4-Door Fvckmobile by Tori Amos

[alexsarll]

Even if you have no interest in the Star Spangles, Richard Meltzer's press releases for them are marvellous.

Last night was a strange one; I gradually realised that I hadn't just been in a bad mood when last I visited Infinity, but that the place really didn't agree with me. Terribilis est locus iste and I've no idea why; I get flashes (that we're right over a plague pit, or that a forebear lost his fortune here) but they're so inchoate that they seem more likely designed to get me out than actual information. Perhaps it's the name - calling somewhere so limited 'Infinity' makes me wonder which directions they're talking about, and I start looking for bad angles. I'm reading my friends' accounts of the night, and it sounds like such fun, but even if I'd stayed I know it wouldn't have been for me. No judgment on any of you chaps, with whom I'd have been happy to talk and dance and drink somewhere else; but faced with that place, I just wanted to be in the New Forest, or maybe a walled garden, or at least reading about one or the other.
Though I must admit it didn't help that I'd seen the whip dancer come in and she was a She-Barley.

(Those of you who fear that your life lacks direction - Mary Ann Girling was, by most accounts, at least 32 before she realised she was the female Jesus, so don't give up hope just yet)

The LCD Soundsystem album is rather spiffing; in particular, there's something almost Zen in doing a track called 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House' which is far superior to anything Daft Punk have ever released, and riddling it with Americanisms when it's a Briton singing about a French band and I have now been informed that second bit was b0ll0cks. Plus, the album comes with a second disc of non-album tracks LCDS have already put out, just as one used to tape an album for a friend, and then the relevant B-sides on the other side of the tape.

Bis are reforming. Except that, Rain Tree Crow style, they'll be called Data Panik and are described by Manda Rin as “a harder, stronger Bis with a drummer”.

Club Freaky Trigger tonight, I think. The Chapel is for the most part a good place.

Comments

[shewho.livejournal.com]

oh god, the whip dancer, was that the one with the same hair as rory? man, she deserves a death!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I didn't see her in costume, and she may have changed her hair when she changed her outfit, but it did look a bit like a more Shoreditch version of Jimmy Rory, aye.

[ksta.livejournal.com]

what's your title for?

The Guns of Prince Far-I by Billy Joel and David Johansen

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

If you followed the first link, you'd know.

Re: The Guns of Prince Far-I by Billy Joel and David Johansen

[ksta.livejournal.com]

i did. am still lost.
Spell it out for me, pigdog.

Re: The Guns of Prince Far-I by Billy Joel and David Johansen

[ksta.livejournal.com]

oh wait,there it is, right at the bottom.

is that song any good?

So The Rooskies Want Onions?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

None of them actually exist! That whole list (afaik) is a series of deliberately incongruous made-up records. I think even the second Star Spangles album as described further up is fictitious.

Re: So The Rooskies Want Onions?

[ksta.livejournal.com]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh. right. damn, it's a good name for a song.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed by the LCD Soundsystem album. The first track is great though.

The Star Spangles are managed by the legendary Howard Thompson. They are good friends with The Parkinsons, and Howard and I exchanged e-mails for a while last year. His e-mails are like excerpts from "The Rum Diaries", so it doesn't surprise me that he makes sure that the band's press releases are interesting.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, Meltzer is apparently quite a legend too, in certain circles. He used to be a renowned music journo but now he only writes this stuff for them.

The single is the most instantly appealing bit of the LCDS album, but some of the rest has already got its claws in me, especially 'On Repeat' and the last track.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Well basically does it sound like more like Beat Connection or Losing My Edge?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They're both on the second CD. And while I approve of that in principle, I've not listened to it yet.

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Losing My Edge is one of my favourite songs ever.

LCD soundsystem

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

AGREED!

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Not sure what to make of the Bis news.

On the one hand I'm pleased that they're reforming (in all but name, essentially) since they were just getting better and better and their last two albums feature some of the finest electropop ever released. And thus, any reformation means those songs might get more exposure. Though there is something to be said for quitting at your peak rather than your nadir, too.

And "harder Bis", with a drummer? That to me suggests they'll sound just like they did in their early days - awful, shouty, annoying cacophonous punky rubbish. Though perhaps they've matured enough as songwriters and musicians to alleviate that problem somewhat. Hope so.

"I Love You But I Don't Why"

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

However, having checked the Bis website, it says one of the songs scheduled for the 7" is 'Cubis'. Assuming it's the same song, this was one of the last tracks Bis recorded and, though was unreleased, I have a version of it on a CDR given to me by a friend who remixed the track.

And, yeah, it is ever so slightly harder than what they'd been doing previously, but not that much of a departure really...basically a decent synth-pop song, with a slight techno harshness to it.

Hurrah!

Re: "I Love You But I Don't Why"

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're happy - you were the main person for whom I crossposted that news.

[missfrancesca.livejournal.com]

Alex, I love you! I didn't see you at all, sorry Infinity didn't agree with you. The whip dance turned out to be a riding crop dance oddly so I don't think you missed out.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I may have mis-eavesdropped, but I got the impression she didn't even have the crop with her and sent an associate to get her one...

[oneofthose.livejournal.com]

riddling it with Americanisms when it's a Briton singing about a French band

He's from New Jersey.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Bloody Hell, so he is - I thought he was Scottish. I think I must have been confusing him with Mylo. How embarrassing.

[oneofthose.livejournal.com]

Not at all, you just panicked me for a second as I'd already submitted my review.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Heh. Factcheckers R Us.