― jed_, Monday, 7 May 2007 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Album'z le4ked.
I can't help being reminded of Shampoo's Trouble every time the girl shouts :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 28 June 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Half this album sounds like Skinned Teen WTF! These guys have totally missed my radar until now but I think I really like this
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 6 July 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
good album
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
good band but let's be honest, this thread would not exist if not for DFA endorsement
― sanskrit, Friday, 13 July 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm loving this but it's so odd and funny them being associated with DFA. there's osmethign about them that reminds me of ikara colt, a lot better. anyone remember the No Name "scene"? Yeh these dudes could have slipped right in.
― acrobat, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Good in small doses, tedious over the course of a full album.
― n/a, Monday, 13 August 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
One way to improve the album-listening experience is to shout questions back at the stereo, so it's like:
Hamworthy Sports and Leisure Center WHAT IS THAT?? is a sports and leisure center WHAT DID YOU SAY IT WAS CALLED? Hamworthy Sports and Leisure Center IS THAT A HOSPITAL OR SOMETHING? is a sports and leisure center OH, OKAY
― nabisco, Monday, 13 August 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The Youtube comments for their videos are hilarious- I don't know how something this innocuous can provoke SEETHING VISCERAL HATRED in so many people, but it does. IT ARE NOT REAL MUSICS, THEY JUST RIP OF THE WHIT STRIEPS
― Telephone thing, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hobnail boots! BOOTS? WHERE? On the escalator! THAT'S A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR HOBNAIL BOOTS! NOISY! Beeswax, beeswax WELL THAT MIGHT MUFFLE THE SOUND A BIT Down the radiator THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULDN'T LEAVE WAX ON HOT THINGS!
― nabisco, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh god, now you've got me doing it...
― Telephone thing, Monday, 13 August 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
THERE IS NO CLEAN AIR IN HAMPSHIRE
― acrobat, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
this just sounds like a not-terribly-good Fall to me
― braveclub, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
They have all the little signifiers for "arty" neatly lined up, paradoxically making them really trad.
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i like it
― electricsound, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a good record.
― LaMonte, Monday, 13 February 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
Does it sound like the Fall? Keep meaning to listen to this on Spotify but have not yet done so.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
i played this a lot over and over again at first. it seemed to make the humor of it grate a little. maybe better to let it sound surprising from time to time?
― j., Monday, 13 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just listening to it for the first time now -- great at four songs in so I'll take that as a sign.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Underrated band.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
The record didn't hold up very well for me, but they were pretty entertaining live.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
I really love this song from their largely-ignored mini album Home Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-d9ou2QXsU
actually, the whole record is very good.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 7 September 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link