The thread for Portishead "Third"

You say this as if ILM (or the whole internet) hasn't been like this for at least five years now. Dizzee Rascal, anyone?

No I think 'watercooling' refers to that thread with Kate StClair on it.

Oh how many ways one can water cool.

watercooler thread is just a front for illegal music trafficking. ban this sick filth.

what happens by the watercooler stays there.

or you can take it outside with your fag

What happens if Hot Water Music releases a new album?

other than "nobody cares" I mean

Yes this is much better than discussing the album isn't it?

you don't like fun!

unlike the rest of us portishead fans who - oh. ok. I'll get me coat

SRSLY HATE YOU GUYS

and here we were, watercooling, thinking it'd make HI DERE feel better

;_;

I think the thing I am really mad about is that when I hear this album and go completely gonzo for it and rush to ILM to post about it, everyone will be bored with talking about it and I'll be bimbling along all by myself on this thread.

Hi HI DERE. I'll 'bimble along' with you once the album has actually hit the shops, if you like.

^_^ yay

You see, there's only 121 messages on this thread so far! How many did the main "In Rainbows" thread get? This'll leave that one for dust mate!

Yeah I'm not too worried for this thread. This is the biggest release of the 00's after all. I was just disappointed to see that happen to the Bauhaus and Goldfrapp threads.

Is 'bimbling' a new verb?

Is its etymological derivation what I suspect?

Bimble will be along later, I guess.

November, maybe,

I was just disappointed to see that happen to the Bauhaus and Goldfrapp threads.

you're disappointed that people don't want to wait 2-3 months for the release before listening to and talking about it?

If Can were French.

-- Scik Mouthy, Monday, 10 March 2008 09:33

this is basically exactly what i thought when i saw them at atp.

that, and "omg they got FAST!"

you're disappointed that people don't want to wait 2-3 months for the release before listening to and talking about it?

Nah more that you'd get isolated posts now and then, as people got hold of the leak, but never any fully-fledged post-release frenzy.

If Can were French.

i don't get this.

i dunno, i remember the Kish Kash and Human After All frenzies way before release (xp)

Just listened to it through on a damp, blustery walk, and it really came together. The only tracks I'm not totally digging now are Plastic, the chorus of which is so hysterically anguished that it verges on self-parody, and Threads, which there's nothing wrong with but suffers from dimishing returns being placed at the end of the album. I would've finished with a lighter, more delicate piece rather than the doomiest track on there. Incidentally, the backing on Threads reminds me of the slower, creepier end of early Nirvana.

Some of Beth's melody lines are extrodinary, a deal twistier than anything she's done before.

i like how Threads ends. one of the doomiest finishes i've heard on an album (i don't listen to metal tho). reminds me of the alien walkers 'horn' sound in WOTW.

Remember how this album used to be titled 'Alien'?

It did? Perfect!

I've stopped listening until I've got the real CD - like I always do with leaks. I'm happy that it's great & I like it, and now I won't spoil my enjoyment any further. So I'll be back when Dan wants to talk as well :-)

Wasn't Alien the title of some fake demos that were circulating or something?

xpost - wow Stan, great willpower!

impressive discipline

The end of Threads makes me think of the end of Children of Men - except instead of the good ship Tomorrow appearing out of the mist, it's a GREAT HUGE geordie LOOMING DEATH SHIP.

I wonder if it's named after Threads the film or if that's just a doomladen coincidence.

i think it's a statement on the futility of discussions of leaked albums

the futility of people who haven't heard it joining in, maybe!

I kind of assumed the BBC-film reference, but I always do (parents from Sheffield instilled with nuclear terror @ "the shop around the corner being flattened and that women pissing herself with fear").

"deep water" sounds like a leftover from the first sparklehorse album. psychedelic folk.

My first thought was that it could almost pass as one of those VU songs with Mo Tucker on vocals.

I hear some influence of the Silver Apples on "We carry on".

My first thought was that it could almost pass as one of those VU songs with Mo Tucker on vocals.
you don't mean afterhoursdo you? were there any other songs during the lifetime of vu, maureen tucker sung on?

people were saying a while back that one of the new songs played live was just a silver apples song with beth gibbons singing something else on top, right?

xp I was thinking specifically of "I'm Sticking With You."

(But "After Hours" works too. I don't have all their stuff, so I assumed maybe there were a couple others she sang on.)

"We Carry On" sounds like NIN.

haha. this thread. one for the ages. yes, we are all in this bitch together.

Gets a bad review in the new Wire!

Because it's on a major label?

too pop