Neptunes vs. DFA

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The Neptunes have the advantage of quantity on their side, but DFA seem to have pretty good quality kontrol. So: what say you...?

― die9o (dhadis), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

but both overexposed?

(I have no idea, have heard neither)

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

that just isn't possible!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

you have, just not knowingly. B3n blasts NERD songs all night.

― die9o (dhadis), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Did he last night? If so, I was counter-acting with Dadamah and International Harvester...

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tunes get better; DFA seems to be all about diminishing returns.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

That being said, if they were to get together and form a super production team their tracks could tear the fabric of the universe apart.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't see the "Vs" in the thread and became slightly excited

down boy down

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

NERD was ultimately such a major disappointment, but the Neptunes edge out DFA just barely, although i'm inclined to think otherwise...with only one bad record (the 7") DFA do seem to have quality control down pat. when's that compilation coming out again?

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tunes get better

HMMMM...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

DFA everytime, it may be a trend or whatever but I am getting majorly, massively into the Rapture, Olio is the perfect fucking dance record, the type that a DJ you've waited ages to see plays as his first song, and you start hearing the cheers build up from behind you and around you, and by the end everyone is completely screaming.

And then usually the DJ won't mix it into something, he'll stop it and let people cheer, and then play something straight up and massive after all the tension is gone.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 18 April 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I dont know what my problem is, but I just cannot get into The Rapture. I love the mix cd(minus a few rough patches) and the first LCD record, and the Deceptacon remix, but I just cannot understand what people see in The Rapture, and Losing My Edge was a real stinker. The jury is still out on the new 7", but I am leaning towards dud.

Perhaps I just want them to be like a garage (and I mean that in the nuggets sense of the word) Metro Area. I am not trying to level an attack, but can you explain to me what you are seeing that I am not?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Dan and I both like them because we're Cure fiends.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, who's DFA?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Record label/sort-of production house. Website here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

BEAT CONNECTION, motherfuckers!
But wait!
RUN TO THE SUN, motherfuckers!
Lemme think about this.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, you need to remember that you are talking to somebody who sold his copies of 17 Seconds and Faith because he could not justify keeping them along with his copy of Happily Ever After on Mint++ condition vinyl.

They were the first band that I got super fanatical about.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

neptunes obv, but the dfa are really good. is tha usher 'can you help me?' remix *really* by the dfa??

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

*bows to Mike* I shall not question. :-)

I think Dan and I both like the chipper romantiangstdisco nature of it all, I suppose -- type of thing that Cure remixes around 1984/85 always seemed to do in particular. I actually had Dan pegged as a fan of the Rapture before he had even heard them, and I was right!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 April 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You know Ned, I don't know how I missed that connection. It does make a lot of sense, and that is probably why it is not appealing to me. I did not really care for a lot of the things The Cure did between Pornography and Head On The Door.

It is surprising to me, it never would have crossed my mind that people would be mining those records for ideas these days. I just need a 00's band that rips off Faith.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 19 April 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure it's out there -- question is whether it'll be any good! (I fully agree that's a record well worth ripping ideas off from.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I started dl'ing The House of Jealous Lovers 12" before I went to bed last night. I just gave it a listen, and I like it quite a bit. The other stuff that I heard was very much Phillip Thornally-era Cure goes punk, but this record is definitely more in line with what I would expect from a DFA related project. Good stuff indeed.

The thing that I do wonder about is how well this stuff will date. It seems very right now, and not very 5 years from now. Will the DFA remain classic, or is it something that we will just kind of laugh about in thhe future?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 20 April 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan is right - the dance version of "Olio" is fantastic, perhaps mostly because it's rock/dance thing actually sounds like it's a collision from both directions. It feels much more exciting than "House Of Jealous Lovers", even though the latter is more fun.

Still The Neptunes though. DFA need to do a fuckload more to beat those odds.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 20 April 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Good news, DFA fans! click here!

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

ah blogs

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to write a five paragraph nabisco-esque thesis on how blogs perform an interesting service by providing distribution for oddities and random leaks in the public eye,allowing for an active discussion of ethics instead of the back alley of clandestine file trading.

But I'm really just marginally annoyed because we covered this on ILM a bunch already and the leak came from our own damn YSI thread.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

"he's... in... the... house!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

The blogosphere is probably the most amazing invention of the last two or three milleniums.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

- Glenn Reynolds

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

would what tyler durden do, guys

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

who charges more

― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

But I'm really just marginally annoyed because we covered this on ILM a bunch already and the leak came from our own damn YSI thread

Sorry, I didn't know.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Why does everything so bad make me feel so good?"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

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