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Did they stick their logo on top of the sky from the 'Setting Sun' cover? It flips between classic and dud.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:39 (twenty years ago) link

That cover is fucking awesome. You are both mentalists.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not keen - it's quite cool as a splash page design or cheap poster but not as an album cover

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:33 (twenty years ago) link

it looks like a dodgy cigarette package

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

Matt, I haven't opined on the cover yet, you nutter.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

i was thinking it looked like that missy elliot jewellry ad

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

This whole album is the music burbling in my head committed to disc and sent out to the whole world. I completely agree that "Right Here's The Spot" out-Princes anything on _Rooty_. Also, I disagree that there are no immediately engaging tracks, especially with "Right Here's The Spot", "Cish Cash", and "Plug It In" bouncing all up and down my brain.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Good Luck" sounds like a k-single to me.

The last few tracks where they slow it down are all gorgeous, too. If anything it's the 'overstuffed' middle that's the weakest stretch.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

with vocals from nowboy dizzee and the benefit of first single momentum to help it through the learning stage, i think "lucky star" was the right choice (politically) for first single.

that said, "right here's the spot", "cish cash", "plug it in" and (especially!) "good luck" are possibly all more immediate

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Plug It In" "Plug It In" "Plug It In"

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

JC is SO MUCH BETTER than Justin it's amazing. I find it telling that Justin's best songs are the ones where he sounds more like JC ("Rock Your Body", "Senorita").

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

ah Dan! why keep up with the "Like I Luv U" hate? I mean, Basement Jaxx loved it enough to remix it ferchrissakes!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

BJ doesn't get paid for remixes? Anyway, that remix was the only good thing to come out of that song (which I think I said at the time).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

Dan and I once again demonstrate sanity in a cruel world. But the wrath of Larcole will be strong...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Basement Jaxx clearly don't just do remixes for money. They're very selective. In fact, I can't think of another external remix they've done besides Missy.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

they did Lil Mo Yin Yang and Nikita Warren way back in '96, then Daft Punk and the Pet Shop Boys in '97, but yeh they're unusually selective i guess.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

At any rate, they may have remixed Justin but they recorded with JC.

All of this misses the real question, which is "Why should I care if Basement Jaxx likes Justin Timberlake?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Because apparently not liking Justin equals death. Somehow, though, it strikes me as unconstitutional to advance this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

No, I just don't see why hating Justin has to get dragged into every conversation. It seems kind of obstinate and orby.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

and boring, as it has been for, oh, a year now

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

Though I'm plenty guilty of the random slams, in this particular case I think we're all agreed that if it was another non-Nsync singer on "Plug It In" that the comparison -- first advanced here by Jess, I should note, rather than Dan and I -- probably wouldn't have come up in the first place. Complaining about this exact comparison is a bit like saying -- in a rather different and reversed situation -- that it's too patently obvious to drag in George Michael as a comparison point when talking about Andrew Ridgley's solo work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

ok, fair enough

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

If the underlying message here is "fuck off and don't come back until you have something new to say", stop beating around the bush and say it.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

"fuck off and don't come back until you have something new to say"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

";-)"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

IDENTITY THIEF

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

"Heavens!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

You're not stealing anything, you. We have to look for our precious now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Dan = Smeagol, Ned = Gollum.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

JT = sauron
ilx = ring wraiths

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

I *could* be the Gollum, but who is more sufficiently murderous?

Surely Louis Pearlman = Sauron, Ringwraiths = pick a band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

dan is easily corruptable.
ned is silently corrupted already.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

I only get corrupted AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Which now that I think about it introduces wonderfully strange concepts to my brain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

That's not your brain.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

*feels tenderly* Mmm...it's *something*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

hmmm ... something vaguely "harry potter" abt the album cover if you ask me ...

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

if that means it will sell trucketloads then cool

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I doubt if I'll like this one. But you knew that.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

you might like 'Good Luck'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

upon further review, possible weak links are "supersonic" and maybe "living room"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

oh come on, I am diehard Jaxx/House head and even I have to confess that the Like I Love You remix was only good because it gave it a convenient 4/4 for house nazis like me.

The original is way better.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

Heh.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

the only part I liked was the amplification of pharreverywhere's HEY!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

so far the record is leaving me with nothing sensible to say. this is a good thing. GOODLUCKGOODLUCKGOODLUCKOMYFUCKINGGODGOODLUCK

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

More gushing...

10 favorite things:

1. The slam bam crashing synths on Plug It In; the dive bomb drone synths on Cish Cash.
2. The way Good Luck goes from 0-60 in 4.6 seconds.
3. The great guitars throughout: the skanking guitar line that underpins Good Luck (reminds me of the Police somehow!); the solo on Supersonic; the breakdown into duelling Spanish guitar-stylee halfway through Lucky Star; the acoustic strumming that powers the last few tracks.
4. The way "Living Room" feels like a subway busking tune buffed up into a dance track.
5. Me'Shell's butch way of saying "I fancy you" on Right Spot, plus the shout out to "Delirious" (and the synth burble responds with an extra Princely tweak)
6. The dance tracks feel epic, but they're (almost) all under 5 minutes.
7. The wailing harmonicas on Supersonic; the extra sped-up cartoon vocal in the breakdown halfway through; "hole in the water now!"
8. The supercool cover, which almost makes me feel patriotic.
9. The stop-start herky-jerky horn riff on Hot 'n' Cold.
10. The B Jaxx's own vocals (which one sings?), great example of using an essentially weak voice to sound tender and affecting.

― Ben Williams, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

"hey... hey. you asleep?"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

i can't wait for the vocal on "cish cash" to show up as an acapella - it will sound SOOOO killer over [any random tech-house track]. how do i know? because i'm singing the hook over a baby ford track right now, that's how!

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

the Jaxx are usually quite forthcoming with the acapellas so yeh let's have 'em!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

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