^^^ I listened to them last night for the first time and thought of teena too.
These guys are great. Love the guitar writing and guitar playing and the irrepressible squirreliness. I'll be listening to this again for sure.
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 12 October 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
ILM year end poll top three
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 October 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
I can't think of an album that would stand a better chance of being the ILM end of year number one than this at the moment.
Listening to it for the first time and yeah this a cracking album.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 13 October 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
Do the album versions of the previously-released singles differ much?
― how's life, Sunday, 13 October 2013 10:04 (ten years ago) link
Discuss this picture of Haim and PM David Cameron.
http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/haim-david-cameron-590x375.jpg
― davey, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 07:34 (ten years ago) link
tbh I didn't even notice "The Wire" was different until it was pointed out on this thread (and I'm still not sure I can tell how it's different). Are any of the other ones sweetened for the LP?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 07:36 (ten years ago) link
~ convert ~
― Popture, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
Finally listened to this. Reminds me more of the Spinanes than I ever would have expected. Hm.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
we haven't discussed that picture yet
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
let's discuss it
Haim rock, he's an arsehole.
can't remember which song they dedicated to him, but I hope it wasn't one of my favourites.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
they dedicated a song to him? this gets richer
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
guess they're not quite Burzum yet
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
a quick perusal suggests it was "the wire".
http://www.nme.com/news/haim/72930
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
obviously this has no bearing on my appreciation for them. additionally, say I was in an up and coming rock band, doing an appearance in denmark with the danish prime minister on some talk show, i might dedicate a song to him/her, for the sake of all-round good, friendly relations, without necessarily knowing what s/he stands for.
so it's all good.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
I will however pledge to NEVER metanarrate ILM as an immanent entity ever again. You have my word. Bookmark this post.
― imago, Friday, October 11, 2013 2:16 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really struggling with this btw
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to listen to this album for the next twenty minutes or so and let you know my thoughts. Brace.
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:59 (ten years ago) link
Obviously they should have spat in his face and said "Fuck you Tory. Down with austerity."
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
look who's here!
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
opening track perfunctorily catchy in a vaguely nostalgic and unexciting way. some nice production touches that sound borrowed. that ever-so-nervous pizzicato guitar
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
The fact that they have a song CALLED 'The Wire' should be enough, really. Its soft-focus power-ballad styles are no surprise. Fucking god. Anyway *straightens tie* I guess this is 2013's top album, huh.
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
*stylINGS, even - although this is very much about style
You've learnt no lessonsAll that time so cheaply spentThere's no youth cultureOnly masks, they let you rent
Travels, travels in NihilonWe've seen no Jesus come and gone
Fashion, their vampireDrapes itself across your backAs you fall from styleIt waits rebirth on its rack
Building your whimsyHypnotizing you to needDance goes full circleOne step ahead of your greed
You've learnt no lessonsAll those years to get it rightFlashes of promiseBurn out faster than strobe light
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
What the hell
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
xpost to DL: well, what could be more rock 'n roll than that?
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
xp It's cranky old LJ, ignore him, he's an idiot. Enjoy HAIM
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:19 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Cocorosie would be more your speed, LJ?
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
The fact that they have a song CALLED 'The Wire' should be enough, really. Its soft-focus power-ballad styles are no surprise. Fucking god.
Are you saying "The Wire" is a soft-focus power ballad? Because if you are, I'm saying you didn't actually listen to it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
never change louis
― max, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq818gfn061qj26eao1_500.jpg
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
man "Go Slow" is the best
― Euler, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Euler otm.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
"Let Me Go" is my #1 jam on this so far
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
I received my physical copy of the album today.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
this band is really boring. their songs remind me of the mediocre crap on the radio in the mid-80s when I was in middle school. I think LJ's descriptions are pretty accurate.
― clueless mom complaining about miley Cyrus (sarahell), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
interesting take
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
you're right: "Song 5" sounds like Starship's "We Built This City" what were we thinking
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with HAIM, nor with Teena Marie. But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie? Like I feel like you have a capacity for blind optimism that is unconscionably alien to me if this doesn't make you wince just a teeny tiny bit.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
I don't spend a lot of thought cycles on whether this is the best 2013 ILM consensus pick tbqh
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
you sure sound like you think there's something wrong with haim xp
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
clarke b wincing
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with HAIM, nor with Teena Marie. But doesn't it make you a little bit sad, even if you love the band, that the best 2013 can generate as an ILM consensus pick is a band most aptly compared to Teena Marie?
hall of fame post
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
there are no ILX consensus picks, as this thread proves!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
itt threatened indie kids
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
I've been looking in vain for more songs like "Square Biz" and "Lips to Find You." Their templates remain undiscovered.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think that's in every thread
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
I am no one's Teena Marie scholar but the assertion that Haim's music closely resembles hers makes me wonder if I've being hearing a vastly different version of "Lovergirl" from the rest of the world
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
I wish more bands around now cd be compared to Teena Marie tbh
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
The group these gals remind me of the most is Vampire Weekend!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
in what fucking universe does haim sound like teena marie???
― balls, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link