you mean like the "I've Lost Control" screaming part, or the weird keyboard wig-outs that occur every few minutes? those aren't freakouts?
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
no, i doubt it. if anything, prob the opposite (it's why some people DO like them) ... but i think at this point they've sort of been (unfairly) tagged as "the dance punk label" and it's very cool to see that they're not letting themselves fall into a cul-de-sac with that.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"dance punk" seems very shallow, but i guess all genre labels are.
anyway, i bet the days of mars is good. i downloaded it, but haven't listened yet. i liked the "el monte" single. initiatic journey through the vibrational system of the planetary mind sums it up pretty well. heh.
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
It's great that this comment often turns up in blurbs/press releases accompanying the 12".
Vahid, you might dig the instrumental version of "Casual Friday" which sounds more like a DFA remix amd focuses on the disco strut guitar line.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
listening to the big boys after biscuit's death last week reminded me why so much of the 2000-era "punk funk" stuff is sooooo weak.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I dig it, but I seem to be in the minority. It's very...rubbery, if that makes any sense. Lots of bleeps and egg shakers. Trent's vocals are slowed down and shifted off the beat just a tiny bit, which I think works.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, vahid, right.
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― simon 803 (simon 803), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
haha "Rise" is currently reminding me of a dub version of Fischerspooner's Boredoms cover. I need a chance to play this LOUD at a club or something (er, prior/post people-on-the-dancefloor obv).
― etc, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― b8a, Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
:(
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link