I was there when Bat For Lashes got an 8 and then drowned shortly thereafter. We all know.
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
I used to write for Idolator. I posted everything before anyone.I was there at the River Room in Harlem for the Merriweather Post Pavillion listening session.I was there at Brooklyn's Masonic Temple when Dan Deacon debuted his 15-piece live band.I woke up naked in a warehouse in Brooklyn in 2008.
― highway to sarahel (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
this was v iconic but house of jealous lovers was really amazing mixed in with all the shit that people might have called electro or whatever before the name became tainted, it was so physical. no rock record will ever have that impact again.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al
ugh, worst things they've put out
― like totally gr80 to the max (jaxon), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
otm like a buffalo nickel
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
But I was there! I was transcribing the lyrics to this song before anybody else did!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 25 July 2009 03:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
before house of jealous lovers and before electroclash most people used the term electro to describe actual electro-funk i.e. Cybotron and Bam as well as the post techno electro revivalists like DMX Krew, Jedi Knights, Le Car, Drexcyia etc.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah no of course dan, but you know what I mean by using it to mean that stuff too, I dunno, like in that interzone where people were playing hojl and lots of other dfa stuff and then stuff like black strobe etc mixed together...there wasn't really a name for it I guess. I really loved that period of time.
now it's like a sort of maxed out version of that sound is the biggest thing on the planet.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 25 July 2009 07:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha snrub
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think the real argument should be that since DFA isn't "hot omg meme" label anymore, people have been ignoring the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 24, 2009 9:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 24, 2009 9:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the real argument should be: kill youre damn saelf
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Saturday, 25 July 2009 09:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is ten years old. 10 years old. A decade. I feel a bit like Jeremy Piven. 10 WHOLE YEARS.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
quite shocked re whineys declaration of love for the shocking pinks album up there.never made it to the end of that album before i hit the eject button.
― mark e, Friday, 23 March 2012 11:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Song about feeling old succeeds in making you feel old.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was young when it came out! I was one of them-there 'internet seekers'! With a playlist of every good song, by every good band, ever! I'm probably the same age now as Murphy was when it was recorded.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wikipedia tells me that Murphy is 9 years older than me, so that was a pretty good guess.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
personal crisis starts hear. i remember dancing to this at my first Glastonbury (I was there!)
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
starts hear?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha yeah i can never get that Piven "TEN (horn honk!) YEARS!" thing out of my head when a decade's gone by.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
always preferred the B side but then that's a classic indie tossbag thing that 'the kids' on the actual song might say.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was just talking about this with a friend last night, but I misremembered this as having come out 2003. Now I feel older than I already did.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Memmmmmmmmmories..."
http://stereogum.com/1087342/losing-my-edge-turns-10/top-stories/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
Almost a tween.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
Nice article, although everyone I know pronounces it I-beetha or Ib-eetha - is it different in the States?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
most ppl I know say Ih-bee-zah unless they've actually been there
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
"I once wrote an entire paragraph about how people pronounce 'Ibiza' without researching it"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
that is a very good article. i especially like the quotes from james murphy discussing how the song was born of his own fears about the declining social value of music knowledge in an era of "internet seekers" who can track down obscure information relatively easily. the song is definitely a landmark.
― Pat Finn, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Ibeza/Ibetha paragraph had me shaking my head, I haven't heard eye-bee-za since my teenaged brother proclaimed he was 'into trance' and bought a FSoL CD
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 16:26 (10 months ago) Permalink