Bran van 3000 - C/D?

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Just listening to Discosis... it's really rather ace.

Yet I thought Drinking in LA was a bit... rubbish. Thoughts?

Mr Swygart, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved Drinking in LA. Haven't listened to anything since.

Chris, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw rows of Discosis going for $4.99 at HMV (hell, even Glitter was $8.99) recently and laughed. Although, to BV3K's credit, he did give the world Curtis Mayfield's best song since "The Doo Wop Is Strong In Here".

Vic Funk, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first BV3K album is great, especially the cover of "Cum On Feel The Noize".

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Love Cliche' is fantastic...

$4.99 and you didn't buy it? Your loss...

Mr Swygart, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

once i got over how dull drinking in l.a. is, i was all over them like a fat kid on twinkees!

dyson, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

$4.99 and you didn't buy it? Your loss...

Why? I got the only song I woulda wanted (the one with Curtis Mayfield) for free from Grand Royal.

Vic Funk, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean you wouldnt want the Momus song from it either?
BV3K are wonderful surprise specially when Glee was much better then just the one single I was expecting it to be. Their also a much friendlier collective then Montreal's other reknowned "collective". Nothing too mind blowing from them but I always find myself enjoying both albums more then I remeber liking them everytime I listen to them.
Also wouldnt mind knowing what that "Toronto" lp is that they have on the wall in the Drinking In LA video.

Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i didnt much like that track with momus on it. some of it is kool tho.

cuba libre that alcoholick sub kid (nathalie), Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved Glee! It has some filler but also some incredibly tight, well- crafted clever songs which have me bopping my head and having a blast. I didn't care for Discosis as much but only got to listenb to it a few times before my CD disappeared, weaker than the first was my impression.

On a side-note, I've always felt that BV3 is what Beck should be - witty, large record collection, and most importantly fun. Listening to Beck I've always felt that there's the "Look Ma, no hands" attitude that showcases his cleverness but feels forced to me.

Beck probably has better ideas than BV3, but they at least privilige pleasure over posturing, which goes a long way in my book.

H, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...
"astounded" is great.

djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Have you heard the MJ Cole remix?! It's amazing too!

Discosis is one of the great 'lost' albums. It was so good but never really properly released in the USA.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

i have not! coughgmail?cough

djdee (djdee2005), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

"Drinking in LA" is great.

deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

so's that MJ Cole remix Spencer was talking about

deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

what the hell am I
doing drinking in LA
at 26

deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

LA
LA
L-L-A
LA

deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry I never got this to you! I still don't think I have a proper CD. The cover is sexy.

Spencer Chow, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

i think i found it on slsk awhile back haha. or i got it somehow. maybe you did send it to me!

deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

please do not remind me of these guys.

s1ocki, Friday, 15 February 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

if we ban you it will take care of itself!

deej, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

ban slocki

deej, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

submitted 6/30/04 aka why i've never considered writing for a living:

I can't help feeling I've outgrown what was once a revelatory blast of eclecticism, and based on this album I also can't help but to compare BV(somewhat unfavorably) to Digital Underground, who threw a similarly spirited and willfully eclectic "world party" over several albums using P-funk as their rudder for exploring a number of genres. BV seems to work without a guiding template, no home base so to speak, making the album play like a record label mixtape, with the attendant lack of musical coherence(forgivable in and of itself) and serious quality control issues(less so). BV is rare in that what becomes them most is their dilettantism, especially as it pertains to the hip-hop that suffuses the record; things truly go to seed when they stop embracing their ineptitude in certain areas and enlist a raft of decidedly wack MCs(to take the DU comparison further, it's safe to say there's no budding Tupacs in this bunch) to carry their musical message in earnest. Reverence is cool, but I think this is one case where a good old balls out whiteboy pisstake might have bore more musical fruit.
That said, the wonder is that the whole mess does remain listenable by force of sheer enthusiasm, flashes of brilliance and, well, gleeful moments of funmongering like the goofy Sugar Hill discorap of "Old School", for instance. Several other high points: "Drinking in L.A.", a Beck-ish riff on futile nightlife with a wonderfully sardonic R&B diva chorus, the dubby folk of "Willard", the sweet pop of "Everywhere". Basically, the few cuts that are of a piece and don't show signs of "song by committee" like too many here unfortunately do.

i still like 'drinking' ok.

tremendoid, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

Discosis remains one of my absolute favorite albums of the decade.

Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:14 (seventeen years ago)

They put out an album last year! It wasn't very good! "Discosis" is a record that virtually saved my life, though.

edwardo, Saturday, 16 February 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Seconded. The two characters in "Drinking In LA" = me in 2001.

snoball, Saturday, 16 February 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

Rubbish.

Bodrick III, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

YEAH WE GOT THREE TICKETS TO THE BRAN VAN CONCERT HAPPENING THIS MONDAY NIGHT AT THE PACIFIC PALISADES, YOU CAN CALL IN IF YOU UH WANT TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS, UH MAYBE LIKE, WHAT IS TODD'S FAVORITE CHEESE? JACKIE JUST CALLED UP AND SAID IT WAS A FORM OF ROQUEFORT, WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT, GIVE US A RING DING DING, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY

del griffith, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

i fucking love this band

AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

we did nothing, absolutely nothing, that day

just sayin, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

ok whoa had no idea there was a third album

AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

wait waht

Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

gonna listen to this right now

bug holocaust (sleeve), Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago)


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