New Jamie Lidell album in June

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Jamie Lidell has completed his long-awaited new album, due for release in June. Multiply is an incredible album of electronic soul and RnB, that should see Jamie take his rightful place as one of the best vocalists of his generation. The album includes a separate DVD by Jamie’s visual collaborator Pablo Fiasco, with films and edits of their live shows performed over the last year.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

could be good

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

saw him live last summer. astounding.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i think this will probably be my favorite album this year... fair guess.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

could be boring

seeing him live was astoundingly.........not as astounding as everyone made out

"best vocalists of his generation" hahahaha only if "his generation" means the IDM-coterie of vocal-shy pasty edgy rebels who hate ideas of popist "crass" commercialism still try and warble shit into a mic then process it to fuck to disguise their pitiful attempts to sing.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm ... have you heard super_collider?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

he was astounding at mutek, but that was at an intimate venue and the evening just had crazy audience/artist synergy.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely looking forward to the live DVD half of it

tracks 3, 6, 8 on Muddlin Gear kill me outright in the good way... overdriven techno 70's Miles Davis stompy music for driving accidents... but I fear there's no room for that approach on an album that spotlights his vocals, which you either love or hate

― (Jon L), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

leaked

it's a keeper

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

All the Lidell I've heard is the Boom Bip mix of "Daddy's Car" and the two tracks on the Warp videos DVD. Is Muddlin Gear worth checking out? And is "The City" on Multiply? Cos if so, that's my purchase guaranteed right there. Shit is hot.

― Telephonething, Friday, 1 April 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, i looked forward to d/l-ing this... the 2 tracks i heard a a couple of weeks ago where fantastic. is it on slsk, then?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it is

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He's apparently playing the barfly in london tonight.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

p.l.e.a.s.e. y.s.i. i. w.i.l.l. d.o. a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g.!. p.l.e.a.s.e. p.l.e.a.s.e. p.l.e.a.s.e. p.l.e.a.s.e.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i mentioned this on the "is it too early to list your current 11 2005 favorites" or whatever thread

really great. i almost hate to make this comparison, because it's really unfair to Jamie and his great record, but it's almost like if Jamiroquai made a glithcy sould record that was actually as funky as he pretends to be

now that i'll be living that comparison down forever, i'll go listen to the record some more. it's great.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

and fuck if i can type.

sould = soul
and glithcy = glitchy

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And is "The City" on Multiply? Cos if so, that's my purchase guaranteed right there. Shit is hot.

Shit's about twice as hot as anything else on the album, but the whole thing's still worth hearing.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, tracklisting:

01-jamie_lidell_-_yougotmeup-bfhmp3.mp3
02-jamie_lidell_-_multiply-bfhmp3.mp3
03-jamie_lidell_-_when_i_come_back_around-bfhmp3.mp3
04-jamie_lidell_-_a_little_bit_more-bfhmp3.mp3
05-jamie_lidell_-_whats_the_use-bfhmp3.mp3
06-jamie_lidell_-_music_will_not_last-bfhmp3.mp3
07-jamie_lidell_-_newme-bfhmp3.mp3
08-jamie_lidell_-_the_city-bfhmp3.mp3
09-jamie_lidell_-_this_time-bfhmp3.mp3
10-jamie_lidell_-_game_for_fools-bfhmp3.mp3

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

such a WEIRD record.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm... well... can anyone share this on slsk? i can't find it

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll be sharing it later if i remember to log in when i get home.
(i'm at work right now)

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

fantastic : )
i've got 4 of the 10 now off slsk, but it's stopped now for some reason and i am quivering with mortal terror at the prospect that i may not get the rest.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone yousendit?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

if i have it finished with enough time while at work i will yousendit...

and does anyone know if the version of music will not last is the same as the herbert single?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, based on what i've heard... i would be SOsoSosoSo surprised to hear something better than this by year's end... and i cannot wait to get the vinyl

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's the same as the herbert single -but- it's 3 and a half minutes long now...stops just before the glitchy drum run kicks in in the original

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ok... i'm getting pretty frustrated by trying to get the rest of these... could anyone yousendit "A Little Bit More" , "Newme", "This Time" , "Game for Fools" ? anyone of those or all of them? If by some weird fluke you don't have the rest, I could post those up.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i really like it, is he the joss stone of idm?

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

is that a diss?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/BIGGROBB/billc_01_1_.jpg

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

not a diss, although i dont really feel ms. stone

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this is actually the album i've been most excited about for the better part of 3 years, so this is a very big day for me. which makes me a total geek, sure, but...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

still waiting to find the rest if anyone new and generous has it yet

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Love the first super_collider. Pretty much like the second, though it doesn't do as much for me. Is Lidell solo the same kind of thing or does he take it in a more straight "songs" direction?

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is definitely songs... sounds like marvin gaye/sly/prince funky and soulful without being condescending or remotely ironic... not much in the way of digital manipulation either. who knows what's on the missing songs, though.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

what tracks do you need?

― Joris (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate that jamie lidell has to be qualified as not ironic. (that's not a dis to you firstworldman, it's more frustration with why he would even be considered ironic to begin with)

― basquiat (disco stu), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i need "a little bit more", "this time", "music will not last"

please and thanks : )

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

because so many faux-soul acts out there exist that it has to be stated that a pasty white guy from brighton can emote and get funked up and amplified with the best of em. ever.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think it's that simple, but yeah, i cannot wait to hear this.

― basquiat (disco stu), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you think it is then?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ysi is slow as a mofo. coming up though

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you SO much!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's part of modern culture for some people to not trust anything that is filtered through media or popular culture as genuine or without ulterior motives (and even that is oversimplification). it's like authenticity or realness is always suspect, authenticity and realness being traps in their own right

― basquiat (disco stu), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11225WHR2I83M1T6PU160GX6KD

'a little bit more'

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

well... realness is so often fabricated at this point that i guess it becomes a case of who can posture most convincingly. when an artist is unwilling to assume a pose, his authenticity is questioned much more often, obviously. but i gave my disclaimer only as a means to explain for anyone who was unfamiliar with lidell. i don't think that i've heard anyone question his realness other than to express befuddlement that he's not black.

authenticity and realness are not just traps, though, the cultivation of authenticity is a very pretentious pose.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(haha I never looked at this thread because I thought it was about the jazz pinaist guy)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

great! thanks rizzx.
xpost

who is the jazz pianist guy?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i need to see him live, thats supposed to be something else right? he's holding himself a fair bit on record isnt he?

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, completely. live he is completely unhinged. but i don't know if he's holding himself back so much as just in a different mode. i think, and maybe it's because i've seen what else is there behind it, that his restraint is part of what makes the songs work.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01Z7A0F13VXZK0Z1016UWSWNT1

'this time'

― Joris (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jamiecullum.com/

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and the last one, enjoy :)

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1JCWM6I9T3VYK0X8USN9MQ2L1M

'music will not last'

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SOS OSS OSOSOSOSOSOSOOSosoOSosoSOSO much : D

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

first listen = anh

second listen = holy shit!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

bump!

these yousendited tracks are great! "a little bit more" just kills it

― basquiat (disco stu), Saturday, 2 April 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

this track was in the running for my contribution to the ilmixor secrets comp:
https://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=070CWIA03BADK0EPCOJT68115R

― basquiat (disco stu), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is to black funk what carrettas "kill your radio" is to white funk

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

that reads like a recommendation for the carretta album to me...

― basquiat (disco stu), Saturday, 2 April 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ok this is fucking AWESOME.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh joy! Mr Lidell's visiting the central belt http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=922. Would it be excessive to go to see him in Glasgow and Edinburgh?

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know if i get this at all. he has a voice but beyond that i don't see how what he's doing is innovative. it seems like he's blatantly borrowing styles from other artists and just superimposing his vocals over that. its almost worse plagiarism than beck (i'm not a beck fan - let the attacks begin) and i'm not sure if i have an issue with him being white singing this kinda funk, but when i heard him first time (on Multiply) his singing style didn't "ring true" - he sounded like he was mimicing/forcing something that was a bit alien to him and i notice that he dabbles in all kinds of funk thoughout the ages - it felt insincere. i guess the more i listened the more i got used to it - but i'm not sure if that is a good thing. and keep coming back to the vocals and beats sound almost identical to bands like ...trying to remember .... the barclays?? from early 90's top 40 radio. is super_collider very different?

i did come to like "a little bit more".

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I hear a trad. soul record, definitely not innovative as such. More along the line of Terrence Trent D'Arby. It lives and dies by how you feel about the songs, not any conceptual hook.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the single is great but the album slows down in the second half.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"More along the line of Terrence Trent D'Arby. It lives and dies by how you feel about the songs, not any conceptual hook". i was really expecting something different - maybe need to listen to Muddlin Ghear and Super_Collider work to get that - but yeah i totally agree with you on this one.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it really needs a conceptual hook. It's definitely his return to songwriting; the soul element is just because it's the music he's into. There's no more plagiarism in that than a white 20-something making tracky Chicago house -- that, after all, is "black music" as well. I just interviewed him and am transcribing now, if I come up with any illuminating quotes I'll post'em.

Susan, I can hook you up with the Super_Collider stuff.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I am enjoying this record quite a bit -- way more than I any super_collider I've heard.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, interesting Jamie Lidell interview posted here, including snippets of the live show, which as far as I'm concerned is the real meat of what Jamie does. I love the record but it's a different world entirely from what he does live.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting revive. when i'm not completely stoned on cold meds, i'll say why i think this is more than your average soul retread.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

come on, mark, that's the best time to bust out theories!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm also interested in hearing an its soul retread but more than average soul retread idea - i think there must be something i'm missing. thx phil-i'm excited about super collider stuff.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

woops-- apologies -that first part unintentionally sounded sarcastic :)

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pl;aying this alot. never seen him live though, why doesn't he record the way he plays live?

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Philip, is the interview for the wire?

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - I can't stand Jamie Lidell.

Probably best seen live then,

i.e. I need some heavy convincin'.

― lurking only to hate, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - Terence Trent D'arbay was the first thing I thought when I heard this record.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as it's not 'neither fish nor flesh' era TTD.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, XLR8R.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

so - anyone else heard the Chok Rock ep on Warp

.. is this an update of super_collider type of twisted electro-funk or what ?

but i actually have listened to this ep far more than the first super_collider album, which i found too awkward,

the 12 minutes of 'give it up' just is too damn fine when it mutates @ 8.5 minutes.

so someone tell - if i like this Chok Rock ep .. will i like the jamie l solo lp ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

don't know what that is, but if it matches your description is there anyway you could do a ysi or email it to me? pretty please?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

okedoke firstworldwoman - sorted out a ysi. check email.

it a LARGE file (lossless WMA)- 60MB

if this aint good then let me know and i'll sort something else out.

m.e

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

this album kinda sucks

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

hey mark i just listened to the chok rock ep and i like it a lot. can't say it would be a good indicator of whether or not you like the jamie lidell record though. thanks a lot for ysi'ing it though! : )

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 15 April 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is fucking amazing, gets better with every listen. only one dud track - the aformentioned 'little bit more' but MAN this thing cooks!

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Saturday, 16 April 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone see him last night in London?

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

nini fuckers

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

chok rock is indeed great but very different from lidell.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

omg itunes says ive listened to "multiply" 18 times since i d/l'ed it last nite. i love love love this, also hes so cute.

what does super_collider sound like? like this?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have a pc at home so i can't download it, will have to hang on till june.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ta for the advise phil

guess i'll have to just wait and see re jamie l stuff.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Multiply has started to grow on me lately

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Multiply has started to grow on me lately

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

woops

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah multiply. i was sitting in a cafe with the windows open and put it on for the first time and right at that moment it seemed like everyone on the street was a lot cuter, and maybe rainbows and birds started dancing around, and i also might have swooned and passed out.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the only bum track is "a little bit more" and even that has a certain amount of charm, in an electrofunk/jimi tenor/wevie stonder kind of way. everything else owns, especially "when i come back around" (love the roundabout vocal cutup segment) and "newme" (total jam).

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"when i come back around" is what started it for me. then someone played it for me again last nite and i knew it was over

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"someone"??? susan, you have mysterious sources.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't want to name you as the perpetrator!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i might have to sell something to get money for plane ticket to sonar.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i keep forgetting lidell's there too! niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont have enough hair to sell it to a wigmaker. unfortunately

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

medical tests.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"i dont have enough hair to sell it to a wigmaker. unfortunately"
--- that is so sweet

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish i had the cash to go to Sonar.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Mixing it is playing 'a little bit more tonight'. I'd better try and stay awake to listen.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

people don't like "a little bit more" huh? well fuck you all. (kidding) more jilted lover tracks please, jamie.

i need to hear the whole thing...

― prada robot (disco stu), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ha Lidell is doing Prince Karaoke these days.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 24 April 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't get why everyone's so down on 'a little bit more', I think it's great.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 25 April 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

is it me or did americans just snooze on lidell/super_collider for years? serious bargain bin action. i'm glad he's getting plaudits now (haven't heard this new one), but i still find it weird.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

can he postpone it til november.?

― motown girls club 4 boys, Monday, 25 April 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't speak for anyone else, but I definitely slept on Super Collider. I heard a Jamie Lidell song/remix on a Warp compilation maybe four or five years ago (can't remember what it was off the top of my head) and I thought it sounded like a cross between NIN and Soundgarden and never felt the urge to hear anything more. I had to be persuaded to listen to Multiply because I just expected it to be something I wasn't going to be that into, I had no idea about the soul stuff.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally got to see the interview and live footage from the domino festival. The live stuff is amazing, i'm even more excited about going to see him now.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not at all familiar with Jamie Lidell, but the song that Matthew posted is fantastic. Is this record out?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this sounds like creedence.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the title track, that is.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

or is it jamiroquai?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty, can you undownload this from me please? thanks.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i never said i didn't like it! i especially love the creedence.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, it is not un-Creedencelike now that you mention it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hmm, it is like Creedence now that you mention it!"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard "multiply" today thanks to phil and it rulez!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a subtle difference between "like Creedence" and "not un-Creedencelike". Trust me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds more like John Fogerty doing an Otis Redding impression.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't strictly talking about the vocals. but, yeah!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In a good way!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely in a good way. This song is great. I especially like the guitars and ooohs at the beginning before the lead vocals come in.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Got an advance of the album and the "Multiply" 12" in the mail today -- not sure if it's album-of-the-year territory or not, but it might be. I def. can't listen to anything else today!

Quite a change from "Muddlin Gear," and for the better in my opinion: Nice to hear young talented white boys go back to ripping off Sly, Otis and Prince, expecially whne they add a little something soemthing of their own to the mix...

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard "multiply" today thanks to phil and it rulez!

iTunes says ive listened to is 81 times since last week..

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The tickets for his Edinburgh gig are finally on sale, will be popping up to ripping after work to grab a couple.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

its jamiwocky in hipster clothing.

― doomie x, Friday, 13 May 2005 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

jamiwocky?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'Beware the Jamiwock, my son,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I've heard most of the album now and some live stuff and can't wait to get copy. I'm also ticketed up for his edinburgh date.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

hes like the cocktail-funk/soul version of jamie cullum isnt he? lets be honest.

― blahbariantheoriginal, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I thought the supercollider thing had some really interesting dubstyle production, but going on the title track "the City", the sound, the voice, the lyrics, it's all just part of the tedious recreate the late 60s vibe, just boring retro rock

― Telegram_Sam, Friday, 17 June 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

"rock"?

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure how it was created but the sound and structure is rock.

― Telegram Sam, Friday, 17 June 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

If that's a rock structure, then James Brown was a rock artist.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Everything about it is so... contrived. "When I Come Back Around" makes me wince.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

this album blows

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Rock is not inherently inferior to funk or techno. I have nothing against electronic rock. It's just that if a track is anchored in a traditional song structure rather than just using vocals and sounds for their propulsive, rhythmic, textural and evocative qualities, then that song better be interesting in itself. A few frilly effects don't save such a conservative song. A lot of late sixties rock was way more radical......

― Telegram Sam, Friday, 17 June 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Rock is not inherently inferior to funk or techno.

oh man, i thought it was!

― rizzx (rizzx), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving it.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 17 June 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

There are a couple songs that are a little iffy in the "I sound like this in the car after listening to too much soul" way, but I don't think Jamie Liddell should be penalized for my shortcomings.

Telegram Sam needs some points! I am gathering that "traditional song structure" must NOT use "..vocals and sounds for their propulsive, rhythmic, textural and evocative qualities.." Apparently they used them to be stodgy and boring. Apparently this music is not only more of the same, it's "rock!"

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Mike - fair comment. I suppose I should have just kept quiet as I'm not properly explaining why I don't like it, and I've found myself apparently saying lots of riduculous, unintended things.

All I meant was: I liked what I've heard of the Supercollider stuff. "The City", which is all I've heard so far of the new album (I'm not familiar with any of Lidell's other stuff), sounds like one of those RnB groups of the late sixties with all the excitement taken out, and a few pleasant enough dubby flourishes thrown in.

― Telegram Sam, Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

um...well aside from everything else wrong with these criticisms, "the city" doesn't sound much like the rest of the album. (it's good, but it's not characteristic of the other songs.) the album as a whole is anything but boring, and "retro rock" is laughably off the mark...

― swvl (vozick), Monday, 20 June 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

tee hee heeee (that's me laughing at your opinion)

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 20 June 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

― swvl (vozick), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I think the problem lies in assuming that "throwback" is pejorative. He's spent the last few years working with Matthew Herbert's Big Band and Mocky. This isn't some sort of change in direction!

I don't have the album in my greedy hands yet, so could anyone check how much input Mocky had on this? One of the articles linked off Warp's site mentions him as a co-writer.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Mocky co-wrote a few songs and plays various instruments including some Cropperesque guitar on the title song.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

this isnt a rock album.

fucking rockists.

― mwahah, Monday, 20 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I just had an amazing surge of love when seeing the word "Cropperesque."

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I suppose it could be approached as having more 'conventional' sound than Super Collider, but that doesn't mean it ain't still an excellent record.

Definitely working as a Sunday morning breakfast album at the moment.

― Mika, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

He's on the cover of the new Wire and there's a nice in depth interview.

Btw, is XLR8R available in the UK?

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

wow, the wire never put jamiroquai on the cover!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

haha ouch

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

I played a bit of Multiply to my mum on Saturday and she thought Jamie sounded like Jay Kay. The moral of the story being - don't play stuff you really like to your parents cos you might not like what they say.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Pigeonhed, anyone?

― Andy K. (ADK), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I might comment if i knew who the hell Pigeonhed is/are.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone else going to the 100 Club show next week?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I would be if i was in London but as i'm Edinburgh i'll be seeing him at here on Friday night instead.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

I played a bit of Multiply to my mum on Saturday...

Hmmm - I was wondering whether my Mum would like this too (she loves Herbert), maybe it's saying something?

― Mika, Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

this record is crap.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

anyone have thoughts on "the city" being a pop group rip off? I like it but the only way it fits on this otherwise cohesive album is if it is intended to be a take on a certain style of funk in a genre/labeling sort of way as I dont very much think of the pop group as overwhelmingly funky.

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

i wish he would do more of the stright soul stuff when he plays live. i dont really get why everyone raves about his live shows. saw him on saturday, and enjoyed it most when he stopped messing about and just played soul backing tracks and sang over the top. hje just seems like ratehr average electronica producer that can sing pretty well, as opposed to all the other electronica people that cant sing very well (but often still try) but who can produce stuff that rises above mediocrity.

therefore my solution (also maximises warps profile and revenue): get jimmy edgar to produce, and jamie liddell to sing! success! the two "wunderkinds" in unison!

when i come back around is my favourite, because its so derivative, it just sounds like jamiroquai, and i can forget about all that silly digital noise squealing stuff.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

actually its better than a jamiroquai track, the production is pretty tight.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I saw him on Friday night and enjoyed both the noodling and the straightforward soul stuff. The front row was entirely made up of salvating girlies (myself included) no knicker-throwing but it wasn't far off.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

i deffo go with the pop group connection on that track :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/warp/jamie_liddel.html

saw the live show yesterday @ Glasto (which already feels like another dimension), very impressive how he pulls it all together with the live vocal samples and loops.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

It's weird but i never picked up on the Mark Stewarty vocals on 'the city' until i saw the Pop Group mentioned in a review. I can remember first hearing Mark Stewart and the Maffia about 15 years ago and picked up a Pop group comp about 5 or 6 years ago so i should have picked up on it by myself.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone see him at the 100 club last night?

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes. He was pretty freeform, which was quite exhilirating at first, but became a bit overwhelming as the evening went on - he could have interspersed the jamming with the songs a bit more, I think. Maybe he was just frazzled from Glastonbury. The visuals were terrific, though.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm not sure what to make of this. I liked the Herbert remix and 'The City' (video factor) already though, and I'm quite impressed by his voice...bit patchy for me then.

Lot of single sentence dismissal/hate on here but without constructive criticism (other than Ambrose, tho I'm not sure I agree that a more 'pedestrian' approach (as his description sounds to me) would be better).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Was initially aghast at the lack of a mercury nomination but it's probably for the best.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Didn't it get released too late for the Mercurys?

― jim (jim5et), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Don't think that stopped 'Rings Around The World'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I had all the same Beck-doing-Prince and Jamiroquai-doing-Terence Trent Darby associations others have mentioned. But I also thought "easy power" (I know, I know, if it's easy why don't you do it?), and I therefore agree with Telegram Sam about it being part of a 60s revival.

Lidell's live show is based on on-the-fly sampling (I've seen Harald "Sack" Zeigler and Rusty Santos doing exactly the same thing recently, but the technique goes back to Robert Fripp and his Frippertronics), and it's got this hypey energy which of course always works when you do it live, so of course the audience getting into the energy and whooping "ironically-not ironically" and Lidell is doing his fake anti-rockist white soul man thing "ironically-not ironically", and the grammar of funk is being used, and it's powerful, but then you think of the clever Berlin kitsch of Gonzales (who was actually involved on this record) and the camp New York funk of DJ Snax (also involved, 70s synth-funk player) and it becomes part of some kind of culture of hipster pastiche. Lidell does it very well, and will no doubt sell enough copies to buy a nice funky boho house in Islington where he can invite Matthew Herbert round for supper parties. But for me, personally, the "hype" of funk's "easy power" is matched just a wee bit too closely to the hype surrounding Lidell's own career, and I find it worrying that that hype comes to artists when they ditch their more difficult and innovative work (same thing happened with Herbert when he became a postmodern Benny Goodman).

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

What I think I'm saying is, when you listen to Why Don't You Eat Carrots? by Faust, you don't get the impression that popular music is turning into an interpretive artform like classical music, where young, living performers do little more than "interpret" a canon of established "masters". But when you listen to "Multiply" you do get that impression. Lidell's gestures and his musical syntax basically recapitulate those of dead masters. Slightly less than most mainstream or "indie" artists, admittedly, but a lot more than Faust thirty years ago. Or Black Dice today. Should we care whether pop music becomes "the new classical music"? I think we should, and I think it should influence our buying choices and our criticism.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

do you really think that he's going to sell enough copies to buy a house with this record?

and also, faust is not exactly a great analog for this record, nor is black dice. you can't just pick two albums and apply them to a vague thesis and scream cockfight at them.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

I remember Beck once being asked in an interview whether he thought his work was kitsch. He said "That's not the way I see it. I think I'm always trying to find some kind of primal power." The thing is, kitsch and primal power are not as distinct as Beck seems to think. Lidell's album is part of quite a widespread tendency—one of the tendencies of our musical age—for laptop and electronic musicians to "return to traditional instruments and structures". The same thing happened in classical music when people like Stravinsky had their "neo-classical" phases in Late Modernism. It's always seen by the composers as an attempt to tap into something "timeless" and "classical" and "primal". Unfortunately, it's often seen by critics and listeners and historians as kitsch.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

And I'm not saying Faust is the logical parallel for Lidell, or setting up cockfights. I'm just saying, step outside of the undoubted power of Lidell's album, steep your ears in something else then come back, and you'll hear that "power" differently.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

In other words, just as it's legitimate to say what this record is like (we've had TT Darby, Prince, Beck, Jamiroquai, Gonzales and others mentioned) I think it's also legitimate to say what it's not like. People have mentioned that it's not like Super_Collider, Lidell's former project. I think it's also fine to say it's not like Black Dice, and specifically that it doesn't continue the project of making a new musical language. It cashes in some of the cultural capital accumulated by experimental music (and it appears on Warp, and in The Wire, bastions of the experimental) in exchange for Easy Power and popular appeal.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Moulinex AY46R3 Easy Power (White) blender.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Momus broke the board

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

TS: axe to grind vs. jealousy

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

I just really love pop music! I'm marking "can do better" in the margin.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

...it's just that the wordy, academic and logical "can do better"s of above suggest something different than "can do better"

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Not feeling it is also feeling it, man.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm just saying, step outside of the undoubted power of Lidell's album, steep your ears in something else then come back, and you'll hear that "power" differently.

this is quite an assumption to make!

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i may love momus now.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

wtf this is.... lewis taylor. not like him, or in the vein of, but exactly lewis taylor every single second of it. seriously, he should sue

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

i deleted the thing after 'what's the use', the lt thing was just creeping me out by that point.

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i just saw his show in melbourne

it was very maroon 5, justin timberlake type beat-boxing was done in nsync's 'pop' 2001 yeah, i wasn't really in the mood to hear an hour of it played off his computer or whatever.

he is cool though and it would be cool if there were more people like him than rock n roll bands, i'd listened to the album before so i guess i kind of knew what to expect anyway

― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

:-D HA HA HA that was pretty funny right there.

And how convenient, I was going to be a 1amz0r tr011 and post a hopefully not too bitter single-sentence dismissal (after all Mr Lidell makes music, he doesn't build bombs). Now I can do even worse and just say Momus OTM goddamit.

Full disclosure: I remember a rapidly escalating if aborted flirt with one of his exes, is where my particular brand of non-jealousy might be coming from, since I just DJ not release records. Still Momus OTM

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

seeing him live was astoundingly.........not as astounding as everyone made out

I'll take that, especially now, during the barren desert days of JanFebMar. I'll go see him in Toronto, despite what yous say.

...or should I wait for the arctic monkeys???

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah momus otm i think.

― deej..., Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Wait a minute.

Is Momus OTM cuz he wrote that Lidell "can do better"????

Of all the shit that written about on ILM, ya lay into Jamie Lidell cuz he could do better?!?!?

....jeeez

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

"neo-classical"
it doesn't continue the project of making a new musical language
It cashes in some of the cultural capital accumulated by experimental music (and it appears on Warp, and in The Wire, bastions of the experimental) in exchange for Easy Power and popular appeal

it's got this hypey energy which of course always works when you do it live, so of course the audience getting into the energy and whooping "ironically-not ironically" and Lidell is doing his fake anti-rockist white soul man thing "ironically-not ironically", and the grammar of funk is being used, and it's powerful, but then you think of the clever Berlin kitsch of Gonzales (who was actually involved on this record) and the camp New York funk of DJ Snax (also involved, 70s synth-funk player) and it becomes part of some kind of culture of hipster pastiche.

all suggests he can indeed do better. Playing fucking golf.
J/K but this is a little serious now...

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 28 January 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

he's got the fashion for golf..or something. those slacks. those sweaters. what group of people does he borrow it from? i find it more distasteful and irritating than the music.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

this guy blows.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

which reminds me...also, why do people think he's sexy? i feel like that's mentioned in every article. how he's got all these girls hanging around at his shows? is it because they sense he could function just as easily in a corporate setting?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

girls are turned on by corporate settings ? that's truly nasty

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

IT IS NASTY

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britannica.com/oscars/Images/photos/oacawar227p4.jpg
"suck my brick"

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

oh, its definitely not that good. and i'm just saying dude reminds me of our (san francisco) mayor add 5:00 shadow and outfit inspired by jewish comedians + bill cosby + a random manicured but gentlemans sport playable on lawn + fake weather. i hope that sounded bad!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

plus felt and jazz hands.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

isn't being angry fun !! I used to be so zen. But no !!! Things suck all around us !!!

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i'm racking my brains for something uncritical to say...about anything. nothing. ruined by ilm.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

a random manicured but gentlemans sport playable on lawn

I saw Lidell play on a bowling green this afternoon, if that helps? he was wearing a t-shirt and thongs though.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

which reminds me...also, why do people think he's sexy?

I think it's an aura of confidence & cockiness thing?

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

He's kinda alpha-male by indie musician standards isn't he?

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

was he playing bowls kit? best game everr of course. provided the acid is good.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

The thinking woman's G Love

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

OTFM

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

quite like him

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I quite like him in small doses (guest spots etcetera).

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

i quite like small doses of this record. like "i'm the question mark, the walking talking question mark" phrase. all that pomo bollix. neatly done. little engagement tho... like him least on the mark stewart does bright lights big city ttrack. wldve liked to have seen him on kits bowling green doing otis covers with alive band. mightve been a laugh.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

blunt1200 is my hero

except for the "1amz0r" bit

why is everyone on the internet is doing this again

― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Sunday, 29 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

"the thinking woman's G LOVE."
i just laughed one of those gilda radner laughs like blowing incredible amounts of snot out my nose. THANK YOU!

yeah i think its an alpha thing too - they sense he could be alpha around other men b/c he's so full of shit, yet self-assured.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to try and love him and see what happens

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

wtf this is.... lewis taylor. not like him, or in the vein of, but exactly lewis taylor every single second of it. seriously, he should sue

I completely agree.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

i think if i were trying to think of a question that might generate funny answers here, i would ask you all what i should offer jamie lidell as payment to play at our bar.
so, what should i offer?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

A first listen judgement of Jim leads me to believe that all the worst impulses on Multiply have been, um, multiplied.

― fukasaku tollbooth, Saturday, 8 March 2008 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was afraid of that. Ah well, bet he's still awesome live.

― Melissa W, Saturday, 8 March 2008 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

The thinking woman's G Love

-- Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, January 29, 2006 7:13 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

looool

― deej, Saturday, 8 March 2008 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

bet he's still awesome live.

Probably a different proposition now he's using a live band - I've seen him do songs + jamming solo, playing with pick-up bands, and straight jamming, and if you like the soul end of his stuff, then he's still great singing with a band, but it doesn't even touch the songs + jamming combination.

― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 9 March 2008 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i heard parts of this last night and was not feelin it.

― oscar, Sunday, 9 March 2008 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

i like the chok rock rec mentioned upthread waaay more than anything jamie lidell has ever done. what happened to those guys?

― Crackle Box, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I really like the new one. Brave for him to come out with something so different, but I think it works. Great songs and he has the voice to back it up.

― Chris in Belfast, Friday, 4 April 2008 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

brave's not exactly the term for doing an album full of the stuff he's recently grown a huge new audience for doing!

― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 6 April 2008 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Different? Might as well just call the dude Jamie Winehouse

― The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 6 April 2008 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This is nice

― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Kinda given up on him after the last album but loving "The Ring"...sooooo sly

― sonnyboy, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:39 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, this new album is really, really nice. Especially love "Coma Chameleon."

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 03:59 (sixteen years ago)

it was very maroon 5, justin timberlake type beat-boxing was done in nsync's 'pop' 2001 yeah, i wasn't really in the mood to hear an hour of it played off his computer or whatever.

oh the ironies

― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

The Wire's notice of the new record -- although favorable -- couldn't have mischaracterized the man more if it tried. Shame. Where's Sherburne when we need him? At any rate, Compass is really, really nice.

― Brian C, Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

Kinda given up on him after the last album

Huh?? Last album's incredible. Where is J0hn D. when I need him...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

So, picked this up and it's kind of a stylistic mess, overly long, not too cohesive, and just generally disappointing (with some nice tracks sprinkled in).

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

Save me a bit of time here - what are some of the good tracks? I was really disappointed in the last album (the Jamie Winehouse comment upthread is OTM) but I've certainly not given up on him.

― everything, Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

Not sure about individual tracks yet (listened once through), but I do recall the first half of the album seeming stronger. Not sure if the actual songs are better, or if the quality's similar and I just got bored of the album as it wore on. I'd start with the first track (which I do remember being alright) and skip through the next few from there.

I was really disappointed in the last album

See, though, I thought Jim was impeccably written and was pulled off really well. Love that album...

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 20 May 2010 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

I'm listening to I Wanna Be Your Telephone right now on Hype Machine and liking it.

I should probably give Jim some more spins and see if I misjudged it. Someone else who's judgement I trust just told me the other day that it's great and I was already thinking I should go back to it. I remember that I found it to be quite bland (though certainly well put together) after Multiply, which I thought was cool and kinda unusual. But I think I only played it twice then forgot about it.

― everything, Thursday, 20 May 2010 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

With a little more growling and perhaps a few more unhinged horns "The Ring" could be described as Foetus-esque which is a very good thing!

― everything, Friday, 21 May 2010 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Compass is an incredibly patchy record, seems to jump from one fantastic song to two horrible ones.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 June 2010 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

Cosign.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

JIM is amazing, i didn't even know it existed until today.

― jed_, Sunday, 12 September 2010 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

Yup, Jim is his best album. Not really feeling the new one after a few spins, though. :/

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Sunday, 12 September 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

the production on whats the use is excellent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq6LAuJEKMA

― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 20:59 (six years ago)

five years pass...

New music is gorgeous, I know from his podcast it's been a long time coming -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxUxtHkE1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoawOpkDcj0

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 May 2025 20:30 (one year ago)

Ha I was just listening to the first Super_Collider album yesterday, for the first time in like 20 years

― rainbow calx (lukas), Wednesday, 14 May 2025 21:55 (one year ago)

“darn cold way of loving” is insane, so so funky yet seriously mindfucking too

― brimstead, Thursday, 15 May 2025 03:21 (one year ago)

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