Fight Like Apes

PaulBrewer

GSpoon wrote: »

oooohhh i have a solution if you dont like the music... dont listen to it!!!!:rolleyes: simple as.

And definitely don't moan about it!;)

LadyMayBelle

i loved them at the start, but since their album sounded so overly processed and their recent gigs have been pretty dull I'm drifting away form them...altho they are playing Galway on NYs eve and no doubt I'll head along..they better be good!!

insinkerator

They are playing in UCC on dec 1st. I think im gonna go see 'em just to see what all the hype is about. I better not be wasting my tenner

Ekels

I think the point that the album dips in the second isn't entirely true, imo. Firstly, Do You Karate? is the seventh track of 12, and that's a pretty great song. I also think that Lumpy Dough is one of the tracks of the album. I'll agree Recyclable Ass only decent and Snore Bore Whore doesn't have the FLA energy, thus rendering it pointless. But Megameanie is hardly a song. It's an easy criticism to level at an album.

Overall though, I think the one or two very mediocre tracks are over-shadowed by the absolute class of Battlestations, Lumpy Dough and Jake Summers, as well as a few more.

Btw, I can't bloody stand mclusky. God knows I've tried.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I really like FLA. Saw em in January (not MCD) and they were class, loved the myspace tracks and way prefer em to the album versions (for god's sake MayKay, I've heard you talk and you sound like a north soide fish wife, wtf is up with the american accent???). That said I still love the album. The lyrics are nonsense, but ****it, so are Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, and at least these lyrics are sometimes FUNNAY. They can't be bet for energy and enthusiasm, and it's refreshing to see a band not taking the whole thing as seriously as waaaaay less talented people-Johnny Borrel springs to mind.

Im_No_Superman

Xavi6 wrote: »

Is this really the sort of shite Ireland is producing nowadays?

I don't think I've ever heard such useless and nonsensical lyrics. The album is absolutely awful and fair play to whatever reviewer it was that gave it a one star rating, though even that was generous.

That bollox about nursery rhyme characters getting fired is absolutely ridiculous, though probably will have cult status on student nights.

Have to agree with this tbh. Got the album yesterday and gave it a listen, the first two songs are ok but after that they lost me. Outrageously overhyped.

Doozie

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

Have to agree with this tbh. Got the album yesterday and gave it a listen, the first two songs are ok but after that they lost me. Outrageously overhyped.

I dont get it? Whats with the overhyped? Because there is a thread on boards? I have seen no posters, one interview with MayKay which was tiny, but no real advertising campaign at all unless you consider playing them on phantom and doing a few gigs means overhyped.

insinkerator

insinkerator wrote: »

They are playing in UCC on dec 1st. I think im gonna go see 'em just to see what all the hype is about. I better not be wasting my tenner

its been postponed to rag week.

@doozie. I think the hype being referred to is the word of mouth, which i dont know about you, but i have gotten a lot of. And that during the space of like a week, they were signed and announced a support slot with the prodigy

Zombrex

mada999 wrote: »

Are these actually their lyrics? Are they in transition year in school ??

I think you are taking the lyrics a bit too seriously.

Any band that cuts dialog from Plan 9 From Outer Space into their songs isn't expecting people to take their lyrics as a Bob Dylan style social commentary or work of art ...

I've been noticing how obsessed people seem to be with lyrics these days.

There is certainly a good reason to focus on the lyrics with bands that do expect you to take their lyrics seriously but who actually have stupid lyrics (stand up Kings of Leon) I can understand people going "meh" ...

But the point seems to have been lost along the way that it is perfectly possible to have a great song with lyrics that appear silly or juvenile, if that is supposed to be the point. Having listened to Fight Like Apes' album a bit it seems to me that they are playing on the child like rhyming of their lyrics, and having a lot of fun at the same time.

They lyrics (hip hop, belly flop!) are silly but they are supposed to be silly. They are supposed to be bubble gum. That is the point.

This isn't a reflection on whether FLA are any good, you can still do the above badly and a lot of bands have done it better than FLA. I'm still making my mind up about FLA

It is more an annoyance at music intellectuals rolling their eyes at bands for not having "proper" lyrics. It is perfectly fine not to have proper lyrics if you aren't trying to have "proper" lyrics. This criticism seems to be all the rage these days, sort of like dismissing a film for being too Hollywood, as if that automatically means a movie is bad.

I often wonder what would happens if the Ramones came on the scene in 2008 ...

Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now
They've got their surfboards
And they're going to the discotheque a go go
But she just couldn't stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now
She's a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker

meh

HouseHippo

And how are you supposed to find out if you like it or not if you don't listen to it.....DUUUUUHHHH

doctorwhogirl

Resurrecting an old thread here!

Have become OBSESSED with FLA recently. Would love if anyone could make a recommendation to me of similar groups to listen to?

iomega

I really liked FLAs two early eps. They re-recorded some of those songs for the first album and it wasn't as good. The second album I listened to once and found it really irritating. Maybe I'm too old to be listening to FLA. I'll give it another go sometime.

What about LeTigre? Electro punk feminists, Sarcastic lyrics and braty vocals. The LeTigre album, Feminist Sweepstakes & This Island are all really good.