Bloc Party: C/D?

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(which, if all goes according to plan, I will be bumping this thread sometime in fall of 2008 to sing the praises of)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I know they've been playing some of these new songs at shows, but I've consciously avoided hearing them in unfinished or poorly recorded states for fear of having my high hopes dashed.

2/2007 isn't too far away, though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to learn to like the album but I'm pretty sure there's nothing more to this band beyond "Banquet." Maybe if they could get their hands on some synthesizers I'd be sold.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, they did. They appear on various points on Silent Alarm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yes but not nearly enough.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

the icy strings (ugh cliche alert) on "Price of Gas" beg to differ

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

produced by Jacknife Lee

I really really really really really love the Jacknife Lee remix of Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet", but this virtually guarantees that this album is going to suck ass. Bloc Party do not need to be coaxed and massaged into sounding MORE like recent U2.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

it took seeing them play live for me to really begin to appreciate them and the album......looking forward to feb. 07

― drone/a/sore (drone/a/sore), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Price of Gas" is probably my second fave but it's still underwhelming.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jacknife Lee is a murderer.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

my rubbish high school band sacked k3l3 for being rubbish

funny how things turn out eh

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

i assumed this was a totally shitty run-of-the-mill british indie guitar band but then i heard the first track and it is fucking amazing! "banquet" does nothing to me but man, that first song - and "modern love". brilliant. the drumming's fantastic.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

A Weekend in the City is "out there" now (albeit in a low-qual 128-ish rip). Will take some time to digest, but I'm really liking it initially. More trickery with the guitar sonics going on, rhythm section as active as ever. The melodies and vocals could be a little sharper/catchy maybe, but I'm sure they'll sink in upon repeated listens.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Waiting for the 718" any hookier in a non-shitty-crowd-recording version?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Who knows, I've consciously been avoiding the live recordings. It's not my favorite of the new songs, though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I love how 128kB/s is now being called low quality.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

It should be. People should have higher standards

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Damn right.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

i think bloc party would be better if their singer didnt sound so dreary/wimpy/emo all the time. thats probably what makes them more interesting and commercially viable these days - that they have a post-coldplay-type of singer but the rhythm section is the opposite but still...

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Last year, driving in the car with a friend:

Me: (plays the CD by The Dears)
He: hey, this is nice!
Later:
Me: (plays the CD by Bloc Party)
He: hey, this is nice too!
Halfway through the CD:
He: do you only like singers who want to be Robert Smith?

:-/

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wow it's a bit Muse (the new one)

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

all right only the first track

― Nedpoleon (NedBeauman), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Phew

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I just found a version of Silent Alarm online that consists of only the instrumental versions of all the songs on the album. OMG, it might even be better music without Kele singing on top of it!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

who's pr-ing this in the uk?
ta

― dh (djh), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Downloaded the new album based on hopes that all the Ligeti & Radiohead blabbering would actually translate to the music, but no. This is comically awful.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha my first comment on this thread seems like a lifetime ago

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was really into Silent Alarm and this new record isn't doing shit for me.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about PR specifically but Coalition do their management.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

thanks

― dh (djh), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

FITE - John Lydon v Kele Okereke

― Upt0eleven, Monday, 21 July 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

YSI?

Oh, it's not a collaboration. Nevermind.

― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:00 (seventeen years ago)

He should have known bad luck was coming, what with his Mercury being in retrograde.

― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

BREAKING NEWS: John Lydon is an unapproachable cunt.

― HI DERE, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

while Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs and Yannis Philippakis of Foals attempted to fend off the attacker

Tragic and deplorable and all that, but this bit makes me lol.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

Yannis? This Yannis?

http://www.ng-magazine.com/_images/thumbs/foalsy2_266x400.jpg

R.I.P. Yannis.

― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

Funny how DiS misses out several key words from the account, which mysteriously appear in the equivalent NME piece, including "his entourage" (who made the alleged remarks) and "three of Lydon's associates" with whom the fight actually appears to have been fought.

As opposed to Lydon saying or doing any of these things himself, you understand.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

Granted, but Lydon probably had the power to put a stop to things before they turned physical - which is pretty deplorable in and of itself. Not to be captain save a Bloc Party, but this is pretty disgusting no matter what level of involvement Mr. Lydon had.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:16 (seventeen years ago)

and as I said on the other thread, Kele's quote seems to implicate J.Lydon directly.

Of course, him being a major star and all that (not sarc), he's going to get approached by people all the time. Especially in a public area like this.

― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, god, wanting to ask him about a PIL reformation? Even though JLydon answered that question in a recent interview.

― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:21 (seventeen years ago)

"the band the Pistols could've been"

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

From DiS comments box

The 'black attitude' comment is also a brush to tar him with.

― DJ Mencap, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)

Then Lydon should sue his arse off (xxp).

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

Wow, I was really excitable in 2004. In fairness, 2004/05 were the good Bloc Party years, as I can't imagine ever being this excited about them again.

Yes, I'm reviving threads I started to ridicule myself.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

early singles, silent alarm and "two more years" are unmitigated classics

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

yeah silent alarm is unfuckwithable imo

― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

REAL TALK

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

Intimacy was fantastic as well, just not on SA's level.

― Josh L, Saturday, 7 March 2009 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

anyone else going to their chicago show the 28?

― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Saturday, 7 March 2009 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

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