DYLMLYS is this ridiculous pastiche of about 14 different ideas for other pop songs and perhaps a couple of advertising jingles all crammed together drunk at 4AM with lyrics that make a passing reference to TTD's g/f having daddy issues. And dragons.
Neon Messiah is organs-and-brass bombast married to college lyrics and this half-demented clav funk line. I can't decide which is more exciting, this or 'She Kissed Me' - I think NM probably loses because the ending is kind of a useless fadeout, where SKM pans and flanges everywhere while fading out. Whoo hoo, right? It works for me.
Penelope Please is worth it for one thing and one thing only - "PEN-EL-O-PE PLEEAAASSE" *twaaaanngg!!!*Fucking brilliant.
The second part of the album - in which TTD makes the fine decision to put all of the slow songs on tracks 10-16 and finishing with 'Let Her Down Easy' - there's a couple of things worth listening to, but on the whole, nothing beats the above, at least for my hard-earned beer money. LHDE might be a hell of a ballad and a nice narrative but EH. Pianos and storytellin' != why I buy pop albums.
TTD has his handle on a lot of great noises on this record - you can tell he spent plenty of time flipping through the presets on his synths and such, and while there aren't quite as many meaningless flourishes as I'd like on an album of this sort, there are certainly plenty of things you can't imagine hearing on another record, ever, except as a tribute or a gag. Whether this makes TTD unique or just stupid is up to you.
I'm probably going to regret this, aren't I? Fuck it.
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 9 June 2003 04:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
"Wishing Well" is a top tune. I didn't care for the rest of that album myself, though I remember seeing him do the best version of "The First Cut Is The Deepest" I've ever heard--of many--on telly around that time.
― M Specktor (M Specktor), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
a) being too much of a pretty boyb) saying that his first album was better than sgt peppers. apparently its ok for the gallaghers to talk shit about the beatles but not terencec) supposedly being too arrogant. like thats a bad thing.
that said, he made some truly brilliant songs, some great albums (pretentiousness - whatever), and possessed one of the greatest voices of the past 20 years.
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
well, if i had kept them i guess i'd have to hide them in the sofa or something.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― yeahyeahyeah (yeahyeahyeah), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
The remainder are very sillie indeed.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leelee, Monday, 29 November 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Hah yes, I'm pretty sure I have the 7"!
― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
That acapella track near the end of the 1st album killed me (in a bad way). & I'd listen to Vibrator & Fishykins A LOT. Never heard Symphony.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
1) is called Welcome To My Monasteryo2) starts with the voice of sultry Terence saying the line3) builds to a choir repeating the same line, with a diva giving it all in the background4) is 30 seconds long
Which sets an appropriate pomposity level for the rest of the album.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
xxxtra Mpls jazz punk cred: Dave King, local drummer extraordinaire (Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Love Cars, sometimes 12 Rods, FKG, shitloads of bands) drummed for TTD on tour for awhile (or at least so I'm told, but I tend to believe it)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
i still have not heard symphony or damn and desperately want to
but the vinyl of hardline is really great and this album is totally a gem.
is it "underrated" if it's well-received critically but pretty much forgotten by the general public? or does that make it "lost"? or is "lost" too high falutin a term (that TTD would no doubt approve of)?"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
only 12 million people bought it, but every one of them started a neo-soul band.
i love the hardline. an important part of the soundtrack to my freshman-sophomore years at college.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: "Lost" works. And ITHL is certainly one of the Top 10 albums of the '80s (I'd put it in the top 3 myself). Haven't heard enough of NFNF or SOD to say anything about them, but I loved much of Wildcard!, especially "Shadows."
And I think both of these statements from the top of the thread are true:
maybe he's happy now
he assumed that, having had a hit record, he now got to do whatever struck him as interesting
― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
And I think both of these statements from the top of the thread are true:maybe he's happy now
How do you know that? Given comments made upthread -- e.g., ''Poor guy, when he fell, he fell hard'' -- I assumed otherwise, and felt badly about his circumstances.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Symphony or Damn was not just one of the best albums of its year, but one of the great neo-Prince records. And you can find it cheap in used bins across the land.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree, and it's really not my sort of thing at all.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Craig David on ITV's woeful Guilty Pleasures show on Saturday tackling "If You Let Me Stay"...oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
From what I've read in interviews over the years, he doesn't seem to mind how it all turned out or that he's not topping the charts anymore.
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 13 March 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Lenny Kravitz kind of stole his MTV mojo.
― Eazy, Thursday, 13 March 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:03 PM
I have been looking for like a year and can't find it!
Need to keep looking I guess.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 March 2008 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet you can find it for a buck or a penny on Amazon.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 13 March 2008 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
at last!
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/04/catch_of_the_day_neither_fish.html
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The entire album is the sound of a great talent unburdened by doubt
I initially misread that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
as?
― elan, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ive not kept up to date with TTD's music since wildcard (which had one amazing song what should i do, in spite of the so-so guitar solo on it) but im interested to know what hes up to these days.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I love NFnF but I work with some people unburdened by doubt and believe me it's not that great.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
its not important if THEY are unburdened by doubt.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there are hints of Danger Mouse's controlled madness in the production
lol reference point
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, dangermouse is the only black producer making any good music these days. he is the best black producer ever.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"If You Let Me Stay" is IMMENSE.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 07:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Sure is!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
This album needs more love. Is good.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I had this weird dream that "She Kissed Me" was a children's playground song that went something like
Terence Trent D'arby's "She kissed Me" could be reworked as a naughty kid's song
"She kissed me(Where?)She kissed me THERELike no one else had kissed me there(Yes, but WHERE? She kissed you WHERE?)She kissed me neath my underwear!"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
Err oops didnt remove part of orig post. Bleh.
Always loved this dudes voice
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
The new album, Prometheus & Pandora, is a 53-track smorgasbord of rock, funk, soul, jazz and psych, “written, arranged, produced, performed & conceived by Sananda Maitreya”
― Eazy, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Happy birthday!. He rules.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link
She Kissed Me is totally a fav
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
She put it THERE.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
She kissed me there(She kissed you where?)Down here!(Down where?)ON MY FUCKIN' DICK, Jesus why you had to make me say it?!
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
That 2017 interview is interesting in that he doesnt blame the music press at all for trying to take him down. Nor does he cite race much. Weird that hes described as part native American and Celtic but not African American! He was a dick tbh,kind of overplaying the rock star attitude too much, but I loved his music. That second album is classic if you ask me. Intrigued to hear the 53 song double album but idk if I really have the patience.
― candyman, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:16 (three years ago) link
But his interview patter is not much better. In the 80s it was all hubris and cock sure, now it's just cryptics, fogging and arcane. Idk which is better.
― candyman, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:18 (three years ago) link
SYMPHONY OR DAMN is one of the very best albums of the 90's. I'd love to see a reissue of it (and his other work)
― beamish13, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Is Introducing the Hard Line… out of print? Couldn't find it on Apple Music.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
(never mind; they have it under Compilations for some reason)
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
i continue to listen to his new work every now and again and it always has things to recommend it and runs long.first few albums are unassailable gold.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
looks like there's a new album out next weekhttps://www.sanandamaitreya.com/product/pandoras-playhouse-2cd-audio/another double.
not heard his new music since wildcard tbh.
― candyman, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
I can recommend Return to Zooathalon
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
I've wondered where to start with the newer stuff. He sounds incredible on that Avalanches song.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
It's about time of year for me to play "Let's Go Forward" on repeat.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
Did not know he worked with the avalanches. Cool.
― candyman, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
"Neither Fish ... " : still sounds immense.his other major labels albums are good, but nothing comes close to the insanity of this.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
the sonic insanity vs the beauty of melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7KFRbbuoQ
― mark e, Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
I say upthread about getting the cassette in Turkey, but more recently I got the cd of Fish and there's nothing wrong with it.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link