Classic or dud: The All Seeing I

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― Phil A., Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally, I find 'Walk Like A Panther' one of the most truly ecstatic pop records of recent times. I just can't stop myself singing along.

― Momus, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Singles - classic. Album - more or less dud, too many not-quite-dance not-quite-interesting instrumentals. But the singles - "Walk Like A Panther" showed that Jarvis hadn't lost his touch with an opening line and showed that the Webb/Harris young guns-old ham formula could be dragged into the tech-age. "Beat Goes On" was blessed with a great Beckett-referencing TOTP performance.

And their finest four minutes, "First Man In Space", of course. Pop about pop, about nostalgia, about itself, and their most fizzily physical electro patterns too - clever not a dirty word round the All Seeing I's pad.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

This thread deserves a lot more than two responses. "Walk Like A Panther" is some next-level shit even nowadays.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it's the best song Jarvis Cocker ever wrote, surely?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

could you provide a link to a website where i might be able to jog my memory by hearing a recording of this song?

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

All Seeing YSI?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Have 59 seconds of it.

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF47085-01-01-01.mp3

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

woah, is that street-legal? i know i like this song, but i kind of misremember it. in my head it sounds like 'is this the way to amarillo'.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Tom's judgment holds up, I figure, as I don't play the album much but the singles from it rooled. (Was "Drive Safely Darlin'" a single as well, I can't remember.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

DSD was not a single. Best version of Walk Like A Panther was the version on Top Of The Pops. Album is mostly dud, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

That answer is incorrect.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

It certainly is.

One of the finest magazine freebies was the one from "Jockey Slut" "Give UDI" will shred your car speakers, but it's worth it.

Was I the only one that thought the last track (which carried on with the same backing track as the Cocker/Christie "Happy Birthday Nicola") was BabyBird's caustic comment on Jarvis himself?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

The album is more fantastic as a 100% awkward-corners-sparky-defeated-uberSheffield period piece thing than a pop record in own right, but, only slightly.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pickled Eggs & Sherbet is a fine album, but where is the love for All Seeing I member Dean Honer's I Monster project? For shame, people.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

woah, is that street-legal? i know i like this song, but i kind of misremember it. in my head it sounds like 'is this the way to amarillo'.
-- the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (miltonpinsk...), May 8th, 2006.

i wrote this without realizing that it was tony xtie on the ASI track...

― the Enlexque who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

The I, Monster record is a bit of a curate's egg. "Sunny Delight" is quite an astonishing piece of work, though.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

i just d/l'd 'WLAP' -- for money -- on man like dom's recommendation, and it's HOT.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am even superior to last.fm's "Recommend" feature.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Beat Goes On is a jolly enough tune.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

didn't Britney Spears record a version of "The Beat Goes On" after being entranced by All Seeing I's version?

― hank (hank s), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes and they produced it to some extent (or get credits for something at least--I can't quite remember.) It's not that great though.

It's a pity the All Seeing I album has a shit version of Beat Goes On on it bcz otherwise it's ace, esp. the last two electro-prog tracks which have the same tune.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

the phil oakey-sung 'first man in space' is great too..

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Check the extended single version, with Phil's talky into.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, when I locate my copy of "eggs", I may well do my 'directors cut' version with the Jockey Slut promo and the extended single versions on it, etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

... and one day, I might.

I dug out that Jockey Slut promo, just so the kids could hear "Give UDI" on their way to school.

By the end, they were singing some song from Lazytown over the ending beats.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:31 (sixteen years ago)

Good thread.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:41 (sixteen years ago)

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