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IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

THAT'S MY FAVORITE PART

KEEPS ME UNDER THE GUN

The Holy Ghost remix of Curses (or to be proper i guess the Holy Ghost! remix of Curses!, hot exclamation point on exclamation point action) is one of my favorite DFA-related things in ages.

i would KICK IT SO HARD with all this dfa ppl

i have such a crush on the whang

she's mine!

you stay away from her

i love that like the whang's life is like making pizza, dancing, AND SINGING ON FUCKING "HAPPY HOUSE"

best part of that video is when her fam looks at her like "wtf is wrong with you girl?"

u guys have seen the original right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKyPMXQb5o&feature=PlayList&p=E5D51C46CC5C1225&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

okay lol

i've always loved that new order vid. i take back what i said about the holy ghost song. they won me over by redoing that video

wish baker would have given them a usb stick w/RAER mp3 on it

i guess murphy was gonna "play" arthur baker until the holy ghost guys ran into him at a pub and told him about the video and how james murphy was going to be him and he was basically like "nope, ill play myself"

hahahah what a great homage

You making that up max? I'm at work and so I haven't watched the Holy Ghost video.

matt2 i would NEVER make anything up, especially not on this board

http://www.anthemmagazine.com/story/1615

N.M.: We were playing this really bad DJ set in London... well, actually it was okay... but there was this one girl who wasn't very cute or anything, but she was just, like, dancing by herself, and Alex and I said, Man, we should make a video with that―a girl dancing by herself. And then we were like, Oh, like the New Order video! That's what makes it cool―there's this awesome girl just dancing by herself! Alex just put our song to the video and we thought it'd be so easy to remake.

The last thing was that James [Murphy] was going to play Arthur Baker, and... well, we actually kind of know him and we ran into him at a bar and told him about the video. He asked who was going to play him, and we were like, James! "No, man," he said. "I want to play myself." I kind of turned to James and was like, Is that cool? He was like, You can't really say "no" to Arthur Baker... (shrugs).

Excellent story.

i have such a crush on the whang

lol when I saw juan maclean play in london a few months back, me and my friend spent the entire gig professing our love for nancy whang. after the gig our other friend, a girl, was tiring of this and with nancy and the others hanging around the venue she went up to her and purposely made us sound like utter freaks, eg "my two friends are your biggest fans for years, and have posters of you all over their walls, they have been to every gig you've ever played in england, but they're too scared to say hello, would you say hello to them? they're v shy"

a visibly weirded out nancy whang came over and said hi shortly afterwards, it was the most stilted conversation of my life.

hahaha

Was lukewarm on that Holy Ghost track too but the video redeems it.Those guys do really good DJ sets, too.

the cotai mundi single mentioned above is ace.

haha ronan. she obviously didn't know with whom she was dealing else she would've been the shy one ;)

Had I heard that Holy Ghost song on it's own I would have forgotten about it before it even got to the chorus, but now I'm singing it in shower, all because of seeing that video first.

that automato flyer on nancy's bedroom door gets me every time

wish baker would have given them a usb stick w/RAER mp3 on it

should have been Murphy delivering it to Baker in the DJ booth :(

i'm really feeling about half of the songs from the new YACHT album

the cotai mundi single mentioned above is ace.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fully. so into it

oh, i'd seen that holy ghost! video on another blog a couple weeks ago and dnr that was nancy whang and thought it was just pieced together from some Downtown 81 type thing

have enjoyed their remixes, they have an album coming?

Supposedly. And one of the tracks has lead vocals from whatsisface from the Doobie Brothers.

MICHAEL MCDONALD http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/news/bct/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2008/07/wk_of_07.13/michael_mcdonald.jpg

I'm really feeling the new Shit Robot including the remixes. Up there with "Rushing to Paradise" as contenders for the piano jam of the year.

Absolutely loving that Justin Miller DFA mix posted upthread.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 June 2009 02:00 (1 month ago) Permalink

If I don't find out the name of the song being played at 56:00 - 58:40 of that Justin Miller DFA mix, then I will be totally depressed forever. HELP!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 03:42 (1 month ago) Permalink

Found it! It is called "Simple Things (Work It Out) (Serge Santiago Remix)" by Shit Robot and it will be released on July 14th. Awesome!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 05:27 (1 month ago)

^^^ SINGLE OF THE FUCKING YEAR!!!

"happy house" of 2009

holy ghost track is prolly gonna be a year ender for me

even though it reminds me of as much stuff i'm eh about as enthused about

imo the classixx remix of the holy ghost track is better than the orig--i think it sort of achieves what (i think) hg were trying to get at

The second, yearning "I will come back!" in the chorus certainly works better in the classixx mix. Can't say either version has me bowled over, but that video generates a lot of goodwill.

nah I still think its great, its just that its really muted I guess

I have an mp3 of that remix and it just makes me want to hear the orig tbh

It pains me to say this but I kind of can't stand the James Curd single. It's just so dorky! Maybe it'll grow on me, I kind of see what it's getting at, but it leaves me totally cold.

haha i love it probably because it's so dorky

The James Curd single is the one with that awkward "rap," yes?

Maybe no quote-marks needed. It is kind of dorky. Can't decide if it's kind of charming, too.

it's totally awesome is what it is. It also a thing or two to this song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TXOoC09Rk

haha i love it probably because it's so dorky

― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm!

I even threw this on a techno/house mix I recently made, just cause it has that (cheesy) charm.

I can't get past the "ground control to major tom, I see you up there, you're getting it on" line. The idea of watching astronauts have sex just doesn't mesh with me.

Just downloaded the Canyons 12"- I do like this, very much so.