― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
Ok, maybe they both reference something else, but that's where I first heard the phrase at least.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
Nah, it screams "what a big lie" -- and it was, since the Avalanches album sounded way more like run-of-the-mill humorless diva house than *Paul's Boutique," no matter how many records it subtly sampled.
― chuck, Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
I just bought this issue cuz of the John Mayer/David Cross singles review thing and SPIN is so all over ILX's jock. They even did the Year In Fred Durst Craziness!
And Chuck is OTM re: The Avalanches. I found it incredibly hard to give a shit about any track for more than 10 seconds.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
33 Lucinda Williams "World Without Tears"30 Cat Power "You Are Free"21 The Mars Volta "Deloused in the Crematorium"16 Blur "Think Tank"10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"05 Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever To Tell"01 The White Stripes "Elephant"
Cat's a little laconic for me, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs could have stood to wait until some more early-EP-quality material came along, but I like the others fine. I would love to hear the Spiritualized and the Outkast, but not too concerned about missing all the rest of it.
― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
(As for being "dated," though, I dunno, I tend not to acknowledge that adjective. If music is good, it stays good. If it sucks, ditto.)
In related news: Hey, what ABOUT that "bootleg" fad, huh? Where the hell did THAT go??? (No worries; in seven years it'll be back again, and people will claim like always that it never happened before.)
― chuck, Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
The Avalanches' appeal to me isn't the "wow lookit all the samples" approach as it is the general "every genre can be pop" feel to it. It's just a great-flowing album where so many disparate pieces just seem to fit perfectly. And "serious" is the last word I would ever, ever consider when thinking about "Frontier Psychiatrist" or "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time".
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
Dan, "Frontier Psychiatrist" is like the everything-goes-haywire moment where every convention of the album gets ratcheted up to obsessively bombastic levels -- Since I Left You's "House of Blue Leaves" sequence. The rest of it's a lot subtler.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
I totally adore "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time."
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
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― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Shmuel (shmuel), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Xeropunk4life, Friday, 23 April 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― tegan, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link