"he poos clouds" by Final Fantasy, early contender for album of the year

Cloud's hair>>Final Fantasy

PREPARE TO HAVE JUSTICE SERVED!!!!!!

if the record had sounded anything like sufjan stevens i would've shot myself out of boredom

can you imagine being waking up as sufjan? "what should i do today? write a song? doodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle. doodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle."

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final fantasy x is entirely, wholly gay, from start to finish. the female characters were so weak that they had to make an all-girl sequel. you can tell that gays are pulling the strings when none of the characters have beards. also, a lot of father-son conflicts.

final fantasy vii is absolutely, supremely gay. cloud is a tortured homo, hiding his true feelings by pretending to be conflicted between tifa and aeris. then aeris dies and he can spend the rest of his life "never getting over her" when really, he's having a hard time actually killing his tortured homo crush. the final scenes of final fantasy vii could've been taken from a mishima novel.

the least gay final fantasy is final fantasy vi. also, the most enjoyable.

i feel like there is some wise aphorism hidden in there, but i can't quite find it.

the album's a marvel.

The name comes from the video game, which Pallett admits he doesn't have the patience to play. "I like the idea of it, this big gay thing," he says, citing his interest in Japanese culture and literature.

oh man, FF7 gives me the most fucked-up dreams EVER, regardless of how long i play it.

"He Poos Clouds" is a preposterous, over-the-top statement of devotion, much like "I Am So In Fucking Love With Him" or "He's A Prince". The presence of "poo" in the title is meant to defuse the potential seriousness associated with an album of string quartet music. A lovely side effect: half-assed listeners are weeded out.

Anyway, this isn't meant to be a thread about me me me but I read this board a lot and felt I should defend myself.

thank you

dec

-- Owen Pallett (opallet...) (webmail), April 15th, 2006. (Owen Pallett)

Trust me, not a good idea.

I saw your show with the Arcade Fire in Asheville, NC. It was very nice.

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/o473805.jpg

"dave and morley quickly, yet surreptitiously, crossed the street as a gaggle of racially mixed teenagers approached, chatting loudly in a language absolutely incomprehensible to them. dave shook his head ruefully and mused aloud, 'this neighborhood has sure changed.'"

are you still in for the Enya tribute comp? It is happening! This fall!

Consider me weededed

No.

Owen, please name your record something else, for your (and your label's) sake. Because while a lot of people here will tell you that they will listen to your record in spite of it, note that they have not promised to buy it. "He Poos Clouds" is a title that is going to cost you some money. As Trayce points out, a lot of casual browsers are going to pass right over your record because they're going to think your the indie Bloodhound Gang or something.

Plus, are you really going to want to look back twenty years from now and see that you have an album called "He Poos Clouds" in your ouvre? (Maybe you will, I dunno...but this is something to consider.)

You really should, it's comedy gold.

So has Owen filed his hostile takeover bid yet? Are the ILM poison pill clauses still in effect?

Insufferably twee. "Look, I'm ironically cute, OK? This is non-confrontational, and you don't have to worry about it being smart or challenging... Or do you?"
What rankled me was the cleverness for cleverness' sake.
But I think I may be the only ILXor who listened to the album and thought "Eh... It's OK..."

Honestly, what will probably happen is that I'll ignore it for another six months or so (long enough to make sure it doesn't end up on my year list) and then suddenly fall in love with it.

"This Lamb Sells Condos" is still brilliant.

http://www.snowboard.org.vt.edu/Images/TheHunt/Christina%20Hicks/4%20Poop.jpg

thats is some cloudy pooing write there

But does it hold up since 19 months ago?

This album is still brilliant. And he's doing string arrangements for the Box!?!?!

About a month or two I went through a phase of listening to this album all the time.

needs more drumming

needs a different title and 74 minutes of silence added at the start of the CD.

^^^

More percussion would be good. Is it track 7 or 8 that has some? It sounds amazing. Still a very, very good record. Has Owen been around lately? Is anything new on the cards?

it's a great album

This is £6 on Amazon, think I'll give it a go.

Scoring, mostly. For other people. I don't think I'm getting much better at it, but I'm definitely getting faster.

Saw Final Fantasy opening last night for the Mountain Goats. This isn't the kind of thing I like but I was surprised to find I like it. Mostly: the booming plucks, the way OP opens his eyes wide when he sings. He appears to be a David Lynch character of some kind. He was also terrific backing up JD on"Going to Bristol."

I detest people who say "poo".

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:12 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:'(

yeah this dude was fantastic

bordering on transformative, tbh

I had no idea he had so much madrigal influence in his music, it's fucking astonishing shit (also mad respect to singing and playing the violin at the same time)

yeah the new one is WONDERFUL

xp - I was a little surprised to see him on the credits of New Moon the other day.

Team Alice!

3. Nobody who listens to it will ever again entertain thoughts of suicide.

I have to say, I'm sold.

Wait, Final Fantasy dude played on New Moon? 'Cause Kaki King played on the first Twilight movie -- what is this insidious Twilight/tMG-opener connection?

I saw FF at the Portland show a few weeks ago, and it was just really compelling from start to finish, not a weak moment. I downloaded the two albums he has up on eMusic, but as it stands now I've ignored the majority of both and just played the shit out of "This the Dream of Win and Regine."

Also, I remember taking a mildly anti-poo stance when this thread first started but the intervening years have mellowed this.

Wait, Final Fantasy dude played on New Moon? 'Cause Kaki King played on the first Twilight movie -- what is this insidious Twilight/tMG-opener connection?

it's the "drive JD nuts because all his peers get soundtrack work while JD tours himself into advanced states of mental & physical illness" syndrome & it's all the rage

/whine

damn, tried to close tag but am still whining

biggest mistake the folks who compile those "best music writing" books ever made was not putting this thread in the 2006 edition.

i take it the new album has leaked?

No, we all went to the Mountain Goats show and were blown away by FF

well there are still two more Twilight movies left, i bet Summit would welcome some fresh ideas re: their upcoming "chew a vampire baby out of your uterus" suite.

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after the show i went out and bought he poos clouds and :-o

Sure you're not thinking of The Box?

And thanks for the props, this has been the best tour ever, even if J0hn still takes issue with my album titling (although you won't hear me contesting "Yam, King Of Crops" any time soon.)

Is this claim about suicide accurate: y/n

painful memories...

not about suicide (which this record does not prevent the thinking about of), just the weirdness of old threads

I stand by my yams

by Yammy Wynette

"lewis takes action" tweaks my john cale sweet spot

Ah, it must have been a trailer for The Box I saw before New Moon.

Let all urban myths about Owen being on New Moon cease here pls.

hey owen why is heartland taking so long to come out

The thing I like the most about this album is how it sounds like a deranged lost Sondheim score.

lololol okay I just searched the thread to see if anyone else had made that reference and um wow at some of the discourse upthread, so to pull in another reference my uncle commented on a Facebook status update where I mentioned FF and said a) he'd downloaded all of the albums and liked them a lot, so there's another black person in the "thumbs-up" column, and b) the music reminded him a lot of Don Sebesky.

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXJKp-NgR8&feature=related

Enjoyed that.

Also, this thread is absurd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB05Lt3VbNg