and "ion square" (plus "letter to my son") are tricking me into thinking this but... those songs are sooooo good
― ivy., Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
yeah those tracks (and "trojan horse" and "signs") are all very good but still like, what the fuck is "mercury", what the fuck is "ares", why does "one month off" sound like a very weird remix of "banquet" and so on
― ufo, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
Ares and Mercury <3
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Setting Sun and Peek-a-Boo getting on very well in the late summer heat.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
you get sadderthe smarter you getand it's a bore
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 05:04 (seven months ago) link
intimacy really became one of my favorite albums of all time in the last five months, lol
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 05:06 (seven months ago) link
wild that you bumped this today! I was thinking about and listening to Bloc Party yesterday
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:32 (seven months ago) link
i think i've restated a million times itt why post-silent alarm bloc party doesn't "work" for me on the same level as silent alarm only to develop special and personal relationships with all of those records*. even four, which has no cohesion whatsoever but the songs are still really good
i listened to intimacy probably two or three times in college and found it hard to get past the brash and dissonant opening (i also think i heard it before "talons" was added to the tracklist, so crucial to the album's functioning), but now i love those songs, especially "ares," which seems to be running off the fumes of the apocalyptic stakes from weekend in the city, exuding so much cultural exhaustion there's nothing to do but to retreat into the interpersonal and intimate, thus the rest of the record. they also do such a good job of staking out the sonic parameters of the record, recognizably bloc party but manipulated and fragmented by machines, just as machines mediate the relationships that form and dissolve over the course of the record — i'm not sure any of the lyrics support this suggestion but the overwhelming vibe of the record to me is "sneaking a glance at your partner's texts and finding out more than you bargained for"
*og lineup only, tho who can say, can't see it happening but maybe catch me in five years repping hymns lol
― ivy., Monday, 12 February 2024 16:05 (seven months ago) link