― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― rizzx (Rizz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Is that leak by BLOC PARTY or by BLOC PARTY. ?
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone else find the track order on this odd? Switch "On" and "Where Is Home" and the two halves almost seem like different bands. Different moods for sure.
― turkey (turkey), Monday, 8 January 2007 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― ben talbot (PaeganTerror), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― tk (tk), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I found this article a little disturbing and a little irritating. The former because of McLean's seeming desperation for Kele to say "I fuck boys, don't you fuck boys?", and the second because it makes no mention whatsoever of Luke Sutherland, singer from Long Fin Killie and Bows, who did the intelligent, dreadlocked, black, gay indie singer "schtick" (if there is such a thing) a decade before Kele (not that it makes it any easier for Kele to be who he is), and also did it in Scotland, which I would imagine is a damn site more difficult than doing it in the South East / London. It's such an obvious comparison to make, and I think asking Okereke if he knows of Sutherland and if so how he feels about him would have been a damn site more interesting than the goading that some of the piece borders on.
Also, Jacknife Lee is an awful, awful record producer.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM re: the production, though, I'm not really a fan of this band anyway to be honest but it has this bloodless nu-emoish sheen that's just killed any interest for me.
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually I disagree, shoehorning other artists in there purely on that basis is condescending as fuck.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"Yes, Kele might be...BLACK and GAY!!!1!!"
― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
This means you'd succumb to his insideous Somerset homosexual advances?
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― SAVE IT FOR THE CAKE LIST YOU CRAZY BROAD (patog27), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
24 carat gold
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I must add, I think there are a few moments on the record where Kele is singing "in character" rather than as himself. In 'Hunting for Witches', for example. 'SRXT' too, even if he does throw his father's name in there.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
'SRXT' is a perfect, if very sad, ending to this record - one of those closers where you have to take a minute or so to gather yourself after the album has finished. The silence after the album has ended ends up being part of the experience.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
this is probably my favorite album that kinda sucks
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
haha yes
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
that's a good thread idea actually
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
The odd clunky lyric aside, I actually don't think this album sucks.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
(I do wish they'd split up after Moakes and Tong had left, though)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
listened to this album for the first time in 12 years last week. i hated it then, but i was 17 so what did i know. I still mostly dislike it but I think it really comes together starting at Kreuzberg, and the last few songs are nice bits of melodrama. maybe it's because the second half is a bit less sonically adventurous than the first half, maybe because they focus less on leaden social commentary, maybe because each song just has 1 good idea in it as opposed to 12 dueling ideas. either way, i definitely appreciate it a bit more than i did then, even though i still think the drums often feel like they're being beamed in from a different planet where a different band is playing a different song.
and i guess brad is otm upthread about the b-sides--my favorite songs on the spotify version, besides maybe srxt, are flux and selfish son
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Yeah, there were some fine B-sides around this period, but there's absolutely nothing I would change about this record. The tracklisting as originally released, that is, not the re-release with 'Flux' on it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
need to take a long hard look in the mirror over the fact that none of my previous custom weekend in the city tracklists included "once and future king"
― ivy (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
there's always one night per year where the only song i can listen to is "uniform"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 June 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
it's not as good as any of their records but if you were going to make a timeline of albums throughout history that led to the 1975's career this would have to be on it, which counts as high praise in my book
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 June 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
absolutely
― ivy (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link