still keep reading this as "goyte"
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
good song anyways, not a favorite
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
Must've read Grein back when I was photocopying the Hot 100 at the library, but the name doesn't ring a bell. Not like Joel Whitburn (to whom I wrote a fan letter), at least.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
Younger (not entirely young) co-worker playing Somebody on repeat this morning.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/gotye-bummed-glee-did-him-wrong
― markers, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
aww crap just developed InstaCrush because of that picture
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Just glad for him that he got to #1 before the Glee cover version could get these first.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
There's something ironic about a song being so popular that they need to remix it to get it airplay on top 40 ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of pop stations are fine playing the original version, some aren't. same thing happened with "Somebody Like You" last year, some stations were so flummoxed by the idea of playing a quiet piano ballad that they used a garish dance mix instead.
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but clearly the song is massively popular, so ... people like it? Presumably the original version?
They didn't remix Kanye's "808s" stuff, did they?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
This "radio mix" is hilarious
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
"omg the percussion is too subtle, someone fire up Garageband STAT"
why would 808s & Heartbreak get remixed? these songs aren't 'rhythmic' enough for some pop stations, nobody's going to add a drum machine to a record that already has a drum machine to make it more radio-friendly
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i'm guessing the only stations choosing the Gotye or Adele remixes over the originals are the ones known as 'rhythmic top 40 stations'
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't think it was the lack of drum machine that made this a problem for top 40, but rather the lack of brisk tempo and a big beat. The Kanye stuff when it was on the radio was like this weird oasis of quiet and space floating interrupting all the usual stuff. They didn't artificially boost its tempo with a pre-fab backbeat.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
that Spin page won't show any photos or text for me, and I updated Firefox three days ago. sort it out Whiney
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 9:16 AM Bookmark
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, April 23, 2012 9:20 AM Bookmark
the rar/r&b station here played a remixed version of "Love Lockdown" with a backbeat
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
rap* although i guess these days .rar/r&b is a close enough approximation
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 12:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
"Heartless" sounded like a ton of other stuff already on the radio at the time, wasn't very quiet at all, and that was the only song off that record that was really big on radio. didn't know about the "Love Lockdown" remix Rev is talking about, though.
heard the Gotye remix on a pop station for the first time today, god that's terrible.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
actually ashamed I didn't think of this myself. Missed opportunities!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/181314_10150895930179907_501504906_9510972_551997056_n.jpg
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― goole, Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
the first time i heard the song in passing i thought that was what that line was about
― that's why god made kokomo (some dude), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Hearing him on SNL again reminded me: I ctrl+f-ed it and apparently I'm the only one here who thinks he sounds like Ozzy, especially in the chorus?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, Google is my friend. Apparently I'm not the only one on the whole of the internet to think this.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
ha, never would've occurred to me on my own but i can hear it
― --niccimanewhore (some dude), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think it might be specifically the doubling or reverb used on his voice on "Someone" that's probably similarly to the way Ozzy's voice was mixed circa Blizzard of Ozz
― --niccimanewhore (some dude), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh it's been bugging me for ages who he reminded me of. Ozzy is totally it.
― owenf, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Shit. You guys are right. And now I'm pissed off, because I can't UNhear it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
Ha,
yeah. Will mention it to our Alice, with reference to "Changes", it's quite clear.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha, that Ozzy thing is great. Now the song is enjoyable!
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm almost senselessly drunk and "Somebody" seems really profound right now. Pretty sure I just bought it on iTunes.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link
Thought I had never heard this but just heard it in the gym, caught the title lyric, realized that this was "Somebody That I Used To Know" -- I've heard it a million times, of course, but truly thought it was some late-model Sting single I hadn't learned the name of.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 24 October 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
gotye!
― LB-426 (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 October 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
This was posted on his website in October 2014 (three days before this thread was last revived).
http://i.imgur.com/BHgYMiF.png
I don't so much care that he "retired" (or didn't), or even that his announcement is really weird. I'm just more surprised that no one really covered it only two years removed from him having one of the biggest international hits in recent memory.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
he then posted another post contradicted that post even further, so who knows
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P9IdnFn.png
Ah, so homey is just a weirdo.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
gotye west
― keep clams and jive on (man alive), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
there will be no gotye...
...GOT YE!
― da croupier, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
i drank all night with this dude at a bar he's really kewl
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Basics are still touring.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 28 August 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
I was just reading the new Tape Op and there's a great feature on the guy. Apparently he's really gotten into the ondioline, not just playing it but paying for historic restorations and in particular archiving the works of Jean-Jacques Perrey.
Here's a profile from Petrusich from last summer:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-australian-musician-gotye-resurrects-the-sounds-of-the-ondioline
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
His 2004 Depeche Mode cover for indie electronic label Groovescooter is now available on Bandcamp, either as a 'single' or on the covers album it came from.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 30 June 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link