Gang Gang Dance LP

hmmm is it really that good? should i try to slsk?

i have spent some time with GGD and they are great people, but i can sense some of what others say about them-- ie, that Lizzie and the guitarist are fashionista scene-climbers who care more about being cool than anything else. (of course, this criticism is suspect, as it comes from the mouth of former collaborators with the two of them. ahem).

anyway, does anyone love Angelblood as much as i do?

this album is so well sequenced and very listenable. the ebb and flow mentioned upthread is very otm. you have spent time with josh and think he cares about nothing but being cool? dude is so nice.

What is The-Dream?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1

The very late December 2007 r'n'b release by Terius "The-Dream" Nash, songwriter and producer known for "Falsetto" on his own cd, and for co-writing "Umbrella" among other songs.

Interesting recent Melena Ryzik feature on Gang Gang Dance in the NY Times-- It says they still have trouble paying their rent and they want to get their music heard by a wide audience-- "Ms. Bougatsos is ready for the attention. “There’s no such thing as selling out in my mind,” she said, adding that she would love to have her music featured on a TV show soundtrack: “A Jeep commercial, a tampon commercial, anything,” she said. “We’re a band, we make music, and that’s what we want to be known for.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/music/21gang.html

i dunno, i listened today again and liked a few songs, but i'm not ready to crown them yet. perhaps repeated listens will help.

Wait there is a coronation coming up?!?!

not from me!

"First Communion" is great. The Hot Chip remix of "House Jam" is interesting in that you can hear her lyrics much more clearly. They're... hippy-ish. Anyway, love it.

One of the best of the year!

i can't even imagine that being said about Josh.
but for serious, the Tinchy Stryder track shoulda been a b-side.

the tinchy song's great!

yeah, the only dud is the spoken word piece.

Seriously, one of my favorites for the year.

A handy pop cousin to Eric Copeland's 'Hermaphrodite'. Totally acecakes.

“A Jeep commercial, a tampon commercial, anything,” she said. “We’re a band, we make music, and that’s what we want to be known for.”

this is sad.

what do you do for a living that's so incredibly noble, internet poster Shakey Mo Collier?

I work for an energy efficiency engineering firm during the day and play music by night. Because music doesn't pay. And that is sad. That's all I was referring to.

it would be a pretty rad tampon commercial though shakey

Yeah I got what Shakey meant: good luck to Gang Gang Dance (and they may well make excellent radio jingles) but the implication is that their desire to do commercials has been forced upon them by their financial circumstances.

ah, sorry for the snark, shakey!

haha yeah fair enough!

I'm just saying you can look at the downward trajectory of how musicians make a living in the 20th century and its fairly depressing - at first you could make a living by playing live constantly (weeklong engagements, gigging nightly, etc.), then you could make a living selling records/tapes/CDs, etc. Now the only way to make a living is to attach your music to some shitty product.

seriously. even touring is cost-prohibitive thanks to gas prices. if any band sells out, more power to them, IMHO.

Yeah, and even that's for just one song's worth of download money anyway. It doesn't seem right that genuinely talented musicians have to do it as a hobby instead of a profession.

itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that

so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like http://www.greenplanetmusic.com/images/TheLostScrollsOfMoses.jpg

Animal Collective?

And GGD is def moving in that direction. There's some super SONGS on this rekkkkkid.

so this new Gang Gan Dance LP strangely sounds a lot like: mad professor - the lost scrolls of moses

o wait i misunderstood - yah i guess animal collective

but i was thinking like more pop and stronger singing

kate bush?

I was waiting for that (or someone to say Sioxie and the Banshees.)

I definitely hear a little Siouxsie.

new stuff u guys awesome new sensibilities dont u see

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

wish I woulda seen the whole show at Santos last friday, they were dope but they didn't go on until 2am and I had to work the next day. it was ridic to have Growing go on before them, they shoulda been either first or last on the bill imo.

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

totally love this album. so good.

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

mostly leo fitzpatrick, i think.

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

― Tim F, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think "summertime clothes" from the new ac album may be the best contender for this so far.

i listened to this album for the first time today and not much more can be said that hasn't been said already. one of my top albums of 2008 without a question and i've only listened to it once. it's like one of those albums that just comes at you out of nowhere and blindsides you. this reminds me of what i felt and thought when i first listened to studio

Yeah, Studio is a good reference point in feel if not in style.

I think "summertime clothes" from the new ac album may be the best contender for this so far.

― mizzell, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Summertime Clothes" is gonna pwn all when it is released!

jeez not everything is goth, guys

xp and those guitar licks that breeze in around the middle of the first song are more than edging towards studio territory, no?

Yeah there's that same corny spanish guitar sound (see also the last track on the Lindstrom album).

man the transition from the first track into the second one i could listen to on repeat for hours.
also the production on this is like shimmering prisms in flight. haha i need to stop, bottom line is this a great fucking record.

""itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

whoever it ends up being they had better have some uncommon surnames

saw these guys with of montreal tonight. was pretty awesome all-around.

Seriously, one of my favorites for the year.

― Bomb Bomb Iran (san frandisco), Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ this

by the way who were the djs that night?? holy trainwrecks. painful.

mostly leo fitzpatrick, i think.

― mizzell, Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:52 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ lolz

"itll be awesome when theres a band w/gang gang dance/excepter style sensibilities that has more conventional awesome songs and singing - this is by no means a criticism of said bands - btw are there any bands like that"

This is basically what I'm always looking for. I do like that there are several bands (Gang Gang Dance, Animal Collective, Air France) that are closing in on this space from different directions. But I don't know of anything right in that interzone just now.

― Tim F, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ el guincho

kazuashita was a very good follow-up to eye contact, it's a similar vibe just chiller overall

Thanks for the intel nashwan and vapor. Glad they're still making music!

Just listened to Crime Seed, it was pretty inconsequential imo.

A recent-ish (December last year) performance here: https://issueprojectroom.org/video/gang-gang-dance