According to the sleeve, No tape was used in the making of thos album. Utah Saints constructed this album from 5000 sonic pieces. Thank you Akai samplers.
I love the way they're not afraid to do the obvious thing. I mean it's too easy to take a sample from an obscure library record or 70's funk b-side, but it takes a fair bit of nous to use AWB's pick up the pieces or the Pretenders I go to sleep and make it sound fresh. They're like a DJ Shadow who wanted to make people dance instead of just idly stroking his goatee beard while crate digging.
Warning for Tom the second album is great but they're Michael Stipe's favourite band, so much so that he appears on 4 tracks on their second album.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
i had no idea it was kate bush until 3 mins ago when i d/led it again. forehead slap!
i love how halfassed the lift is: the cloudbusting strings just plain do not go with those chords! and whatever cd this copy came from it goes into energy flash.
― f--gg (gcannon), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― f--gg (gcannon), Monday, 28 March 2005 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RKvDuzjVA
This shit is still sublime!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Love this album.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I miss tunes like this popping up on late night alt radio. So classic, yet left out of all the Utah Saints threads here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naaN1ITevGQ&feature=related
― Cousin Slappy, Sunday, 11 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know they made a new version of "Something Good" in 2008! It's not that good, but the video is pretty funny (except for the final gag):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7MC8Lw5e9Q
This remix of the '08 version is dope though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjstOArT0RE
― Tuomas, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
That last gag is terrible!
― how's life, Saturday, 20 February 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
as soon as i saw the gold pants i figured out the gag.maybe i should pick this album up.is there a difference between the us and uk release ?i.e. sample issues.have seen a cd copy of the us release in the racks locally, but was concerned that there would be differences.
― mark e, Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
The US version is the one with black cover, right? Apparently it doesn't include "Believe in Me", which doesn't make sense, because it's their best single! (Though personally I like a couple of the album tracks even more than it.) You should get the UK version with the blue cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1AfIuseCo
― Tuomas, Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
isn't this a variant on "My Mind Must Be Free"?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
I know the "chorus" of that tune is sampled from Human League's "Love Action", and the "hu uh uh hu" bit is from Crown Heights Affair's "You Gave Me Love", but according to the credits there's also a sample from Sylvester's "Do You Wanna Funk" there, and I'm not sure what it is... Is it just the "aaoowooh" shout that you can hear at 0:34?
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
I think it's the other way around... IIRC "Believe in Me" came out as a single before the album. But yeah, "My Mind Must Be Free" is clearly in the same mold, tho IMO it's even better, probably the best tune on the album.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
here's also a sample from Sylvester's "Do You Wanna Funk" there, and I'm not sure what it is... Is it just the "aaoowooh" shout that you can hear at 0:34?
Yep, it's Sylvester -- I caught it immediately. It recurs.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Wow, I didn't know this, but apparently US were in the infamous American techno movie "Vibrations":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KR4K19Hun0
...which of course is the source for this awesome scene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0S6b7_Z404
― Tuomas, Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Ooooh IIIIIhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/01/utah-saints-how-we-made-something-good-kate-bush
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 1 August 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
Inevitable.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link