their recently released eponymous LP may be the best album i've heard this year (i haven't heard that many but still). good production (would like more electropoppish stuff ala 'Fucking Boyfriend' but also the neat self-harmony overdubs here and there) mostly handled by Kurstin, sweet vocals by Day, simple but smart lyrics generally - but i have a hard time describing it all properly in any meaningful way. early 90s Vega sprang to mind as a comparison but tell me what/who it reminds you of.
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
that's Inara GEORGE, not Day. i knew i would confuse her with Inaya Day...
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It reminds me of Matthew Herbert and Dani Siciliano circa Bodily Functions, only prettier.
― Matthew H, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm. Forgot that was my handle. I'm not Matthew Herbert.
― Matthew H, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i should've made the Siciliano similarity connection - that's who i was trying to think of. nothing as boppin' as 'The Audience' or 'Suddenly' here but yeh just as pretty for sure.
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this too. Kurstin also did some work on the Lily Allen record.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still waiting for her to front Little Feat
― zaxxon25, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw this band live open for Lily Allen and thought "wow, there is nothing about this band i don't like." and then i bought the unbelievably bloodless no-fun record and thought "wow, there is nothing about this band i like."
― smash your phonograph in half, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
what other stuff do you like in this (bloodless) vein?
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
somebody put this on an mp3 cd for me but i haven't listened yet.
― get bent, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
now THAT is a diss
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw them open for Lily Allen and the lead singer was wearing a dress with a huge, wide plunging neckline and I swear she had no breasts. Completely flat, no nipples, no nothing. I keep thinking it was some sort of optical illusion.
― musically, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this album (although I have to program one of the tracks out so my five year old can't pick up the language - the toilet mouths).
― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the better tracks tho (it stands out at least)
― blueski, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
don't like the recent EP :( but the one before that (Now Please Clap Your Hands) was great
― blueski, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe Kurstin used up all his good songs for the TashBed and Kylie albums.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 12 May 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"Birthday" is really moving, I think. That may be cos I first heard it in the week of my birthday though.
― Jeff W, Monday, 12 May 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
-- musically, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:05 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link
Well, SHE HAITIN
― Savannah Smiles, Monday, 12 May 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to a leak of the new album and I have to admit there's a couple great songs on it.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Gosh, after resisting, I've realized that I'm a Broken Heart is a great great song. What a chorus.
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the bird and the bee, the duo of singer Inara George and multi-instrumental/Grammy-nominated producer Greg Kurstin, are set to release "Guiltless Pleasures Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates," on EMI’s Blue Note Records on March 23. Following up 2009’s Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future, the acclaimed band’s third full-length album is a love letter to famed “rock and soul” duo Hall & Oates that features eight classic covers along with one new original song.
Tracklist: 1. Heard It On The Radio
2. I Can't Go For That
3. Rich Girl
4. Sarah Smile
5. Kiss On My List
6. Maneater
7. She's Gone
8. Private Eyes
9. One on One
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
looks maybe pretty good, although after the ode to David Lee Roth on the last album I think I'd be more interested in them doing a Van Halen tribute
― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
― zaxxon25, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:09 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
her singing "Trouble" on the Feat's 2008 album was what got me into her band, btw.
― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd be more interested in them doing a Van Halen tribute
could do a brilliant cover of Why Can't This Be Love
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"Diamond Dave" is kind of about how Hagar ain't shit so
― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw them live on a college campus and they did 'I Can't Go For That'...was pleasantly surprised
― iatee, Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This is called "Interpreting the Masters" and it's fucking awesome. I've been listening basically to it, H&O originals, repeat.
― More more more ass we are all addicted to ass (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 24 May 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
And it's on BLUE NOTE, per Wikipedia, wtf?
― More more more ass we are all addicted to ass (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 24 May 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
all their albums are on Blue Note. no idea why. funny to think people got up in arms about Norah Jones a few years ago.
― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Monday, 24 May 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
can't work out whether i like or loath the hall and oates record. it's not as if they're making rock songs into pop or vice versa, or that there's some sort of real point to the re-interpretation. or improving them with better vocals (if anything the vocals are really lazy in comparison). and its very very greys anatomy. overall it just seems a bit...pointless. but i'm listening to it again for some reason.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's definitely kind of an odd exercise (especially given that they're just doing the hits, not salvaging any deep cuts), but it's still a really enjoyable record.
― Prince SBanBan (some dude), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep revisiting this band and being pleasantly surprised. I think it's one of the few things I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I like.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
new album leaked. on first spin, very solid. don't love her voice, but some great tracks
― mingalaba, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
ooh, I'll have to pick it up. I like this group though when I first heard them I thought they were going to be some kind of neat take on that Freezepop/Peaches electroclash sound, classed up a bit and with a singer who can actually sing, I'm kind of disappointed that they turned out doing more of a 60's noir revival thing. I relistened to the first album, "I am Camera" still sounds awesome to me, though the album takes a massive dive right after. Would've been an amazing 7-song EP!
― frogbs, Friday, 7 August 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Listening to "Will You Dance?" To me this is boring adult contempo, but I do feel I'd enjoy hearing this band play some Hall and Oates.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
They just released an album of Van Halen covers and it's great!
― DT, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
But what does some dude think? Was the 9 years worth the wait?
(I like it, especially “Unchained”)
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
Love the 'Panama' cover
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 August 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), jueves 28 de enero de 2010
Some dude asked, they listened.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
can someone please rate this on a scale of "doesn't sound anything like Pomplamoose" to "sounds like a lot like Pomplamoose"
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
This is infinitely better than Pomplamoose.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
ok I'm listening now and I'm impressed by how not-gimmicky it sounds
except for the songs that sound gimmicky no matter who does them like "Hot For Teacher"
Inara George's voice is really something
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
like I don't think using her in place of DLR (who always sung "like a girl" anyway) is too big a deal, but doing these songs without guitar is pretty interesting
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link