M83?

can some kind soul explain why the bloody hell i can't download anything from yousendit? the !!! track (y'know, the one from the other thread) ... i got 29% through and it stuck. i now can't seem to connect at all. this: 1% and it's stuck.

i mean, it works as a web download. surely there aren't firewall issues. are there?

i'm just kinda puzzled as to why i'm getting nowhere with what should be a very simple download. is anyone else having problems? is this just a bad night in yousendit world?

thanks again, willem. i assume you have the "don't save me" remixes that i mentioned upthread?

safari now seems to be doing a much more stable job than firefox. perhaps it's time i re-migrated :)

(x-post: it works for me on safari)

coo ur, the things you learn. i'm going back to wget from now on, anyway.

But... Firefox is the prime Mozilla derivative! Maybe you mean Mosaic. I was having some weird connection issues to YSI when you were, I think that they were having problems.

Anyway, this Luciano mix is crazy long! I think it's another one of those where I feel a little shiver every time I hear some element of the original song come in, just because it's so gradual.

which reminds me. i ordered the first M83 album from gooom the other week and it hasn't turned up yet. hmm.

Also: use Camino, dudes. Mac-specific Firefox. Word.

Thanks for the mp3's, grimly!

I think it was Sonic Youth. I was actually a little annoyed that he didn't namecheck the obvious...

Come on, ye YSI. Thanks, Grimly.

In brief (and risking the wrath of the injured Spencer) -- I sense what they were thinking of when they came up with the song and enjoy that, but the end results are kinda flat. (See also most everything by the Killers.)

scene: mono, the glasgow bar, october 7, 2003. GRIMLY and his MATE, whose birthday it is, are sitting being morose in the corner.

MATE: so anyway, i was thinking ...
[the BARMAN puts a CD in the machine and a SONG starts up. it is buzzy and interesting]
MATE: ... and it's the most incredible idea in the world ever ...
[suddenly the SONG begins a beautiful weaving melody and a glorious series of crescendos]
MATE: and it's really, really important that we talk about it now otherwi ... [clang]
[MATE falls over as GRIMLY rushes past him, grabs the BARMAN by the throat and demands to know what this life-changing piece of music is. it turns out to be "run into flowers", and thus a new dawn in GRIMLY'S life begins. many of his friends receive copies of "dead cities" for their birthdays/christmas, including his MATE, who is so blown away he never remembers his big idea. everyone lives slightly more happily ever after than they would without the healing power of "run into flowers".]

well, something like that, anyway.

Righteousness knows no wounds!

Good on yer, that's something close to how I felt when I first heard "Soon." Dead Cities left me cold aside from the final track that just went on forever but did so interestingly. This is one reason why I'm so impressed with the new one, it just feels much more ON -- like leaping out of the speakers and enveloping me immediately on -- and the hyperdrama works whereas the previous one's efforts did not. It felt cold, sterile almost, like those Delgados mega-orchestrated albums that left me terribly cold. The sheer *awe* in which "Run Into Flowers" is regarded with by so many is impressive but I just don't feel it at all.