this song has apparently sold over half a million copies in this past week
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Gotye-adjacent I guess - just realised one of his touring band members is Tim Shiel aka Faux Pas/Time Shield who does pretty, glitchy, sample-heavy electronica with throwbacks to proggy 70's jams and 80's funk and such.
Most of it is hit-or-miss but I really liked this from a few years ago - basically filled the magical space that Lindstrom vacated after WYGIGT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ind7lEURo2Q
― Roz, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
i actually did give gotye a chance. i watched SNL on dvr last night and found it pretty good/charming
at first i didn't want to like him because he looks like the junkie musician dude i hate on Treme
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
just realised one of his touring band members is Tim Shiel aka Faux Pas/Time Shield
thats p rad!! so is chakis story
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
listening to this...some real clever, tasteful old school studio sesssionman bass playing on this record
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:20 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol @ this
― some former lust object you've shamefully forgotten (some dude), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
album cover looks like art that they would have on the walls of a dentist office when i was a kid
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/04/gotye_shows_up_at_sf_pub_trivi.php
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
That is so perfect and ridiculous. In the best way!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
such a good story
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
$10 says he lurks here
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
aw cuet! chaki!
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
wtg chakster
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
First Australian act to hit #1 in the U.S. since ... Savage Garden?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_by_Australian_artists_which_reached_number-one_on_the_Hot_100_%28USA%29
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Torn" didn't hit number one?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, and INXS only had one number one?
Torn never made it to the main Billboard Hot 100 because of those crazy rules involving the Airplay Chart.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
About which:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/gotye_somebody_that_i_used_to_know_no_1_billboard.php
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
That is a great piece, diligently digging into the data to draw some interesting conclusions.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah chris was telling me about the piece yesterday, very excited to dig into it now
― lathe darkman (some dude), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty excellent
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so used to reading opinion pieces that it's a real treat to see some proper, painstaking research.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
man i need to check for chris molanphy more often, that's great stuff
― goole, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Dude's a statistical hero!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
This is why Dick Clark had to die.
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Molanphy's the best.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I mentioned this to him the other day, and he was like "Already working on it!"
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
LOL at headline
http://jezebel.com/5901437/americas-number-one-pop-song-reads-like-a-crap-email-from-a-dude
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
For the first time the top two songs are sung by two men whose voices repel me.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
LOL at article, too
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Chris is one of the handful of guys I know who read (a) read Paul Grein (b) read Paul Grein's column before glancing at the charts.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
too many reads
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
it's a good piece, but there's an alternative theory that chris didn't really explore: millenials are getting older and more interested in the kind of adult-pop boomers liked as they got older. I don't hear "alternative" here, I hear Don McLean & the Outfield. While he hints at it later in the piece, it's possible the songs are more pop songs that cross-over to the piddly remainder of alternative rock radio than vica versa.
admittedly my perspective is tainted by the fact that I think both these songs are barf.
― da croupier, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it isn't nostalgia talking when I claim "All That Money Wants" and "Peek a Boo" are more outré than anything coughed up by the late nineties modern rock chart.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Jezebel article reads song correctly, lambastes song as if it did that by accident
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
I imagine an Al Smith type pronouncing it GOI-TUH.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of stupid that Jezebel felt the need to write a female rebuttal to Gotye's lyrics in "Someone" since that's what the 2nd verse of the fucking song
― some dude, Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
is
Wow, how have I never come across Paul Grein until now.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Even worse was the "oh I knew about the rebuttal in the 2nd verse, honest" comment the author posted after other commenters politely pointed out that this was a remarkably thick article.
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
Finally heard this on a Top 40 radio station, but it's a different mix than the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNcToysajw
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
@ Gotye's US label
"This won't work on radio""Can we...make it sound more like late nineties Sting?""Jackpot!"
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
Probably because he writes for Yahoo! and most of us don't usually turn there for quality writing about anything, much less music.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
this song sucks
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
For most of the eighties and nineties he wrote "Chart Beat" for Billboard though -- chart nonsense for non-sports nerds.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
Pre-Fred Bronson?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
mais oui!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
rong
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link