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doubtful

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

oh bollocks

http://www.nme.com/news/110884.htm

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel deeply ambivalent about the idea of Daft Punk discovering they're human after all.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah don't think much of these titles, or the idea it was all done in six weeks (considering how long the refining process of Discovery supposedly was). but i'm reminded how somewhat disappointed i was when i first heard Discovery and maybe this will have a reverse effect. perversely i hoped it was a hoax! but i couldn't really think of better titles for any new material from them anyway.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I am excited but you guys put a downer on it for me with your worry.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

tis the season!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

echoed. i kind of hoped it was a hoax...what's up with the title?

i keep thinking of that GAP ad aswell.

so dp are back, the avalanches are back...
it's like waking up in 2001 again.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

DANCE IS BA-OW!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

wot tim f said.

i would've liked DP to stick to one word titles, it seems fitting.

one more thing...

THE AVALANCHES ARE BACK? why wasn't i informed??

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

come on guys this is supposed to be good news!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! The doubters' uppance will come!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

has anyone seen it reported anywhere other than nme.com yet? it's not even on the Virgin Music site The Raft it seems.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Buncha hataz!! :) Human, robot, dog, bacteria. Whatever. And only a very reasonalbe three months waiting period too!

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

omar! soulseek!! (i'd expect 1 month tops).

i'm off home 2 have a back2back DAFT CLUB/DISCOVERY fest.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, SLSK is good for stuff like the new LCD Shitesystem. A new Daft Punk needs to be waited on till the official date of release and oldfashioned trip to the shop with "ah no, it still isn't in dude, maybe friday" style disappointments. Or is this just too 20th century? :(

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

tee hee "shite"

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

the day Discovery came out i'd only heard the first two tracks and i didn't even buy it until lunchtime after swanning down to V-SHop in Turnham Green and hearing 'Crescendolls' and 'Superheroes' blasting out. will be quite a different 'first listening' experience this time i imagine.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk will be playing at my house.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

MY HOUSE!

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm mildly annoyed at the LCD appropriation of Daft Punk. I suspect he doesn't really *get* them anyway.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Like, I bet he's talking about "Da Funk" and not "Digital Love".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually I'm all about "Short Circuit", chumply

― Jimmy "Booty Clap" Murphy (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

That would make sense too. I'm still pretty confident that he'd consider much of their output and most house music in general, 'too gay'. It's the American disease.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Uh, not this American!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

How about asking him, Spence?

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

How about I don't really care, Nat?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I'm kind of referencing that LCD thread which links to the WIRE interview (expanded, I think). Please note, I *really* like LCD Soundsystem, but I still think his use of their name is odd - I mean, he's hardly a Mongoloid.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

that LCD track sucks anyway

am i wrong to think 'Humanoise' is a better title? (don't answer that)

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe Still Human After All These Years?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

In League With The Humans

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

How about I don't really care, Nat?

if you care enough to speculate about it on a public forum, it's not that difficult a leap to make, y'know.

what is this about the Avalanches? details pls!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, when did it become a rule that we had to decisively determine an author's conscious intentions when speaking about what may be revealed by their work??!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, but who put the shovel up your ass?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT THE AVALANCHES? c'mon Spencer, if anyone knows this it's gotta be you.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm serious. I think it's fully within reason to speculate on Murphy's views on dance music without actually asking him. I don't think that's a revolutionary concept. Also, what's with the "shovel up your ass" bit?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Ass for the Avalanches, they're definitely working on a new album, but I've only heard an extended snippet at the modularpeople.com site - and it's down now. I could send it to you of course - if I ever get this shovel out of my ass!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

spencer that murphy interview left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth too but i think you might be jumping to conclusions in re: whether dude appreciates daft punk in the "correct" manner

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno?!?!?!?! maybe your punctuation?!?!?!?!?! made it look like you're taking it more personally than I meant it?!?!??! (OK I'll stop now)

anyhow, it is reasonable to speculate, but it's also reasonable to ask if maybe there's more (or less) to know in fact-not-theory. no one's mad here (or I thought you were and I was wrong); I was just trying to be evenhanded.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

also people who are not dickish can easily come across as if they are in interview transcripts.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't mad at all!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

and no, I haven't read the interview yet (the new issue isn't out in Seattle yet, grrr--we get magazines really late most of the time as it is); maybe if I had I'd be more inclined to be annoyed w/Murphy myself. that, and "right" and "wrong" ways of listening tend to be a bit of a sore spot for me, for whatever reason. that's where I misread you, S.C.--apologies.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

matos the unedited transcript of the interview in question is on the lcd thread (oh wait--probably not anymore!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost
None necessary! My sore spot at the moment is when dance music is being accepted grudgingly by corny indie types. There was a link to the unedited interview on a lost LCD thread where he completely dismisses the Happy Mondays and Primal Scream (I'm assuming Screamadelica), two bands who much more wholeheartedly embraced "dance music".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i wouldn't neccessarily read that as a blanket dismissal of dance music tho--i mean maybe he just doesn't like those bands!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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That thread also contained all sorts of qualifying statements about how big a fan I am of LCD Soundsystem.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it appears not to be there, just a disco ball leading us to the new video.

I've had the album a week but have been so wrapped up in year-end shit I haven't played it yet. (also, it's copy protected, which means I have to drag out a regular CD player I barely use anymore, ugh ugh rigamarole who needs it.) I will play it soon, however--gotta review it for someone.

xpost: I have to say, I'm not much of a Mondays or Primal Scream fan myself--they have singles I like, but that's not the same thing as liking them as bands. I'd definitely say that most of that stuff was and remains really overrated. that's just me, though--I'm not gonna assume that's necessarily what Murphy meant.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

and the key word of Spencer's post is "grudgingly," it should be said.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"It was something that Tim and I never pushed and weren't very interested in. That stuff was meaningless to me. I thought it was shit. At the time that stuff came out, I was like, 'This is crap'. I remember hearing 'Fool's Gold' and thinking it was really likeable and that a lot of college kids would like it, but it was like Vitamin C to me without the weird, crazy Japanese guy. It just never meant anything to me. I was in an American world at that time. I like some of it now looking back at it, but it's not a touchstone for me at all. I think they got kind of interested in that stuff. I think aesthetically a lot of that stuff is really meandering and unclear and all over the place."

Key words: "was"; "looking back at it"

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

spence he doesn't completely dismiss happy mondays or primal scream, the interviewer mentions how the rapture name those bands as touchstones and asks him if he feels the same and he responds that they didn't really mean anything to him at the time, that he was listening to other music, that he liked "fools gold" well enough, and that he likes some of it now. he hardly dismisses madchester as much as the pixies or pavement (he's blathers on some anti-scene rhetoric in general, so maaybe that could be taken as anti-madchester); english mag asks american artist is english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

xpost

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Last line of the article: "I also like Terry Riley a lot, not like a dillettante, this is something I love."

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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