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The closest thing I can think of is The Knife's "Heartbeats", and it's got a similar scary emotional over-investment aura to it: its anthemic but depressing

As someone who believes Who's That Girl is Robyn's masterpiece, this makes me very happy.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

'With Every Heartbeat' soundin' good

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

I don't like C.C.C. at all.

Robyn show on the 2nd... so so excited!

Hopefully she plays more than 6 songs ;_;

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

ccc?

'with every heartbeat' is so fucking amazing, even without a chorus. i don't like 'dream on' though.

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it really foregrounds her intense yearning energy thing. it's like she's clawing at something, desperately, that she will never get.

C.C.C. is another Christian Falk song, starring Robyn. but as i said it's not very good.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

tracer, what about the 29th? got my tix

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

er I was unaware of Robyn activities on the 29th?? i can't look at her page cause I'm at work

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"With Every Heartbeat" is a bonkers choon.

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

new London show at Cargo on 29th March!

― RJG, Saturday, 24 February 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

she's playing metro before the cargo show...

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 24 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

correct

― RJG, Saturday, 24 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

if anyone is interested in the new album, email me via the link on this board

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.atproud.net/images/upload/AMAK26.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

FIVE QUID!?!?!!! oh to live in london!

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

where everything is inexpensive!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha....oh yeah, london. wow. cheapest place i ever been

though to catch the likes of the lovely rob yn for nary a penny would be fuckin sweet

i like me some robyn

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

thursday feb 29th...2024??

― RJG, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

1996, obv.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

s1ocki, when i get back to montreal (may), please be organising a $5 robyn gig somewhere, obv with film accompaniment, so that we can meet & toast in the most regal of circumstances.

― sean gramophone, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I had been on the fence about Robyn, but just got back from seeing her in Camden and she was great. Two drummers! Excellent.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/407300117_5e593c908d.jpg

― Stevie T, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

great pic! wish i'd gone now. hoping to sneak in to metro tonight though...

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 2 March 2007 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link

looking at flights/whatever for thursday mar 29th 2007--don't know if I'll be able to afford to get there! and back : (

― RJG, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Robyn's offering discount tickets for the Cargo gig through her website... not as cheap as five pounds though :(

― braveclub, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

dudes! that picture's great. how many songs did she sing?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe six or seven :/

― Stevie T, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight looking less likely by the second :-(

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i realise i am way behind the ILM curve, but just how bloody massive and great is that trentmoller remix of Konichiwa Bitches !
uk copies of the album now doing the rounds, so far today, i'm loving it.

― mark e, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i cannot stand what they did to "bum like you".

*sigh*

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone in need of a couple of tickets for the 29th?

― RJG, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i realize from reading a few threads that "soulful" is anathema to many ppl here, but has anyone else heard "Good Thang", the tune she did with Masters at Work? It was during the period that her albums were only being released in Scandinavia so most of that material isn't well known. http://www.discogs.com/release/60275

It's a GREAT tune, lovely blueeyed soulful house. This was in 1999, when MAW are right in their element, dropping all kinds of gorgeous chord progressions and backup harmonies, without too much live instrumentation, just flecks of guitar and horns here and there (If you've heard the tunes they did with people like Stephanie Mills, Luther Vandross and Kenny Bobien, you'll know what I mean.)

Ms Robyn at this point has grown out of the Mary J Blige-isms you hear on "Robin Is Here" and hasn't yet developed a lot of the quirky tics that are all over Konichiwa, so you really get to hear her sing. She can belt it out for sure.

I also like the semi-acoustic version of Saul Williams "List of Demands" that she does with Jenny Wilson. I think that's a b-side now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvxsu9aeQQ)

― Jah Q Areas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

have never heard that she did a MAW collaboration Jah, thank you for that info!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

How is her pre-[i]Robyn{/i] stuff? (Especially the stuff leading up to that album) I've only heard those stray mid-90s crossover hits. (which are not my cup of tea)

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone want to pleaseplease zap me the new "bum like you" to give me something to cry over?

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, what did they "do" to "Bum Like You"?! That's my favorite song she's ever done!

― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the difference between the UK album and the original?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone want to pleaseplease zap me the new "bum like you" to give me something to cry over?

Er, try Googling the words "Don't Stop the Pop"...

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Ms Robyn at this point has grown out of the Mary J Blige-isms you hear on "Robin Is Here"

i find it incredibly difficult to believe that robyn ever possessed any qualities as great as "mary j blige-isms"

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

So I just actually listened to the version I just mentioned and it's this really annoying anti-copyright thing that keeps fading in and out and panning L to R. Think I prefer the original anyway.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

~~anti-copyright~~ copyright protection

― braveclub, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

she turned "bum like you" into a slow yet herky-jerky robo-electro ballad :/

hoiwever the trentemoller remix of KB is supposed to be grebt, i can't webt to hear it!

main difference (besides "bum like you") is that new album is longer - it includes "heartbeat" and "cobrastyle"; it's also pretty massively re-ordered to what i think is very good effect

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

it's still crazy to me that "crash and burn girl" hasn't been a single.

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B, doing the same accents and vocal inflections - she worked very diligently on this stuff in new york so it's not surprising to me that some mary j would have rubbed off on her

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Both versions of "Be Mine" are amazing. I'm not sure whether to spring for the UK album since I have the original as well as the EP she released, but I'm a sucker for her and probably will.

― musically, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i have entered a contest to become her "roadie" - watch out world

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't really listened to the UK one through as a whole but I think the running order of the original album (if you take out robotboy and the skits) is perfect

― RJG, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B, doing the same accents and vocal inflections - she worked very diligently on this stuff in new york so it's not surprising to me that some mary j would have rubbed off on her

really?! i haven't heard any of her previous stuff - i really can't imagine it because her voice on 99% of what i have heard is so...pert, full of those quirky cutesy tics which really bug me. and when i do enjoy her voice (ie when she calms the fuck down and stops being pleased with herself enough to let actual emotion through, ie 'with every heartbeat' and 'be mine') it doesn't sound r&b at all, it sounds ike kate bush. and on the album when she does lean in the r&b direction, it sounds like a really insincere piss-take.

so this is interesting! do you have any of her old stuff you could send/burn me?

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

And in case people DON'T know, despite it having been mentioned loads of times, Robyn also did the original version of Bev Knight's super-fantastic "Keep This Fire Burning". She looked well scary in the video which had some painted blokes in it. I love her.

edward o (upthread)

― fandango, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

so this is interesting! do you have any of her old stuff you could send/burn me?

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/robyn%2B%2B%2Bshow%2Bme%2Blove/video/xbws6_robyn-show-me-love

her most famous song. I think it's about 10 years old. it always make me think of the film with the same name(the swedish title of the film is fucking åmål) by lukas moodysson.

this one came out 5 years ago:.
http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/robyn%2B%2B%2Bshow%2Bme%2Blove/video/xnmas_robyn-keep-this-fire-burning

lex her whole thing before this album was modelling herself on US R&B

not entirely true. her second album from 1999 was quite experimental and eclectic, but she went back to her r&b-pop roots on her third album in 2002. the album discussed on this thread is her forth.

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

fourth*

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

her first single in canada was "Do You Know What It Takes" and there's a whole bunch of Mary J Blige-isms in that tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6kH3BQeqRc

― Jah Q Areas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

....so at the beginning over her career in north america, she was clearly still in thrall to US R&B, mid-90s edition

― Jah Q Areas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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