new bloc party album - a weekend in the city

OTM - I am currently trying to Google the lyrics to the b-side (cheap shot, maybe) of the 'Prayer' single. They are mind-blowing, seriously.

Bury the thoughts that resurface
Those hands were mine

And now our love has been forgotten
Like it was never there
We're just sitting here like strangers
You gave me yourself for just a little while
But it was you, it was really you

Staring into my coffee
It is not black just a shade of brown
Too scared to let our eyes meet
What will we see?

And now our love has been forgotten...

And now our love has been forgotten...

The space between us
Will not be beat
Oceans and past lives
We were lovers

I haven't really got much time for girls
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just my nights are occupied with lighting
These damn lamps
???
Oh, and night's a time for courting for girls
Night's a time for courting for girls
Isn't it?

I've been propositioned by girls before
On me lamp rounds
Oh yes, I have
But I'm at pains to explain it's not my line of trade
Buying flowers and chocolate mice
It's just the thought of commitment's totally wild
Any sort of commitment's out of order
Isn't it?

I've had some girls come up to me
Who said it won't take that long
Just a quick one up the back
One for the road
And I'm at pains to explain I'm not that type of guy
Send the sulking (?) bitches on their way

I seem to have a lot more time for guys
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just their wit and charm and conversation
Captures youth and that's the truth
Oh and youth's the time when cares traipse free...

I've had some girls come up to me
Who said it won't take that long
Just a quick one up the back
One for the road
And I'm at pains to explain I'm not that type of guy
Send the sulking (?) bitches on their way

not a good review, but the berlin wall reference is kind of alarming!

At Les Trois Garcons
we meet at precisely 9 o'clock.
I order the foie gras
and I eat it with complete disdain.

Don't order the fucking foie gras then, you tit.

I'd have bitched about (and paid more attention to) the lyrics so much more if the production wasn't so hideous.

i always thought it was 'slack-jawed bitches'.

he's paraphrased an old un-used richey edwards lyric on one track too.

manics fans will know it when they hear it.

00Trent (2 weeks ago)
Like all their song's there is a great message. fantastic band.
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we've talked about about sutherland here for me to feel justified in asking if anyone knows what he is up to. cassidy came out in.. 2001?

In many ways this is exactly what I want modern slightly arty rock music to sound like but Kele drags it down with his bad singing and atrocious lyrics - This Is Not Home epitomises the whole problem really. Vocally at least, most of the songs use exactly the same melodic melodic tics, like Kele's sort of fumbling around in search of a tune.

i finally got a chance to listen to this loud in my car/hear the songs live and s0uthall is otm about how terribly produced this is. the guitars on the bottoms of the non-ballads are just hideous noise.

still one of the 4-5 best rock records released this year i think, but christ jacknife lee.

bottom*

man these guys fell off the planet pretty fast. being as dull as your music in interviews does not seem to be a winning strategy.

prob the only album i insist on playing god with but the b-sides are so much better than at least half of what made the album, particularly "cain said to abel" and "rhododendrons," the latter of which is prob kele's least embarrassing attempt to assess the themes of weekend

"kreuzberg" is prob my favorite bloc party song though

what's the brad version tracklist

1. song for clay
2. cain said to abel
3. waiting for the 7.18
4. we were lovers
5. rhododendrons
6. on
7. uniform
8. kreuzberg
9. i still remember
10. sunday
11. england
12. sxrt

recently revised (i had "selfish son" in there but felt it brought down the pacing, and decided I actually really like "uniform") and not thoroughly road-tested but i'm pretty confident this is 1000000x better than the released version

that tracklist looks great, really no idea how they managed to leave off Rhondodendrons and England especially, Rhondodendrons has to be one of my absolute favourites by them. I'm not huge on We Were Lovers and might take Selfish Son or Hunting for Witches over it but I understand how there's enough of those slow burn tracks like Selfish Son on it already

it's such a weird album, a lot of little awkward bits bring it down more than anything else, especially Kele's inability to write lyrics to fit his melodies

The Prayer has to be one of the worst attempts at 'incorporating an R&B influence' by an indie band ever lol - the beat is so awkward and impossible to move in any way to, but even then the chorus is still good

thx brad, I'll give er a shot. always found this album baffling

Now, y'see, the only change that I would make to the original album would be to remove 'Sunday' ...

... I know this album has some - to put it mildly - awkward lyrics, but I like this album and I've always liked this album, and even find parts of it ('Kreuzberg', 'SRXT') very moving. I think the bands heart was in the right place on this record.

'The Prayer' sounds more goth influenced to me than R&B influence. The synth in the chorus has Cure written all over it and the rhythms sound more to me like an up to date take on the kind of tribal rhythms that goth bands liked to use in the early '80s.

*influenced

Strongly agree that "England" should have been on the album proper.

Listened to this album repeatedly at the time, but hardly gone back to in in the last ten yers.

"sunday"'s lyrics are super dumb but the melody is so sweet