Poe – Hello

This is the first album I bought (from BMG record club, lol) that sounded genuinely DANGEROUS to me. Now it just sounds like a friendly little collection of breakbeats & sad woman in room but it had this special darkness for me at the time.

Anyway, what's the ILM massive think of this action?

I hope I'm using the term "breakbeats" correctly ;_;

I think I also liked it bcz I cld sing "better" than her, when I sang along.

lol I think part of why this was so scary an album for me is it has swears in it

i like angry johnny.

haven't listened to this in years. i'm not even sure i still have it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBvxqB5VT4&feature=related

i heard a poe song the other day that was really amazing. hmm, it got me thinking. was going to search ilx for poe talk. i've never really listened to her b4.

(in that video, those marquees with seven mary three and lenny kravitz -- lol mid-90s)

Awesome thread. Isn't there a song that references the Internet on this album?

I guess it's the title track:
"I'm cut off from the main line, like a disconnected modem"

According to some trivia I read once that song is the first in recorded music to sample a modem sound. FREEEERRRF-gnnrrrrrrr-aspring-a-spring-TWEEET

question for pop historians: according to Wikipedia, the 'Hello' single peaked at #13 on the modern rock chart and #1 on the dance chart. which version of 'Hello' appeared on the rock chart and which appeared on the dance chart? I assume that rock stations played the 'band version' and dance stations played a radio edit of the LP version, but I'd like to know for sure.

here's a video of the band version (played on 120 Minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAVgJQVo2oE

and here's a video of the LP version (did MTV ever play this?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cujypawzVQ

MOD, are you out there?

Not her finest moment lyrically but I didn't know Dilla had produced one of the Hello songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-DhVkwFOHs

I love that song!

I like that album a lot. She reminds me of Santigold a little, not musically but in the way they each put out a slightly genre-bending album perfectly in keeping with its moment and then never really did much of note after.

in fairness, Santigold's second album is better than Poe's second album

I'm sure you're right, Santigold's is fine and I don't think I ever heard Poe's.

i like this mix of the title track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjRE1pUbEgs

"Not A Virgin" and the "Hey Pretty" remix with a reading from "House of Leaves" were big hits on local alt rock radio from her second album - wondering about how the latter+the book would go over via Instagram/TikTok is what lead me to the Dilla track.