fair enough, but from the interviews I've read with Neneh she said his job was more taking away things than adding them. It's definitely more of a collaboration but surely rocketnumbernine should be getting most of the credit for the music on the album
― Number None, Monday, 24 February 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Four Tet @FourTet 3manyone writing about my production on the Neneh LP that doesn't acknowledge RocketNumberNine is an amateur.
― Number None, Monday, 24 February 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
wait there are still professional music writers?
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Or maybe, instead of arguing whether this or that dude should get the "most" credit for the album, that credit should go to Neneh Cherry? The liner notes only say that Four Tet produced the album and Rocketnumbernine played the instruments, but since the actual instrumentation on it is really sparse, who knows who made the biggest contribution to it? The fact that it doesn't sound too dissimilar from Cherry's previous music should maybe give us a hint?
Sorry if I'm sounding a bit sour here, but I don't really like the phenomenon that when a woman releases a solo album, music writers are often trying to find the man who's the "real" genius behind it. The same thing happened with the Barbara Panther album, some people were praising Matthew Herbert as if he was the main visionary, even though it seems the songs on it had already been written and demoed by Panther before Herbert even joined the project.
― Tuomas, Monday, 24 February 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
is the bias really based on gender, or on the idea of pop-acts (as opposed to, say, rock acts) not really being the driving-force behind the music?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 24 February 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
go read the Warpaint thread, where discussion of the new album turned into a celebration of Flood and Chris Cunningham
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Cool your jets Tuomas, I was in no way trying to take credit away from Neneh. The point that was raised is that RocketNumberNine are not mentioned once in the Pitchfork review, which considering they played all the music is fairly stupid
― Number None, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Monday, February 24, 2014 1:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's bullshit at least on my part i brought up flood because i was surprised the album worked IN SPITE of the high profile producers
idk who chris cunningham is.
no was was even saying that shit until k8 started in with her schtick...
this new neneh album is great
the thing album was great too!
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
here's the sum total of what was said abt cunningham for the record
i was reading the liner notes this morning and realized that one of them is married to chris cunningham, who took the photos used in the album art.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:03 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Gonna listen to Savages for the next hour now just to spite you all!
i was reading the liner notes this morning and realized that one of them is married to chris cunningham, who took the photos used in the album art.― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:03 PM
WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS OR BB GET VERY VERY VERY UPSET.
― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:04 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
*doesn't go read the warpaint thread*
― The Edge - why is he so bald and hatted? (wins), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
*continues happily in that vein till death*
rip wins :(
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
BB's post there is a joke about her own obsession with Chris Cunningham, not anything more.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
I don't think he was saying it was "anything more", I think he was just quoting it as one of the 2 posts in that thread about chris cunningham who apparently the thread "turned into" a discussion of
anyway, psyched to hear this, I adored the cherry thing & her in general
― The Edge - why is he so bald and hatted? (wins), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
been playing this all day
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
This is a great album. It is amazing how she manages to convey so much frustration and charisma using only her voice, some percussion and one bass tone, and it's amazing how for such a minimal-sounding production it has so many hooks and earworms. It makes sense that she hasn't released anything for such a long time as this sounds like so much pent-up anger being expelled.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
i love this record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
The frenetic almost-rapping she does on the last track sounds amazing! Though it kinda makes me wish she'd do some proper rap too, but I guess those days are far behind (IIRC there wasn't any rapping on Man either).
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link
this record right here
― thuggish ruggish brony (contenderizer), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
I was listening to this with a hangover and really not prepared for the rasping scraping cackling noise she does on the last track.
Enjoyed this on first listen but there's a kind of bluntness to some of her lyrics (and willingness to fall back on well-worn turns of phrase) that jarred with me slightly.
The first song is amazing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
It makes sense that she hasn't released anything for such a long time as this sounds like so much pent-up anger being expelled.
it's only two years since the cherry thing, which was good preparation for the new one in lots of ways - the scratchy expressiveness of her voice in particularly
"spit three times" is amazing
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
and tuomas otm about how perhaps neneh's contribution to her own album was more significant than the producer dudes, especially as she's now made two albums within two years with completely different collaborators and styles that both nonetheless share a definite aesthetic
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:24 (ten years ago) link
Four Tet's bee quite vocal on twitter about how Rocketnumber9 need a lot of the credit people are ascribing to him.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'd heard there'd been Twitter buzz about this album
― The Edge - why is he so bald and hatted? (wins), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
surely Twitter buzz is an onomatopeoic oxymoron?
― i'm a subject; you're a object (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
Four tet's bee is half bird
― The Edge - why is he so bald and hatted? (wins), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
It's not uncommon
The Buzzing of Summer Tweets
― i'm a subject; you're a object (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
can we talk about "Everything" and "Weightless"?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Let's talk about the god damn awesome synth 'bit' 2:50 into the track with Robyn. Fuck me. So cool.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
I like that song a lot but I don't really like Robyn on it, or she doesn't really add much
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, her voice is perhaps too much like diet-Neneh to add much.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
If every vocal on here was pitch-shifted, too cool for school Knife fans would be going nuts over this album.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Weightless is incredible
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
gets better every time i hear it
― thuggish ruggish brony (contenderizer), Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
this is really good. the title track has that skittery intense feel of the thing album although the rest of the album is quite sparse.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
'tis
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 28 February 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Neneh's youngest girl Mabel just premiered her first single today: http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/13/mabel-know-me-better
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 July 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
an early version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcNxCyErog
― had (crüt), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
interesting
I love this song
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 07:31 (six years ago) link
that demo/early version doesn't really hang together does it? they made the different parts sound of a whole in the final version
loving the "whaaa is he liiiike" ad-libs
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 07:32 (six years ago) link
it's a weirdo throwaway remix of another song [the A-side], with one of the guys' girlfriend adding some vocals over the top, not really intended to "hang together" at that point!
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:25 (six years ago) link
aaah, I see
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 08:28 (six years ago) link
Man, had no idea about this. Amazing that something so great could come so casually from something so shite (the A-side). That B-side may not exactly hang together, but all the bits are there, and they wouldn't need much changing.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
wow the A-side really is awful.
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
incidentally, anyone know where i might be able to get the stem samples from the Neneh version? I've been wanting to do a remix of the track for years but no idea where you get this sort of thing
According to wikipedia, the Buffalo Stance single was released on my tenth birthday. I can't find anything else confirming this though. Hope it's true.
― how's life, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
I always thought Buffalo Stance was a weird-ass song so the fact that it started as a remix makes a lot of sense
― had (crüt), Thursday, 15 March 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
nice review from maura
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/neneh-cherry-raw-like-sushi/
― omar little, Monday, 2 April 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
does anybody know who directed the Buffalo Stance music video? is it the same person who did this Sinead O'Connor/MC Lyte vid? are there other music videos from this era that are in this style?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7u7g7oV68
― had (crüt), Monday, 2 April 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link