― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 27 November 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
...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 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― davelus (davelus), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― boonah (boonah), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pessimist (Pessimist), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pessimist (Pessimist), Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 24 June 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 24 June 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 June 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
That's kind of the problem with the entire thing, isn't it? I like a couple of their songs alright, but after two or three minutes I just start wondering why I'm not listening to One Kiss Can Lead To Another instead.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 24 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I really like the drum sound on this record. I like how they've done a bigger production that uses that contemporary garage rock drum sound (fairly dry, crisp, and loud). It's fresh.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
P.S. They're sexy.
And the perception of "sexy" takes up a lot of the male brain think-capacity. We all know this: male, female, gay, straight, whatever. We all know that most guys spend an awful lot of their time looking at "hot" bodies and thinking about what might be done with or to them, as depersonalized sex objects. (Hopefully, we're also grown up enough to realize that this is perfectly okay...)
The Pipettes know know that the boys are looking, as did the Ronettes and certainly Spector himself. Sure, they're speaking to other girls of/from shared experience, but they're also, very explicity, speaking to boys. And specifically, intentionally positioning themselves as objects-to-be-looked-at. And lusted-over. By boys.
So be it. And so what? That's what people do. It's what rock bands do. Just like the Strokes and Iggy Pop before them. Sex appeal appeals. Again, though, I suspect that everyone already knows this.
If the Pipettes didn't WANT their sex appeal to be an issue, they wouldn't make such an issue of it. And since they do so obviously want it to be an issue, I think it's perfectly appropriate to include it in the discussion.
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I am quite nostalgic about Herman's Hermits. But I do not live in 1964.
I think sentimentality about the future is far more dangerous than sentimentality about the past.
I have only heard a couple of Pipettes tracks.
They sounded fairly good and witty to me.
It would be nice to have a Fuzzbox revival.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link