The Rapture ... the new album.

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wow, remember the rapture! good times...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think that the point of this tune, much like 'House Of Jealous Lovers', is to make people dance. It made me want to. Stop pontificating, people and get your arses on the floor.

Then again, I am a bit drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

Then again, I am a bit drunk.
you are my hero!

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, because not liking a Rapture song means I don't like dancing. How silly of me.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

One of the best shows I ever went to was a Rapture show at the old 2+4 club in Philly, which has since gotten a new name. Luke Jenner gave me flowers, I went up on stage for a bit, and I got to sing (terribly) the first couple bars of "House of Jealous Lovers." So, naturally, I bristle when people hate for no apparent reason.

However, WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

what happened to rest of my post?

Er: WAYUH

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

forget this, bros

The Rapture (2003) > Outhud > The Rapture (2006)

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, silly you Cameron. To meet you halfway, I must concede that it's far from their best, but to start the backlash off one tune would be churlish. What's wrong with referencing Goodie Mob anyway? I interviewed The Rapture just before Echoes was released and they said that the next album was going to be heavily new jack swing influenced. Imagine my disappointment that it doesn't sound like Bell Biv Devoe!

To reiterate, I am quite drunk.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm not saying the whole album sucks. But I am saying this song sucks, and the lyrics are cheesy. As I said at the beginning, they have made some great pop songs. The Rapture do good things, so this was a disappointment.

No official backlash. Just think it's interesting to see how things develop as they leak, and obviously everyone wants to see what they sound like without DFA.

I don't expect cowbells, I don't expect a disco beat.

As long as the song is fun, that's great. It's just a bit too cheesy for me. I dunno. Maybe I'm a hater, but I just don't like this song. At all. :(

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Why is the singer not doing that cool screeching noise any more?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's Matt Safer singing this, right? We'll agree to disagree, hey Cameron? Maybe I'm just too quick to jump to their defence, as they seem like a bit of an easy target these days. It feels like people are waiting for them to fall off without the DFA at the controls. I, for one, think that they've got the chops to do well with whoever mans the desk. By the way, am I alone in preferring the Steve Lilywhite version of 'Love Is All' to the DFA one?

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

the "exhortation to dance" meme is maybe a bit ironic on this song (lyric-wise), i can't really tell tho. could be a reference to pony?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

or perhaps exhortation via lamentation meme: "people don't dance no more just look in their drinks blah blah"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha, ili is singing the backup vocals on this. im kinda biased, but i really like this song.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

is she? rad!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sounds like a retarded Radio 4 song.

Please move on-maybe they'll get played on VH1 or MTV with this shit.
It does it better towards the end though.

― ut R us, Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

they should've made a whole album like 'Infatuation'. jacking Talk Talk and Ennio Morricone is way less played out than sounding like a late 70s/early 80s New York dance/rock band (which they are themselves. except for the era, obv.)

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

listening to "WAYUH" now. boy they sure do love their cowbells!

it's good, but i can't see myself having a major revelation with it the way i did with "jealous lovers."

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

wtf does WAYUH stand for

clap your hands say WAYUH

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

i am not so into the first half of the song, but the second half is kinda cool and sounds a little bit like the nonsense in double dutch bus by frankie smith (you know, the part missy elliot sampled 'dizouble dizutch - wizzle mizzle kizzer... or whatever). i liked the rapture before the dfa period, i liked them during, and i imagine i'll probably continue to like them now. especially after that clip from the crash mansion video... i posted it before, but if anybody is interested in hearing my edit of that just drop me an email to this address.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is it just me or is there a sample of "Dooms Night" by Azzido Da Bass buried in there?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

this is fucking horrible

― rat, Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

yep, you got it rat

― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

The Rapture career trajectory:
"Out of the Races..." - this band could go places. I love their guitar parts. superfantastic live show. The Rapture in 2001 was a force to be reckoned with.
"Jealous Lovers" - holy effing g-d. instead of telling me to shake x11, you just grabbed me by the neck and made me, and i can't stop!! forget 11, this one goes to 12.
"Echoes" - they actually live up to the hype over a whole album? that's totally insane.
"WAYUH" - whatever high school band is calling themselves "The Rapture" and releasing sub-Radio 4 tracks like this should be sued.

1000% OTM. maybe more.

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

:rolleyes:

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's good! Sounds like it's unmastered though.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 10:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

boom boom boom, everybody say WAYUH....

"WAYUH!"

― Danny boy, Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

I thought it was pretty good... can't wait to here more.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU?

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

sounds like girls aloud actually

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

agh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

and babes, that aint no bad thing.

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Does WAYUH stand for something, and if so, what?

I like some things that Steve Lillywhite has done, a lot!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I now think it sounds like that Tom Tom Club remix of Supergrass from a few years back.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

I tried to look up online what the letters stand for, but it did not work.

I found this site: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=382 - it says that they make a "sonic deathfuck groove" and have a make-it-fucked-up philosophy". That sounds just terrible!

It also says they were inspired by the Byrds. I can't see that.

Anyway, I did not learn what the letters stood for. Perhaps nothing.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

all I know is there's a keith jarrett record called wayuh or something similar

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

scrap that. it's called fort yawuh.
dyslexic

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

I made Luke a Gene Clark mix tape once, so maybe that's what they're referring to.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

HI LET'S PASS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON A BAND FROM AN UNFINISHED LEAK

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

that Sub Pop blurb is from their pre-DFA days, when they were more of a straight up rock band

I liked Out of the Races a lot, loved Echoes, but I gotta reluctantly agree that WAYUH sounds pretty bad. I dug some of the acid / Chicago sounding stuff on the Crash Mansion video though, so I still hold out hope ...

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

p'raps it's the band's prediction of fan reactions - "the new record is way....uh......"

or not. :)

― 6335, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

And with which The Rapture opened their Essential Mix in 2003.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

well that makes some sense then, i suppose.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

what is this Crash Mansion business you speak of

does it also exhibit a sonic deathfuck groove

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

some streaming video thing that was on the web

they did a show in ny last year where they played a bunch of new stuff and it wound up in this sort of promo clip or something

I don't have the link anymore, sry

I'm sure someone else will step up

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

it is groovy but relatively sonic deathfuckless

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

I WAS THERE, AT THE RAPTURE SHOW AT CRASH MANSION
(INSERT KILLING JOKE GROOVE)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

of course the lyrics are dreadful, it's a matt safter song. have you ever LISTENED the the words to sister saviour? dreadful. that said i think this is pretty good.

― cartwheel (cartwheel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

i dont get whats so bad about this. unfortunately people that are calling this unfinished should be disappointed when they do they here the finished version. listen to the backup vocals, the girls singin near the end, this is fairly produced, i wouldnt expect the final version to change that much...if at all.

turn up the bass and the song is great. lets face it, the rapture are not an incredible band, they produce songs that are played at alternative dance clubs, and this is more than enough for their audience.

plus theres no jennings...so its a poor indication of the record.

― pibb, Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

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sounds dope

― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://vimeo.com/27878921

― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

the synths on sail away are awesome. and the little in a silent way tribute at the end is cool too

― mizzell, Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

just a few tracks in, but this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

― Clay, Saturday, 20 August 2011 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

this album is way, way better than i thought it would be.

^ this

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 August 2011 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh, this exists?

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

heard two songs off this & both were excellent

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh, so it's a Rapture album

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Saturday, 20 August 2011 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

I would never have guessed there might be awful singing on songs by the Rapture.

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, I'd never singing on a Rapture record -- they thankfully shouted a lot.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

*never heard

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

bring back the ratpure

― jed_, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man, the Dusted review of this is quashing a lot of my excitement:

The rest of the album, however, is uniformly mediocre, except where it’s terrible.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

This is dull, too much songwriting, not enough groove.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

man, the chorus on "how deep is your love" just makes me think of sisqo

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

The second side is terrific, especially "How Deep is Your Love" (not a Bee Gees cover), but the first half drags.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

"how deep is your love" is great even if its a weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

i've had "sail away" on loop all day. its such an incredible opener that it took two or three listens before i realized i didn't much care for the 3 or 4 songs that followed it.

"it takes time to be a man" is a nice closer, too.

otherwise i'm not crazy into it, but i can keep the whole album on without skipping any tracks. def my most listened to album in the last two weeks, regardless.

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 09:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

jed_ otm

― spitting, shirtless man in lawyer's wig (haitch), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

playing this, on "Never Die Again"

wtf happened to the singing

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

like, this isn't BAD, but it also isn't what I want from The Rapture

― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

this album is so much damn fun; I liked the Holy Ghost album a bunch but this is basically a fifty-times-better version of that.

― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

agreed. the new style singing works great on How Deep Is Your Love but over the course of the album I'm not feeling it.

weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

this song doesn't really sound like anything off Echoes to me but it's def. the best track on here

― dmr, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 20, 2011

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

ive never thought to myself before this record "hey that guy from the Rapture sure does a good job of singing"

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

This is mostly p boring, but "Never Die Again" and the single are jams.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Last song is p good too.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Listening to this album again, and looking over the lyrics... it's about him finding Jesus, right?

― Popture, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes

― mizzell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

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