The Rapture

- McLusky

The Ratpure

rough trade have a good double-disc compilation out, "rough trade post punk 1.0"

...for buying new shoes at Urban Outfitters to!!!!

Well this happened...

http://pitchfork.com/news/54269-the-rapture-have-broken-up/

that picture makes me want to start a early-00s band photo nostalgia thread

God it must've been miserable to be in the Rapture post-Echoes

Why? They travelled the world, got to make some albums that sold and so on..

Unless there were personal issues I don't know of..

Their best lp was the most recent one, though "best" is only being used in context here.

I'm basically a "HoJL" or gtfo person.

Oh yeah, true. Ws thinking like a purespirited teen or something

did they do anything else that was anywhere near as good as 'House of Jealous Lovers'? I love that track, everything else I've heard was so dire I can't bring myself to listen to the albums trying to find other gems.

I Need Your Love is as good, I think.

"how deep is your love" from the most recent record was pretty enjoyable.

How Deep Is Your Love was one of the three best piano-house singles of that year

Too bad "How Deep Is Your Love" was the only good song from that album.

Pieces Of The People We Love was a fun and underrated album but it's weird how they managed to feel so anachronistic so quickly when the rest of the DFA stable managed to sustain careers right to the end of the 00s. Moving away from DFA might have been the problem.

They went back though, didn't they?

House Of Jealous Lovers, I Need Your Love and How Deep Is Your Love are all brilliant.

Get Myself Into It was a good one too

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywFIwI5syk

I am also a big fan of "Olio" and "Killing"

It feels about right that they're ending it now. Weirdly, they survived for quite a while by being huge in Australia. I think in the years between Pieces and the last album they periodically toured Australia and got big bucks from it. All off the back of a (really quite terrible) Matty Safer penned track named "No Sex for Ben", which was a big hit there.

"How Deep is Your Love" was the only thing I kept off that execrable album. I loved Pieces Of The People We Love though.

ok so i never actually heard "how deep is your love" before and was not prepared for the chorus to rip sisqo

"wayuh (woo alright yeah uh huh)" is my jam. that whole album was excellent

Echoes is a classic imo

Too bad "How Deep Is Your Love" was the only good song from that album.

that was my opinion at first too but then I heard "It Takes Time to be a Man" on a mixtape and was like "hey this is good, who is it?!" and it turned out it was The Rapture. so I like that one too.

almost everything off Echoes is great, then after that I liked about one single per album.

same here pretty much

i liked their danceable stuff on the first two albums, but any time they took that out of the equation i couldn't find a reason to listen

Really good Radio 1 Essential Mix if you can find it...

I think it was released as a 2xCD.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/tracklistingarchiveshtml.shtml?20031026

Loved loved loved the Rapture as part of being in my 20s in the early aughts and dancing and romancing to the smooth disco punk sounds. I really like the first album a whole helluva lot, and then I ended up seeing them open for the Cure and it was a huge let-down. It was like the tight, claustrophobic disco-punk style was just completely deflated in an open-air atmosphere. I wonder if they had just stayed w playing smaller clubs the music would've stayed tighter.

Am I the only person who thought the last track on Echoes was incredible and wished they had continued in that Talk Talk/Ennio Moriccone vibe instead of what they did?

my only the rapture memory is being 15 years old discovering pitchfork going out to buy echoes cause they picked it #1 and hating it

never ever got the appeal of this band, or their shrieking signature-song.

"Echoes" and its widespread critical success was the moment I realized I had different taste than the averaged-out taste of widespread critics. Kind of a sophomoric realization to be sure? But "Echoes" was exactly the moment that I realized this

I liked "Out from the races and on to the tracks" on disc, saw them live on that tour (with KITES? I think? maybe?) and have since and forever have said "no" to this band

xp zachlyon yes same exactly except I was much older :/

now that i think of it i had the exact same experience with sonic youth

I didn't get into them until I heard the reworked version of "Olio" they recorded for Echoes which sounds like Robert Smith singing over LCD Soundsystem

^^otm I always thought it sounded like a remix for a lost Faith track.

I recently got the LP version of Echoes.. The tracks "Coming of Spring" and "House of jealous lovers" are not mixed together

xpost @goon tie, I had a similar reaction when <i>Echoes</i> came out. At the time, my cynical thought was that there was a strong desire among some critics for there to be a definitive "dance-punk" record, and "House of Jealous Lovers" (which came out at least 10 months before <i>Echoes</i>) was such a monster jam that it kind of anointed The Rapture as the defining band of this genre.

So what happened was an uneven, okay-but-a-little-disappointing record was hailed primarily to signify that dance-punk/neo-post-punk's moment had arrived.

I kind of wish I had the exact same reaction as you, instead of the type of motive-impugning quasi-conspiracy theory that I cooked up. But I was disappointed in this record, especially since I had really enjoyed the "Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks" EP.

I remember I was on a train to go see them in Dublin (touring "Echoes") and I realised halfway through my journey that I had forgotten my ticket :/

srsly do not understand ppl who do not think Echoes is amazing

It is.

Honestly, I may be totally off the mark in my assessment of Echoes, and I'll give it another listen. I haven't listened to it literally since the week it came out.

me neither but at this point it's a lose/lose situation

I think I like many other people in their early 20s had a very personal and incandescent idea about What Was Good About DFA and for me it was Black Dice and "Losing My Edge" and the rerecorded Liquid Liquid track, less so NYC's version of Hot Hot Heat and their deal-breaker lyrics.

Man, Hot Hot Heat were great as well! At least in brief moments.

I love HoJL and several other Rapture Tracks, but Echoes doesn't work for me as an album. Doesn't really build and flow.

my main memory of these guys is playing a show with them at the SFSU student union on some random weeknight and they went on after everything else in the building (the food court, bookstore, etc.) had shut and all that was left in the whole building was this gaggle of kids huddled around the space that had been cleared away as a "stage". they opened with a Gang of Four cover and people went apeshit, Luke climbed up on one of the dining tables. It was pretty awesome. I was surprised (but not THAT surprised) when they became so huge a couple years later

DFA productions with Tim Goldsworthy >>>> without. Just another example is the very average LP The Rapture released on DFA once they finally realised (8 years late) they should have just toughed out the unreliability of James and Tim while recording.

First night of the comeback tour in Glasgow last night and yikes. It wasn't all bad but their new drummer has sick chops... sick enough to get in the way of the grooves unfortunately, I felt like I'd actually gone to see Battles in some places. They did 40 mins, a break, then their two biggest singles and called it a night. We thought it was a break and not an encore situation. Doors at 8.45 and we were sitting in the next bar by 9.40. No Olio, no I Need Your Love, no Get Myself Into It. Not awful exactly, but probably the most disappointing show I've ever been to.