list of involuntary reactions to the new le tigre 'single'

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it's ABOUT TIME somebody had the courage and the insight to say "NO WAR!" THAT'LL show 'em. wtf Sheryl Crow had this song on a shirt over a year ago.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

is there really a Defiance, Ohio? I swear they say there is. Herbert?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"CH CH CHECK IT OUT" IS THE EARLY ART OF NOISE TRACK THAT THE BEASTIES NEVER ADMITTED COVERING.

LE TIGRE'S "PEACE! WAR!" BRINGS BACK THE SA-SA-SA-SA-SAMPLER S-S-S-SAMPLER OF POLI-POLI-POLITICAL AWARENESS-NESS-NESS-NESS!

1985 IZ BACK AND STRONG! SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES!

― PIECE! WORE!, Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

is there really a Defiance, Ohio? I swear they say there is. Herbert?
-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...), August 19th, 2004.

Le Tigre No Lie and let me introduce you to my good friend Mayor Armstrong.

http://www.cityofdefiance.com/

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link

hey is the "Freedom in this nation" guy Dennis Kucinich? If not, who?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link

well, I'll be!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked being visited by the Wizard of Wor! Can Donkey Kong come next?

Okay, so, finally I now hear this thing.

*listens*

Hahahah. It's Tommy Stone's "People Rocking People" song crossed with a Bugle Boy ad from 1993! This should be the opening credit theme for the world's worst Afterschool Special.

I want to rub this song's face in crunchy underwear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link

my reaction is: this is a waste of a good listen, but at least i won't have to worry about buying their new album

― reo, Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

My spleen? It is vented.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

This song should be called "My Life in the Bush of Kathleen".

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

as this board's most unapologetically devout kathleen hanna fan (and i'll fight anyone who says otherwise!), let me add my voice to the chorus of revulsion.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The most tragic thing about this being the 'push track' isn't even how crap it is compared to the first album, the EP or the second album (all of which I like to a large degree, and I like the self-titled so much it was my number one choice on the ILM Albums of the past five years). The really tragic thing is how good they were at ATP earlier this year, and how amazing their cover of 'I'm So Excited' sounded then. It's on the album, so why not release that? Oh no, a cover version! Of a song with a tune! Note to Kathleen et al: BE MORE POPIST. It will save you.

Or maybe the really tragic thing is how all the criticisms of Le Tigre anyone ever made that were borderline, a little bit harsh or even way out of order, pretty much hold true for this song.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but um maybe it's actually some sort of reeeeally subtle self-critique!!

except it's not subtle at all. sigh.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I cannot quite believe this got made.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

1984 - "War is stupid, and people are stupid"

2004 - "Peace! Now! Peace! Now!"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't quite believe, even now, that that Culture Club song actually managed to get to number two - in 1984, moreover, when you had to sell a hell of a lot of records to get to number 42, never mind number two. Did all the George fans buy it blind, or what?

I suspect the Le Tigre single will not get to number two in the charts.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

They should lock up Dubya in the Oval Office and play him this song over and over. He'll do anything to get the hell out of there.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

That's interesting- I didn't know Le Tigre were a Paul Hardcastle tribute band!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't decide what is worse: this thread or the single.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

DID YOU GUYZ SEE THE VIDEO?

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

If anything I haven't been harsh ENOUGH on "Fem Sweeps". This idiotic insulting lesbian wannabe SHIT's turned me prowar, nice fucking work Kathleen

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.rexfeatures.com/features/454841/hi-res/454841l.jpg

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I listened to thee mp3, and my god it is terrible.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Every horrible thing I've ever said about KH is justified by this single.

That said, I still like the Julie Ruin album.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if KH can even tell the diff between her good and her SHITTY recs? I sure love how she's keeping everything SLOW so her idiot 13yrold chick fans can make out her stupid lyrics

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ohhh... i cant beLIEVE i read the whole thing.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I would never, ever let my younger female cousins listen to this bullshit (although, one of them is a huge Beasties fan....)

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(By which I meant it's awful the way she's doing her best to marginalise herself away from like MUSIC fans and become a sloganeer for the aforementioned kids (not a group I DISLIKE btw) by removing anything that'll distract from her tedious PROWOMYN shit, y'know? The number of Livejournals w/lyrics off "FS" as bios makes me SO SAD AWWWWW)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep waiting for someone to take the inevitable ILM contrarian position and defend this track, but it keeps not happening.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

There's barely a track to defend. Only heard it once but the rhythm changes were scarily inept/out of time, I think.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

From way up top and OTM:
i kind of liked it, but who would want to listen to this more than once??

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi there!

So, I'm not feeling any extreme hatred for this track. It sounds like a sequel to "Dyke March 2001" with big/clean mainstream production. The political rhetoric? This isn't really a surprise coming from Kathleen Hanna. Bizarre choice for a single, though.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"DM2001" sucked too tho

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I won't defend the track, but I will say congratulations to some of the people on this thread for being so virulently misogynistic that I feel the urge to... "MUSIC fans" vs. "13yr old chicks"?

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

where's the mysogyny?

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The opposition being set up that I just quoted - real music fans v. stupid young, female people? The reference to "tedious PROWOMYN shit" - yeah yeah, you say anti-feminist, I say misogynist, let's call the whole thing off...

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

My girlf's 16 bro

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think the implication there is that all feminist music/art is tedious, just that this song is banal crap.

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I somehow feel feminist interests might be better served by GOOD rather than HORRIBLE music, Flyboy

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Heh, "Rocked by Rape" occurred to me, too.

Also: I listened just long enough to hear K-Han quote Eleanor Roosevelt: "It's not enough to just talk about peace, you have to believe in it. And it's not enought to just believe in peace, you have to do something about it. And that's what we're doing: doing something about it!" What? By putting out a shitty, facile song?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish Le Tigre fans would show up like DMB fans

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

fwiw (which is 0 i guess) the silly newswoman samples are amy goodman. i think.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

this may have been covered above (really, too much to wade through), but why is coming out now? had this come out last march, it'd at least have made some sense. now we can all be jaded by anti-war vibes, but back in sept 2002, this would have at least had some zeitgeist behind it.

also, as an aside, what does democracy smell like?

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

unhappily the song is so gangly it's tough to hang a joke on it.

but yeah basketball, wtf??

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

FACE IT! THIS WAS THE BEST LE TIGRE EVER 1986 STYLE. LOVE WAS, IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE SLUG.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/9440/wgafawgui.jpg

― WE'VE GOT AN ANONYMOUS POSTING LIBERTY AND WE'RE GONNA USE IT!!, Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned! Yr review rules!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm with Matos. This does nothing for me. It's like a commercial.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned! Yr review rules!

Well, one tries. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I get the feeling that this was just meant to be an internet hype thing, and that there will be a proper single right around the time the albums hits stores.

Still, bad call. Very bad call. I can think of a lot of records that got fucked over commercially by releasing a weak first single, and I predict that this will cripple the record's sales.

Le Tigre probably felt that it was important to get this song out there before the RNC. I can't think of any other rational motivation.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Le Tigre, "Theme From ZOOM (Consolidated 'Lick Bush' Remix)"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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