The Pipettes

lets see if all this build up pays off once we actually get to hear some records ..

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.

> 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)

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?

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?

go to yahoo and sign in with the name the_pipettes and password abc123

St. Etienne to thread!

Also, "Dirty Mind" is very awesome.

It seems pretty clear that those girls are early to mid 20s. About my age, but slightly younger maybe.

Once interviewed Becki for a radio station back in Brighton. Why they are not more successful is beyond me.

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?

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.

...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".

1. It is very happy.
2. The strings, they are quite good.
3. You can hear "There's a whole floor before us" as "There's a whole floppy forest", and that's quite silly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCeygWexyA

New Gwenno on Friday.

Looking forward to this. The single is gorgeous.

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.

yeah we just heard a song off this and it's sounding very promising

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!

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.

i liked "stellular" a lot, i'll have to check this new one

It's a bit more mellow and stripped back that Stellular but equally as gorgeous.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

Last album was brilliant yeah; fantastic production too.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

― 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.

haha my housemate's in a band with riotbecki. see thru hands. manchester based.

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.

*turn OF the century

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/

This album is very good. Bit Talk Talk-y at times, kind of a languid Soul feel to others.