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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ ban these two
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Knights of Cydonia was Zane Lowe's single of the year, 2006.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I never liked KOC much anyway. It was an ill-advised choice.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
You ever considered applying for Pitchfork, Louis?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i think ol' lou's more a stylus kinda guy
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:12 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
So do I! Hmmm.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:14 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
This is why I treat it strictly as a hobby.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:19 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
re fatal booze, bottle of Windowlene is only about £1.89
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i never pegged dom for a booze snob
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow. Non snobbier.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm surprised you got the whole KOC thing, stevem. it's mentioned once as an in-joke on a facebook group description, truly this is stalking internet knowledge retention at its most acute.
online music writing DOES occasionally change something, viz. NS' 65DOS revelation. plus, i wouldn't have half the music i do if it weren't for reviews!
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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awesome
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahaha
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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Nicholas knows what's up. You can't go around wearing a scarf and then drink any old shit, kills the image.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Tomorrow night I'll have a ten-year-old rioja.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna go to that poncey as shit cocktail bar on Kings Road where they serve "ethically sourced" spirits next week.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
It's Mayweek and I can't drink booze because I'm on penicillin for severe tonsilitis, now how crap is that?
I'm calling Dom as a cognac drinker. It's good stuff.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
you are funny little men, you lot
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
we learned it by watching you, dad
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
OK that last little exchange is all kinds of weird.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
nick srsly stop with this bourgeois "ten year-old rioja/hand-sewn headphones" bullshit, bro.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Photo562.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Admittedly that's a cheap bottle and my less-expensive headphones...
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
haha. excellent work w. the orbital poster.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i have sony phones, sipping on lean.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet Nick secretly fills his wine glass up to the top. And pours as soon as he's opened the bottle.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/biografias/images/asprilla2.jpg
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahahaha; my girlfriend hates how little I pour into a glass at a time.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is more ILE than ILM
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i.e. it's vaguely disturbing and fully incomprehensible?
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
surely we're splitting hairs about the boards at this point in that case
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
too chummy. come on, this is supposed to mean something, you're fighting for your generation's soul here.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
baja thinks that online music forums have the power to change the world
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
he is the small cat
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
umm. no talk of the extra disc that comes with the initial release of this album. the cover gives no tracklisting of the remixes. are they crap, or should i be getting the limited version for more goodness ?
― mark e, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i bought the album because of this thread.
it's OK. it's not given me the immediate OMGZ steamrollering that i got from 'cross', but a good few tracks i can see becoming favourites.
― Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, that stylus review is on some next level of idiocy. NS be kicking against the Machine, maaan. i mean, i'm certain (i'd like to see some hard proof already, fuck this kaffeklatsch shit) more people listen (and dance) to SMD/Justice/... than minimal or whatever irrelevant coccoon-like form dance gatekeepers like to retreat to.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
also, fuck an audiophile. nick, are you absolutely sure you don't hear any depth or detail or whatever compared to other dance stuff? or are you just hallucinating due to some OMG THEY CAME UP IN INDIE POO POO UNWASHED UNDISCERNING MASSES HACK HACK kneejerk reaction? plz let me know.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
see ILM passim
― Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link