his remix for Passion Pit is massive. really good for the summer!
― kaiser, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i was just listening to that youtube clip thinking "yuk, this is awful" then the beat kicked in and i figured i'd better just go ahead and download it now as i will no doubt be forced to play this for the tourists sooner or later
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
he is still like some vile British public school James Murphy
― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Dear god, I have to witness this fool playing live at the UCL summer ball.Not only that, but there's a funky house DJ ("Stevie B") on the line up also.
― owenf, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Calvin Harris is trying to ingratiate himself to ILM now!
Calvin Harris has described the state of music in the charts over the past couple of years as 'very depressing'.The Scottish dance star said the number of guitar bands in recent times had been 'boring'.Calvin Harris was speaking as he missed out on the award for Best Contemporary Song at the Ivor Novellos.Harris said: "Things got very depressing, things got very boring with indie band after indie band - it became known as indie-landfill."Charts change"There's no more accurate description for the state that music was in," he continued.Harris and Dizzee Rascal were attending the awards held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel but missed out to Elbow in the category of Best Contemporary Song.Commenting on an apparent increase in dance music Harris said: "I think people have just realised they just want to have fun for a while."I think the summer's coming around…we're in a recession people want to have fun, people want to forget about their worries."They want to listen to Bonkers, they want to listen to the new Basement Jaxx single and I think that's a good thing, I love happy music."Calvin Harris will spend the summer playing festivals including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Creamfields.
The Scottish dance star said the number of guitar bands in recent times had been 'boring'.
Calvin Harris was speaking as he missed out on the award for Best Contemporary Song at the Ivor Novellos.
Harris said: "Things got very depressing, things got very boring with indie band after indie band - it became known as indie-landfill."
Charts change
"There's no more accurate description for the state that music was in," he continued.
Harris and Dizzee Rascal were attending the awards held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel but missed out to Elbow in the category of Best Contemporary Song.
Commenting on an apparent increase in dance music Harris said: "I think people have just realised they just want to have fun for a while.
"I think the summer's coming around…we're in a recession people want to have fun, people want to forget about their worries.
"They want to listen to Bonkers, they want to listen to the new Basement Jaxx single and I think that's a good thing, I love happy music."
Calvin Harris will spend the summer playing festivals including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Creamfields.
funny thing is, his music is just as boring as the shitty "indie" bands he slags off.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 22 May 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i think we can all agree that if Calvin Harris and all those indie-landfill bands stopped making music and just buggered off then the charts would be better.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 22 May 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
no we don't!
calvin is grebt and otm. fucking elbow.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 22 May 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
both suck and should bugger off
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 22 May 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not my fault the bluebells split up!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 22 May 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
that wouldve been in your favour!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 22 May 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
heh!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 22 May 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Calvin is having a Twitter meltdown moment: http://twitter.com/calvinharris
THIS ENTIRE INDUSTRY IS FULL OF RICH PEOPLES KIDS, EVERYWHERE, FUCKING RICH PEOPLES KIDS RICH PEOPLES KIDS
(Continues in this vein for quite some time)
― mike t-diva, Friday, 14 August 2009 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
All inspired by this review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/07/calvin-harris-cd-review
― mike t-diva, Friday, 14 August 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING RICH PEOPLES KIDS there are people who will like the album who wont get the album because they saw a shit review
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 14 August 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a slightly better lyric than I GET ALL THE GIRLS I GET ALL THE GIRLS, I suppose.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
AP (for it is he!) responding at http://twitter.com/alexispetridis
― mike t-diva, Friday, 14 August 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Or maybe CH is sticking it to Gavin Martin in equal measure: http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2009/08/album-of-the-week-calvin-harri.html
― mike t-diva, Friday, 14 August 2009 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think Gavin Martin has been called a "kid" since 1978
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
RICH PEOPLES KIDS GETTING GOOD REVIEWS BECAUSE MUMMY FUCKED THE JOURNO IN THE 80S
Might want to ruminate on this given that a strong majority of music journos are in their 20s or 30s
― Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap), Friday, 14 August 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Right, I misunderstood, who is he referring to?
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, that Petriedes article is one of the best things I think I've ever read of his. I mean that totally without irony.
So basically, Harris' angst about that article boils down to "wah wah wah, Alexis Petriedes is smarter and better educated than I am" - WOW, that must *really* hurt.
― hüzün (Masonic Boom), Friday, 14 August 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Credit where credit's due, I think everyone gave that album two stars, not just Petridis.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Now clarified: "that wasn't about @alexispetridis' review by the way, his came as no surprise."
― mike t-diva, Friday, 14 August 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
there are people who will like the album who wont get the album because they saw a shit review
lol
― unban dictionary (blueski), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
FUCKING JOURNALISTS GIVING PEOPLE SHIT REVIEWS
― unban dictionary (blueski), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
AND SLEEPING WITH WOMEN IN THE PAST
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Which jobbing indie band's parents would you travel back in time to have sex with?
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"Gay Dad" indeed
― unban dictionary (blueski), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"Come tweet wiv me"
Been digging his tweets immensely. Thanks Mike!
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got love for you unless your mum fucked a journo in the 80s, the 80s
― vain_bowers, Friday, 14 August 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently he debuts on the hot 100 this week with one of his own tracks ;_; rihanna what have you done
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
tired of hearing that damn chintzy circus organ all the time
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 February 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
title of thread still applies
never gonna forgive rihanna for this tbh
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
Rev OTM
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
I guess we should get used to it
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
yesss but this is like the definition of "grooving" for certain people
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/silkstink.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder what you guys would be saying had you been around for La Bouche, The Real McCoy and Captain Hollywood Project
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
(although "Feel So Close" is pretty much terrible)
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:06 AM Bookmark
iirc my thoughts on all this stuff at the time was "when are they playing Coolio again?"
I fux w/ "Sweet Dreams" and "Another Night" (tho I always thought this sounded like a Coke jingle) and maaaaaaaaaaayyyybe "Be My Lover" tho
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
i can't figure out if la bouche and the real mccoy are supposed to really be a defense of this (or anything)
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's more, people are having this hysterical overreaction to this dude as if he's some brand new circle of awful hell rather than someone who is pretty clearly operating in a paradigm that's been sending hits to the charts for 20 years
it's basically "look, we survived Robert Miles, we will survive this too, just relax"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
"look, we survived Robert Miles, we will survive this too, just relax"
I immediately vote for this as the replacement slogan for "Keep Calm and Carry On"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
fuck you Dan, "Children" is a classic *takes ball and goes home*
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, in the interest of full disclosure I never understood why everyone despised "Children" either but Miles such a good stand-in for "commercially successful dance dude that dance people seem to hate with terrifying and unhealthy fervor"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dan obviously doesn't remember the mass group suicides of the 90s.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 17 February 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
i loved "children" and "one & one"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Friday, 17 February 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
still do
calvin harris could never
i am a big fan of "another night" to be honest
― teledyldonix, Friday, 17 February 2012 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
"Another Night" is brilliant. That bit near the end with the crazy little synth arpeggio behind Olaf's rap is one of the best all time house party moments.
Pretty much all of my issues with Harris are tied up with his voice and persona, which were heavily prevalent on "I Like The Girls" and "Born In The 80s"; those records really were some brand new circle of awful hell. He was a dickhead in interviews and the like at that time as well.
Fear and loathing seem somewhat overdone if he's just producing chintzy circus organ dance-pop now, but if he opens his mouth on the new record then all bets are off.
― Tim F, Friday, 17 February 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link