― rx-tech, Monday, 24 February 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
i find molko's voice a bit grating over the course of an album, too.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
This one just happens to have absolutely NO pop to speak of, and not much to break it up, so listening to the whole thing is a bit of a chore. Not even pop of the fuzzed-up, shit-kicking "Brick Shithouse" variety, or bizarre, transgendered, drug-fucked torch song pop ala "My Sweet Prince" or pure hook heaven like "Nancy Boy". I can only imagine myself listening to half of this new one - I don't think I'll ever like "Something Rotten" or "Plasticine" as they are crap.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rx-tech, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Calum Robert, Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rx-tech, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zilverberg.tk (zilverberg.tk), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Bulletproof Cupid" - an instrumental"This Picture" - very melodic and similar to the singles from 'Without You...'
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 31 March 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
My other half reckons the intro to 'This Picture' is ripped from a Pixies bassline. Can't see it myself. Can anyone identify (he can't name the song but insists it's so - and was right about 'Special K' owing something to Blondie's 'Dreaming' so I'm intrigued.
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
And I still don't get it! "Something Rotten" is one of the crappest things I've ever heard. "Plasticine" is rub, and "Protect Me From What I Want" sounds like it could have been really good, but it doesn't work. Still think there's not enough pop.
Buy it Ned and prove me right! Or something. It's probably worth it for "Special Needs", "This Picture" and "Second Sight", anyway.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:24 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
Personally I think Bulletproof Cupid, This Picture and Bitter End are worth the entry fee, but none is as poppily gorgeous as Special K or as viciously poignant as.. ooh, anything on Without You I'm Nothing. Special Needs has it's moments but the 'chair with four wheels' line makes me laugh every time and I'm not sure that's the intention. Something Rotten is vile (now usually I can find something to like about vile but not this time), Plasticine is bobbins and the one about being your anchor and your bathwater, or whatever it is, sounds like something the Mission would have thrown away. Dire.
I need to make a Good Bits of Placebo mix CD - I love em but when they get it wrong they don't do it in half measures.
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 23 June 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
I'm listening to Black Market Music right now and I'm happy as a clam!
i thought this had been cleared up, you know?
You are denied.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
I'm neither a fan nor a detractor of the band. They're around, sometimes I'll listen to them, and we can co-exist peacefully.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
reading Ned's reviews linked above in fact gave me a bit of a turn, as i thought i must surely be turning into him. !! :O
hee.
― janni (janni), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:01 (twenty years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― janni (janni), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― rainman (rainman), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
― janni (janni), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 15 January 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
Listening to this tonight and beginning to feel it might be their last good album - 'Bulletproof Cupid', 'The Bitter End', 'Plasticine', 'Special Needs', 'Second Sight', 'Protect Me From What I Want' ... Superb.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 15 December 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link