― Vaughan, Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Bimble (grippledybu...), September 14th, 2004."
Pedantry I know, but it's a compilation of their first single, first album, and an EP (plus 'Broken' which was previously unreleased.
The stuff on 'In Debt' *is* indeed great, but it doesn't have the same groundbreaking sampling and stuff that features in 'D.I. Go Pop'.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 September 2004 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I paid £9.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Second LanguageThe Last Dance
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 6 January 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 January 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 6 January 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, a huge thank you to Ned and everyone else who evangelizes in the name of Disco Inferno. I was sold after about 20 seconds of "Love Stepping Out", but by the time I got to "Footprints in Snow"... *swoon*. Personally, I think this is a rare case where comparisons to MBV are entirely appropriate. D.I. Go Pop (the album) is especially dense, and can be at once overwhelming/crushing and incredibly delicate-- even if the sound itself isn't all guitar noise, there is a common thread to my ears. The Avalanches connection is a good one too, and to a lesser extent other sampler guys like Manitoba and Amon Tobin. But D.I. is of course quite singular in a lot of ways too. Certainly I've never heard anything for which the term "kaleidoscopic" is more fitting; in fact - probably due to the nature of the samples - it was a very "visual" listen overall, as long as I'm getting into totally subjective non-descriptions. Enough rambling though.
Question: the mp3s I have of the two EPs that come immediately after D.I. Go Pop don't appear to match up to the descriptions on AMG. For example my "Atheist's Burden" is the one with the big fat booming drum loop, and my "Second Language" has the lyric "taught a little song to only sing when things were going horribly wrong" etc. Would someone mind posting the tracklisting of these two EPs, track lengths included? Here's what I have:
Second Language1 Second Language [3:00]2 The Atheist's Burden [4:38]3 At the End of the Line [2:53]4 A Little Something [5:06]
It's a Kid's World1 It's a Kid's World [4:48]2 A Night on the Tiles [3:59]3 Lost in Fog [4:22]
Thanks in advance.
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
The one with the big drum loop is "It's A Kid's World". The lyric you quoted is from "A Little Something".
"The Athiest's Burden" has a weird gloopy Aphex Twin-like 4/4 beat, woozy guitars and starts with the lyric "I took a hell of a chance and it's paid of handsomely.'
"At The End of the Line" is all shimmering guitars and strong, melancholy bass, a bit like Bark Psychosis meets late-era The Church. Probably the most out-and-out beautiful thing DI did.
"A Night On The Tiles" is the weird sample-based one with Edith Piaf and glasses breaking.
"Lost In Fog" is the dark ambient one with lyrics about how "we all live underground".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd say the semi-secret ingredient in the 'beautiful' DI songs like "At the End of the Line" is the Durutti Column, but that would be only part of it. I think somewhere in that where-the-HELL-is-it interview I did with Crause he copped to being a massive fan.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Ahh, still a bit starry eyed :) Oh transience, you haven't got me yet.
― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 8 January 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0001XAQ32.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
tattooed on my stomach.
before i do this, does anybody know if that is the symbal for anything?
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
my first tattoo, btw.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Help me Obi Wan Kenobe, you're my only hope.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link
but i do have that one on 12" and cd.
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― pattyckaes256@aol.com, Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Kevin H (Kevin H), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― van igloo (van smack), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I listened to it on my commute to LA. Awesome stuff
― van igloo (van smack), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― skoolbus39 (skoolbus39), Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 December 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― skoolbus39 (skoolbus39), Saturday, 10 December 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Saturday, 10 December 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 December 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 10 December 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 10 December 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 December 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Monday, 12 December 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Monday, 12 December 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
IM sometimes i like DI GO POP better than the EPs; its more confrontational on the one hand but is also a nicely sequenced, compact album, which when im in the right mood is another advantage.
― js66676, Monday, 12 December 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh poor Second Language EP... that is probably my favorite thing they did!
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
You're fired. Er, wait. ;-)
It's odd about In Debt for me -- I played it to DEATH on original release (I was lucky enough to be in the UK shortly after it came out and though I'd not heard anything by them I had heard enough about them -- credit to Simon Price and David Stubbs in particular -- to know I would love it), but I haven't pulled it out for listening in years, despite my very high regard for many of those early songs. "Fallen Down the Wire" is in retrospect astonishingly underrated.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kevin H (Kevin H), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 17 December 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I can boast posession of a handwritten letter from many years ago from Ian Crause but never mind. Please give me the candy.
― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link