[kj] RE: DARKNESS/Rapture

[Tim Bucknall]

yeah i was impressed by the rapture, they're-pil-tastic!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Smith" <vassifer@earthlink.net>
To: <gathering@misera.net>; <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:11 PM
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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