the world's most pompous album is here. says u know who.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1230401,00.html

with the most self important cd booklet to boot!

― piscesboy, Friday, 4 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't read that thing, it's too long. I just want to say that I'm STUNNED for some reason that Faithless has sold that many records. I had no idea. That first single was the only thing that got any play in the states. ( at least i think it was their first single. the one where he can't sleep cuz he's tearing up stuff with his teeth in the heath. which i love.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Although I'm sure their albums were staples of coffee shops here that i never went to. There are a lot of them. They kept Portishead in running around money for years.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

'Insomnia' was the big breakthru hit, curiously it was only a minor hit in the UK until it swept thru Europe the following Summer scoring number 1 in Germany (as did 'Salva Mea' i think which is arugably better) but re-released it was top 5 or so here in '96. i like the dark moodiness of some of their tracks in that vein, or at least the way they play on that theme whilst retaining mainstream appeal. it sounds ridiculous now if you listen to dark dance stuff from recent years perhaps (e.g. 'I Dance Alone' or whatever) but i think 'Insomnia' was originally seen as a real deviation from the norm in mid 90s UK clubland.

i'm sure this new album is completely pants tho...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

they sell so many cos they're always cheap in the sales. they add extra discs/remixes on a regular basis .. i am sooo glad i was wrong in my assumption that it was the same Rolo in Faithless as in the Woodentops ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

He went on to do ambient jungle gubbins as Pluto, and would probably slot quite neatly into that "fake jungle" thread that seems to be ticking over quite nicely

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

As for the review, really, who the fuck cares? Faithless'll be crying themselves to sleep I'm sure

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/petridish/

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it was about a priest with some yeast inbetween his teeth and his good friend Keith who's a hairpiece thief, on the heath ... wasn't it?

― coco, Friday, 4 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

still i'm absolutely sure that Faithless, with all their ridicolous magniloquence, are way deeper than Derrida...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought this was a radiohead thread.. ill leave.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, Faithless are the Radiohead of awful dance music...

― strom, Friday, 4 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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If you'd read Derrida, Marco, you'd know that deep is the last thing he'd want to claim to be.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 4 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf? Is that Marcello writing as Petridish?

― de, Friday, 4 June 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately, noodle vague, i HAD to read derrida - and for all his fake nonchalance and playfulness, his thinking is utterly pompous and vacuous. but i'm a naive who guy who believes in reality, you know... :)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll pass this on to Derrida next time I see him (though now that I think of it I haven't seen him around campus at all this spring).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

he ws tearing up TIGHTS with his teeth

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll pass this on to Derrida next time I see him (though now that I think of it I haven't seen him around campus at all this spring).

please ak him what he thinks about pol pot now.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Eric Hobsbawn still thinks Stalin was a good idea! There's no helping some people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Eric Hobsbawn still thinks Stalin was a good idea! There's no helping some people.

yeah, I really would like to see Derrida speaking about Deconstruction to a deconstructed Cambodian audience...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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