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Post by Steve on Apr 6, 2006 6:35:43 GMT -5
This "Immi's radio mix" of "goodnight and go" ... heard it... not so much. Anybody know why they didn't decide to go with the LP version? Yep - she got a really good reception to the way she was playing it live, with the mbira in the background for the chorus, and the "dadadadada" bit at the end. The album version is nearly 4 minutes, so would have had to have a radio edit, so she decided to switch it up for radio. I do feel the first chorus has a slight lack of impact due to the lack of instruments up until the mbira, but I love the new ending!
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Post by Steve on Apr 22, 2006 18:20:24 GMT -5
Update: The OCC has cleared the lenticular cover, so it will be four images of Immi chasing the white rabbit!
Also, the "Goodnight and Go" video has been added to the Emap channels, including the Box, and the USA version will be uploaded to Yahoo! videos tomorrow!
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Post by makeraphistory on Apr 22, 2006 18:22:43 GMT -5
She also sounds like Butterfly Boucher.
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Post by freakface on Apr 22, 2006 18:35:12 GMT -5
I am most certainly not impressed with the goodnight and go video. It looks nice and all that but please, it could have been so much better. I suppose it does the whole she is very kooky and wierd in a kate bush lite kinda way.
Anyway roll on Daylight Robbery.
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Post by Steve on Apr 22, 2006 19:12:34 GMT -5
I think the video is brilliant, the whole concept of her being an wind-up object is brilliant, and I love the dancing Immi and boyfriend dolls when she lifts up the huge skirt for the middle 8. It was very different to what I expected, but it's brilliantly eccentric and quirky! I can't wait to see what they have changed in it, as the US label asked for a special edit.
"Daylight Robbery" isn't in the running to be the 3rd or 4th singles - it's between "Headlock," "Loose Ends" and "Just For Now."
And I'm pretty sure it should be "Butterfly Boucher sounds like Imogen Heap" considering Immi released her debut album in 1998, and "Details" with Frou Frou in 2001-2002!
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Post by freakface on Apr 22, 2006 19:16:39 GMT -5
Boo to not having Daylight Robbery as a single. Surely The Walk or Clear the area would be better than Just for now(which I hate). Loose ends could be good though. To be honest the whole album is pretty ace.
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Post by camcallister on Apr 22, 2006 19:45:38 GMT -5
Lose Ends would be good.... after all, she does say "triangulated." And that's amazing.
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Post by xolondon on Apr 22, 2006 22:10:46 GMT -5
I think Headlock sounds like a single.
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Post by Steve on Apr 23, 2006 8:23:12 GMT -5
"Headlock" was going to be the second single, but it was changed to "Goodnight And Go," because she was asked to perform it on "David Letterman." I assume that she's considering "Just For Now" for around Christmas-time. I think "The Walk" isn't being considered, because Immi doesn't like radio edits, and the song is pretty long so would require a fair amount of chopping.
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Post by xolondon on Apr 23, 2006 10:17:15 GMT -5
"Just For Now" is almost like narrative - but of dialogue from a holday family dinner table. Easy to film a video for that. I LOVE that song.
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Post by silverspirit on Apr 24, 2006 7:48:10 GMT -5
I really like Imogen Heap. To me, she was just the fantastic result of a bored afternoon's clicking around iTunes and there she was, all fantastic production and oodles of autotune, which I adore, much to Tommy's disgust.
I was actually sitting at one of our synths the other day playing Hide and seek using a vocoder. Didn't sound as good since I, er, well, can't sing, but the idea was there. Good fun as well.
Goodnight and go is excellent, if a little creepy, and Headlock is very strong indeed.
We enjoyed listening to Just for now at Christmas too; festive, but not too much so.
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Post by Steve on Apr 26, 2006 7:27:29 GMT -5
I think "Headlock" would make a great single too - the opening intro was used in a Cadbury advert around Easter!
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Post by Steve on May 8, 2006 8:38:08 GMT -5
"Goodnight And Go" is out now everybody, I expect you to be purchasing your copy/copies!
The lenticular cover is rather special!
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Post by ordon on May 9, 2006 9:56:12 GMT -5
Oooh it really is.
Shame about NO airplay and general little interest in the single release and album re-release.
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Post by xolondon on May 9, 2006 11:46:45 GMT -5
She's done quite well for herself with this album. She will probably never be a mass product HUGE star and I don't want her to be. BUT she has earned enough clout to make another record and that is what counts. She is on the RADAR now and I suspect other artists will want a little of her magic for themselves.
Imogen Heap is all about the REAL girl power.
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Post by heyjupiter on May 9, 2006 11:49:14 GMT -5
I love Have You Got It In You?
Brilliant. I'm still a bit funny about the rest of the album. She has massive hands which are scary.
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Post by Steve on May 9, 2006 15:20:53 GMT -5
She's done well in America - nearly 130,000 albums sold and performances on 2 national TV talk shows. I think they kind of messed up promo for "Goodnight and Go" here, because they already had the US tour scheduled - still, the video was picked up by MTV, VH1 and The Box, and the song was picked up by the "indie" radio stations, like XFM and BBC Radio 6 (i.e: the media that doesn't really count - still, at the moment it is top 40, which is good!).
I think they are aiming for slow-but-steady sales everywhere, gradually building up; if radio picked up on her, I think she could be big here; if Jem can sell 300,000, I'm pretty sure Immi could too.
As for other artists, she's got more stuff on her own first and foremost (I would kill to hear the tracks she did with Alex Parks) - she's got another season finale placement on "The O.C" (apparently an acapella cover of "Hallelujah," which closed season one), has recorded a song for a Brian Eno-led compilation about the plagues of Egypt, is touring internationally throughout the year, and is scoring a documentary about flamingos!
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Post by meathook on May 9, 2006 16:38:55 GMT -5
I love Imogen Heap.
But 'Speak For Yourself' is just not 'it', well not for me at least. It feels, like say, Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. It's extremely radio-friendly and is not experimental/adventurous enough - 'cept for tracks like 'Hide and Seek' & 'Loose Ends'.
I personally am blown away by heap's debut, 'I Megaphone' - songs like 'Whatever', 'Shine', 'Me Oh My', 'Getting Scared', 'Come Here Boy' and especially 'Sleep' was out of this world. And moments like that didn't happen when i heard 'Speak For Yourself'.
But if it rakes in the popularity tht she needs to make another album, like how Fiona's career did, i'm all for it.
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Post by Steve on May 9, 2006 17:58:59 GMT -5
I think "Speak For Yourself" is her most accomplished work yet. It's intrinsically personal, and is 100% "her." I can see the comparison to "Extraordinary Machine" in part - both are great, infectious records, filled with great material - but I like the fact that "Speak For Yourself" is 100% Immi. It didn't need to be a hit - she was funding it solely on her own label, so it just needed to make enough basically to break even - and even now, she's not taking any advance from the label (Sony BMG) who are co-funding promotion for the project. They see her as a "long-term" investment. I also can't think of anyone else who sounds like Immi - she has carved a unique sound for herself, combing alternative, pop, rock and, most prominently, electronica, and uses such a wide range of sounds. As for being adventurous, I think "Hide and Seek" is clearly up there, alongside "Headlock," "The Walk," "Have You Got It In You?" "The Moment I Said It" and "Closing In" - the 3 most obvious radio-friendly hits to me are "Daylight Robbery" (which was originally produced for a commercial), "Loose Ends" and "Goodnight And Go."
As for "i Megaphone," whilst I think it's a solid album, filled with Heapisms, it's not all that different in sound to other 90's 'rock-chick' albums, whereas I think her second is much more unique - it's definitely inspired by the work she did as part of Frou Frou (although she has said that is the sound she was actually going for on her second album with Almo Sounds, before they left her in limbo and then dropped her), but it doesn't sound like to me like "the second Frou Frou record."
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Post by xolondon on May 9, 2006 19:00:23 GMT -5
You can tell her debut was recorded in the era of Alanis.
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Post by montygail on May 9, 2006 20:15:48 GMT -5
She's awesome. Besides being a terrific artist I just love her presence she has. "Headlock" would bea great single I think..I'd love to see that.
Meanwhile...if you haven't heard "Speeding Cars", the B-side to "Goonight and Go", you're missing out. It's amazing.
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Post by Steve on May 9, 2006 20:29:07 GMT -5
I agree, "Speeding Cars" is amazing; possibly one of the best she's ever written.
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Post by montygail on May 9, 2006 21:43:10 GMT -5
Yeah..it's the first time a song has really floored me in the last year...
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Post by meathook on May 10, 2006 1:49:00 GMT -5
You can tell her debut was recorded in the era of Alanis. It certainly was 'inspired' by that era. But it is a completely different album, without the feeling of that whole 'Natalie Imbruglia debut' effect. It was a very well written, produced, and mostly underrated record for its time. I'm also not saying that 'Speak For Yourself' is a bad record, it just didn't pull me in, as much as it did the debut. 'Speeding Cars', anyone kind enough to send me it?
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Post by ordon on May 11, 2006 4:30:15 GMT -5
Speeding Cars is really lovely and I am liking the single version of GOODNIGHT AND GO
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Post by camcallister on May 14, 2006 16:15:59 GMT -5
So... where did it go on the chart?
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Post by Steve on May 14, 2006 20:47:35 GMT -5
#56 - quite good considering the ignorance it received from the majority of the mainstream media. It's a shame it fell though, as it was at #39 on the Tuesday midweeks!
It's apparently her first ever solo appearance in the official UK top 75 singles chart, so it is an achievement!
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Post by ordon on May 15, 2006 7:31:38 GMT -5
Where did the Frou Frou singles end up in the UK charts, Steve?
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Post by Steve on May 15, 2006 11:44:09 GMT -5
As far as I know, only "Breathe In" was commercially released, and it got to #44 - "It's Good To Be In Love and "Must Be Dreaming" were never commercially released on CD - there are vinyls knocking about, but I'm pretty sure they are all promo copies.
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Post by unidan82 on May 15, 2006 12:27:38 GMT -5
surely ' Come Here Boy ' got further than that?!!?!??
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