I just realized my problem with Made in the Dark: it should end at "Wrestlers" (which sounds uncannily like Hot Shots II-era Beta Band) and be a flawless 44-minute record, but instead it's a lopsided 55-minute one.
Still one of the better recs so far this year.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
also "Out at the Pictures" should go on longer, it's amazing.
is that the first song? i like that.
i hate hate hate the spoken interlude in shake a fist.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
same. it reminds me of something off ninja tunes
― t_g, Thursday, 7 February 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
It's Todd Rundgren! I love that part.
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
You'd be much better off buying Something/Anything? and have done with it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i realise it's todd rundgren! it's just that whole let's interrupt the song + have someone speaking like 'this is an audio test, now let's try the right channel' etc etc thing that bugs me (and reminds me of ninja tune)
― t_g, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Really I'm just getting tired of record collection pop.
Admittedly Todd pretty much fired the starting pistol for record collection pop but he used his sources as inspiration rather than crutches.
This is my sticking point with the whole critical thing about oh isn't it so much better these days, all music ever made is freely available on t'internet and kids can pick n' mix and come up with all sorts of Heston Blumenthal-esque wacky fusions it's never been healthier.
But where's the backstory, the emotion, the purpose? Since the likes of Hot Chip are not Bill Burroughs they can't rely on the accidental effects of cut and paste in themselves (and in any case Burroughs never tried to pluck anything from thin air). All right, they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records. So have I. So what?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you written a song as catchy as "Shake a Fist"?
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(Admittedly, that's a pretty strawman response to your post, but seriously - reducing their act to "they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records" is pretty ridiculous. I hear plenty of emotion and purpose. I mean, all you've really got here is "I don't care for their music," right?)
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The last one was patchy but very good in places, SS. As was their first album.
But I don't see any aesthetic or emotional purpose in interrupting one of the better songs on this record to indulge their Vinyl Vultures fantasy and since it has zero relevance to the rest of the song and is not sufficiently amusing or startling for that not to matter then I question its inclusion.
Recommended listening: the "Titanic" middle part of "Oops...I Did It Again" and the Shortwave Set album.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i had no idea that was todd rundgren!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I like it better than the previous ones. Still feels it's too sophisticated and too clever, and perhaps next time they will strike the right balance. In that case they will deliver a classic.
― zeus, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The worst thing about the Rundgren bit is that they're jacking someone else's joke! Why didn't they just record they're own bit like that?
Crap Kraft Dinner remains their best song.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
their
bcuz you would have ripped them for biting rundgren
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
New song (or newish, was apparently given out to the first whatever number of people at one of the pre-album concerts) "Too Deep" on iTunes now.
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Both tracks from that 7" are probably still here.
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
glad 'One Pure Thought' is the next single - best track on the album
― blueski, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I kinda really like this band. Not sure what's holding me back from full embrace. The songs are so good, maybe it's the delivery. Maybe they're not fully embracing me!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
do like the new album but its def their most commercial/most 80s.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
They covered New Order's "Temptation" at Coachella.
― felicity, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
do we really need a breathy, "sincere" ween? When they sound this good, fuck yeah!
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0zYMeox0s&feature=related
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 April 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Good clip.
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxpost
they've been doing that for a while now - they did the same "No Fit State" -> "Temptation" trick a year ago. it's still awesome as hell, though.
― jamescobo, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I still like their "Crap Kraft Dinner" -> Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere"
― Savannah Smiles, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, have gone back to Boy from School tonight for some reason, and now I can't stop listening to it. The programming is pretty brilliant on that track.
Also, I heard them when they were guest dj-ing on some BBC radio thing, and they played some pretty amazing stuff. I wish I had even the slightest clue as to what any of it was. I could sure use me some sweet sweet techno sounds tonight, though...
― dell, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing how Ready For The Floor has become a proper pop floor filler. Played it last night and people just went mental.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
dell ill upload a the to diff versions of them doing 'boy from school' later. they rework that song a lot and the two i have are v. different but great
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wow
dell ill upload two diff versions**
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome, thanks!
― dell, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
dell you may be thinking of their essential mix from last year.
― haitch, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a 7 min live version from the bonus disc of the new album. really good audio. http://www.zshare.net/audio/12576326eeadfca4/
this is an acoustic version from a bbc session i think and it just kills me everytime http://www.zshare.net/audio/1257647696475ed5/
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck these guys
― banriquit, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
no
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone else heard the Alexis Taylor album?
― Treblekicker, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't, but re: hot chip, I love the bit about a minute into "ready for the floor" when the chord changes and it shifts from a "track" to a "song".
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
holy crap. they have a song w/robert wyatt!
http://www.parlophone.co.uk/hotchip/
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
just listened. boring
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently they have a cover of a vampire weekend song sung by peter gabriel also. :-/
the musics really good on their VW cover but not sure about the vocals.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure about PG's vocals? whaaaaaa
― cutty, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Love the Gabriel cover, was really stoked for the Wyatt collab but on first listen it's rather underwhelming and not Wyattesque enough.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wyatt collab is zzzzzz
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
cutty sent me this, its pretty dope, i had to listen to it a couple times, i think its better than the original
― beyonc'e (max), Friday, 19 December 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
id like their r kelly tribute/pisstake if it had slightly more genuine lyrics and not lines like 'aiming for your loins'.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
otherwise, the music (kinda like tvotr on blind meets prince) kills me.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i need a whole album of hot chip and peter gabriel
― cutty, Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
So I am finally listening to Hot Chip for the first time ever.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 April 2009 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link