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Those darn setlists!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 May 2003 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

EMF changed my life. Seriously.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 18 May 2003 09:48 (twenty years ago) link

eat my fcu

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 May 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link

Ecstacy. Motherfucker. From me to you.

― ss, Sunday, 18 May 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

I saw the Rapture at Coachella a few weeks back and thought they were just okay (and I do like their stuff). Within an hour of their show, I was over at the dance tent watching Felix da Housecat and he dropped HOJL and it was better than watching the Rapture play it. Strange. There must be a Baudrillardian word for this.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 18 May 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

The Ratpure were signed by Gary Gersh's label through Universal Records.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

jiggawuh?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

"universal" = "the ratpure," right?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yes

(haha, Y, your messages look foolish now)

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

don't they always, tho?

yay, my source wuz rite!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

oh god posterity is going to be so consufed by this exchange.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Lemme fix it:

The Ratpure were signed by Gary Gersh's label through Ratpure Records.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

to be nitpicky about it, the rapture will be signed by mercury records (u.k.) with strummer (gary gersh's new endeavor) as the north american partner.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

whad I miss? It's called Strummer? no fucking way. thataway to preserve Joe's legacy- name a major label after him.

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

My latest Guitar Center spam was a postcard with "SAVINGS CALLING" on it, done exactly like the London Calling album cover. Talk about preserving a legacy... (still better than BADII's take on it)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

what legacy? The guy was on majors practically his whole career (that's not a value judgement, just saying that claiming him for something he never claimed for himself is capital-D DUMB).

but maybe I should just get in my jag-you-wahr and jet the fuck outta here.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

Claiming I claimed something for Joe Strummer about something to do with what class of label his records appeared on is Capital F FUCKING RETARDED.

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

Meaning I just think it's silly that Gary Gersh thought, "Oh gee, I'll do something really nice for Joe, I'll name my label after him." The label could be major, indie, bedroom, world-dominant, with a major distribution deal, or without, I would still think it's silly, esp. so close to his death.

And Joe Strummer's legacy is the music he made with the Clash, his politics, and his late-period stuff w/ the Mescaleros.

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 22 May 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

Whatever man, if you just meant label, then just write label.

― hstencil, Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

scott m writes:

Capital F FUCKING RETARDED

I think I saw them at the hemlock last week.

</spockmorgue>

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

So I saw 'em last night here in Mtl. Great show. They were terrific--really high energy, very smiley, mr. dancer/saxophone&cowbell fancy-pantser very endearing. Sounds like they played more or less the same set as everywhere else, with a couple minor changes ("Louie Louie" instead of "Rock & Roll Part 2"). The crowd was very excitable and dancy, I was jumping up and down at the front of the stage. A wicked night out, one of the best concerts I've been to in a while (part of this must be attributed to a lot of friends being there & me getting some great news early in the night). Erlend Oye opened, and he was very winning.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Okay, so I finally heard some version of "House of Jealous Lovers" (my computer is so crap I don't bother trying to download MP3s). My first thoughts:

1) Q & Not U did this better on "Kiss Distinctly American."
2) "HOJL" reminds me of U2's "Two Hearts Beat As One."

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

two hearts beat as one ain't no disco

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

i DJed HOJL on sat nite and it went ORF something severe

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

when is this coming out now here in the us? i'm v excited

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link

stacey q > the rapture > u2

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link

and early october. i have the official date around here somewhere.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 August 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link

anybody's gots artwork yet?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/86/11/51m.jpg

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone gotten a different/longer versh of 'HOJL' with an alternate intro? 'Cause my mp3 ROCKS.

s1utsky, what next-Anita Baker album covers?

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

What's that now?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

Universal, October 14.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

dfa vinyl release on sept.8, god willing. trevor jackson did the artwork - it's sick, especially for the output/dfa stuff.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:59 (twenty years ago) link

s1utsky, it was a bad joke. Very bad. Every time I tried to download the band I had to put up with tracks from Anita Baker's Rapture LP. And Justin and Kylie live at the Brits.

I still wanna know about the alternate 'HOJL' I downloaded though. Hopefully, it's the album version but probably not.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

was it the Geist rmx?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 August 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

Nope. The mp3 was subtitled 'Another version' and I have the 12" too.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 04:28 (twenty years ago) link

On a DFA related note, I just flipped over to CITV and the kid leads on 'Wilmot' are accidentally crossing 'Losing My Edge' with the Streets.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

There's a Cosmos (Tom Middleton) remix of HoJL now, it's sort of boompty chicago style, pretty cool.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.nme.com/features/105669.htm

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

Barima - is it off the Insound sampler? The one with little or no oonce?

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

Looks like this is the cover:

http://www.tidalflow.co.uk/outside/clients/data_capture/admin/upload_images/1059057884_rapture-echoes-jpeg-for-pre.jpg

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

It's called Echoes and their faces are echoing!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

it's a pretty good cover, all things considered.

better daft punk/trevor jackson stylee than more distressed photocopy font.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

What was that fake-broken-typewriter font called again?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno, flightatdusk. I don't have the sampler for one thing.

That cover is cool, lots better than the Playgroup one too. It's got the 'moved-on-up-ness' of Discovery's cover in relation to Homework's-and mo' props for using their actual faces.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 4 August 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I caught the band at Fopp on Earlham St. last night. They were an hour late but it was more or less worth it. They played 'Out Of The Races', 'Sister Saviour' and 'HOJL' then signed copies of the single (me: the 12", the 7" and a poster the staff gave me for free). For the first time in ever, I actually got nevous-chatty talking to a band. WTF up with that? I even forgot to ask them about the damn mp3! They are all pretty cool though, I would've tried to blag my way to the boat party tonight but the queue etc.

Trevor Jackson was also there and I told him I found an old Brotherhood 12" in a quid bin. "Always sad when they end up there", he said, probably fuming inside. I told him I'd been listening to Playgroup a lot over the weekend (I was trying to figure out where that duff reggae number fit into the scheme of things and I was mostly listening to 'Bring It On', 'Medicine Man' and 'Too Much'). "You're a madman", he told me before leaving.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

The reggae one is fucking great dude!

I saw the Rapture at Tribal Gathering's big acid house warehouse thing in Manchester on Saturday and they blew my mind. They were in a small backroom with graffiti everywhere and sweat dripping off the roof playing to a crowd which was really jumped up, not least after the DJ before them played Go and then Hardtrance Experience.

Anyway they really gave it everything and seemed to enjoy it so much, the singer was screaming and then stage dived, it really felt like a seminal moment of the year, I enjoyed them as much as anything else this year, and I am firmly a dance fan.

Sister Saviour is a dementedly good record.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Does anyone else feel sad to be letting them go?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link

Go where? The stratosphere?

I would've been at Tribal too, but I couldn't afford to return to a place I semi-hate, spiritually and financially.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

yeah go big, leave the muso zone.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 28 August 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

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