― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I hate you. (A lie.)
This gives me a half chance to talk about what is actually my fave obscure track from Them Early 80s which fits into that vein, Paul Gardiner's "Stormtrooper in Drag." He was Gary Numan's bassist for a long time and Numan wrote and sang the lyrics (as one can guess from the title alone, really), and it's an extremely disconcerting, fascinating result.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
It's that feel which I'd like to see Junior Boys go for a bit more. Oddly the one track on the album that really feels a bit like it is "More Than Real", the way the groove just plays out at the end.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah wait, he did also say this! He apparently just heard Slowdive's Pygmalion for the first time and was blown away. That to my mind sounds very promising in terms of what he could do with that sound.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Jeremy.
― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
"Under the Sun" now playing and Jordan is a crack-smoker. There.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Too much of the soundtrack to the 80s remix of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and not enough Timbaland.
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I agree w/ Jordan to the extent that I generally prefer the more R&B-ish tracks.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― etc, Friday, 8 October 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
btw - pleased to hear you're still enjoying the album, ned
― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Sunday, 24 October 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― nick.K (nick.K), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Ratatat was surprisingly good, seeing as I hated them the last time I saw them. Maybe it was because I was farther back in the crowd. and dancing.
and was it me, or did Mouse on Mars just break it fucking open after the first 3 songs? About the time where they said they'd play something with more rhythm, it became absolutely incredibly fun.
and there definitely wasn't enough dancing.
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― biznotic, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
"Opening the show is Canadian duo Junior Boys, whose debut album, Last Exit (Domino/KIN), fuses mopey indie-pop vocals to spare synth melodies and fractured microhouse beats. The songs sound to me like minimal Timbaland remixes of obscure Pet Shop Boys tunes—and that’s not a compliment."
Come on! In what world does Timbaland remixing the Pet Shop Boys not sound awesome???
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― tk, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
That said the Timbaland tracks Junior Boys theoretically take their cues from are like five years old.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Although really if you're gonna be strict about it I always thought a 2-step connection was easier to make out than a clear and distinct Timbaland connection - Steve Gurley particularly.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Everyone quotes it a lot but I love that line in "Deliverance", "Solid on the surface as I crumble within/but legends are made out of vulnerable men"
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Definitely more of a Neptunes man. That Kenna album is something else, innit, even if it was recorded three years ago.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah good! You and Dan and I can form a united front against Scott Seward on this matter. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link