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xp thanks ana!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Dream On" is weird. The closest thing I can think of is The Knife's "Heartbeats", and it's got a similar scary emotional over-investment aura to it: its anthemic but depressing, an offer of one night of sanctuary to all the unwanted elements of society: "thugs and badmen, punks and lifers, fucked up interns, pigs and snitches, rest your weary heads, all is well, you won't be strip-searched, torn up tonight, you won't be cut up, bleeding tonight, you won't be strung out cold shaking to your bones wishing you were anywhere else but right here, so dream on..." It's also got the best verse/chorus pay-off of any tune this year. The music is almost secondary, but it's fine - a brisked looped breakbeat, big electro synth riffing and doodling arpeggios.

"With Every Heartbeat" is a chilly electro-ballad on which Robyn sounds scarily like Kate Bush - and I mean scarily. Musically it's in Anneli Drecker territory, lachrymose string sections and squeaky clean zoloft synthesiser arpeggios, it sounds large and emotional more than tuneful.

As per the above I generally like Robyn at her most serious (yes, like "Be Mine").

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

A mere year later, I only just realised that "Jack U Off" is a Pansy Division cover.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

prince innit?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

The closest thing I can think of is The Knife's "Heartbeats", and it's got a similar scary emotional over-investment aura to it: its anthemic but depressing

As someone who believes Who's That Girl is Robyn's masterpiece, this makes me very happy.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

'With Every Heartbeat' soundin' good

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

I don't like C.C.C. at all.

Robyn show on the 2nd... so so excited!

Hopefully she plays more than 6 songs ;_;

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

ccc?

'with every heartbeat' is so fucking amazing, even without a chorus. i don't like 'dream on' though.

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it really foregrounds her intense yearning energy thing. it's like she's clawing at something, desperately, that she will never get.

C.C.C. is another Christian Falk song, starring Robyn. but as i said it's not very good.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

tracer, what about the 29th? got my tix

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

er I was unaware of Robyn activities on the 29th?? i can't look at her page cause I'm at work

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

"With Every Heartbeat" is a bonkers choon.

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

new London show at Cargo on 29th March!

― RJG, Saturday, 24 February 2007 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

she's playing metro before the cargo show...

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 24 February 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

correct

― RJG, Saturday, 24 February 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

if anyone is interested in the new album, email me via the link on this board

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.atproud.net/images/upload/AMAK26.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

FIVE QUID!?!?!!! oh to live in london!

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

where everything is inexpensive!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha....oh yeah, london. wow. cheapest place i ever been

though to catch the likes of the lovely rob yn for nary a penny would be fuckin sweet

i like me some robyn

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

thursday feb 29th...2024??

― RJG, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

1996, obv.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki, when i get back to montreal (may), please be organising a $5 robyn gig somewhere, obv with film accompaniment, so that we can meet & toast in the most regal of circumstances.

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I had been on the fence about Robyn, but just got back from seeing her in Camden and she was great. Two drummers! Excellent.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/407300117_5e593c908d.jpg

― Stevie T, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

great pic! wish i'd gone now. hoping to sneak in to metro tonight though...

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 2 March 2007 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

looking at flights/whatever for thursday mar 29th 2007--don't know if I'll be able to afford to get there! and back : (

― RJG, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Robyn's offering discount tickets for the Cargo gig through her website... not as cheap as five pounds though :(

― braveclub, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

dudes! that picture's great. how many songs did she sing?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe six or seven :/

― Stevie T, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

tonight looking less likely by the second :-(

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i realise i am way behind the ILM curve, but just how bloody massive and great is that trentmoller remix of Konichiwa Bitches !
uk copies of the album now doing the rounds, so far today, i'm loving it.

― mark e, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i cannot stand what they did to "bum like you".

*sigh*

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

anyone in need of a couple of tickets for the 29th?

― RJG, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

i realize from reading a few threads that "soulful" is anathema to many ppl here, but has anyone else heard "Good Thang", the tune she did with Masters at Work? It was during the period that her albums were only being released in Scandinavia so most of that material isn't well known. http://www.discogs.com/release/60275

It's a GREAT tune, lovely blueeyed soulful house. This was in 1999, when MAW are right in their element, dropping all kinds of gorgeous chord progressions and backup harmonies, without too much live instrumentation, just flecks of guitar and horns here and there (If you've heard the tunes they did with people like Stephanie Mills, Luther Vandross and Kenny Bobien, you'll know what I mean.)

Ms Robyn at this point has grown out of the Mary J Blige-isms you hear on "Robin Is Here" and hasn't yet developed a lot of the quirky tics that are all over Konichiwa, so you really get to hear her sing. She can belt it out for sure.

I also like the semi-acoustic version of Saul Williams "List of Demands" that she does with Jenny Wilson. I think that's a b-side now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvxsu9aeQQ)

― Jah Q Areas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

have never heard that she did a MAW collaboration Jah, thank you for that info!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

How is her pre-[i]Robyn{/i] stuff? (Especially the stuff leading up to that album) I've only heard those stray mid-90s crossover hits. (which are not my cup of tea)

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

anyone want to pleaseplease zap me the new "bum like you" to give me something to cry over?

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what did they "do" to "Bum Like You"?! That's my favorite song she's ever done!

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

What's the difference between the UK album and the original?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

anyone want to pleaseplease zap me the new "bum like you" to give me something to cry over?

Er, try Googling the words "Don't Stop the Pop"...

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ms Robyn at this point has grown out of the Mary J Blige-isms you hear on "Robin Is Here"

i find it incredibly difficult to believe that robyn ever possessed any qualities as great as "mary j blige-isms"

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

So I just actually listened to the version I just mentioned and it's this really annoying anti-copyright thing that keeps fading in and out and panning L to R. Think I prefer the original anyway.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

~~anti-copyright~~ copyright protection

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

she turned "bum like you" into a slow yet herky-jerky robo-electro ballad :/

hoiwever the trentemoller remix of KB is supposed to be grebt, i can't webt to hear it!

main difference (besides "bum like you") is that new album is longer - it includes "heartbeat" and "cobrastyle"; it's also pretty massively re-ordered to what i think is very good effect

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

it's still crazy to me that "crash and burn girl" hasn't been a single.

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B, doing the same accents and vocal inflections - she worked very diligently on this stuff in new york so it's not surprising to me that some mary j would have rubbed off on her

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Both versions of "Be Mine" are amazing. I'm not sure whether to spring for the UK album since I have the original as well as the EP she released, but I'm a sucker for her and probably will.

― musically, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

i have entered a contest to become her "roadie" - watch out world

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

haven't really listened to the UK one through as a whole but I think the running order of the original album (if you take out robotboy and the skits) is perfect

― RJG, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B, doing the same accents and vocal inflections - she worked very diligently on this stuff in new york so it's not surprising to me that some mary j would have rubbed off on her

really?! i haven't heard any of her previous stuff - i really can't imagine it because her voice on 99% of what i have heard is so...pert, full of those quirky cutesy tics which really bug me. and when i do enjoy her voice (ie when she calms the fuck down and stops being pleased with herself enough to let actual emotion through, ie 'with every heartbeat' and 'be mine') it doesn't sound r&b at all, it sounds ike kate bush. and on the album when she does lean in the r&b direction, it sounds like a really insincere piss-take.

so this is interesting! do you have any of her old stuff you could send/burn me?

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

And in case people DON'T know, despite it having been mentioned loads of times, Robyn also did the original version of Bev Knight's super-fantastic "Keep This Fire Burning". She looked well scary in the video which had some painted blokes in it. I love her.

edward o (upthread)

― fandango, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

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