― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― The River Kate (kate), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 2 April 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
same goes for ted leo's "dancing in the dark."
apparently the sincere boss cover is the new cool thing.
― asl, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
* being an NJ resident, that might be worthy of having my license revoked or something.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
but of course virtuosity don't matter much at all, so it wasn't just that: the setlist was awful. they would play one song with vocals, and then one long, instrumental jammy monstrosity, and then another vocal song. it gave the set NO momentum (NOmemtum), even though the audience ate up the jammy shit, even though they were only playing two motherfucking chords (i think the nearly all-female audience gave them the benefit of the doubt just cuz they were women; no way would a male band jerking off on stage like that have gotten any love, and rightfully so).
basically the impression i got was that the lead singer has been in many bands before, but all of them primarily men, where her talents were underutilized and she was, most likely, seen as Just The Girl. so now she has her own band with other women and she's trying hard but she's just way above their level. it was like seeing a high school band where you can tell one of them is gonna devote his/her life to music even if it means working in guitar center while the rest will move on to office jobs, cheap sex or drugs once the whole thing falls apart.
there wasn't any grace to their performance. the album works cuz it's understated and easy and mellow and stoned and all of those qualities. but live, they wanted to be THE ROCK BAND and holy fuck did they whiff at it. the two people i attended the show with (both women, btw) hated it. but we honestly seemed to be the only ones.
(the show was at the knitting factory in nyc two weeks ago, fyi)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, I think I'd like electrelane's new album if I cd bring myself round to buying it but that album cover is awful. I saw them live, playing the new material, and they were v. v. good. wht songs shd I download maria, as a taster of the best of the album?
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
and yes, the frontwoman is the talent in the band obviously. when she just grabbed the sax and started blowing, i was wowed.
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
You'd think after time #2 or #3 you'd learn your lesson ...
― gloryinjesus, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh no! The bassist is a girl who was in the year above me at school. and is a very, very nice person, she is quite tiny though, so maybe that's why.
― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
The other thing is Le Mans and that other Spanish band that aren't Le Mans.
I'm going to see them tonight, anyway, as long as it isn't sold out.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
btw I like The Power Out a lot more than Stereolab, or at least most Stereolab. It sends me.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes! Well, on "Enter Laughing," anyway. Can't quite put my finger on which VU songs this sounds like.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
so many bad bands reform but not electrelane hmph
― ||||||||, Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
Oh you. I had a hope there.
― kraudive, Saturday, 19 January 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
I guess they kind of did? but yeah the world could use four more Electrelane albums ty
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
The band are doing a Zoom chat on Facebook have just announced they're hopefully going to make a new album in the near future!
― kitchen person, Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
fuck yes, amazing!
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Ah, they're all so cool. They were talking about how it was amazing playing with Broadcast in 2004 and how much they miss Trish.
They all seemed to agree that Axes is their best album and Bells is the song their happiest with from their back catalogue. Apparently their label won't reissue Axes on vinyl because nobody would be interested.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
several members of an unopopular music messageboard would certainly be interested
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Whoa
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
I only got in to them after they broke up. Would love to see them.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
same here
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
"They all seemed to agree that Axes is their best album"
well duh
― when I come out, can you introduce me as Jagger (imago), Sunday, 19 April 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
and yeah me too
that such a given? I think I like the last one the most.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
great covers live as well...Smalltown Boy, I'm On Fire, The Partisan.
Had this amazing long cross country run streaming The Power Out, and only at the end did I realize it was being shuffled. I wish I could get that sequencing back. Still, it made it my fav.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Monday, 20 April 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
I only discovered them recently when someone put No Shouts No Calls as their favorite of the 2000s in the ILM decade poll.
― o. nate, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
― dan selzer
Yeah, that's my favourite too followed by The Power Out.
― kitchen person, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
when I found this...I couldn't believe it existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbjvQbLd6s
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 April 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
an amazing song that brings me to tears every time
― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 20 April 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
'No Shouts, No Calls' is also my fave. Thanks for the reminder!
― cooldix, Monday, 20 April 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
great news!!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 20 April 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
q+a is here: https://www.facebook.com/electrelane/videos/2919873061382225/
― devvvine, Monday, 20 April 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
Just put on "The Greater Times"
Just wow
― kraudive, Monday, 20 April 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWOJHHyMWa_/?utm_medium=copy_link!!
― willem, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
oh wow
― bovarism, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
\m/
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
They’ve been hinting at this for a while now but really cool to see how many people are excited on the socials.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― JoeStork, Sunday, 14 November 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
Yes!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 14 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Vg
― plax (ico), Sunday, 14 November 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
I only just saw that they're getting back together (after they popped up in my Pandora), and they're a band that I am willing to get COVID for (if they're even considering a tour).
― we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Monday, 22 August 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
I’d love to see them live!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
yo, i just discovered this band! they are so great!
― budo jeru, Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:13 (eleven months ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:30 (eleven months ago) link
Power Out and No Calls have aged very well. They seem more distinctive, even more in their own little sound world, than in the 00s
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:51 (eleven months ago) link
Axes as well!
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:56 (eleven months ago) link
this show is so great...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR63neoReGQ
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 9 April 2023 09:11 (eleven months ago) link
Haven’t seen anything more about the reunion but Verity Susman has a new band Memorials that’s releasing a double album and touring the UK this spring.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 9 April 2023 14:27 (eleven months ago) link
With Matt from Wire.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 9 April 2023 16:02 (eleven months ago) link
lol that Susman's website link to her band actually leads to memorials (dot) com, to buy funeral related items.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
Pretty into the Memorials albums on first listen!
― JoeStork, Monday, 22 May 2023 16:12 (ten months ago) link
happy 20th to the power out
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 January 2024 23:19 (two months ago) link
Still love it and listen to it regularly.
― fajita seas, Saturday, 27 January 2024 01:32 (two months ago) link