ilxor repping so hard for this = death knell
― HOW I FOLD MY BANDANA (deej), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey thx for the new display name!
deej you'd be glad to know I'm coming around to Gucci Ma-- or should we not open that door? I wouldn't want to make you have to stop listening to him or anything, y'know, since our tastes cannot ever align.
― ilxor repping so hard for this = death knell (ilxor), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish you guys would do this in another thread
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't start it ;_;
deej u gotta listen to scribble again and cheer up
― ilxor repping so hard for this = death knell (ilxor), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
D4n is this yr fav album of the year?
Probably. The only things competing right now are Vampire Weekend, Owen Pallett, Big Boi and Janelle Monae.
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Boi, Janelle, Underworld all in my top 5 or so of 2010 as well.
Good picks!
― ilxor repping so hard for this = death knell (ilxor), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anybody get the limited box with the cd of alternative versions?
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 1 October 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
WHAAAAAAAA
― ilxor repping so hard for this = death knell (ilxor), Friday, 1 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I did. The box is amazing. Must have.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The alternate versions are mostly very good. Some of them better than the album versions. All of them worth hearing.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I was wondering if there was a thread on this one. Really love it, great sounds, lots of attention to detail, overall an awesome party album. I do like much of the work this band has done post-Emerson but I was always left wondering, "where are the great singles?" This album is pretty much all singles. "Scribble" is currently my favorite of the bunch, although I liked it better when I misread it as "Scrabble". "Between Stars" and "Diamond Jigsaw" are just an amazing 1-2 punch. I originally thought "Always Loved a Film" was kind of a mediocre single but going back and listening to it again at high volume I realize I definitely underrated that one. Just a great solid tune. To me this sounds like a really good New Order album in spots, very 2010 but also has a few nods to their roots. I agree that "Hamburg Hotel" isn't much but it does sound nice, and I like having an unstructured track to go along with everything else here. I love this album because you can listen to it all at once, or pick and choose tracks from it, and it always sounds good. Totally not what you'd expect from a group many still think are a 90's relic!! Incredible that they (along with the Chems) are putting out some of the best work of their career!!
― frogbs, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
80s relic
― bitchmaid (sic), Monday, 4 October 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i listened to this last night and there are a coupla nice tracks but as with the chems it hasn't struck me as a real improvement on the previous album.
― sock lobster (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
well the thing about this vs Oblivion With Bells is that Barking doesn't have a track analogous to "Ring Road"
― THE CHOMPING DUCK GETS HIS FATTY OUT FOR VADAR (HI DERE), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally giving this a proper listen. Very good stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It having a couple nice tracks automatically means Barking is an improvement on Oblivion.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
go back and listen to "Faxed Invitation" and "Best Mamgu Ever"
― bike chain dust? (lukas), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
still like "Crocodile" more than anything else off that album (MAYBE "Beautiful Burnout")
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
the last song is like karl hyde doing his best mark hollis
So ridiculously OTM
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
;)
― cutty, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
You fail to mention that, unfortunately, it's not a very good Mark Hollis.
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
you are not a very good ilxor
― cutty, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks Mom!!
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
sonned
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
what does that even mean
― cutty, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's the daddy?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 14 October 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
My friend did a great remix of Bird1 for the Beatport remix contest. Give it a listen!
http://bit.ly/9bQlZV
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh that is good
― MC Tramp Stamp (HI DERE), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
The contest is judged on total plays so if you are feeling generous, please pass it along to your group of friends. I think he deserves to win for this mix.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
and it's okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyou give me everything I neeeeeed
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hi dere u check the essential mix from this summer
essential imo
I did not but I will, because anything that gets more of these tracks in my brain is a good thing
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
saw them last night and it was amazing, as expected. was really impressed by how the crowd reacted to the newer songs. seems like everyone was very familiar with the majority of barking material (bird, always loved, scribble and between stars) and was loving it.
― cutty, Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I saw them on Monday and it was excellent. The audience didn't have much reaction to "Bird 1", but all the other new stuff went over very well. People sang along with "Always Loved a Film". I'd never seen any live videos of theirs, so I couldn't believe how much energy Karl had! He was moving about the stage like a madman, definitely added a lot to the show. Disappointed there was no "Jumbo", but everything they played was golden.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ok the sound on this is shit but just check the crowd out... so good
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14053388/scribble.mov
― cutty, Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah my impression at first is that this album would kind of grow off me but so far the "big 5" tracks on here - "Bird 1" "ALAF" "Scribble" "Between Stars" and "Diamond Jigsaw" are all still ace for me. Album of the year IMO
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"Grace" has been getting stuck in my head a lot recently, which is kind of surprising to me.
― DJP, Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
its kind of got that New Order vibe to it
― frogbs, Monday, 28 February 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lately I have become obsessed with "Bird 1"
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
it's a great song. the live version from 10/31/08 at Brixton is really good.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
i love lots of lines in taht song but the one that really gets me is 'a moped started up, sounded like a chainsaw, tiny firecrackers'
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
haha yes, that was the line that really made me sit down and start memorizing the lyrics a la "Pearl's Girl"; I'm about 80% there on the last verse
a fly came inalong the shaft of sunlightcoming through the open doorhe watched cross the roomand get halfway and then itturned around and left he laughed
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
for some reason the phrases "brain mustache" and "he smelled time again" do not want to stick in my brain
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
I think Bird 1 is really the big winner on the album, especially if you don't like the "new direction"
Given a year now to absorb all the "changes" between these songs and their demos, I still think they made some bad choices on this album (esp. on "Moon in Water" which was incredible in its demo/radio form) but most of it holds up for me. "Between Stars" is still a killer.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.borndirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11072
lyrics thread.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
I have a theory about the song being about an autistic/enlightened boy. the 'he smelled time' line fits with that interpretation and from there you can make the rest fit. it's a terrifically vivid song lyrically but as usual, it's nearly impossible to extract any real meaning from the lyrics.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
it really does call back to the lyrical style of "Dirty Epic" re: the whole lucid dreaming thing they do so well
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link