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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! :-)

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

three weeks pass...

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

four weeks pass...

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

The vocals for sure sound a lot like Green, but the music not so much though right?

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

three weeks pass...

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

two weeks pass...

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


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