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I'm not saying the whole album sucks. But I am saying this song sucks, and the lyrics are cheesy. As I said at the beginning, they have made some great pop songs. The Rapture do good things, so this was a disappointment.

No official backlash. Just think it's interesting to see how things develop as they leak, and obviously everyone wants to see what they sound like without DFA.

I don't expect cowbells, I don't expect a disco beat.

As long as the song is fun, that's great. It's just a bit too cheesy for me. I dunno. Maybe I'm a hater, but I just don't like this song. At all. :(

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Why is the singer not doing that cool screeching noise any more?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

It's Matt Safer singing this, right? We'll agree to disagree, hey Cameron? Maybe I'm just too quick to jump to their defence, as they seem like a bit of an easy target these days. It feels like people are waiting for them to fall off without the DFA at the controls. I, for one, think that they've got the chops to do well with whoever mans the desk. By the way, am I alone in preferring the Steve Lilywhite version of 'Love Is All' to the DFA one?

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

the "exhortation to dance" meme is maybe a bit ironic on this song (lyric-wise), i can't really tell tho. could be a reference to pony?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

or perhaps exhortation via lamentation meme: "people don't dance no more just look in their drinks blah blah"

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

haha, ili is singing the backup vocals on this. im kinda biased, but i really like this song.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

is she? rad!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a retarded Radio 4 song.

Please move on-maybe they'll get played on VH1 or MTV with this shit.
It does it better towards the end though.

― ut R us, Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

they should've made a whole album like 'Infatuation'. jacking Talk Talk and Ennio Morricone is way less played out than sounding like a late 70s/early 80s New York dance/rock band (which they are themselves. except for the era, obv.)

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

listening to "WAYUH" now. boy they sure do love their cowbells!

it's good, but i can't see myself having a major revelation with it the way i did with "jealous lovers."

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

wtf does WAYUH stand for

clap your hands say WAYUH

― buck pwens (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

i am not so into the first half of the song, but the second half is kinda cool and sounds a little bit like the nonsense in double dutch bus by frankie smith (you know, the part missy elliot sampled 'dizouble dizutch - wizzle mizzle kizzer... or whatever). i liked the rapture before the dfa period, i liked them during, and i imagine i'll probably continue to like them now. especially after that clip from the crash mansion video... i posted it before, but if anybody is interested in hearing my edit of that just drop me an email to this address.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me or is there a sample of "Dooms Night" by Azzido Da Bass buried in there?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

this is fucking horrible

― rat, Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

yep, you got it rat

― corey c (shock of daylight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

The Rapture career trajectory:
"Out of the Races..." - this band could go places. I love their guitar parts. superfantastic live show. The Rapture in 2001 was a force to be reckoned with.
"Jealous Lovers" - holy effing g-d. instead of telling me to shake x11, you just grabbed me by the neck and made me, and i can't stop!! forget 11, this one goes to 12.
"Echoes" - they actually live up to the hype over a whole album? that's totally insane.
"WAYUH" - whatever high school band is calling themselves "The Rapture" and releasing sub-Radio 4 tracks like this should be sued.

1000% OTM. maybe more.

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

:rolleyes:

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 15 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

It's good! Sounds like it's unmastered though.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

boom boom boom, everybody say WAYUH....

"WAYUH!"

― Danny boy, Saturday, 15 April 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was pretty good... can't wait to here more.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

YOU GUYS SURE LOVE HYPERBOLE DON'T YOU?

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

sounds like girls aloud actually

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

agh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

and babes, that aint no bad thing.

― don quixote, Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Does WAYUH stand for something, and if so, what?

I like some things that Steve Lillywhite has done, a lot!

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I now think it sounds like that Tom Tom Club remix of Supergrass from a few years back.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I tried to look up online what the letters stand for, but it did not work.

I found this site: http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=382 - it says that they make a "sonic deathfuck groove" and have a make-it-fucked-up philosophy". That sounds just terrible!

It also says they were inspired by the Byrds. I can't see that.

Anyway, I did not learn what the letters stood for. Perhaps nothing.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

all I know is there's a keith jarrett record called wayuh or something similar

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

scrap that. it's called fort yawuh.
dyslexic

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I made Luke a Gene Clark mix tape once, so maybe that's what they're referring to.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

HI LET'S PASS FINAL JUDGEMENT ON A BAND FROM AN UNFINISHED LEAK

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

that Sub Pop blurb is from their pre-DFA days, when they were more of a straight up rock band

I liked Out of the Races a lot, loved Echoes, but I gotta reluctantly agree that WAYUH sounds pretty bad. I dug some of the acid / Chicago sounding stuff on the Crash Mansion video though, so I still hold out hope ...

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

p'raps it's the band's prediction of fan reactions - "the new record is way....uh......"

or not. :)

― 6335, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

And with which The Rapture opened their Essential Mix in 2003.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

well that makes some sense then, i suppose.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

what is this Crash Mansion business you speak of

does it also exhibit a sonic deathfuck groove

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

some streaming video thing that was on the web

they did a show in ny last year where they played a bunch of new stuff and it wound up in this sort of promo clip or something

I don't have the link anymore, sry

I'm sure someone else will step up

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

it is groovy but relatively sonic deathfuckless

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

I WAS THERE, AT THE RAPTURE SHOW AT CRASH MANSION
(INSERT KILLING JOKE GROOVE)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

of course the lyrics are dreadful, it's a matt safter song. have you ever LISTENED the the words to sister saviour? dreadful. that said i think this is pretty good.

― cartwheel (cartwheel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

i dont get whats so bad about this. unfortunately people that are calling this unfinished should be disappointed when they do they here the finished version. listen to the backup vocals, the girls singin near the end, this is fairly produced, i wouldnt expect the final version to change that much...if at all.

turn up the bass and the song is great. lets face it, the rapture are not an incredible band, they produce songs that are played at alternative dance clubs, and this is more than enough for their audience.

plus theres no jennings...so its a poor indication of the record.

― pibb, Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

It's a brilliant song. Fuck you backlash-hipsters

― Solder Bolster, Monday, 24 April 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

What track is Daddy Yankee going to be on again?

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

i think they should do a single with nelly

― lf (lfam), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i think they should do one w/tim mcgraw

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

what's the deal with that sample that was on the ysi thread that someone ripped off a video? cuz that shit was solid.

― Jimmy_tango, Monday, 24 April 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

thanks jimmy. if you're talking about the edit i did of it, i mean. if not, then i'm a jerk. the deal with it = made a full track out of about 45 seconds or whatever it was that was up there.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Do you still have that somewhere? I think there's a lot to be said for extrapolating promo clips into full songs, to the point where they might beat the real ones! I remember a friend downloading that No Doubt promo years ago only to figure out that every song was the hook looped. Then we found out it was better than the album.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

there's a stream up.

it's pretty tight. i believe matty safer thought so too?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

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oh, so it's a Rapture album

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Saturday, 20 August 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

I would never have guessed there might be awful singing on songs by the Rapture.

― my brother's a basedgod (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

Well, I'd never singing on a Rapture record -- they thankfully shouted a lot.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

*never heard

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

bring back the ratpure

― jed_, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

Man, the Dusted review of this is quashing a lot of my excitement:

The rest of the album, however, is uniformly mediocre, except where it’s terrible.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

This is dull, too much songwriting, not enough groove.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

man, the chorus on "how deep is your love" just makes me think of sisqo

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

The second side is terrific, especially "How Deep is Your Love" (not a Bee Gees cover), but the first half drags.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

"how deep is your love" is great even if its a weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

i've had "sail away" on loop all day. its such an incredible opener that it took two or three listens before i realized i didn't much care for the 3 or 4 songs that followed it.

"it takes time to be a man" is a nice closer, too.

otherwise i'm not crazy into it, but i can keep the whole album on without skipping any tracks. def my most listened to album in the last two weeks, regardless.

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 09:20 (fourteen years ago)

jed_ otm

― spitting, shirtless man in lawyer's wig (haitch), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

playing this, on "Never Die Again"

wtf happened to the singing

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

like, this isn't BAD, but it also isn't what I want from The Rapture

― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 14:36 (fourteen years ago)

this album is so much damn fun; I liked the Holy Ghost album a bunch but this is basically a fifty-times-better version of that.

― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

I LIKED the yelpy tremulous Robert Smith-esque wailing, what is this smoothed out boring midrange shit

agreed. the new style singing works great on How Deep Is Your Love but over the course of the album I'm not feeling it.

weak attempt to re-capture "echoes" era agngsty anthems

this song doesn't really sound like anything off Echoes to me but it's def. the best track on here

― dmr, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

The singing is rather awful on a couple of tracks.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 20, 2011

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

ive never thought to myself before this record "hey that guy from the Rapture sure does a good job of singing"

―  (gr8080), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

This is mostly p boring, but "Never Die Again" and the single are jams.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

Last song is p good too.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Listening to this album again, and looking over the lyrics... it's about him finding Jesus, right?

― Popture, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

Yes

― mizzell, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

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