Air - Talkie Walkie

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Has Anyone Heard It Yet?
If so is it any good?

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

yes and yes

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

is it better than 10,000 Hz. Legend?
cause thats my favorite air album

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

so *you're* the one

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

I love it. I think there's another thread if you search for 'talkie'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

i did not like 10,000 hz at all. after that dysappointment i haven't even bothered checking out the new one.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

I have like half of the tracks. They're pretty good, but there's like no dance groove vibe to any. Maybe that is Sofia Coppola's fault.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, there's another thread about having downloaded it. I don't like it.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

dude, it's not like you were sweatin' to Moon Safari (well, not in a dancing kind of way, except for "Kelly Watch the Stars")

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

sorry xpost

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I like this one mostly for returning to that slow-dancing-with-a-beautiful-ladybot-in-an-opium-den-on-Mars vibe that initially turned me on to them (a la Moon Safari). It's a very good album, very gorgeous and almost overwhelming in a few places.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah yeah, but there's even some slinky groove to a couple tracks on Premiers Symptomes. Without that, Air is a bit airy.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

Half of the tracks are very good. the others are a bit dull.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

"Run" might as well be called "Robots Get It On".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

I've only heard 'Venus' and 'Biological' so far and i have to say that i'm very impressed.

― uzumaki (uzumaki), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

"cherry blossom girl" and "surfin' on a rocket" and "mike mills" are all pretty damn beautiful

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, I hadn't heard "run". 's good good good... reminds me of the blade runner soundtrack.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I love the reverbed shaker.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

It is good while I hear it but nothing has stuck with me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

"Cherry Blossom Girl" is truly amazing. The exact middlepoint between My Bloody Valentine (their songwriting/singing) and The Beach Boys.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

have you seen the video for it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

Their voices sound so much more confident and strong on this album than ever before. Spencer waaaay OTM about "Robots Get It On".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

Run is probably my favorite, then Venus.

I'm looking forward to seeing the artwork.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00013PHGS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

i love the record. really fantastic. "surfing on a rock" is my favorite

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

I love robots, so of course I adore this.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

"Surfing On a Rocket" reminds me of Opal's "Happy Nightmare Baby" LP.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

it's the best simulation of being on painkillers that i've yet heard by them (i mean this in a good way!!)

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

how could it be any other way!?@

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

haha true, very true!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

Haha, that cover! They look like they are about to go for a ride in this.

I submitted a review of this to Matos. One descriptor I used was "pixie crunk".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

yeah the gloves are pretty great. They're like mathematicians WHO MEAN BUSINESS.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

it's definitely a consensus record, very middle of the road and inoffensive.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link

it's definitely a consensus record, it's good

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

I might have to go with Keith M's judgment? I mean, I have all their albums aside from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack but it's not anything leaps out at me about this album, whereas all the other ones have at least a few tracks that really stick even though I don't listen to them much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

I like it, ergo Ned must not. It is a law of nature.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 23 January 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

I don't *hate* it but Spencer's note on the Beach Boys/MBV popbliss position of the album sorta sums up my feelings about it in a 'oh that's all right then' sense. I mean, that's nice and all but it's almost like that vein's been so heavily gone over now -- and very little of the album felt propulsive to me, which I think is one of Air's most underrated strengths, actually.

I was going to listen to it again tonight to see if I felt any differently -- the last time I listened to it was a lazy sunny afternoon and the album seemed to melt into the haze -- but I just downloaded Siegbran's 2003 mix and frankly, fuck Air, I am in a happy place. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

position of the album

An overstatement, actually, since he was speaking of a song. Still, most of what I recall of the album seems to slot into that feeling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago) link

does anyone have that City Reading thing?

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

Siegbran's 2003 mix

Where can this be found? His 2002 one still gets a lot of play at Nordic Towers.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago) link

Huzzah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago) link

First impressions of 'Walkie Talkie': bewitching and beguiling, + very lovely.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with Stevo. I think those that are looking for something "propulsive" or "danceable" are looking in the wrong place. This is drifting daydreamy music. It's a few months early for summer, but this would be ideal for a drowsy summer afternoon. Lovely melodies and harmonies. I think this is the first Nigel Godrich production I've heard that I actually like the sound of. This is a a sugary French cream puff of an album.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

Mixed feelings about it. I really liked it the first 3 or 4 times I played it, but then somehow felt that I 'got' it and I've never wanted to hear it since.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Here's the other thread on it:

Come Anticipate AIR's "Talkie Walkie" With Moi

I don't think it's the kind of album that you "get" - like a joke or a mathematical proof - it's something to enjoy.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

My first impressions are the same as Ned's but I don't think this is a bad thing - when I'm listening to it I think it's gorgeous, and I'm sure the memorable bits will reveal themselves over time. Don't know which songs are which yet as I've been too lazy to write out the titles, but my favourite is somewhere in the middle.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

I think those that are looking for something "propulsive" or "danceable" are looking in the wrong place.

Ah, but as I said above, I think it's a strength of theirs that is underrated -- I don't know if *they* underrate it themselves, but I miss its absence. Frankly, I've heard more involving dreamydrift albums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

(I miss its absence? I like that concept! Miss its presence obv.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

Well, as someone's who's never listened to Air before, I did not go into the album expecting "propulsiveness" (or anything else) so that may be why I didn't miss it. The thing I like best about the album are the melodies and harmonies.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

Excuse me, can you people please point out these floor-filling dancefloor stormers that Air has supposedly done?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

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MAKE IT SO!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

*tries to determine who is outnerding who here*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'm the dandy Brandybuck who you're too scared to mention
I spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention
Sauron take your singalongs and your parchment collection!
the way you look you'll qualify for next year's old age pension!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

*tries to determine who is outnerding who here*

Take another look and tell me, baby.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Uh, the hotness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Why do I feel like I recognise Asshat?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

There is some sort of protean 'oh yeah, that guy' look about him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

i'm back, the show was good, the mosquitos were really flakey and corny and terrible.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 17 April 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

Question: If the Postal Service was able to have a huge alternative rock hit, why did "Cherry Blossom Girl" go nowhere?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Maaaaaaan, Funk dat!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm talking about in the U.S., anyway.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Universal Traveller. I never get tired of this album...

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link

michael OTM! haha.

was listening to this is the car the other day. i'm still not happy with the Another Day-Alpha Beta Gaga-Biological run, but the first 5 songs and Alone in Kyoto are incredibly good. I'm glad I still like this so much, given how much I listened to it last spring.

the whole mosquitos discussion upthread is incredibly funny.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

how we feeling now?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard their KCRW performance around the time this came out a couple of months ago and...in one ear and out the other.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

their concert here sucked too. but maybe they're not such a "live performance" band. on the other hand, the first time i saw them live (for moon safari) i'd never heard them before i was instantly a fan.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(i know you meant radio session but it's more or less a live performance on air, right?)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

(btw the second-last sentence should read "i'd never heard them before and i was instantly a fan")

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

(remember "Dude"?)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i know you meant radio session but it's more or less a live performance on air, right?

That's what I believe it was. Lasted about an hour I think, so credit to them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

hahaha
i am "dude"

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

and this album is still awesome

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I must be weird because I only really really like 10,000hz the Legend and Discovery by Daft Punk out of the albums by these French bands whereas most people claim the other ones are good too.

Talkie Walkie is unchallenging "nice" stuff.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Talkie Walkie sounded nice when it came out, but I have no desire to hear it again. 10,000hz sounded crap when it came out and it still did everytime I gave it another go. 'Electric Performes' is great though.

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Electronic Performers is the only trac k I don't really like on there - can't get past the Ibuprofen-advert voice on there.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the video is amazing

― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i like talkie walkie a lot. it's definitely unchallenging but not every record has to be challenging! especially a record like this!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

premieres symptomes still my favourite for sentimental reasons.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

i still like it - bits of it are challenging in their unfrontonable feyness

― jones (actual), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

this is a very consistent and enjoyable record.

it's also endured. i still listen to it periodically, and get a kick.

i've been including 'venus' and 'alone in kyoto' on a couple of mixes recently

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, it does endure fer sher - also very consistant and enjoyable :-)

― Surmounter, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

damn, this record's one of the sweetest fusions of french and japanese sentiments i've ever heard. my two very favourite countries to visit!

also, i just noticed this upthread:

"(the true test of this recording is a friend listening to it on repeat on his ipod on a direct fight from la to sydney, it really is like entering another world)"

i'm flattered that you think heading to sydney is like entering another world! ;)

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Are these guys worth seeing live?

― mitya, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i only saw them once, during their moon safari tour. it was interesting but very static. nice to look at (everyone and everything being white) and listen to but i wasn't that much of an experience (if that makes sense).

― willem, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Thank you, iTunes Genius playlists, for pulling out "Cherry Blossom Girl" and making me listen to it, thus getting me to finally "get" what the big deal about Air was.

― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Friday, 13 February 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

this album is so fantastic; "Mike Mills" for all time

― Euler, Friday, 13 February 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

this album = fantastic

― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link

their best imho. surfin on a rocket

― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link

I agree. too bad they've since drifted fully into snoozeland.

― Simon H., Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Best album.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Funny, I was going to dig this out today...

― dog latin, Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

I dug it out around the holidays and played it nonstop for a couple of days. RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Run and Venus are all time

― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link

I think, although I preferred 10,000hz at the time, that this is an equally good album.

― dog latin, Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link

I love love love this album. "Mike Mills" is the highlight for me.

The newest album was quite disappointing.

― Euler, Thursday, 4 February 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, they really pressed the snooze button after this one. A shame.

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 4 February 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link

I dunno, I dig Pocket Symphony and Love 2 as well. When this came out, it felt like a bit of a retreat for me, like they were backpedaling on 10,000hz by making their music very translucent. Still a great album though, and the live versions of "Another Day" and especially "Biological" are tops.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 5 February 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejuRi57o400

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 5 February 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link

does anyone know if 'alone in kyoto' was composed for lost in translation? cuz she's alone ...in kyoto when this song comes on

― !aNiMeGaLaXy (Future_Perfect), Friday, 5 February 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link

wikipedia:

Air have often collaborated with American film director Sofia Coppola. They composed the music to her debut film The Virgin Suicides. Air drummer and former Redd Kross member Brian Reitzell put together the soundtrack to Lost in Translation including one original contribution by Air titled "Alone In Kyoto". The soundtrack for Coppola's film Marie Antoinette features a track by Air.

― bnw, Friday, 5 February 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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