nothing's yet struck me as an improvement on the late '80s-early '90s stuff they emulate.
the fact that they're alive and doing it now is enough
― goole, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
i do think the SNL mix wasn't very flattering. needed more of a bottom end, i think.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
that's a weird thing to say. first of all, they don't sound precisely like any one style of that time. second, not everything has to be as good as, say, "tango in the night," right? there's room for more in that broad vein? i mean i love late-80s freestyle but I need to listen to more than "let the music play" and "i wonder if i take you home" sometimes.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
whoops, meant to quote rather than strike out. maybe i'm being subconcsiously aggressive.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
lol at Este as MGM lion
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
2013 feels like The Year Women Break Through And Dudes Say "I Heard Stuff Like This Twenty Years Ago"
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
they do have a distinctive sound, and of course there's "room for more" - again, I like them and there's no reason to be defensive about digging them around me. I'm just saying that when I hear them, I think about all the freestyle etc I haven't or could be. For comparison point, the Arcade Fire has songs that I think I superior to Simple Minds/Waterboys etc. And I didn't totally feel that way until their second album.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
think are superior, rather
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
a Haim freestyle album would be awesome
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
i was cool towards this album at first but it has grown on me a bunch and i'm totes infatuated now it's so great
― Mordy , Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
But not HAIM freestyle rap
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
i'm not saying this out of smug pride over knowing their antecedents, just admitting why I don't feel much need to listen to them, despite they're obv being awesome on a lot of levels. would be eager to know what haim are offering (besides "being alive and doing it now," which means little imo when it comes to what music you play at home) that makes them more engaging for others, cuz i'd like to hook into that.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
They combine the eighties stuff with harmonies in unexpected places and the occasional post-punk motif.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
tbh "If I Could Change Your Mind" is the only one that screams 1987 to me. The rest is straight-er Roches.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
ok "sell-out roches" might be angle i can get with
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
of course, this might just boil down to "taste iz taste" and nothing more to be said
on the other hand there's something funny about music that is, to a great degree anyway (and i do think it's being slightly overstated w/r/t HAIM on this thread), consciously revivalist. at first you think, "well, this is good, but what does it mean to be making [e.g.] a 'classicist' soul album in 2013. isn't that kind of redundant?" and then you listen to (say) lee fields's "faithful man," and you remember that there is always room for more, that his record is actually superior to a bunch of canonical soul LPs*, and (this is most significant I think) besides which in 200 years (should humanity still be around and listening to old music) the distinction b/t these various "waves" of a particular genre won't amount to a hill of beans.
*or let's say garage rock. i dislike a lot of garage revival stuff, but some of it is better than almost anything that came out in the 1960s.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
xpost roches? i don't get it, except that they are singing sisters.
have you heard their 1989 album with the syndrums?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah i love plenty of consciously revivalist stuff, but it's not just because i realize more is good, but because i key into what they're doing differently - eagles of death metal earns a "lol canned heat" but there's qualities to their best stuff that're nothing like canned heat. i'm not saying that isn't the case with haim as much as what makes them distinctive has yet to make them more appealing to me. and that's a big "yet."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
some day this thread will pinpoint the exact retro sound haim is aping
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
someday.
"Now if x = Fleetwood Mac…"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ws5XxJgmdMs/Ue6OrMEKGOI/AAAAAAAAAMo/huJfx8hWY2Y/s1600/Looking+at+Difficult+Complex+Equation+%5B146796732%5D.jpg
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
i honestly don't get glib defensive shit like this.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
the key thing about the SNL appearance is that i now know, for absolute sure, how to pronounce their name.
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
at least the anglicized version
― Mordy , Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
ha.
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PCJb3WJm74U/UCWh36KnlLI/AAAAAAAAAHE/w9dwXJvPcVc/s1600/l'chaim.jpg
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://epicsidequest.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/holes-first-law-digging-pickaxe.jpg
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PCJb3WJm74U/UCWh36KnlLI/AAAAAAAAAHE/w9dwXJvPcVc/s1600/l
I wish HAIM sounded a little more like King Crimson Roches, I think.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
i love the bass face the drummer was making the same face and he was barely doing anything
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah, he was giving good drummerface, but he was in the background and out of focus most of the time.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
there should be a category for keyboardface. Chris Lowe perfected it: don't give face at all.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
I thought Ron Mael of Sparks owned the keyboardface category.
― charm/anti-charm annihilation (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ttT7oDZWi8/S7tybWo70uI/AAAAAAAABmE/nURhh4T_E1o/s1600/Russell+Mael.JPG
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
iow Sanpaku, otm.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-music-scene/files/2009/09/Pet-Shop-Boys_9-12-09ZSC_3349.JPG
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
i was so excited to see them in paris this weekend and it turns out it's sold out. despite not saying so on their FB. DECEPTIVE! grrr.
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
The video for "The Wire" is SO EMBARRASSINGLY BAD
― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I heard The Long Run on the radio today and realized that it's a tiny Don Henley in her throat, not MMcD. Same weird staccato!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
they are huge eagles fans
― balls, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
then i think don henley is patient 0!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
Stevie very much otm about that dreadful video
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:42 PM (
DON: Well, yeah.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
lololol was waiting
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:22 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you'd have to be to eat don henley
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
In Eaglesland, Don Henley eats you!
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
Tbh, "Henley In The Throat" sounds like a euphemism for throat herpes.
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
that's not at ALL what i meant
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:40 (ten years ago) link
and i don't mean to insinuate anything like that -- just that she sings like don henley sings
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link