Peaches: Classic or Dud?

One of those records where I got it, and the first listen was "Wow" and then it's not really made much impact on me since. The sound is good, the pose is OK, the Le-Tigre-meets-Supercollider vibe of the album is certainly novel....but it fails the put-it-on-a-lot test. Except for "Fuck The Pain Away" with its sudden sex/politics/therapy switches (and nasty beat) which has been on my playlists since purchase.

Incidentally I got it on the same day as Booty Super Party by Various Artists, and took both home to play to Isabel, who can be much more bullshit-detecting than me, as she cares so little about music. BSP was "the best CD you've ever bought"; Peaches (put on just after) was "trying too hard". She was wrong about BSP but I think she summed Peaches up nicely - a heap of potential, though, and more classic than dud by far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4yndU6NqUE

Well this single is still really amazing. I will never shake this song.

xpost - sick of the song

It was hip three years ago when it was on that hipster soundtrack

BTW, I'm a Peaches fan, but that song is lame.

Where's the classic Peaches ambiguity?!

You really think so? I'm not sick of that song at all. I didn't know it was on a soundtrack though, and I take it in small doses. Recommend me some songs plz.

my fave Peaches

AAA/XXX (from the 1st one)
Operate (from Fatherfucker)
Downtown (from Impeach)

worth noting that upon comparison these songs seem to be a bit more, uh, understated than the bulk of her catalog. I think "trying too hard", "wasted potential", and "some fascinating moments" all apply to her. It's really surprising to me that there are so few threads about Peaches (and mostly old ones) compared to MIA.

that should be AA/XXX btw.

obliged.

"it fails the put-it-on-a-lot test" is her epitaph, but it's not a damning one i don't think

Like most everybody else who cares, I'm on the fence. First record = classic. Fatherfucker = 1/2 great, 1/2 crap - Iggy collab is one of the most embarassing things I've ever heard. Impeach continues the decline, but has its moments. Sleeve 100% OTM about Operate and "trying too hard". Relative restraint makes it the best song on Fatherfucker.

Despite all musical shortcomings, Peaches herself = KLASSIK with a kay. She's fucking awesome - as a performer, as an icon, as kick-ass thing on this too seldom kick-ass planet. I remove my hat to her.

She rubs your hat on her crotch and returns it.

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

The 'anti-jukebox musical' written, directed by and starring, Peaches, tells the story of a young woman who, inspired by a 65-year-old stripper, begins to make sexually forthright music. Her popularity grows and she becomes what her fans expect her to be: transsexual. She falls in love with a beautiful she-male, but gets her heart broken and then ventures on a path of self-discovery.

is this going to be as irrelevant and dumb as i expect?

I'd watch it.

love peaches, dunno about this. curious...

this could really go one of two ways

Classic.... or dud.

thumbs up....or perhaps down.

no discussion of Rub anywhere? Could somebody help me with the right link, I can't believe that's not the case.

Wife showed it to me night before last, it was astonishing

whuuuu that was intense. i want to see peaches in concert i bet that shit is banaynays.

New Peaches video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxmuAL_R4M

I like it even though (or maybe because) it's so simple.

hey pretty good

What else is in the teaches of peaches?

ethereal quality to this song. rinsing on repeat.