I will regret that post within days
― byebyepride, Saturday, 17 July 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
Makes me feel like Art Brut is back and coming from me that's a compliment
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 July 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
The YT is a neat side eye at #cottagecore, I guess.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 July 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 18 July 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure why I like it so much. It feels assured and confident. I also find it very funny.
Yes, I also really love it, and I think its sense of humour and playfulness is a huge part of it. There is so little new music that feels fun, or funny.
Perhaps the finest song about lying on french furniture since Plastic Bertrand.
― triggercut, Sunday, 18 July 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
wow, what is this contemporary drivel
are we already post-dry cleaning?
― maelin, Monday, 19 July 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Not sure I'd use the word drivel but yeah idgi either
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdSQlCbJ90
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
omg yes
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
this is better than Dry Cleaning, imo
― alpine static, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
i'll give Dry Cleaning another chance tonight tho
― alpine static, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
I like the guitar more w/ Dry Cleaning but this is nice.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
extraordinarily terrible band name
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
Weird, but I think I need to hear more songs by them to contextualize it? On its own, I'm not too moved, but if I had a more rounded idea of what their vision is, I might be able to frame it differently. Does that make sense? Dunno.
I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 19, 2021 9:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, I will never get how groups of ostensibly creative people come up with the most banal and forgettable band names
unless this is a regional idiom or perhaps a pun I am not getting
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:17 (two years ago) link
So far, Level 42 still the best band from the Isle of Wight but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link
The video is necessary to get the whole sleepy eyed sarcasm across, but the attitude here is an ace distillation of a despairing humor of trying to get your life started in this broken summer. Maybe a totally one-off, but a potent one, like Vivian Goldman’s Launderette or Wet Dog’s Lower Leg, who may have inspired the band name. Stuck in my head for days. Dry Cleaning isn’t working for me. Did get me to relisten to Algebra Suicide though.
― Citole Country (bendy), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Live at O2 Academy, Oxford - 24/08/21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfHx1bpSck
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
geez i guess covid is over?
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
UK and US attitudes to Covid are very very different at this point, but Wet Leg do not appear to have a second song yet
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 11:57 (two years ago) link
I think both Wet Leggers are/have been associates of Plastic Mermaids who seem vaguely relevant to comrade imago's interests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rIWOa55yc
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
Prefer my polyrhythmic synth textures when they're not underpinning some Coldplay bollocks ngl
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
Marveling at how short the blonde woman in the band is.
― Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
80% of adults in the UK double vaxxed, and people less beefy about showing vaccine status or rapid test to go to shows i guess... still know a lot of people hesitant to go to any though.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
I liked the song the first couple times but do find it weird how they seem to be blowing up compared to all the other recent post-punk groups when they have one released song.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
less chance to have bad songs if you only release one song
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/138/highresrollsafe.jpg
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
Particularly in England, the vast majority do seem to think it is all over. Of course, everyone is going to catch Covid at some point so maybe going out to gigs / clubs is maybe just hastening the inevitable?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
so wait they are playing shows despite only having one song? What do they do for the rest of the time onstage?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
all night long all night long on the....
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
so this is out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c
― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
not loving it because it does kind of sound like a franz ferdinand song, but it's fun and thats okay
― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
very standard UK indie with slightly elevated presentation?
― imago, Sunday, June 27, 2021 7:53 PM bookmarkflaglink
Hey, imago was right!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Should I be 'SPENDING TIME' with this band
― kinder, Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
The Undertones would like their lobster bibs back.
https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_UNDERTONES_HYPNOTISED%2B%2B%2BLOBSTER%2B-%2BEX-742797.jpg
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 September 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
Literally everything has to be a 90s reference now
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)
I found the lyrics to 'Chaise Longue' pretty cringe and that stopped me liking it but the line about B66 perfectly captures the sort of That Fucking Guy this song is about, I really like it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Like, it is Cinema Guy who talks non-stop about '70s cinema, especially the "edgy shit", except updated. The '90s were 30 years ago, it's so totally the same thing for their generation.
― emil.y, Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
Makes sense
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
I find this mildly more palatable but also less interesting than Chaise Longue
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
I think I've worked out the reason Chaise Longue annoys me is because the opening lines are almost identical to 'Pulled Up' by Talking Heads
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 30 September 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
Fell down a Vincent Gallo rabbit hole for a bit after watching. His website is really something. Not a good something, obv.
― Position Position, Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
I actually watched The Brown Bunny for the first time last week. Thought it was a terrible self-indulgent mess until the ending, now have very mixed feelings about it, there is a nugget of something really good in there, but the cinematography was very poorly done.Still love Buffalo 66 but no desire to check out anything else Gallo-related.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
this song is horrendous
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
i love "chaise lounge", just think the way they built that song is great, just kinda simple but really effective songwriting. this new one i'm less sold on but i think they're pretty interesting
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
This is fun and mostly forgettable.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Damn was hoping i’d get to start the thread about this band.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
I love them of course.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
This live version of Chaise Longue that came out last week got a decent chuckle out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FELWZcmZw
Whatever they do with their career, I'm just eternally grateful to them for speaking the words chaise longue out loud because I've been running around calling it a chase lounge for eternity. I feel very continental now.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
hah, that has endeared me to them (and the song) a fair bit I must say
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
The (English) Beat were formed on the Isle of Wight, which was where Dave Wakeling and Andy Cox were fitting solar panels.
In 1978, Wakeling and his friend Andy Cox spent the autumn in the Isle Of Wight, building primitive solar panels for the latter’s eccentric American brother-in-law. The peaceful environment proved productive. At the southern tip of the Isle, in a house in Blackgang Chine which has since fallen into the sea, Wakeling and Cox would gather round the fire, dreaming and scheming. Friends from London would turn up, smoke some of Wakeling and Cox’s home-grown weed, tell their tales of the punk scene, then return to the big city, leaving the Brummies in their self-imposed exile. “It was absolutely beautiful,” Wakeling remembers. “You could see the ocean on the horizon, which I wasn’t used to in Birmingham.”
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/beat
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:44 (one year ago) link
There are plenty of "post-breakup bitterness"–themed songs in the world, but a few lyrics of "Loving You" can hang with the best of them:
I used to want to love you like you wanted me toNow I wanna hate you like I tell you I do
Don't call me up, you fucked it upI'm not your friend, I'm not your pal
(These lines are obv basic/plainspoken, but that's how they cut right to the heart of that particular feeling/scenario...)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
Only just clocked that Harry's drummer was in New Young Pony Club.
― piscesx, Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
They've crossed over to the local alternative/modern rock station, apparently. (I hit seek obv.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 15 July 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
I see we've reached the ILX Swiftie stage of typing out crushingly banal lyrics and calling them profound
― imago, Friday, 15 July 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
lol, you're 2 much
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Friday, 15 July 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/3fMEa6hqtN— shirts that go hard (@shirtsthtgohard) July 15, 2022
now do a wet leg version!!!!
― imago, Friday, 15 July 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
yeah idg what makes those lyrics anything special
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 15 July 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
They're pop lyrics that express a universal/relatable feeling in an artfully simple way (as good pop lyrics can do). If they don't do that for you, no harm done.
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Friday, 15 July 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
(it also helps to, you know, hear them in the context of the song)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Friday, 15 July 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Because I'm bored/procrastinating, I'll expand (even tho it feels like explaining why a joke is funny, or something):
Don't call me up, you fucked it up is the kind of lyric that seems obvious once you hear it, but there are a thousand clumsier / less artful ways it could have been expressed... two phrases, each four single-syllable words, stuck together by the final "up"; used figuratively (in a different way) each time. If you were writing a song in which you tell an ex not to call you anymore, and it's their fault you're on bad terms, would you have thought of Don't call me up, you fucked it up?
I'm not your friend, I'm not your pal mocks the ex's attempt at staying in touch; it's a pointedly condescendingly way of throwing the phone calls back in their face. "I'm not your pal" says, in three simple words (and with an implied sneer), "how dare you pretend everything's cool, and that I'd still want to talk / hang out with you, after what you've done?"
And the first lyric captures the double-edged ambiguity of how she wasn't as into the relationship as the other person; but now she's trying to cut off her emotions and just hate them (after their cheating / breakup / whatever), and finding that she can't fully do that.
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Friday, 15 July 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
(and, again, it does that in two simple lines, with perfect economy)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Friday, 15 July 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
I dunno, I prefer that song they do about taking a lasagna and a raygun to a party. Much more relatable imo.
― The Ghost Club, Saturday, 16 July 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
See? Something for everyone
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Sunday, 17 July 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
(…even whoever “You're so woke, Diet Coke” is for)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Sunday, 17 July 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
when they sing 'McDonalds! McDonalds!', this signifies that they would also like to eat food from McDonalds in addition to Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut
― imago, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
and with such economy too
― imago, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
You guys.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
Their hype has died down pretty fast since the album came out, no?
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
do you mean "Do people talk about them?" Yes.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
I actually think those seem better than the Wet Leg lyrics I have heard so far tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
I play the album more than I expected I would, it’s pretty solid beneath the obvious hooks.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
i put “inbetweener” by sleeper on a recent playlist and always mistake it for wet leg until the chorus hits
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
This album is good, “Angelica” is a candidate for song of the year
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
On the flip side “Oh No” is a candidate for worst song of the year but it doesn’t ruin the album somehow
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
^^ Agree with both posts. I think 'Oh No' works within the context of the album but I'd never want to hear it on its own. I'd probably skip it if I had the CD but it's too much hassle on vinyl.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 18 July 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I still think the pre-release singles (including “Chaise Lounge”) are the weakest tracks, but I’ve grown to like them well enough in the context on the album. Even “Oh No!”
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
I can’t think of another situation where I disliked all the singles, heard the album, and was like — “Wait a minute…”
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
(Although apparently “Too Late Now” was the 3rd single? I must have overlooked it, that one’s great)
― “Lawman,” Slick (Grunt) (morrisp), Monday, 18 July 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
Have you heard the Soulwax remix of Too Late Now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvCsiP6EkY
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dza9y6cg0
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 July 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
Really doesn't work without the bratty way the Chats dude says "smoko"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 July 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
This is exactly what happened to me with Nine Inch Nails' Hesitation Marks. Hated every advance track, but loved them in the context of the album.
(Wet Leg sucks. I'm glad that Bandcamp Daily writer pasted them one.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 22 July 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Nine Inch Nails sucks
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 July 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Three Inch Nail IIRC
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 23 July 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
I wanted to like this but 40 minutes is very long
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/109046-008-A/wet-leg/
― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
For a set?
They sold out their upcoming Atlanta show in a matter of minutes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
going to see 'em in San Antonio because I want to get in on the ground floor
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 22 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Extra sleaze works for them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLrnkwRTaQQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
“Angelica” sounds great on Radio 1 at 8:22 in the morningThere’s something of the Stereolab in them imo
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 March 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link
My wife has the CD in her car and it's certainly grown on me. I've been racking my branes and it dawned on me the other day: the band they remind me of more than anything is the Young Knives.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 3 March 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link