RFI: The Rasmus - "In the shadows"

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I really like this. Has it had a major single release yet? Did it sell?

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Finnish rock band. Possibly the biggest rock band in Europe that hasn't been yet released in the UK. It's coming though.

They have four albums. The previous one, "Into" is pretty good, brooding rock stuff with a strong pop flourish. The special edition contains a cover of Bjork's "Play Dead" which is fantastic. Search: "F-F-F-Falling" and "The Last Waltz".

The newest one, "Dead Letters", is rather magnificent and one of 2003's best albums. Much darker, more intricate and with bigger choruses. Definitely search "Not Like Other Girls", "Guilty" and "Time To Burn". "First Day Of My Life" leans a little towards the Linkin Park end of the pop scale, but it's still very good too. Wait for it to come out in the UK and get it. I bet it gets hated on on ILM a lot, but I wuv it.

The previous two albums are rather different, more uptempo with the odd ska flourish even. There's a singles compilation collecting most of the pre-Dead Letters singles, which may be your best bet.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and the first two singles off Dead Letters, "In The Shadows" and "First Day Of My Life" have torn through the pop charts of most of Europe, so one imagines they've been inescapable on most of the continent, and deservedly so.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"In the Shadows" was all over the radio in Germany last year (and continuing into this year).

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they're pretty horrible, but as judging from sales, I'm in the minority. They remind me of a watered-down Kent.

― Avi Roig (Avi), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They are absolutely pants

― Jim Janse, Friday, 26 March 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this. it sounds like europop with guitars in.

― Johnboy, Saturday, 27 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

They remind me of a watered-down Kent.

They don't really sound that much like that. The Rasmus sound nothing like Kent, whose last album had a very strong New Order/Smashing Pumpkins influence that is nowhere to be found on The Rasmus's output.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"They remind me of a watered-down Kent."

Well if they were as good as Kent than they wouldnt be any good anyway.
Both band are crap - no matters if its from sweden or finland

― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 28 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

That dude! With the hair! I finally saw and heard them (on TOTP, natch) and that singer guy looks utterly retarded. Or an orc, or something. Seriously, I felt sorry for the guy for being so ugly. It could have been my terrible upstairs TV reception interfering with the picture, but still. That wouldn't account for him having a fat 'n' pudgey face.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rasmus sound like Neil Young if he was a Spanish tour guide reciting the National Anthem in recetitive form over a series of orgasmic sounding farts emitted by Trey Anastasio's cousin.

(I don't know what they sound like)

― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like I shouldn't be enjoying "Dead Letters" when I listen to it yet I do. Linkin Park meets....can't think of any particular band, but some combo from '86-'89 that had mad radio singles and made girls cry. Sounds vague, I know, but it's that kind of sound. Help? Anyone?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rasmus sound like Shania Twain gone goth, and I'm not joking. If that's your beer, chug away, dudes.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Man, I Feel Like Bacchus"

― uh (eetface), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Shania Twain gone goth. That's like my fantasy. No wonder I like The Rasmus so much.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My mate reckons they are really shite, but that it makes for a hilarious over the top video.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone remember the first video? It was Frozen vs Virtual Insanity, but it looked like it probably cost a lot (in the way that shots of ravens bursting out of white walls would seem to) and then they threw it all over for a standard "there's one kid out there that our music reallllly talks to, so we'll save her from her shit life", albeit this time she's a Victorian chambermaid.

The feathers in the lead singer's hair plus the general cast of his features make me convinced he's drawn by Jamie Hewlett (mr Gorillaz)

The song's pretty good. Certainly if you compare it to shit like 3 Doors Down the selling-points become immediately clear.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

They want to remind everyone of the Bauhaus

They think they remind everyone of the Evanescence.

They remind me of the aHA.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, that's mean. The song is starting to grow on me. It's bubblegum gothic. (But not the Gothic Archies.)

Now his hair, that is not starting to grow on me. (Grow on him, yes, like mould.) Friends don't let friends dress like The Crow.

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I confess I still only know them by the ooo ooo song.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Rasmus played in my high school's party in 1996, when they had released only one single. Back then they were actually a quite decent band, they had this funk-influenced party rock sound. They even covered the theme song from "Ghostbusters"! But these new gothy songs are apalling, I guess they decided to imitate the success story of another Finnish goth rock monstrosity, HIM.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

savage garden + bon jovi + stabbing westward = the rasmus

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the rasmus are brilliant!!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 17 May 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

worst song ever

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

commercial rockers Rasmus last 1 song at Reading

Rasmus get bottled off at Reading
http://www.nme.com/news/109697.htm

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

bottle them off before they play "in the shadows"? deliberately spurn the chance to hear the best single of the year in the live setting?

idiots.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

50 Cent - also got the angry mob reaction

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think The Rasmus would care. I mean we are talking about the opinions of a bunch of festival-goers, a group not normally known for knowing great pop when it's played in front of them.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit shit shit shit song.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 29 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

more news on the Reading rockers rampage
Reading Festival Update: 50 Cent, Streets Bottled Off Stage
http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/index.cfm?articleid=4083

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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