Comments | self_non_self: does your soul drink tea as dark as mine?

self_non_self

does your soul drink tea as dark as mine?

Jun 29, 2004 19:30

Oh god, this song- I haven't been able to stop listening to it all day. It is absolutely infectious. It sounds like there are 5 amadeas and 2 jhimms on vocals. Very Liz-Fraser-esque. Well, perhaps not quite Liz-Fraser-esque, but it's the same general concept I think. The first time I heard the Cocteau Twins, I honestly thought that there were 2 ( Read more... )

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billetdoux June 29 2004, 21:52:41 UTC

I rank it as the second-best ceremony ever, but it was a damn fine time, indeed.

I thought the show was a bit quiet too, but good! And they played that silver car song I love...

there's a few other good boston bands out there - you should go space rock! Charlene, Garvy J and Hello Attack! are all pretty fantastic. Oh, and the Skating Club.

self_non_self June 30 2004, 11:06:16 UTC

I'm grateful for the band recommendations- jeebus knows I need them at this point, or pretty soon I will have no shows left to go to.

"the second-best ceremony ever" - what was the best?

billetdoux June 30 2004, 22:35:45 UTC

I can't give you the specifics, but it was in october of 2001, I believe...

commodorevic June 30 2004, 07:39:07 UTC

Why does industrial / EBM "dance music" suck so fucking bad?

Speaking of sucking, I gave Mothra a VBMN remix CD on Monday.

self_non_self June 30 2004, 10:56:09 UTC

It's definitely a genre that is in its decadence. Like most genres these days. Like all genres these days. And with lyrics like if nothing's ventured, nothing's gained, so I must seize the day, it's never exactly been the kind of music you can take very seriously, or form an emotional attachment to, or listen to much at all outside of a dance floor. But it is ridiculously fun to dance to, and I have a guilty affection for it that the part of me with good taste can't seem to overcome. Also, I sometimes jerk off to Eskil Simonsson's voice.

What we need is for a new genre to emerge that will be a hybrid of deathrock and shoegaze and synthpop. Its name should end in the suffix -clash or -core, because no one would dare make fun of a name with such a suffix.

Wait, though, were you implying that scissorkiss is a bad ebm band? Because if you were, we'll probably have to settle our differences in a public duel of some kind, even though I do rather like the boy's life remix on your site-

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I missed the ScissorKiss set. :-( commodorevic June 30 2004, 11:16:31 UTC

I was refering to the dance floor music. It would appear that dance nites in Boston are successful only when horribly repitious, and predictable. SEE: Mod Night (R.I. w/o P.)

Re: I missed the ScissorKiss set. :-( self_non_self June 30 2004, 11:50:59 UTC

Most of the time I'm too surprised and amazed to see Bostonians dancing at all to notice the music that much. But, yeah- Start! was like that too. Week after week it would be emerge, playgirl (wanker remix), blue monday, glue your eyelids together, etc. etc. I haven't been to Next yet, so I don't know if it's improved at all...

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re: Cocteau Twins amadea July 4 2004, 19:22:42 UTC

Sad to say, what just went through my head was: I always WONDERED what ever happened to the other one.

and yeah, there are 4 me's and at least one Jhimm at the end of that song. 'sprobably my favorite moment on the whole thing...

Re: Cocteau Twins self_non_self July 5 2004, 19:14:01 UTC

I saw this short film on IFC the other day in which a group of minor characters who had all been written out of famous books, plays, and movies gathered together in a kind of trailer park on the edge of our reality and sat around moping and lamenting their lost chance at fame. I imagine that that is where you'll find the phantom Lost Cocteau Twin, along with Cathy from the Patty Duke Show and that cardboard cutout of Bruce Lee they used to finish his last film after his death.

The new album is so, so, so good- upbeat yet doom-laden. I've been making a terrible fool of myself this past week strutting and dancing my way through the streets of Cambridge with it playing full blast on my ipod. Your 3 cds are currently fighting it out in the music section of my heart for the greatest share of my affections, and I think the ties that bind is winning- and at this point I don't know how many internal organs will have to be written off as collateral damage. Way to go out on top ( ... )

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self_non_self July 10 2004, 10:38:14 UTC

added :)