Bloc Party: C/D?

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Uh, they did. They appear on various points on Silent Alarm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes but not nearly enough.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the icy strings (ugh cliche alert) on "Price of Gas" beg to differ

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

produced by Jacknife Lee

I really really really really really love the Jacknife Lee remix of Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet", but this virtually guarantees that this album is going to suck ass. Bloc Party do not need to be coaxed and massaged into sounding MORE like recent U2.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

it took seeing them play live for me to really begin to appreciate them and the album......looking forward to feb. 07

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"Price of Gas" is probably my second fave but it's still underwhelming.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Jacknife Lee is a murderer.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

my rubbish high school band sacked k3l3 for being rubbish

funny how things turn out eh

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i assumed this was a totally shitty run-of-the-mill british indie guitar band but then i heard the first track and it is fucking amazing! "banquet" does nothing to me but man, that first song - and "modern love". brilliant. the drumming's fantastic.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

A Weekend in the City is "out there" now (albeit in a low-qual 128-ish rip). Will take some time to digest, but I'm really liking it initially. More trickery with the guitar sonics going on, rhythm section as active as ever. The melodies and vocals could be a little sharper/catchy maybe, but I'm sure they'll sink in upon repeated listens.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Is "Waiting for the 718" any hookier in a non-shitty-crowd-recording version?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Who knows, I've consciously been avoiding the live recordings. It's not my favorite of the new songs, though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how 128kB/s is now being called low quality.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

It should be. People should have higher standards

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn right.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i think bloc party would be better if their singer didnt sound so dreary/wimpy/emo all the time. thats probably what makes them more interesting and commercially viable these days - that they have a post-coldplay-type of singer but the rhythm section is the opposite but still...

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Last year, driving in the car with a friend:

Me: (plays the CD by The Dears)
He: hey, this is nice!
Later:
Me: (plays the CD by Bloc Party)
He: hey, this is nice too!
Halfway through the CD:
He: do you only like singers who want to be Robert Smith?

:-/

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow it's a bit Muse (the new one)

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

all right only the first track

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Phew

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I just found a version of Silent Alarm online that consists of only the instrumental versions of all the songs on the album. OMG, it might even be better music without Kele singing on top of it!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

who's pr-ing this in the uk?
ta

― dh (djh), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Downloaded the new album based on hopes that all the Ligeti & Radiohead blabbering would actually translate to the music, but no. This is comically awful.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

haha my first comment on this thread seems like a lifetime ago

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I was really into Silent Alarm and this new record isn't doing shit for me.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno about PR specifically but Coalition do their management.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks

― dh (djh), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

FITE - John Lydon v Kele Okereke

― Upt0eleven, Monday, 21 July 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link

YSI?

Oh, it's not a collaboration. Nevermind.

― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link

He should have known bad luck was coming, what with his Mercury being in retrograde.

― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link

BREAKING NEWS: John Lydon is an unapproachable cunt.

― HI DERE, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link

while Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs and Yannis Philippakis of Foals attempted to fend off the attacker

Tragic and deplorable and all that, but this bit makes me lol.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Yannis? This Yannis?

http://www.ng-magazine.com/_images/thumbs/foalsy2_266x400.jpg

R.I.P. Yannis.

― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Funny how DiS misses out several key words from the account, which mysteriously appear in the equivalent NME piece, including "his entourage" (who made the alleged remarks) and "three of Lydon's associates" with whom the fight actually appears to have been fought.

As opposed to Lydon saying or doing any of these things himself, you understand.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link

Granted, but Lydon probably had the power to put a stop to things before they turned physical - which is pretty deplorable in and of itself. Not to be captain save a Bloc Party, but this is pretty disgusting no matter what level of involvement Mr. Lydon had.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link

and as I said on the other thread, Kele's quote seems to implicate J.Lydon directly.

Of course, him being a major star and all that (not sarc), he's going to get approached by people all the time. Especially in a public area like this.

― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I mean, god, wanting to ask him about a PIL reformation? Even though JLydon answered that question in a recent interview.

― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link

"the band the Pistols could've been"

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link

From DiS comments box

The 'black attitude' comment is also a brush to tar him with.

― DJ Mencap, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Then Lydon should sue his arse off (xxp).

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Wow, I was really excitable in 2004. In fairness, 2004/05 were the good Bloc Party years, as I can't imagine ever being this excited about them again.

Yes, I'm reviving threads I started to ridicule myself.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link

early singles, silent alarm and "two more years" are unmitigated classics

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah silent alarm is unfuckwithable imo

― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link

REAL TALK

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Intimacy was fantastic as well, just not on SA's level.

― Josh L, Saturday, 7 March 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link

anyone else going to their chicago show the 28?

― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Saturday, 7 March 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Bloc Party guitarist bitten by lion

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://www.nme.com/news/bloc-party/59460?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Lol. With the exception of AC/DC, has rebooting a band with a different singer ever worked?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link

Black Sabbath.

― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

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