Fuck Buttons (1 Viewer)

[Jasper]

New album leaked last week and i've listened to it a few times. Apart from Surf Solar it's very very disappointing. Most of it is really awful - sounds like The Field with very predictable melodies and progressions that remind me of Coldplay or U2 at their most bombastic. Second album syndrome eh?

 

[theoootini]

shame. read some bad reviews alright. will give it the benefit of the doubt though. really like the first one...

 

[salsa]

er....where exactly did you read these bad reviews????in the clondalkin,keep believing blind man e zine???ive yet to read one....

its years ahead of the first album....

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

they're playing cork in december, 16th i think

 

[chutneyfarmer]

its years ahead of the first album....

Is that a faint glimmer of praise I see? !ninjaaaa

 

[cletus_buckley]

Yup "surf solar" is the businss, but it downhill from there. They have moved on from they "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" tinted sound to bbc logo interlude weekness. Also the new art is muck too.

 

[gugai]

Fuck Buttons play at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on December 17th

 

[salsa]

Yup "surf solar" is the businss, but it downhill from there. They have moved on from they "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" tinted sound to bbc logo interlude weekness. Also the new art is muck too.

Can somebody translate this for me or tell me if its even a statement in english,it appears to be written by someone from sheriff street who never made it to school to learn how to read and write..or maybe thats being a bit too hard on sheriff street..
and what do you meant the art is muck???what sort of a pompus spotty geeeyed fuck are you...the artwork is muck???what do you do for a living apart from play with yourself daily, what a knobjockey.

 

[rettucs]

Can somebody translate this for me or tell me if its even a statement in english,it appears to be written by someone from sheriff street who never made it to school to learn how to read and write..or maybe thats being a bit too hard on sheriff street..
and what do you meant the art is muck???what sort of a pompus spotty geeeyed fuck are you...the artwork is muck???what do you do for a living apart from play with yourself daily, what a knobjockey.

classic salsa

 

[chutneyfarmer]

classic salsa

Back in business!

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

but the artwork is muck.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Can somebody translate this for me

translation: you are a bender

 

[Archie]

playing Button Factory on Fri 18th Dec (Atp Website)

 

[Unicron]

Full Irish dates.

Wed 16/12/09 Cork, Ireland @ Lane Theatre
Thu 17/12/09 Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh
Fri 18/12/09 Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory
Sat 19/12/09 Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Black Box

 

[ernesto]

Full Irish dates.

Wed 16/12/09 Cork, Ireland @ Lane Theatre
Thu 17/12/09 Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh
Fri 18/12/09 Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory
Sat 19/12/09 Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Black Box

might try and make it down for that galway one actually. BANTER

 

[cletus_buckley]

Can somebody translate this for me.

Haha, I tpye the english reall good. My brain was quite discombobulated yesterday morn after a rather hedonistic weekend.
Just to clarify I was agreeing with you there chum. The album does sound years ahead of the first one, since they stopped taken most of their cues from the already mentioned LP by Byrne&Eno and 23 skidoo's 7songs from 81' and 82' respectively. After hearing new songs like "Flight Of The Feathered Serpent" and "Space Mountain" which sound like modern unoffensive tv idents music, for me Fuck Buttons have lost their edgy charm.
The first album was more than just a homage exercise, it genuinely sounded dangerous, exciting and even new but now I wouldn't be surprise if "Olympians" (the most skippable track on "Tarot Sports") is used over rubbish tv sport montages.
I loved the first record's album art and their "Bright Tomorrow" picture 7" is a glorious slab of art. Alas "Tarot Sports" album art is a far cry from their early endeavours and bar from the schizo disco epic that is "Surf Solar", for me the same has to be said about their new boring pop sound.

what do you do

Well at least I dont spend my time being a pointless cynical curmudgeon, but...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdGPD443nE"]YouTube - Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends[/ame]

 

[gugai]

might try and make it down for that galway one actually. BANTER

I hear nothing but good things about that place

 

[the departed]

I hear nothing but good things about that place

fact.

 

[the departed]

Haha, I tpye the english reall good. My brain was quite discombobulated yesterday morn after a rather hedonistic weekend.
Just to clarify I was agreeing with you there chum. The album does sound years ahead of the first one, since they stopped taken most of their cues from the already mentioned LP by Byrne&Eno and 23 skidoo's 7songs from 81' and 82' respectively. After hearing new songs like "Flight Of The Feathered Serpent" and "Space Mountain" which sound like modern unoffensive tv idents music, for me Fuck Buttons have lost their edgy charm.
The first album was more than just a homage exercise, it genuinely sounded dangerous, exciting and even new but now I wouldn't be surprise if "Olympians" (the most skippable track on "Tarot Sports") is used over rubbish tv sport montages.
I loved the first record's album art and their "Bright Tomorrow" picture 7" is a glorious slab of art. Alas "Tarot Sports" album art is a far cry from their early endeavours and bar from the schizo disco epic that is "Surf Solar", for me the same has to be said about their new boring pop sound.

Well at least I dont spend my time being a pointless cynical curmudgeon, but...
YouTube - Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends

this is rather true.
for me though, nothing can really stand up to the force of the first tune on the first album. loved it.