official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

thats more friends than i even have

yeah last night was so totally awesome. shortwave set rmx was my favourite memory that i remember. and A+ for dragging the entire group out, seems like that hasn't happened in ages...

"memory that i remember" wtf @ my wordsmithery there. i'm still a bit fucked i think :/

I just can't hear it....it's like...why are warm up records you played before electrohouse in 2004 now a huge band?

I have listened to these remixes all day every day

warm up records you played before electrohouse in 2004

You say this like it's a bad thing, as opposed to, like, the best thing ever.

"What is so great about this clicky music that goes nowhere?"

"What is so great about winning the European Cup in 2005?"

"What is so great about putting your penis in a vagina?"

Also, FSVO 'huge'.

Matt DC is so homophobic.

but yeah, he's right. it is the best thing ever.

ronan, have you heard the friendly fires remix? surely it's like the best end-of-night close your eyes and smile tune ever. i got the dj in the place i work to play it on friday night when the place was empty and i swear i was getting rushes while cleaning down the bar! anyways going to see them in liverpool next month and i'm soooo excited.

I would love to hear a remix of the friendly fires remix that was about 45 minutes long.

I wish I'd been rickrolled. Brian Wilson is rolling in his grave.

perhaps it should have more gratuitous string sections

lol!

i louche music

perhaps it should have more gratuitous string sections

― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Monday, January 26, 2009 7:05 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

Care to elaborate?

i want 2 kno why u think brian wilson is rolling in his grave

ya what is that in reference to?

oh i guess the god only knows thing?

brain wilson hasnt got a grave

one of many problems with owens story

warm up records you played before electrohouse in 2004

you say that like it's a bad thing

no amount of incredulity is spinning that into being a good thing...

The Friendly Fires remix is real cool, sure, but that God Only Knows thing is bloody awful. The semiotics side of my brain says this remix is exploitive of the listener's nostalgia, like having Tom Cruise appear in Tropic Thunder---->not funny. The corny music-school side of my brain hates the fact that the remix gets the chords wrong.

that sounds like the two worst half-brains i could ever imagine

i think u picked the wrong thread to be a h8r

i think u picked the wrong thread to be a h8r

― max, Monday, January 26, 2009 7:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Uh, yeah. I thought this board was mostly troll-free.

lol are you butthurt that you popped into a thread to make an offhanded one-line comment about a song and then people zinged you right back?

fwiw i think his comment w/r/t tom cruise and chord changes was interesting, it's just that having to hang around with a semiotician and a music school nerd all day in yr head sounds like a recipe for suicide

lol are you butthurt that you popped into a thread to make an offhanded one-line comment about a song and then people zinged you right back?

― max, Monday, January 26, 2009 7:13 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

No.

fwiw i think his comment w/r/t tom cruise and chord changes was interesting, it's just that having to hang around with a semiotician and a music school nerd all day in yr head sounds like a recipe for suicide

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, January 26, 2009 7:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Tell me about it, I'm in therapy.

http://www.bluntpencil.com/Rodney-Dangerfield.gif

fuck therapy, take acid and listen to Aeroplane

wait is there a version of the god only knows remix people are hearing besides the youtube one?

i made an mp3 out of the god only knows edit from the podcast gbx found

god only knows (aeroplane rmx) - beach boys

― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Saturday, December 27, 2008 5:30 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont know if you want to listen to it tho, it exploits the listener's nostalgia, and gets the chords wrong

am i going to like that if i a) love aeroplane, b) really, really hate - like, nails-on-blackboard hate - the beach boys original?

i dunno it will be an interesting experimetn!!!!! u should liveblog it!

that is a u+k a & b if i ever read one

xp haha

it sounds like it would mix into Personal Jesus or some other schaffle? type track

no amount of incredulity is spinning that into being a good thing...

Yeah it was the "warm-up" thing that riled me a bit - you've said that three or four times now about Balearic/disco stuff and I don't get it. Sort of... judging fairly unabashed pop-disco by the standards of techno, or something? It brings out the same sort of reaction in me as when people turned up on minimal threads back in the day to go "why isn't this banging like Green Velvet or Pendulum?"

with mattdc here, ronan. aeroplane sound sufficiently warmed up to me.

xpost. Ah, the famous Dog Latin gambit. This minimal is not good because it's not as banging as Fat of the Land.

I'm not judging it by the standards of techno, I just think it sounds like something that was done already, I can't see what new things this brings to the table esp as a really big populist sound. It reminds me of electrohouse in 2004/2005, in places, but whatever's been added (not sure, pop?) and whatever's been taken away (house/techno/trance/nubeat) it's just not my own thing, and I really have tried.

I mean Aeroplane actually kind of remind me of Mylo more than anyone, in that the stuff is not particularly well produced but is full of pop hooks. I'm not anti-pop either, just this stuff makes me mainly feel disappointed with where electroclash/electrohouse went.

I also feel italo has been way overmined and I'm bored of it by now. Maybe others feel this way about house but so be it.

Plus I still think, and I've said this before, that there are disco clubs in London where you go there and the revival of the same ultra poppy sounds has been going on so long it feels like what a bad bar must have been like back in the day.

but I am still mystified as to how popular Aeroplane are and hence my kvetching above...like WHY NOW? is populist dance music really just as lacking in new movements as the closest underground variations?

Some of it reminds me of the Ratface Dreamangel "Fired Down" stuff... that is, early 90s dance 45s played at 33 rpm.

...in that the stuff is not particularly well produced...

lol

i had stayed off this thread as 1) i didn't want to rain on the parade and 2) their manager is a very good friend of mine so i feel i should be supportive, but ronan just nailed exactly how i feel about them in his mylo referencing post. i had started to think i was the only one as everyone i know seems to be aeroplane mad at the moment. i love their grace jones remix but most of the rest has this horrible digital sheen that hurts my ears. their production actually makes me feel kind of nauseous.

have you heard the aeroplane/caramellas 12"

i'm not trying to say everything they do is godly, and i think those kind of statements are easy to tear down, but the fact is they are one of the most exciting nu balearica acts out there... and their production while simple is beautifully meticulous. for a while i was afraid they were becoming more and more formulaic but the sebastien tellier and grace jones remixes have upset the mold they were constructing for themselves with a few of their remixes just before that

have you heard the aeroplane/caramellas 12"

i have or have heard everything they have done except for the tellier remix.