at times, nothing hits the spot like gatorade tbh
― tru_uth hurts (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
singing 'woah-nigh'' after that line is as r kelly as the lp gets.
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Saturday, 25 July 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i like "i live in a greenhouse and i am getting wasted, yeah" from the same song alot as well. this album has really darling lyrics, like nothing is really going wrong in their lives ever: "i'm cau-au-aught up in a storm, that i, don't need no shelter from."
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
it's more super-positivity i think, like stillness in the move, after all that we've been through etc
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
huh, i like this stillness song, i'd never heard it
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It's fucking rad more like! :-)
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
This album is so great. The musicianship is just amazing. So nice to hear in the wake of tone deaf retard bait like Vivian Girls.
― Darin, Thursday, 6 August 2009 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Best performance I've seen on Letterman, ever, perhaps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuzdtrDRrro
(via http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13334-cannibal-resource-live-on-late-show-with-david-letterman/)
― kshighway, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
True fucking joy! Why isn't EVERYONE listening to this band? They should be all over the fucking charts.
― kshighway, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that performance is just great! Can't believe how good his voice is live as well, quite remarkable!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
dont't get me wrong i like that they're playing it alot faster than on the recording, but it is not flattering in certain parts. i like that new guitar line on the "still countin on..." part though, and have always loved dave longstreth's pidgeonlike neck movements.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Band reminds me of Scritti Politti.
― Cunga, Thursday, 1 October 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The vocals for sure sound a lot like Green, but the music not so much though right?
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Deradoorian EP >>>> Bitte Orca
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I've yet to check that out!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i havent heard of that, will check it out
― just sayin, Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds kinda like a more minimal, less produced, less dreadful (in the neutral sense) Third, maybe?
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
woah i haven't heard anything about this. did she write the songs herself?
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i just listened to it and the answer is obviously yes.
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
it's good! nothing quite as great as "two doves," just some seriously darling mystical folk.
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
are you guys talking about "Mind Raft"?
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i am
― samosa gibreel, Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
the song i heard sounds good but has nothing on bitte orca
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
nb: I only like one song on Bitte Orca
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
sonderangerbot: yes
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
It's in the vocals at times, oh yes, but a song like "Stillness Is The Move" has a distancing effect on me that reminded me of songs like "The Sweetest Girl" as well.
― Cunga, Friday, 2 October 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ok thought maybe there was something new out. Mind Raft is pretty good, a bit lazy and grungy in comparison. but i agree with Jordan, Bitte Orca is just impossible to get tired of. and if i ever do i'm looking forward to checking out the previous stuff
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
longstreth seems like such a bro
http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/dirty-projectors-david-longstreth-doesnt-think-the,34303/
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
The A.V. Club: Has anyone ever told you that they fuck to your music?
DL: No! That’s alarming.
lol
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
btw i have recently decided this record isn't that good
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I always want to have some kinda balls and damage in my singing, too!
also, I'm really glad he hates Zappa
― balearific, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i kind of love how he says "fuck" or a variation thereof in about every sentence
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
way too many fucks for a "goofy" and "eccentric" ex-yalie imo
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
On the subject of the merit of Bitte Orca: I've been a big Dirty Projectors fan for about five years now, and I don't think any of their albums are all that great. But somehow the project continues to appeal to me; Longstreth seems like a force for good, no matter how loud the whiny chorus of anti-hipsters becomes.
― The Boxing Pretzel Wizard, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
except for stillness is the move every idea on bitte orca was done to better effect on rise above
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"rise above" is the best song on either imo, but i had trouble sitting through that at times; bitte's much pithier
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
^ That and "Fluorescent Half-Dome".
Regardless of how you may feel about Bitte Orca (the album), their tour to support it was, forgive me, the best show in recent memory, perhaps the best I've ever seen. That band aims high and succeeds often and spectacularly.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
solange cover of "stillness is the move" is great
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, this is really great
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
solange's version > DP version
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this insanely good
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
not better, just different
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
really inspired use of this sample imo
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wow so much better
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
loathe to call it better - i'm really attached to that trilled guitar line, but solange's version is indeed really fuckin' awesome.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah both are great
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah its hard 2 no i agree
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe not so much better, but v. possibly a little better.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't do the one thing I was hoping it was which was insane Grace Jones climaxing on "we've been thru!"
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the thought, but it's nowhere near as good as the original
― goodbye indie, hello trendy. (Tape Store), Friday, 13 November 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link