Enjoyed Shut Up today - thought about Echo and the Bunnymen for some reason while listening - not that this detracted from the tune.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
Good spot on Crispy Ambulance. There's a bit of Warsaw, Kitchens Of Distinction, Southern Death Cult, Diamanda Galas... I think the Banshees thing is pretty uncontroversial though. They're more like a Limey Interpol rather than Strokes surely?
It's pretty depressing the amount of misogynist comments I've had to delete off our site about them. Of a really lame... "I'm not sexist but... [insert sexist comment here]" type.
― Doran, Saturday, 11 May 2013 10:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that is pretty depressing actually. It's 2013, for fucks sake...
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 11 May 2013 10:11 (ten years ago) link
Southern Death Cult is a good spot I think.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Saturday, 11 May 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
Been listening to this a bit more now that the weather has turned to shit here and I'm definitely coming round to it, think I was pretty much wrong when I said they didn't have the songs. Still hard to shake the echoes of other bands but it actually feels fairly fresh in a way cos there are interesting combinations of influences once you get beyond the 'oh it's just post punk' blanket statement and they play it with enough skill and dead-on conviction that it does stand up on its own merits. Kind of like the Iceage records maybe?
Gets gothier in the later half of the record, but some of the tracks on the first side (especially 'I Am Here') are a bit like early YYY's meet Scratch Acid (a testament to the excellent bass player that). Singer sounds very Karen O-ish in places, but the more intense and yelpy she gets, the more undeniable the Siouxsieness is. Also there's things like on Hit Me where she sings 'tell me, tell me, tell me' and it feels like a direct reference to the Banshees via 'Helter Skelter'. 'She Will' is the one that sounds like early Cult, that's such a Billy Duffy guitar line on there. Husbands is like a cross between the Banshees and 'Horses' and '12XU' (impossible for me not to sing 'saw you in a mag, kissing a man' to the first line).
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Actually, Husbands feels even gothier still when you pretend she's singing 'Huysmans, Huysmans, Huysmans'
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Definitely get a YYYs vibe from Hit Me.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
boring
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
KEXP session pretty good, but probably won't sway the nay sayers
http://www.npr.org/event/music/184349634/savages-elegant-brutality-rendered-anything-but-silent
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 May 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
this is my favorite album of the year so far
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
it's been done
― Poliopolice, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
so's yr mom
― balls, Friday, 17 May 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
even that was better the first time
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Friday, 17 May 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
You know if I was taping this for a friend, I might be tempted to put Griller by Ut on side two
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 17 May 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
I keep reading the thread title as "Sausages."
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
That would undermine the feminist themes on the album.
― Evan, Friday, 17 May 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
when I first read this thread I googled the band and now I get fucking savages banners on every site I visit.
― wk, Friday, 17 May 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
hasn't everyone's mom?
― Poliopolice, Friday, 17 May 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
srsly the ad buys for this band are insane
before I'd even heard of them I was searching youtube for some obscure brooklyn band and half of the related videos was savages stuff
2013 stringent UK postpunk band SEO guess papers oink invites
xp
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Friday, 17 May 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
free savages gift cards
― wk, Friday, 17 May 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
download "husbands" for yr hubby on father's day, he deserves it
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
They just burned 30 Rock down to the ground on Jimmy Fallon.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link
"pretend she's singing 'Huysmans, Huysmans, Huysmans'"
Excellent.
― Doran, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
what a way to go
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't that crazy about the album on a first listen, but seeing their energetic performance on Fallon, has me thinking maybe I should reconsider.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
I saw their Jools performance first and that definitely influenced how I processed the album
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
This album has only got better for me with subsequent listens!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
web-only song:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2013/06/savages-citys-full/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
man I have to see them live
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
D.C. show in small club sold out too quick for me
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
severe & passionate haircut
― truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
I think this band is still a little too beholden to its influences, but they're tight and very charismatic and I could see them putting out great records in the future if they break out of that mold a bit. Would definitely see them live.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
they're tight eh
― balls, Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
This Johnny Hostile guy is a bit of a twit isn't he?
For now on i keep it live only ,as long as i can… As soon as you put music on a record those days , everything turns into some kind of promotional moronic shit.
http://johnnyhostile.tumblr.com/
http://www.comedycv.co.uk/alanparker/2003-may-alanparker.jpg
― Position Position, Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
is that the twin peaks guy? whatever happened to him?
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
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already liked the album ok but 100% sold after watching that, damn.
― dmr, Friday, 7 June 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
"Waiting For A Sign" continues to rule my summer; also for those who don't get the Geddy Lee comparisons, this is the song where they are strongest
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I dunno, man, I have more than a fondness for Rush and I still can't really hear much Geddy even on that song. 'Waiting For A Sign' was the last song on this to slot into place for me, I think. 'She Will' is my favourite song on here at the moment!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
finally listening to this. came here to say that it sounds like Rush but i see that has been covered.
― Treeship, Sunday, 7 July 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
I still don't fully understand the Rush thing.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
I still don't fully understand the Savages thing tbh.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
i don't get this. i'm sure savages are lovely folk & shit, they got something together. but dang, if this ain't EMPTY
― massaman gai, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
I guess they're blowing up because they played NYC last Thursday and sold out a 1000-plus capacity room (Webster Hall) and have already announced that their next show here in the fall will be in a 3000-plus capacity room (Terminal 5). Kinda surprising. Also a bummer because I'd like to see em play and Terminal 5 sucks.
― dmr, Monday, 15 July 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
They played a 300 or so quickly sold out room in DC over the weekend and are coming back in the fall to a 1200 person room.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 July 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
My friend and I had the exact same reaction last night: This band has it going on, the singer is great, the musicians committed. Etc. And yet, we both left thinking, you know, we've flipped through this record bin before, and don't really see the band bringing much more to the table besides being good. Which is probably good enough, we conceded, but my friend in particular said he's perfectly happy sticking with his Bauhaus.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:39 (ten years ago) link
god, remember this band? really brings me back...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
Dunno if it is a matter of too much too soon, but I was surprised the band did not sell out last night.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
^ chicago homies of mine were talking about just "showing up" and walking in to that show and laughing @ all the bands who shot their wad at the summer festivals in the chicagoland area depressing their own gate
― The Dance Twerking Was MADE So (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty easily one of my top 5 albums of the year
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
you and Jim DeRo enjoying those marshmallows at that camp you built?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link