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Schteeve

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Type: Single Release date: 04/10/2004

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 8 comments 11:44 October 5th, 2004

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For those of you yet to hear it, 'Schteeve' is where perky punkrockin' upstarts yourcodenameis:milo come wonderfully unstuck, forgetting their chirpy, scream-riddled post hardcore for a stab at Radiohead-like grandeur. Skipping said stab to cut to the chase, this isn't really very good. It plods rather than poke the listener in the ear in the style of past releases, and exposes ycni:m for the wholly one-dimensional act that they are. If you're sticking to what you know best, great - being one-dimensional is fine. However, get out of your depth and you'll sink into the darkness quicker than Peter Stringfellow goes through g-stringed girls a third his age. The involvement of mega-producer Flood has me worried too; if ycni:m's forthcoming album 'Like A Cat, Like A Fox' is as FM bland as this song, we may as well forget about them right now.

yourcodenameis:milo 5 / 10

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yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

have we really only done two articles on ycni:m? that's brilliant! tho surely there is an article somewhere about when we put them on at the windmill about a year ago? never understood this band, or the fuss about them.

sean | 5 Oct '04, 11:48 | X | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

I confess to thinking that their EP is pretty decent.
But this is too, too, bleergggh. It's like, 'so what?'.
You go from Albini to Flood... surely you've not got a clue about yourself as a band.

Mike_Diver @sean | 5 Oct '04, 12:03 | X | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

'All Roads To Fault' (the song) was definitely brilliant, tho.

tom_edwards @Mike_Diver | 5 Oct '04, 13:38 | X | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

this song grows on you...i laugh in the face of anyone who hates this song that will one day be walking along singing the first few lines without realising it..

not their best song, but still quite nice. i'd have given it 3 1/2

vexdstef | 5 Oct '04, 16:16 | X | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

I still think this songs kinda good. Its almost like Trail Of Dead-lite.

Stupid, stupid bandname though.

SuperSheep | 6 Oct '04, 14:01 | X | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

I loved their first single, this is a real disapointment.
2.5 seems fair enough to me.

Skip-Tracer | 7 Oct '04, 20:24 | X | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

I've gotta go with Mike about the EP,
This single is just blatantly crap tho...

-Mark- @Skip-Tracer | 7 Oct '04, 20:34 | X | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - Schteeve

shoosh, ycni:m are excellent.
i have both the EP and the Schteeve single, and even though the EP is outstanding, Schteeve is one of their best songs. i can't believe any ycni:m fan is calling this song a dissapointment. it's their most powerful yet.
and the Steve Albini production was below average. Flood and Mark William's production is clearly the superior out of the two.

ycni:m are going to be one of the best bands ever.

ebolarama__ | 14 Oct '04, 01:06 | X | Reply