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There needs to be a thread for this album. I can't stop listening to it. Actually, I can't stop listening to [the non-remixed] "Just Like We (Breakdown)".

Thoughts?

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Saturday, 25 February 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't get hot chip. i saw them live and they spent 80% of the set fannying about with cowbells and breaking their projector like some kind of appalling LCD soundsystem-lite.

then they played one song, towards the end of the set, that was so gut-punchingly wonderful i never wanted it to end. like some kind of mad synthetic funk-powered talking heads workout ... dripping with hooks and absolutely sensational.

then they went back to going HONK beep PARP squelch tinky-tinky-tinky-tinky BAAAARP and their projector stopped working again.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

listening to this now. luuuuuuuuuuuuuuv it. best thing all year. is their older stuff this good? reminds me at times of cut copy but more natural and with humour.

'warning' is 'last exit' at a beach, half your body in the water, feet slipping on benelovent jellyfish.

― [apal joy, Saturday, 25 February 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i have yet to see them live. very interested to see how the record translates to the live setting

apal - i have only given their older stuff a few listens, it didn't really grab me. but i pretty much have this new one on repeat

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

they start two songs off with "excuse, me sir"

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 February 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

They're polite young men, is all.

― telephone thing, Sunday, 26 February 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

free in-store at Amoeba next Saturday. in San Francisco, that is. 4pm.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Sunday, 26 February 2006 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm seeing them in 2 weeks. I love "Coming On Strong," but I've heard the newer record doesn't sound anything like it.

I'd be willing to bet the song in question is from "Coming On Strong."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 26 February 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn it Cameron, DAMN IT!!!

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 26 February 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Christ almighty is this ever good. I really didn't like Coming On Strong, but this one's just so breathtakingly easy to listen to that it's almost alarming. Maybe they beefed up the low end? I remember Coming On Strong sounding kinda artlessly chintzy, like they were sufficiently satisfied with making a blindingly ahead-of-the-curve R&B album that they didn't bother to make a GOOD blindingly ahead-of-the-etc., but this is just relentlessly dance-y. And WOW does "Over & Over" trump anything on the first album.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link

ehh I'm not getting this. Am I crazy that this is like dance music with an indie 'filter'? I donno I only listened once but yeah, not feeling it.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ah yes, the indie 'filter'

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i was scared of using that term thus scare quotes.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

'warning' is 'last exit' at a beach, half your body in the water, feet slipping on benelovent jellyfish.

That totally sold me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link

so, is this on DFA, produced by them, or just have a remix done by them?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link

all three, I think.

― armalite roffle (haitch), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't really see the LCD soundsystem comparison at all. not even a bit.

tech dorks with soul? okay ... other than that ... i don't know. i'm not feelin that comparison.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Galkin said on the other thread that he doesn't like 'em. I love them and am psyched for this one. I was just trying to think of another song where I was obsessed with the remix before I ever heard the original, a'a "(Just Like We) Breakdown"

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i was scared of using that term thus scare quotes.

i'm still waiting for you to please explain what it means. white vocals = indie 'filter'?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I was kidding on the other thread by the way....I was just being sarcastic. I signed the band! It was just funny watcing all the opinions suddenly flood in....."It fucking sucks. Boring. This record is terrible" I had to join in and see if it was as much fun as it looked. The album is on DFA/Astralwerks, it was NOT produced by the DFA. We also have a remix of Colours coming out sometime later this year.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the title track is maybe the best--

hot chip will break your legs, snap your head off, etc

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw them play at Sonar in Barcelona last summer and I loved it. They looked as if a crazy scientist had tried to clone a boyband and something went terribly wrong - all he got was nerds. The indierock nerd, the technerd, the soulnerd - even the good looking one tried to hide his face behind huge sunglasses. Loved it. Then I saw them a couple of weeks ago in Berlin but I wasn't overwhelmed like in Barcelona.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

But maybe the stage was to small, so they couldn't do their dance moves.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"No fit state" is such an awesome song. It´s like a long lost beefed up "Speak & Spell"-outtake or something.

― teen riot structure, Monday, 27 February 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

it means he was trying to be snarky but doesnt really know what he's talking about, cutty.

they suck rocks, btw.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"too small"

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh no I was actually not trying to be snarky at all Jess.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

But forgive me please for ever having an opinion about anything and expressing it.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

no.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

v well

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

lmao

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

You should be nicer to deej, Jess. He's trying very hard.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

deej is cool

hey jess did you hate that hot chip thing with the dfa mix that's out there round about now too? if i like that will i like this? i'm a fucking whore for some indie filter.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno what yr talking about. (i've only heard the album. some album. something.)

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

To try to answer cutty's question, it sounds very affected and sortve intentionally half assed to me. I donno I listened to it once and wasn't really feeling it. Not trying to make a big deal about this; just not my thing.

There is a Solid Groove remix of one of their songs I like a lot actually.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

ain't nothing wrong with a lil affection.

jess there's something i heard somewhere i dled cuz of it (= hearing it somewhere), TOIGHT remix - TOIGHT, i probably heard it on beatsinspace or something, i'm like that old dude reading entertainment weekly or something with that shit, fucking schoolwork man, it's fucking ponderous.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i think what bothered me most is the guy's voice, so i am not sure if a remix would help or not. i have no idea why this voice bugs me when other similar voices do not. no accounting for taste, etc etc.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf is with the solid groove remix love. the justus one is way better! fucking JUSTUS people!!!!

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Honestly if I hadn't listened once and deleted I probably would have been better able to defend my lazy dismissal : (

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

there are two singers, one is def better than the other

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cinidesign.com/images/IndieFPic.gif

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

deej: and jess said i was just trying to be 'snarky'
deej: which i wasnt
Al: haha, that's the ultimate insult coming from jess, that you only "tried" to be snarky
Al: there is no try, only do

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

haha watch it grasshopper

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i mean no disrespect to the jedi of snark

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

this is not what i expected to find:

http://www.elbutanero.com/comics/yoda-zoolofilo.jpg

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I've only given this the customary post-download once over, but as far as I can tell I like it. I have the chorus to that "Over and over" song stuck in my head, which says something at least.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahahaha omg

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

re: the last exit comparison

it's more like a version of last exit that doesn't make me fall asleep. not that i dislike that album, but it seriously puts me to sleep.

anyways, i really thought for some reason it was produced by DFA. whooooops

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

picked up 'coming on strong' on the wkend and it aint half bloody different. its a lot more downtempo, almost dubby and lounge jazz at times, with few apparent hooks.

in contrast 'warning' is much more immediate, full of energy and crafty little side steps. the production is very tactile. sounds like another band!

― [apal lunge, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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really...interesting. I have to say I'm sort of into the new direction warp are taking things with Jamie Lidell, Battles, Grizzly Bear, although the less said about maximo park the better. I still though Geogaddi was amazing, oh shit someone is going to yell foul since we aren't talking about Hot Chip anymore

― boonah (boonah), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd much rather cry foul about the Maximo Park hating, Warp or no they are far better than any other NME flavor of the week over the last two years. But to get back on track, I'm surprised how much I love the new Hot Chip after really disliking the last one. Sounds like they've really hit onto something.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Loving "Colours" now. "I'm everything a girl could neeeeeeeeeeed"

Next barbecue this album gets played.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Still not really sure about this at all. Some great moments (No Fit State, Boy From School, Colours) but it feels a bit clumsy at the same time. Partly to do with all that school music lesson percussion all over the place. The Naum Garbo remix of Over and Over is so much more streamlined and danceable than the original that I can't listen to the album version without skipping it.

Bet they're good live though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Erm, it appears I made almost exactly that same point a month ago without remembering. Haha.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

well Hot Chip sure aren't streamlined & thank god. the awkwardness and naivite are part of their charm. if you want streamlined listen to another band.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i ended up with this album by accident. i didn't really expect to like it, and lo! i didn't.

however, i will listen to it again at some point to see if it sneaks up on me and becomes good.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

fwiw i don't think it's that great and i'm a fan. certainly it varies wildly in terms of quality. "over and over" is the best pop song of the year but the opener, "Careful", is atrocious and their lyrics can be wince-inducingly bad.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, "Careful" is the weakest track on the disc and a horrible opener, but it gets really great from there on out.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

their lyrics can be wince-inducingly bad.

so true.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

grimly you of all people should like this one, I'd have thought. It creeps up on you!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Can somebody explain K I S S I N G S E X I N G C A S I O P O K E Y O U M E?

It seems an odd thing to spell out to me.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Have I added an extra I N G, too? It goes something like that anyway.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like Careful! That female vocal over the top is lovely.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Pity about the oafish male vocal underneath.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, "Careful" is the weakest track on the disc and a horrible opener, but it gets really great from there on out.

I think it's a great opener. It sort of sets a tone of unpredictability for the rest of the record.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt that is a female vocal- isn't it just Hot Chip bloke "A" giving it some androgynous action? FWIW I think "Careful" is sonically the strongest track with its crash-bang-whollop hardcore/broken down Dizzee Rascal type beats contrasting nicely with the kind of beatific synth and harmonies bit. Marcello: I fail to see quite whats so "oafish" about Chip bloke "B"'s vox, surely oafish would better describe say a Kelly Jones vocal (that nauseous throat rasp as sonic signiature of manful rockingness)? I agree that asides from the lush harmony/androgynous vocals some of the vocals are rather ordinary, but that's almost part of the charm, that disconnect between music and vocals, the artfully strange and the artlessly ordinary...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

These are all excuses.

The guy basically can't sing.

The songs are reasonable and there's some imagination in the production but they need a proper singer.

I had the same problem with the Junior Boys.

Voices are a major sticking point with me.

Non-professional or imperfect voices can work in the right setting - see Escalator Over The Hill for a start - but in this context are offputting.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 June 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

still cant get past the two tiers of track quality on this album unfortunately. the unnevenness which was a strength of the first album seems to really work against them in this one. if i was forced to choose, i'd take the barbarian ep ('over and over', 'no fit state', plus the excellent 'my shit's on fire' and 'barbarian') with no hesitations over the album, even if it does mean sacrificing 'just like we' and 'boy from school'.

― mark h (mark h), Thursday, 15 June 2006 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I really didn't mind the voices- I wouldn't suggest that they are very "full" or "rich", but they are on note and express the lyrical content effectively. I can see where you might be coming from Marcello, in as much that usually highly "produced" lush artificial music demands a similarly trained and conventional voice. However, its partly this mis-match which brings out the oddity in the backing. It gives it a certain vulnerability- which would be lost if sung by someone with a more conventionally attractive voice... and these aren't excuses, I really hadn't once considered the voice "weak", just soft and perhaps a little wan, as befits the general atmosphere...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i listened to this again today in the gym. for me the problem isn't the voices - hellfire, i'm a new order fan; i like weedy men who can't hold a tune - but the production and the mix. there's a track towards the end (i'd tell you which if my fucking powerbook hadn't just thrown one of its periodic i'm-not-going-to-make-any-noise flakeys and my iPod wasn't in the car) that's got all the textures of prime 1983 depeche mode ... except everything just feels like it's in the wrong place; the sounds drift and float about in the mix, rather than actually having any defined sense of place.

it's just too soft, too weedy; almost apologetic. and it's not just the production; the same goes for the songs. there are five of them, FFS! they should be making a racket; instead they seem scared to commit to anything - a melody, a hook, a beat.

there are some interesting moments, but that's all.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

okay: the song's "arrest yourself", and the bit i'm talking about starts at 1'57". it's just so bloody murky; so ill-defined.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm. i rather like that bit but i do understand why you think it doesn't work. they really give it some welly live and i wish they could capture that on record, the songs sound like completely different beasts in a live setting.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh: i saw them live and they were much harder-edged. i still wasn't a huge fan of some of the songs - although they did one that was truly magnificent and jaw-dropping (which isn't on this album).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Chip are certainly no New Order!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, but these days neither are new order.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure I'd want them to sound like New Order -- whether or not I think it works, what it sounds to me like they're trying to do is blend the most unholy combination of genres: i.e. twee, electronica / synthpop and crunk (or similar). The dissonance in the production doesn't seem so inexplicable if you're coming to it after the racket which a lot of 06 hip-hop seems to be chasing. The tension between the slightly splattery rhythmic textures and the forcefully restrained and mannered vocals and production seems to me deliberate, along the lines of their occasional nods to 'urban' music (which often seems to hover between homage, affectionate parody and something slightly unpleasant) e.g. I ride, you ride, we ride, in my ride on the first album.

― alext (alext), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

anyhow heard the "boy from school" single? apparently there are 2 bsides that are realllly good

― boonah (boonah), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the erol alkan remix of boy from school is gorgeous!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The dissonance in the production doesn't seem so inexplicable if you're coming to it after the racket which a lot of 06 hip-hop seems to be chasing. The tension between the slightly splattery rhythmic textures and the forcefully restrained and mannered vocals and production seems to me deliberate

oh, i'm quite sure it is deliberate: and yes, i think you're probably right about what they're doing/aiming to do and the attitude with which they're going about it. watching them live, everything they did seemed quite studied, even their tooling about between synths (although they fucked up their back-projections something rotten) ... i guess what i mean is that they've put a lot of focus into sounding unfocused.

sadly, i think that's a mistake because all too often you end up with music that's entirely for the head and bypasses the heart completely. like i say: i get fleeting moments of connection from "the warning", but that's it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thats weird I find it hits both "pop" lizard brain and "emotional" centres quite heavily- and actually they sound pretty focused most of the time (on record at least)-- it has a great wide screen stereo field as well, which makes for engaging headphone listening unlike a lot of electronic records (not minimal techno mind) these days which sound shit under closer inspection, as if they have been too lazy to do proper stereo placement... The only track that sounds a mess on record is "over and over" which sounds overly crammed with stuff.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 18 June 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm finding it difficult to raise the energy to explore the "splattery textures" because the vocalist is so very dull.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 18 June 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Again, a record which I found sounded better in the outdoors and in the sunshine. The vocals I'm still not sure about (Steve Mason out of the Beta Band is kind of unassailable when it comes to this type of avant-indie deadpan singing). Don't know about Robert Wyatt singing with Chicory Tip (as Morley suggested in his OMM review), but Difford and Tilbrook kept coming to my mind. "Over And Over" sounds like something Squeeze might have done if they'd taken the other fork in the road after "Take Me I'm Yours," and I think is the album's best track. "Look After Me" and "So Glad To See You" are rather touching, but I kept wishing Robert Wyatt were singing them.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Mason always managed a certain macho-ness in his geek-beach boys vocals, or is that just the Scottish machismo coming thru? Hot Chip seem less forceful and slightly less morose, more sad than Mason's evidently depression-riddled style... I'm just pleased to hear those skipping garage rhythms finding a reasonable home...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i always took the beat band to be completely free of machismo.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 June 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ahuh, yeah but compared to hot chip you can suddenly notice some.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i can't go to bed yet because i have to listen to 'Just Like We (Breakdown)' ONE more time...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Well all I've heard is the song that appears on the Uncut CD (don't remember the title) and it sounded pretty good so I'm gonna try some more of their stuff.

― Lenny Koggins (Bimble...), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...

Anyone else heard the new DFA 7" by Booji Boy High (which is, of course, Hot Chip - or some members of)? I am loving it.
Some really filthy synth sounds, and still catchy...

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/index.php?url=http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/ver2/search1.php&new=1&search=Booji+Boy+High

(It's on iTunes UK too)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been puzzled by a few news bits that don't seem to get the Devo reference!

― mh. (mike h.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked up the Warning in the Tower bankruptcy extravaganza and I'm liking it the more and more I put it on. "Careful" is probably my favorite - it reminds me a lot of Disco Inferno, the raccous backing-track plus beautiful melody on top thing. Lower the voices in the mix and it sounds like something that could have been on Technicolour.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

Love love love this album still. What else do y'all think i should listen to if i likes this. And for whatever, the album never seems to end. which is a good thing right now.

― Jubalique die Zitronen, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Played it two weeks ago after a friend started to drunkenly mumble "(Just Like We) Break Down." It's held up fairly well, but I never thought it was the bees' knees either.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link

The Colours song is so good.

So good.

The rest is not quite that good, but still. I like the notion mentioned above that it's somewhat awkward and still crafted, but not in a self-conscious manner, at least not for me.

― Jubalique die Zitronen, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

even people like me, who don't really think about them seem tofeel that'over and over' is undeniably great... make of that what you will!

― fandango, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I just heard 'Over and Over' for the first time on speakers with proper bass, rather than my own tinny ones. I get it now.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

'and i was a boy from school' is fantastic. most everything else i sort of half-liked then forgot about

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 28 April 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link

actually 'look after me' is really nice. guess i prefer this band's more subdued numbers.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link

I think you'd like their version of Matthew Dear's Don & Sherri, which you can still hear here.

― Alba, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link

more like "WARNING: SHITTY FUCKIN RECORD"

― banriquit, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link

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