― 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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, Ned, the other person their singer kinda sounds like sometimes -- weirdly -- is Colin Hay from Men at Work.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
And "Price of Gas" kind of bugs me for some reason. Maybe I can't relate because I don't have a car (or live in Britain-- is it worse off there?), but I kind of want to say, "Yep... the price of gas is high...and?" It'd be like if I recorded a song called, "The Value of the Dollar" that went, "The dollar's getting weaker / The dollar's getting weaker... So fuckin' useless!
Otherwise, awesome record. Nabisco, I like your take: it's solid, but it doesn't have that, um, "urgency" or, er, "magic" that you get sense sometimes when you hear something fresh (the way I felt after I picked up Arcade Fire). That doesn't mean it's bad. The Stylus review pumped me up ("I belive in this!"), but it didn't last... It's still my favorite thing to come this year so far.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
That said, I like the song.
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm just starting to get burned out on anything remotely mid-'80s-UK-ish
Trust me, Go West weren't all that.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not remotely to see that young Nedric likes it; 'cos what it probably reminds me of more than anything else is Pornography-era Cure.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm still waiting to have my epiphany and love it like everyone else, but at this point, it's 6/10 and no more.
― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
i'll have to have a listen. you don't have any lyrics from it to hand?
i like this album a lot, but i can't help feeling that all the songs are melodically very very similar.
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:33 (nineteen years 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