tripping over itself to sound edgy/abrasive
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Is that why you put a frown in your positive statement?
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
i have an honest loyalty to finney's "rocker" description, which is what the stuff i don't like seems to violate (and which WoN manages to avoid)
xp frown was for backpedaling
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
judging from d.a.n.c.e. i dunno wtf the 'abrasive' criticism comes from
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
There are more abrasive sounds on the rest of the album. Overdriven bass etc.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
ethan you really need to hear some of justice's other stuff in that case
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
does anybody have an album that all sounds like d.a.n.c.e.
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
kidzbop.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khMJVz5BmVw
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
pretty sure thats not actually boney m ... isn't that the original?
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
oh never mind
I've always thought "D.A.N.C.E." is kind of like Daft Punk vs. The Go! Team.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
"d.a.n.c.e." reminds me of stuff like joubert singer's "stand on the word" and kitty grant's "glad to know you"
it's extremely ... disco!
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm gonna go into the archives and find that thread where all these people stand up for "little black spiders"
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
another track i dig is that avalanches blend of wham over digitalism
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^that song rules
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
YES
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
("dvno" is ok too, ethan you might like that)
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
xp well jess and vahid and ethan seem positively disposed to this stuff at the moment
haha, WAHT! they really like this? i thought that was just their contrarian nature getting the best of them.
― BleepBot, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
yes me too - bit of Avalanches too, and 'Stand On The Word' as mentioned several times. the Go Team album is 'blarier' - btw their new single is way too formulaic/copy of their previous stuff.
it's the most 'palatable' thing i've heard by them. the rest of the time they sound to me like a more danceable (not difficult ha) Jackson (And His Computer Band) who everyone seems to have forgotten about (if they cared in the first place).
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
"radio caca" = better than soooooo much ILM-approved dance music
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Name D.A.N.C.E. Artist Justice Album D.A.N.C.E. Ep Play Count 18 Last Played 5/30/2007 5:30 PM
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
im listening to twista now
you know whats the fake dance braxe-style joint is 'ottos journey' off that mylo record
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Default.aspx
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm going to leave it up to y'all what i mean by that
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
'peach melba' is the best Mylo Goes To Paris number - but don't think it was on the album?
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
who here likes Crystal Castles 'Knights'?
― blueski, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
ernest st laurent hall & oates remix is necessary
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
i forgot 'we are your friends' was a justice creation! i loved that. at the time, i remember everyone asking 'who the hell are these justice dudes, making awful indie rock dancefloor-palatable?"
the time was THREE YEARS AGO. over it now. 'we are your friends' due for rehabilitation in 2009 along with 'milkshake' and 'gold digger'.
I like how Spencer always seems to manage to deflect hundreds of posts of snark and/or debate by going "I love this! It's great!"
yeah the only way you can actually deflect snark on ilm now is to make your own posts as content/thought-free as possible, any attempt to justify any stance gets picked on and torn apart. maybe what all the teenpop boosters should have done on the hilarity thread was just go "i love hilary! there's so much good msuic around, man".
I feel like the war is over and now we are living in a heaven of *so much* great music!
i agree with the second hal'f of this statement so much, this is basiclly my entire general feeling about music right now, but uhhh...justice aren't part of the "so much great music". at all. that's why i hate on 'em, people are paying attention to them when they could be paying attention to so much ACTUALLY great music! they are kind of pitiful in a way.
anyway you bore me, you people. i am going to boucne around to some hyphy, maybe follow it up with paris or lil' kim, maybe some ellen allien (=actually fun dance music).
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
cruisin
― deej, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
For the record, I actually have written a number of thoughtful things on this thread and the return of the repressed thread.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
spencer that was aimed at matt, not you!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Ah ok. (though it still seems to me like you were talking about my 'strategy').
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Anway, it doesn't matter because THIS ALBUM IS SUPER AWESOME!!!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
OK 'New Jack' is great.
― blueski, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
† = ~(P v Q)
― poortheatre, Thursday, 31 May 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I heard D.A.N.C.E. on the radio this week and it definitely pricked up my ears. I like the fact that it uses old style disco sounds. Someone here criticized it as sounding like heavy metal, that doesn't really bother me. I look forward to hearing the album. I tried their song "Waters Of Nazareth" and liked it okay, but not as much.
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
that's why i hate on 'em, people are paying attention to them when they could be paying attention to so much ACTUALLY great music! they are kind of pitiful in a way.
This is a thread about Hot Chip now?
― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
"Genesis" sounds suspiciously Michael Jackson Thriller-esque.
― Bimble, Thursday, 31 May 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I figured out the root of the justice argument. 90's revival must include faux-carrot top, ergo Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
http://www.thenoel.org/asianprince/CarrotTop.jpghttp://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/05/justiceleak2.jpg
who could be against these guys now?
― BleepBot, Thursday, 31 May 2007 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
...and for the skeptics, here's the last faux-carrot top from a generation of kids who grew up in a world where they never knew anything BUT dance music...
http://www.mtv.es/mtv.es/img/int3/fib2005_chkchkchk171x179.jpg
― BleepBot, Thursday, 31 May 2007 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link
D.A.N.C.E. = plodding Sesame Street sub Todd Edwards (himself hit-or-miss at least 75% of the time) off-key falsetto with the cheesiest Daft Punk 80's TV commercial arpeggiatos. N.E.X.T.
― blunt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
So overrated & overhyped. This shit is the wurst.
― blunt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Was already rubbed the wrong way by We are Your Friends' flat singing & blatantly anthemic ambitions, now this, should I suffer through another track of theirs or will those do?
― blunt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link
no. sounds like this isn't your thing. maybe try 'new jack' if you're still curious.
― blueski, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
"blatantly anthemic ambitions"
what's wropng with ELO?
― Alan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Nothing's wrong with beautiful anthemic; everything's wrong with footstomping anthemic.
New Jack... is formally more interesting I guess, wrt interference-style cut-up grooving. It's basically a couple of alternating & superimposed loops tho, doesn't sound "live"/rock at all despite light use of distortion.
― blunt, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
bimble yr making me seem knowledgeable on a dance thread! theres a whole history of dudes using 'old style disco songs' in dance, this is not new
― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
this is like the shake ya tailfeather thread all over again
― and what, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link