The strong hook in "Hoppipppolollopppoliilppolili" by Sigur Ros REALLY reminds me of something but I can't place it. I thought it was "The Universal" by Blur but I'm pretty sure it isn't. It sounds

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Put me out of my misery, please.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I see this is a top 40 hit.

What did JK/Joel make of it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

GOD FUCKING ALMIOGHTY I MEAN THE STRING HOOK, NOT THE FUCKING STRONG HOOK. Could a mod please correct the thread title?

X-post - I didn't hear, Mark, as I cannot fucking stand either of those stupid fucking pillocks, and so refuse to listen to the chart show anymore.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

ARGH FUCK, "NEARS" = "EARS".

Shoot me, please.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Well ditto, too.. (xpost)

(Change thread title to "It sounds to my old dears...")

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

This is sort of what you get for making a thread with a title like that.

― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

TEENAGE FANLCUB's song THE WORLD WILL BE OK is directly influenced by (and almost sounds like a rip off of) _____???

Anyone know?

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

you win the award for the thread with the longest title and the shortest body

― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

This is not the thread I hoped for.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

i thought this was a seward thread

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

Is this the thing they played on the Jools Holland Show? Jesus, what a load of shite.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

i was listening to "takk" again this morning, just in case there was some point to it that i missed. what did the production process on that album involve: someone coming in with a massive pair of shears and removing any trace of balls from the music? a more emasculated, weedy, compressed, feeble sound i've never heard. talk about scared to rock. there are some astounding songs in there, but they're all being strangled.

sigur ros were a great band, and are responsible for one of the greatest live performances i've seen. "takk", however, is cakk.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd never heard them or seen them before I saw them on Jools Holland, where they looked and sounded like an run-of-the-mill indie band that had had a lot of money spent on them

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

a more emasculated, weedy, compressed, feeble sound i've never heard.

Is this your way of saying that the album could use a bit more bass?

The more I think about what Nick wrote, the more convinced I become that it IS "The Universal".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

it's not just the bottom end. it's the sides. and the top. glosoli (or whatever it's called) should SCREAM at the end; instead it sounds like it's neatly preserved behind glass.

it sounds, basically, like sigur ros decided to do a coffee-table album for all the people who got into them because tom cruise likes 'em.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell, is that the actual song title???

― Dan (Hoppipppolollopppoliilppolili!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

no, that's just the first half.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I bet that's a name.

― Dan (Call me Hoppi) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

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