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― System, Sunday, 7 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Damaged Goods"!
― ksh, Sunday, 7 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
There really isn't a duff song on the whole album and it was tight for me to give the vote to "I Found that Essence Rare". That song is really catchy and I always loved the lines about the bikini. My favorite GOF tune is "What We All Want", that one is a heck of a groove.
― earlnash, Sunday, 7 March 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"Damaged Goods" is my pick but i wish i had time to listen before actually casting my vote.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 7 March 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Natural's Not In It vs. Damaged Goods!!!!!!!!!!
hard!!!!!!
― Ivan, Sunday, 7 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Damaged Goods, always nice when I agree with Alex/NYC, once a year or so. :)
― jon abbey, Sunday, 7 March 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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― System, Monday, 8 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Damaged Goods 18
ILX OTM
― called something like Hoppy Polar by Ziggy Ross (ksh), Monday, 8 March 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
She posts her thoughts on Facebook
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Thursday, 25 March 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
She tweets her mind on Twitter
Why put your brain on Facebook
You give your self a MIND FUCK
― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Thursday, 25 March 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Sometimes this is all about Jon and Andy, and then there's the times when all I can focus on is Dave and Hugo.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 April 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
....which is why I'm still in two minds whether to go next week as there's no Hugo or Dave.
Not Great Men
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 23 April 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
It's said that this album was recorded without reverb, overdubs etc - is this true? I found this quote:
We wanted the songs to be authentic and capture a moment in time with no decoration or overdubs or tracking or FX. We argued a lot about not using any outboard effect that might colour the performance in a misleading way so that what we did was real. - Jon King
He doesn't actually say that this album WAS, in the end recorded without overdubs, tracking or FX, just that they wanted it to be and argued about it. Yet there are signs of overdubs and reverb. eg. on Damaged Goods the first iteration of "your sweat so sour" sounds drier that the same line later on - yet supposedly recorded under identical circumstances. Then the same song has multiple vocal lines towards the end which must've been tracked.
― everything, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
Using compression during recording, a vocal phrase closer to the mic will sound drier than one at greater distance, with more room acoustics.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 21 May 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
crabbiness ftw
― j., Thursday, 10 September 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
xps that's a very silly notion of authenticity, especially coming from Marxists. However silly notions of authenticity firmly held often produce great records.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 10 September 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
i wonder, the deadpan affect is not unlike wire's but without thinking about it any i would classify wire's as an arty affectation and gof's as just the way they are
― j., Friday, 10 February 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
You mean the speak-sing vocals?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 February 2017 04:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah
i know they sound more enthusiastic/shouty at times, but when they're at their more speaky
― j., Friday, 10 February 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
I'd probably figure it was just staying in what they knew they could do with their voice over those grooves. Devo, PIL Second Edition and Kraftwerk had similar vocals going on too. I think the grooves are so tight wound, you couldn't bust out and do a big vocal melody on it anyway, the beat is stiff.
― earlnash, Saturday, 11 February 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link