Interference Random Music Talk Part IV: Avoiding KNIFE CRIME for One More Sequel

[cobl04]

Anyone heard of the bands/artists Hot Chip, Maximo Park, Tokyo Police Club, The Wombats and/or Klaxons? One of my mates gave me albums by these bands, just seeking out some opinions.

Hopefully I'll get a serious answer

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Ha, yeah...that's an interesting handful of bands there. They're all more or less the same thing. All five bands are your typical "young white kids with guitars" bands. Kinda that pseudo-punk, dancey indie-rock thing that's been big over in the UK for most of this decade. Actually, four of those five bands are from England. Tokyo Police Club are from Canada but you can lump 'em into the same category.

They're all pretty popular, though. That Klaxons album won the Mercury Prize a couple years ago, which is kind of a big deal. They're probably the band out of that group that I like the most.

None of it is life-changing stuff but each of those bands has a few decently memorable tunes.

 

[mad1]

I LOVED watching Hot Chip perform with Calvin Harris at Glastonbury last year!

LOL!

 

[cobl04]

Yeah I'm only halfway through The Warning, but I looked them up on wikipedia, and it looks like they're all electro-indie bands, pretty much. It's good music I spose but yeah as you say, not life changing.

 

[Saracene]

Not a single friend of mine has bought the album. I suppose there's a chance they have, and they probably just haven't had the heart to tell me they bought it and hate it yet, but I'll just keep assuming they haven't. A huge number of my friends bought Atomic Bomb. I honestly wonder if it (Bomb) really did leave a sour enough taste in a lot of fair weather fans' mouths that after hearing a lead single like Get On Your Boots, they immediately assumed it was Vertigo Pt. 2 and had absolutely no desire to waste money on another crap U2 record.

Well, everyone at my work *hated* Get On Your Boots but liked/didn't mind Vertigo. It still gets rotation on the radio stations here, and I think that if the majority of fairweather fans hated Vertigo the album wouldn't have sold as well as it did.

I liked Boots at first despite its clumsiness but after listening to NLOTH repeatedly I'm just annoyed at the whole Crazy Tonight - Stand Up middle section and the way it brings the otherwise fine album down.

And yeah, it's probably the worst first single choice in band's history.

 

[mad1]

Cob, Im pretty much so into Over and Over

its so catchy, and when they played it at Glastonbury, boring as the lyrics are it was really quite fantastic!

 

[cobl04]

Yeah that song was pretty cool, same as the other single.. And i Was a Boy from School. Colours was really boring though.

 

[mad1]

And Ive heard of The Klaxons, not really into them thou.


I miss Kasabian on the scene.

 

[Irishteen]

Anyone heard of the bands/artists Hot Chip, Maximo Park, Tokyo Police Club, The Wombats and/or Klaxons? One of my mates gave me albums by these bands, just seeking out some opinions.

Hopefully I'll get a serious answer

Maximo Park are great, I really like they're first album and the second one is good too, third one is a disaster though. Their lyrics are probably one of their strongest points, the singer sounds like an overly smart english student most of the time.
The Wombats are meh, I've saw they live a lot of energy, nothing else really. Moving to New York is a good song, Let's Dance to Joy Division is...as odd as the title sounds

 

[corianderstem]

I have a lot of friends who have had a sour taste left in their mouth by the 'Cock.

Maybe Shuttlecock should try more pineapple juice in their diet?

 

[lazarus]

Good to know about the new Maximo Park. I like the first two a lot but I'm certainly content to leave it at that.

Summing up some Pitchfork news, blur are playing more UK shows (though I already knew this from a friend who's going to a couple--I might strangle her with jealousy), and I'm really hoping they record again. It's inevitable, no?

Also, The Knife are collaborating on an opera about Charles Darwin in Denmark? How fucking cool is that? Cooler than working on a Broadway show about Spider-Man, that's for sure.

 

[Irishteen]

Good to know about the new Maximo Park. I like the first two a lot but I'm certainly content to leave it at that.

Yeah the album really isn't good, here's some lyrics from it

"The kids are sick again, nothing to look forward to, they jump off the cliff again, the future sinks beneath the blue"
"why can't we always meet, under a cloud of mystery"
"In another world you'd have found me by now, but you'll still end up on a revolving dance floor in the middle of the river"
"oh it's criminal, when you whisper in my ear, let's get clinical, the words delivered with a sneer, let's get clinical, I'd like to map your body out, inch by inch, north to south and I'm free for circumnavigation"

I rest my case

 

[mad1]

anyone else listen to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole?

WHAT A VOICE!

shame he died so young

 

[lazarus]

SERVE ON

Badminton is not the easy thing
The only equipment you can bring...
Badminton is not the easy thing...
The only equipment you can bring
Is all that you can't leave courtside

And if the brackets are to keep us apart
And if the gameday feels like it's a long way off
And if your racquet should crack
And for a second your strings slack
Oh no, be strong

Serve on, serve on
What you got they can't return it
No they can't even earn it
Serve on, serve on...
Play safe tonight

You're packing a gym bag for a place none of us has played
A tournament has to be reseeded to be pro-rated
You could have thrown the game
A singing birdie in an open court
Who will only try, only try for asphalt

Serve on, serve on
What you've got they can't fault it
Can't block it, or assault it
Serve on, serve on
Play safe tonight

And your elbow aches
And your wrist it shakes
And you can only play so much
Serve on, serve on

Serve... hard to know what it is if you've never played some
Serve...I can't say where it is but I know I'm holding court
That's where the net is

And your elbow aches
How your wrist it shakes
And you can only play so much
Serve on, serve on

Leave it courtside
You got to leave it courtside
All that you topspin
All that you score
All that you volley
All that you whore
All that you endorse
All that you smash
All this you can leave courtside
All that you return
All that you drop
All that you break
All you protest
All that you cheat...

 

[cobl04]

Waaaaaaaaay too much time on your (pl) hands.

I listened to The Danger all the way through... wasn't anything special. Boy From School, Breakdown, Arrest Yourself probably the best three. Over and Over was good until someone started reciting the alphabet.

 

[LJT]

It's not random letters...

k-i-s-s-i-n-g
s-e-x-i-n-g
c-a-s-i-o
p-o-k-e
y-o-u
m-e
i

Anyway dude you need to hear that shit in a club...that is where it's at!

 

[cobl04]

Yeah, I guessed that, just wanted to sound like a smart arse

I'd love to!! I just don't know where I can go to do so!

 

[mad1]

SERVE ON

Badminton is not the easy thing
The only equipment you can bring...
Badminton is not the easy thing...
The only equipment you can bring
Is all that you can't leave courtside

And if the brackets are to keep us apart
And if the gameday feels like it's a long way off
And if your racquet should crack
And for a second your strings slack
Oh no, be strong

Serve on, serve on
What you got they can't return it
No they can't even earn it
Serve on, serve on...
Play safe tonight

You're packing a gym bag for a place none of us has played
A tournament has to be reseeded to be pro-rated
You could have thrown the game
A singing birdie in an open court
Who will only try, only try for asphalt

Serve on, serve on
What you've got they can't fault it
Can't block it, or assault it
Serve on, serve on
Play safe tonight

And your elbow aches
And your wrist it shakes
And you can only play so much
Serve on, serve on

Serve... hard to know what it is if you've never played some
Serve...I can't say where it is but I know I'm holding court
That's where the net is

And your elbow aches
How your wrist it shakes
And you can only play so much
Serve on, serve on

Leave it courtside
You got to leave it courtside
All that you topspin
All that you score
All that you volley
All that you whore
All that you endorse
All that you smash
All this you can leave courtside
All that you return
All that you drop
All that you break
All you protest
All that you cheat...

that was bad, SO bad.

 

[impy13]

SERVE ON

What a perfect and poignant way to end the era. Bravo. Congratulations to myself for getting to read that.

that was bad, SO bad.

I'm not pleased with you right now, Maddie.

 

[LJT]

Yeah, I guessed that, just wanted to sound like a smart arse

I'd love to!! I just don't know where I can go to do so!

No indie-ish clubs near you?

 

[lazarus]

What a perfect and poignant way to end the era. Bravo. Congratulations to myself for getting to read that.



I'm not pleased with you right now, Maddie.

Thank you for the kind words and defense.

I thought it would be a good "end of an era" song.

Not that I plan on stopping.

 

[lazarus]

Like I said:


FIST SCARS

My cervix ringing
No IUD
I need to know who's reaming
My bush is overgrown
I go down on my belly, screaming
I got the HIV, gonorrhea, and HPV
I fuck the moneyed Jews
To get to know the enemy

All I want is a ten-spot from you
All I want is to be on top of you
All I want is my face in a crotch pit
Penis in my socket
Morning-After pill to stop it

I know these fist scars
Will do me no good

I'm going whorin'
Where I work it is a lot of fun
They're in the hotel to manhandle a colonic mom
I watch them matress hop
Check the cocks
For chicken pox
I want the lot of what they've got
If what they've got can make me hot

All I want is a ten-spot from you
All I want is to be on top of you
All I want is my face in a crotch pit
Your cock in my socket
Morning-After pill to stop it

I know these fist scars
Will do me no good

What's that stuck in my behind?
What's that stuck in my behind?
What's that stuck in my behind?
What's that stuck in my behind?

You should worry the next day
If the rash won't go away
You know I piss blood sometimes

There is no friction
That will truly stop the fist you're waving
I'm documenting every oral
Every penetration
I'm not used to talking to somebody in my body
Look, there's somebody in my body, somebody in my body

 

[lazarus]

Well, it's nice to know NSW is keeping busy during his break from Interference:

YouTube - Beyonce Single Ladies Dance

 

[corianderstem]

FIST SCARS

Okay, that was just disturbing.

 

[impy13]

FIST SCARS

I honestly think this is your best work yet. It might be all the free Natty Light from the softball tournament I just finished, but something about "Fist Cars" speaks to me.

I'm clapping.

 

[phillyfan26]

I got the HIV, gonorrhea, and HPV

That's my favorite part. Fantastic.

 

[lazarus]

It was surprisingly easy to write. It was clear right from the beginning that it wasn't a badminton song, and everything was quickly plugged in, so to speak.

Sorry to mess with the album title, though.

I was worried it was a little TOO vulgar, but I think we've pretty much covered everything when it comes to Lance's Mom.

 

[impy13]

I was worried it was a little TOO vulgar, but I think we've pretty much covered everything when it comes to Lance's Mom.

And I'm sure she's covered just about everything in her "career" as well. It's apt.


Colt McCoy played in my softball tourney, which is cool. His girlfriend is even hotter in real life. Good guy, but I kind of wish it was badminton.

 

[martha]

If I wake up screaming from that fat guy dancing, I'm going to kick every single ass in this thread.

 

[cobl04]

No indie-ish clubs near you?

Probably is in the city... but none that I know of. All my mates couldn't be any less interested in that music unfortunately.. so I might have to find some who are.

Maximo Park album was nothing special.