it's just the one track on the safety scissors record.. don't get me
wrong, I love the rest of it, but that song (checking my copy for the
title...) "your beautiful feet" makes my jaw clench the lyrics are so bad.
same with the smash tv track - I've got nothing against the vocoder vocal
treatments, but the lyrical content is so awful I can't even think of an
appropriate adjective for it. of course now I realize that I had
misidentified the song, it's not "nobody" that I take issue with, it's
"what about me," from which I will now quote:
I don't know what you want x3
I don't know what you need
heaven alone, knows the answer
but baby, what about me x2
but baby, do you really want
do you really want to see me cry
etc...
drives me fucking nuts. here are the safety scissors lyrics for
comparison.
I'm a puddle, beneath your feet
you walk over and over me
I'm a puddle, down on the street
watch where you're standing
I'm six feet deep.
arrggggggghh! I know, good/bad taste is a fine, fine line. amusingly,
someone from plug research wrote to me and accused me of "not getting"
safety scissors, so let me just re-state .. I like the safety scissors
record, a lot. it's one of my favorite plug research releases. I like
his voice. and I like smash TV... I just find the lyrics above to be
completely intolerable.
that's all.
e
quoted 30 lines interesting... the only safety scissors tracks that really held my
> interesting... the only safety scissors tracks that really held my
> interest on the plug research full-length were the ones you disliked so
> much. the rest of it was ok too, but these were the most interesting
> because they strayed from the formula the most.... it's the fact that
> his voice is not the best that makes it work for me though :-)
>
> i am listening to the smash TV 12" right now for the first time. the A1
> won't thrill you no doubt because it's the same version on the
> full-length... but the modeselektor remix is pretty interesting. it's a
> slightly more IDM-influenced reworking, less dancefloor... and the
> vocals are played down a lot, less integral to the track. the vocals are
> dominant on the other 2 versions on the flip, and barbara morgenstern
> actually adds (presumably her own) female vocals to it. it's an
> interesting variation but entirely successful... however, this was again
> one of my favorite tracks on the Smash TV disc... so i enjoyed it
> throughout more or less. The Modeselektor mix is the best, with the Grom
> B1 mix coming in close 2nd. i'm actually sort of surprised you like
> Smash TV much at all if you dislike the vocoder vocal treatments, only
> because it seemed like such a regular thing on that album, every other
> track practically. ("I Love You Now" remains one of my favorite BPitch
> selections!) Actually the Electrified CD is one of the most interesting
> additions to the whole new wave electro crossover thing, really strange
> sounds, weird vocal treatments, etc., without completely retreading
> what's gone before, or rather instead creating something that sounds to
> my ears genuinely new.
>
> And as a final aside, the Modeselektor 12" (In Loving Memory) which just
> came out a few weeks ago is excellent!
>
> matt