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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 25, 2008 18:23:05 GMT
I got the new Goldfrapp today on its first day on sale - SEVENTH TREE - today in Colchester. YAY!
Certainly something that will grow on me - after the first listening. And now listening again.
I love the line: "some people feel in their touch" as printed in the booklet. Poignant and meaningful that Alison Goldfrapp sang instead: "some people feel they're in touch." Also love the line: "Have you no name" (without the ?)
LATER: And it's getting better and better with each listening.
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Post by troo on Feb 27, 2008 11:18:56 GMT
I find Goldfrapp highly variable, so have never bothered buying any of her albums. Sometimes she puts out a fantastic single (I love her latest one), and sometimes she puts out complete toilet. A bit like Bjork, really
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Post by redbrain on Feb 27, 2008 13:02:21 GMT
I love Goldfrapp - in fact, I love every song they've done. The new album is quite wonderful.
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 27, 2008 18:51:35 GMT
Having listened to the Seventh Tree CD for the umpteenth time, I agree there is something really special about it - I think I like it more than all the other albums, and that's saying a lot! I note the phrase 'alone together' in one of the songs - there's a PFJ/DFL collaboration (in Trash City in the early nineties) with that title. 'Caravan Girl' is now my favourite, with 'Some People' a close second. Beatles, Schubert, but above all Goldfrapp. BTW, Troo, Goldfrapp is a duo, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory.
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Post by troo on Feb 27, 2008 22:47:09 GMT
Arr. I figured since it was her name... Didn't realise there was a Bon Jovi deal going on
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Post by redbrain on Mar 4, 2008 15:02:42 GMT
I've got tickets to see Goldfrapp at the Union Chapel in Islington tonight. (Or I should have them, when I pick 'em up from the box office.) The gig sold out before Christmas - then, today, a few more tickets mysteriously became available.
Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!
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Post by redbrain on Mar 4, 2008 23:25:36 GMT
I've been to see Goldfrapp at the Union Chapel this evening. I've been to many musical performances - but I really believe that tonight's was the best ever.
When I got home, I looked up from the front doorstep - and the sky was full of stars. You never see stars in London! But they were out in force tonight.
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 5, 2008 8:23:57 GMT
Empathy and Envy Galore! Better than the Albert Hall one?? Did they play much from 'Seventh Tree'?
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Post by redbrain on Mar 5, 2008 18:59:02 GMT
Empathy and Envy Galore! Better than the Albert Hall one?? Did they play much from 'Seventh Tree'? Better than the Albert Hall. And I think they played every song from Seventh Tree.
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 5, 2008 23:13:21 GMT
I was at a pub quiz tonight. I was the only one on the team (and probably in the whole room) who knew who had a chart hit with 'Ride A White Horse' in 2006. (Denny only knew because I had played this to her in the car in the past!)
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Post by redbrain on Mar 6, 2008 11:12:51 GMT
I was at a pub quiz tonight. I was the only one on the team (and probably in the whole room) who knew who had a chart hit with 'Ride A White Horse' in 2006. (Denny only knew because I had played this to her in the car in the past!) How clacked is it possible for the clacked 'uns to be?
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Post by redbrain on Mar 11, 2008 18:29:41 GMT
A week ago tonight, I was at Goldfrapp's amazing concert at the Union Chapel in Islington.
As some of you may know, the Union Chapel is a functioning church. I had with me a copy of The Second Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories, kindly given to me by a member of this board. I had an impulse to climb up into the pulpit and say:
Tonight's reading is taken from The Second Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories...
It may interest people on the Vault that, before Goldfrapp came on, they were playing The Wicker Man soundtrack.
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 12, 2008 9:53:27 GMT
It may interest people on the Vault that, before Goldfrapp came on, they were playing The Wicker Man soundtrack. I don't think I would have recognised it. There's something about Goldfrapp's music and image that faces Janus-like both Horror and Heavenly Spirituality. This is the Goldfrapp audience entering the church you mention (perhaps!): Gothic Light: Brave New World Publishing (1991) Editor: Abelardo Arenas - Cover: Todd E Tuttle
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Post by Calenture on Mar 12, 2008 11:49:54 GMT
When I bought Goldfrapp's first CD, I suppose I felt similarly to Troo - I thought most of the songs were great, but the CD seemed marred by just a few irritatingly quirky tracks.
Listening to it now for the first time in ages, the recording seems to hold together better - I like it better overall. These days I listen to less music than I used to, but ironically my 'musical ear' seems to be constantly chancing on new wonders and I'm learning to appreciate sounds I was dismissive of in the past (e.g. these days I can appreciate Nat King Cole as well as Tom Waits!)
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