Gotye - C or D

I remember how jarring it was to hear Kanye's "808s" stuff in rotation, too. Most radio stuff is so dense with information. It's nice to have some breathing room built in.

I also heard the Police/Sting comparisons and am glad I wasn't alone. I think it's because of how he emotes the chorus a lot more intensely than the verses and it has a somewhat unique rhythm, which reminded me of the pseudo-reggae/Clash rhythms of the early Police stuff that stood out among the rest of the pop at the time.

Right, have heard the album

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aw, I was totally going to BLOW MINDS with my "Beck pastiche" analysis of this album and I see ppl have been talking about that for the past 4 months

;_;

also they were GREAT on SNL; the backup harmonies were so tight that on my first view I thought they were all pre-recorded (mostly because the camera work was all in close-ups and didn't show the other other three people singing)

The Police, "King of pain"

Also, "Angel eyes" Roxy Music.

xp yeah granted i've only ever seen them play one song (on a couple different shows now), but his entire backing band/live setup is really really good.

quite honestly this dude and his backing band may be my favorite singers I've discovered this year

just watched both snl songs, it is in fact possible to sound really good on that show i guess.

i really like his singing too, ultimately i couldn't quite get into the album but i have absolutely no issue with this guy blowing up.

Same here. A lot of the album doesn't really work for me, but the songs I like I really like.

my first listen to the album was basically "this isn't really hitting me, but I don't hate this"

listening to it now and it still doesn't hang together but it's more enjoyable than my first listen

http://i.imgur.com/h0rgK.png

lol what the hell

'some bobby that I used to know' is the punchline iirc

also they were GREAT on SNL; the backup harmonies were so tight that on my first view I thought they were all pre-recorded (mostly because the camera work was all in close-ups and didn't show the other other three people singing)

three? i only saw one of the other dudes singing backup, pretty sure there were some backing vocal tracks. like this one is obviously stuffed with pre-recorded vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YzGOq42zLk

it doesn't really bother me, just saying.

the drummer was singing and so was the dude with the xylophone; the guitarist had a mic but I couldn't tell if he ever sang or not

I read that the single was the guy singing on one note, and the melody was all manipulation.

Same them live a week or two ago, and they were surprisingly solid. It's a seamless mix of live instruments and samplers, a bunch of pre-recorded stuff being triggered and manipulated, plus guys strumming and hitting things.

i enjoy the "band in little room" thing with everyone singing. not perfect but fun imo- for comparison
http://vimeo.com/39793881

The SNL performance sounds pretty good, even given the crappy audio quality of the youtube clip I'm listening to.

(FWIW, I liked the solo Kimbra album from last year a whole lot. Not that I haven't said it before, but with Gotye hitting SNL with Kimbra, I thought I'd mention it again.)

Not that she particularly stole the show. Actually, he sounded a lot better. (Not that she should steal the show on his song, but again, she just sounded okay really.)

just watched both snl songs, it is in fact possible to sound really good on that show i guess.

haha I just wanted to go back to this because I am thinking back to the whole Lana Del Rey argument and going "JUSTIFIED!" to myself

lol yeah that was what i was thinking of (as the most recent example at least)

i was too busy thinking of The Outfield and Lou Gramm to considering the Police when this guy was on SNL

there's even that part when he goes "your looove"

lol on my plane ride back home the other day i was sitting next to a woman with a young kid and when this video popped up on the tv screen she shielded it with her hand so the kid wouldn't see it

i mean kimbra's cute (so is gotye per my gf) but....

I still think her album is good. Nyeh.

she shielded it with her hand so the kid wouldn't see it

That video is about as scandalous as a Wendy's commercial.

Gotye + Chaki:

http://i.imgur.com/TUlaK.jpg

is that really him

now he's just somebody that we used to ban

rip

you didn't have to gut me up

even Gotye is suspicious

good work some dude, b/s/j. *slow clap*

i will never give this artist a chance because of his name

why?

i assumed it was said like "gotcha" until SNL revealed it was pronounced like "gaultier"

xxxpost tbf "your love" cops a police sound pretty shamelessly

i thought it was like "Goat-Yay"

goatse featuring kimbra

true re: police/outfield, i guess the lyrics just weren't pretentious enough for me to think of sting

i figured it would be pronounced like "goiter" but without the "er"

I started a dumb thread once about the singer from The Outfield vs. Sting vs. someone else with that kind of voice (can't remember who, now).

Oh yeah, Colin Hay!
TS: Colin Hay (Men at Work) vs. Tony Lewis (The Outfield) vs. Sting (The Police)

regret goiter gis

It's pronounced more or less like "goat-ee-yay," like Jean-Paul Gautier. Per Wiki:

Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980), also known professionally by his stage name Gotye (pronounced /ˈɡɒti.eɪ/) is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is derived from "Gaultier", the French equivalent of "Wouter" ("Walter" in English).

So it's sort of this weird Anglo-French colloquial nickname or something. Wally to Walter to Wouter to the French equivalent of Wouter, or Gaultier.

too many syllables

It looks like it should be pronounced "Goat-y" but I guess it kind of functions as a shibboleth for those who are hip to the Goatye phenomenon, whether they know how to pronounce it correctly.

lol Gotye won the trivia nite that Chaki hosts every monday nite at a bar in SF:

(10:14:19 AM) chaki: So last night @ trivia this nerdy dude comes in and proceeds to answer every question right. I'm like who the fuck is this guy and we end up talking about old exotica records for hours. It turns out it's international pop star GOTYE. Dude knows his shit.