― Tim F, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― creme1, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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― blueski, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jermainetwo, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jermainetwo, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Drew Daniel, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim F, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Strangely contrasting reviews from me and Jess today.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
the feud continues!!!!
― later arpeggiator, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
what is it with mid-8.s and functional 2007 pop-dance records?
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
there were so many, terrible, terrible statements on this thread.
"pop is not just some catchall where we throw everything with lyrics, choruses and headbands"
erm, yes, yes it is. pop = everything catchy
― later arpeggiator, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't think there was a feud; I thought we were vaguelly in agreement.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
i think we have hardly whit in common aesthetically nick, so i dunno why it would be so strange
xpost!
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
also i'm almost completely burned out on/lacking the attention span or energy for on any dance music that's NOT 3:30 BLAM-BLAM-BLAM chuck-all-the-hooks in shit, so grain of salt.
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha; I agree on that totally, I just thought, on this thread, that there was vague consensus! By the time I wrote about it, another m onth on from this, I'd probably notched up the negativism a touch, but I'm surprised you came out so in favour.
xpost - Whereas I'm the other way around, and anything that's hyperactive and short screams at me "I'M EVIL".
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Have you heard the second of this year's Two Lone Swordsmen albums?
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
i have not
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
You should. Have you heard the first?
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
The only SMD I've heard was a quite abominable remix of Muse's Knights Of Cydonia. I know you'd probably all blame this on the source material, but actually it sounded NOTHING LIKE the original, occasionally reminding us what it was meant to be remixing by stopping entirely and then playing wholesale a complete sample from the Muse version (whinnying horses, voices in harmony chanting "No-one's gonna take me away" etc). The rest of the time we had this boring, tuneless, sonically bereft pulse, which didn't even see fit to change its modulation/volume/pitch/anything which is generally the preserve of good dance music. The result, and I repeat, my sole experience of SMD, was truly some of the most wretched 5 minutes of music I've ever heard.
Oh wait a mo, I've already posted this exact same spiel about a month ago. To hell with it. It bears repeating.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with remixing something and making it sound nothing like the source material, dude. In fact, if it sounds too much like the source I tedn to feel short-changed.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I know there's nothing wrong with a remix being entirely different (in fact, I generally prefer remixes to bear a hefty original stamp), but I was emphasising how this car-wreck wasn't Muse's fault.
Good dance music being that which not only MAKES you want to dance, but that also provides a pleasurable experience, a musical journey through the evening's carousel.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
"Knights of Cydonia" is about the worst-produced song ever. Bar the last track on the Bloc Party record.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^ ban these two
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
:(
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Knights of Cydonia was Zane Lowe's single of the year, 2006.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I never liked KOC much anyway. It was an ill-advised choice.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
You ever considered applying for Pitchfork, Louis?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
i think ol' lou's more a stylus kinda guy
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
he still thinks online music reviews have the power to change the world
Nah, he's pretty much what Amy Phillips is screaming out for in her calls for the new journalism.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
So do I! Hmmm.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
i too hold a torch for the early days of music crit but it's more from the "dead by your early 30s from alcohol consumption" angle
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
lol at the idea that music journalists earn enough money to buy a fatal amount of alcohol
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
This is why I treat it strictly as a hobby.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
christ how much does cheap booze cost in that socialist nightmare you call a country?
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Arranging hi-fis on trolleys and managing circulation systems and creatig content for library plasma screens is buying me a house. Writing about music bought me some headphones.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
damn u people i wanted to snigger at LJ's post re 'not liking KOC'
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
re fatal booze, bottle of Windowlene is only about £1.89
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link