new bloc party album - a weekend in the city

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (212 of them)

View Previous Page...

"black, gay and an indie rocker? i welcome more people like kele being open about that sort of thing"

24 carat gold

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

good to know we can have openly black pop performers in the oh-seven.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Openly indie-rock performers too.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Kele is a pretty sucky vocalist.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, you guys are right. there are just TONS of black artists that are openly gay out there. nothing unusual about kele at ALL.

yeah he is a shit singer.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Tsk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i suggest more falsetto ala matt bellamy lolz

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh how I wanted to like this. Hope the leak isn't what's released.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cassidy" is a really great record. "Uniroyal" is one of my favorite songs of all time. And I kept thinking of the Bows singer when I first heard this new Bloc Party record, never once putting the "black and gay" pieces together. But in retrospect, yeah, there's that, too.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

oh maaaaan! that picture! thats crap compared to the original! its looks too much like the streets one he did. what are they thinking ??

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Bizarrely, The Daily Express review of this today describes it, in the opening line, as "A neat little follow up". I don't imagine that's quite what BP had in mind...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

'i still remember' is fantastic, easily their best song so far.
it's possibly because the singer doesn't feel the need to suddenly go all deep on us and sing "we...bury..ourSELVES.in.the.GARDEN" or whatever the fuck.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

This album contains some of the worst lyrics I've heard for some time.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i have googled the lyrics and they are amazingly, unspeakably bad.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, there are some amazingly clunky lyrics, and i've been trying to avoid listening to them, and certainly haven't read any of them, so can only imagine how bad they are.

the album is growing on me, though - and I saw them live last night and they were *fantastic*, new songs and all.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I think most of their singles have been pretty decent so far! Maybe not 'Pioneers' though, cursed by obvious & searingly over-earnest lyrics as it is...

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like "I Still Remember".

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It's pretty soppy and sentimental and middle-of-the-road and I'd never call it "easily their best song so far", but I can't think of anything making it hugely un-likeable.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 2 February 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Note; that's not "I hate it", just "I don't like it". Lack of like, not presence of dislike.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

calling southall: REPLY TO BUMPED EMBRACE THREAD

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

CALLING JAGGER: REPLY TO BUMPED LONG FIN KILLIE THREAD.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

This album contains some of the worst lyrics I've heard for some time.

OTM - I am currently trying to Google the lyrics to the b-side (cheap shot, maybe) of the 'Prayer' single. They are mind-blowing, seriously.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember the title, but he screams "Staring into my coffee!
It is not black! Just a shade of brown!" really dramatically.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

We meet inside the café
The air is thick like hospital
Choked by the gold on your finger
We were lovers

Bury the thoughts that resurface
Those hands were mine

And now our love has been forgotten
Like it was never there
We're just sitting here like strangers
You gave me yourself for just a little while
But it was you, it was really you

Staring into my coffee
It is not black just a shade of brown
Too scared to let our eyes meet
What will we see?

And now our love has been forgotten...

The space between us
Will not be beat
Oceans and past lives
We were lovers

― Matt Slack ((1903-70)), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ouch.

I haven't really got much time for girls
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just my nights are occupied with lighting
These damn lamps
???
Oh, and night's a time for courting for girls
Night's a time for courting for girls
Isn't it?

I've been propositioned by girls before
On me lamp rounds
Oh yes, I have
But I'm at pains to explain it's not my line of trade
Buying flowers and chocolate mice
It's just the thought of commitment's totally wild
Any sort of commitment's out of order
Isn't it?

I've had some girls come up to me
Who said it won't take that long
Just a quick one up the back
One for the road
And I'm at pains to explain I'm not that type of guy
Send the sulking (?) bitches on their way

I seem to have a lot more time for guys
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just their wit and charm and conversation
Captures youth and that's the truth
Oh and youth's the time when cares traipse free...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Is anyone in the press mocking these lyrics or are they all being "post-milennial urban anxiety concept album blah blah blah"?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Doarian in The Guardian mentions them but it's a very short piece. My Stylus piece will probably run Monday. I don't ridicule, but I do criticse.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

it's precisely by trying to court broadsheet readers that they've gawn wrong with these lyrics, so far as i can tell.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

pop lyrics being slightly clunky... crikey

― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw a review that read the lyrics 'now is not the time for liberal fools' straight, as a statement of intent.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article2205116.ece

not a good review, but the berlin wall reference is kind of alarming!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I was considering mentioning the "after sex / the bitter taste / been fooled again" line but I thought I'd sound too much like my mum - "wait until you know someone a bit better before you sleep with them, dear".

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

But, jeez, Sick Mouthy, youth's the time when cares traipse free...

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly, so he should either put up and shut up with his aimless, loveless fucking around, or change tactic!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

From the down-with-Hoxton opening track, a lyric I noticed too late to write about, but which deserves much derision:

At Les Trois Garcons
we meet at precisely 9 o'clock.
I order the foie gras
and I eat it with complete disdain.

Don't order the fucking foie gras then, you tit.

― Dorian MA Lynskey (Dorian Lynskey), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I was quoting him! (xpost)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought it seemed familiar.

I'd have bitched about (and paid more attention to) the lyrics so much more if the production wasn't so hideous.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Send the sulking (?) bitches on their way

i always thought it was 'slack-jawed bitches'.

― keyth (keyth), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It is, that site I c&p'd from has it wrong. The lyrics for LLL are in the bloody sleeve!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 February 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the nme cover story this week is priceless - they go to les trois garcons, the old blue last etc etc to expose the dark heart of shoreditch.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 3 February 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah you have to laugh.

he's paraphrased an old un-used richey edwards lyric on one track too.

manics fans will know it when they hear it.

― pisces (piscesx), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

recently spotted Bloc Party fan on youtube:

00Trent (2 weeks ago)
Like all their song's there is a great message. fantastic band.
(Reply) (Spam)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I still really really like "Banquet" fwiw

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I still think So Here We Are is absolutely terrific.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

a guy i work with loves this band, but everything he plays me always leaves me cold. i stay optimistic because of the LFK comparisons here, but i'm not feeling it. is it just the 'black&gay' thing? blah.

we've talked about about sutherland here for me to feel justified in asking if anyone knows what he is up to. cassidy came out in.. 2001?

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Monday, 5 February 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The LFK think is down to the percussion (esp. by Amelia) and the voice / lyrics. The guitar / song approaches are different. They're both quite artrock though, just from different directions, perhaps.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm finding this album deeply frustrating now in that the rest of the band (guitarist and drummer in particular) play a bit of a blinder - the guitars sound great and the rhythms are kind of interesting. Tim F was OTM elsewhere about the post-95 dnb influence in there, The Prayer especially.

In many ways this is exactly what I want modern slightly arty rock music to sound like but Kele drags it down with his bad singing and atrocious lyrics - This Is Not Home epitomises the whole problem really. Vocally at least, most of the songs use exactly the same melodic melodic tics, like Kele's sort of fumbling around in search of a tune.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean "Where Is Home?", aye? fwiw I think the guitar sound is almost universally horrible on this record, especially on Song For Clay and SRXT.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Luke Sutherland released a new Music A.M. record last year, "unwound from the wood". He was also playing violin with Mogwai again when they were here in September.

― barnaby69 (barnaby68), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 112 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.