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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

'do you know what it takes' is pretty great! the other two are like low-rent low-interest british r&b, it doesn't surprise me that bev knight covered one of them. no more taking ms blige's name in vain though, robyn's voice is more on a samantha mumba level.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

quirky cutesy tics??

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

is Robyn the new Neneh Cherry ?

― djmartian, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Robyn is a real woman made of blood and cheese. Fuck, I love her moosh.

― TynanTynan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

enjoyed her show at Cargo tonight. did 'Dream On', 'With Every Heartbeat', 'Jack U Off' n' all.

― blueski, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Two encores! Two versions of "Be Mine"! Having two drummers on the first few songs made them sound almost... tribal??

She did a wonderful slowed-down version of "Show Me Love", which was a great surprise.

The sound was crystal clear although there were a few hiccups - feedback, buzzing - but whatever.

She forgot the words in the middle of what - "Handle Me", I think?

(I was right in my unvoiced theory about "Bum Like You" - the new beefed-up electro album version of it sets her up to do the heart-breaking acoustic version in concert. IT'S ALL PART OF THE PLAN.)

A wonderful show, a really supportive crowd. And a merch table! Just like a real scrappy rock n roll band. She mentioned that she's on her own record label now and she "did it all myself" - you could see that she's really proud of that.

I can't remember being so hopelessly in love with a singer.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I wore my konichiwa records t-shirt, yesterday

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I wore my konichiwa records t-shirt, yesterday

-- RJG, Friday, March 30, 2007 5:06 AM (10 hours ago)

yeah right.

― TynanTynan, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I've been into Robyn since "Who's that girl" but it's been bugging me people saying she did a song called "Show me love" in the 90s. I am pleased to discover thanks to this thread that it is not the song "Show me love" by "Robin S", a track I particularly despised in my adolescent years.

The real one's pretty crap though right.

"Cobrastyle" is very good also.

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah right?

― RJG, Saturday, 31 March 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I played some Robyn tracks in my journalism class, and everyone said she sucked. They then blasted that John Mayer track ("Waiting on the World to Change"?), and I couldn't hear Robyn. I was sad.

― Tape Store, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Le sigh.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

ALARM!

ROBYN @ DINGWALLS 14th June 2007
£8.00 @ www.seetickets.com
Doors are 8pm
Reduced tickets (£7) from Robyn's web site!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

still love robyn but the paucity of new tracks is almost annoying. enough w/ the remixes. don't care much for her new logo or sleeve designs, either

― RJG, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link

tried to pile through all the remixes of Heartbeat yesterday and got fed up. the album version is probably the one i will play the most.

― mark e, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

radio 1 a-list though, remarkably!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link

not a coincidence surely.

rjg don't worry, everybody has to go through a grunge phase. don't they? i very much like her new logo. but i agree on the sleeve art, it doesn't hold a candle to the orig. album.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

appparently she's signed a distribution deal with Island - so - next stop America? or at least Toronto?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I did a quick search and cannot BELIEVE that nobody has used the word hipster to describe her yet. Is it her being Scandinavian that makes people oblivious to the obvious? I write this as some posters seem to harbor some assumption that she is this homespun maverick "just doing her own thing," when a comparison with a certain Diplo protegé would be more apt.

― Jeb, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link

She started out as a really lame teenpop act with "Do You Really Want Me" and I've never really liked her afterwards either.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Jeb have fun fighting with those voices in your head, dude

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah the word hipster really doesn't get used enough to describe musicians or music fans, let's change this together at ILM!

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link

here's hoping she has some new songs of her own eventually!!

― RJG, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Diplo IS the 5th Stockholm Teddybear... burn all your MIA CDs now, it's not real music you know!

― fandango, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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