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geeta do you demand reparations?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

rave on feel the voibe

haha ronan to thread!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

She wants 40 acres of opium and a goat!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

two textile mills and a lotus

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

that goddamn goat better not eat all the opium

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

you and the goat can get stoned and make IDM

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

or bad german expressionist film knockoffs

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

This goat's name is Tom Jenkinson, isn't it?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

you and the goat can get stoned and make IDM

Better: Goatrance.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh jody no. no jody no.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

You told me to post, dork.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

jbr was a little shy at first but she turned out ok, cmon giver a hand folx

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

i dont do any of those things!!

josh you're still not dancing

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's because someone is playing fucking unfinished sympathy

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Insidious rhythm in place, DJ Goat can easily cherry-pick melodies (and cultural memories) proven by time and popularity to stick to the brainpan like glittery peanut butter. It's functionalist goat music, if that wasn't readily apparent. And if it works as trance music too, well, that's just a happy side effect."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rauschenberg/monogram.jpg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha jess your mom has no place in this thread

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

actually i was posting a picture of your arranged marriage

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's what you think but baby she sticks to me like glittery peanut butter

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

can we get a moderator to change that to 'ass'?

No we fucking can't! Bastards, taking our beauteous language and making it all stoooopid...

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

i can't really make a "roof of your mouth" joke about my own mother, but the perry-like temptation is almost too strong...

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

WHA BLO WIT CHICHI FASSYMON TALKIN BOUT YARDA MAN
NONE U FASS KNO NUFFIN BOUT THE MASSIVE SOUND

U KNO NUFFIN TILL U HEARD 3D SMASHIN IT IN FLESH AND DADDY G ROLLIN KRIS OVER A 4BEAT LIK WIT X AMOUNT A CRACKMAN YARDIES MASHIN UP INSIDE THE ARENA

ALLOW DIS FORUM

― HUNTA D in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 22 November 2002 07:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, wait. Jess is a prick.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha tom you really have to stop acting like this is something all these people don't know already

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jess is a hot dog on a stick.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 08:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

b.t.e.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

*yawns. rubs eyes*

i'm english and i don't like massive attack and unfinished sympathy is overrated but has nice strings. blow me, america.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

isn't Blow Me, America the BBC's highest-rated morning show?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was Michael Moore's failed Lewinsky doc.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

no, that would be "i wanna fuck you in the ass, america".

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

no, that's Scotland. get it right, Wells

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

there's nothing to gain from fucking scotland in the ass.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

fucking scotland in the ass.

This is what I'll call my autobiography.

(nb: I've never been to Scotland, nor fucked a Scotsman in the ass.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not touching that one

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm just full of great jokes tonight, aren't I?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

(and by "great" I mean "awkwardly unfunny")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was referring to Wells's reply, not yours, JBR

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

ah.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, get lost, jbr...

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Fucking Scotland in the Ass" is what Billy Connelly should have called his autobiography obv.

― gazza, Friday, 22 November 2002 09:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Up your nose with a rubber hose, Wells.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

"JOSH was on a DANCEFLOOR tonite, Geeta! "

Rubbing his chin chin à la the Wittgenstein prat no doubt.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

how come i'm "Wells" now?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyone remember back when jk used to unironically talk about 'the holy trip-hop trinity'

― artiste, Friday, 22 November 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

So this is where the AIM conversation ended up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Unfinished Sympathy" is gorgeous. The beat is naive and rolling, particularly with the little percussion flourishes. The chord progression in the string arrangement is fantastic, especially with the supsensions flying all over the place and the violin melody at the end. Shara Nelson's singing is gorgeous, with the octave leap in the chorus being one of those perfect moments in a pop song.

The song is impeccable and Kortbein, you FUCK OFF for that "beautiful Negress voice" crack.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I've said enough about this. But can I just say I find it extremely boring once more?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is all very interesting, but i'm still waiting for ronans opinion

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love it gareth, if I were to make a top ten of........oh I don't know say singles, singles OF ALL TIME, and I could only include one DANCE RECORD, I WOULD MAKE SURE IT WAS THIS.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 November 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

what lion king song????

[i think Unfinished Sympathy is the worst track on Blue Lines... the sound of the milk bottles being bashed together in the beat is nice though]

― michael (michael), Friday, 22 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

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could someone without our curse of history even point out the connection between what turned out to be "downtempo" and "unfinished sympathy" now?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

especially since unfinished sympathy is the only house-tempo track on the album!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

it seems downtempo but it's uptempo :: it feels like a song at rest, but the chords never resolve, which is kind of clever if you think about the name of the song. insert [eh it's pop music innit?!@] here

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

sasha frere-jones had a good analogy about the creation of downtempo being more akin to cutting the appropriate length of fabric off a bolt. which is about right, some people (kruder & dorf, fer instance) have plusher, more intricate fabric and they know just when to cut rather than let it all go on a bit too long so everything looks saggy and baggy. but it seems to rub up uncomfortably with massive's whole shtick, which always felt (to me) like the attempt to merge house/jazz/electro/non-verbal music of yr choice with The Song (which i guess was the project of the 90s, really.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mezzanine woz bettah

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

mezzanine also more fabric-like, qed!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

while i'm here, maybe someone could explain blue lines to me. my theory is that if you didn't hear this at the time it came out, you are going to have a hard time getting into it. i never heard a single track off this album til this year. to me it just sounds like a 10th grade science project ("these computers are cool, you can sample records into them!!") protection = freshman year of college. mezzanine = declared business major

― ron (ron), Sunday, 24 November 2002 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but could those who don't like "Unfinished Sympathy" explain what's not to like? Just curious.

― man, Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

everyone knows that "safe from harm" is secretly much better, but never talks about it for some reason

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 10:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

It's about the vocal performance! One of the best ever! Fule!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

i love it and i don't care what anyone says >:(
"aiyaiyaiyaiyai"

-- minna (minna), Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:08 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

who dat who dat who dat who dat

-- s trife (simon_tr), Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:14 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee234/michelle__7/alfy.jpg

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

"Safe From Harm" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Unfinished Sympathy"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Lately > everything else

― Mr. Goodman, Sunday, 9 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Snrub............o?...t?...m?

― The Reverend, Sunday, 9 December 2007 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Classic forever

― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link

yeah.

― piscesx, Thursday, 8 March 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link

majesty

― calstars, Thursday, 8 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

mix this with walk on by by el perro del mar. st etienne version or original

― music saved my life (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link

I was listening to a John McLaughlin track the other day and suddenly came upon the source of that sample.

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 29 June 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link

this thread upsets me

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link

I was just thinking that Poo. How does it take them time to get it?

― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link

The Lion King thing was pretty funny though

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link

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