The XX

only music without crap vocals is worthwhile

liked this record for about two listens when it first came out, think it is shit the more I hear it. this is dinner party music...you hear it everywhere you go because it combines being fashionable with being incredibly bland and easy to listen to. doesn't stand up to the amount of play it's getting. not their fault but doesn't stand up to much play at all...it's more tedious and mopey and wet each time.

the thought of listening to this record in a social setting feels like a slow death to me, it'd turn a friday night into a sunday

feeling almost the exact opposite myself!

it's no christina aguilera

i am kinda depressed but don't feel like this is depressing music (i know no-one necessarily said it was)

you hear it everywhere you go because it combines being fashionable with being incredibly bland

I literally don't know what this means (and where are you hearing this? You mean like as muzak in restaurants or something?)

er, you don't have to listen to it in a social setting or on a friday night? pretty perfect sunday night music tbh.

it "combines being fashionable with being incredibly bland" in a way that reminds me of norah jones.. the new norah jones album is pretty good, incidentally (no challops)

norah jones is just feist for the hipster crowd iirc

planningtorock is feist for the hipster crowd

planningrorock can blow me iirc

ur just lj for the hipster crowd

mind blown

- don't think i've listened to this in a "social setting" other than actual xx gigs
- dinner parties are great and dinner party music is great - calling something that is such a compliment, <3 nice food and nice company
- nick - i guess the same reason i don't drink or buy vintage wine? i'm not anti-audiophilia, i just don't like it being made the benchmark, i guess

when i say "i don't drink or buy vintage wine" that's not, like, a principle or anything, it's just a reflection of how it is~~

the ability of a piece of music to effectively sink into the background has nothing to do with it's quality.

bah "its quality"

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/zdbpath/composerpix/2748.jpg

i saw some british tv actor on current tv refer to this band as "The Double Kiss". is that for real??

xp, i'm not saying it's a bad thing.. i am saying that "kind of blue" and "buddha bar XXVIII" are both effective at sinking into the background but that fact says nothing about their merits otherwise

unless we're talking about AMBIENT music

yeah people said this about Endtroducing... and Dummy, someone's on a thread right now saying this about five years of minimal, "dinner party music" as a pejorative has to be taken out and shot

Playing music during dinner parties is classic, as you'd know if you had any friends or knew how to use a knife and fork.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, December 5, 2003 2:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

so uh, how are you supposed to say their name? The ecks ecks? The double ecks?

"the ex ex"

now you can talk to your friends about them at dinner parties

prefer "eeks"

Playing music during dinner parties is classic, as you'd know if you had any friends or knew how to use a knife and fork.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, December 5, 2003 2:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

^^^amazing

Yeah where is that from, I want to feel the full effect of the zing.

I do remember that line but can't recall from where.

Moby

I don't drink 'vintage' wine, and I wouldn't say audiophilia is a benchmark at all; I just like big speakers with a big, detailed sound, and a glass of wine.

depends on your neighbours/co-habitors situation to some extent

xxpost -- Must have shamed 'Rudolf' so much he went away and never returned.

The way this provokes strong emotions and yet accusations of blandness reminds me of the Cocteau Twins in their heyday.

i don't get how calling this slick dinner party music is any more of a criticism of the xx than it would be of ryan leslie which iirc you really like LOCAL GARDA xxxx...xxp

By the way, I listened to this last night at my dinner party over large speakers and, while I swirled my vintage white Burgundy around inside my Riedel glass, I felt immensely satisfied, somehow.

Kattzheit? Do you mean Krankheit (illness)?

It's my own riff on Schiller only with 'felinity'.

I mean i hear this record at every party i go to. And it wore thin v quickly. Possibly that's cos of wherei live in London. Nothing wrong with dinner parties, the idea that dismissing dinner party music means dismissing dinner parties is moronic and evasive. My point is the record is just a bland catch all. Everyone likes it and it's a safe bet nobody they know won't.

Others may have diff experiences but I'm being honest about my own feelings on it.

Everyone I know who has heard the record is either a) on this messageboard, or b) my brother

And nobody i know likes kind of blue...plus comparing that to this is major lol

Plus re r les....people dislike rnb by default

jesus christ i wasn't comparing the double kiss to kind of blue, read the fucking post

Wait, what's wrong with 'Kind of Blue'?

BOUGIE TASTEFUL SHIT

I can't think of a word that makes me see red faster than 'bougie'. There's a goddamn 'r', bitches. If you want to use a high-falutin' furrin' (and eminently bourgeois) word, learn how to fuckin' pronounce it or be cast into the bottomless pit of cretinous, jingoist, anti-intellectual, lazy-ass hypocrites. Also, wanting to use it is totally 'bougie' (as is not wanting to use it). Marxism is for kindergartners, too, people.

I prefer the term 'burgess'. ;)

^^^putting the 'boor' back in 'bourgeois'

How city-dweller of you to say that.