The XX

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.

bougie is AAVE

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

I did read it...you did compare it to kind of blue as you referenced that in your defence of this record. kind of blue may well fade into the background but I have no prob with music which is calm or not abrasively offensive. my point was music that is consensus music of a given time....and to me this record feels like little more than that. I normally would hate to say "yeah nobody cares about this record in 3 months", you know, there's nothing wrong with a brief liking for something. but doesn't anyone feel that this record is like...less than 3 months, and it's not unique in being a record you just listen to 5 times and think is good then never listen to again. I know other people are consuming music this way and albums like this basically feel like singles...I liked this well enough but it sort of amazes me that such a bland record is a hipster record...this record should be way bigger...and not a hipster record.

http://i50.tinypic.com/290pzm0.jpg

Saw them live at 4pm, in sunlight, at a festival. It was bleak.

this is the biggest piece of hype garbage I've ever seen. They seemed bummed they are popular. Are they already in therapy?

ps. agree with popture, when I saw them live it was , errr unfortunate to say the least. I think they were falling asleep about as quickly as the audience was.

aw i'm happy that they got nme -- is that most recent cover? i might try & buy it

the front two look like younger versions of tracey thorn and stephin merritt.

they look like fun people

Listened to this again last night. This is wintry Sunday light-cleaning music and I do mean that as a compliment, 'cause sometimes you just need to tidy up a bit.

it's time to take out the trash

the front two look like younger versions of tracey thorn and stephin merritt.

Lad on left reminds of Robin Guthrie in his earlier years.

i saw them live and they were great.

the drums on "infinity" just scream "extended remix" to me

(apologies if there already is one)

they sound almost... air france-ish imo

YES. "Infinity" is the direction I'd like them to go in - that same intimate fragility, but bigger, grander, more dramatic. It makes me think of Julee Cruise.

Basically I feel like there should be more popular music that I can class with "Falling", "Wicked Game" and "Lily Was Here".

obviously big, emotional pay offs are not their thing but i'd love to hear those drums played out, if not fleshed out

the last time i remember being as frustrated by there being no big pay off in a song that i love is in lcd's "time to get away" -- it took me forever to get used to the fact that the guitar line never builds to anything.

"Infinity" is the direction I'd like them to go in - that same intimate fragility, but bigger, grander, more dramatic.

Cosign.

"Intro" was used in an Olympic ad, in Canada at least, that featured a speed skater - was only half paying attention, tbh. Weird moment.

because of the juxtaposition of the music against speed skating, or just obscure music showing up in unexpected places? because i've given up on feeling surprised about the latter, it happens so frequently.

yeah i saw that same ad too it was weird to see/hear -- i think it was motorolla

hahaha it just came on O_O

the song sounds great

oh at&t

I guess the album will eventually get played 94/7 in starbuckborders and grey's anatomy episodes but right now I'm into it yes

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 2:05 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

just heard them on grey's anatomy last week lol

ka-ching!

Kudos to them for dolla dolla bill y'all

Like this band a lot, great live too. The xx have done a few remixes in their time and always add something special.

Check this one out:

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/track-of-the-day-1211-florence-the-machine

They play backing to Florence And The Machine on their version of 'You've Got The Love'.

So what's up with this Blue Nile remix then? Any good?

The Amazon preview sounds good, might buy it if I wasn't at work:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islands-The-Blue-Nile-Remix/dp/B0032JN74W

Check this one out:

Yes, because we haven't already discussed the Florence remix to death in this very thread - You've Got the Love. Nor did it place about halfway up ILM's Tracks of 2009 Poll. *sigh*

why so rude?

not everyone scours every thread, follows polls, or has hung around here for ages.

Mmph. I dunno. My bad. Sorry dude.

The Blue Nile Remix is floating around...it's interesting, but I'm not sure if it gels with their overall vibe? There's a sampled harp bit that just sort of hangs there for the beginning of the mix - halfway through, once other layers get thrown on, it develops a really nice fragile groove, but the first chunk still sounds sort of awkward to my ears.

The Delorean Remix, otoh, sounds a bit as if you layered the vocals from "Islands" atop the backing track from "Daniel" by Bat for Lashes.

(Will make honest effort to be less flip.)

wd rather hear xx remix the blue nile than vice versa

^^ i'd rather listen to an xx remix of anything than a remix of xx. it's a record which has such a controlled and uniform ascetic that it almost seems pointless to re-imagine it into other genres. some of the remixes are great, but i can't think of one which has eclipsed an original - at least for me.

but that renaissance man remix of the florence and the machine remix is hella rad.

not everyone scours every thread, follows polls, or has hung around here for ages.

the discussion is in THIS ACTUAL THREAD - if someone doesn't make the effort to read, or at least do a cursory ctrl+f on, the thread they're posting on, that is rudeness in itself - it's basically saying "what all of you have been saying about this band isn't worth reading, or even scanning to see if we may possibly have heard of a much-talked-about and pretty old remix" - and as such deserves only to be met w/rudeness in return

but this thread is 712 messages long and most of them are hidden by default...

ctrl-f of "florence" yielded 6 results before the most recent post, just saying