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i'm sure it's legal to be attracted to them

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

and im sure they're younger than me so that's not why I asked :)

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

eh, i meant to say im sure i am younger than them. sorry

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

anyways i don't actually know. i speculate early 20s.

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

It's kinda crazy how much I love "Dirty Mind." One of my favorite singles of the year, no doubt.

It seems pretty clear that those girls are early to mid 20s. About my age, but slightly younger maybe.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. Fabulous live but if anything I think their recorded stuff is better. "Simon Says", "Judy" and "It Hurts To See You Dance So Well" are perfecto pop tracks and really short as well so perfect for ADD aflicted musos.

Once interviewed Becki for a radio station back in Brighton. Why they are not more successful is beyond me.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 25 November 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

possibly something to do with the limited nature of their releases

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Saturday, 26 November 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

truly. that may have irritated a large part of their potential fanbase.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

They are also totally unknown in the United States!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

not really. they'll probably makes tons of money in japan.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i think they should do a version of s club's "reach for the stars"

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 27 November 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

pipas should get this much attention

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

i heard the winter song and really liked it. was excited. then I saw this video and heard this song and puked a little bit in my mouth.

gimmick central.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/37049/Video_The_Pipettes_Pull_Shapes#37049

oh amy, this is your favorite song of the year?

― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I like exactly two Pipettes songs -- "We Are the Pipettes" (but not the album version, which is ruined by the injudicious application of synthesizers) and "Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me" (but only the album version). "Judy" is not awful, but it invariably reminds me of "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken", and then I think, "wait, why am I not just listening to that? It is way better than the Pipettes."

The album is maybe the worst production job I've heard in a while -- I was mostly pretty indifferent to their singles, but hoped they would pull things together for the full-length, and then that comes out -- turns out it's a synth-laden disaster. Like somebody decided, "you know what we have to do with this band? We have to make them into radio-pop!" And first of all, no, and second of all, the finished product doesn't even work by radio-pop standards. So now I actively dislike them.

Also, the album's full of really blatant filler.

Also also, the whole exercise strikes me as kind of sexist, and some of the lyrics are really questionable. A song like "Sex", in which the protagonist(s?) more or less revel in the fact that some guy is not actually interested in talking to them but just wants... well, you know... I mean, perhaps it's ironic? Should be clearer if so. Worst appropriation of the "Be My Baby" drum intro ever, at any rate.

In closing, eh.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Pull Shapes" Is certainly my favorite song of the year - I played it eight times in row, when I first heard it. I couldn't wipe the grin off my face for about twenty minutes afterward.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

my mind cannot comprehend how anyone could like that song.

― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I find it lively and sweeping and an utter delight, w/ the background voices meshing perfectly w/ the lead during the chorus ("Dance w/ me...") and the strings accelerating toward ths song's end and the girl's trading off voices during the "personal preference" verse (all apologies for my rather crude descriptions)...

...But I suppose (and this certainly seems like a cop out on my part, doesn't it?) it just comes down to personal aesthetic taste doesn't it? There's a part of me that really hopes this song becomes as big as "Dancing Queen" - and another, more irrational, part of me that KNOWS this song will become as big as "Dancing queen".

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

You must be retarded then.

― everything (everything), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Dancing Queen"? I don't like the band, but that's just cruel.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Pull Shapes

― davelus (davelus), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Pull Shapes" is classic for the following reasons:

1. It is very happy.
2. The strings, they are quite good.
3. You can hear "There's a whole floor before us" as "There's a whole floppy forest", and that's quite silly.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

they're kinda like musical equivalent of halloween candy. good, but after too much, you get a stomach ache.

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

more like musical equivalent to a big pile of dog shit

― boonah (boonah), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

i like "ABC"
and...that's about it.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

u guys so wacky

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like some of their stuff but boy the drummer on the album needs to calm down. He's just banging away in the background like he's in The Go Team or something. Completely innapropriate to the songs.

― mms (mms), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

The bit where one of them goes "I like to hip hop!" is pretty cringe-inducing, isn't it?

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

the fact that the new video is a shot for shot "homage" to the party scene in russ meyer's beyond the valley of the dolls appalls and impresses me in about equal measure. it also forcibly underlines how inferior the pipettes are to the fictional kerry nations.

the go! teams producer worked on the rcord i hear, so that might explain the resemblance. they sound like my life story with even less panache to me.

― cw (cww), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

They needed to be produced by Alan Braxe.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

"kerry nations" = the carrie nations

― mms (mms), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

ooops. quite right. have you seen the video? it's pretty spooky. z man's pretty good but harris doesn't quite make it. the gurning toothless woman is pretty much spot on.

― cw (cww), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, I don't get the hostility. There are so many things to like about The Pipettes, but even if you don't they're not a big pile of dog shit by any means.

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, I don't get the love. There are so many things to hate about The Pipettes, but even if you don't they are a big pile of dog shit by all means.

― zappi (joni), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

The bit where one of them goes "I like to hip hop!" is pretty cringe-inducing, isn't it?

and then there's the little "scratching" sample? that's great! it's funny. that song is neck and neck with "what you know" for single of year for me.

how much fun would a fun-hater hate if a fun-hater hated fun?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh please! My problem with them is that they sound as if their brand of fun is very... prim.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not prim enough, really.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Best single I've heard this year. The one who sings lead on this one has a really good voice.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

In an a time where we have Girls Aloud and Sugababes, liking the Pipettes is a bit like being nostalgic for Herman's Hermits.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, as ridiculous as Herman's Hermits were, they're by far the best of the bands you've mentioned.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

"In an a time where we have Girls Aloud and Sugababes, liking the Pipettes is a bit like being nostalgic for Herman's Hermits."

It begs question whether taste need be an either/or proposition. Frankly, I feel that one may be openminded enough to enjoy both Wong Kar-Wai and Howard Hawks, Dostoyevsky and David Foster Wallace, and, in terms of mainstream pop music, Sugababes and Herman's Hermits. The past shouldn't be treated as a foreign country, after all.

ALSO: Yay Pipettes!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Saturday, 24 June 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember where i nicked the "past as a foreign country" bit from...works well within the argument, I suppose.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

What about not being particularly nostalgic per se for Herman's Hermits? What about just realizing that they were often really good? Is that okay?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, sure, nostalgia. Nostalgia is a part of the postmodern condition. There is nothing postmodern about Girls Aloud or Sugababes?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

This is the first song of theirs I've heard where it sounds like they can actually sing, which is kind of important for what they're trying to do. I found "Your Kisses" impossible to listen to, even though the pre-chorus (?) bit where Gwenno sings "You might try..." is one of the more beautiful things I've heard in a long time.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Things I didn't need to find out: said Gwenno is in fact a ringer, having toured the world with Lord of the Dance and Riverdance for many years, recorded a couple of Welsh-language singles and (reportedly) represented Wales in Eurovision-type contests, and had her own TV show (again in Welsh). And here's her myspace with a solo song on it: http://www.myspace.com/gwenno

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 24 June 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the album's full of really blatant filler.

huh? it's as tight as you could ever want! it's bloody marvelous, it doesn't outstay its welcome and it has repeatedly made me laugh out loud on the tube.

the my life story comparison is not a million miles from the truth, either! and that's sure to sort the men from the boys.

the day looks are ignored when it comes to image-conscious bands is the day pop music dies, and anyone who seriously thinks a band's visual aesthetic is irrelevant or not worthy of judgement is naive to the extreme. kate, you know this really, stop being reactionary!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Does the world really need a female Showaddywaddy?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Does the world really need an Everett True wank fantasy with an organised street team?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, do you?

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

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