Love Is All - 9 times that same song

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I finally just got this. Probably my most anticipated album this year and so far it is delivering. Love the rerecorded versions of some of the songs.

Could end up #1 of 2005 for me.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

"finally"? dude it's not even out yet

looking forward to hearing this. those 45s of theirs really needed better production

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

"finally" as in, i've been waiting to hear this album since the minute i heard 'make out fall out make up' about 7 months ago.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

So when is it actually out and on what label? Can't wait either, it's been a loooong time since I've been this interested in a rock record.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

In the U.S. it comes out on What's Your Rupture? on Dec. 9.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

it's girlfrendo people right? is it different than girlfrendo? i rather liked the last girlfrendo record even though it didn't seem to go over that big. the architecture in helsinki record is somewhat reminiscent of it.

― keyth (keyth), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Scott. I'll definitely be buying this.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

oops, I must have meant the 6th-- the 9th is a friday.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

saw them two weeks ago in brooklyn. it was "fun"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

now that this is officially "out" can people start talking about them again?! i love this band - i am really rooting for them - i think they may be the saviors of indiepop - i personally didn't need the slicker production and liked that scrappy singing-through-a-sock sound of the singles, but if it brings them a wider audience i am all for it. go love is all!

― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

(also i didn't mean to for all that obnoxious alliteration, it wasn't intentional. go love is all!)

― lindsay bell kay labs (bell_labs), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

TRULY THE FIRST GREAT BAND OF 2006

― gear (gear), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

ITS ALWAYS NICE TO DISCOVER A BAND YOURSELF WITHOUT ANY ATTENDANT HYPE, A BAND THAT JUST SORT OF ARRIVES

― gear (gear), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

because it lets you be one of the first to HYPE IT?

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

word from the label is that this is not officially out till '06.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

which doesnt make it any less awesome.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

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well i love the scrappy band/scrappy label aspect of love is all, i am rooting for what's your rupture, too...i mean, there's clearly a bit of hype around love is all, but it's not the full media saturation/highest-priced publicity team hype, and i'm really happy they are coming up this way.

but none of that is as important as the fact that 9 times that same song is completely wonderful and has inspired me to spend hours aimlessly driving around just to keep listening to it with a giddy smile the entire time.

― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

i loved their saxaphone post-punk Essential/Lora Logic moments.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

(Looky! I'm posting below Dan! Hi, Dan!)

What's Your Rupture's proprietor is the nicest person ever. He gave me a Girlfrendo 7" once.

I know that Josephine was in Girlfrendo, but can't dig out my copy of their CD to compare with pictures of Love is All.

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah, kevin is a sweetheart!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

i haven't heard this album yet but none of the LIA singles have been as good as girlfrendo at their best

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

then again, girlfrendo often weren't as good as they were at their best

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

I love Girlfrendo, and actually just managed to get my hands on the single I was missing by them.

I like the 2 Love Is All 7"s that I have - was there a third one? Their webpage seems to be down.

Looking forward to hearing this album!

― marianna (mariannapm), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

One of the Girlfriendo singles came out on Smashing Time records...which was What's Your Rupture? in a previous life. I'm psyched that What's Your Rupture is getting hyped, Kevin's got a label with a loose aesthethic but already a great line-up of somewhat like-minded bands, Love Is All, Long Blondes, Cause Co-Motion etc. I hope one of these bands gets super trendy and famous and the label makes tons of money.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait for a long blondes album...giddy stratospheres was fantastic and they were lots of fun live...that singer!

― lindsay bell kay labs (bell_labs), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

ha, listened to girlfrendo last night- still great!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I saw the Long Blondes at that Cake Shop show in NYC, first in america I think? It was great.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Someone fill me in on the Long Blondes. What's the tie to LIA?

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

they are both on what's your rupture?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

that's pretty much the extent of it. long blondes are ace

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm rooting for the re-recorded versions. These songs that I have just aren't doing it for me. Saw them at don hills and they were good, plus I like Kevin (not that I know him well or anything, just I'm in R.I.Y.H. about every week), so it'd be good to see the band/label succeed.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

"felt tip" and "turn the radio off" are just about perfect.

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

turns out i really like "ageing had never been.." and "spinning & scratching" too. so what girlfrendo songs are as good/better as these?

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 31 December 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

CAUSE CO-MOTION is way better than LOVE IS ALL...best of luck to both of them (but better luck to the CCM)

i heard a long time ago CCM had a split 7" w/Jowe Head coming out...WHO'S GONNA SEE BILL COSBY AND THE PUDDING POPS TONIGHT!!!??

― Dan Gu (uncannydan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

not me...bring everyone to capones when they're coming home from cake shop...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

so what girlfrendo songs are as good/better as these?

I hate "good/better" arguments, but both Girlfrendo albums have a lot of worthwhile stuff. 1st one skews more towards Mike Alway (I think he wrote/co-wrote some of it) with a neat abecedarium along the lines of Death By Chocolate and a number of tracks that put me in mind of a cross between Sneaky-era Comet Gain and the movie Smashing Time. 2nd album is less...I guess brash is the word, which some might prefer. Of the non-album tracks I've heard, I think my favorite is a surprisingly (like, really surprisingly) good cover of Spacemen 3's Walking With Jesus. Would like to hear more about worthwhile b-sides, since I've never gotten a good handle on their discography.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

what's capones? i'm not goin tonight, i'm out of town. i'll be there front and center at the next CCM/P-POPS appearance, though...

you mail john bender yet, dan?

― Dan Gu (uncannydan), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

of the girlfrendo stuff, most of the first album is pretty nice. i love all of the singles they did for piao! too. and the 'cat heaven' single.

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 1 January 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

the second girlfrendo cd isn't a million miles removed from the architecture in helsinki cd although it is certainly less frenzied. but then maybe that was only my reaction on the first time hearing 'in case we die'. the first album is definitely more party music, much more siesta.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 1 January 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

capones is a bar in williamsburg where I used to dj every week and now occasionally. Many ILXers have been there, for better or for worse. I DJ'd new years party there last night. No leads on Bender as of yet.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

cool let me know when you spin...i'm spinning powerpop, punk, garage, vintage r&b and soul at the DING DONG LOUNGE on the upper west side on sat. february 4th if anybody is interested...

fans of the CAUSE CO-MOTION and LOVE IS ALL will enjoy the SMIRKS complete discography + unreleased recordings available for download here: http://thesmirks.com/

greatest band ever!

― Dan Gu (uncannydan), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

i just listened to 'surprise surprise...' and forgot how twee the first girlfrendo cd is. jens lekman copped a bit from goldenboy i think but goldenboy's impersonation of morrissey is much more dramatic, pity that they didn't let him sing more. is he in love is all? does he do anything besides if he isn't?

― keyth (keyth), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Can't get into this record at all...

― cdwill, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

the chorus vocals on "used goods" make love is all sound like an updated raincoats!

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Finally heard this. I was very excited after hearing "Felt Tip," "Make Out Fall Out Make Up," and "Talk Talk Talk Talk," but I'm very mixed upon hearing the album. I'm not sure exactly what I expected but this isn't quite it. Almost too underproduced and blurry and I want to listen to the vocals because they're there but they are a million miles away even though she's wailing. Also, I want more of the saxaphone.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

majorly majorly overrated

― majorlymajorly, Friday, 17 March 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Listened to "Felt Tip," which I had downloaded a couple months ago but forgot about. I like it. She reminds me a little of Sue Tompkins.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 March 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

this is really terrific. i expected to not like it at all and yet it's much better than girlfrendo ever were and still it's a logical extension from girlfrendo's second album but makes their first one an oddity. i agree that more saxophone would have been great even though i really hate the saxophone. sue tompkins comparison is otm.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 18 March 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

I like this. I don't know how much time I'll end up giving it, but I really like the sax.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 18 March 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone going to see them at Madame Jo Jo's tonight?

Didn't know there was a connection to Girlfrendo, I only have one 7" by them (Gives You A Lovebite) but that one is great.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

So, does anybody know exactly when this record came out? It was included in Pitchfork's end of the year list in 2005, but I only find sources according to which this album was released in this year.

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

it was out in the UK this year.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. And in the US? Because somewhere I read 2005, elsewhere 2006.

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a Pitchfork story from 10/16 - it appears the album is JUST out, with bonus tracks:

"Remember when we told you that the re-release of Love Is All's Nine Times That Same Song, due in stores tomorrow via What's Your Rupture? Records, didn't contain any new tracks? Well, we lied.

The CD will come with a bonus disc featuring four extra tracks: "Lost Thrills" (originally released on a 7" on Dolores Recordings), "Felt Tip (Demo)", "Motorboat" (both B-sides to "Busy Doing Nothing"), and a cover of Yoko Ono's "Kiss Kiss Kiss".

The Yoko Ono cover is available below as an exclusive download. It's one of Love Is All's most post-punkish efforts, balancing skronky saxophone splatter with a jittery approximation of a disco beat. In other words, it sounds like a lost X-Ray Spex B-side."

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 27 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Nice to see the original "Felt Tip" will be around again -- I lost my copy when switching computers, and searching P2Ps for the version I wanted was way too much of a pain in the ass to bother.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

does anyone else think that this band sounds like a really cheerful life without buildings? it's satisfying that need right now.

― bell_labs, Sunday, 11 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

What, no thread about the new album? One of the best things I've heard all year.

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 9 November 2008 09:31 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

that band Hot Silk Pockets are a total LIA rip but it's fun stuff

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

this band should come back

― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 15:18 (two months ago)

feel like they fell off after the first album but then I haven't listened to them in probably 15 years so maybe I should revisit

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 15:31 (two months ago)

Maybe they just ran out of clever ways to insert numbers into their LP titles. Go-Betweens had to split up when they ran out of L's. Martin Phillips had exhausted pretty much every SB combo in his short lifetime.

― henry s, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 15:41 (two months ago)

Good revive. 20 years ago feels like such a different and simple era for me (…and for the whole world, tbh) and I’ve been particularly nostalgic when listening to stuff like this now that I’m 40 and I feel officially old.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 15 January 2026 05:48 (two months ago)

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