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(Does anyone have a song-by-song producers list for the album? Allmusic.com specifies songwriters but not producers.)

Stephen Thomas Erlewine:

They come up with a sound that's casually modern and retro with enough heft in its rhythms to sound good at clubs, yet it's designed to be heard outdoors on the sunniest day of the summer. This is exceedingly light music, as sweet and bubbly as a wine spritzer, yet it isn't so frothy that it floats away.

Erlewine is a frog on a bump on a log, and I often think he's wrong, but he's a good critic, because he's willing to be surprised by albums and because he tries to be as articulate as possible about why he likes or dislikes something. In any event, I don't hear Paris the way Erlewine does. It's "light" in the sense of being unassuming and not coming across as trying to communicate anything weighty. But the actual sound is rather thick, layers of overdubbed vocals finding their way to choruses that often enough contain guitar chord upon guitar chord, the dense beauty of the vocals buried headfirst in the guitar thicket. The consistency I spoke of isn't just quality but timbre, different producers using the same strategies (maybe following Hilton's instruction). I don't know another album that has quite this sound. Paris's voice is itself unifying, something of a fuzzy uninflected hum from back in the throat. Compare the Gottwald-written "Nothing In This World" to the Veronicas' Gottwald-written "Everything I'm Not." On "Everything" the singers are up there in the bright high pitch, working you over with ingratiating come-hither/fuck-off vocals. Whereas in "Nothing"'s pretty harmony section, Paris stays down in her comfy burr, relaxing. Not as arresting as the Veronicas, but not as irritating, either.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

HAHA the losers on the plan b forum are going nuts cos my review* is on the plan b front page!

i'm not surprised, really, since you don't actually say much about the album you simply slag people off for not liking pop then call the readers losers (not just here but in the review itself). the worst thing they do is rise to the bait.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know which one's Paris Hilton and which one's Lily Allen any more.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Paris Hilton is the one who isn't ugly.

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

But her music is worse.

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

is it a ub40 cover or not? i only just realised that xtina meant christina. i've being saying ex tina the whole time. Paris what?

― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Friday, 25 August 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't read the whole thread so i don't know if this has been linked but here's a really sensible person:

http://apawboy.blogspot.com/2006/08/stars-are-blind-i-actually-think-this.html

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

That's a great post!

Banarama's "Love In The First Degree" just came on TV and I was inexplicably reminded of "Stars Are Blind".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Best part of the song is the POETRY, man: "Even though the gods are crazy/Even though the stars are blind."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

thats hot

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

exactly

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah! well you've also got "suicide" as merely "stupid pride", a somewhat hardline xtian sentiment which that indeed daring pantheism x astrology "gods are crazy / stars are blind" double whammy immediately vexes. and then yr everyday manichaean "be the devil and angel too" chaser. paris milton more like.

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0001Y4LBY.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1082652315_.jpg

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is easily the Album of the Year. Even the Rod Steward cover is appealing.

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

You want to like it because you think you're not supposed to.

The single should have been called "Stars Are Bland."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 28 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I just listened to 3 songs. It sounds like they're doing a gimmick where every song sounds like other previous hit songs from the past 5 years. So yeah, obviously every song could be a Top 40 hit.. How that makes this album of the year is beyond me.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 28 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

lex is wrong about just about everything on this thread EXCEPT when he says "not leaving without you" is AMAZING, because it is.

anybody who like jacques lu cont should check it out.

oh yeah, i like the album too, though i like the rock/disco side of the album a whole lot better than the "club banger" side.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

how well did this record sell on it's first week of release?

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

It charted below both Slayer and the Young Knives in the UK.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

only one of the albums concerned has been raved about by john harris.

― pscott (elwisty), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

The album is classic for inspiring Zemko's "Paris Milton more like" post upthread which is the greatest post in the history of ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

the jadakiss verse is very funny.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories//p/parisbanksy.jpg

oh Banksy you wag

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

People were laughing at the album in TCR Fopp on Friday evening.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

lol banksy hating on people who are famous for just showing up.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm

Obviously you mean this version, xpost? Or where they just having a 'laugh at the CD' party?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

The latter.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

same people who laughed at Rachel Stevens album perhaps.

if Banksy could use less obvious targets next that would be nice - i approve of the CULTURE-JAMMING itself.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

am struggling to think of a genius way to 'subvert' one of banksy's books in waterstones.

just writing CUNT on the front isn't very situationist and won't get the art students chortling, i predict.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

No, the Rachel chortlers were kids in HMV at Saturday lunchtime.

Whereas with PARIS you just have to laugh.

Perhaps Waterstones could get Gordon Ramsay avec baseball bat to coem in and work his peculiar magic with Banksy's books.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

PUBLICIST REVEALS DETAILS OF SECRET STUNT

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kids! Make a fun anagram of that last headline! It could be your chance to write for London LITE!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

CABARET LIVED TISSUES PILL FENCES TO TRUST

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Can you do me 200 words on the death of Steve Irwin = the death of masculinity by teatime?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

CRIKEY! Death by stingray (Steve Irwin killed, RIP)

New caption: It's me or the baby!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

MEN WILL TRY ANY EXCUSE, HONESTLY: Liz Jones writes

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

ah what is that song she's jacking on the "gotta know what do / if u wanna get down" chorus on 'turn it up', it's driving me insane. depeche mode, or tears for fears, or something, innit?

― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

(y'know, the bit before just blaaaze wanders into the studio)

― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/79/233136932_cf11ec3a2b.jpg

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha!

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'd like to see ILX threads in graffiti form.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Banksy should come and subvert some ILX threads. He could turn up to the "He Poos Clouds" thread and post a picture of Tony Blair and underneath it he could write "He Poos Lies" and it would make everyone pause and think.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Or he could sneak into the music office at the Guardian and substitute next week's boring Petridish review with selected choice extracts from Burton's Anatomy Of Melancholy spiced up with cutouts of Roy Keane aiming an owl at Patsy Kensit.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

that banks guy, he was the one who papered over this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charltonlido/203061848/

with some ironic stuff about drive bys in hoxton:(:(:(

― -- (688), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

you could recreate that Kray piece easily elsewhere tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand the kray graf.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

nor me, but it's clearly something deeply fundamental.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

some people felt that loveable murderer Kray had served too much time in HMP.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

well, he was the hero of his people, wasn't he? and it wasn't murder, it was 'business'.

i'm with banksy on this one.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

"He only killed his own". Bless his heart.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

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