Bloc Party: C/D?

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The "Banquet" video is almost painfully emo.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Their shoelaces even more so.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Emo done RIGHT. (Or at least righter.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

DUD

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Agreed. BritMo >>>> AmMo. I want to like Death Cab and listen to it lots. But I don't. Whereas I've had Silent Alarm on an iPod loop since my purchase a month ago [got me the un-stickered UK version].

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Assuming I'm ready to concede that Bloc Party is emo.

Which I'm not.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Have we talked about how much the singer sounds like Damon Albarn?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahaha, man! That's a wondrous/frightening vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

obviously you guys have yet to hear the Dears.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

*searches* hmm, i was wrong

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Back to their alleged "ghost (song)writing" - the US version doesn't say "All songs written by Bloc Party" on the inside cover of the CD booklet like the UK version?

Perhaps there is no spoon.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

The north american release's songs are not written by bloc party. Vice recs claims they're by dfa1979 with lyrics by mike skinner.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Dears sound quite different to me.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm only talking about the damon albarn-ness. which i don't even remotely hear in bloc party.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I just checked out Allmusic, and they claim the US version has remixes from M83, Mogwai and Four Tet, and drops "Little Thoughts," which is the first I've heard of it...is this true, or another case of Allmusic being bizarrely misinformed (like when they claimed that !!!'s Louden Up Now came with a bonus disc of clean radio mixes)?

Because if so, that's kind of awesome. I didn't like "Little Thoughts" much anyway, and if the M83 remix is half as bombastic as his stuff on Before the Dawn Heals Us it'll more than make up for the loss...

― Telephonething, Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a mistake. The JP version has those remixes.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

little thoughts isn't on the album, either is tulips

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Little Thoughts is track 10 on the US version.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link

is the US 14 tracks? or did they turf something else off?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Nope, 14 tracks. Vice just threw "Little Thoughts" right into the middle of the album.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Well damn. At least there's a cheap domestic single for "Tulips" to slap together the "complete" Silent Alarm, as it were.

And in this month's Urb, they mention a remix album to be released later this year, so hopefully those mixes will be attainable (aside from the usual channels).

(for what it's worth, Sa-Ra mention in the same issue that they're at work on a Radiohead remix, but I'm too lazy to find the S-Ra thread...)

― Telephonething, Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I put Banquet in the middle of a mix cd for a friend and she was wonder if the singer was "that guy from Blur." So Spencer definitely has some allies in that opinion.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm fully willing to accept that I'm the victim of some horrible manipulation, but this is the first record I've listened to more than 2x in a row since Slanted and Enchanted. 5x in fact. And I didn't have the anticipation for it that I did for the Pavement after Perfect Sound Forever. I feel completely blindsided by this disc (in a good way), and I gave up trying to scrutinize it for cheesery around listen #3.

― southern lights, Monday, 28 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

what a totally uncompelling band.

― f--gg (gcannon), Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i completely agree f--gg, nothing long lasting or interesting about these guys. when I first heard it I thought it sounded like a h ipster version of Blink 182

― breezy, Thursday, 31 March 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay, backlash!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not backlash if I never liked it! i've been hat'n on it from the beginning! hollah!

― breezy, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Banquet" is catchy enough. It's a good thing to hear on the radio.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought it sounded like a h ipster version of Blink 182

Hehe. My editor at the OC Weekly said the same thing, which leads me to think that the hipsters have it right. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Blink 182 have songs like This Modern Love or Pioneers?

Considering half of ILX has been totally down with The Busteds for some time now "its a bit like Blink 182" is not the best stick to beat them with.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

SO FUCKING EMO

drummers = rockist

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

i'm not really a fan, but at coachella everyone flocked to their set. the tent was COMPLETELY packed ot the point that no one else could fit in and started to sit on the oustide of the tent to listen. The crowd went ballistic unlike any of the other acts I saw - when the singer said clap, EVERYBODY clapped. It was pretty impressive.

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

....having got the Futureheads and the Bloc Party at basically the same time (yeah yeah...behind the curve), I can't help but compare them:

Futureheads >>>>>>>> BP

That being said: Banquet is fucking great. But not quite as good as Carnival Kids or Hounds of Love

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

they're hyped as being very well read, so i was disappointed to hear lyrics that could've been written by a 12y old. but this is an "emotional" band i suppose so the lyrics are imbued with an unthinking earnestness?

i do like this band, including the remixes (mogwai, four tet, m83) and almost all the b-sides. they just need time to mature to come up with a more varied, insightful follow up. so c/d too early to tell.

― Aaron Ef. (aaron ef.), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i do like this band, including the remixes (mogwai, four tet, m83)

Good lord, I'm even more sold, then. (Well except for Four Tet, they're just sorta there.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

NYC gave us Interpol
London gave us Bloc Party

Norway gives us: The Beautiful People

download tracks via this blog:
http://mysteryandmisery.com/article/420/the-beautiful-people

Listen to the track: "So This is Suicide"

already booked for the Sonar Festival and Reading Festival - The Beautiful People are my next big tip!

a wall of sound psychdelic guitars with effects, precision drumming, synths plus a vocalist with a strong passionate delivery.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

So yeah.. I really hated these guys for a good year or so, mainly because Kele Okkererelekek's voice was just really shrill and grating to me, but it's 'grown on me' (perhaps because it's been being shoved down my throat these passed few months? We shall never know), and I gave them another chance.. and I found that the guitarist is absolutey excellent.. sort of a Jonny Greenwood meets Robert Fripp meets J. Mascis sound. They're just really tight instrumentally.. I picked up the record a few days ago and it's all I've been listening to. So.. yeah.. it's a bit to early to say C/D, but they're off to a great start.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I now no longer like Silent Alarm. Instead, I flat out love it to bits. More coherent thoughts on my return from Europe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Whiny whine...wino.
I like the Clap Hands Say Yeah lead singer, even when completely inarticulate, better than Bloc Party's lead. I haven't even listened to the whole album because I cannot get past the first few songs without sighing, "this is just a waste of time..." There are too many other good releases to linger on Bloc Party.

That said, the band could step it up on the next release. They're young enough to change. (Oh, one piece of advice, drop the "Hey...Hey...Heys" and that type shit, please.)

Did we beat this to death yet! I hope I've helped.

― Meehan Ah Um (Meehan Ah Um), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Remix album due end of August, pretty good. Occasionally shows up Kele's voice though.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

new single ALERT!
"two more years". it was previewed on BBC last week (they say so on their web). did you hear it? did anybody grab it?
what the title means? do they want their stardom prevail 2 more yrs?

― karl76 (karl76), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's terrible.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Not so into it on first listen.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It's one of the year's best: the first of the postpunk influenced bands to get the parts right yet keep their own DNA intact.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Alfred's right. As good as BP was before, they've just leapfrogged themselves and all their peers.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

For some reason I just kept avoiding this release. Finally I decide to take the plunge. What a great cd it is! Definitely one of the best of 05.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

it's september 2006 and I am STILL LOVING THIS ALBUM. much more staying power than I ever would've imagined.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't the new one supposed to come out soon?

I appreciate the fact that they just keep touring, and am annoyed I missed the midsummer trip through LA due to previous commitments.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

wiki sez:

The band is currently putting the finishing touches to their second album, rumoured to be called A Weekend In The City. The album is due for release in February 2007, and is being produced by Jacknife Lee. In a recent interview, Kele Okereke revealed that the new album will be based around the theme of city life and will contain tracks titled 'Waiting For The 7.18', 'Uniform', 'Perfect Teens'(formerly Machine), 'England' (formerly Blue Moon) and 'Song For Clay' (formerly Merge On The Freeway). Whilst the band have also recorded 'Kreuzberg' and We Were Lovers (formerly Cells Shaped Like Stars), they may not appear on the new album.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(which, if all goes according to plan, I will be bumping this thread sometime in fall of 2008 to sing the praises of)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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