less chance to have bad songs if you only release one song
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― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
geez i guess covid is over?
Particularly in England, the vast majority do seem to think it is all over. Of course, everyone is going to catch Covid at some point so maybe going out to gigs / clubs is maybe just hastening the inevitable?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
so wait they are playing shows despite only having one song? What do they do for the rest of the time onstage?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
all night long all night long on the....
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
so this is out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c
― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
not loving it because it does kind of sound like a franz ferdinand song, but it's fun and thats okay
― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
very standard UK indie with slightly elevated presentation?
― imago, Sunday, June 27, 2021 7:53 PM bookmarkflaglink
Hey, imago was right!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Should I be 'SPENDING TIME' with this band
― kinder, Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
The Undertones would like their lobster bibs back.
https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_UNDERTONES_HYPNOTISED%2B%2B%2BLOBSTER%2B-%2BEX-742797.jpg
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 September 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
Literally everything has to be a 90s reference now
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)
I found the lyrics to 'Chaise Longue' pretty cringe and that stopped me liking it but the line about B66 perfectly captures the sort of That Fucking Guy this song is about, I really like it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Like, it is Cinema Guy who talks non-stop about '70s cinema, especially the "edgy shit", except updated. The '90s were 30 years ago, it's so totally the same thing for their generation.
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
Makes sense
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
I find this mildly more palatable but also less interesting than Chaise Longue
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
I think I've worked out the reason Chaise Longue annoys me is because the opening lines are almost identical to 'Pulled Up' by Talking Heads
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
Fell down a Vincent Gallo rabbit hole for a bit after watching. His website is really something. Not a good something, obv.
― Position Position, Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
I actually watched The Brown Bunny for the first time last week. Thought it was a terrible self-indulgent mess until the ending, now have very mixed feelings about it, there is a nugget of something really good in there, but the cinematography was very poorly done.Still love Buffalo 66 but no desire to check out anything else Gallo-related.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
this song is horrendous
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
i love "chaise lounge", just think the way they built that song is great, just kinda simple but really effective songwriting. this new one i'm less sold on but i think they're pretty interesting
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
This is fun and mostly forgettable.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Damn was hoping i’d get to start the thread about this band.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
I love them of course.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
This live version of Chaise Longue that came out last week got a decent chuckle out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FELWZcmZw
Whatever they do with their career, I'm just eternally grateful to them for speaking the words chaise longue out loud because I've been running around calling it a chase lounge for eternity. I feel very continental now.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
hah, that has endeared me to them (and the song) a fair bit I must say
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
that was good fun
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
New song really really really not at the level of Chaise Longue
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
+1 for "not getting it at all"
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
I imagine people my age would be talking about the funny new Breeders single a lot, people the age of the band Wet Leg would probably just tell their parents that band they like has a new funny song.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.nme.com/news/music/wet-leg-named-ambassadors-for-independent-venue-week-2022-3080853
this band has released TWO SONGS
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 October 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
I get that they feel like a new exciting and distinct proposition in the greater "UK indie" landscape but this is odd.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 31 October 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
Every generation needs its “Where’s me Jumper?”
They will get really sick of doing it when the touring kicks in.
― Position Position, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
'Smoko' was surely this generation's Where's Me Jumper?. Maybe there's an allocation for one per hemisphere.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Sometimes elevated presentation is enough
― imago, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
i don't mind this band or these songs, but this is otm:
I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:54 AM (two weeks ago)
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:54 AM (two weeks ago)
― alpine static, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/30/wet-leg-omeara-london-review
According to the band, they formed at the top of a ferris wheel, drunk, after a 2019 Idles festival set.
Chambers and Teasdale might have named themselves after a loss of bladder control – there is a wicked ick factor to a lot of their lyrics – but “wet leg” could equally describe the ejaculatory critical response to them.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
I assumed the latter, but am curious myself.
― Lee626, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
Or maybe she just spilled her diet coke
― Lee626, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
Wet Dream has grown on me, I hope there's a live video coming from the festival above.
"Why does band X get this attention but not band Y" is such a dead end to go down. The Breeders had a platinum record (almost) 30 years ago, Warpaint is big, not hard to imagine why this version of sprechgesang is more approachable than Dry Cleaning (or Billy Nomates or Lithics or etc.).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Dry Cleaning haven't, to my knowledge, done anything close to as immediate or as catchy as this one. I totally get why it's popular although yeah I also don't think it's THAT remarkable beyond a certain amount of strange novelty. It's a juggernaut though, isn't it? I'm getting it advertised to heavily on social and I'm going to guess that most non-rock music fans I know are aware of it.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 1 November 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
it's not like we're paying huge amounts of attention to what's otherwise going on in British indie music either
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
Really want to hear Kim Deal singing Chaise Longue now.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 1 November 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
And now I want to hear Black Francis singing it.
[screaming:] Would ya like us to assign someone ta buttah ya muffin?[four bars of asthmatic wheezing]
― Vast Halo, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
I mean "UMass" and "Chaise Longue" make kind of a good A-side/B-side "I Went To College And It Was OK" record
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Trying to sleep but I've got this mashed up in my head with Beez In The Trap
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3PJwPMHzQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
OH MY GOD
they have a third song
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Honestly though, what an absolute triumph of PR this has all been. The industry's still got it
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Apparently they played seven songs at their Pfork Fest Paris show (doesn't say if they were all originals, ha ha).
But yeah I don't really "get it" w/r/t this particular band...
― quiet coyote (morrisp), Monday, 29 November 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
^^ Agree with both posts. I think 'Oh No' works within the context of the album but I'd never want to hear it on its own. I'd probably skip it if I had the CD but it's too much hassle on vinyl.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 18 July 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I still think the pre-release singles (including “Chaise Lounge”) are the weakest tracks, but I’ve grown to like them well enough in the context on the album. Even “Oh No!”
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
I can’t think of another situation where I disliked all the singles, heard the album, and was like — “Wait a minute…”
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
(Although apparently “Too Late Now” was the 3rd single? I must have overlooked it, that one’s great)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
Have you heard the Soulwax remix of Too Late Now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvCsiP6EkY
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dza9y6cg0
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 July 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
Really doesn't work without the bratty way the Chats dude says "smoko"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 July 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
This is exactly what happened to me with Nine Inch Nails' Hesitation Marks. Hated every advance track, but loved them in the context of the album.
(Wet Leg sucks. I'm glad that Bandcamp Daily writer pasted them one.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 22 July 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Nine Inch Nails sucks
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 July 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Three Inch Nail IIRC
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 23 July 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
I wanted to like this but 40 minutes is very long
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/109046-008-A/wet-leg/
― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
For a set?
They sold out their upcoming Atlanta show in a matter of minutes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
going to see 'em in San Antonio because I want to get in on the ground floor
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 22 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Extra sleaze works for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLrnkwRTaQQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
“Angelica” sounds great on Radio 1 at 8:22 in the morningThere’s something of the Stereolab in them imo
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 March 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link
My wife has the CD in her car and it's certainly grown on me. I've been racking my branes and it dawned on me the other day: the band they remind me of more than anything is the Young Knives.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 3 March 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link