Corey Haim should be pronounced hi-yem too you know
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 10 January 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
i know i'm blowing some minds here
IT'S NOT PRONOUNCED HI-YEM, GAWDDDDD
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 January 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
has the new Dan Lissvik remix been posted anywhere? http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/blog/listen-haim-x-dan-lissvik-send-me-down-115804 p nice
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 12 January 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know but props to piscesx for anticipating their name change to all-caps
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 13 January 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
I can't let go of this absurd, meritocratic, utopian ideal - which never existed - of radio programmers hearing a really good catchy song and playlisting it without worrying about where it fits in. It's the poptimist Brigadoon.― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, January 4, 2013 10:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, January 4, 2013 10:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think if ILM will have made one important contribution to the world, it will prove to be the phrase "poptimist Brigadoon"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
creatively bankrupt nJewish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
(correction)
also isn't it pronounced hy-em as in "l'chaim!"
also also, in re. dan's point about siblings harmonizing beautifully, exhibit A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70NTMplUlfw
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
also chairlift is a good point of comparison but i feel caroline has some kind of art-school visionary thing going on that's absent from haim.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
i'm relieved at the total absence of art-school visionariness going on w/HAIM, it's one of the things i like best about them
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
We have 6music on the office and both 'I Belong In Your Arms' and 'Don't Save Me' were both playlisted and consequently played like six times a day. The Haim song definitely made people prick up their ears here in a way the Chairlift song didn't.
I quite like 'I Belong In Your Arms' but it's one of those 'great pop songs' that's filtered through an 90s indie disco prism, and yeah the art-school thing, whereas the Haim song bypasses all of that.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
I am totally onboard with this lot now by the way, I think it was hearing 'Slow Me Down' that did it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
That's a really good point - the old dichotomy of "perfect pop" vs actually popular pop. I love both so I sometimes have problems realising which is which.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
guys this is fresh
https://soundcloud.com/haimtime/haim-send-me-down-dan-lissvik/s-c7OL8
― zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Not mad about that remix, which reminds me too much of 80s Euro summer holiday disco hits for comfort. I kept expecting them to burst into La Dolce Vita.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
that is pretty poppy for lissvik! love it.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Lissvik has definitely been out raving more of late, his Mungolian Jet Set remix is really upbeat as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't mean to set up a competition b/t haim and chairlift, much less some kind of "perfect pop" vs. actual pop debate. there's room for both. caroline from chairlift is whip-smart in a way that codes, i think, as precocious and a bit arch and that persona/sensibility is something you can sense even in "i belong in your arms" and probably keeps it from being genuinely as opposed to semi-popular.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
ah the old "whip-smart"
― r|t|c, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
???
does that read as sexist or something?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
would you prefer "smart as a whip"?
i mean i'd describe, i dunno, hal hartley the same way.
Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Don't Save Me feels like its coming from a similar place to Francis and the Lights, of whom I am a stan.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
although emotionally more flat and less unhinged
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
more hinged?
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure I need much beyond Don't Save Me, but that new Lissvik mix is pretty cool imo.
― Two days left to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:45 AM (40 minutes ago)
hurting i cant remember if ive ever seen a wdyll of you or not but whenever you post i picture you as a dude who looks like francis, albeit one w/ less dramatic hair
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
that's not a far fetched description of me
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
maybe slightly less dramatically svelte also
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
xp I referred to a man as whip-smart in a piece the other day. I've never thought of it as gendered in the way that "sassy" is.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 18 January 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of do. cf "Sharp as a tack".
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 January 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
I basically only hear it used about women, and usually attractive women. I always detect a slight "you'll never guess, she's intelligent as well, I'm so proud of her!" in the term.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 January 2013 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
fit as a butcher's dog
― owenf, Friday, 18 January 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
I've never read any gender association into either "whip-smart" or "sharp as a tack", though the term "whip-smart" now always makes me immediately think of Liz Phair.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 January 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
likewise
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
yup.
― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Friday, 18 January 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
i just thought "whip-smart" was a cliché rather than a specifically gendered cliché
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
pre-Liz Phair examples of the phrase "whip smart" from lexis nexis:
1. Comic relief saves July cable lineupSt. Petersburg Times (Florida), July 4, 1989, Tuesday, City Edition, FLORIDIAN; Cable;, 375 words, Thomas B. Harrison ... director Ron Shelton. Whip-smart and funny, with a solid ... 2. Critics recommend 'Jones' for fun-seekersOrange County Register (California), May 26, 1989 Friday, 647 words ... In his third adventure, whip-smart archeologist Indiana Joneshas to ... 3. A BLESSING IN REPRISE // 'Eleemosynary' explores familiar women's themesSt. Petersburg Times (Florida), May 26, 1989, Friday, City Edition, WEEKEND; Pg. 24, 1133 words, THOMAS B. HARRISON ... fear of intimacy. Artie's whip-smart daughter, Echo (actually ... 4. CONNECTICUT OPINION; Thank You, Mark TwainThe New York Times, April 30, 1989, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section 12CN; Page 30, Column 3; Connecticut Weekly Desk, 667 words, By Ed McNamara; Ed McNamara lives in Stamford. ... infallible memory of some whip-smart computer in the publisher's ... 5. All this sex can mean just one thing: it's sweeps timeThe San Diego Union-Tribune, February 4, 1989 Saturday, ENTERTAINMENT; Pg. B-13, 959 words, GREG JOSEPH ... Starletta DuPois); Lena's whip-smart daughter Beneatha (Kim ... 6. 'Silent Night': a quiet baring of soulsSt. Petersburg Times (Florida), October 19, 1988, Wednesday, City Edition, FLORIDIAN; Theater Review; Pg. 1D, THOMAS B. HARRISON ... Peter Joseph, as Katherine's whip-smart son. Director Sanders (To ... 7. 'Fourth Protocol' is first choice on cableSt. Petersburg Times (Florida), July 2, 1988, Saturday, City Edition, FLORIDIAN; ON CABLE; Pg. 3D, THOMAS B. HARRISON ... efficiency expert (Tracy) and the whip-smart researcher (Hepburn) he woos and ... 8. Perretti's; Win, place or just show, N.J. spot is good grazingCrain's New York Business, October 27, 1986, RESTAURANT REVIEW; Pg. 48, 622 words, By BOB LAPE, SPECIAL TO CRAINS' NEW YORK BUSINESS ... 22), and Oscar, a whip-smart young captain, filets the ... 9. Nino's Grill; Bruno's upstairs annex triumphs with light ItalianCrain's New York Business, October 20, 1986, RESTAURANT REVIEW; Pg. 28, 634 words, By BOB LAPE, SPECIAL TO CRAINS' NEW YORK BUSINESS ... at Nino's Grill is the whip-smart young Ted Anderson ( ... 10. WHEN EMPIRES COLLIDE: Fierce battle threatened when the Reichmanns' expansion drive bumped into the BronfmansThe Financial Post (Toronto, Canada), October 4, 1986, Saturday,, 2186 words, Peter Foster ... Jack Cockwell, a whip-smart South African-born ... 11. Slow Going in 'Beverly Hills'The Washington Post, December 7, 1984, Friday, Final Edition, Weekend; Weekend at the Movies; Pg. 39, 330 words, Rita Kempley ... puts Foley, a whip-smart, Motor City Dirty ... 12. Comedy With Class; The Creative Spark Behind CBS' 'Kate & Allie'The Washington Post, March 19, 1984, Monday, Final Edition, Style; TV Preview; C1, 1168 words, By Tom Shales ... for a classy, whip-smart sitcom, and she brings her special ... 13. The managers; a gallery of notable and quotable newsmaking executives.Dun's Business Month, January 1, 1984, Pg. p113(2), 1355 words ... more than $300,000, whip-smart Vanderslice--who holds ... 14. The Duke's DownfallNewsweek, October 2, 1978, UNITED STATES EDITION, NATIONAL AFFAIRS; Pg. 50, 1040 words, DON HOLT with PHYLLIS MALAMUD in Boston and bureau reports ... Massachusetts defeated a whip-smart, attractive and moderately liberal ...
― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Friday, 18 January 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
any adjective applied to indiana jones has got to be a compliment
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
even if it is a pun
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 19 January 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of wish I hadn't watched that interview with them. I mostly like their songs, but find their personalities pretty annoying.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 February 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
OK so
http://stereogum.com/1258291/haim-falling/mp3s/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Like it. (I also found them personally okay when watching a short documentary about them, so maybe they just get into some sort of annoying mode in some interviews.)
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
they are super charming imo, wkiw
― een, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
DRUMS
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
Feeling like Bryan Ferry would admire the instrumental framework for Falling. Somehow the solo Bryan Ferry comparison is jumping out at me, when I'm sure there are much closer comparisons to be drawn. This is way too peppy for solo Bryan Ferry (post- like mid-70s). Maybe it's the use of real instruments to create a very polished, piece of pop with a bit of a dance beat.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Now we need to get Bryan Ferry interested in music.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link