Annie (From Norway)

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Can I just say I was wrong, so wrong, earlier on when I said "the album is good, but not great"?

It is GREAT! The last two tracks really lift the whole thing, Come Together is an Arthur Russell style retro-dancefloor stormer, and My Best Friend is a lovely, slightly odd, melancholic ballad (about her dead ex?) in the grand tradition of album closers.

GREAT!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so excited right now : Annie is going to call me tonight (I've asked her french label -warner- for an interview with her by telephone). Life seems suddenly much better.
Are there things you want me to ask her ?

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

SHE has to call YOU??? Being a popstar must be shit! Does she have to give you a spare c-90 and all?

― HKM, Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the best part in it, isn't it ? I've called all my friends to tell them SHE is going to call... But I'm afraid that when the phone will ring tonight, I will first hear the voice of someone of the record company telling me that it'd better not take long....

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her if she's finding it difficult tapping into the UK (or any other) market because she's not from there despite having songs as infectious as 'Some Girls' and 'The Show'.

Apparently 'Chewing Gum' was recorded at Moloko Studios in Old St which might be literally just round the corner from my work (if it's the same studio).

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her what her favourite colour is. That's always a good one.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her to read this thread if she is feeling unloved.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ask if *she* thinks club popular is necessarily short-lived, and how FT-associated nights could be improved.

― HKM, Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her will she go out with Alba, if he pays for dinner?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really fancy her after seeing that video by the way

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her if her butt will ever quit

(xpost - she's cute but in some shots looks almost like Pamela Anderson)

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

she has a stern face. she looks nicer on the record sleeve.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh annie, you came and you saved me from something, but i sent you ben gay

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her if she'd ever consider washing a hat.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ask 'dad or chips?'

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her why she wants to be a singer.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Must be a diff. Heartbeat refered to on the discogs listing.

Yeah, I left the office yesterday before I could point out for everybody that that 'Heartbeat' IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND OLDER SONG.

Love, your resident Anniemal lover.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her if she's going to party with her horde of adoring fans on Manchester's (C)anal Street someday.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Which 'Heartbeat' then? The Taana Gardner one?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the Steps version

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Here Comes the Hotstepper!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure this has been really touched upon in this thread or others yet, but the song is effectively a duet with herself - i can't think of many other examples of that gimmick offhand tho i'm sure there are some

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, shit, there is one... possibly 'asylums in jerusalem' but there's a more clear-cut one too... bah

― HKM, Friday, 17 September 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that bit in Scritti's 'Overnite' where Green sings "When I was 17" and the massed choir of backingGreenvox croon back "Tell us about it, Green".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't even think of many examples of this in hip-hop. Warren G's 'Do You See' maybe

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Which 'Heartbeat' then? The Taana Gardner one?

Yeah. Annie's 'Heartbeat' is from 2004 and exclusive to Anniemal. Tahiti 80's 'Heartbeat' from 2000/1 is pretty good too.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering why 'Heartbeat' got circulated on mp3 before the rest of the album did. Was it orginally planned to be a single before 'Chewing Gum', or were there DJ promos of it going around?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Because it was part of the album sampler maybe?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 17 September 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's the Robinson that co-wrote the song with Richard X?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 17 September 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Bjork, "Pagan Poetry" - "I love him, I love him!" "She loves him, she loves him!"

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh but she never said 'Hey Bjorky why is it so!'

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I second the call for more info on Hannah Robinson. Maybe she's X's girl?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know if a "Chewing Gum" MP3 is up anywhere right now? The track on Fluxblog is great, and now I want to revisit the "C.G."

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've finally made the interview with her (and actually I called her on her mobile). It was weird because I really felt like a 15 year old groupie, but she was very nice. The main thing I didn't know is that she wrote all the songs on the record (apart of Chewing-gum and Me Plus One) : I now feel a bit ashamed about the inconscient sexist prejudice I had - I always thought all the tracks were written by other people...
She also told me the record will be out in january (!)
And also she's reading ILM, so we'd better behave ourselves...

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha hello annie, I didn't mean it!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I apologise for my "stern face" comment.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

me too.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie, are you a golf fan?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chewing Gum" has definitely grown on me. The album is so dense with goodness, that I haven't been able to take it all in. I just keep listening to the singles.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The album is so dense with goodness, that I haven't been able to take it all in.

Yes, same thing here. I just keep playing 'Come Together' which is total godhead (Chewshabadoo OTM with that Russell ref).

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie, if you are reading this, your album is great. Please begin posting here under a fake name ASAP. k thx bye.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This is hilarious.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hey let's tell annie that
we plan to buy the record even though
we all got the mp3s! sort of thing.

of course some of us were so mad for it that we ridiculously bought
promos for a fortune.

manchester, it has to be said, is the annie capital of the world i think it's safe 2 say.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

who is putting this goddamn thing out in the US and when?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Matador, in 2006.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Pisces, please tell me you didn't let Vinyl Exchange rip you off?

PS. Thanks for the joy, Annie.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Annie!!!

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

annie will be djing at the social in little portland street (london) on october 5th.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For Vice Magazine, I'm guessing. You going?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not vice as far as i'm aware. it's for the anniversary of the monthly night done by one of my best pals. i'll be there, celebrating the first day of my arrival. will you be around?

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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