Gayngs Chub Licker

I shall maintain my streak. (Partially because I'm quite happily listening to the new Fabio Orci instead.)

He has beautiful flowing hair

I find this to be a proper thing.

I think the problem is that the "Cry" cover is so bad that you kind of think they HAD to be joking when they recorded it, because the idea that they went into the studio going "this is an awesome song, we better do it justice" and ending up with that as the final output generates cognitive dissonance on par with watching the cutest kitten you can possibly imagine eat your screaming mother's eyes.

Any typical Cure b-side lyric from 1984, then.

Yeah ok DJP so otm it hurts

Tempted to do a Gayngs vs Owl City poll

Like I kinda think that my feeling that this is a fucking lol lol pisstake is somewhat based on the fact that I respect some of these peeps and don't like thinking that they could make something this shitty without realizing how bad it is.

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs2/1127092_o.gif

Hold on guys I have this strange feeling that max doesn't get my objections to this song but until I get a few more animated gifs I can't be sure

dude! i said that i get (some of) your objections! that is a "agree to disagree" shrug

Yeah tbf at this point this is pretty much hate this song vs. don't get it so I'm kinda just irritated at myself for beating a dead horse I guess

you should have taken me up on my "agree to disagree" last night

nothing to do with irony or hipsterism and everything to do with deeply annoying vocals over a boring, plodding beat

otm (also the coldplay comparison)

i think a lot of the other arguments made here are reactions to the idea that people can think execution like that is acceptable

fwiw the other songs besides the 'cry' cover have different vocalists and different beats

"gaudy side of town" singer is horrible as well

Hating on "Cry" --> I can respect, it's one of my least favourite moments on the album.

Hating on "Gaudy Side of Town" --> I feel for bad for you.

I had no clue as to what this band sounded or looked like or whether they sported wry smiles in their music videos when I heard this, and to be honest I don't think I want to. I'd find it very hard to accept that Gayngs are making music that sounds like this and yet doing it ironically. There's very little funny in this music at all. Just sounds like 10CC as covered by Spiritualised, which is a great idea in my book and executed very well.

Also - guys, really? Have you actually heard Coldplay? How the fuck is this like Coldplay?

insipid weak vocals and extremely boring arrangements and lack of any apparent songcraft

TBH Gayngs would struggle to come up with a song as good (qua song) as "Viva La Vida" but that's not what they're about.

"viva la vida" is a good song? that was always a "forget how it goes even before it's finished playing" one, so nothingy

It is, but I'm not going to try to convince you of that lex.

The fact that the Pet Shop Boys covered it probably doesn't help in lex's eyes.

lex hates pet shop boys too?!?!

lol that's such a weird cover. i can hear when coldplay do "good songs", ie just basically catchy tunes, like "clocks" and "god put a smile on your face" - "viva la vida" is not one of those

i kinda hate PSB now? they haven't been good for like 15 years

Of all the things you could accuse Coldplay of, "lack of any apparent songcraft" isn't one. The vocals/arrangements criticism - yeah, OK.

Tell me that you feel differently up to and including Very though.

i think apart from a select few of their hits coldplay are actually pretty bad at writing songs qua songs - so much of their stuff is in one ear, out the other. arrangements least offensive thing about them really, could almost be bland-in-a-good-way if it wasn't for his disgusting voice

xp have never heard any PSB album all the way through except for the greatest hits! (and one of the shit recent ones.) the only post-"can you forgive her" PSB song i like is "miracles".

xp have never heard any PSB album all the way through except for the greatest hits! (and one of the shit recent ones.) the only post-"can you forgive her" PSB song i like is "miracles".

lex seriously I know about your contempo steez but between this and not even listening to the steely dan or can albums on your hard drive your willful blindness is verging on egregious atm, cut out just one night of searching for cassie leaks and attend to this.

All 5 early PSB albums are essential.

Tim F OTM to the moon and back.

haha i haven't listened to cassie for months.

i have WAY TOO MUCH MUSIC to listen to this week, dying beneath the pile of it all. still taking in new ones from nôze, k michelle, ginuwine, art department, wolf & lamb dj kicks, egyptrixx, kode9 & spaceape, killa kyleon, shackleton, fabrizio maurizi, phaedra, gang gang dance, the revenge, jenny hval, young gully, lupe fiasco, terre thaemlitz, WAKA. and for non-contempo stuff i appear to have downloaded the entire back catalogues of esperanza spalding, jean grae and everything but the girl. PSB/steely dan/can right back to the bottom of the pile.

oh yeah and the marsha ambrosius one too

FTR I never cared much for the original but Gayngs' Cry is very pretty and slow and floaty and quite emotional to my ears.

You're seriously gonna listen to Lupe Fiasco instead.

yeah that one's for work not pleasure :(

not that they sound that similar (and not wanting to put lex off them because they're wicked), but having a rough grounding in things like steely dan might well help towards gayngs enjoyment.

oh don't dog latin, now they've been mentioned in connection to both gayngs and destroyer, lex will never listen to them.

I do find it interesting though, all of this stuff (incl. coldplay) I mentally file under "white stuff goons check for".

yeah i'm genuinely thinking i might just delete steely dan unheard now

the so-called goons are mostly indie fuxxors at heart, is the thing

poor lex, let down by everyone.

2 real

don't delete it lex. they're really nothign like gayngs or destroyer. at least listen to, i dunno, deacon blues, dr wu, and peg.

and please update us on what you think because I'm convinced it could go one of two ways here.

lol i just checked my itunes and i first added this steely dan album to it in 2008

the can albums were added in 2007

by now i think it's almost a point of principle not to ever play them

you and your principles, jesus! ;-) if i'd stuck to the same principles i had when i first joined ilx i would never have checked out erykah badu or daft punk or ABBA or countless other things i thought i'd hate or didn't fit into my immediate worldview. no use in saying i now love all these unreservedly and each one has opened a lot more stuff to me.

I almost hate to ask but what was your worldview before you heard all those? I admit I'm all "Wait, how could anyone have not heard them?"

i'd heard them of course, but i wasn't necessarily a fan of their music or what they "represented" per se. they're just random examples plucked from the air.

when i joined ilx at 19/20 y/o (ten years ago now) I listened to Warp Records, extreme metal, alt rock/britpop shit, the Beastie Boys, a few canon selections, whatever.

I thought "proper dance" music was stupid and boring. I thought r'n'b was for girls. I actively hated most commercial pop on grounds of it being cheesy and corporate. My taste in hip-hop was extremely limited to say the least. Let's just say there was a mass of stuff I assumed wasn't any good and wasn't worth me checking out.

I can't imagine how i'd be or how i'd feel were i never to have expanded my worldview and tried things out that i normally wouldn't have. Sick of standing at the back of the student clubs with my arms folded, I soon made a point of trying to find the best in anything i heard. i figured if someone liked it, it must have some redeeming qualities, and that all along the problem wasn't the music or the people - it was me.

So very quickly after discovering ILM I realised that nearly everything in pop is relevant and relative to each other. Without Steely Dan you might not get Gayngs, but you arguably wouldn't get De La Soul who not only sampled SD, but also sampled Hall & Oates who are also an influence on Gayngs. And that's why I like music I guess.

sorry, reread my posts and realised I might be coming across a bit high'n'mighty... apologies. i'm not here to talk about my life nor to slag people's tastes and opinions off so i'll leave this thread alone for a bit.

Dude, that's one of the best posts I've ever read on here about the subject! Hell, maybe one of the best things I've ever read anywhere on it.