The Knife 'Heartbeats'

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It feels like ages since I wholeheartedly fell in love with a song, but I've really got it bad for this one. As the thread title says it's by The Knife, it's called 'Heartbeats' and it's out on Rabid. The original is a lovely synth pop thing, but there's a remix by Rex the Dog that's even better and makes me wish I still went clubbing as often as I used to.
It's bloody fantastic, I'm sharing the love.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

We had a promise made/ we were in love

If this isn't massive I shall be very disapointed. It's getting played by Erol Alkan and Mylo at the moment.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I didn't know there was a Rex The Dog remix.

The original charms the pants off of me.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"If this isn't massive I shall be very disapointed"

Wasn't this song from last year though?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The info I've got says it's out in the UK on Sept. 20th. I'd not encountered it before.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

you can hear it 10mins from the end of steve lamacq's show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/tracklistings/lamacq_tracklistings2003.shtml

i love it, i really hope i can find an mp3 later...

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Did a little research, it was originally released in Sweden in Novemebr 2002, with the album "Deep Cuts" following in January 2003.

See:
ihttp://www.rabidrecords.com/theknife/biography.html

Looks like the album is being issued in the UK this September:
ihttp://www.theknife.net/

Anyway, Matthew Fluxblog to thread!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Knife is awesome. 'Deep Cuts' was a big surprise indie hit in Sweden when it first came out and 'Heartbeats' was even covered by fellow Swedish indie superstar José González. Totally worth tracking down.

― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i made my friend tomas in sweden send me everything by knife, after hearing 'heartbeats' - i can't get enough of them. and the José González cover is beautiful, too.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'You Make Me Like Charity' is great as well.

― Fergal (Ferg), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been in love with "Heartbeats" for a while now - I think I first heard it around May 2003. I've posted it twice to my blog, and I featured the Gonzalez acoustic version too. It's just such a jaw-droppingly amazing song, I can't imagine ever not loving it.

The Rex The Dog remix is alright, but it's not anywhere as good as the original.

I like a bunch of the Knife's songs - the next best song after "Heartbeats" is probably "Is It Medicine," which is pretty rocking.

Someone seriously needs to license them and put their stuff out in the US.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

My understanding is that they are very reluctant to relinquish control of their catalogue in any way, so the chances of licensed US release are pretty slim. We shall see.

― Avi (Avi), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend (also called Anna) walked down the aisle to 'Heartbeats' a couple of weeks ago. It's a very good song.

― IAn Sp Ack, Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a copy of Deep Cuts from a friend last Winter. Over all the album as a whole is not up to par with "Heartbeats", but "One For You" is a great track too. And "Hangin' Out" may be the best Ween rip-off I've ever heard.

By the way, I'm gonna get "If this isn't massive I shall be very disapointed" tattooed somewhere on my body... maybe right under my belly button.

― King Pasa, Saturday, 7 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

In a way, it's kinda great being this Secret Hit...

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys should also check out the first Knife album (i think that one has been re-released in UK) a bit different but some of their best ones is on it. The knife is pretty wellknown here in Sweden.

― Heroes + Villains, Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

This one?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 7 August 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes yes yes. The song is completely brilliant and [em]Deep Cuts[/em] while not consistently as great as "Heartbeats", is worthy of your time as well.

Dammit Matthew, what's with you posting Scandinavian Pop Songs called "Heartbeat(s)" and me being obsessed with them for months?

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's to html skills.

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT DOES THIS RECD REMIND ME OF???

The closest I've got is "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren (great track btw) but the vocals are from something completely different.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate it when stuff this brilliant came out so long before i heard it. still can't decide if i love the Rex The Dog mix of 'Heartbeats' more than the original - what sounds like combination of pain and ecstasy in their voices is just beautiful. Listening to the 'Deep Cuts'album now for first time and it's fantastic.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"i could fuck your brains out, bot ahm not eeentrested een thaat liiiiiiife"

best 'stinking cold' voice ever

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

This song is utterly amazing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't even find the Rex The Dog remix.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

here

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

king among men.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just going to say I can't really get into this track and keep thinking it needs a remix.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to the pub now because if I listen to it anymore I may enter a deep depression.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the only thing depressing about it is how old it is - but i guess that's okay

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I may be just on a comedown.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I think I am destined to only ever quite like this track.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well since it sounds (in non-Rex form) straight outta '85 its actual date of recording isn't that important surely!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like a lot of current music heavily influenced by 80s music I never liked at the time, but for some reason this one is reminding me of things I still don't like.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

being dumped?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the music in the rex the dog mix is very like something else.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you posting from the pub or a pit of depression?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

still at home. the pub I'm going to is often a pit of depression though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The micro-processing bits of the remix don't do so much for me, but the vocal bits of it somehow fill in whatever's lacking in the original. They're both so nice!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, is this the ILX 2002 retro-room or something?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Fasten your visor.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm downloading the original now, but i don't really see how anything could be better than that rex the dog mix. that minute and fifteen seconds between choruses is excruciatingly anticipalicious.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i was right. but these are the perils of hearing the house remix prior to the now-plodding original.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"And you/ Keep me awake with wolf's teeth/ Sharing different heartbeats" is just /staggering/. It's like something Mandee would write, maybe.

I haven't heard the house remix and am downloading it now and I am real, real, excited.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god it's magic.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me I must hear the Rex the Dog remix. Just listened to the original again, and I'll be damned if it isn't one of the best pop singles of the decade so far. Such melancholic joy in those voices.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stop listening to this record, I've not played anything in a row and got goosebumps like this since about 1986

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh baby.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

oh. baby.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

if my socks weren't ringing wet I'd have this on repeat all night.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it actually is from 1986 lol

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i prefer the original because of the slower tempo which seems to heighten that odd, thrilling juxtaposition of emotion in the vocals

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Do babies get goosebumps?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't be bothered, but someone should really put a link to this thread on the kompakt thread (assuming i didn't bother a couple of weeks ago, that is).

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Too bad this wasn't on the ILM tracks poll!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

there are also two other remixes of the track! the knife's own "techno" mix and a "style of eye" (?) mix.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theknife.net/images/photos/theknife_03.jpg

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the phantom menace meets.. 8 mile? oh god i'm reaching...

the whole of the "deep cuts" album seems to be all over slsk. someone with a faster connection than me needs to download and tell.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

but the real question is how can these guys get away with all those steel drums when y'all apparently hate P.I.M.P so much

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I do really like it but, fucking hell, calm down you lot, it's not actually as good as "Duel".

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what's "duel"?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i still only like the rex mix actually, i just felt like getting excited about something. upon rereading i see that stevem was listening to the whole album a while ago. what is "duel" again?

xpost

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I feel old now, off to google with you whippersnappers. Or slsk.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember freaky trigger's "duel", was this thing what it was named after?

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No actually.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

cozen, it seems to be a song by 80s german female synthpoppers Propaganda.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

One of them shagged Paul Morley you know!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless the marriage was never consummated.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry Paul Morley)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I do really like it but, fucking hell, calm down you lot, it's not actually as good as "Duel".

But Duel is one of the best songs ever, Tom, so you're not really saying all that much.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, just got to the second chorus in the remix, and yeah, this is brilliant.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it's no Duel, but like Toby says, it's hardly fair comparing it to one of the best songs ever.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

right now, i think it's as good as 'Duel'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

mind you all i can remember of 'Duel' now is the chorus

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've now listened to it five times in a row. I think Stevem might be right.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it sounds too... Chinese.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

racist.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have heard Erol play the Rex The Dog mix actually, I remember it now. btw Rex The Dog must be Ewan Pearson.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Just got the album, which is great and happy-sad gorgeous, except for the odd bonus track on the end where it all goes Gatecrasher circa 1997 trance for NO REASON. I haven't seen the accompanying DVD stuff because my computer is in it's death throws.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It kinda blows my mind that anyone would really prefer the Rex The Dog mix, but really, the song is so deeply great that the arrangement almost doesn't matter. That Jose Gonzalez cover strips it down to being an acoustic folk song, and the genius remains.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something about this song (and the Annie Heartbeat as well for that matter), that just tears me up. It's great, and I'll be downloading the Rex The Dog mix tonight.

Can I be the first person to mention Cyndi Lauper on this thread?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you going to start saying that on every thread from now on?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, why not.

(I don't understand that post for the life of me, incidentally)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I definitely hear the Lauper in it. I'm pretty sure that when I first reviewed the song, I made some kind of remark about the resemblence.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Vocal reminds me of Lene Lovich, especially on ballads like "Too Tender to Touch" or "Tonight".

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"I have heard Erol play the Rex The Dog mix actually, I remember it now. btw Rex The Dog must be Ewan Pearson."

WHO IS REX THE DOG??? This has been bugging me a lot. (Stuff y'all "Prototype" hataz btw)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It has to be Pearson, at least the production in this remix is so so so Pearson. Also he moved to Germany a while ago as far as I remember. I forgot to ask Mayer last week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

by the way, somebody, HELP ME. what label is this on? the rex the dog remix one? I want to order it for the shop.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Mayer denied that it was Pearson in an interview with Sherburne though I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's you? maybe it's me!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Jeremy Healy!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on Rabid, Ronan.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rabidrecords.com/ (down at the moment though).

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

cool thanks! I can now "break" it in Dublin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, having just heard this Rex the Dog mix, it is officially the Best Thing Ever. It's like the post-electroclash "Take Me With You".

I think generally though Rex the Dog has a slightly more camp feel than Ewan Pearson. This is not a bad thing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Good to see the single is being rereleased in September (with the remix) so that we can now all officially pretend it's new.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, the Rex the Dog is Ewan Pearson conspiracy may be disproven by the fact that both artists have contributed remixes to Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence 04" single.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oooooooh so it's not Timo Maas either then, heh

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 28 August 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No certainly not - Timo is never as emotional as Rex. I could have accepted it being Richard X actually but he's discounted due to the Depeche Mode single as well!

Actually I really think Ronan's joking claim that it was Tom Middleton is perhaps the closest anyone's come. Apart from the obvious electroclash patina, both "Prototype" and the "Heartbeats" remixes *feel* very much like him.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

P.S. vindication:

"Q. What do you think makes you so in demand as a remixer?

Ewan: Partly it's just that I'm flavour of the month! Maybe, its cause I take quite a lot of care over the mixes that I do, and I manage to keep a lot of what makes the original record special in my version. In some ways lots of my mixes are quite 'old-fashioned' extended mixes in the manner which were popular pre-house. When one just changed the original enough to make it work in a club and no more. I think artists quite like that + that I usually manage to work with the entire song, rather than just doing a dub and throwing the song away"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And Ewan on Trevor Horn:

"4. Trevor Horn. – Maybe weird to put a producer in a list like this but I'm a massive fan, and much of his work and that of the team he had around him in the 80's like Steve Lipson, Andrew [?], has influenced me greatly. I like the grand scale, the pompous orchestrations, the endless 12-inch re-versions of lots of the records that they made - Propaganda's A Secret Wish, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's first album, Grace Jones' Slave To The Rhythm, Pet Shop Boys Left To My Own Devices and even Yes Owner of a Lonely Heart (yikes!). Despite being mini-epics they are all still fine pop records. The Fairlights and Synclaviers and all that technology which cost several millions of pounds being pushed to the limit - it could all be done on a laptop today. Not too many people seem to want make 'big' records at the moment. In dance, certainly, minimalism has ruled the roost for too long. I'm definitely a maximalist when I'm doing a remix or something - I like to have as much music and orchestration and the full vocal and a danceable groove if possible. I want to have my cake and eat it. "

I'm so pleased that this guy agrees with my own assessment of his approach!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha and even more vindication!

"9. Colors - "Am I Gonna Be The One?" – One of my favourite 12"s from that weird early 80's hinterland post-disco and pre-house. It's a great song and a brilliant mix from Shep Pettibone. I love so many of his mixes - in the last couple of years I've tried to use an old-fashioned 'extended' remix structure when it's been suitable for a project, keeping as much of the original as possible and opening it out; toughening it up enough to make it into a dance record without losing what made it special in the first place. This model of remixing kind of got thrown out at the end of the 90's where instead we got the new track with a tiny snippet of the original in there somewhere. "Am I Gonna Be The One" is an example of the extended mix at its best and a cracking song to boot. "

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 28 August 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

chinese 80s shit.

I find the original fairly awful tbh but the rex the dog mix is still v. good.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'fairly awful' is a bit (unfairly) strong, I think.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

We know what you mean.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the vocal is too slow (cf.).

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

They were overcompensating.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this except when the singer sounds too much like tori amos

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Has anyone got any of their other stuff on Soulseek, I can never seem to find anything.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 17 September 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago)

I found 'Is it Medicine?' quite easily. Not on Soulseek though - on a mac variant of Limewire called Acqlite.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I'll remember that round January.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Both the albums are very gettable from Soulseek (I found)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Did this only come out properly this week?

Anyway, I just bought the 12" (inc. Rex the Dog remix) in Virgin for £2.99.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I'll be off to the shops later then. I found this on acql and on my 1st listen, I was like, "why does ILM love this so?", but by the end of it, I knew. I knew.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I may have to buy this.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago)

"may"

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago)

It was on in Topman yesterday.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm not really sure why I thought that was worth reporting.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I caught them playing Black Strobe once.

― Just to make you feel better (Barima), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

i heard 'Rubicon' in Burger King. that's when i knew these really are End Times

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I heard Superpitcher in B&Q.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago)

that was Mayer actually serving you on the till duh

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago)

My friend bought the album for £9.99 in HMV and it has a DVD with some of their videos on it, which sounds pretty cool.

Listening to it on his headphones on the way home from a club reminded me of how ace 'Girls' Night Out' is.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Unthinkably (given that I was not blown away at all by the non-Heartbeats portion of the record when I first heard it) the album is now very close to shoulder-barging its way to the head of my Favourite Of Year list, maybe even ahead of Anniemal (maybe), I have been totally 100% won over by how gloriously unpleasant some of it is.

Also all the videos are fantastic and kind of unsettling when watched in the dark in the middle of the night, and the other album is also superb. The Knife are ace ace ACE.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Wooh - that's sold me. Another album to buy come payday.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Mandee hooked me up with an mp3 of this song some weeks ago and I love it.

― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the 'I'm in loooooooove with your brotherrrrr' one is brilliant as well.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

They seem to use steel drums a lot which is unusual. For an ostensibly electropop record it is way less clunky and more fluidly leeeeeeequid than the Client album or something. Also it is amazingly uneven. There are lots of things I feel I should dislike about it and it's so fantastic.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

The use of steel drums makes it remind me of the Commando soundtrack more than it should.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

You can stream the whole album here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Also it is amazingly uneven. There are lots of things I feel I should dislike about it and it's so fantastic.

OTM.

I recently started listening to this album a lot. One of the few albums I like to share a number of both 1-star AND 5-star tracks.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I heard this song in the Gap yesterday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

rex the dog remix is awful. it makes me unhappy to say this because it's cliche and often wrong, but dance music has sucked out all the emotion of a perfectly good song. and those na na nas at the end? give me a break.

― irrigation can save your people, Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

obviously my emotional triggers lay elsewhere, cos the rex mix kills me and the original leaves me rather untouched.

― jermaine, Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea how anyone could say the rex mix is emotionless when it adds this entire dimension of euphoria that was missing from the original. Not that it was necessary since I like the original, but rex the dog makes it so much more immediate!

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I contend heartbeats is not a euphoric song.
You might as well believe 'weak become heroes' is about how pure and wonderful ravetimes were because of the remixes.

― irrigation can save your people, Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

'heartbeats' original mix was the most euphoric song i heard last year

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

the genius of "Heartbeats" is that it is euphoric and melancholic simultaneously, it makes the resulting awkwardness sound like the most amazing emotion. the Rex remix is all about the euphoria though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Lex OTM. Its like Weak Become Heroes, and Annie's Heartbeat at the same time, in that its got that amazing bittersweet, nostalgic edge to it. What separates the Knife song from the other two is the sense of TACKINESS, the chipped formica sheen, the way it makes you nostalgic for things you never thought you'd feel nostalgic for, like Cyndi Lauper records and looking at pretty girls in dirty 80s cafes and being ten years old and standing uncomfortably at parties while drunken friends of your parents croon along to Kate Bush songs.

But then the chorus goes "we had a promise made, we were in love", and its suddenly the perfect fusion between the sublime and the utterly banal and forgettable. Except you haven't forgotten.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Also, I was listening to this song and loving it at the exact moment something went very wrong in my life, which several months on only renders it more poignant.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Because really, its about loss, and trying to recapture something you know full well will never happen again. And sonically at least, it captures that perfectly, for me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I dig the remix a lot...the original is great too, but I dunno, something about the tempo on the remix makes it more enjoyable. Her voice reminds me of Kate Bush. You want to dance & cry at the same time.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

So as a result of finding this thread, I went out in search of the Jose Gonzalez one and god almighty, it may be my favorite version of the song yet. It still feels like nobody's gotten it *quite* right yet, but I've appreciated every effort so far.

If anyone wants to hear it, I found the mp3 at:

http://japcine.fotopages.com/?&page=9

(It's down there on the page; just search for "Heartbeats")

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that's amazing.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, i can't stand the fact that rex upshifted the tempo. you miss all the awkward/beautiful slurs as she slinks through the english lyrics. colours red and blue, etc.

also the orig song singlehandedly reignited my love for the saw wave on my casio. now it's all i use. pity me.

― irrigation can save your people, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

this comp that I was informed of via email this morning has a José/The Knife mashup: http://handgranat.org/comic_sans_must_die
I haven't heard it yet myself, but am definitely curious.

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

That Knife/Gonzales mix is a mess! It's literally both songs playing so that the vocals are roughly in time (though most certainly not in harmony.)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

dance music has sucked out all the emotion of a perfectly good song

the original is dance music too - if that term still means anything.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

i prefer the original too, i think.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

That should read "it's literally both songs playing at the same time so that the vocals are roughly in time"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I maintain that the original version is as perfect as pop music can get, but the Gonzales and Rex The Dog versions are nice in their own little ways.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I really love what Matt DC has written about the song in this thread. Probably my favorite thing I've ever read about it.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

ugh, sorry about that Matthew - I had no idea. It seemed like it could have potential, but I guess it was for naught.

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

'You Take My Breath Away' new single in the UK - funny video with terrible dancing by the girls but fantastic clothers and make-up

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Can I just reiterate that the album is absolutely fucking amazing?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad 'You Take My Breath Away' is the new single. It's my favourite album track.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I just cannot get enough of that song, or the video (the one with the band dancing, not the new skeletons version). Or 'Pass It On' and accompanying video. My new favourite band.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone ever hear the Style of Eye remix? I love the one song I have by them ("Back To Basic") - it's like bouncy Mylo electro-house meets New Horizon!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

jose gonzelas does a acoustic cover of a knife song 'crossses', goes top ten in sweden, is ace.

you can hear it here: www.poptones.co.uk/webcast.htm

― DOOMIE X, Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

hasn't the gonzales cover been around for like a year?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

no idea, it's rubbidge tho innit - he should go and make an album that takes the best ideas of his last two and become good again

Knife news update: Best thing to come out of Sweden since Semla buns

― Quit Bein Such An Indie Snob Pussy Etc. (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

here's the cover if your interested

http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YTGI9MMSVSCC2N9IJVSVY6UH4

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

you're

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I love this album

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 3 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.bravia-advert.com/

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

never realised that was them in the video for pass this on!

― Tá a fhios agam, nach bhfuil? (I know, right?), Monday, 8 December 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I finally got around to Deep Cuts. Pretty different in mood from Silent Shout, but in a good way; "You Take My Breath Away" in particular is pretty spectacular.

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

this song is top 5 of the 00s for me tbh

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

this song is #1 of the 00s for me tbh

― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago)

that said, i probably have patience for less than half of deep cuts

― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:37 (fifteen years ago)

wtf at "Hangin' Out"

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

this song won't fucking die tbh

― trillness is the move (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

rip off of this imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-dAOVM1C8M

― trillness is the move (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

I finally got around to Deep Cuts. Pretty different in mood from Silent Shout, but in a good way; "You Take My Breath Away" in particular is pretty spectacular.

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, December 2, 2009 9:30 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ytmba was what really got me into this album--for a long time i maintained that it was better than heartbeats, but at some point heartbeats was just too undeniable for me to stake that position

― max, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

re: Kelis:
what a dope, expensive video for an album the record label SHELVED. I couldn't imagine a video that good coming out even for an instant-platinum workhorse like the Chili Peppers. And plus it has a cuet dog

― trillness is the move (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

i cant hear the similarity between the kelis song and heartbeats

― max, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago)

you're max

― trillness is the move (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

indeed

― max, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

i think he meant to say you're to the max

― ankles (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

it's certainly a rip-off from the standpoint that they are both songs

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

>what a dope, expensive video

I'd forgotten how good this was, and the song. Awesome.

― Bill A, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

first time i've seen whiney express like for something (i'm not on this borad much tho)

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

i don't dislike "young, fresh'n'new" but it was a baffling choice of lead single from kaleidoscope

i don't dislike "heartbeats" but tbh the magnificence of silent shout had made the deep cuts knife era all but dead to me

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

That Kelis song is closer to "You Make Me Like Charity," as is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZglDY8Elo

― naus, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

Pass This On is the other amazing track on the (very patchy) Deep Cuts, but the MANDY remix of it is next-level fantastic.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

You Make Me Like Charity is the other amazing track

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago)

The Kelis song has nothing in common with Heartbeats other than tempo.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

female lead singers

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

lyrics are in english

― max, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

so there you go, carbon copies

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

I prefer the Dahlback and Dahlback mix of Pass This On. It's not a radical reworking or anything but it just gives it that added bit of oomph.

― Number None, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think there's any need to compare Deep Cuts and Silent Shout.

― Moles_Read, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

Got 2 Let U is my funky time super jam.

― Moles Rad (Moles_Read), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think there's any need to compare Deep Cuts and Silent Shout.

― Moles_Read, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:31 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they literally have nothing to do with each other

― ankles (s1ocki), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

the first time i heard 'heartbeats' it was the rex the dog remix, which i did like at the time, but after hearing the original so much i just can't listen to it anymore.

― cantus in memory of benjamin bratt (omar little), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

gotta say the orig of "pass this on" is still my favo-rite

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

So after a few listens today, this doesn't really push my buttons in the same way Silent Shout did but it's pretty fucking great; I'm responding to it kind of the same way I respond to M83 and Crystal Castles (which makes sense as it comes across as weird Nordic mashup of the two).

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

not many current bands improved with each album like this (not including fever ray tho i know some prefer that to any knife album)

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

that new 12" by the dude from The Knife is pretty damn good. esp. side b.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

what name is that 12in released under?

― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 3 December 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

I'm gonna take this opportunity to rep for the music video to 'Pass This On' which is great and crepey in a prototypean Knife way

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

― 囧 (dyao), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know the remixes mentioned upthread but the versions the Knife did for the OneMusic session of Pass This On, YMMLC and Heartbeats are fantastic

― 囧 (dyao), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W56_ek1Px6g

― cantus in memory of benjamin bratt (omar little), Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:05 (fifteen years ago)

Oni Ayhun - OAR-003

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that Oni Ayhun track is awesome!

― cwkiii, Thursday, 3 December 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, deep cuts is just so patchy that it's hard for me to listen to it as a cohesive whole in quite the way that i can with silent shout.

heartbeats is still such a behemoth of a song, it gets me every time. just something slow & stately and really quite elegant about it

― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 3 December 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago)

i find that deep cuts is so patchy that i can't just listen to it in bits, i have to be absolutely in the mood, and then everything that should annoy me is somehow even greater? What Alex in Doncaster said, upthread:
I have been totally 100% won over by how gloriously unpleasant some of it is.
and
Also it is amazingly uneven. There are lots of things I feel I should dislike about it and it's so fantastic.

these are absolutely how i feel about it.

I'm the only person on ILM who likes Deep Cuts better than Silent Shout, aren't I?

― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, probably.

I am not getting "uneven" or "patchy" from Deep Cuts at all, though. What are the tracks people find problematic/unpleasant? (lol assuming "Hangin' Out" is one of them)

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i don't think it's particularly patchy either - i might skip 'Listen Up' but i like the dumb joke tracks.

― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

listening to "The Cop" right now, blueski OTM

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

i think i mean "patchy" more in terms of tone than quality - it has the dumb joke tracks! i remember it being full of these tinny shoddy bits which are absolute pathos if you're in the moment and sort of embarrassing if you're not: I am re-listening to see if i can find actual examples.

ur mad to skip "listen now" though, it's amazing.

― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

(just to clarify, I meant blueski OTM re: tracks like "The Cop", not "Listen Now")

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

Listen Now is one of the best tracks for sure! totally freaked out europop.

― jabba hands, Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

kind of lolling that the tracks most people seem to rally around are the ones with the steel drum synth on them

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago)

I think maybe it seemed more unpleasant at the time because we weren't accustomed to the things Karin would do to her voice, even when untreated.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago)

ha yeah, I can see that my perspective, coming from Fever Ray and Silent Shout, would be drastically different from someone who heard this before those were released

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

maybe i'll give it another listen - but i do remembering hearing it again after i heard silent shout and thinking it wasn't as good

― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

Matt I think that's it! It is definitely less jarring and weird than I remembered.

I guess the voice-shifts on 'you make me like charity' are a decent example - they're kind of silly, and they're kind of desperate&terrified, and maybe to me they're more affecting because i have to get through the initial 'haha silly voice' reaction?

― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

Recall Deep Cuts having a slightly more aggressive, sleazy weirdness than Silent Shout*, which is kind of a bit more reflective

* possibly overly influenced by the "AH KEEP MAH DICK HANGEEN OUTTA MAH PAYUNTS" thing

― MPx4A, Thursday, 3 December 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

I am a cop, shut up. I piss in your mouth. I am a cop, shut up. I shoot you in your face you Motherfu**er. I piss in your mouth hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha

― cantus in memory of benjamin bratt (omar little), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Working my way backwards through The Knife's catalog! I picked up the s/t last week and OMFG why the hell do people think this album is worse than the other two??????? It's fucking evil and brilliant!

(yes synth-based gothy sparseness with music geek arpeggios all over it is sort of pandering directly to me, I know, but seriously this is a fucking amazing album and I think it's weird that ppl rally around "Kino" as it comes across as the weakest song on the album after the 1-2 sledgehammer of "Neon" and "Lasagna")

― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

Kino's the only track from it they did live on the third album tour iirc, and it does stand out on the album

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

It stands out as being a hyper, mood-ruining mess after the first two IMO. Listening to it in isolation, it is a good song, but I kind of hate it in the context of the album until about halfway through (which is about how long it takes me to get over being annoyed that this bouncy shit is interrupting my extremely enjoyable trawl through creepy synth sleaze).

― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:14 (fifteen years ago)

goth

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

well duh

― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

uh for whatever reason i just started listening to this on spotify recently. back in 2006 or whatever i started with silent shout but never went back to deep cuts and even now i'm not listening to the whoel album but

― markers, Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

"whole" works too

― markers, Saturday, 13 April 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

weird, i just started "really listening" to silent shout this week, though i had been a sporadic listener of deep cuts for a while. it's amazing, like i expected it would be... i think i was putting it off to delay the pleasure of discovery.

― Pat Finn, Saturday, 13 April 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)

i'm sure it's mentioned upthread but the live version of 'heartbeats' is v different and imo equally whoa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PACuzSmrEw

― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 13 April 2013 20:03 (twelve years ago)

how have i not posted on this thread
I <3 Deep Cuts so much. I can't remember listening to much else in the last year or two of college tbh

― kinder, Saturday, 13 April 2013 20:29 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

I haven't listened to "Heartbeats" in a long ass time, so I'm doing that right now and HOLY SHIT IT'S STILL SO DAMN GOOD

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 17 October 2016 03:00 (eight years ago)

yup

― call all destroyer, Monday, 17 October 2016 03:07 (eight years ago)

The live version from the Silent Shout tour is probably even better, imo.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 17 October 2016 03:09 (eight years ago)

perfect song

― boxedjoy, Monday, 17 October 2016 07:33 (eight years ago)

Coincidentally it came up on shuffle on my drive to work this morning and I too was marvelling at how good a record it remains.

― michaellambert, Monday, 17 October 2016 11:53 (eight years ago)

Yeah, this still holds up. But I think that of a lot of their stuff!

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Monday, 17 October 2016 22:35 (eight years ago)

+1 on the live version being superior to the (extremely great) studio version. I like playing it when I DJ; it blends perfectly into Lindstrom's remix of "Mirrorage."

― thos beads (jamescobo), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 18:17 (eight years ago)

This is an alltime great song.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 19:03 (eight years ago)

My favourie bit is the queasy synth riff after each chorus.

― chap, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 19:12 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

the version of "the captain" on the live album

― Treeship, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:26 (eight years ago)

can't believe these albums came out like a decade ago or more and that i am going to die someday

― Treeship, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:27 (eight years ago)

seven years pass...

Another synth-forward kuduro-esque EP from Olof Dreijer, first track sounds great:
https://olofdreijer.bandcamp.com/album/coral

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:38 (one year ago)

Ironic that this thread has been bumped. I just bought a new car and have comp Sirius. I just heard this song after many years and still sounds fantastic.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 February 2024 08:13 (one year ago)

We were in love

― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 February 2024 08:13 (one year ago)

six months pass...

Hazel is amazing

― willem, Saturday, 10 August 2024 13:01 (one year ago)

Jose Gonzalez gets some incredible numbers on Spotify!

― encino morricone (majorairbro), Sunday, 11 August 2024 05:25 (one year ago)

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