big shout out...

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... to jauntyalan  for banging on about the Justice album. I live a sheltered life as a mild-mannered academic and would not otherwise have been exposed to this young person's banging 'house' music. I couldn't be bothered to read the ILX thread so I have no idea if this is a popular position or not. It sounds like Daft Punk put through a blender.

Also: a warning to freakytigger  Not only have I 'obtained' a copy of Operation Mindcrime, I have even worked out how to get the heavy metal umlauts onto Queensrÿche!!

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really like Justice, I'm going to buy the album come payday (or, err, on Saturday if I am in Oxford and the WH Smiths has it, since I has tokens) and I'm glad to hear it's good.

Things that are good about music which sounds like this:
-intensely melodic, the chopping and splicing adding emphasis to the melody rather than obscuring it and I really like this as an aesthetic, since I do think that strong, dramatic melody has become rather unfashionable in music and that its return is No Bad Thing
-as jauntyalan said, ADD disco and I agree that this is GOOD
-as alexmacpherson said, beery and lairy and this is also a good thing, to me; it's all very well having "proper" dancing in "proper" clubs or whatever but they just don't exist in a lot of places so for me, being a 6x £1.50 cider and black and subsequent dancefloor massacre style reveller, this is actually really good. As dubdobdee pointed out, the poptimist dance would presumably be one anyone can do and if I can move around to something (bearing in mind how phenomenolly self-conscious I am even under the influence of alcohol) then this is surely some kind of glorious inclusive umbrella of pure glee. I do understand the idea of proper dancing, I used to be a ballet dancer of reasonable caliber and I think you could do beautiful contemporary art style ballet to a lot of the electronica that's around at the minute (I am disappointed that Darcey Bussell never really did this since she was always into the envelope-pushing stuff but oh well) especially minimal techno, which I enjoy a lot but I wouldn't want to hear it in a pub. Although I know the "proper" dancing that Mr Macpherson is talking about is the more traditional/smooth club sort of thing (or at least I assume it is) I would feel v. uncomfortable anywhere where that was the approved mode of dance, I think; it seems very intimidating to me, presumably in similar ways that people regard the sort of mad arm-and-leg-waving that goes on in my preferred dancing haunts.
-makes me grin like a maniac and fills my gothy heart with joy in a way it is not moved otherwise except by *NSync and certain Dance Anthems moments (THERE WAS A BIT ABOUT *NSYNC IN THE NEW EPISODE OF SCRUBS!!!* BUT I DIGRESS)

I am aware that everything I think is good about it is probably what everyone who hates it thinks is bad about it. I think this is probably another good thing about it, although I can't quite specify why.

*It wasn't as good as it should have been but basically Turk made everyone dance to 'Bye Bye Bye' AS THEY SHOULD

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God I do write like a dick when I go off on one -sorry.