!!!'s Dear Can...

[content]

Is really pretty much a tribute to Can. He is saying something along the lines of Ya Know you Want More referencing the Can hit I Want More. It also sounds a bit like the little break part between the verses. Oh Yeah and the handclaps...

[Lady E]

Originally posted by content
Is really pretty much a tribute to Can. He is saying something along the lines of Ya Know you Want More referencing the Can hit I Want More. It also sounds a bit like the little break part between the verses. Oh Yeah and the handclaps...

are they any good, !!! ?

just their name alone exhausts me and makes me want to never listen to music again.

how many bands can there be all referencing and doing tributes to the same 10 bands?

i havent heard them so its quite possible they are excellent and i am wrong.

[komakid]

how do you pronounce the name? is it the three exclamation marks or?

[Lady E]

Originally posted by komakid
how do you pronounce the name? is it the three exclamation marks or?

apparently you pronounce it:

chk chk chk

[komakid]

ah, okay ... i thought it was maybe hmpf hmpf hmpf

[MUX]

yes.. the album is great too but the first one is much better..
emma, i think they are pure genuis..

[MUX]

when i first started hearing them , we used to pronounce there with a shocked face and a silent scream. it was much funner than chkchkchk

[bitconductor]

eugh, i hate myself for saying so but i really like them. i don't say their name right i go that band with the three exclamation marks but yeah. a while ago my mate said let's form a band you me and chris we'll do sort of a jerky talking heads thing and i said that sounds good.

[MUX]

at times theey are pure genuis at times thier so comsi-somsa

[komakid]

i think in 3 months their name will be prounced: everything said three times louder.
but, yeah, i just listened to some mp3's and they sound funny (in a positive way). and whow ... they release on touch and go, i have to say that they aren't a very typical toch and go band. do i smell a image change like at 4AD ... hm?

[bitconductor]

they're playing live at london's premier night club/ abbatoir fabric, 17th july. so you can go and see schooly d in victoria park for free (respect festival) then be shambolic at fabric later.

[KaOz]

they rule

[thomas hooked]

i really like them. me and rudy down by the schoolyard, in spite of the punning title, was my favourite record of last year, their back catalogue (see also the Outhud stuff) is a great and their remixes are quite surprising. they seem to really love dance music as oppossed to just being a johnny come lately art-rock band who bought a few Trax records in a Williamsburg car boot sale

[MUX]

correction.. it was ' me and giuliani down by the school yard (a true story)'

[thomas hooked]

whatever. still a crap pun.

[Lady E]

fair dos ill give them a listen then, although the talking heads-alike bit doesnt inspire me. i can only just about tolerate the one talking heads (yes, i know it's blasphemy, but sometimes, sometimes they just bore me..)

but if !!! released on touch and go they must be pretty good

[thomas hooked]

the talking heads comparisons aren't that aposite i don't think. i've also heard them compared to the Simple Minds, U2 and the Happy Mondays, so make of that unholy union what you will

[bitconductor]

i knew someone would say they're not that talking headsy. but they're far more that style than u2 mondays or the other one. i'm not very knowledgable about obscure bands tho. they're more noisy and less david byrney than t heads. but they're funky like t heads. franz ferdinand guitarist looks like he's out of simple minds tho doesn't he now.

[bitconductor]

actually no they are quite happy mondays it's true. aaaagh. someone tell me a new band that's original-sounding. don't say super_collider. even tho they are. i mean a guitars bass drums band.

[KaOz]

animal collective

[thomas hooked]

mebbe a bit. fact is when muic journalists are fumbling idiotically over their attempts to compose lucid "x sounds like y band on z drugs" statements, chances are that something indefinable and interesting lurks amidst the sum of its parts

[thomas hooked]

hmm possibly animal collective. although even there i've heard tripping daisy, mercury rev (second most overused point of reference to gang of four) and the odious term "folktronica" mentioned

[komakid]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
"folktronica"

don't you mean laptop folk

[thomas hooked]

what makes me laugh is now that good old wunderkind Mr Hebden has admitted in interview that he's not really interested in folk at all, a friend just suggested he got some new sample material. his next album could be purely composed out of samples from old skiffle records for all anyone knows. more power to him

[Lady E]

there is nowt folky about what kieran's been doing in my book. its just melodic thats all. i really dont see the folktronica thing on that level. id say kevin blechdom with her bluegrass banjo playing and reinterpretation of popular songs is more folk, plus electronics.

[KaOz]

black dice also rule... but they are special soundin and for sure not everybodys taste

[thomas hooked]

definately. fact is now is, as ever in the history of recorded music, from leafcutter john, matmos, and fennesz through to manitoba and animal collective theres a far too wide range of people experimenting in the live- music dichotomy caused by sequencing acoustic sounds as field recordings to use facile terms like "folktronica". folk is explicitly about songs anyway.

[goone]

i heard one !!! song on the radio and it was really good

i never bothered listening to them in shops tho'

[thomas hooked]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
folk is explicitly about songs anyway.

er no it isn't really. sorry.

[KaOz]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
definately. fact is now is, as ever in the history of recorded music, from leafcutter john, matmos, and fennesz through to manitoba and animal collective theres a far too wide range of people experimenting in the live- music dichotomy caused by sequencing acoustic sounds as field recordings to use facile terms like "folktronica". folk is explicitly about songs anyway.

agreed.....

anyway cant wait till the new leaf john lp is released btw....

his record on p mu give me so much.... the track khoms etc are so lovely and absolutely special...