http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/daft-punk/daft-club.shtml
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)
the review is good, the cartoons are good
― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)
Because I still don't know how to post a picture.
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)
Not that it really matters but was the review remotely fair? I can't remember a thing about listening to Daft Club frankly.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/lewis_jeffrey/its-the-ones-whove-cracked.shtml
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)
Not a chance, if anything on Daft Club is going to work then it's going to be a deep clubstyle record, cos all remixes are, generally. I haven't even heard Daft Club but there's a disdain for artists he's never heard of who are very good (not to mention fairly well known) which permeates the review and makes him seem like a total ignoramus and someone who shouldn't be next to near a remix album, ever.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah whatever.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)
As a conceit on which to hang cartoons of Daft Punk being eaten by giant sharks - A+++
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)
That would be it!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)
i have to ask: is the above sheer "rockism" at work?
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)
and i was pretty let down by "daft club" (it was cooler when i got the tracks for free from the website)
"amateur-sounding minimal thump ... virtually intolerable on headphones""boxed beats and mindless eight-bit noises""$20 five-disc Ibiza trance box sets""vapid lyrics that are perfect for the floor""magically transports even the most retarded among us onto giant party blimps"
it's like every dance-music review cliche ever, hidden by cartoons (the cartoons are great, though!)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)
I think they should do this every week, at least one review in this manner, or something along these lines.
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)
i have been taught a valuable lesson.
― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carrie Turner (cjt), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)
I didn't even bother looking at the cartoon. I still haven't. It'd have to be pretty good to redeem the review.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
Ronan, do you hate fun?
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)
(I don't really care what Pitchfork say, not that that has anything to do with me being wrong/right here. I may seem annoyed but I will discuss why I think something is silly at the drop of a hat, as anyone here knows, I am not flinging things around the room or anything. It was posted as a link and I'm interested in the music involved)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Could we call this a comedy review and all go home? I mean, it really is quite amusing. It's exactly the sorta laughs I get when you folks post pictures in threads to amuse or illustrate points. The dude doesn't have to be right or wrong really, whether or not he is a cloth-eared dance remix hata, this is still decent comedy. I mean, Ro, you could've tried being funny back at least, it IS PF.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)
I really dislike the sense that he's appeared smart from a starting point of stupidity, to people here anyway, I have a real problem with people trying to score points when they don't know what they're talking about.
I am not a total musicist about reviews, far far from it really, I do think it's a style which is best suited to pop though. I can't escape the sense musicist is some kind of caveman and writerist is a decent writer!
x-post: I was funny back, my "delightful millsian techno of one more time" was great!
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Ro, I liked that 'Face To Face' desc. but you get a B- for the wit regardless.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm a confident person and it doesn't bother me but what I'm bemoaning here is the sense of mockery of interest or obsession or people getting opinionated or passionate (and I didn't want to use that word) about something. It's pretty lame and kind of soma inducing to me.
People should get opinionated about things, people should know who Cosmo Vitelli is and people shouldn't write reviews making this seem odd, he's appealing to the conservative side of the brain that goes "WHO, WHAT, I HAVEN'T HEARD OF THIS! WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT!"
It's disgusting! I'm not in a rage but it is. This post explains my position better I feel.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
I am obsessed w/Gary Jules, ignore me please.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
I guess I don't get the hate vibe you do because the writer clearly liked the original Discovery a lot. it'd be one thing if they'd sicced some "what the fuck is this . . . dance music shit?!" writer on the remix disc but that didn't seem to be the case at all.
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I am willing to bet that to my ears nothing on there sounds like whatever EVERY SINGLE $20 five-disc Ibiza trance box set sounds like that. I am willing to bet a panel of ILM reviewers selected by William Shatner and Jeff Mills would agree that nothing on there sounds like trance!
Want to diss some dance music but don't know the language? Just lump it in with trance! MORE appealing to peoples preconceptions, banging their knee with the hammer and watching it pop up. It's lame! The fact is, and god knows I'm a victim of this myself, dance is tough to write about, I can hum a melody right now that would make a wicked French house anthem but actually making it depends on so many production subtleties and choices that in the bare lumpen language most of us are cursed with there isn't a great deal of difference between any dance song.
How do you describe a the synthesis of drums, keys, bassline, samples which makes a track work for you. It's EXTREMELY difficult, but nonetheless I think even understanding that concept is quite essential for a dance writer. And he doesn't I don't think. The Ibiza trance comparison seals that for me.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)
i like barima's joke review concept.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― trick love the kids!!, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Why? Because you don't like Fennesz or you don't like how people write about his music?
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― collard green neckbone eatin ass nigga, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)
neither. well, a little bit of the second. it's just i think we all accept that he's basically quality and i think we're all well equipped to decided whether or not he's worth our time for ourselves at this point.
on the other hand if someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of trance were to show up and started laying out the tim finneyisms on what's great about so and so i'd just be excited because trance is like this vast terra incognita for me. i know i've heard a lot of stuff i've hated (like everyone here, probably) but i also know i've heard stuff that's been genuinely exciting too ... earlier this week i was listening to novy & eniac's "pumping" and wishing posters like siegbran would write more about the music and not just favor my lazy ass with lists and dj mixes!
anon poster: i can no longer tell if people are making fun of me on ILM.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Ronan's OTM when he says that dance music is incredibly hard to write about. Maybe the hardest genre. Well, free jazz would be close.
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― hoes clothes shows vogues golds, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)
The cartoons are nice, though. I would approve of the review but I lost my stamp.
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Trick Molester, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)
nick's interview with the advantage yesterday was hilarious too, by the way
― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)
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