GY!BE's album 'Yanqui U.X.O.' is one of the greatest instrumental records of all-time

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DARK SIDE OF THE ALBARN

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

'Optigan #1' - so crap they had to launch it into space!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

optigan #1 was the closing track on 13, the beagle one was a different song completely (that never got played due to rubbish mars landing) :-(

i like optigan one!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread at some point suddenly became pretty damn enjoyable, once we got off the godspeed and the bach.

yeah, after you and lex turned this into some fucking teen magazine profile feature piece wankfest about how a british virgin -- SHOCKAH -- acquired unusual taste in music, yeah, it got a lot more "damn enjoyable."

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

mickey, how do you keep an idiot in suspense?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

How's your legal case, Mickey?

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

pwn3d

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the suspense is killing me!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the idea that there were going to be 283 posts about the merits of GYBE's last album on a thread started by *anyone* is a little fanciful

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

sick mouthy, over.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Good. Now kindly explain what anyone's level of sexual experience has to do with anything.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the song the universal.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

virgins find other outlets to satisfy themselves (as do other people, but virgins especially). sometimes called hobbies. when this happens to somebody with music, they tend to acquire unusual tastes.

what a fucking shockah! now let's all gush like lex over how fantastic this is.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

tevs asshole!

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"fantastic" is not the word i would have chosen. also i would've hazarded a guess that mickey was also a virgin but i guess jail or whatever would solve that

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sexual experience precludes hobbies. Just in adolescence and early adulthood or throughout a whole life? What about married audiophiles with $200k hi-fis, or fishermen, or anything? Once you've had sex you can't be arsed with culture or interests anymore so you just watch bad evening TV when not having sex?

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the RIAA come round and bum you personally

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

my life's been downhill all the way since i got laid

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

as if those questions need to be answered. go ahead and pretend there's no correlation between teenage virginity and passionate, time consuming hobbies. we were both teenage virgins once, nick.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Speak for yourself. I'm from Devon and had several pet dogs as a child.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

ok truce

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

teenage virginity and passionate, time consuming hobbies

Which explains why I'm posting here a lot. Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you incurable romantic

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you incur~~abl~~e fan~~rom~~antic

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

even if i had popped my cherry in some sordid broom-cupboard tryst with some desperate, eyeliner-caked harridan that lasted about as long as it took me to realise that this was a fucking bad idea, i'd still listen to and emjoy all the wonderful music i've accumulated.

furthermore, my taste REALLY isn't that unusual. in the context of ILM it's actually quite mainstream! :-)

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

*enjoy

emjoy: the joy of em

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

that lasted about as long as it took me to realise that this was a fucking bad idea

you'll never get any with that attitude

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i'm an incurable romantic* too! it has to be right, with that special someone...

*wuss

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The Universal is truly awful. I had that song on a mixtape I used to drive around to in high school. I thought it was great back then, of course (hence inclusion on mixtape).

I remember it being named in a "songs with great verses, awful chorus" thread. OTM. String city!

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I put on Yanqui UXO last night. I have to say it's held up really well. I'm surprised there are complaints about the production since I think it's great, really clear with a lot of detail and dynamics. And I'm not even that big of an Albini fan normally. Dominique, I wonder if you've heard this album. It's not really complex or intricate rhythmically but it does have more of a pulse or dare I say groove (in an indie kind of way) than other GYBE. I like the layers of sound, especially when there is high-end noise ringing over the track. I'd want to listen more before I go into more detail.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(I don't have much to say about Blur though.)

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i'm an incurable romantic* too! it has to be right, with that special someone...
*wuss

Yeah, I thought that too. When real ILX is back you can read the hideous story of how it did happen, replete with vomit.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis have ye heard that Scott Walker album? Just out of curiosity...

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Thursday, 7 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I've just remembered that my virginity story is doubly amusing because the soundtrack was F# A# (Infinity) by Godspeed. Ha and indeed ha.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis have ye heard that Scott Walker album? Just out of curiosity...

-- Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (...), December 7th, 2006.

Which? I have 'Clara' and 'Cue' off the latest one (Clara is incredible, brilliant etc), and I have recently bought 'Tilt', although I'm finding that kinda tough to get into (The Cockfighter is great though!). It'll come!

Also, a little bird, possibly known as Matt DC, may have warned me in person earlier this evening that if Dan Perry were to find this thread, my Bach and Mozart claims would be rinsed, dried and stone-baked within fifteen milliseconds. Dan, if you're reading this, you win. :-)

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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