official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

i found the previews pretty skippable. i've been losing interest in aeroplane lately - still love most of the 07/08/09 stuff but that breakbot remix is muck. really hate it. i also don't like the sound of the rerecorded caramellas.

on another note, picked up that ost & kjex album last week, should give it a listen...

haidooo!

I found some of them skippable, but there was enough to hold my interest in the others. And even the ones that were o_0 horrible, I was kind of curious, from the snippet, what the hell kind of context those moments would work in a song.

OK, now you lot have got me wondering what ost & kjex is, so I'm going to google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq9KZglcQI

OK, now you lot have got me wondering what ost & kjex is, so I'm going to google.

― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 July 2010 12:24

You'll probably know this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihq9KZglcQI&feature=related

Ooh, make a wish Davek

i'll probably give it a proper listen when it leaks. hmm. still do love paris.

i first heard this ost & kjex track on tama sumo's panoramabar mix last year and it's one of the best on the album (which is pretty varied, lovely sounding and a lot of fun)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLBAgavQ1Y

Yeah, I'm listening to their MySpace right now. This is fun, guys.

Kind of minimal Norwegian version instead of the maximal Belgian version of a similar thing.

I think that's what's gone wrong with Aeroplane, they started throwing the kitchen sink at their productions, instead of keeping it clean and minimal and got fussy instead of elegant.

Wackster post-balearic euro blokes fight:

Aeroplane vs Mungolian Jetset vs Ost & Kjex vs Ronny & Renzo

Yes, I like Continental Lover. Hard to put my finger on what it reminds me of..maybe Prince fronting Marc Romboy??

Haven't heard the whole Aeroplane album but the snippets were nowhere near as bad as you guys were indicating. Although, I can see the approach being very off-putting for the people who adored the remixes.

The Mungolian album was so slept on it's untrue...breaks my heart.

Go ahead, start that poll as an alternative to all the blah blah boring rock canon polls, pls. ;-)

(I'd probably pick Mungolian Jetset but need to listen to some more Ronny & Renzo first.)

You'll wish you'd been there for the Ronny & Renzo thread

The Mungolian album was so slept on it's untrue...breaks my heart.

time for a big'ol "OTM!" shout out.

i never liked the mungolian album, the ost and kjek remix i heard first had me initially excited tho, weird how i never bothered checking them out as a result.

I'm the opposite, I loved that Mungolian Jet Set album but the Milano Model remix always annoyed the shit out of me.

I got four tracks into the Aeroplane album at lunchtime and was thinking it was fine, not as great as I wanted it to be, but not terrible, certainly not particularly unexpected, then I Don't Feel started and suddenly I understood the gasfaces.

yeah the minute that started i basically gawped at my speakers in shock but it actually turned out to be good! the real horror is still to come.

ok fish in the sky

right

yeah other things are just "not great" but really

yea, "i don't feel", "caramellas" and "we can't fly" are all ok by me. but 3 good/passable songs do not even come close to overshadowing the rest of this mess.

looking forward to the ost & kjex album, but lumping ronny & renzo in with all this stuff seems like sort of a stretch, in that they get very deep and almost tribal in parts and seem to care very little about pop vocals. unless i'm missing out on something. don't they only have 2 releases anyhow? i own and love them both, but don't recall anything comparable apart from the mungolian remix.

and yes 'we gave it all away... now we are taking it back' is insanely rewarding on repeat listens. it made the ilm end of year poll at least right? ehhhhhhh?

"my enemy" and "without lies" are good too (though i don't really like the title track) (which is one reason i had lowered expectations to begin with).

i liked we gave it all away... but it just seemed a bit busy to really love - what's great about the ost & kjex album is that as cheesy and silly as they get, they also know when to dial back.

http://twitter.com/VitoAeroplane/status/19640345585

:(

Oh man. :(

Yeah it's sad but at the same time I was all ready to listen to the album with an open mind and it really is terrible. The closing track with Au Revoir Simone is nice but I really can't imagine what they were thinking of with much of the rest of it, and why no one told them to stop.

What? I don't feel bad or guilty at all. If I'd made something this terrible, I'd want to be told. Ideally, I'd like to be told before more than 4 or 5 people had heard it.

I'm sure it wasn't what Wall of Sound signed up for when they signed them either - not that that should be a consideration but you'd think someone close to the band would have taken them aside and said "erm, you can't actually write songs dudes".

Are they not on Eskimo any more then? As the Eskimo newsletters keep bigging up the album.

Or is it Wall of Sound are just distributing the album as they have a better infrastructure for doing so than Eskimo?

Wall of Sound in the UK, so maybe they're just distributing it.

they should probably pull this if they still can and try to release something good.

Yeah, if they pulled this, it might reach some kind of legendary status in a few years, which would ultimately serve Vito much better in whatever he does next. If they actually go through with a release as planned, only bad things can happen.

what was the aeroplane tweet? it isn't there anymore

Loosely paraphrased, it said: "Album has leaked, I've read some of the reactions...they are all awful..."

Poor Vito. :-(

I keep wanting to say - damn, it's not nearly as bad as you extravagant haters make it out to be. I was expecting way worse than what it is. It has its moments. It's just not what you were expecting.

k8 is right, individual tracks are total disasters and it's not a great album, but there's enough worthwhile stuff here. i've heard much worse.

though similarly to the xtina album, my expectations had been lowered substantially by the time the actual album emerged, so it's not like i was shocked that this isn't all up to the standard of their best remixes.

"After album leaked, I'm reading people reactions... They are pretty much awful..."

I will no doubt buy it, rip the 4 or 5 awesome to worthwhile songs onto my iTunes and disregard the rest (except for the one or two real clangers which will be saved for helltapes.)

Actually, I wonder why the Tweet was pulled? Phone call from someone from the record label maybe?

must have been.

Or maybe he saw it retweeted and copied and quoted a hundred times across the internet, and realised he didn't want to be perceived as whining or looking for sympathy?

It's easy to write things on twitter that can be easily misinterpreted and widely misquoted out of context.

yes, he probably just pulled it himself.

i feel bit guilty about slagging it now.

I'm sure it wasn't what Wall of Sound signed up for when they signed them either - not that that should be a consideration but you'd think someone close to the band would have taken them aside and said "erm, you can't actually write songs dudes".

Knowing Mark Jones at Wall of Sound quite well, I would say the opposite. He loves the chintzier side more than the club side, I think. And Vito had this album demoed before he was even signed to WoS so I don't think it came as a surprise to the label.

So what are the keepers here? I really like We Can't Fly, Superstar, Caramellas and My Enemy.

london bridge, i don't feel, without lies, my enemy

("caramellas" is fine but i prefer the og)

I'm warm on "We Can't Fly," but nowhere near hot. And the final track w/ ARS is okay. Other than that, it really DOES sound like a bunch of demos that the Scissor Sisters recorded for a laugh and then threw away.

I really like I Don't Feel but I keep expecting her to bust a "WOOOARRR CHILDREN!!!" at any second in that song.

Would be better if more of their songs had gone the disco diva workout (sorry, Dorian) routine. I mean, as much as I like the Paris remix and the Kilometre remix, my favourite thing they've ever done is Williams Blood.

It is amusing, though, to work out what the most o_0 awful song on the album is - on second listen, my vote isn't actually for that Fish in the Sky track but the hystrionics in Point Of No Return. Like, what on EARTH does the rest of the track sound like, to make that breakdown make sense?

i will say that i love "i don't feel" once it gets going but it could really use some form of intro rather than hitting you straight off with the RAAARRRGHGH disco vox.

"good riddance" is definitely in the conversation when it comes to the o_0 worst track

Is Good Riddance the Tom Jones one or the awful soppy Fleetwood Mac one?

Oh god no, now I'm doing it. :-(

I do actually have to hand it to them, that they have made such an *over the top* album. I mean, there's no halfway here. There's no way you can say that this album is boring, and that is quite an accomplishment. I mean, to be honest, a polite but perfectly boring "here is some nice polite nu balaeric beats" would have been a far worse result.

It is comically over the top and ridiculous, but it seems like sometimes that does actually work.

My two favorite tracks are the least confrontational ones. Maybe I'M boring.