Most of this sounds like demos the Scissor Sisters would've thrown in the dumpster behind the studio. Maybe the Aeroplane guys were waiting back there and grabbed them.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this is a car crash.
― jed_, Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
more like a plane crash
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
!
what i'm listening to right now sounds like an elaborate prank.
sorry, i really don't want to ruin it for anyone else but i actually just lol'd at some abomination called "Fish in the Sky".
― jed_, Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
that title alone cannot prepare you.
ysi?
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
hype hype
― plax (ico), Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
why have they done this. :(
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
If this is the real version, omens weren't exactly good with the declining quality of mixes and 'We Can't Fly' the song.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
last.fm indicates there is more than one Aeroplane. Maybe this is one of the others masqerading as the Aeroplane we know?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
For real, this album is not just a disappointment, but a legitimate contender for WORST OF THE YEAR.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF
― al gore vidal gore (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah. Can't think of a worse song this year than 'I Don't Feel', and 'Without Lies' is narrowly behind.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
guys i need to hear this
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never been so scared to add something to my library.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I am now going to wash out my ears by listening to Too Hard on repeat for five days.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
diff band, guys
― hobbes, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
holy cow maybe not!! ouch
No, it's definitely the same one we know: http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Although, I'm going to get to NOT know them very quickly now.
what in the hell is this? some of it sounds nice in a 70s disc/ELO type of feeling but then again, some of this sounds really awful.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this is hilariously awful but that's.... something.
i kind of feel like i want to listen to it again just in case i'm missing the point but i'm pretty sure i'm not. Without Lies, Good Riddance, Fish In The Sky and We Fall Over are genuinely fascinating in their awfulness but I Don't Feel is just an unlistenable racket. if you're someone like me who listens quite closely to lyrics then i recommend a stiff drink before you hear this. it's a genuinely bizarre record.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
how many times can i say "genuinely"?! thank god i don't write songs.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This about sums it up. I could see about half the tracks growing on me and the rest...either it's brilliantly forward-thinking or straight up shitty.
― skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
scared to hear this... they were one of my favorite things a year and a half ago or so...
― selected ambient worker (another al3x), Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the Jim Steinman-inspired bridge in We Can't Fly, but I didn't expect the whole album to be an homage to him.
― I DIED, Sunday, 25 July 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
major major major lols at "Good Riddance"
― Simon H., Sunday, 25 July 2010 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
music for Jared Hess soundtracks.
― Simon H., Sunday, 25 July 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god it opens with that 'electric piano' patch that's on every cheapo keyboard
this is gonna be monstrous in some way or another
― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all a big running inside joke right guys? haha can't wait till we actually hear the record and have a good laugh about it
― al gore vidal gore (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 July 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe this explains why one of them abandoned ship.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i have been meaning to check these dudes out since forever and today is the first time i've actually openned this thread lol
― young monet (samosa gibreel), Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this is all a big running inside joke right guys?
I wish :(
― skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should have sat them down in the initial stages and told them that they can't write songs and that they should forget that and put ten good tracks together. i wonder who wrote the lyrics, them or the singers? because they have to be written by someone who can't speak english well.
having said that i enjoyed boggling at this.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I might listen to this one or two more times in December, when I have to craft some kind of paragraph to award it WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
did you take any joy at all from it? because i laughed two or three times.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably just cringed at the things you laughed at. It's why I have a hard time watching embarrassing situations in tv shows like the original BBC The Office or whatever. I hate feeling that uncomfortable, and this album is that feeling magnified.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol guys stop ur beating this joke to death
― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I got an email last week saying this was beyond terrible, so maybe it's not a joke :/
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, i'll shut up until more people have heard it.
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are you people getting this alleged abomination from anyway?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lmgtfy
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
what?cd
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
man is this a shitty (2000s-style) indie pop record. i want to like it SO BAD, but i can't get down with anything other than "we can't fly" (which i still think is great). UGH. i know these guys are pop fetishists, but how did they not have the good sense to realize that they SUCK at doing it themselves. i probably would have jumped ship too if a record like this was going to be associated with me in any way
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
In this interview he goes on about feeling freed of the constraints of making dance music.
― Vasco da Gama, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
keep waiting for someone to swoop in and defend this
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
At first I wanted to use Mark Hollis from Talk Talk, but we couldn’t find him at all. But then I heard Poni Hoax’s “Antibodies” and their lead singer sounded exactly like Mark
!!!
― jed_, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Because what is Aeroplane? It’s slow BPM, melodic music…and when I’m DJing people don’t really want to hear that, I have to up the tempo. So I need these kind of uptempo tracks that still suit the Aeroplane feel, and it’s so hard to find suitable records. I spoke to Erol (Alkan) recently, and he said ‘why don’t you just make your own’, which is a good idea – I will probably make some music just for DJ sets which is slightly different form Aeroplane as you know it. In that respect, I have a couple of concepts ready, but I can’t say too much else just yet.
glimmer of hope?
― I DIED, Sunday, 25 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
This is like a really, really shit delorean album. Where is the lushness? Makes me wonder if they even, like, listened to their own remixes.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 July 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Taken on its own and not as a follow-up to their previous material, there are only a couple truly WTF moments and I'm still not sure I'm not missing something. "I Don't Feel" is one of the most bizarre tracks I've heard all year but has something of Ariel Pink's "Round & Round" to it, which I hated initially and now love. Things actually get quite good around the 2-minute mark when the backing track starts to take over. "Good Riddance" is more lame than [i]bad<?i>, while "Fish in the Sky" appears unredeemable but is so weird that it's hard to know for sure.
BTW who are the vocalists?
― skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link