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
would be fucking ecstatic if the consensus buzz band of two thousand whatever sounded like teena marie
― balls, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
Discuss this picture of Haim and PM David Cameron.
let me golet me goyou know the lady's not for turning
― bentelec, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
Hell no. It's better than yet another band that sounds like fucking Joy Division.
― wk, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
What a day. Forty hours from hitting the debt ceiling, House GOP have decided that closing the government for two weeks was to cut the salaries of their staff. ILM sez Haim sounds like Teena Marie -- and how it's a little bit sad Haim sound like Teena Marie.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
I suppose I'm just feeling a little anhedonic for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
No one blames you for not experiencing paroxysms of rapturous joy at this record; we blame you for making strange comparisons.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
sneering at Teena Marie will get you life though
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
I didn't come up with that comparison!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
You kept it.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
ILM fave Jim DeRogatis thinks this sounds like Wilson Phillips.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
someday derogatis is gonna turn around and make you cry
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
word
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Clarke you are better than these posts.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 08:56 (ten years ago) link
Tim, I appreciate you saying that... It's been strange for me recently, because I feel like I've been enjoying music more than I have in a very long time and discovering oodles of new-to-me things, but I've had a really hard time thinking through my tastes and articulating myself. I'm sure the fact that I'm primarily interacting with ILM through my iPhone these days isn't helping. It's frustrating.
Anyhow, to add to the embarrassment, I realized this morning that I was confusing Teena Marie with someone else. I think I'll chill out on this thread for a bit until I can give a proper and open-hearted listen to the record on my regular system.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/neDtSZ2.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
it's okay, i give you permission to not like Days Are Gone, a record which is awesome and cool
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
not necessarily because they sound like them, but haim remind me of vampire weekend and tune-yards when i hear them. maria made a cdr copy of this album from the cd and it sounded terrible in the car. strangely muffled? things usually sound good in the car. anecdotal, i know. i would have been fine with listening to it, but she was playing it pretty loud and i couldn't take it. could have been the copy she made though. i dunno. or maybe i just wasn't in the mood. its only fair that maria torture me sometimes. god knows i've done it plenty with my dumb music. she played some horrible laurie anderson song a couple of weeks ago and i almost jumped out of the car...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Prob reminds of VW cause same producer
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
haim singer reminds me of kd lang, esp on the slower numbers (honey & i, let me go, if i could change your mind, go slow, etc)
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
― Tim F
please haim-er, don't hurt 'em
― velko, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
> The group these gals remind me of the most is Vampire Weekend!
Same producer.
― جهاد النكاح (Sanpaku), Thursday, 17 October 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
I finally have the album :D
If I hear anything it's Eurythmics. But I am mostly just digging on it & not trying to make sense of it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 October 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
The drums on this album are so fucking deep and physical
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Monday, 28 October 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
Do the album versions of the previously-released singles differ much?― how's life, Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:04 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinktbh 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, October 15, 2013 3:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how's life, Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:04 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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, October 15, 2013 3:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
can anyone weigh in on this?
― how's life, Monday, 28 October 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link