The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love (2006)

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so far SO GOOD. electropop greatness. not as much live band aspect as older albums. just wonderful production. lots of work on the voices (the first song sounded like Yes). great dancey numbers, super sublow synth bass, sax. diggin it.

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

where did u get this

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

all over google

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

i am surprisingly excited for this!

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

OMG DFA WILL BE TOTES JEALOUS

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HKCRW2.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59937250_.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

A close up of second-from-right could eventually replace slocki's meme:

http://www.troubledteen.us/images/privpic.jpg

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

When did Karen O join the band?

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I invented the head in hands meme.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

cover nearly out-bads Jo Newsom!

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

hearing "Get Myself Into It" at optimo last night was incredible. why did they stop working with DFA?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

that is just a shitty album cover.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

The album title is kinda emo, though.

― GLC (ZakAce), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

i think the cover's great

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

so do i!

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00049QKDI.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1124912837_.jpg

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

i like that one too

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Those covers are totally 80s hair-gel adverts. Which is fine.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

too much 80's already TOO TOO MUCH

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

the only thing I still want revived is hip-house :D

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

RAPTURE, I"LL HOUSE YOU

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

the cover is totally unexpected. do they take themselves anly less then completely seriously on the actual record? (if no, then fine)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I own this, it's freakin' A.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

haha... swap you for a really lame belgian new beat comp ;)

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

rapture cover reminds me of a live-action version of

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025KHN.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― golana murcalumis (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

this record is coming out on MOTOWN, wtf.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

i think the rapture album cover is great. the use of color is really excellent, as are the movement/multiple silloutes. it refereneces 80s workout clothes but remains pretty fun and easy-going. while the futureheads cover just makes some references to new wave design (stripes, black bar eyes), the rapture does something with those influences.

― theghostrobot (theghostrobot), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

the album is bad.

sounds more like Big Beat than anything else.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

yay!!

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

vahid to thread, nyuck nyuck.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - cue 400 people saying that sounds amazing.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

big beat, the other other "dance rock"

― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

or dance-punk... indieclash whatever

― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Serge Santiago mix of Get Myself Into It.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

the album version of WAYUH really fulfills the promise of that early leaked version that was floating around and that nobody but me (i think) liked

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Get Myself Into It reminds me a LOT of..."Connected" by Stereo MC's....

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

What I've heard of this has been fuckin fantastic!

― TOTALLY STOKED (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've been listening to this, or certain tracks on it, a lot.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

good to see them throw off that whole "no DFA, no rapture" thing that you KNOW people were waiting to throw at them.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pisces to the People!

― Post-Rodney (But no one called it that at the time) (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah no one but s1ocki liked WAYUH.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

seriously i tought everyone else hated it! AM I WRONG.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Three word review: Pretty Much Shit

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Get Myself Into It is pretty much the best thing on the album, but then on the last album House of Jealous Lovers was the one good thing on the album (+ only a couple of other tracks).

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

the only good thing apart from the other couple of good things?

i dunno slocki, i liked it alot.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

WAYUH's a fun song, and there are a couple of other fun songs on this record, but for the most part it's pretty damn boring. Unfortunate.

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Get Myself Into It reminds me a LOT of..."Connected" by Stereo MC's....

YES! This is what it's been reminding me of!!!!!!11111

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

what?
"get myself into it" sounds like a ze inspired remix of one of those shitty british bands like futureheads or arctic shambles or whatever the fuck they're called. without the over-affected unprocessed vocals, heavy bass and cutglass guitar and especially without the syncopated drums, well... this is just shitty.

― Dan Gr (certain), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Don Gon Do It" and "The Devil," but I'm not really feeling the rest. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

its shit. lacks the substance and personality of Echoes. just sounds like generic electro pop. the the lyrics are absolutely cringeworthy

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a video (can't remember for which song though) and they just seemed tired, like a band who really don't want to make a record, but don't know what else to do. They plodded rather than snapped.

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just saw them at electric picnic. They were one of the highlights of the festival, their new material is more intense, and considering that the majority of the crowd hadn't heard it, I'd say it went down better than the songs from the last record (excluding HOJL) It will be a different experience without spine shattering base once I listen to it on my humble stereo, but I liked what I heard.

― white heat (white heat), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

yes, Electropop not Dancepunk now; Anyone else struck by how much the lead vocalist has improved? Overall way more immediately interesting than Echoes based on first listens.

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

The new NRBQ. Total garbage.

The Rapture are not a real band and they do not have real songs. No DFA = bozo Gnarls Barkley cowbell noodling custom-made to soundtrack commercials for VH1's Best Week Ever.

― james brooks (j_brooks), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

sigh

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

_echoes_ wasn't great either, unfortunately. they can't seem to get back in the zone of _out of the races..._ which is a superb ep.

― Dan Gr (certain), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Echoes is superb.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

The new NRBQ

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

the very beginning of w.a.y.u.h. would be PERFECT for a ringtone.

i think the album is just average-to-good, not the worldbeater that i had really hoped it could be.

"custom-made to soundtrack commercials for VH1's Best Week Ever." this is a huge complement in my mind...i think they do a great job soundtracking the intros.

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

you mean the fade-in beginning/

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

well, they were original

― crosby (micarl), Sunday, 10 September 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

gets better on every listen

― micarl (micarl), Sunday, 10 September 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

massive bummer. suprised people still care about this band

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Sunday, 10 September 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

In his Plan B interview Matty Safer says schaffel techno was a minor influence.

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Sunday, 10 September 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

massive bummer. suprised people still care about this band

a bummer that people care?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 September 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

the album cover art and the music it contains are basically an iPod commercial. by the way, who ever said The Rapture were original? you can go through their entire discography song by song and name the exact pastiche/reference point/rip-off....starting with The Cure/Gang of Four/This Heat and ending with "Stereo MCs" (haha, I really liked that one). but yeah, P.O.T.P.W.L. is a new low.....very dissapointing, but I wasn't really expecting something great and soulful. in other words, they're destined to be HUGE arena (dance)rockers.

― Benjamin White (bennyshambles), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

ps - Echoes is overrated, but still somewhat chance-taking. I think "open up your heart" (Bowie) and "love is all" (Big Star) were out-of-place if you want a constant "disco-punk assault" or whatever...but I think they added variety and prove to be the easiest tracks from Echoes to listen to after all these (3) years. I also think the DFA production is way leaner/minimal, therefore MUCH better...but that's just me. If you want an exciting and superb album in 2006, I suggest getting LOVE IS ALL's "Nine Times That Same Song"....and I'm pretty sure they DID NOT get their name from said The Rapture song.

― Benjamin White (bennyshambles), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

pps - "Pieces of...." really DOES have some pretty inane and cringeworthy lyrics.

― Benjamin White (bennyshambles), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

WTF, the best songs on Echoes always were and remain "Olio" and "Killing"!

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

"they're destined to be HUGE arena (dance)rockers"

name arena dance rockers who were the size the Rapture are destined to be. Are we talking Loverboy? Jesus Jones? It seems like people's problems with this record is that they aren't trying to be arena dance rockers thats why the ipod commercial thing is pretty spot on. But then Gnarls barkley is ipod music too (anything dangermouse touches = ipod music) and the Rapture ain't gonna have a "Crazy" hit. (because the only place people will hear them will be on their ipods. how would the Rapture go about crossing over to radio (assuming they had a good enough pop song)?)

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost to benjamin) Haha, yeah dude, a) we've never heard of Love is All, b) that Love Is All album came out in 2005, and c) "I'm pretty sure they DID NOT get their name from said The Rapture song" = DELUSIONAL. It's not an accident so many bands have been popping up lately whose names are Rapture references. Echoes is a hugely influential album.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Rapture's vocalist is too idiosyncratic even for our newly emofied top-40.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

i, for one, totally hope it's a crossover success. whatever they have lacked in originality they have more than made up for in the enthusiasm and sincerity of their appropriations. most of the bands that have cropped up, in large part due to the rapture's influence on indie rock/dance music, haven't had an ounce of the sincerity of the rapture. the rapture were doing the post punky dance thing well before it was trendy, and i think this album is a big step forward for them in terms of appealing to the larger audience they deserve, if not the artistic success i might have hoped for. they remain an amazing live band as well.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

sincerly being into obscure influences = not likely to be a crossover success. gonna have to disagree w/young fresh danny d re: vocal stylings. i hate to do it cuz hes an opera singer or whatever. dude is idiosyncratic, sure, but if panic at the disco can be a hit i don't get why the rapture can't (vocalwise). plus hes got at least 2 ways to sing.

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's two different people, dipshit

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

rapture release party tonight dudes! I'm printing this out and bringing it.

Love is All and the Rapture have about a .5 degree of separation socially, so who knows, it's likely, maybe not, but I wouldn't go so far as to use capital DID NOT.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is "ipod music?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I've written articles on that. Just think.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

"think different?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's two different people, dipshit

-- cutty (holle...), September 12th, 2006.

oh ok - that makes sense. still not sure why i am dipshit for not being familiar enough with the rapture's personnel!

i think ipod music is say the stuff that is popular on the itunes store or might be played in a ipod commercial (or other commercials like a target commercial or even played on a tv show. i heard ggnrals barkley's violent femmes cover on "entourage"), but its never gonna make it to top 40 radio or urban or 'active rock' or anything else exactly and the album won't be very high on the billboard album charts, etc. its what a lot of sorta cool college or high school kids might be listening to on their ipods.

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

its basically the same sort of stuff i would hear on my local alt-rock station in the mid 90s. except now the local alt-rock station = an ipod.

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

o pitchfork and their records that will "last"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

SORRY "PERSIST"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Erm, I like this album a lot, but in terms of "ipod music," well, the Rapture are celebrating this release by playing at the APPLE STORE, SOHO

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Rapture are on Xfm 104.9 London doing an interview album playback NOW

listen via the web:
http://www.xfm.co.uk/home.asp

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-(nu^11892479184298)-ILM

where "this music will fill an arena" is thrown out as an INSULT

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh NOES - cool high school kids might like it!

MUST ... DISTANCE ... SELF ... from HIGH SCHOOl kids ... URRRGGGGHHHHHH

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

So long as they keep doing random Psych Furs covers here and there live I'm okay with them (especially at arena level).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Love Is All did not get their name from the Rapture. I bought Love Is All's first 7" single way before Echoes even came out commercially.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

dear art ensemble of chicago house,

i have no problems liking music hs kids like. when i was in hs i liked music hs kids liked. i haven't heard the rapture's new album and neither have hs kids.

― consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

his name is vah1d f0z1

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Haha sure Galkin but like a year and a half before? Cause, you know...

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh snap

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

it's two different people, dipshit

-- cutty (holle...), Today 12:21 PM. (mcutt)

I tried to make this point on the ratpure thread (before/ca. echoes) a few times but nobody not even a blogger would listen to me.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sometime in 2002 i got the Lost Thrills 7" on Dolores Recordings by Love Is All. That is all i know....maybe they heard the Rapture track somehow, it is not out of the question. I am still pissed that new CSS song Lets Make Love and Listen To Death From Above is not about us. What the fuck, man, nothing rhymes with "1979"?

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

shake down 1979
cool kids never have the time

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

i do know of v@hid and enjoy his contributions to ilx (i've been here for like 4 years believe it or not i just usually lurk). my name is chris btw cutty - sorry we can't be bros. maybe someday i can be forgiven for not knowing the rapture had two singers. i did like their last album ok, but i am not a super fan. i guess i don't think they are my generations new order like dude was saying upthread. no offense!

― consigliere (consigliere), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

The dude sounds completely different. WTF?

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I showed up to the release party last night and like a dozen people were like "where's the printout, dude".

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

and by "a dozen", I mean cutty and phil.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Good to see Neil Morrissey, Keith Moon and John Squire in gainful employment, but who's the guy on the left?

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HKCRW2.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59937250_.jpg

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Thursday, 14 September 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I showed up to the release party last night and like a dozen people were like "where's the printout, dude".

about a dozen people asked me "how was the malan breton runway show?". i love ilx/irl crossover.

btw, i think rapture are on conan on friday?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

btw, i think rapture are on conan on friday?

Yeah the Rapture and Matthew Perry. I better get my VCR ready...

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

just picturing them hanging in the green room with matthew perry sounds... dangerous

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Get Myself Into It reminds me a LOT of..."Connected" by Stereo MC's....

I thought of B-52's "Channel Z"...

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why is The Devil not the single? That's what I want to know.

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

"just picturing them hanging in the green room with matthew perry sounds... dangerous"

you do mean drugs, right? okay, just checking.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 15 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hahaha.com/images/television/just-for-laughs-series/dylan-moran.jpg

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is driving me crazy, for ripping/importing purposes- does anyone know what the "hidden" song (indexed at track 42 on some versions of the album) is titled?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 18 September 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wow this is much better than I expected it to be. I love how for the first few seconds of the album it actually sounds like Queen.

Also, no comments on The Sound yet? Tomorrow Never Knows drums + big wall of noise + fuzzed up guitars doing fake choppy electrohouse loop = teh awesome.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Now that DOES sound like Big Beat!

Got to get myself into it sounds like the police circa regatta de blanc to me. But good!

So do I go overdrawn and buy this today or wait till payday, that's the question.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000HKCRW2.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59937250_.jpg
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002W8Q.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002W8Q.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha

i want to get this.

the drummer in my band said it was good. i trust his opinion.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

you've never heard knee deep in the hoopla?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

this is totally an inxs album. they've got a new sensation. (i like this about it, obv.)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

you've never heard knee deep in the hoopla?

i'm only up to the jefferson starship stuff...i've been working my way through the catalog for the past 10 years.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"the sound" is fucking amazing, if any other band produced a song like that, these haters would be shitting over it.

i also love "down for so long"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm liking this very much.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone heard the bonus tracks from the UK iTunes version?
'Shooting Star' and 'On and On'?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

"On and On" is on copies sold at Best Buy in the States...it's decent. Not really necessary, and I can see why it's tacked on as an extra (after 30-ish "silent" tracks, I hate it when record companies do that).

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, like this?

I found a promo copy of this at a record store yesterday for 6 dollers. Now I'm thinking maybe I should have picked it up. Do other songs besides WAYUH have that same textured "Remain In Light" sound?

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

This was extremely disappointing to me. Half of it sounds like third rate King, as in Paul King of "Love and Pride" fame, which is probably due to the timbre of one of the vocalists.

Quick side point first: I really dislike the phrase "boring generic DFA-type fodder" to describe bands related to or once related to the label. I don't believe it exists, at least yet. Some DFA productions are more dynamic and/or fun than others, sure. And some of them can be very long, dare I say too long, taking a while to build, perhaps never quite peaking as high as it should, which I'm guessing why the phrase above came to be. But I can't think of anything from the label that has ever qualified as "boring generic DFA-type fodder" to this date.

OK, the reason why I even brought that up is that the other half of this Rapture album seems to fulfill that derogatory "boring generic DFA-type fodder" stereotype, which is a first -- ironically on the band's first major release detached from the very label in question.

I know there's an excellent album somewhere inside this band waiting to emerge. I don't mind the previous releases, and I'm glad each one is slightly different, but nothing the band has done has really grabbed me at all, and this one just makes this former dream even more distant and frustrating for me. It's not terrible compared to many other albums this year, but just really disappointing.

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Sounds kinda interesting at first, but this ain't too good. The title track is great, however. Any song that has that T. Rex beat makes me melt, but they follow through and make a fine song out of it.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the serge santiago remix of 'get myself into it', not the one knocking around a couple months back but the one on this, is so sick. it is basically lil louis feat. luke jenner!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have sometimes seen this record in the record shop and thought of buying it. I wonder what I would think of it, if I did.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine you'd dislike it, but I'd be really interested to see footage of you listening to it for the first time.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

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