Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
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- Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
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I am excite.
Didn't realise the London show was sold out. Shit. The EP is a good sign, and the fact that I am the least of your problems is on the album brings a big, shit-eating grin to my mug.
PS. They tweeted yesterday that it actually wasn't after all
But was very close to being so
Best song titles
Sh' be good.
excited for this
The EP is hopefully a sign of things to come. I'll buy it when I seem them in Cardiff on Sunday.
Good length album too, and still the best song titles around.
just listening to this for the first time.
can't imagine hearing a better line than ~ i've got a hole for sebastian coe / saddam hussein don't need it no more ~ this year
9/10'd
http://drownedinsound.com/lists/recommended-records
From this other thread:
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4350829
Album stream:
http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-future-lefts-ferocious-plot-against-common-sense
Slightly weird (but very good) podcast + awesome rejected song:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/future-of-the-left-created-a-bizarre-podcast-previ,75828/
I've listened to this one and a half times now, and i like it
can't remember what any of the songs are called, but there are some that i like and some that i like a lot and none that i don't like.
bit confused why there isn't more chatter about it on here
My copy only just arrived
One listen in so far. Very good on first proper listen as I suspected it may be. No idea it's better or worse than the last two records yet but it doesn't really matter does it as long as I like it?
The only thing bugging me so far is the bassline to one of the early tracks reminding me too much of another FOTL (FTCAlliance?). But in the grand scheme of life it's hardly a pressing issue.
Gig on Thursday. Excited...
I know the one you're on about
Sounds more like The Fibre Provider to me.....(have I out fanboyed you here?)
I was thinking of 'City of exploded Children'
http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-future-lefts-ferocious-plot-against-common-sense
And 'Fuck the countryside alliance'. It is similar for about a whole 5 bars so... yeah, not really that big a deal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_7J3tywnU
TAKE A TOE, JUST TAKE.....ANY TOOOOE.
have been letting it sink in
I bought it last Thursday at the gig in Cheltenham as they had a box full there. Overall it's very good but too long. I would probably chop 3 tracks and make it a stonking 12 song album.
It easily has some of their best material on it. some of the tracks I didn't like as much earlier on have grown on me. A few haven't.
For me it's a solid 8. If it were 12 tracks, I'd say 9. Is that a weird thing to say though? I mean, the 15 track version would have the same tracks that the 12 track version did so logically it has to be at least as good. Well, my mind doesn't work that way...
Yeah it is a bit too long
They're usually very good at keeping it short, not sure what happened this time.
Growing on me a lot with further listens.
the more songs the better
plus, i bought this on itunes and got the 3 songs from 'Magnetic West' too. 18 songs for the price of 15!
not weird at all
an album is meant to be listened to as a whole and judged as such. at least part of what made Travels with Myself... so good was its brevity.
oh
and can people stop saying McClusky were better now?
what about mclusky?
I knew I'd get that wrong
I even thought about it for a longish period of time and then googled it, which on the first search result page brought up a youtube vid of Alan is a Cowboy Killer, with the band incorrectly as McClusky, which I just went with. ffs
#DiSboyproblems
Those opening 3 songs
have blasted my eyebrows off.
They were immense last night.
And the support act Fever Fever are pretty damn good, too.
Agree with this
A stonking show.
It was excellent
First time I'd seen them and thought it was great. I also really liked Fever Fever.
Only listened a few times so far
Love it though, last track Notes On Achieving Orbit is my favourite so far.
Listened 3 times through yesterday
Really enjoyed it. Agree, Notes on acheiving Orbit stands out so far. I really like Goals in slow motion too, sounds like nothing they've done before
This song is fucking monstrous
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN PELE CURED CANCER?
Got it Friday at the Nottingham gig (which was ace)
and I'm really enjoying it so far, it could well be their best album yet. For me it is a bit of a mixed bag though as there's a couple of tracks I really don't like which I would have dropped (or swapped for Home Taping is killing Susan etc) but I suspect they might grow on me in time.
that gig at nottingham is where they finally clicked for me
after 4 gigs and hearing most of their (and mclusky) material. i'm very very happy it happened.
Cannot wait until tomorrows Brighton show
Loving the new stuff, but need to get on physical format and play LOUD.
I've also done a poster and screenprint for the Brighton show so if there's any left after the show I'll put a few online for sale after the show. Bazinga-JAG
I hadn't listened to much by them before listening to this
But it's quite good and I see they're playing a couple of festivals I'm going to this summer. Nice.
I really can't stress how much you now need to listen to mclusky do dallas
one of the finest British records of the last ten years
never mind british
one of the finest records of the last ten years
Yeah so after 3 or 4 spins
It's pretty awesome...
Lots of the reviews keep mentioning how long it is. It's the same length as Curses, isn't it?
12 minutes longer
I TRUSTED YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV-nEE300
don't worry, i got the reference !
Aye, I kind of assumed as much.
Worth sharing, though.
This also brings Thin Line by Dag Nasty to mind
found this hit and miss on first listen
going to give it more time, never write falco off.
Yeah this
It's growing on me already from shuffling it among their other stuff on my mp3 player. Letting the kids play together.
definitely how the first listen comes across
after a while it becomes a lot more hit than miss, though I'd say still a bit miss. At the moment...
Another disadvantage to the length is that I can't get through the whole album in one cycle commuting day. I get home just after Notes on Achieving Orbit starts. I might have to start doing detours.
When I first listened to it I thought it was very patchy
decided it's actually very good with 'Anchor' being the only song I'd cut, it sort of feels like it goes nowhere and just breaks the flow a bit.
This is a band that I don't really like.
And this is an album that I really like.
I can't go to the sold-out XOYO
gig anymore tomorrow night anymore and I have two tickets if anyone wants them? £10 each - physical tickets so would need to collect somewhere in central-ish London.
These still available?
Yeah, I'll send you a private message.
These tickets are
still available - send me a private message anyone who is interested. Seems a shame for them to go to waste.
SORRY DAD, I KNOW YOUR FATHER, DISAPPROVED OF CHE GUEVARA
KEPT HIS WHISTLE WHITER THAN A RACIST AT A SWIMMING POOL
That setlist tonight (brighton) was pretty much PERFECT
what a great show
Fever Fever are also very good and look forward to hearing an album form them
Was really not taken with Fever Fever at all. Pretty weak.
All I could think of was
just how much like a two-bit Ting Tings they were. Disappointed they were proper tour-mates and not just local opener filler.
Ting Tings?
really?
Nahhhhhhhhh
MY BONES, MY BONES. Terrible terrible guff.
My mission for the 2nd half of 2012 is to not like shit bands just because they've got a couple of lookers at the front. This starts with Fever Fever.
Mental.
Aside from the fact that one of them made me thing of meowington...
The guitars sounded fucking brilliant (at Tut's, anyway). They rocked like a bastard. Coming up the stairs into the venue at the start, it sounded like DFA1979 (later on - not so much). Maybe a couple of the early tracks weren't super strong on the songwriting front (for which they they were nonetheless still tight), but complaining about the 'my teeth and my bones' song is surely more to do with your preference for vocal delivery than the quality of the track, which, admittedly at the start made me think 'oh aye...', but properly grew into an undeniably strong track. Definitely no more guffy than FotL's rendition of 'I Trusted You' or the growled/no lyrics sections of Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - which were both ace also.
The growled bits all the way through in Manchester were awesome.
If you saw something in Fever Fever then fair enough but for me the songs were basic and incredibly dull and that My Bones Song even when it starts kicking off was incredibly grating and I was enthusiastic for it to stop. Can only give you my honest reaction blud and that was that they were pretty weak.
I didn't even think the songwriting was that basic
some interesting guitar sounds thrown into the mix, probably just not your thing but I saw a lot of potential there
Man, they were class on Saturday in Manchester. Proper stormer.
Still loving it
loving Anchor now.
FoTL were as good as I'd expected. New stuff sounds great too.
I fucking LOVE 'Robocop...' *that* Reviewer was a numpty of the highest order if he thinks that's a bad song. Batshitmental maybe, but it's one of the best songs off the new album for sure.
It really works as a 4-piece, Jimmy is as entertaining on stage as Kelson was, and new basslines/sound is bloody awesome. I loved Kelson, but frankly - I don't think they've lost much, and they've gained a lot.
Oh and FoTL were very nice and chatty, and said nice things about the poster I'd done too - which for a proper FoTL & mclusky fanboy/stalker - this made me a bit happy.
Fever Fever....er...erm....No, thanks....Well, there were a couple of songs I thought sounded pretty good, but they're definitely still finding their sound - and one of them sounded a bit rap/nu-metal and was dodgy as fuck. Oh, and the banter, the terrible terrible banter about seagulls and chavs/scallies - that was uncomfortable. Not shit, but not my cup of tea.
I will agree
the fever fever banter detached me from the band something rotten, I mean the other lady seemed really pleasant and funny but the lead was just making me cringe and feel really uncomfortable & she was trying too hard to sound hmmmm hard & rock and it wasn't at all natural.
Aw I still miss Kelson
Julia's a great bassist but Kelson's probably one of my favourite bassists ever. Always loved his backing vocals too.
It was a proper tumbleweed moment...
and if she lived in Brighton she'd probably bloody hate seagulls too.
(Not that I condone the use of catapults....but I have definitely considered similar measures when I've been kept awake by seagulls fucking outside my bedroom window - the noise, THE HORROR)
Gig. Tonight.
future of the left ?@shit_rock
Against some Internet rumour there are still a few tickets left tonight for XOYO.
tickets for FOTL
Go to stargreen website, seems to be selling tickets.
It was definitely saying
sold out on XOYO page yesterday. Certainly not my intention to mislead.
Like I just said they are selling tickets for FOTL on the stargreen website. Not a ruomour, its true.
Merely
trying to apologise for my error, Falco.
Not allowing you to buy off the Stargreen site, not offering collection?
I fucking love this band
great night.
absolutely
amazing last night at XOYO. So fricking good
I did love Kelson - but I just meant, that it's not the end of the world...it's just *different*
anyway.
Sounded great as a 4 piece too.
JAG TIME
www.needsmoresnakes.bigcartel.com
I've chucked on the remaining FoTL screenprints for the Brighton show I've done on here for sale, in case of you FoTL-liking folks need some art for your walls.
So
after quite a few plays I'm still struggling for the first time with a McLusky or FOTL album.
There's 5 or 6 I like, but a lot that I don't. Sheena, City of Exploded Children, Polymers, Robocop 4, I am the least of your problems, Rubber animals and Notes of Achieving Orbit are all sounding good. Actually, that's 7 - which on a 10 track album would normally be pretty good - I guess I just get distracted by the other bits which I find a bit grating on the ear. All sounds great live though, of course.
I think the only track I don't really like now is 'Goals in slow motion'
Which isn't that a bad song, it just sounds like someone else could have written it bar FOTL, if you catch my drift?
The album doesn't have the stylistic extremes of 'Travels...' possibly but I really do like it.
Goals In Slow Motion was very nearly ruined for me when I realised that the bassline sounds *very* like the guitar in Wonderwall...
The only song I actively dislike is Camp Cappucino. How that got on the record ahead of, say, destroywhitchurch.com or Home Taping Is Killing Susan is astonishing to me. Other than that, I'd rate it more highly than Curses but less than Travels (if pushed to do so). I really like the variety of it, in the same sense that I love The Only Difference...
See I LOVE that song
That's what I've always liked about FOTL's output, it tries to move forward and do new things. I never overly loved Land of my formers or Fuck the countryside alliance, whereas I know lots of people don't dig I am civil service or The contrarian.
Not sure where I'd rate this one yet. I love those last two songs you've mentioned but maybe they just don't work on this record so well and fit in? After all, they had bonafide classic 'Cloak the dagger' in the bag and never released that properly either as it just didn't translate in the scheme of an LP (I think I read?).
I think (after only a month admittedly) that it's a better wholistic record than 'Curses'. I feel that 'Travels...' will always be a bit special though to me both in terms of where I was at in life (eg. more youthful), the pleasure of those live shows where the record was actually forming in front of my eyes and the end results' sheer unexpected level of fun. Not much between the two for me though, meaning it's comfortably up there with the year's best.
my boys (3 and 6) have decided that FOTL
Are their favourite band.* and demand this on every time we get in the car. Kind of killed it for me, especially as I have to shout/sing over the rude words. ("paid for our equipment with her MITS")
*it's either them or one direction according to the oldest.
Cool story.
:D
My daughter got into them through me aged about 11ish
She still loves them (she's 15). She said the other day "i can't understand why everyone doesn't love FOTL". The boy (13) digs em too. He got on board with Travels.
They met the drummer at Truck a couple of years back, and then got to see them. Lucky since their gigs pretty much also have age restrictions.
What kind of modern parent are you? Let them hear the swearing and explain the concept of artistic context. And let them have a beer first.
where were you when Russell Brand discovered fire
best opening line since Gareth Brown Says.
JAG:
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4145162-dis-meets-future-of-the-left%E2%80%99s-andy-falkous
Just read it, well done mate.
Can't remember him saying half of that at the time.
It was getting a bit long so left out a few other good bits
Largely as they didn't really fit with the rest of the piece.
However I do have his views on Jack's merchandising customer service abilities, the surprisingly amazing Newcastle midfield and Jimmy's sporting abilities (he can still run 100 metre sub-11 seconds!) recorded at home for future generations.
Good read
this is a great interview
that is all
Been listening to this a lot this last week or so.
Think its one of my favourite albums of the year- and i'd never heard any of their other albums/mclusky before this album!
Finally got this album after having shamefully never listened to FOTL until seeing them at 2000 Trees and despite being a huge Mclusky fan
It's really good. And fuck me, Notes on Acheiving Orbit is amazing.
Of course, we don't know if he ever really got involved with a test tube
(The science part)
Awesome song, but - controversy warning - I think there might be too many sha-la-la-las at the end, it lessen the impact for me. Still great though, and lyrically one of the best on the record.
(And Douglas Hurd)
2 new songs were played on the radio t'other night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/82c5d269-41b3-498b-8596-d960c7556268
Ace new video
for Failed Olympic bid
http://vimeo.com/47533228
Like the album on the whole but
think the sequencing is pretty bad, and it could lose a few tracks. Failed Olympic Bid is my least favourite thing on there. Love the 'hidden' track though.
.
It could do with losing a couple but its more than solid enough imo
Finally I get it!
Just needed to leave it alone for a couple of months. Can't wait for Tuesday.