(the video on that page)
Also this
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Come on, someone say something interesting or snarky or something.
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 February 2009 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll give it one more bump -- no interest in this I swear other than being momentarily obsessed with it.
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.francisandthelights.com/
mp3s are free now -- I really like "How Could You", "Night Watchman", and "A Modern Promise"
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 March 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/4219451
Ok, first of all, :31Second, :57
― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 April 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i LOVE this. dunno if it's because it's the first time i've been high in months, but it's pretty amazing.
the video was kinda annoying in a joaquin phoenix rapping kinda way, until the lights and it was @_@
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 20 April 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
it's kinda got a The Make Up thing going on if they listened to lots of prince and other 80s r'n'b instead of james brown
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 20 April 2009 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes. You are just the guy who I would want to also like this.
― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 April 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
it reminds me of the first time i heard either the junior boys or sa-ra
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 20 April 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i gotta say, the video for "the top" has kind of blown the mind
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda wish the other songs weren't so ballady
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wow he does the damn thing with that split huh
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
each song needs an accompanying video of the guy dancing
― pleasure p (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy is killin it
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
little bit of prince, little bit of peter gabriel, little bit of jr boys, whats not to like
grady just linked me to this guy, diggin it
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm glad other people are finally coming around to this. i sent to grady and every day after he tweeted about these guys.
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't really feel "Lime" as much -- contemplative/melancholy song about teh internets is a little :/. Oh well, batting average is more than solid otherwise. New one is supposed to be in the works.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
feelin this
why wd gr80 not tell me :(
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
why wouldn't you listen when hurting and i tried to tell the world in this thread?
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to this stuff now and it's pretty good! i probably ignored because the name made me think of noah and the whale or some similarly terrible british band.
― Is because I think a lot of the music you like is flowery? (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i wasnt reading ilx often at the time & yeah the band has an unfortunate name
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
'lime' sounds great imo -- lyrics havent really sunk in yet
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
does anyone remember a mid 90s band Brad? it had Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam and was less grunge, more blue eyed soul/rock. i used to love the shit out of them. anyways, weirdly, the F&tL first album (the rockier one), and even parts of the new one remind me of them. similar voice, melodies and chord changes. kinda weird.
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
he's playing at Zebulon Monday but that place is tiny and it will probably be obnoxiously packed.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 May 2009 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
the "cant tell me nothing" cover is pretty awesome
― s1ocked up, they won't let me out (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 25 June 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
will vouch for this
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
cept it changes "i'm on tv actin' like its just you and me" to "I'm actin like it's just you and me" not as great imo
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
shouldve been "im on vimeo actin like it's just you and me"
― s1ocked up, they won't let me out (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol!
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
also what's great about it is that it picks the best verse
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa boy the bit at the end of the top where well, I don't really wanna ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it!
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 25 June 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight goin
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Saturday, 18 July 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Great show. He's probably the highest level performer you can still see up close for $15. When I first got into him I was partly amused by the novelty of an indie-ish dude with some actual, honest showmanship, but now his showmanship is getting so strong that he almost doesn't deserve that category. Also Jake Rabinovitch is sick as fuck on guitar -- and his solos are, in a parallel sense, almost too good for indie.
There was a good-sized crowd but definitely not sold out. Still wonder when this dude is going to blow up -- seems like it will likely happen in the next year or so.
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Sunday, 19 July 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah wish it were possible that he would play dublin while he's still a minor concern but like so not gonna happen
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 19 July 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
truth be told a modern promise has been in constant rotation for the last 3 months but striking is i think just as good--little less prince, little more phil collins, but imo its just as good. al soto should get into this dude.
― max, Monday, 10 August 2009 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
striking is uh less striking tho imo
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
nah its just not as immediately appealing, especially if ur not a 80s dadrock stan
― max, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but less prince more phil sounds way more appealing tbh, giving it another go fwiw
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
"the top" video is on mtv right now
― herb tycoon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this revive reminded me that i actually wanted to buy a modern promise but it seems the store page doesn't work? guy's almost out of money.
― wishes to be referred under the pseudonym of kronos (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Francis and the LightsSeptember 1st and 2nd at Zebulonboth shows at 9:30 sharpno cover. ALSO September 8 at the Highline Ballroomopening for the Roots11:30pm$10 (show is nearly sold out). The Zebulon shows will be taped for a concert film.
― fleetwood (max), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa francis wants $10 to mail me two cd's. sry dude.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
saw him at zebulon last night
― fleetwood (max), Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
played through "a modern promise" in the middle of the set--ILL guitar solo during 'strawberries'
― fleetwood (max), Thursday, 3 September 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
swedish band o'spada is so great. tiny bit jamiroquai-ish, but i'll forgive em for it. kinda like a female version of these guys. amazing boogie synth and skittery drums.
http://www.thefader.com/2009/06/02/freeload-o-spada-time/http://www.thefader.com/2009/11/11/ospada-ten-strikes-mp3/
― jaxon, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad to see people other than me have started updating this thread. To date still have only made one show, but I'm a homebody like that. You'd think I didn't even live in a city by the tiny number of shows I go see.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
all his music is up on his website for free right now for only a couple weeks
― max, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
So is he maybe recording a new one in UK since all these dates in UK on his twitter but no UK shows?
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Saturday, 28 November 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
if you've already downloaded his stuff in the past, redownload the zip file. there are alternate versions of the EPs. demos and stuff. pretty cool
― jaxon, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
so what's up with this dude
I stanned for him so hard. Don't let us down, francis.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 March 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
well there's this anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSSzgYK4MnI
pretty cool. definitely feels like soundtrack music more than a song.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 March 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
nm I guess the vocals come in late
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 March 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
i dont know what frankie is up to but the new inc. album is fantastic
― max, Friday, 1 March 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
i saw this movie but it was on an airplane so i could barely hear much of the score on my earbuds.
francis makes a cameo in a brief shot, as a musician performing at a fancy museum fundraiser.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
definitely ramping something up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vT1dNTWvGqU
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/francisandthelights/etc
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Love this track.
― Barnaby, Hardly, Friday, 24 May 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
just heard this, nice
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odP_d9NHfbY
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
robot & frank sdtk also up on spotify now
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
so the robot & frank score is pretty standard movie score fare, not really what I expected
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in to "ETC"-- is that the only new thing out there yet?
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
the "it'll be better" EP really disappointed me when it came out 3 years ago but I totally love it now
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dHZ8LlP.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 30 August 2013 11:28 (ten years ago) link
YES
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 30 August 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
http://francisandthelights.com/
new track up, says EP Nov 25. The song is in that weird concert film he did.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqhaMewA2K0#t=16
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqhaMewA2K0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUYpEyPOoscdbbDp_cNVrOtA
don't know why that isn't embedding, but it's dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqhaMewA2K0
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
the dude who does his videos has great concepts
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
i'm under the impression francis is kind of in charge of all the visual concepts even if he's collaborating w/ others
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/d23c0d3da2360437eb6b1ee6ba5e163f/tumblr_mwgspqDcdl1qznkk6o1_500.gif
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah that would make sense
don't get why this dude isn't famous by now, basically
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
"Like a Dream" is in my head 24/7 now.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:16 (ten years ago) link
new EP is up: https://soundcloud.com/francisandthelights/sets/like-a-dream-ep
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
xp no major label backing is my guess. He definitely has all his ducks in a row but my understanding is that he's gotten this far rather autonomously.
― shaane, Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
one of these days my mind will stop racingand i'll get me some sleepcause i'm ready for the big timeis it ready for me
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
drake loves him
― max, Thursday, 21 November 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:16 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol, I woke up with it going through my head, and then I spent 10 minutes this morning trying to do the step from the video before I realized I was probably annoying the shit out of my downstairs neighbors
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
I was actually whistling it when the elevator opened and I think I creeped out this lady who thought I was whistling at her
apparently this is put out by something called Good Years Recordings.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:52 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Saturday, 23 November 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
So dope the way he comes out of sillouette right on the beginning of the first chorus, then goes back into sillouette right on the beginning of the second verse
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Sunday, 24 November 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
it's weird how the cmera man's shadow gets in the shot; I wonder if it's intentional
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 24 November 2013 09:52 (ten years ago) link
the EP is on spotify now
the whole thing is mildly anticlimactic because two of the songs have already been kicking around for a while, the third is dope but the fourth is forgettable. Hope there's something more in the works.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 December 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Wondering what's up with this guy now, probably free-associated to him bc of Prince's death.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Saturday, 23 April 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
???
something on his website about playing at Syracuse with Chance the Rapper last month, but otherwise not much sign of activity.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Friday, 13 May 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
Well heyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo&feature=youtu.be
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 8 July 2016 05:58 (seven years ago) link
yyyyessss
http://farewellstarlite.com/
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
so dope so far btw
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
yea i like this
― johnny crunch, Monday, 26 September 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Friends has ten mil plays on Spotify, guess the Bon Iver and Kanye connections help. In general the album seems to be getting more play than past ones.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
May I Have This Dance gets a lot of radio play on WFUV (AAA station). Not my fav tune but glad for him to get some exposure anyway.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
I kind of slept on Just For Us. Drags a little for me at times, but a couple of tracks are really standing out for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg85km95Etc
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 10 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uruDvCDLod0
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 10 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
A lot of his songs feel like they really want to be hits but are produced a little too stiffly, like demos.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 November 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link