― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 27 June 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(Is that the difference, that I'm basing my impressions on live performances rather than recorded output?)
― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Why shouldn't they be? Looks & image are clearly important to the band, and their onstage persona (and some of the songs too) gives me the impression that they know they're attractive & are taking advantage of the situation.
Even so, I love 'em. The two 45s are both fantastic, & live they're so much fun. Looking forward to hearing The Long Blondes sometime too.
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.
― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but whatever it is that I love about girlgroup music - the fun, the fizz, the joy - it's lacking from them.
― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
lets see if all this build up pays off once we actually get to hear some records ..
― mark e (mark e), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh wait, see the above thread, it doesn't actually matter what the music sounds like, it will all be judged based on looks alone, sigh.
Oh, come on I wasn't being entirely serious, I never implied that looks are all that mattered. Although I think in THIS PARTICULAR CASE looks are somewhat important. You've admitted, MISinformation that "the fun, the giggles, the girliness" is part of what you love about this music. What's wrong with adding "looks" to the mix. Plus I have to say I wasn't just refering physical beauty. In fact, its the outfits and the attitude what I like the most.
― daavid (daavid), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
> Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.
i think they do, it's just that Ian McCulloch, say, or Jim Reid, or Kurt* or whoever are 'Cool' rather than 'Attractive'.
*Ralske obviously 8)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
they played in london tonight and of course i didnt find out until it was too late. gah.
does anyone when the album is supposed to come out?
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
If you wanna talk about eye candy though, you should have seen the first openers, the Gypsy Queens (?) who were doing a sort of spoof Girls Aloud / Sugababes style thing. Maybe they were deadly serious? All I know is that the men in the crowd were really gawking at the undulating bodies of these scantily clad ladies.
Anyway, back to the Pipettes... If they are so popular, and their latest single is in the top 50 singles this week, how can they still have copies of their 2nd 7" (ltd to 1000 copies) still available for £3 at their shows? Is everybody just downloading them?
― marianna (mariannapm), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
go to yahoo and sign in with the name the_pipettes and password abc123
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― marianna (mariannapm), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
St. Etienne to thread!
Also, "Dirty Mind" is very awesome.
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
It seems pretty clear that those girls are early to mid 20s. About my age, but slightly younger maybe.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Once interviewed Becki for a radio station back in Brighton. Why they are not more successful is beyond me.
― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 25 November 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Saturday, 26 November 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 26 November 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 27 November 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
gimmick central.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/37049/Video_The_Pipettes_Pull_Shapes#37049
oh amy, this is your favorite song of the year?
― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
The album is maybe the worst production job I've heard in a while -- I was mostly pretty indifferent to their singles, but hoped they would pull things together for the full-length, and then that comes out -- turns out it's a synth-laden disaster. Like somebody decided, "you know what we have to do with this band? We have to make them into radio-pop!" And first of all, no, and second of all, the finished product doesn't even work by radio-pop standards. So now I actively dislike them.
Also, the album's full of really blatant filler.
Also also, the whole exercise strikes me as kind of sexist, and some of the lyrics are really questionable. A song like "Sex", in which the protagonist(s?) more or less revel in the fact that some guy is not actually interested in talking to them but just wants... well, you know... I mean, perhaps it's ironic? Should be clearer if so. Worst appropriation of the "Be My Baby" drum intro ever, at any rate.
In closing, eh.
― Pessimist (Pessimist), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― kevin barking (arghargh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
...But I suppose (and this certainly seems like a cop out on my part, doesn't it?) it just comes down to personal aesthetic taste doesn't it? There's a part of me that really hopes this song becomes as big as "Dancing Queen" - and another, more irrational, part of me that KNOWS this song will become as big as "Dancing queen".
― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Rosa's album is very good, yes, though I was a little taken aback that it came out that long ago!
May give the second Pipettes another go.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Poor Riot Becki.
― :wq (Leee), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Well this Gwenno album is a lot better than I could have ever expected. Most of it sounds like the midpoint between Broadcast's "Tears In The Typing Pool" and Saint Etienne's "Avenue" with a Krautrock influence.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 18 October 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Just listened to that Gwenno record for the first time. Nice. I like that description
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 January 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
I don't know how I'm just discovering Gwenno solo. I think I dismissed the first youtube above on first listen and stop paying attention... but man, she's got a handful of excellent songs!
Interesting to see how both Rose and Gwenno have independently released material that is very obviously Broadcast-influenced, yet nothing the Pipettes ever did sounded even remotely like Broadcast.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Rose's new album is available now! It's delightful
― monotony, Thursday, 12 January 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Rose's new album is fantastic. Without Why was crazy underrated. This one might be even better.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 12 January 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
I too have been impressed with 'Stellular'!
― michaellambert, Thursday, 12 January 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Rose's album is amazing
this is also nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhBuvVCHC9w
― piscesx, Thursday, 18 May 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
Cool, that's the best song on the album.
I read something recently where she said Broadcast are her favourite band. That makes a lot of sense going on her solo work.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCeygWexyA
New Gwenno on Friday.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to this. The single is gorgeous.
― kitchen person, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
I've got the album. It's good; a fair bit slower than her first. I can't hear much of a difference between sung Cornish and Welsh, to be honest with you. Sensing a nice grower.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
yeah we just heard a song off this and it's sounding very promising
― imago, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Man, Gwenno's Le Kov is great. I'm not sure I like it as much as the last one, but it's growing on me the more I return to it!
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
Rose's third solo album came out on Friday. That's three great albums in a row. Shame she doesn't get the attention she deserves.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
i liked "stellular" a lot, i'll have to check this new one
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
It's a bit more mellow and stripped back that Stellular but equally as gorgeous.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 06:25 (five years ago) link
Last album was brilliant yeah; fantastic production too.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee)
The first two albums were quite Broadcasty yeah. She's named them as her favourite band before.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
haha my housemate's in a band with riotbecki. see thru hands. manchester based.
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
I feel like somehow it would make perfect sense to reform the Pipettes in some capacity given how Gwenno and Rose have each made excellent records on their own that sound surprisingly similar considering how different they are sound from the original Pipettes material.
I most admit though that I find Rose's records a bit anachronistic. Like the would sound great in the turn it the century, not so much now.
― daavid, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
*turn OF the century
― daavid, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
Combining modular synth, saxophone, and a medieval lute, Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall create an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-waeve-the-waeve/
― Indexed, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
This album is very good. Bit Talk Talk-y at times, kind of a languid Soul feel to others.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:27 (ten months ago) link