Did I die? Am I in heaven? omg
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:34 (ten years ago)
just a teeeny bit of michael hutchence realness too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (ten years ago)
maybe it's the shirtless flailing but this song has started to make me think of an alternate-universe bubblegum Jane's Addiction
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:35 (ten years ago)
Is there an alternate universe where this Sideshow Bob-fronted atrocity doesn't exist? I'd be down on my knees praying for one, if this wasn't enough proof that there is no God.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)
You've got to let it go, Turrican. It's time.
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 18:21 (ten years ago)
Yeah, Hutchence totally came to my mind when I saw the video.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 19:58 (ten years ago)
He always reminded my of some long lost white Wayans
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 00:36 (ten years ago)
i'm of course watching live videos of the new songs. "change of heart" sounds like their "say hello wave goodbye." "she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2 but i don't mind that at all
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:06 (ten years ago)
and "the sound" is like their aesthetic applied to disco, and is the most exciting of the three
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)
anyone who wants to spoil themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-YVJ9icDI
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:16 (ten years ago)
"she's american" is obv "settle down" part 2
i'm crying already
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:50 (ten years ago)
the last minute of "change of heart" my heart is bursting open & i'm in agony
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
YES.
Though LOL at "you used to have a race straight out a magazine" and "I never found love in the city".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:11 (ten years ago)
They... Can't seriously propose to pass "She's American" off as a new song can they?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:22 (ten years ago)
lol it's so "settle down"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)
i never found love in the cityi just sat in self-pity and cried in the cari just had a change of heart
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:47 (ten years ago)
"change of heart"'s lyrics are all crazy good (when you were coming across as clever / and you lit the wrong end of a cigarette)
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:48 (ten years ago)
oh.... oh boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARWzRGlfvs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:52 (ten years ago)
this is the one
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:57 (ten years ago)
lol look @ me just watching shitty live videos of new songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:58 (ten years ago)
their "say hello wave goodbye."
smh at you comparing this band to the greats here.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:00 (ten years ago)
get out turrican
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:01 (ten years ago)
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― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:03 (ten years ago)
u would totally love this band with a different singer prob
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:04 (ten years ago)
like we would love this thread with a diff turrican
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:11 (ten years ago)
Hello!
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:12 (ten years ago)
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:13 (ten years ago)
"somebody else" is prob the best fusion of the ep and lp 1975 yet?
*makes extreme pronouncement about v poor quality youtube video*
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:15 (ten years ago)
imaglol
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)
I'm in fact open to being cool with these guys, esp after that ep track Tim F posted
more stuff like "we represent the declining standards we've come to accept" pls
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:17 (ten years ago)
Listen to this as well Imago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfyOrAjq4YU
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:34 (ten years ago)
really wish we were getting a collection of eps around this record but oh well
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:37 (ten years ago)
^^^^ Yeah I bet there's some amazing stuff that simply won't see the light of day as a result.
OTOH, OMG at "Somebody Else".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:41 (ten years ago)
lol i'm already wearing this album out
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:46 (ten years ago)
yeah that was pretty cool again, they're not a one-trick band at all - and whatever they do, they do with exceptional sonic boldness, which is nice & suits them
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 23:38 (ten years ago)
wow all those new songs sound great
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:20 (ten years ago)
The Sound is apparently the next single and deservedly
― ufo, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:24 (ten years ago)
"she's american" sounds like every song off the first album boiled down to one track but it also sounds lighter than air i'm very down
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 01:52 (ten years ago)
i already deeply love this song
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:02 (ten years ago)
[Chorus]And she likes to kiss but just don't eatIt was so intense, yeah, she's AmericanAnd she says I gotta fix my teethMan she's so American, she's AmericanAnd she likes to kiss but just don't eatSocially elegant, she's AmericanAnd she says I gotta fix my teethMan she's so American
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:06 (ten years ago)
head-shaking lol
― thwomp (thomp), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 02:55 (ten years ago)
i wonder if that's about taylor swift
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 03:15 (ten years ago)
Yeah the moment I saw the name of that song I thought the same thing.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 13:39 (ten years ago)
http://i63.tinypic.com/10yq98n.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:50 (ten years ago)
repeating that face from a magazine motif from "she way out" i see
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:44 (ten years ago)
from "robbers"! + additional references to "the city" and "sex"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:48 (ten years ago)
magazine motif repetition already felt lazy by "she way out", at least it seems deliberate here.
In the live performance the lyric that jumped out at me was "You said I'm full of diseases / your eyes were full of regret".
Because Matt's lyrics are such a mash of dialogue it's often hard to know who's saying what about whom, though.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:52 (ten years ago)
and then you took a picture of your salad and put it on the internet
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:56 (ten years ago)
Got 3500 words with the boy Healy, talking about the new album, and drugs, and his "breakdown" and lots of other things in the paper.My two favourite songs from the new album aren't being played live: Paris is part Only You, part Every Breath You Take, part self loathing; If I Believe You is a big deep soul ballad about atheism, but done with electronics instead of horns.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:14 (ten years ago)
Sorry: I should have said piece is published on Sunday. 3500 online 2200 in print.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:15 (ten years ago)