please explain unfinished sympathy to me

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how come i'm "Wells" now?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyone remember back when jk used to unironically talk about 'the holy trip-hop trinity'

― artiste, Friday, 22 November 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

So this is where the AIM conversation ended up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Unfinished Sympathy" is gorgeous. The beat is naive and rolling, particularly with the little percussion flourishes. The chord progression in the string arrangement is fantastic, especially with the supsensions flying all over the place and the violin melody at the end. Shara Nelson's singing is gorgeous, with the octave leap in the chorus being one of those perfect moments in a pop song.

The song is impeccable and Kortbein, you FUCK OFF for that "beautiful Negress voice" crack.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I've said enough about this. But can I just say I find it extremely boring once more?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is all very interesting, but i'm still waiting for ronans opinion

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love it gareth, if I were to make a top ten of........oh I don't know say singles, singles OF ALL TIME, and I could only include one DANCE RECORD, I WOULD MAKE SURE IT WAS THIS.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 November 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

what lion king song????

[i think Unfinished Sympathy is the worst track on Blue Lines... the sound of the milk bottles being bashed together in the beat is nice though]

― michael (michael), Friday, 22 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love it and i don't care what anyone says >:(
"aiyaiyaiyaiyai"

― minna (minna), Saturday, 23 November 2002 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

who dat who dat who dat who dat

― s trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 23 November 2002 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

"what lion king song????"

Apparently, it's One Love. A good song, btw.

― man, Saturday, 23 November 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is the lynch-directed m video for this worth checking for?

― Honda (Honda), Saturday, 23 November 2002 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surely the Lion King song is "Hymn from the Big Wheel" or whatever it is called?

I wonder if "Unfinished Sympathy" sounded "seminal" or somesuch in '91. It's certainly an odd track to have birthed a genre.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 23 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

"unfinished sympathy" is one of those songs that's always sounded *important*.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 23 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hymn to the Big Wheel and Unfinished Sympathy are actually my two favorite songs from that album, I think, not the worst.

― man, Sunday, 24 November 2002 01:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

could someone without our curse of history even point out the connection between what turned out to be "downtempo" and "unfinished sympathy" now?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

especially since unfinished sympathy is the only house-tempo track on the album!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

it seems downtempo but it's uptempo :: it feels like a song at rest, but the chords never resolve, which is kind of clever if you think about the name of the song. insert [eh it's pop music innit?!@] here

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

sasha frere-jones had a good analogy about the creation of downtempo being more akin to cutting the appropriate length of fabric off a bolt. which is about right, some people (kruder & dorf, fer instance) have plusher, more intricate fabric and they know just when to cut rather than let it all go on a bit too long so everything looks saggy and baggy. but it seems to rub up uncomfortably with massive's whole shtick, which always felt (to me) like the attempt to merge house/jazz/electro/non-verbal music of yr choice with The Song (which i guess was the project of the 90s, really.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mezzanine woz bettah

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 24 November 2002 04:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

mezzanine also more fabric-like, qed!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

while i'm here, maybe someone could explain blue lines to me. my theory is that if you didn't hear this at the time it came out, you are going to have a hard time getting into it. i never heard a single track off this album til this year. to me it just sounds like a 10th grade science project ("these computers are cool, you can sample records into them!!") protection = freshman year of college. mezzanine = declared business major

― ron (ron), Sunday, 24 November 2002 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but could those who don't like "Unfinished Sympathy" explain what's not to like? Just curious.

― man, Sunday, 24 November 2002 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

everyone knows that "safe from harm" is secretly much better, but never talks about it for some reason

― V, Sunday, 24 November 2002 10:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

It's about the vocal performance! One of the best ever! Fule!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

i love it and i don't care what anyone says >:(
"aiyaiyaiyaiyai"

-- minna (minna), Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:08 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

who dat who dat who dat who dat

-- s trife (simon_tr), Saturday, November 23, 2002 4:14 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee234/michelle__7/alfy.jpg

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

"Safe From Harm" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Unfinished Sympathy"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Lately > everything else

― Mr. Goodman, Sunday, 9 December 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Snrub............o?...t?...m?

― The Reverend, Sunday, 9 December 2007 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Classic forever

― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link

yeah.

― piscesx, Thursday, 8 March 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link

majesty

― calstars, Thursday, 8 March 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

mix this with walk on by by el perro del mar. st etienne version or original

― music saved my life (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link

I was listening to a John McLaughlin track the other day and suddenly came upon the source of that sample.

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 29 June 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link

this thread upsets me

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link

I was just thinking that Poo. How does it take them time to get it?

― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link

The Lion King thing was pretty funny though

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link

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