Goldfrapp..
- Thread starter Hollis
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I don't hear any emotion in their music - to me it sounds like a keyboard demonstration track with unusually high production values.
Decently structured songs, but so glossy the ear skids right off.
Decently structured songs, but so glossy the ear skids right off.
May Kasahara said:
very rarely actually THEIR structures, though
my influences include Mogwai, Butthole Surfers, Lee Hazelwood, King Tubby, Sparklehorse and James Coburn.
My music sounds like a bloke with no ability looking for a chord.
My music sounds like a bloke with no ability looking for a chord.
jodal said:
not quite SO explicitly. Goldfrapp's nearest rival in the derivative stakes has to be Oasis - it's just too fucking obvious to even be an influence, it's just flat-out plagiarism
andy2002 said:Peaches is even worse. "This next song is called 'Bum, Tit, Willy'." Oh, do keep your vest on dear, you aren't impressing anyone.
ah, Peaches is fucking great. Genuinely sexy, musically innovative, great show, real content.
jodal said:I agree about Oasis but they never denied their influences. Not really arguing with you btw.
oh go on, i'm bored
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
Dubversion said:
You see, Peaches is someone I want to like but again find it all a bit contrived. Listening to her stuff I just feel like saying, "OK, you swear and you like sex. Now, what else have you got?" I suspect the answer isn't very much (although 'Fuck The Pain Away' is wicked it must be said).
Skim
Well-Known Member
PieEye said:I have a pink double CD that I could "burn" for you Hollis - of all that kind of stuff. No Alison Goldfrapp but Peaches is on there talking about being someone's lovertits
PM me if you want.
Yeah, the "Futurism" City Rockers CD – that's it. That's what I was going to burn for Hollis but forgot... about two years ago
jodal said:
nah, she's gone more electro / euro sounding, still doing good stuff. My Machine was great.
Hollis
bloody furious
PieEye said:I have a pink double CD that I could "burn" for you Hollis - of all that kind of stuff. No Alison Goldfrapp but Peaches is on there talking about being someone's lovertits
PM me if you want.
Yes - if you wouldn't mind. I was thinking I was going to have to get round to "ripping" some of this stuff.
Skim said:Yeah, the "Futurism" City Rockers CD – that's it. That's what I was going to burn for Hollis but forgot... about two years ago
That's the one - I can't make it through both CDs in one go but there's some good stuff on there. Peaches and her tits notwithstanding. Plus you get to hear stuff that Ladytron and Fischerspooner did that was good without buying the albums and realising the rest was cack
Fuck the Pain Away is a great tune too
PieEye said:. Plus you get to hear stuff that Ladytron and Fischerspooner did that was good without buying the albums and realising the rest was cack
although you got that bit wrong, didn't you?
Error Gorilla
My spoon is too big
I'd do Alison Goldfrapp but I'd be thinking of Martin L. Gore.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Naaa, Martin Gore is the weakest element of Depeche Mode, all his naff ballads wreck most of their otherwise brilliant LP's.
I like most Goldfrapp stuff, and some of it I really do dig, like Strict Machine and Train, which deliberately uses the 70's pop/rock style with the meaty synths added to great effect. Never seen them live, mind.
She strikes me as a singer who can achieve everything she needs to in the studio but fuck it all up on stage, much like St Etienne.
Their sound (or rather one minor aspect of it) is bound to attract comparisons with Suzi Quatro by people with little imagination, but I see it as their loss, if they can't find the Theramin-style bits in Lovely Head genuinely moving then synth based music just isn't for them.
As someone who has spent more time than most following synth based bands than most since 1979 or so, as well as engineering and recording all kinds of real and virtual synths for well over 15 years, I can say with some authority that their sounds and structures are far more original than those of most of the new wave of electronic artists
In the same way you could compare the dyke-rock of Peaches to Samantha Fox's 80's pop dirge - possibly - it's all about subjectivity and context, and I don't think Goldfrapp take themselves seriously enough to give a fuck, so it's all good.
Peaches bores me. Chicks On Speed are far better.
I like most Goldfrapp stuff, and some of it I really do dig, like Strict Machine and Train, which deliberately uses the 70's pop/rock style with the meaty synths added to great effect. Never seen them live, mind.
She strikes me as a singer who can achieve everything she needs to in the studio but fuck it all up on stage, much like St Etienne.
Their sound (or rather one minor aspect of it) is bound to attract comparisons with Suzi Quatro by people with little imagination, but I see it as their loss, if they can't find the Theramin-style bits in Lovely Head genuinely moving then synth based music just isn't for them.
As someone who has spent more time than most following synth based bands than most since 1979 or so, as well as engineering and recording all kinds of real and virtual synths for well over 15 years, I can say with some authority that their sounds and structures are far more original than those of most of the new wave of electronic artists
In the same way you could compare the dyke-rock of Peaches to Samantha Fox's 80's pop dirge - possibly - it's all about subjectivity and context, and I don't think Goldfrapp take themselves seriously enough to give a fuck, so it's all good.
Peaches bores me. Chicks On Speed are far better.
