Robyn

Found out on Wikipedia that the "Part 3" CD is also available from amazon.de. Apparently also released in Germany.

Btw. just made myself a complete "Body Talk". The 15 tracks from the "main" CD in correct running order, and then adding the four non-acoustic additional tracks at the end with a 6 second break. Perfect. :)

Super cool and relevant new video for Dancehall Queen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlAV2-eawaQ

I do like it but this kind of stuff almost makes fun of itself.

"Songs You Wouldn't Be Surprised to Hear on a Re-Release of 'Rocksteady' by No Doubt"

As much as I love "Call Your Girlfriend," the final album is somewhat of a messy and samey listen, front-to-back. It desperately needs a good reordering and a few more dynamic changes. Hearing "Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do" and "In My Eyes" outside of the number one slot just doesn't sound right.

Personally, I would have kept the first three from Pt 1 as the first three tracks, and I would have re-recorded the intro to "In My Eyes." The whole "Konichiwa Records" thing sounds like it was supposed to be an introduction to an album...and now it's the second to last track.

Lastly, I'm pretty disappointed that "Cry When You Get Older" didn't make the final cut. I don't know what you could 'cut,' but with the album going over an hour already, why not throw it on there? In which case I would have also made "Hang With Me (Acoustic)" the closer...

The whole "Konichiwa Records" thing sounds like it was supposed to be an introduction to an album...and now it's the second to last track.

― Indexed, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 3:22 PM (21 minutes ago)

I just listened to this properly for the first time and thought exactly the same thing. The ordering isn't perfect but it still makes a good listen.

Cry When you Get Older is also the track I'm missing the most from the first two parts. Having Dance Hall Queen instead is a really bad decision but I feel it was probably chosen as it's a different style of song to all the others, it does change the mood for a bit but it's just not very good.

Not really feeling it, the whole record. Kind of sad.

Noticed that Body Talk is now on Spotify. The new tracks seem good on initial listens, esp. "Time Machine". Not sure if it's the compression on Spotify, but the chorus on "Get Myself Together" has a shitty crackly snare sound which is killing my love for it. Does it sound like this on CD/lossless?

Also echoing the generally underwhelmed vibe for the final "album" - the selection and order of tracks seems tossed together. Doesn't in any way detract from the EPs though, which are easily in my top 5 most played stuff this year.

Pt. 3 is the best one yet, to my ears. Most of it is smart dance-dolly trash.

It's come closest to forcing me to think, "I understand why indie kids like her."

Love Kills maybe favourite track of the whole lot

but she really really must drop these arpeggiated synth patterns forever now

cant believe she left "cry when u get older" and "include me out" off the final album, those were two of the best EP songs, but hey, maybe it gives fans a reason to go check 'em out in reverse (for those who buy the full album first)

Yeah, "Include Me Out" was the one I was most disappointed not to see on the full length.

I'm enjoying the full album a lot now, it could well end being my favourite album of the year.

I never realised just how great None Of Dem is, the last minute is just amazing. We Dance to the Beat has grown on me a lot, I didn't rate it on part 2. Out of the new songs Call Your Girlfriend is easily my favourite.

If you ignore Dancehall Queen I think the second half is a lot stronger. The Snoop track is still my favourite song from the whole project.

Having Dance Hall Queen instead of Cry When You Get Older is a terrible decision

I am so down with Robyn, people. But in all seriousness, how could she leave Cry When You Get Older off the Body Talk album? That could be the hook of the year, fer crying out loud. Geez Louise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

same reason she left off "include me out" from pt. 2 -- gotta give fans an incentive to go hear the other great tracks on the EPs!

I haven't even heard part 2 yet. I'm new to Robyn and trying to wrap my head around the idea that my favorite music of 2010 is basically disco. (I'm old and rockist)

think of it like madonna. her run of '80s albums is rockist approved, right?

that, or MJ Off the Wall/Thriller, maybe?

I like at least 3 songs from Body Talk pt 1 more than any Madonna song.

Robyn Is Here is one of very few fond memories of the late 90s. begins with a bang....

Revisited Pt 3 this week because I don't think I ever gave it a proper chance, and I'm really glad I did. Call Your Girlfriend and Time Machine are killing it.

I think what I really like about the best parts of the album is that her vocal melodies are very traditional and not "formulaic" as such, but quite obvious, and she's got a very conventional pop singer voice, but the music itself borrows straight from more obtuse dance music from recent times. The synth arpeggi are a bit over-used but an imaginary 12" instrumental of most of the songs on this could work in a muscular techno set, and this duality in the music really works with her persona. Robyn herself comes across as such a three-dimensional character, managing to seem both tough and self-assured yet vulnerable and wounded without it ever seeming false to who she paints herself as, and the music echoes that - neither so fluffy as to suggest vacuousness or so challenging as to indicate unapproachability.

"Call Your Girlfriend" is to my ears the best thing she's ever recorded.

Wow, she busts out the Electric Slide! Killing the "Edge of Glory" clip for entertainment value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA

That album is great. That song is great. That video is great. She is great.

This is a new found this for me, this Robyn love, and I'm sorta head over heels tbh.

This and Dancing on my Own get me so amped.

Yeah, she's the best in my book. I'm glad she went with this as a single and the clip is like some awesome figure skating meets Pleasure Principle thing that just amplifies the song even more.

I think she's hot in the Dancing on my Own video

Robyn and Royksopp are releasing a mini album together next month.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54757-robyn-and-royksopp-announce-new-mini-album-do-it-again-share-monument-preview/

The Girl & The Robot is one of my favourite songs of recent years so I'm very excited for this.

Great artwork. Interesting to see a couple of songs on there almost ten minutes long.

http://boomkat.com/downloads/981464-r-yksopp-robyn-do-it-again

pretty excited about this, could be very nice. the clip sounds good too.

the new john newman "stay with me" is "hang with me" slowed down to funereal pace and bullshit gospel accompaniment

sorry my mistake, the newman song is actually ripping off "won't back down" by tom petty...

wrong thread

it's also by sam smith rather than newman i think

lol yes

New single is fantastic.

http://nymphaeax.tumblr.com/post/83509940902/royksopp-robyn-do-it-again

Just realized that there will be no ill-conceived Diplo productions on the mini-album. Yay!

New single is fantastic.

http://nymphaeax.tumblr.com/post/83509940902/royksopp-robyn-do-it-again

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:03 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is not real, by the way. Some Popjustice forum poster decided to put together the already-released snippets of the song.

Oh right. I thought it was more or less the full song. Sounds promising then. Apparently it comes out on Monday so not long to until we hear it properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqqolW78Oo

Love the bridge.

Curious about the song at the end.

Lyrically it's not the most inspiring song but the music I love everything else about it. The last minute sounds so great and gives me Pet Shop Boys vibes.

it's the sort of scandibanger that should've been all over the icona pop album(s)

the way she sings "ah-gain" repeatedly kinda reminds me of hyph mngo

this is pretty nice

Lyric video.

http://youtu.be/HIG7PVa8SS8

This is already on iTunes. No idea if this going to be a hit or not.

The "We should not be friends" bit is where the song really gets amazing.

seems like basically anything can be a hit in the UK these days so who knows.

the bridge is really something - the tremor in robyn's voice, the way everything just seems to endlessly rise and rise

Pretty dope. I'm a longtime fan of Girl and The Robot and this ain't on that level but it's worth a dozen listens easy.

i'm going with a big nnnnnnopes on this one :/