[kj] RE: DARKNESS/Rapture/interpol
Alex Smith
gathering@misera.net
Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:23:32 -0500
"I'm developing a taste for Interpol as well . . should I seek help ?"
I'm really frustrated by Interpol, because like you may remember, I thought
they were a criminally uninspired and derivative live act, but I quite like
their album....however unoriginal it may arguably be. Moreover, they've
become a HUGE draw here...they've just added a second night (both sold out,
I believe) at the Roseland Ballroom....which is a pretty big room.
At least their hearts are in the right places....and it's damn refreshing to
hear a new band that doesn't try to splice any semblance of hip-hop into
their music in the slightest.
Alex in NYC
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>From: Phillipps Marc <Marc.Phillipps@enfield.nhs.uk>
>To: "'gathering@misera.net'" <gathering@misera.net>
>Subject: RE: [kj] RE: DARKNESS/Rapture
>Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 9:18 AM
>
>>Anyway, me likey.
>
>Me likey Rapture too . . .
>
>I'm developing a taste for Interpol as well . . should I seek help ?
>
>Marc .
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Smith [SMTP:vassifer@earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:12 PM
>> To: gathering@misera.net; gathering@misera.net
>> Subject: Re: [kj] RE: DARKNESS/Rapture
>>
>>
>> Just dropped the wife off at the office, and as is my ritual, I popped
>> into
>> Tower Records, which is only a couple of doors down. I spotted the new
>> Darkness album on the new release racks. I've never heard them, but they
>> just seem like a re-re-re-re-re-hashed Spinal Tap gag. Geddit? Ironic
>> hair-metal. Yawn. Haven't we been there a bajillion times by this point?
>>
>> Am I wrong in this assumption?
>>
>> Personally speaking, being that it finally seems that there are some
>> interesting goings-on in music again (not just because the Joke is back on
>> active duty), why waste time with Whitesnake tribute bands like the
>> Darkness?
>>
>> One new band that I've embraced is The Rapture.
>>
>> I'd really decided that I hated the Rapture. There'd been the initial hype
>> and all the comparisons to Gang of Four and the Pop Group and all these
>> other bands I quite dig. Then, I picked up their e.p., OUT OF THE RACES &
>> ONTO THE TRACKS and after a few spins, decided I was underwhelmed, and put
>> off by Luke Jenner's somewhat cloying vocals. That's it, I thought, it's
>> decided. I don't like the Rapture. Cross them off the list.
>>
>> So, I'm scouring Manhattan last week, searching for an old Foetus
>> compilation from about `89 that I had on vinyl, but never had picked up on
>> disc (I no longer have a turntable, nor a plan of getting
>> one anytime soon, so I effectively cannot play any of my vinyl). In any
>> event, I'd been feeling a serious need to hear "Bedrock" by Foetus, so
>> figured I'd go pick it up in any number of likely shops (to no
>> avail,..I've
>> since had to order it online, which is such less fun!) ANYWAY, while in
>> fuckin' the Virgin Megastore in Times Square (of all places), I'm perusing
>> through the import bins, and I hear this really captivating racket
>> eminating
>> from the 'electronica' section (and it's music that doesn't sound
>> electronic
>> in the slightest). After a couple of tracks, I ask the gent behind the
>> counter who it was. "The new Rapture disc," he says. DAMMIT! I hate it
>> when
>> that happens. I bought
>> it.
>>
>> In any event, while I'm still kinda cool on Jenner's screechy warble, this
>> is a really charged sounding record. Favorite bit by far is the bass-amp
>> overload segueway between "The Coming of Spring" and "House of Jealous
>> Lovers." Yes, it's all very backwards-looking in a neo-post-punk sorta way
>> (while he generally apes G04's John King to eyebrow-raising degrees,
>> Jenner's really pushing for Lydon/PiL vibe on the title track), but I
>> think
>> it sounds pretty fresh (and I don't mean that in a
>> dated hip hop slang sorta way).
>>
>> At certain points, there's a really frantic sound to the proceedings, as
>> if
>> they might spiral messily off course at any second, which is pretty
>> endearing. I imagine their live shows are pretty sweaty affairs. The
>> guitars
>> also have a great CLANGY sound to them, all disjointed and crackly.
>>
>> Anyway, me likey.
>>
>> Alex in NYC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: Rob's Arse <joker@Z6.com>
>> >To: gathering@misera.net
>> >Subject: Re: [kj] RE: DARKNESS before dawn (OT)
>> >Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2003, 3:04 AM
>> >
>>
>> >Amy, stop it. You're upsetting me. I would like to make it my personal
>> >quest to rid the world of the Darkness, but I can't cos I'm a cripple. If
>>
>> >they are still mystifyingly popular when I am better (unlikely) then
>> >perhaps a series of Spinal Tap style accidents might befall the wretched
>> >beasts. If I am successful, I will gladly sort of the Sugarbabes and
>> >Cheeky Girls for you!
>> >
>> >
>> >--- amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) wrote:
>> >> well said that arse, I'm listening to Change-Peel session as I type
>> >> this, and the thought of EVER having to listen to
>> >> a second of the Dorkness chills me to the bone
>> >
>> >They are quite good live, especially for the ladies ;-)
>> >(ahem, or perhaps not-too-ladylike)
>> >
>> >See, *I* don't get Sugababes or Cheeky Girls or any of
>> >THAT complete and total shite. Enterainment? Gentlemen's
>> >entertainment, and I don't think they are nearly as
>> >musically talented as The Darkness.
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