No, it's not a reaction to the praise that they get, it's a reaction to the fact that not only have they been the (unchosen) soundtrack to some dire times recently, but also that people tend to play their records OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER and *that* makes me homicidal.
The Strokes Overexposure Award, for "Band I Love To Hate", this month, clearly goes to the Libertines, but that's another thread...
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
There is NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER OF SCISSOR SISTERS who even comes remotely near a murmer from my clitoris, so I don't even have the option of "I hate them so much I actually want to grudgefuck them till their penises bleed!"
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
So so true. I might even say it's past pleasant to quite enjoyable but I still feel no need to own.
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
What's pushed me over the line from mere "meh, this sucks, change the channel" is yes, the overexposure. I've started another thread about this, because I'm interested in my extreme reactions to certain artists.
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
slick != bland. tho that is subjective, i love a lot of slickly produced music. dirty edge = over-rated, possibly more than the siziziziziz
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
But yes, all this is subjective.
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's just me being shallow and "indie", yeah.
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
personally, though the album's not all classic, I think the good songs are better than most of the utter drivel in the album charts, at least there's a sense of difference there.
and "comfortably numb" is a brilliant record.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― HKM, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Kate they kind of slide off my ears, too, but I'm not sure it's because their arrangements or production are slick, as much as it's just all kind of unmemorably executed. I lurrrve male/female vocal combos in bands but nothing grabs me about this one. Like I said though, I wasn't really paying attention.
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
They used to do them in Le Petit Blanc.
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Didn't surprise me. Look at the album charts this (or any) year...Katie Melua, Dido, Keane...shit sells.
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
do you really think the Siziziziz fit in the same comfy bracket as Melua, Dido and Keane? perhaps a big quadrant of people are buying it cos they've heard it's the thing to buy for parties and dancing and super-fun times or something...maybe they don't actually listen to it. or maybe that's all horseshit.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Still don't get this "Scissor Sisters = Super Gay Camp Explosion!!!!!" bobbins tho!!!!! I'd only regard "Tits on the Radio" and "Filthy/Gorgeous" as even remotely camp, and the rest are about as camp as an episode of "One Man and His Dog"!!!!!! Even their "outrageous" image looks suspiciously like it was ripped off 70s fashion- eg that photo shot on the album looks uncannily like the inside cover shot on Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure"!!!! (And that was far camper- look at Eno, for Cliff's sake!!!!) I mean let's face it, if Scissor Sister dressed like some cartoon ELO rather than a wonky collision of Roxy Music and Manhattan Transfer, they could have released exactly the same album and people would have labelled them "ironic" rather than "camp"!!!!!! (Mind you, given how the media routines equates "gay" with "camp" anyway, maybe not...)
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link