itunes + vista = suckfest
seriously. it took a half hour just to get the files onto my ipod. can't wait to get back home to my desktop.
― funny farm, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
(I had to zap the Paper Planes link, sorry)
― Matt DC, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Looking forward to hearing this 2nite.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
so, i'm the only one that thinks jimmy is really dumb and annoying?. maybe it'll grow on me or something.
― funny farm, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love it...Although I probably prefer the original.
― Tape Store, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hooray!!! IT'S HERE!!!!!!!
― Stevie D, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 00:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- funny farm, Monday, July 30, 2007 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
dear god, is there anything i can do for you? that free album download sounds harrowing.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha..... jeez, i did make myself seem a bit like a douche, there.
― funny farm, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
well, actually i wasn't complaining about the album download. i was complaining about vista and itunes not working properly with eachother. but, i gues it's all the same.
― funny farm, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
The show was *really good*!
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 08:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm having a hard time getting used to her out of tune shrieking - so much so that I listened to Arular again and I found it hard to like anew too, even. :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 08:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Seconded.
I can't have been the only one to notice the "straight to hell" riff at the forefront of Paper Planes, can I?
OMG. What a way to end a set! I just checked this thread to see what that song was called. Also, did she do the full lyric to "Where is My Mind?" I could only decipher the chourus. And the slowed-down "Blue Monday" bassline sounded so good it makes me wonder how nobody's thought of it before.
― naus, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 09:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
this album is the absolute shit.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
this is shaping up to be the most postively talked-up ilm record so far this year amirite?
― pisces, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
man. this is amazing. huge respect.
― ^@^, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
on a couple of listens last night this sounded fantastic - i'm wary of the whole reviewing the album 10 minutes after the leak thing, but most of the complaints i've seen about this have been claiming that it lacks tunes/dancibility, which seems like nonsense to me.
― toby, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Didn't like Bamboo Banga. Haven't hear the rest yet.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
its not flawless
but fuck me if this album does not shit on the competition from a great height
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
i call it "bhangra space crunk"
amen
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
I am also having douchebaggy troubles with getting my stolen album to play. Won't import into iTunes, Windows Media Player won't have it, can't even import it into Audacity.
Any suggestions, anyone?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
yes. stop calling yourself 'BIG HOOS'.
― ^@^, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
World Town is the best song of the bunch. I am so loving this.
― Stevie D, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- ^@^, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:33 PM
Feel free to change your perspective.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
GET A MAC
and anyway, big hoos aka the steendrive= the best handle on ilx.
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Eighty eighty.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
ilx: the new class
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
I really wish M.I.A. wasn't touring with Bjork. I'm not interested in Bjork at all and it probably means the tickets are way overpriced.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 07:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok, it finally clicked after four listens. and I like arular again too. I don't usually need this much time to get back into something I liked before.
― StanM, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 08:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Didn't she use to have a colorful and vibrant site? What happened?
http://www.miauk.com/
― StanM, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 09:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- filthy dylan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007
she's doing some support slots, afaik she isn't "touring with" her. ffs if it's too much, don't go and quit whining about it. MIA's tickets will be just as expensive if anyone even still cares about her in ten years time.
― fandango, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 11:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
Listened to most of it on the way to work this morning, sounds great. Got so excited when I saw it leaked last night. The Where Is My Mind? and Roadrunner lifts are cool, as is the sheer fun factor.
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 11:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
Jesus Christ, how good is XR2?!
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 11:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
Now that I am actually listening to this it's not really doing anything for me.
I'll let it sink it before I comment though.
Def like "Pickle Down River"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Haha, that's the one song I skip.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
She'll have to go a long way to top that terrible clunky Bjork lyric about the suicide bomber though.
Hmm???
― Cunga, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like the "Paper Planes" chorus - "Rumpshaker" with gun shots is somehow less dumb than with zubba zoom zoom (and a boom boom).
Pleasantly surprised by how strong this album is; no sophomore slump in evidence.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
This album is unbelievable great.
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
Found the first album (and her in general) fucking annoying, vocally UNBEARABLE, trite, insanely overpraised, barely worth the repeat playthroughs and a model demonstration of everything bad about indie/internet hype. A few good tracks and an awful lot of BS.
Liking a LOT of this a LOT. Opener just smokes (then Bird Flu... is what skip buttons what were invented for) and there's other great stuff here, if this was instrumental (which at times I kind of wish...) it'd actually probably hold it's own next to Panda Bear or something just on gloriously messy inventiveness. Quite the pleasant surprise, I'm still on the fence about some of it/her, but going less immediately, graspingly pop, it's worked for her big time.
― fandango, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Album of the year.
― micarl, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 23:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
for me
Will definitely buy it on vinyl.
Switch's influence is actually good. Much better than I had predicted.
― micarl, Thursday, 2 August 2007 00:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
How the hell did she end up in Wilcannia?
― StanM, Thursday, 2 August 2007 07:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
I *love* Boyz, Jimmy, XR2 and Paper Planes, kind of undecided about the rest of it.
I'm a little disappointed so much of it is so mid-paced. As Dan pointed out a few months ago, her voice and delivery really require an active beat - the reason Arular and the best tracks here work so well is that she's totally propelled along on the momentum of the track and you don't really notice her vocal limitations. When things slow down a little there needs to be a melodic cushion there (Amazon, Paper Planes). When she's going "hustle hustle hustle, cry cry cry" over a sparser arrangement it just sounds kind of bored and empty.
I'm reserving judgement on the thing as a whole for now, but on the first couple of listens it doesn't have the initial wow factor that Arular held for me.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 August 2007 08:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh Bird Flu is great as well but I'm not really sure why people are hating on the Timbaland track over everything else here.
Re: XR2 - I felt my spine tingle at the opening "where were you in '92?" bit as my head went "okay, you KNOW what happens now". The inevitable maximalist all bells, whistles and sirens blog house remix is going to be incredible.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 August 2007 08:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
this is some serious shit.
she out-Bjorked Bjork on this one.
― Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 2 August 2007 08:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
She didn't, Morganics did, about four years ago. (Probably ignore the Diplo guess in that link though.)
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh! I read this thread but I missed that - thx!
― StanM, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
I haven't heard the full album but have a feeling I'll agree with Matt DC - I like M.I.A. when she's going for all-out maximalist assault ("Boys" is definitely one of my absolute favourite things of the year for this reason), but quickly find her tiresome when she's getting all sparse/spartan/worthy.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just reversed $20. It sounds cool; she's whispers propaganda.
― Tape Store, Friday, 3 August 2007 03:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like M.I.A. when she's going for all-out maximalist assault
^ this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 3 August 2007 03:19 (5 years ago) Permalink