― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't understand what you mean by "immediate." What is something in pop music now that is immediate in a way the Pipettes are not? It is of no concern to me whether those vocals are *relevant*.
Do you take them and enjoy them for what they are with no added weight from musical or cultural history?
Of course not, but the same could be said for any specific style-connoting element in any contemporary cultural object. Am I supposed to find them all ironic? They seem to be more standard course now.
Or, do you understand them through a lens that creates a distancing effect, as in "oh isn't it funny that pop music sounded like this once and now someone is doing it again."
That's the thing - I don't find it funny. Was it funny when Tracey Ullman did it? I suppose the Pipettes are a little more goofy, but I don't see as that this makes them ironic. My response to them is not, "Oh, that's ironic that they are doing something with a little sort of '60s girl group style. Who would have imagined?"
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
I would dispute that. There are surely plenty of things with gaps between apparent and intended meaning that one would not identify as "ironic."
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
When I see/hear a longhaired pretty boy hammer a distorted guitar, I automatically think, "This music and image are intended to conjure up all kinds of associations to the past, and lead me to eventually agree that he is just so cool." Right?
'Cuz all musical choices must be read as meta-recursive signifiers pointing to the fact that they're pointing while also pointing to other things. Right?
God, that's exhausting...
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Ba-dump-bump.
How come no one's laughing?
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Retro/gimmick/kitsch novelty or no, their version of "Wuthering Heights" just gave me the biggest smile I've had in days.
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
We can only wish the Pipettes had a "They Don't Know" on this album. There's an example of a girl group pastiche that actually works.
Re "Pull Shapes" - I think the "I like to disco/to rock & roll/to hip hop" is a key to what I don't like about this album. It's way too Spice Girls/"Wannabe." It's like they're trying their hardest to get everyone up and dancing, but everyone's just staring blankly.
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm just saying that it's an approach that doesn't suit this particular project.
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
2 brilliant songs (pull shapes and judy). but the rest range from good to blatant filler.
― Aditya (dan138zig), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Everyone who has reviewed the Pipettes album, yesterday.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zihW7WCYMs
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
what you or i might call an "autobiography".
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Rowlando for the kidz (samonkeyuk...), September 14th, 2006.
What songs have the name Rowlando in them?!
― Rombald (rombald), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
it was pretty good as a review of their website. didn't see much in it about the music. maybe he thinks the website is more important, which could be true, i don't know since i haven't looked at the website. none of which dislodges "pull shapes" from my singles-of-the-year list.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I like "Simon Says" though. A B-side somewhere, I only have it on mp3.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Randall Weeber (yoyoweb), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― ()()()---()()() (internet), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten all about the Pipettes.
― everything, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link