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More Missy-esque daft rhymes like in the second verse would help a bit.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

I am not sufficiently up to speed on Robyn developments, clearly. Any remixes, sub-par or otherwise, would be received pretty delightedly at the address below...

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

"Konichiwa Bitches" is definitely a masterpiece within a masterpiece. I think it is ideal just the way it is.

I'm pretty big on every song on the record, even the trio of ballads at the end that no one ever seems to talk about.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

"BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Ha, make that a quartet of ballads then.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

this album is...

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

great!

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

UTTERLY FANTASTIC

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's good

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

konichiwa bitches is the best title

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

"Bum Like You" makes my day!

― djangojones (djangojones), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I have gotten over my Konichiwa Bitches hate. I didn't hate it, I just thought with that title it should be her dissing LOTS of punks. Sexily. But it kind of is, I guess.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

anyone found a website that will let me import this to the UK? i don't really feel like getting into an eBay bidding war for something that's on my computer already. but it is GREAT and i want to have it (and wouldn't mind paying robyn for the privilege).

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

CD-Wow is *in* the UK, no?
A bargain

― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

WHOA

thank-you-sir!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

5.2! :( As if the new Franz Ferdinand is better than this. (snort)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

It's 8.2!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

er. that's what i meant. still 8.-2-. it's at least an 8.5. come ON! :)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

But "Be Mine" [...] is a disarming heartbreaker perfectly poised between twee and tuff, like if Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley and the Neptunes got trapped in Jeff Goldblum's Fly pods.

Fantastic sentence :-)

[Even though the Neptunes would be sat waiting forever in Goldblum's pods, with Wiggs & Stanley in David Al Hedison's pods instead]

― vinegar (Koens), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

this shit better be top 10 year end pfork!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah i wouldn't count on that

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

ha, I'd be plesantly surprised if it made the top 50!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Who picked the numerical rating? That's really low given the inflated numbers that people like Wolf Parade and Sufjan Snoozans have been getting. It's at least twice as great as Illinoise, c'mon!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

hi, friends, you don't think any of this record is cringeworthy? i'm just sayin. and i do like parts of it.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

i have never listened to wolf parade or sufjan stevens and i would rather have each of my pubic hairs plucked out with a pair of tweezers before doing so, matthew, so yr comparison is meaningless.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

it's very silly cutty. it's a good gauge of how comfortable you are with your silly listening around other people.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Who's That Girl.. but probably only that track, and robotboy.

The rest is compressed brilliance

I heard Surfjan for the first time today. It was as underwhelming as I'd expected.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

(I like Sufjan...)

(perhaps not coincidentally, I've lived my entire life in either Michigan or Illinois.)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

i was listening to it by myself and had to look over my shoulder during "konichiwa bitches"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

my ULTRA-SCIENTIFIC RATINGS METHOD involved typing an 8 and then a random number after the decimal point.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

i subjected my officemate to george michael today so perhaps i am not who to turn to regarding shame

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Jess, I wasn't accusing you of being a Snoozans fan or anything, no worries. I just brought him up cos I am baffled by his good press.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

actually i think i did hear the album before i moved, when i was still working at the record store...and if i did hear it, what i am remembering was kind of pleasant, but yeah, the hosannas baffle me too.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, exactly. At first I was thinking that it was like one of those posters they used to sell in malls, the kind where if you look just right, there's a 3d boat or something. I tried with that record, and I swear to God, there's NO BOAT.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

well i liked the NMH record too, but i am still kinda baffled by the 10.0! we must review a random spanish reissue! reception it gets.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

(perhaps not coincidentally, I've lived my entire life in either Michigan or Illinois.)

Uh, me too, but I'd like to think that that's not the only reason I like Sufjan so much. Robyn has some really good songs ("Be Mine" is the clear standout here), but sorry, Illinois > Robyn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

maybe i need to put patches on the elbows of my jacket

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

You should, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but Extraordinary Machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Illinois

Actually, there's a lot more >'s to go, I just got a little tired of leaning on that key.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Ha, you can file that last post under "Everybody Get Random!"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

So wait, are you guys trying to tell me that I might like Sufjan by the time he starts writing songs set in Ossining and Poughkeepsie?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

"ha, I'd be plesantly surprised if it made the top 50!"

oh scottpl, today's issue makes me cry!

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Robyn's record is definitely much better than Illinoise -- Sufjan hasn't figured out how to make a good album with his terrific songs. You might find him boring or cringeworthy or whatever, but a song like "Seven Swans" or "Casimir Pulaski Day" or "Concerning the UFO Sighting..." is defensibly great.

The new Fiona Apple CD is crap, though, Matthew.

But anyway, ROBYN -- 8.2 was definitely too low. And it's a serious issue, because Pitchfork readers only seem to flock to mega-ratings -- and WHY DID THIS NOT GET A MEGA-RATING. While I'm content to yell about this album to an indie-rock brick wall, veryone would love this album if it was hip.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I don't understand this. Why is it so important whether Pfork gives a 7.6 or a 8.7 for it? Though I don't think it would be that good. Not bad, I'd give 7.2, it's still good :)

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

I GIVE IT A 10.0 FOR EFFORT

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

It's not actually important, zeus, I am just trying to make meat of something small. Like krill.

PFM gives out a gazillion reviews in the 7-8.4 range. Thus, if an album is in a genre you don't normally listen to (eg: pop), and it gets one of those generic 'pretty good' ratings, I can't imagine someone going out of their way to hear it. If it rates a 9.7, say, there's something compelling there - "maybe this is actually good and worth hearing, even if I don't normally like that stuff".

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

sean, it will be on my year-end list! and ff won't! (i didn't actually cry, though)

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Sean, you surprise me. I am certain that no one made a record as good as Extraordinary Machine this year. Well, Robyn, MIA, and the New Pornos come close, but not very.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Gah, Matthew, sometimes you and me live on such different planes. I had less time than I expected for the original EM mix, but I was through with the new one before I had even listened to the whole thing once. Fiona's delivery is pretty great (love the rubicon line [hi MIA!]), but the songs plod for me, going in circles, and none of the production after the opening track zings at all. The new version of that "Love" song whose title I don't remember (you posted the original at Flux) really sucks.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

ooh, if this thread keeps going until tomorrow it can double as the place to complain about the pfm fiona apple review

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

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This is okay but excited for some new music from her.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 13 November 2025 02:56 (seven months ago)

I wasn't too hopped up on the prerelease singles from the last one but they worked great within the context of the album.

― Cow_Art, Thursday, 13 November 2025 03:18 (seven months ago)

I trust her as far as this being better in the context of an album, Honey flowed so well it elevated everything to a sublime level, even the tracks that were just "good" on their own like this one.

― omar little, Thursday, 13 November 2025 03:26 (seven months ago)

This track is a total snoozefest, but then again I only know her singles, not her albums, so I am thinking of it in that context.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 23 November 2025 18:50 (seven months ago)

This is an upbeat banger compared to nearly all her singles since Monument (so the last eleven years!) tbh

― fall of the house of urrsher (sic), Sunday, 23 November 2025 21:36 (seven months ago)

I should have clarified: her singles from the aughts. I haven't paid attention to her since 2012 or so.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 23 November 2025 23:12 (seven months ago)

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