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"To sing their booty-bounce tunes, they enlisted Cat, whom Goias knew from the DJ circuit. The former indie-rocker could hit all the notes, but something was missing. Their music needed something that sounded 'more Brooklyn.'"

So "Cameltoe" could be the single of the year, and the whole album is so fucking satisfying. But there's this weird undercurrent of it all being a big joke ("Things" is sung from the perspective of a 8 year old, with an Edie Brickell (yes that one) sample underneath, yet one of the gals sings, "these here things make me high") which could potentially keep it from being a huge success... Though "Cameltoe" is getting spun like crazy on Hot 97.

As for what FannyPack sounds like, how about a lame, reductionary equation? Brooklyn Girls being Beastie Boy bratty + electro + a dab of house + teen pop + lots of great jokes = FannyPack.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm wondering if the indie-rock angle will have any bearing on their fanbase/demographics/etc at all...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Is yr crotch hungry girl? Cuz it's eating yr pants!" from "Cameltoe" is my fave lyric in ages.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And before "All Around" a digitized voice says, "Hi, we're FannyPack? This is our least favorite song on the record. Sorry."

And the album ends with a PSA that says "DON'T BE A HO!"

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, an obvious point, but in that MTV story "more Brooklyn" = black.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

One last post from me before this thread dies a lonely death. A friend who's a big fan of the record wrote me this: "Don't discount the JJ Fad/L'Trimm/hip-house/early '90s Chicago house influences on the FannyPack record." Yeah, so there.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it the same Edie Brickell sample that Brand Nubian used on "Slowdown"? I love that sample and that beat.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is just not that good, Yancey -- "Cameltoe" included. It's like somebody wanted to svengali a new L'Trimm or Daphne and Celeste (or Northern State?), and had a couple ideas here and there, but not enough for very many actual songs. The thing just sounds LAZY. I like their *#1 Fun Mix* promo-only CD of their favorite songs by other people (way better than their actual CD), and I like the IDEA of naming a song "Cameltoe," and I love the personalities and voices and jokes that come across when the three girls talk in BETWEEN songs on their album, but somehow, those voices and personalities and jokes almost never materialize believably in the songs themselves, which are NOWHERE NEAR as catchy as they deserve to be. Don't have the album in front of me (I think Catucci borrowed by copy last week), but "Cameltoe" is maybe the fourth or fifth catchiest song on it.

― chuck, Monday, 12 May 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I did a double-take with the mix cd. I put it in and heard Joan Jett's voice on "I Love Rock N Roll" and immediately thought to myself Fannypack = good. Alas, my short attention span kicked in a few minutes after that and I forgot all about the band until I saw their name pop up on ILM a few days ago.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't get the mix, only the record. I'd like to hear the mix tho.

I agree that it's kinda lazy, Chuck (tho I can't concur with you as to why cuz I'm ignorant of L'Trimm and Daphne & Celeste other than knowing who they are), but I don't mind it. Its playfullness gets me more than anything else, and, at least over the four or five spins I've given it, the catchiness hasn't worn off yet. I like songs on it more than "Cameltoe" too, but that one's got loads of spunk!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

So, is this still not that good?

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 28 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I can say from experience that it works really nicely as a summer barbecue party record.

― Ben Boyer, Monday, 28 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's totally great still!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Yanc3y. I also wish someone would svengali a new Daphne & Celeste.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Monday, 28 July 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

& since writing all of that above I realized that I know one of them, and it had just never clicked! very weird.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 July 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone explain, as graphically as possible, what exactly is a cameltoe? I gather from the record that it is not something a young lady would desire. BTW, I played the J.J. Fad record the other day and other than the 808 sound, it doesn't really sound like FannyPack. I'll have to find L'Trimm to try and compare them.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and that name? Sounds very dubious to my anglocentric ears.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

if you need a graphic depiction, go find that pic of Britney in the full-body red body suit.

or do a google image search.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Good grief!

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 July 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread just got a lot more illegal. But at least I've heard the stuff now.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything you wanted to know and much more, here.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y, I'm near-positive that "Things" sample is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not Edie. Anyway anyway: this album's terrific! I'm sort of mystified by Chuck's reaction -- there's definitely some weakness and repetition in there, but all that drop-rolling bass and electroid breakin' beats just really gets me. Not to mention all the pogo sproingy stuff (like "Hey Mami"). "Cameltoe" strikes me as the worst thing on there, so boringly and stridently novelty-oriented -- even worse than the track where they actually say "this is our least favorite track."

I'll stop there and save the rest for a proper review.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, except to say that GARETH (and anyone else who likes both W.I.T. and Avenue D) NEEDS TO GET ON THIS RIGHT NOW.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait. Which YYYs song? I think yr right...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the YYY song is 'Art Star,' i'd bet my cameltoe on it.

― t.rex, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Frank K. says the new album is good.

I've only heard the single and the remix, which you can find on Fannypack's myspace or up on my blog. I like them both, the remix sounds like it has been designed to blend right into biggie's "Hypnotize."

― djdee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

this album is fucking fantastic. the old one never wore off on me (and yes, the rest of those people who may have fit in with these girls at the time, i.e. avenue d, et al, lasted about as long as precisely one inhale and one exhale), though i didn't listen to it much in the intervening time. there is some really great production on here, and aside from the slight sense of retro there isn't really any novelty element to to to it.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the tracklist on the #1 Fun Mix?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the news of a new fannypack album has me more ridiculously excited than any other upcoming album release this year does, to be honest. i probably drove my friends mad bigging up so stylistic as much as i did in 2003.

off to listen to that new single!

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

new single's pretty good, but man that remix IS a banger. thanks djdee!

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

no problem!

I've listened to the first half of the album - the thing I noticed the most is how damn GOOD Belinda is as a rapper now. Like, she tears shit UP on "Feet and Hands" (correct me if i'm wrong about which rapper is which).

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

A Google search for djdee+blog leads me to a Romanian website...

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://crankcrunk.blogspot.com/

sorry bout that!

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"On My Lap" might be my favorite track. This could seriously be pretty big!

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate "on my lap!" it's all about "not this." it'll prolly end up being my no. 1 album of the year. or very close to it.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

haha its def. my number one so far, but why on earth do you hate "On My Lap"!?

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i love the lyrics and the "storyline" or however you wanna phrase it, but by and large it's pretty limp. i like that it's obscene tho!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I like its sparseness and the cool little twinkly sonic things that drop in randomly, that sudden big handclap thing, and then when the big middle-eastern melodic part comes in...its pretty.

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually "You Gotta Know" is where its at, I've decided.

― djdee (djdee2005), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

is this already on slsk? (not that this means shit, slsk is basically useless for me)

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yes...whats yr name on slsk?

― djdee (djdee2005), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

thejewmagnet

doing a search for fannypack just now turned up one result and it wasn't even "cameltoe."

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll hook you up when i get back to my room in an hour.

― djdee (djdee2005), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet dude, thanks!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'd love to get this. Username Kornel on slsk, have lots of good stuff to trade.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So neither of you are from the riaa right?

― djdee (djdee2005), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i download like 20 songs a week, so...no. sock it me me!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

TO me. that is.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that I know of, no.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 3 March 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

so good. so much better than m.i.a.

whats the single? keep it up?

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I need to hear this.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

cozen do you use direct connect?

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

actually i might agree w/what chuck said upthread about the last album after i listen to the new one few times. its not really that catchy. and i dont like trucker hats either, i guess, but i don't think there needs to be a song about it at this point. so now i am waffling.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't get onto direct connect behind my firewall :(

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

damn. you are screwed man.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

it's the best rekkid of the year, cozen. aside the so-so "nu nu" cover, it's hotness.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

which means that, yes, i have warmed to "on my lap" though not entirely

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

wow, i'd forgotten i'd been so crankily skeptical of their debut(which i wound up liking way more than i let on upthread) at one point. at any rate, the new one is definitely better. maybe not quite my favorite album of the year (hold steady, bobby o, and o-zone seem better to me right now), but up there. and yeah, probably more fun than the m.i.a. album (which is saying a lot). (there are some tracks that drag for me, though; one of these days maybe i'll list them.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Chuck - I'm with you on this one. Great album. I think "You Gotta Know" is my favorite.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I am loving loving loving lots of this album. Today and yesterday Seven One Eight has ruled. What puzzles me is that it sounds more like a Europop CD than a New York one -- something to do with the genre mish-mash and general tackiness which seems remarkably un-selfconscious for hipster detritus.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

what is this?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm on my first listen through and I love it all, so far.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Fannypack covers "Nu Nu"?!?! (That's totes like one of my favorite new-jack dance-pop R&B-whatever songs of the early 90s!!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

"Nu Nu" (called "Yeah Yeah" on the CD) is actually my least favorite song on the album, which probably explains why it's the single. Still my record of the year, but I haven't yet heard the ones Chuck's placing above it. (Is Bobby O, like, the Bobby O?)

― Forever Out of Step (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

woah woah woah new bobby o???

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

yep. from the voice's sellout music section:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0511,tracker_writer.inc,61828,.html

― xhuxk, Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm with dizzle on "you gotta know"

― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Frank Kogan on the new Fannypack album:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0518,kogan1,63562,22.html

― xhuxk, Monday, 2 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

"You Gotta Know" thirded - song of the year?

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=351IHEGNX1IN50JSZKPG7KWD5L

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

nice review, frank.

I really love this album.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

"you gotta know" FOURTH'ED. holy shit. I WANT THIS ALBUM IN MY HANDS NOW

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

also TOUR FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TOUR

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

i dont think they're touring for this.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Some might be interested to know they're hawking a "ghetto bootleg" CD of b-sides, remixes, demos, etc. via Paypal:

http://myspace.com/morefannypack

The clips sound pretty good.

― Telephonething, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

doh!

oh well, their nyu show was great at least (though tiny, made tinier by having really awful opening acts that drove away half the crowd)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

"You Gotta Know" is fine, but there are ten other tracks on the alb that I like more.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

ten!?

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

"Seven One Eight," "Fire Fire," "Feet and Hands," "Twisted," "Not This," "Intro," "Pump That," "On My Lap," "Keep On," "Keep It Up" = 10. (I might also prefer the "Reggaie feat. Jen-O-Vee" skit, but I'm not counting the skits.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Not that there's a drastic falling off between best and worst.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving this. I think I was drunkenly burbling about it to a baffled Stelfox at the post-punk thing.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i gotta say that "you gotta know" is good, but the record is far better than that. it's a pretty pedestrian track for them!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I donno, I find the melody endlessly more memorable and funky, I haven't listened to the whole thing for a couple weeks tho. I'll listen again soon. (Yanc3y, I think both of the songs I said were my favorite are the two you said you like the least! Weirdo.)

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

oh brother: "seven one eight"! (so that's who bought the twelfth copy of 'deliverance'!) (i was gonna start a 'harmonica-hop' thread but all i could think of was this and one lloyd banks outro!)

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 21 May 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

HOW GOOD?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

REAL GOOD!

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

'harmonica-hop'

Everything that samples "Stone Fox Chase".

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

twisted is the jam!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i still haven't heard anything from the new album!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Just revisited this. This deserves a spin, ya'll. Oh, and

so good. so much better than m.i.a.

is about the truest thing ever said on this board

― Vanilla Douche (res), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:00 (fifteen years ago)

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