Anyway yeah - I saw the Ratpure at Optimo a few weeks ago and it was a blast, and I love the LCD soundsystem mix of Le Tigre that RJG put on a tape for me, and some of the Radio 4 I heard was good. It's all just so invigorating.
Does this ILK have name or not?
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:50 (twenty years ago) link
It's being called "punk-funk" as far as I can see. I like the Le Tigre remix too. I think you're still early enough to the party in some sense N, if the Rapture are to get as big as I reckon they will.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
What other tracks should I look out for?
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
I also am quite into the Playgroup album (called Playgroup) which is slightly older than the Rapture et al. I know some others here aren't into that but it's very cheap at this point and I think worth a purchase. It's a bit more funk in places than punk but it does have a pretty broad smattering of everything.
Best tracks which fit the "punkfunk" thing off that IMO: Overflow, Make It Happen. My favourite Rapture track is "I Need Your Love", also recommended is the DFA mix of Metro Area, I forget which track they've done but it's good, probably easy enough to download somewhere.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
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― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
i never want to go to a show again. ever. why does "that one guy" always have to be standing next to me. you know the one that dances like he has epilepsy and falls all over everyone. and there were just way too many angled hair cuts and leg warmers.
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
i showed him an elbow in the back a few times. and his girlfriend showed her grinding backside to my frontside a few times too. i mostly didn't like it.
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
1-Olio2-Heaven3-Open up your heart4-I need your love5-The coming of spring6-House of jealous lovers7-Echoes8-Killing9-Sister saviour10-Love is all11-Infatuanition
Both great tunes, it was worth the wait.
― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
Also I'm thinking the boldness of having a 4/4 house tune and such rocky stuff on one album is seriously deserving of praise.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
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― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:59 (twenty years ago) link
And wow is the guy's voice HIGH. I like it, it manages to be the goth-indie squeal to a Mayfield falsetto (that sounds like overpraise, but I think you get meh) It was pretty shocking, b/c I'd only heard HOJL and the 'rock' vers of Olio that was on gabba.net and those two are like the BOTTOM of his register!
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
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― mosurock (mosurock), Thursday, 15 May 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 May 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, track 2. Some of it's a bit Minutemen, too.
― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 15 May 2003 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 15 May 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
i would not be surprised, actually, if they never make another record. since they hooked up with dfa almost two years ago they've really been sheltered and coddled by jim & tim -- tons of studio time, lots of off days, etc. -- and once echoes drops (sometime in 2k7, at this rate) they'll be in a spotlight that they've managed to court yet avoid at the same time. i dunno if they'll be able to handle it. i hope they can, though. they're sweet guys and an amazing band...
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 15 May 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
i dunno if i believe that, but it's interesting to think about. that once the dfa becomes THE DFA they'll effectively cease to exist. i dunno.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
They're not too far away from exploding are they? It certanly isn't a scene that will stay in any one incarnation for very long.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link