basement jaxx and primal scream headline glastonbury
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ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
pk said:
Agree wholeheartedly. Jaxx have made a few good party tunes but really it's all a bit, well, Twatty. isn't it?
Underworld rule though.
ouchmonkey said:
Although, to be fair, the Jaxx are way better live. Ruthlessly tight, honed on those Rooty nights around Brixton and far better on stage than they've any right to be.
And they pull off some fanastic club nights too. Strangely I'm not the greatest fan of their studio albums - nothing to compare to Cowgirl for example - but they're far better live...
What the fuck are you lot talking about? Have you heard "Kish Kash"? Awesome stuff. "Remedy" and "Rooty" aren't far behind completing a trio of awesomeness.nick1181 said:And lest we forget, Underworld are a reincarnation of these fabulous creatures
- fabtastic 80s prog-pop combo from Wales, Freur - with their unforgetable quirk-rock hit "doot, doot". I have their album you know. On proper vinyl
my first introduction to Underworld was "Underneath the Radar" , rarely been able to take them seriously since (especially as that stoodent anthem Born Slippy made me want to eat my own face
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
In terms of talent Underworld have some and Basement Jaxx haven't.stavros said:
Sadly, when I 'm fighting on the side of the same musical divide as Stavros I fear the battle for good taste may be lost...
Still, I'll stick with what I said. I can leave the albums but Basement Jaxx are superb live, with a real instinct for moving the crowd. They fully deserve their success - they've been promoting great club nights down here with little fanfare, practised and honed their live act with some phenomenal singers - these guys have earned their live onions. And they can play a mean set too, far more varied than their increasingly samey tunes would suggest...
Still, I'll stick with what I said. I can leave the albums but Basement Jaxx are superb live, with a real instinct for moving the crowd. They fully deserve their success - they've been promoting great club nights down here with little fanfare, practised and honed their live act with some phenomenal singers - these guys have earned their live onions. And they can play a mean set too, far more varied than their increasingly samey tunes would suggest...
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
With you all the way there Stavros - Jaxx rule. Got their singles collection a couple of months back and just thought "how many great tunes?!"stavros said:Glad to see I divide opinion so forcefully.
Also rather ironic that the Jaxx are dismissed as "novelty" (do novelty bands have three successful and great albums?) when we look back to the "lager-lager-lager-lager" crowd of not so many years ago.
And the wonderful thing about it was that, despite having known the likes of the genius 'Red Alert', 'Rendez-vu', 'Fly Life', 'Bingo Bango', 'Romeo', 'Where's Your Head At?' et al et al et al for years, of the other tracks there wasn't a single one I didn't recognise - such is the ubiquity of these songs over the last few years. One of the great singles bands.
Add to that the fact that they've never lost their street-level roots or turned into megastar tossers. Underworld have done some good stuff ('Pearl's Girl'; 'Two Months Off') but compared to Jaxx it's been very thin on the ground, and now they've seemingly finally burned out on their own self-indulgence.
One more thing - after a decade Jaxx still seem as fresh as...an exceedingly fresh thing. They constantly reinvent their sound while keeping the basic principles in place. Witness that 'Oh My Gosh' is about as different from 'Red Alert' as something by Jeff Buckley.
stavros said:Glad to see I divide opinion so forcefully.
Also rather ironic that the Jaxx are dismissed as "novelty" (do novelty bands have three successful and great albums?) when we look back to the "lager-lager-lager-lager" crowd of not so many years ago.
it's not so much that they're a novelty act in as much as their stuff (singles...I have never heard nor want to hear a whole album...) just sounds...oooo a bit wacky, aren't we crazy shite...
horses for courses though i'nt it
for the record I also hated the " "lager-lager-lager-lager" crowd of not so many years ago"
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
This is also toshtarannau said:
Listen to "Everything Everything" and accept you are wrong
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
I've not seen Basement Jaxx live, but Underworld live I have seen 5 times, and yes they most certainly do rock, and they don't need dancing troupes or albino gorillas or whatever...
Plus their sense of actual music production skills piss all over Basement Jaxx, who still use Atari computers...!
Plus their sense of actual music production skills piss all over Basement Jaxx, who still use Atari computers...!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Underworld were great for the first two albums but they seriously tailed off into dull prog territory.
Basement Jaxx have always had an astute pop sensibility that has never been tainted by tawdry gimmicks like most chart 'dance' acts.
Basement Jaxx have always had an astute pop sensibility that has never been tainted by tawdry gimmicks like most chart 'dance' acts.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
beesonthewhatnow said:This is also tosh
Listen to "Everything Everything" and accept you are wrong
I thought that was pony - student dance crap.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Good point, well made.lunatrick said:
Although I actually quite like 'Oh My Gosh' - it grows after a while, and sounds a bit like the purple one IMO.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
easy g said:
Sorry, I meant the first two with Darren Emerson on board
acid priest said:Good point, well made.
Although I actually quite like 'Oh My Gosh' - it grows after a while, and sounds a bit like the purple one IMO.
hmm know what you mean - never a big fan of his purpleness......it's just the lyrics to oh my gosh seem to be written with 12 year old girls in mind....but hey I can forgive them - I think rendezvous is a piece of latin disco pumping house genius.....absolutely caned my copy when it came out......incidentally has anybody heard 'i live in camberwell' off the camberscank ep? they also recently released it on the second cd that came with the singles......twisted warehouse garage.....brilliant...breaks down into the ice cream van music at one point.......love it.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Yeah, got the bonus CD - in many ways as important to a Jaxx 'best of' as the main aticle, but for totally different reasons...one representing their pop crossover success and the other the underground they stay firmly rooted in.lunatrick said:
The vocal of 'Oh My Gosh' is (supposedly) a 'narration' by 12-year-old girls (although I'd hazard a guess that the singer, Vula Malinga is a touch older in reality) - but have you seen the video? It puts, shall we say, a slightly different light on the whole affair...
acid priest said:The vocal of 'Oh My Gosh' is (supposedly) a 'narration' by 12-year-old girls (although I'd hazard a guess that the singer, Vula Malinga is a touch older in reality) - but have you seen the video? It puts, shall we say, a slightly different light on the whole affair...
nah haven't seen it, what happens?
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
It's performed by a group of OAPs in a cafe (probably the same one that suffered the minor damage all those years ago in 'Red Alert'). And on TOTP the singers were backed by a dancing troupe of pensioners with Zimmer frames.lunatrick said:
Exactly. One of the Jaxx's fortes has been their ability to evolve. Whereas their first two albums were peans to their mastery of the pop hook, "Kish Kash" demonstrated their ability to craft songs to fit set vocalists, who differ as widly as Lisa Kekaula, Dizzee Rascal and JC Chasez.
I never like greatest hits packages where I've got all the tracks on previous albums except the new single so I'm waiting until I see it dead cheap second hand.
