Disco Inferno: please help me out

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FWIW I always thought the song "D.I. Go Pop" was the band's attempt to make a digital "Feed Me With Your Kiss" - also something of an unlikely pop song.

I think what makes D.I. Go Pop a difficult album is its dourness: the second half of the record isn't really that distinct from their EP work except that it tends to remains pretty understated and greyscale - "Footprints in Snow" being the big exception obviously. Like, it would only take a transcendent guitar solo to turn "New Year" into a big pop number (by the band's standards) but they obstinately refuse to take that path. Only "A Crash At Every Speed" is actually *difficult* I reckon.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 12 February 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

i think you can fit technicolour and d.i. go pop on one CDR, can't you?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

I do believe you can, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 February 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

they could have a 3CD box set called "a little something" and it would be complete... sigh.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 February 2004 07:20 (twenty years ago) link

I believe the Byrds song on "Summer's Last Sound" is "Feel A Whole Lot Better" fnar fnar < /maconie>.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 February 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

4 CDs could work -- _In Debt_, the EPs, _DI Go Pop/Mixing It_, _Technicolour_+unreleased demos. Fifth bonus CD: the live set from the show Tom saw.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Or failign that I could just listen to 'em all on my iPod, ESPECIALLY NOW THE FUCKER'S ARRIVED!!!! HUZZAH!!!!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

Let celebrations be thine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 February 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

FWIW I always thought the song "D.I. Go Pop" was the band's attempt to make a digital "Feed Me With Your Kiss" - also something of an unlikely pop song.

Oh my, that's absolutely perfect! And it explains exactly why I love it so much, as well. Wow.

― Andrew Unterberger (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Do some work, Unterberger. You don't find me pissing about on here when I could be writing reviews of New Order records. Oh.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

TSK. Resolve your differences! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

Charming, Southy, charming.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 12 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

Check this: www.cduniverse.com lists reissues for DI Go Pop and Technicolour set to drop on April 20, 2004, on the Oli (?) label. The first two AR Kane lps are apparently also being brought back into print by the same folks.

Can't seem to uncover any further news...

― doug watson (solid air), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

ooooh, I hope those AR Kane discs include the EPs!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

Oli = One Little Indian?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

Spencer is OTM
But still no DI news to be found on their website. Damn.

― doug watson (solid air), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

Well, one can hope! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

Tonight I've been downloading In Debt. Yesterday I ordered the Mixing It EP. On Saturday I made a 'Disco Psychosis' playlist of BP and DI tunes for the iPod. Coincidence? Or serendipity?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

aiyo ian crause i just wanted 2 let u know ur shit is HOT! HOLLA! keep on doin ya thing BWOI, poeace

― juggalo420, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago) link

Haha!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

I may get my copy of your disc, tomorrow, ned!!

thanks again.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

Yer welcome!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Please please please random google Disco Inferno fans - there is much love for Disco Inferno and IT IS HERE. And elsewhere; i.e. use the search button. Please. Please.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

D.I. Rock

― Flatfoot (Skinny), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link

The only D.I. that mattered.....

http://www.diunderground.com/images/diphoto.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

For a song or two, sure. *flees*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

Hahahaha...pretty accurate, actually. Let's see: "OC Life", "Johnny's Got a Problem", "Richard Hung Himself"....that's pretty much all ya need.

Still.....they were better than Disco Inferno.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

Well, there you are wrong, but I am kind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Well, there you are wrong, but I am kind

Blind is spelled with a B and an L, not a K.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

Blink-182 is spelled incorrectly in your sentence there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Blind 182 is a FAR better band name!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

And thus we have happiness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone reckon Radiohead completely ripped off 'Broken' (what a wonderful song) for the first single off of whatever their shitey latest album was?

I think 'In Debt' and 'Technicolour' are available off amazon.com

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm...interesting comparison, but I'd have to say no (at the least, I would think that, say, "Beautiful Day" by U2 resembles "The Sun Always Shines on TV" by a-ha far more). Partially due to the rhythm, Phil Selway (and live, O'Brien and J. Greenwood as well) are not only more forceful but working with a less straightforward time signature...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

"Beautiful Day" by U2 resembles "The Sun Always Shines on TV" by a-ha far more

...but only in the chorus a

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

My point, my friend. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Well, Ned, I haven't totally wrapped my head around the music, but I am certainly leading towards "overall enjoyable" at the minute. Thanks so much for sending the CD over, I turned your little enjoy message into an insert sleeve ;-).

― The Grateful Burms (Barima), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

ILM is slowly infecting the world with Disco Inferno love. I have passed on CDs or had stuff downloaded to/by at least half a dozen friends in the last few months.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 22 May 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

And I've finally written something about them now, too.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 13 June 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

First Orbital and now this?

Fuck you, Southy. Stop getting to this shit before I do.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 13 June 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

You did bloody !!! and booked LCD Soundsystem!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I bought the vinyl 12" for "From the Devil/A Rock To Cling To" for $4.00US today (at the "collector" vinyl annex in Fremont of Seattle's Sonic Boom's record chain... you guys should definitely snatch up all the rare records they have for ridiculously low prices now before their whole business model collapses in 2 months).

"A Rock To Cling To" is the shorter, guitar laden vocal track.
"From The Devil..." is the 9 minute samply, glass breaking epic.

...according to the vinyl. (who knows.. maybe the vinyl was mislabelled)

If this question was already answered before, apologies, but this is as close to an official answer as I can get from the evidence right in front of me.

(I always thought it was the other way around, personally.. the CD single doesn't make it too clear)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU HAVE SHATTERED MY CRYSTAL PALACE.

I always imagined it the other way so I am right. Ner.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, here goes.

I am looking to acquire 'real' copies (on CD, but vinyl will do) of those seminal 5 EPs. I already have "It's A Kid's World" and have a copy of "Love Stepping Out" on the way. So if anyone sees any of the other three anywhere, either snap 'em up and I'll pay you back, or else point me in the right direction. Order of priority being

Second Language
The Last Dance
A Rock To Cling To

kthxbye

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

So as I've recently been doing the honourable duty of any DI fan and trying to enthuse other people about them (it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it), it did rather get me to wondering - as I copied 'Head Over Heels' onto a CD compilation for a friend, does *anyone* know what the hell Ian Crause is doing now? Has he retired from the music industry? Has he got a proper job? Could we start a Blue Peter-style fund to get him working again, or something?

― Vaughan, Friday, 16 July 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I'd guess he's being himself after those two singles, who knows...

Anyway -- making more copies of the five EPs, will be sending one to Matt DC here tomorrow. Any other takers? I know you're out there...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

might you a hook a proverbial brother up ned?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

E-mail me yer address and all is dream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd settle for the disco inferno eps

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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