A Thread For School of Seven Bells Love!

What? As in the Siouxsie cover?

That's my guess as well. Add that one to my need list on RSD.

Oh. My. God.

If that's true... I will just die of happiness. Because that is one of my favourite Siouxsie songs of all time (I think I voted for it on the Singles poll, because Monitor wasn't a single) and it is just *so* perfectly SVIIB in both sound and sensation, like thematically as well as the sampledelic loop thing.

Oh dear, now I have the inescapable desire to hear Monitor.

I should have known, during that moment in their live set that they almost broke into Happy House, that they were massive Siouxsie fans.

OMG, they just told me it is, it is, IT IS a cover of the Siouxsie song.

::dies of utter happiness::

How can this not be the best thing in the ENTIRE world?

I posted their Siouxsie cover upthread a year ago!

http://vimeo.com/16176931

Really happy they went ahead and recorded it.

"Kiss Them For Me" was embarrassing, it sounded like a Paula Abdul single. I hope their cover is better than the original.

The thing to remember is that I have the memory of a guppie!

listening to this album for the first time now. it seems to have a much more direct and charged sound with a lot of the songs striking me as even more focused and anthemic than usual. i'm also hearing much more uniformity from track to track compared to their other albums. it's all pretty joyous. there's a simplicity and pragmatism that really cuts to the chase and plays to the bands strengths.

"reappear" is an early favourite.

"white wind" = very playful and jaunty. definitely the most different sounding thing on here.

yeah, and "when you sing" is totally soon-lite. i don't really get it. while it's an obvious MBV nod on a certain level and invites direct comparisons, it just seems to be cruising along passively on its own momentum, totally lacking the menace and snarl that make "soon" so memorable. you could say it's not looking to channel these same fireworks (and you'd most likely be right), but i just find it strange that they chose to broadcast the MBV influence (right down to chord changes, tribal-esque rhythms, guitar sound) so loudly.

I do not think "menace and snarl" when I hear "Soon"; I think "hazy swirling cotton candy".

(And to be perfectly honest, I'm really struggling to think of a world - except some alternate reality where I'm still 15 and still playing high school tribal warfare with the mean girls - in which Siouxsie covering Paula Abdul is somehow a *bad* thing?)

"he's a COOOOOOOOLD-hearted SSSNAKE!!!! lookintohisEEEEEYYYYYES his EYES his EYES -uh-OH! -uh-OH! Whoaaa! HESBEENTELLINGLIES!!!! LIES! LIES!!!! ah-wwoooaaa-OOOAAAA-oooh"

Come on, that'd be awesome.

which Paula Abdul singles sounded like "Kiss Them For Me"?

Not specific ones, just the general vibe. I could hear Paula sing it, which is fine for her but for Siouxsie... I don't know it seemed pretty thin and fluffy. Not a favorite.

So apparently School of Seven Bells are recording a Radiohead cover?

STOP THAT. STOP THAT RIGHT NOW. MY MUSICAL CRUSHES MUST STAY SEPARATE AND NOT RECOMBINE LIKE THIS.

What song?

They're playing a guessing game. Only hints they've given so far are: it's not Paranoid Android, FPT or Idioteque.

(They said PA was close, though, so probs something off OKC?)

Or it could just be a rumour designed to make me lose my mind.

trying to think of what would appeal to them off that album... Lucky? Climbing Up The Walls? Karma Police? Airbag?

Exit Music (For A Film)? Subterranean Homesick Alien?

Knowing my luck, it'll be Electioneering. Or Climbing Up The Walls.

Or they could actually try to kill me and do something oddball like Amazing Sounds of Orgy. And my head would explode.

I would love for it to be "Let Down".

Actually Let Down would be awesome - wasn't Lex saying that'd be great with female vocals?

I would much rather if they did something like The Gloaming, which would more fit their electro-spooky aesthetic, but I guess what's the point of doing a song that's already quite close to your sound, they'd probably want to do something they could make quite different because otherwise would be the point.

Though Radiohead vs SVIIB is really kinda daddy vs chips for me and I wouldn't ever want to make that choice.

I'd like to hear them do their "Soon"-lite thing to "Just"

If we're going that far back, I'd like to hear them do Black Star in a Drugstore stylee.

(Actually, musically, SVIIB vs Radiohead is not even a competition. SVIIB in a heartbeat. That was surprisingly easy.)

it's actually going to be Meeting in the Aisle.

Then I would *know* they were just fucking with my head.

Subterranean Homesick Alien.... Headed Home For Marfa.

I've just realized that thanks to the Pulp show that same evening I'll need to miss their LA appearance this time around, fiddle. But they always seem to tour a couple of times through each album so I'll wait on the return...

Someone please teach me how to animate photoshop drawings into video, please.

http://genero.tv/schoolofsevenbells/

I'm not sure a month is enough time to hand animate 3 minutes of video, though.

Ah! By complete randomness I have just made contact with another local artist who knows Final Cut Pro. I think we're going to do this.

I am seeing them tonight! so pumped

So jealous, they're sounding so amazing on this tour.

(But if you speak to them, tell them to give me the prize, my video will be awesomes.)

I can't wait to see them again! July needs to hurry up...

They were p good but not amazing. They didn't play "Heart is Strange" or "The Night" (even though the latter was on the setlist taped to the stage) but it was still a blast to hear, like, half of Ghostory and Disconnect from Desire live.

They didn't play The Night?! That's odd. They didn't play Heart is Strange when I saw them in London either. Bye Bye Bye sounded great though.

i know i was rly bummed

Show tonight = righteous!

They need to obey the Foghat Rule and go with fourth album double-live. Their live sound is so unbelievably powerful right now.

Listening to the RSD single now and the Siouxsie cover is fun. Ben gets a convincingly Manzanera sound going out of his guitar.

However, the flip-side to this "When She Was Me" is mind-croggingly beautiful 4am post-party comedown/crash trance-motorik. It makes me think of being somewhere vaguely unfamiliar and you have to take a cab because you're both too drunk and too high and are desperate need of coffee and dessert so the cab driver takes you across the city to a cafe his brother owns instead of the great one down the avenue but it doesn't matter because you get to see the central city look like an electric lost city of cibola

why is this not available in the UK :(

Yes, this is patently unfair. Since they won't let us buy it legally, please to rip it and email it over to us. ;-)

Here's Siouxsie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAf6akprIBQ

WCC, check your email

Fuck, I have to listen to it again!

Seriously... I want to hear it echoing off of skyscrapers late at night.

awesomes! thanking you!

(Cornish broadband please do not let me down.)

So far Kiss Them For Me is sounding amazing...

I was going to try to walk to Nanjizal Bay before the rain hits, but I need to put on a kettle of tea and listen to these, first few seconds sound SO AMAZING. Just completely the right aesthetic for them.

WCC can you fwd this to me please!

I'm *trying* but Cornish broadband can only seem to do one thing at a time...