Rapture do I'm in Love with a Girl?

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In anticipation of the single: Has the Rapture owed up to ripping Love is All from three different Big Star songs?

― danh, Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

can some explain to me the Rapture? Saw them on Letterman and was very unipressed. granted I do like SOME melody.

― fng, Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

They're a post-punk house party band with a weak singer. If their were more young sprats doing catchy Gang Of Four ripoffs (or imaginary Cure/Giorgio Moroder collabos) I probably wouldn't care about the Rapture much. But there aren't.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

very "unipressed"!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

young sprats doing catchy Gang Of Four ripoffs

haha you've just described pretty much every band to come out of new york in the past four years!

― joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

well I put the word catchy in there for a reason.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

what, "mr. you're on fire mr." wasn't catchy?

― joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It's been ages since I've heard the Liars, so I don't remember. But aside from them and maybe Les Savy Fav I'm having a hard time thinking of groups that sound specifically like Gang Of Four.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

radio 4.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No fair. Radio 4 are PIL

― danh, Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Les Savy Fav sound like Go4 if Go4 were totally fucking sloppy drunk, maybe.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Les Savy Fav always seemed kinda Lifter Pullerish in some ways, to me.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No fair. Radio 4 are PIL

what?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I havent heard this can someone tell me what other two Big Star tracks have are in there then?

― pete s, Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Radio 4 are like Gang of Four guitar riffs and a load of boring bullshit everywhere else + one song that sounds a bit like PiL, aren't they?

(I'm asking)

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, which Big Star songs ?
('cause i won't be going out of my way to hear The Rapture any more than i have to)

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

and the Rapture song is called "love is all" .. ?

if it didn't rip these riffs from Big Star, would it have anything left to it ? I can probably work out the Big Star stuff if i do bother listening to The Rapture, but i'd rather not have to, as what i've heard sounded dead.

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

and there's a radio station that just sounds like "PiL" ? that _would_ be boring radio, but in a whole new way.

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

House of Jealous Lovers sounds like a toss-away b side from a disco/funk band. Except any disco or funk song ever recorded by real disco/funk bands are all 100,000,000X better.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

LSV are pretty similar to LP, yeah, though even there there are loads of differences

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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