here is the cover of the new spiritualized album, amazing grace.
and here is spoon’s kill the moonlight, which often featured a single arm in print ads.
and here is lamprey album by gone-but-not-forgotten bettie serveert (i got this on cassette at wall’s! i think steve chrestman broke it).
and does anyone really care what they sound like anymore? i’m amazed they’re even still a band and haven’t become a marketing “concept,” like radiohead or coca-cola.
to sum up: hack music, hack album title, hack album art.
arms! arms! what’s with all the damned arms!?
uh, “marketing ‘concept,’ like radiohead?” what dost thou mean, rabble-rouser?
well, gorjus, at least you’re not bitter.
Um, I think that Spiritualized is arguably the best band of the three (I know, Spoon, yadda yadda yadda, but they had, like three shitty first records and Spiritualized has never released a full-on stinker). And is there some copyright on fucking arms, Gorjus? I don’t get it. Not one of those album covers looked similar and, to be honest, from a design perspective, I think the Spiritualized one at least ties the Spoon one. I felt, though the record is just okay, that it was pretty striking. Just because you like Spoon and have never actually listened to Spiritualized doesn’t mean that the Spoon record cover is somehow genius because it has—can you believe it?!—TWO arms on it. I think you’re treading on thin aesthetic ice here.
I’d hardly call Radiohead a marketing concept as they actually do a pretty poor job of marketing themselves, which is, in an annoying Rush/Ayn Rand/objectivist way, still a marketing strategy, I guess. I think what it is, David, is that you seem to stray away from difficult music these days and go for the quick and easy sells, which is fine, I guess, but it seems to suggest to me, much like this “return of the rock” nonsense (I didn’t know it left!), that there’s not interesting, non-single music being made out there. Which isn’t true.
what’s difficult about spiritualized?
scoring enough pills to tolerate it?