goldfrapp 'supernature'.

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i.e loved by ILx, ignored by everyone else.

the M83 remix of "black cherry" blew me away ... as i said on the m83 thread, some kind of collaboration would be delicious.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1528298,00.html

WHERE THE *HELL* IS THIS THING?

funny that...

it's funny how thanks to p2p programs i always subtract a month from the official release date and designate it as the "unofficial internet release date"

Tiefschwarz remix ditches the shuffle, adds quasi-mentasm keys and sounds like a euro-cheese Armand Van Helden??

I would be very very very loathe to use language like all image no substance as a criticism, but when the image is so hackneyed and obvious I think it's fair enough .

I have never disagreed with you more Tracer! I even like much of Natalie Merchant's singing, but I don't think they sound alike!

"Album oriented electro" is perhaps a tad misleading I think Ronan - implies that she's watering down club-oriented electro when I suspect that she's actually just updating twenty-five yr old album-oriented electro... always thought Andy K was spot on with the Associates comparison, specifically Fourth Drawer Down...

exactly how she was when i interviewed her. i didn't much care for black cherry (not because he bitchy attitude during the interview, it just left me *cold*.)

what's the point of AOP (Adult Orientated Pop) you mean? as opposed to what? The fact that it's heavily electronic is surely irrelevant now no?

I wouldn't care if they never made another album. I didn't expect them to have made another one so soon anyway.

And I can't understand why someone would object to music DVDs either!

Same here. Like some people here, there's something about Alison Goldfrapp's persona that I don't quite like. But at the same time, Goldfrapp are capable of creating a few sublime moments that more than make up for any image/attitude turn offs.

or it's a faster take on "Strict Machine"

What T.Rex to be exact? I'd like one or two pointers...

?????? What has happened to Marcello?

you people all make me very sad. i can't believe how much time and emotion you all expend on trying to argue your points to one another.

does no one else realize how futile and ridiculous it is to argue something like musical taste, especially in a medium as flat and emotionless as the internet?!? you all just get so fired up. it's really quite baffling.

first off, it's depressing so many people have bad things to say about alison goldfrapp stricly because of who they think she is. none of you know her, how much or how little she enjoys her work, and to dislike someone's work because you have preconceived notions of their personality is unfair and, arguably, immature.

secondly, does any ONE person in the world agree with me that any album should be listened to objectively, as its own work, without the bias of past works, whether it's the artist's previous album or something that came out three decades ago?

thirdly, i have noticed that people like most of you seem to be OBSESSED with genre. you have to fit everything into this tight little nitch so you can analyze and criticize and demonize it to death to fill these bizarre holes in your lives, or something...

i just don't get it. you all seem so angry. if you hate supernature then who the fuck cares if other people like it?!?! if you love it, then why do you care if other people don't get it? if you think they're just rehashing black cherry, then don't buy it OR steal from the artist. what a novel idea.

.....but you should also take into account that this is only their third album and they've already been more diverse than 90% of the pop acts out there.

that is all.

man, i can't wait until you all tear me apart and call me a douche bag because i'm right and it pisses you off.

anyway, woah: thanks for helping me see the light. i'm taking a vow of silence.

Come And Get It is possibly the worst album ever in terms of track order yes (but one of the best otherwise!).

others think 'Chemistry' beats them both (and thinking about 'It's Magic' again right now i can see their point).

Never heard Chemistry. I must be the only person on this board who hasn't.

Wouldn't mind hearing it though, if its as good as everyone says.

Probably too harsh a distinction but it felt easy enough!

re: come and get it, the track listing it was eventually released with was strange and wrong.

What would've the 'right' listing be for CAGI, Lex?

2. I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)
3. Crazy Boys
10. Je M'Apelle
1. So Good
6. All About Me
5. Negotiate With Love
11. Funny How
8. Nothing Good About This Goodbye
12. Every Little Thing
7. Secret Garden
13. Dumb Dumb
4. I Will Be There
9. Some Girls

but 'Waiting Game' should've been on this, perhaps in place of 'Some Girls'

still prefer "Number 1" b-side "Beautiful" to anything on the album.

and I like the track order of Come And Get It:
helps having the weaker tracks at the end of 'side one' (won't ever be on vinyl now?), although even weakest song "All About Me" doesn't spoil the flow. and I can see that "I Will Be There" is a natural closer, but I'm glad they went out on a cheeky/fun ("Every Little Thing") to keep 'em guessing meta-Rachel mystery ("Dumb Dumb").

1 so good
2 crazy boys
3 je m'appelle
4 i said never again (but here we are)
5 nothing good about this goodbye
6 some girls (extended version)
7 every little thing
8 dumb dumb
9 funny how
10 negotiate with love
11 secret garden
12 all about me
13 i will be there
....
14 sweet dreams my la ex

back to Goldfrapp. the DVD version has some fun docu stuff. Gregory looks not like how one my expect. Their studio looks great tho.

just listened to those final two Rachel tracks again: brilliant.

OTM. Who cares about 'album flow' when you can simply press >. Indeed CAGI was my favorite album of 2005.

Supernatural's remixes have been quite good and "Beautiful" should have been on the album instead of one of those waste-of-spaces like "Lovely 2 C U" or "Satin Chic".

See, this is a very major reason why music's going down the toilet now. Maybe Danger Mouse was right; maybe we should all go back to cassettes.

though empirical evidence (ie this thread) suggests that since everyone has a different flow preference it should just be up to us to rearrange the songs accordingly.

token goldfrapp comment - the c2 rmx of 'fly me away' is so gorgeous!

and Lex, I reckon your order looks pretty good, although I don't remember all of the songs on CAGI. And take out "secret garden" and "all about me" altogether.... err..so that's pretty different then.

I think maybe the whole album is basically minor tweaks to an fairly straightforward stomp-glitter theme and it reminds me of Kylie Fever in this respect (although the Fever singles were probably more spread out and all seemed fantastically worthwhile and Justified and self-contained and loving attention lavished on the videos in a way that the non-"Ooh La La" Supernature ones haven't).

When Supernature came out I was eagerly anticipating that it was likely to be a GA/CAGI (pre-CAGI, admittedly)-tastic stack of standalone succulent pop songs rather than expecting it to be the kind of record that was preoccupied with 'flow' or whatever (although obviously the two aren't mutually exclusive, and perhaps Chemistry has since illustrated this best); I would have been totally happy with something more disjointed and less cohesive or whatever than the previous two Goldfrapp albums, which I'd felt were both hampered a bit by the occasional, um, uneventful noodle. In the event I think Supernature is probably as 'flowy' as both predecessors, hence something like "Ride A White Horse" (my initial favourite on the album, still sounds entirely mighty now) stumbling a bit when singléd out in a half-arsed stylee and limping onto the radio and into the charts and off again very quickly for no particular reason.

I probably love this record infinitely more now than I did at first because I'm no longer listening for future singles (and I always do this with new albums by People Who Get In The Charts and it's self-defeating really) so I can bask in the heavy sparkly luxury of the whole thing and now it does sound like the best Goldfrapp album by a mile, and the album I wanted them to make (tighter, more dynamic, 'etc') and it doesn't matter that lots of it sounds the same as lots of the rest of it because the joy is in the aforementioned minor tweaks.

(also it feels less drama-school-hats than Black Cherry really, which is a good thing)

01 Satin Chic (Bombay Mix by the Shortwave Set)
02 Lovely 2 C U (T.Raumschmiere Remix)
03 Ooh La La (Benny Benassi Remix Extended)
04 You Never Know (Múm Remix)
05 Satin Chic (Through the Mystic Mix, Dimension 11 by the Flaming Lips)
06 Number 1 (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Main Remix)
07 Fly Me Away (C2 Rmx 4)
08 Ride a White Horse (Ewan Pearson Disco Odyssey Part 1)
09 Number 1 (Múm Remix)
10 Ride a White Horse (FK-EK Vocal Version)
11 Slide In (DFA Remix)
BONUS TRACK:
12 Strict Machine (We Are Glitter Mix)

mum remix?!?! lolol!

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i love the phrase but...what?

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territory.

Triple disc 20th (!) anniversary edition incoming.

They’ve made a new remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxsOUJij49U-