And he raises a good question - who is making records even remotely like Dynamite et. al.?
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
No North American release planned as far as I know.
*grousegripe*
Dynamite is the one other album of hers I still don't have, I think.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Good lord no. (Had I ever fallen to an eBay addiction, I would be in a sorry state.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Honestly I had no idea this was Brett Anderson until you told me. I still barely notice him on those two tracks. "Everyone else in the world" is easily one of her best song.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I have a bit of a soft spot for "This Is", because it was my first Stina record, but it does seem a bit too self-conscious in places. I have a feeling the bsides were kicked off the album because they were over 3 minutes long. I do love how the cheap MIDI saxophone riff on "Lori Glory" is nearly morphed into something meaningful by Stina's downtrodden vocals. The same transformation happens with the cheap synthesized acoustic guitars on Michael Mayer's "Slowflood" (although that is more due to the arrangement).
"This is" also has Brett Anderson sounding more dignified than 90% of his material post-Dog Man Star.
"And She Closed Her Eyes" and "Dynamite" are two of my favorite albums from the 90s.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
B-sides? I didn't even know there were singles! What are the b-sides like?
I went back to This Is... and Dynamite last night and fuck me, they're both superb.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 22 November 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 3 January 2005 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
People who like those might like a lot of the darker songs on Lhasa's The Living Road album, although Lhasa is pretty much the opposite of Stina vocally.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
well, which is more accurate?
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I used to love Dynamite a lot, and it really hit me hard in, oh, 1999 or so when I first found it. Since getting into TWIS, I'm less enamoured, somehow. Maybe it's just less striking now. It's still a phenomenal album, just less monolithic, I guess.
re: vocals, yeah, it's a constant understatement. she's developed it over time, too; Memories of a Colour, while still nowhere near the operatic grandstanding Bjork is famous for, is much more conventionally expressive. She's become more deadpan with each album since, I think, and it's worked better and better, maybe less so on This Is....
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
The new(ish) album is fantastic. That is all.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Great reading.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a shame all of her records aren't released in the States. Really an underrated artist of the last 15 years. Everyone I've ever played her for has liked her--and non-music-freaks like my sisters recognise her from the 'Romeo + Juliet' soundtrack, apparently, and like her, too.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Michael "Not very Quotable" Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
note cold snap in england.
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
It was 18 C here on Wednesday, it's been unusually mild for this time of year.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link