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I even like the ballads!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Several months later I am not remotely bored of this album, no UK release yet? tsk, madness, in terms of godlike unavailability it will doubtless be to 2005 what Lene was to 2003 and Utada to 2004 except (whisper it) even better.

"Who's That Girl?" goes from strength to strength, THIS is my single of the year now (assuming it gets a release, anywhere, ever)

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

According to her website it was just released as a single...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Daver, I don't hate Konichiwa Bitches so much, it's just that it should be SO MUCH BETTER THAN IT IS WITH THAT TITLE. Though I had a really good idea of what two songs it sounded like and I've now forgotten. ALSO DAVER ANSWER MY EMAILS you mean thing you.

"Who's That Girl" is out as a single now in Sweden, the remixes don't seem to do it for me that I've heard. SUrely "Crash & Burn Girl" has to be a single too, D-D-D-DOWN is a MIGHTY HOOK bit.

(I think Utada is out in the UK this year)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Konichiwa Bitches is perfect.

What on earth would improve it? An ODB, Ludacris, Missy Elliot guest verse??

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

More Missy-esque daft rhymes like in the second verse would help a bit.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I am not sufficiently up to speed on Robyn developments, clearly. Any remixes, sub-par or otherwise, would be received pretty delightedly at the address below...

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"Konichiwa Bitches" is definitely a masterpiece within a masterpiece. I think it is ideal just the way it is.

I'm pretty big on every song on the record, even the trio of ballads at the end that no one ever seems to talk about.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"! "BUM LIKE YOU"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, make that a quartet of ballads then.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this album is...

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

great!

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link

UTTERLY FANTASTIC

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah it's good

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link

konichiwa bitches is the best title

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

"Bum Like You" makes my day!

― djangojones (djangojones), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I have gotten over my Konichiwa Bitches hate. I didn't hate it, I just thought with that title it should be her dissing LOTS of punks. Sexily. But it kind of is, I guess.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

anyone found a website that will let me import this to the UK? i don't really feel like getting into an eBay bidding war for something that's on my computer already. but it is GREAT and i want to have it (and wouldn't mind paying robyn for the privilege).

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

CD-Wow is *in* the UK, no?
A bargain

― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

WHOA

thank-you-sir!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

5.2! :( As if the new Franz Ferdinand is better than this. (snort)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

It's 8.2!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

er. that's what i meant. still 8.-2-. it's at least an 8.5. come ON! :)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

But "Be Mine" [...] is a disarming heartbreaker perfectly poised between twee and tuff, like if Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley and the Neptunes got trapped in Jeff Goldblum's Fly pods.

Fantastic sentence :-)

[Even though the Neptunes would be sat waiting forever in Goldblum's pods, with Wiggs & Stanley in David Al Hedison's pods instead]

― vinegar (Koens), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

this shit better be top 10 year end pfork!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

haha yeah i wouldn't count on that

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

ha, I'd be plesantly surprised if it made the top 50!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Who picked the numerical rating? That's really low given the inflated numbers that people like Wolf Parade and Sufjan Snoozans have been getting. It's at least twice as great as Illinoise, c'mon!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

hi, friends, you don't think any of this record is cringeworthy? i'm just sayin. and i do like parts of it.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i have never listened to wolf parade or sufjan stevens and i would rather have each of my pubic hairs plucked out with a pair of tweezers before doing so, matthew, so yr comparison is meaningless.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

it's very silly cutty. it's a good gauge of how comfortable you are with your silly listening around other people.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Who's That Girl.. but probably only that track, and robotboy.

The rest is compressed brilliance

I heard Surfjan for the first time today. It was as underwhelming as I'd expected.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

(I like Sufjan...)

(perhaps not coincidentally, I've lived my entire life in either Michigan or Illinois.)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i was listening to it by myself and had to look over my shoulder during "konichiwa bitches"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

my ULTRA-SCIENTIFIC RATINGS METHOD involved typing an 8 and then a random number after the decimal point.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i subjected my officemate to george michael today so perhaps i am not who to turn to regarding shame

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, Jess, I wasn't accusing you of being a Snoozans fan or anything, no worries. I just brought him up cos I am baffled by his good press.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

actually i think i did hear the album before i moved, when i was still working at the record store...and if i did hear it, what i am remembering was kind of pleasant, but yeah, the hosannas baffle me too.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, exactly. At first I was thinking that it was like one of those posters they used to sell in malls, the kind where if you look just right, there's a 3d boat or something. I tried with that record, and I swear to God, there's NO BOAT.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

well i liked the NMH record too, but i am still kinda baffled by the 10.0! we must review a random spanish reissue! reception it gets.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

(perhaps not coincidentally, I've lived my entire life in either Michigan or Illinois.)

Uh, me too, but I'd like to think that that's not the only reason I like Sufjan so much. Robyn has some really good songs ("Be Mine" is the clear standout here), but sorry, Illinois > Robyn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe i need to put patches on the elbows of my jacket

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

You should, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but Extraordinary Machine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Illinois

Actually, there's a lot more >'s to go, I just got a little tired of leaning on that key.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, you can file that last post under "Everybody Get Random!"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

So wait, are you guys trying to tell me that I might like Sufjan by the time he starts writing songs set in Ossining and Poughkeepsie?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"ha, I'd be plesantly surprised if it made the top 50!"

oh scottpl, today's issue makes me cry!

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Robyn's record is definitely much better than Illinoise -- Sufjan hasn't figured out how to make a good album with his terrific songs. You might find him boring or cringeworthy or whatever, but a song like "Seven Swans" or "Casimir Pulaski Day" or "Concerning the UFO Sighting..." is defensibly great.

The new Fiona Apple CD is crap, though, Matthew.

But anyway, ROBYN -- 8.2 was definitely too low. And it's a serious issue, because Pitchfork readers only seem to flock to mega-ratings -- and WHY DID THIS NOT GET A MEGA-RATING. While I'm content to yell about this album to an indie-rock brick wall, veryone would love this album if it was hip.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, I don't understand this. Why is it so important whether Pfork gives a 7.6 or a 8.7 for it? Though I don't think it would be that good. Not bad, I'd give 7.2, it's still good :)

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I GIVE IT A 10.0 FOR EFFORT

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

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It's not quite We Are Family

― ✖, Friday, 15 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link

One time, years ago, I requested "Dancing on My Own" at karaoke and it wasn't until I was on stage and the music started that I realized they were playing a karaoke version of the sad cover, not the original...

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 October 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link

There's an NYT article about it as well that I found really charming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/sports/baseball/red-sox-dancing-on-my-own.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Sports

― Lily Dale, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link

it really bums me out that the first link that pops up when you google "Dancing on My Own" is the stupid cover and not Robyn

― Roz, Saturday, 16 October 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link

i host karaoke and a few weeks ago someone requested dancing on my own and left the artist blank, so I assumed the Robyn version. When it started up she stomped a foot and yelled over to me “no not the dumb remix, the original!” and that was the day I learned about the famous cover version

― Clay, Saturday, 16 October 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link

I remember hearing local radio playing a poppers o'clock remix of the sad cover and feeling it was possibly the most redundant piece of music ever - just play the original!

― hamicle, Saturday, 16 October 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link

eight months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdF2kxdpom4

on the new Louie Vega album, giving what I think might be one of her best performances ever

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 10 July 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link

Always liked this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8cdjFcLKM

― dow, Monday, 11 July 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

honey has aged really well. i know it's only 5 years old but it kinda feels like a lifetime ago.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 16:39 (nine months ago) link

Check out the Song Exploder on the title song. Great to hear the patient, slow evolution of the track into one of her best.

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:11 (nine months ago) link

two months pass...

Honey remains one of the best albums ever.

― omar little, Friday, 6 October 2023 16:14 (six months ago) link

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