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Interestingly, I didn't fancy the singer. Rather, I think I wanted to be her.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

that often comes down to the same thing IMO

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

A whole decade of tragic relationships can be put down to my failure to distinguish between the two, unfortunately.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it'd be a bit foolish to assume Basement Jaxx are not about image, to people here, or are purely about the text.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was set straight in the boozer the other night, Ronan. I guess my point was less about the band than a kind of post-Reynoldsian formalism or close reading or focus on sound to the exclusion of much else.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That does happen I guess, in fairness though so few people can actually write well about the sonics of electronic music it's to be encouraged, in my opinion anyway.

I often wish it wasn't so necessary, or so difficult, it's much more natural for me to write about it in the context of life or just general experience. I suppose it's an identity through sound thing with Basement Jaxx, particularly now they seem to have become their own genre.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

There can never be too much good close reading/attention - I agree. I guess I lose patience with it when it becomes particularly bloodless or technical, just cataloguing a series of sound events - a lot of the Wire reads like this to me (though I guess it might make more sense if I were more familiar with some of the music in question).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

have you copyrighted the phrase "set straight in the boozer" or can i use it?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It's yours. (BTW Am. are you still in Paris? I think I am visiting over Easter.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yes when is easter (sez the jew)?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

9-12 April.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ok email me

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could visit paris. : /

RJG can I scab a copy of the album?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

First you trivialize her band by calling her hawt, now you plan to violate her copyright?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

New euphemism alert.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm sorry, Cozen, but the only man I will allow to violate my copyright will be Pedro Almodóvar, not you."

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

cognitive dissonance a-go-go.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

But still, my feelings were hurt.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't feel right about it, cozen.

I will let you see the cover, sometime, though.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Godallfuckingmighty I fell in love with them tonight, in their nonstopunstoppable set before Mission of Burma.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

they are good, huh?

I like eleanor on that mp3 you posted to your blog matt.

commas excised from first draft of this post: 3.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I am going to read this thread again, some time.

N. developed a mathematical system, on it!

It was really frustrating how despite reading it a lot, I missed the big controversy when it happened.

It was nice when N. OK'd my reaction to his picture of the band, though. I enjoyed that.

Looking at it now, I wonder who it was who 'set' JtN 'straight' in the, the, 'boozer'? Or even, what boozer it was?

― the firefox, Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Upthread, JtN says that Patti Smith understands the cathexis of the stage. Also (and this is a lot better) he says that N. once said something really good.

― the firefox, Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

the greatest band in the world?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

possibly. or close to it.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I really love this EP, their best work so far.
But I'm great fan of the two proper albums too.
Possibly the greatest band in the world... if they could make an album like this EP.

― zeus, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Gallowsbird's > EP > Blueberry Boat

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The greatest thread in the world?

― the firefox, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing EP for the first time when I first saw this thread (right now). It does sound more Blueberry Boat-ish than Gallowsbird Bark-ish. I don't have the case with me (direct to iPod to make work bearable). When was it recorded, generally? I remember hearing that there was another version of Tropical-Iceland that must be this one, but I was expecting a more jagged-type sound. I'm slowly warming to BB, but I still think GB is the best.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

oh my gosh!! that first album is _amazing_

how could anyone but the corniest indie fuxors pretend that jumbled indulgent BB shite (except for the title track..i thought that was "neat") is in any way greater than GB??

― Vic in LA, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Major Misunderstanding is a character in the British adult comic Viz. He is a retired major who dresses smartly, has a bushy walrus moustache and wears his medals on his chest for all to see; things which suggest that he is very pompous.

― War On The Terrances (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 November 2009 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

i just read about this. it's....bizarre

― jabba hands, Friday, 6 November 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

Like most creative musicians, Matt Friedberger is not a fan of Radiohead and most of their chart busters. Of course, Matt and all the Fiery Furnaces family are great fans of all Tommys living or dead, so much so that lots of the Fiery Furnaces' work is, because of the pun, dedicated to imitating the Who's Tommy.

"Back in the fall of 1996 or whenever that interview was conducted, the interviewer asked what Matt thought of the Radiohead song celebrating a WWI veteran. Matt naturally thought it would be interesting to pretend that they wrote a song about the celebrated American composer of a similar sounding name, hence his joking in the interview about Radiohead composing a song with something like 48 notes to an octave. It was easy and amusing to imagine Radiohead's attempt to colonize that relatively arcane bit of our musical lifeworld. This is what they used to call, in some bohemian and advertising circles, 'riffing' or fooling around.

"Matt has not heard the Radiohead song about Harry Patch, but if he did, he is sure he wouldn't like it. No doubt Radiohead and their fans can ignore his opinion of this matter and continue with their triumphant artistic interventions. Matt would have much preferred to insult Beck but he is too afraid of Scientologists.

― War On The Terrances (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 November 2009 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

This guy sounds . . . disturbed.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 6 November 2009 12:43 (sixteen years ago)

This is hilarious. Matt Friedberger seems like he is probably not a very nice person IRL. I still need to listen to "I'm Going Away". "Widow City" is one of my favorite of their albums.

― o. nate, Friday, 6 November 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

five years pass...

What a fun band.

― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 9 January 2015 11:16 (eleven years ago)

They were.

Was just over to their Wiki page, almost teared up a little.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 January 2015 13:52 (eleven years ago)

Blueberry Boat ages brilliantly, one of the best albums of the 00's beyond doubt imo

― London's Left-Wing Utopian Non-League Ultras Are Reclaiming Football (imago), Friday, 9 January 2015 13:54 (eleven years ago)

oh my fucking god this thread though

― London's Left-Wing Utopian Non-League Ultras Are Reclaiming Football (imago), Friday, 9 January 2015 13:58 (eleven years ago)

EP came out 10 years ago this Sunday. ;_;

― jmm, Friday, 9 January 2015 14:39 (eleven years ago)

Holy christ that makes me feel old.

― Gentle Nibbles (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 January 2015 15:04 (eleven years ago)

Love several, but Rehearsing My Choir is rock of ages, in more ways than one. Granny Olga in Heaven, you rule!

― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:11 (eleven years ago)

how could anyone but the corniest indie fuxors pretend that jumbled indulgent BB shite (except for the title track..i thought that was "neat") is in any way greater than GB??

whatever dude

― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Friday, 9 January 2015 22:01 (eleven years ago)

no kidding

― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 9 January 2015 22:01 (eleven years ago)

they're both great records! they're just really really different.

― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Friday, 9 January 2015 22:03 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

They are the most fun indie band from the 00s imho. Maybe of all time.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 06:18 (eight years ago)

well obviously

― imago, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 09:31 (eight years ago)

i have trouble perceiving these guys as 'fun'. bit of a mess, but fun?

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 09:48 (eight years ago)

Wacky glasses fun.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 10:16 (eight years ago)

An excitable dog with a bowel problem fun

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 11:27 (eight years ago)

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