I some of the album cuts (e.g., "I Don't Wanna Go Out") a lot more than the singles. I also agree w/whomever said the drumming feels a touch too slow and tentative for this style.
― ass time permits (morrisp), Monday, 11 April 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Also agree they sound nothing like Elastica. BPM-era Unrest is a touchstone that comes to mind for me
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Monday, 11 April 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
if we're doing comparisons, i'd say the yfeel like a kindler gentler yeah yeah yeahs with a less good drummer
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 April 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
Weren’t Hot Legs the dancers on Top of the Pops or summat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOr5cyLvqOM
― Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Monday, 11 April 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
"Supermarket" (another one I like) sounds like some of those melodic Parquet cCourts songs (e.g., "N. Dakota"); and as a bonus, it shares a lyrical concern – being stoned in public.
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Monday, 11 April 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
"Piece of Shit" is a good song (wish it had a different title)
I like this band now, lol
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrJKasTbjw
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ianu7PBhJck
I'm liking the non-"Chaise"/"Wet Dream" songs better in these live videos than on the record.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
I think those two songs are more appealing, at least in this 2nd vid (haven't watched the first one yet). Good performance.
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link
The first video is good, too – I like how it has some non-album songs.
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Friday, 15 April 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
This is a good album
― Bee OK, Friday, 15 April 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
straight in at number 1 on the UK album chart! that is impressive and unexpected. i figured it would go in in the mid teens and then drop out after a week so it will be interesting to see how it fares next week.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
Described as "the much-hyped Isle of Wight indie duo" on the BBC website. So it must be true.
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 April 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
How do you get to number 1 in the uk, sales or streams or both? Does airplay on the digital channel “BBC Horny Dads” count?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
Sales + streams.
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
Wet Leg going straight in at number one isn't enough to dislodge this important story as the lead item on the Isle of Wight County Press website:
https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/20074650.cadbury-easter-egg-bought-isle-wight-dead-slug-inside/
Cowes, Ventnor and Ningwood couldn't care less about yer mainland media hype.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
“BBC Horny Dads”=Underrated Porn Genre
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
It was a message to the Isle from the sad dads -- Wet Leg ripped off Dead Slug.
― Michael Flatley's (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
oh, I suspect that's a rather popular genre
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 17 April 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
Liking “UR Mom” a lot
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
"Ur Mom" is good, but the chord change in the last line of the chorus ("'Cause you just don't motivate me") slightly irks me, for some reason
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvCsiP6EkY
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
It really is. Killer hooks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Posted in his thread, but I dig this cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAPW7ZoOLw
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
I will almost certainly have listened to this more than any other 2022 album (unless a dark horse emerges in the latter half of the year).
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Now I imagine Miranda Lambert covering "Ur Mum" and Wet Leg covering "Actin' Up."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:26 (one year 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.)
what about beggars farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUxRaKmdDmY
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 July 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
Still enjoying this album a lot. Catchy songs don't usually have much staying power for me, but there's something about these joyful tunes that keeps me coming back. It's certainly not the album of the year for me though.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 7 July 2022 06:06 (one year 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