Also, Midnight Juggernauts badly need to release an album if "Raised by Wolves" is any indication. AYEEOOOWWW etc.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― grapple (grapple), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link
+yes I do the handclaps to 'are you the one'! there is a 'club edit' on the 12" which alas I still haven't heard due to my turntable being outta commission (along with simian mob disco and van she (roffle) mixes).
-- lil' merzbow wow (birthday.part...), May 29th, 2006
wait, "are you the one?" 12"? if so, what/where/when/&c? would be nice to spin the original or a bonus beats/extended mix . . .
― etc, Monday, 29 May 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― grapple (grapple), Monday, 29 May 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 29 May 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 29 May 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― etc, Monday, 29 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
new thing to have nightmares about: indie kids with glowsticks.
― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
What have Pitchfork got to do with this?
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 28 August 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 August 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
The DJs were fucking great but the support act was horrible.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
they have done the right thing - 12" is out with club edit of the original + hell and juan maclean remixes!
― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
they were great at Daft Punk & the new single My People is a rockin' good time. not clever or original in any way but it pushes my buttons.
also i like the fact that one dude looks like marc almond in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ufW2INWmM
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
idleidle upthread is australian dance heavyweight and chart superstar muscl3s, fact fans
― electricsound, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
haha really. he was not great at daft punk.
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
this album is way better than the Cut Copy one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"Together" sounds like Dead or Alive!!!
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i was surprised to learn that presets are quite a bit more popular than CC here too.. keen to see if modular hit the debut-at-#1 trifecta with the van she album too (unlikely but anything's possible)
― electricsound, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
can't wait til this is up on emusic
― electricsound, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
no free t-shirt from emusic!
(unlikely but anything's possible)
lucky to debut at #68 morelike
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link
rly? is not so good?
― electricsound, Saturday, 26 April 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
well, Cutters and Presets are bands that have played good slots on a dozen festivals across summer*, were the main supports on the Nevereverland tour**, are building on the success of well-received first albums and years of gigging, have had filmed shows repeatedly televised, have done lots of OS touring, and had huuge amounts of marketing spend... Van She, what, do a lot of support slots and free O Week shows? Their biggest hit is an uncredited remix of a Utah Saints song that doesn't even acknowledge the actual year they did it and hasn't cracked the Top 50? Nothing against them or anything, haven't heard the record -- but they're not even smelling the same league as the other two.
on the chart where Apocalypso debuts #1 - Presets sold out Enmore Theatre in two hours and added a second show that hasn't sold out. Pnau sold out Enmore in about two months, but much of the balcony held for comps - in the wake of that tour and a bonus-disc deluxe reissue of the album, they got up to #31 from #48 -- highest position to date on the fourth chart entry ever, for an album that came out five months ago. and Van She played first support on that show.
* Presets wrapped both Laneway and V - that's closing after both Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran at V ** yeah VS played this too, but at 3pm when the headline band isn't on until 10 - on a tour that happens to be put on by their label...
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 26 April 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
truth bombs
― haitch, Saturday, 26 April 2008 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i was surprised to learn that presets are quite a bit more popular than CC here too..
― haitch, Saturday, 26 April 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
also Presets deal a lot in distorted treble wot the fluorolectro kiddies have been reared on, not deliberately '80s throwback lushness
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 26 April 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Presets wrapped both Laneway and V - that's closing after both Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran at V
Well, that's not actually true. There were bands playing simultaneously on two other stages at Laneway and a DJ on another when The Presets were playing and all acts finished at the same time. Personally, Bridezilla wrapped my Laneway.
As for V, in Melbourne at least, The Smashing Pumpkins' set was from 8.15pm - 9.45pm on one of the main stages and The Presets from 8.45pm - 9.45pm in a shed. Sorry.
― SeekAltRoute, Saturday, 26 April 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
mentally append an "in Sydney" to my comments then!
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 26 April 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(i didn't know there was a new cut/copy!)
anyway. what's with the Tony Hadley vocal impressions on this album?
early faves so far: my people, this boy's in love, talk like that.
the epic intro pipe organ intro to 'talk like that' sort of undercuts the rest of it tho. there's a lot of things like that on here - really good bits of overall ok track
― Alan, Saturday, 26 April 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think that's increased the accuracy of your statement!
― SeekAltRoute, Saturday, 26 April 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmn, this is what I thought would work in CC's favour - 80s throwback lushness = crossover audience? while I wasn't too sure of the, uh, depth of the indieclash crowd. proven wrong, if the figures in the cut copy thread re: presets debut sales figures are true.
need to listen to give this a proper listen.
― etc, Sunday, 27 April 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
increased the accuracy
The one time I went to Laneway in Sydney the "laneway" stage finished half an hour after the others, so yeah, that's straight assumption. They were def scheduled to finish after Pumpkins at V tho!
And even if two other bands finished at exactly the same time, they're still playing last on the biggest stage for fuck's sake. Pretty sure they were the last act on the dance stage at Homebake too (and therefore loudest on site!).
cut copy
― energy flash gordon, Sunday, 27 April 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I hear plenty of the '80s throwback lushness in there too though! More in the SAW sense than Human League/New Order.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 27 April 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I know that Corgan complained every night during V fest that the Presets were too loud. Awesome.
― Roz, Sunday, 27 April 2008 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
lol nevermind on second listen this is way less SAW and more VNV Nation than I thought
still good though
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 27 April 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
'my people' is a strangely aggressive song. not a bad live act, but when i saw them support daft punk i was sort of dozing in the grandstands waiting for the main event
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Been listening to bits & pieces of this - "A New Sky"'s vocoder bits are great, "This Boy's In Love"'s falsetto chorus works really well, & "My People" is pleasingly jock jams-ish. Doesn't seem to a "Girl & the Sea" song-for-the-laydeez on this ("If I Know You", sort've...) ... I'm guessing the album sounds a lot more focused & punchier than In Ghost Colours. I'm really pleased about how much like a coked-up "Halo"/"Heart Of The Party"-style Severed Heads some of it sounds like!
― etc, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll like this, won't i?
i think so.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably!
I'm ... I like it, but it does seem like Modular's got nowhere to go after this. Fave ended up being "Yippiyo-ay" - the corroded Rex The Dog synths, the snappiness of lines like "that chick don't reply to email")(!!)
― etc, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Six weeks in, still at #4 in the Aussie album charts! "My People" at #25. Tho, Australia, WTF are you doing buying enough Shihad albums to get it to debut at #11? This is making me scared for the next Evermore release!
― etc, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, do you know how many kiwi's live over there now?
― Bill E, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I am still completely infatuated with "This Boy's In Love." Best thing they've ever done by miles.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
haha.
expected such responses.
and i almost go with boxedjoys rundown but with less of the '>>' between cut copy and midnight juggernauts as i happen to think the first 2 MJ albums are perfect examples of how to update ELO with modern technology toys.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
That new Nicky Van She thing is horrifying, a dead-eyed evocation to fun and release that just comes off as empty, desperate - a zombie chant of ill-convincing "life". ..."Liiiiiiife..."
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
I loved the first Midnight Juggernaut's album but I went to see them live soon after and it was very much Big Rock Music and it put me off them to the point where I only managed a cursory listen to the follow up and neglected the third. Their frontman released a good EP under the name Turkish Prison earlier this year though which I really liked.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
not heard any of the solo projects as mentioned.
when a band starts to break into disparate solo projects then the end is well and truly nigh.
(the 2nd MJ album is full on ELO meets new toys .. never heard the 3rd ... )
― mark e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
KIM's solo career has always been a v functional side product to The Presets.
and Van She only ever had one good song and were tedious as heck live anyway, but Nick's Daft Punk cover, back when VS were a thing, was both excellent and a harbinger of nothing.
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Van She put out a couple of decent enough pop singles 2 years ago. I haven't kept up with midnight juggernauts since, like, "road to recovery"
Still like most of the biggest Presets hits but find the dude's voice fairly grating. Cut Copy are one of my favourite local groups ever.
Also, lol at Muscles posting upthread! Whatever happened to that guy.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
did not deal well with his elevation from message-board troll to pop star, melted down at his label, made up, faded away
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
blimey, seems to be a lot of detail that i am clearly not aware of this side of the planet
― mark e, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGmGWOOcTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZAtLJftQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6pJRBYxFI
absolute fucking bangers
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
these new ones are really brash and ugly and dumb, I love this
― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
whoa, I like Downtown Shutdown better than anything they've done since Pretty Little Eyes
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
we'll be hearing it in shoe shops for decades to come
― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:06 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and the album's called hi-viz! it seems they're going hard at the mainstream, which is just fine if the rest of the album is anything like these
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link