Watching her now, like a neat basement party. Like her presence even if it seemed a little under conceived as a performance. Pretty much a muddle of beats, bass and reverb though. Wish a lot of songs stretched longer to take advantage of aforementioned.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
I should say, the professionally amateurism is ultimately pretty endearing.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 03:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm hoping, probably in vain, that she adds a few more songs from the new album to the setlist by the time I see her in February.
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 04:15 (eight years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
I think this depends on the venue. On a smaller venue it can be adorable. On a big, crowded venue the quality of the music being played is very important as most of the people in there can't really watch the stage. You're confined to your small space where you can barely dance and if you try to look at the stage there's a high chance there will be the sweaty neck of some dude in the way.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 05:59 (eight years ago) link
Still waiting to get the CD so I can listen to this. #luddite
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:51 (eight years ago) link
#insight
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:41 (eight years ago) link
One does one's best b
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:55 (eight years ago) link
some dude and his sweaty neck
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 10:00 (eight years ago) link
Biggest disappointment was how short the songs were. She's essentially making dance music, but her songs, as such, are pretty short. It would have been easy to stretch them out a bit more rather than squeeze 12 tracks into a 60 minute performance. She likes to dance, she has dancers, people were dancing - why not just make it a dance party? She's doing some live triggering, which gives her a bit of flexibility. Why not embrace it? I really liked the energy of "Scream," for example, but it felt like it was over in just a couple of minutes. Same with the other standouts, like Venus Fly or Kill Vs. Maim. Tbh she's really not my thing, so I'm in no position to suggest, and people seemed to be into it, but people seem to be into anything. It's a pretty low bar to make people happy if they're already on board, but she nonetheless could use a little more ambition or, um, vision. Anyway, she's still working stuff out.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
How do you know who is already on board?
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:23 (eight years ago) link
I was just at a grimes show and I can tell you it's pretty easy lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link
But will I believe you?
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
In undergrad, my roommates had an econ professor whose biggest claim to fame was apparently telling frito lay to "put more chips in the bag." I'm imagining a music crit career launched by Josh telling Grimes to "put more minutes in the songs." Boom. Grimes is bigger than Adele.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:34 (eight years ago) link
But the analogy doesn't work so well bc the people who like chips probably do actually want more chips.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
Idk felt like a reasonable critique to me. Would it work? Who knows! But I get where he's coming from.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:58 (eight years ago) link
Don't know that artists should approach their shows as if they are wedding dinner menus. And "people seem to be into anything" is just unknowable and mean.
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 November 2015 06:08 (eight years ago) link
lol maybe a bit hyperbolic but in general i think 'fans of artist who pay money for the show like the show no matter what' isn't like, completely out of line.
hes thinking like a DJ where ppl generally dont know who you are & you have to convert them via selection/sequence/showmanship or whatever...artists can be more or less ambitious in their attempt to reach non-fans depending on their wont
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 November 2015 06:52 (eight years ago) link
Not sure many of these songs would benefit from being stretched out that much frankly, one or two of the softer ones near the end maybe, otherwise its punchiness is one of its main virtues.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 November 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
pin rules everything around me
― flappy bird, Friday, 27 November 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
i love the lyrics in the verse
Dirt in your fingernailsBlood on your kneesBut did that ever make you happy?I think you were my best friendGentle do not reprehendI know it hasn't been a dreamBut if you pardon, I will mendDrunk in a parking lotJust after threeTearin' out your hair like a bansheeLighter and a safety pinLight the end, burn the skinI'll stick to you foreverCause this scar I think is permanent
― flopson, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I think you were my best friendGentle do not reprehendI know it hasn't been a dreamBut if you pardon, I will mend
^this part in particular reads so nice. great writing
― flopson, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
this is my AOTY
― flopson, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
that stanza's corrupted puck
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 27 November 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
really? lol
― flopson, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
(puck soliciting applause from the audience, no less-- v meta album!)
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 27 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour)
Can someone explain this to me? English is not my first language and I have no idea what a 'corrupted puck' is. The wiki articles on Puck only left me more confuseD:
Puck may refer to:
ObjectsHockey puckPuck, a graphics tablet accessoryPuck, the coffee grounds inside an espresso machine portafilter
Fictional charactersPuck (mythology), a folklore characterPuck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamPuck, from the Faeries CBS TV specialPuck, from Gargoyles animated seriesPuck, the eponymous character from Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequelPuck, from The Sandman series of comic booksPuck, from The Sisters Grimm series of novelsPuck (comics), the codename of two Marvel charactersPuck (Glee), from the musical comedy-drama GleePuck (Love Birds), youngest penguin from the Robert J. Sherman musical Love BirdsPeter Puck, a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon characterPuck, a character from the Berserk manga and anime series
LiteraturePuck (magazine), an 1871–1918 humor publicationPuck (literary magazine), a 1990s publicationPuck, a novel by Ouida
PlacesPuck, PolandPuck (moon), a moon of UranusPuck Building, a Manhattan landmarkBay of Puck, in the Baltic Sea
People
David "Puck" Rainey, reality TV personalityTheodore Puck (1916–2005), American geneticistWolfgang Puck (born 1949), Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur
Other usesPuck Fair, an Irish festivalPuck, a monotypic genus of dreamer from the family Oneirodidae.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearnèd luck
Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
I guess that makes this the second time I've heard a song this year by a Canadian artist originally from British Columbia that used lines from the ending of A Midsummer's Nights Dream.
The other being the very end of the closing track from Marianas Trench's Astoria.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
anyone else love the title track? the chorus vocals are my fav moment on this
― dutch_justice, Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
ya her vocals on artangels are heavenly, esp the part she sings in french
― pplasma, Sunday, 29 November 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
It must be me, but I keep hearing the melody of this over Artangels and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 30 November 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
Fine pop tune with ace vocalist with pedigree. Whats not to like?
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 30 November 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
Whatever pop station they play at my gym played Flesh Without Blood today.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
Flesh without blood seems to quote Bubble Pop briefly
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
so our four yr old's favorite musician is officially Grimes and his favorite music video is Realiti. he made some fan art for it too, complete with lyrics. i've caught him singing 'oh baby every morning there are mountains to climb' on a handful of occasions.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202015-12-03%20at%2010.58.56%20AM_zpstrvbyito.png
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
<3
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
aw
― ﷽ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Cute.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
no joke, you should send those to grimes, she would probably love them
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
GRIMS!!!!
i meant to post another version of the pic i had that was a bit cropped for privacy's sake but that's alright i guess.
after my family-wide steely dan taste-making failure i'm glad grimes worked out.
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
omg
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
guys how do we send these to Claire omg
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
twitter
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
the internet
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
my lil buddy would probably be happy if grimes saw his drawing but I bet she gets lots of art tweeted at her!
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
you could tag her on instagram maybe idk
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
she likes to see it! her instagram is peppered with posts of fan art, especially when you look about 10 to 15 weeks ago
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
well I posted it and tagged her before....but now I realize that my account had been made private before that so I'll try again!
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link