RUNAWAY
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Thank FUCK. I’ve been sick these last few days but I will try to work on it tonight and tomorrow morning until I have the whole thing done.
The Feist Discography Rate: Same Trailer, Different Management.
- Thread starter Oleander
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Since we now have a group of people who have voted, how about I give you some leaderboard tea?
- While the Top 10 has shifted around with each vote, three songs have yet to move at all from their spots within the Top 10. Which songs do you ask? The Top 3? The middle pack? The Bottom 3? You'll have to wait and see.
- As it stands, 4 of the albums have at least one song representing them in the Top 10. As for the other album, you'd have to go way down the leaderboard to find it's highest rated song.
- Despite the ~collective disdain~ for the extras, there are a few that are currently doing very well at least relatively speaking.
- Some of the bonus tracks from the albums are performing excellently even though they are most likely lesser known compared to the main album tracks.
- There is not a single album that has all of its songs (including the bonus tracks) within the Top 40.
Since we now have a group of people who have voted, how about I give you some leaderboard tea?
- While the Top 10 has shifted around with each vote, three songs have yet to move at all from their spots within the Top 10. Which songs do you ask? The Top 3? The middle pack? The Bottom 3? You'll have to wait and see.
- As it stands, 4 of the albums have at least one song representing them in the Top 10. As for the other album, you'd have to go way down the leaderboard to find it's highest rated song.
- Despite the ~collective disdain~ for the extras, there are a few that are currently doing very well at least relatively speaking.
- Some of the bonus tracks from the albums are performing excellently even though they are most likely lesser known compared to the main album tracks.
- There is not a single album that has all of its songs (including the bonus tracks) within the Top 40.
Interesting.
As they say, every vote counts. Especially in an indie rate like this one.Interesting.
F
Former member 21294
She has started but yeah her discography is a bit weaker than i remembered dd
Since we now have a group of people who have voted, how about I give you some leaderboard tea?
- While the Top 10 has shifted around with each vote, three songs have yet to move at all from their spots within the Top 10. Which songs do you ask? The Top 3? The middle pack? The Bottom 3? You'll have to wait and see.
- As it stands, 4 of the albums have at least one song representing them in the Top 10. As for the other album, you'd have to go way down the leaderboard to find it's highest rated song.
- Despite the ~collective disdain~ for the extras, there are a few that are currently doing very well at least relatively speaking.
- Some of the bonus tracks from the albums are performing excellently even though they are most likely lesser known compared to the main album tracks.
- There is not a single album that has all of its songs (including the bonus tracks) within the Top 40.
- Y'all better not do the Monarch album dirty.
- Peaches better be the highest rated extra.
- The bottom 10 better be all extras ddd.
It really is a lot of fun and stress knowing how things are playing out while everyone else suffers in anticipation.
Unrelated note: I just came back from seeing the Whitney documentary and by god was it sad.
F
Former member 21294
Pleasure is her best record and my 11 will probably go to it. I.. wow. I can't believe i was disappointed with it when it came out last year.
Well, well, well it looks like my secret plan worked.
Now if only I could convert a certain voter who refuses to see the light. They know who they are.
ohnostalgia
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Let It Die will always be my favourite album, probably because I played it to death. I wouldn’t call it her most accomplished or musically adventurous album- that’s probably Metals or The Reminder - but Let It Die just really works for me.
I'm sure plenty of people feel the same way as it was her proper music scene "debut." Especially since she pays Monarch complete dust and even though it was re-released in a very limited quantity a few years ago, she still ignores it ddd. A Mariah "I still don't know her" tea.
As the old saying goes, time really does fly. It's crazy to think that the voting period is about to reach its end and we'll be starting eliminations soon. I want to thank all the people who've voted so far and those who are in the midst of trying to get their ballots completed. I never imagined that this would be a big rate but its still very nice to see that there is interest in Feist and the wonderful discography of music she has given us. Here's to many more album from her! But maybe with shorter breaks in-between please, Leslie. I already have Fiona taking ever increasingly longer breaks between albums and I don't need all my faves doing the same. I'm mostly kidding of course, she can take as long as she damn well pleases to craft another excellent album.
Now onto the actual subject of this final Tastemaker Corner post!
There are a number of different subjects I could have written about and almost went for others but the talk we've had about the extras section helped me to finally settle on one. As I have mentioned plenty of times before, Feist loves herself a collaboration and has, in part, made a name for herself by working with others be they her usual teammates or those outside her inner musician's circle. Through the list of extras I made, I wanted to show you how Feist's collaborations work both as outliers to her discography and integral parts of it. Aside from the Chilly and Peaches collaborations, the list of collaborators are people Feist hasn't worked with on more than one occasion. That's why for this final Tastemaker post I wanted to spotlight Feist's long-term collaborative history with the three musicians who have had a big presence in both her career and life. Any guesses as to who they are? As if you didn't already know by know ddd. Those three individuals are Chilly Gonzales, Mocky, and Peaches.
As I showed you in the post about Feist's punk-rock days, her music career and life have taken some pretty surprising turns that I doubt most people would have expected. If you thought her punk side was wild, wait until you see what she got up to with the aforementioned trio. You got a brief glimpse of it with the pictures that @JamesJupiter and I shared on the first page which I will present here to jog your memories.
(That's not Mocky in the red and blue one piece by the way.)
All four of them are members of a collective called "The Canadian Crew" which is a loose collective of immigrant Canadian musicians mostly living in Europe. As I said in the biography I gave of Feist, she has lives and traveled the globe a number of times and its through her mobile nature that she met these friends/collaborators and many others. Now let's take a bit of a closer look at each person's individual history with Feist starting with Mocky.
Mocky's most notable contribution to this rate for you voters would most definitely be his appearance on the Reminder bonus track, "Fightin' Away The Tears." That song actually happens to be Mocky's as it was originally released on his album Navy Brown Blues which came out in 2006. It even got a music video.
His contribution's to Feist's discography go further than that though as he had a hand in co-writing and producing the tracks "So Sorry", "Bittersweet Melodies", "Graveyard", and "Caught A Long Wind." He also remixed a bunch of tracks for Open Season as you saw in the post dedicated to it. There's also this notable performance they did along with fellow "Canadian Crew" member Jamie Liddell and Chilly Gonzales.
The performance comes from Major to Minor - A DVD directed by Nina Rhode aka Ninja Pleasure, with the surrealist "Master Class" by Professor Gonzales, teaching music theory to real students taken from the audience as well as his friends, featuring Jamie Lidell & Feist on "Melody" and Daft Punk on "Rhythm", the "White Gloves Concert" featuring Jamie Lidell, Mocky and Feist performing each others' songs, followed by Chilly Gonzales concert footage, videos, television interviews and the Paris Nuits Blanches "Organism" installation by Ninja Pleasure. Feist and Mocky also worked together on another song of his called "Somehow Someway" from his album Saskamodie which I left out from the rate. She also happens to play the drums on a track called "Living In The Snow" from his 2015 album Key Change.
From Mocky, let's move onto the person Feist not only has collaborated with on multiple occasions but also lived with them, Peaches. I mentioned the fact that they are roommates before but their history with each other and the other two is a bit more complex than that. In 1995, Peaches started the Shit, a noisy four-piece combo with Chilly Gonzales, bassist Sticky (later of Weeping Tile and Music Maul), and Dominique Salole (a.k.a. Mocky). Their absurd, highly sexual rock music was a harbinger for the music Peaches would later, as it was during this time that she adopted the Peaches name. The Peaches moniker was taken from the Nina Simone song "Four Women" where Simone screams at the end, "My name is Peaches!" This is interesting given that fact that Feist has covered Nina Simone multiple times. In Toronto, before rising to fame, Peaches lived above Come As You Are with Feist. Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches' shows, using a sock puppet and calling herself "Bitch Lap Lap". The two also toured together in England from 2000–2001, staying with Justine Frischmann of Elastica and M.I.A. The two also performed on tv with Chilly in 1999 and I'm just going to leave the videos here for you to see for yourselves.
Feist continued to collaborate with Peaches on multiple occasions from that point forward. Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on The Teaches of Peaches album. Feist appears in Peaches' video for the song "Lovertits", suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Later, Feist covered this song with Gonzales (whom she met while touring with Peaches) on her album Open Season as I have stated previously. In 2006, Feist contributed backup vocals on a track entitled "Give 'Er", which appeared on Peaches' album Impeach My Bush. Their final collaboration is the one that made it into the Extras section of this rate, "I Mean Something" which appears on the album Rub. There's also this video of a live performance Feist, Peaches, and Chilly did which involves Missy Elliot and a pool baptism.
The final member of the trio of Feist's collaborators is, of course, Chilly Gonzales who is probably the most prominent of the three in terms of presence in Feist's career. I've already given you the basics of how Feist met Chilly and the touring they did across Europe in the early 2000s. I include a selection of their collaborations for this rate but there are others. She provided vocals on two tracks from his 2000 album Über Alles, "Real Motherfuckin' Music" and "Clarinets." "Shameless Eyes" which did make it into the rate comes from the 2002 album Presidential Suite which includes another collaboration between the two, "Salieri Serenade." "Starlight" which is another collaboration that made it into the rate comes from the 2003 album Z which also features the duo's cover of "Lovertits" and another collaboration titled "Why Don't We Disappear."
In terms of Feist's own music, Chilly has made contributions outside of the remixes he provided on Open Season. He helped create the songs "My Moon My Man", "The Limit To Your Love", "Graveyard", and "Caught A Long Wind." Despite neither Chilly nor Mocky co-writing any songs on Pleasure, they still contributed to it in some form along with another long-term collaborator/producer of Feist's Renaud LeTang. Mocky was a co-producer of the album and played drums, bass, keyboards, and percussion on it. Chilly meanwhile just played the piano on the album. Feist and Chilly have collaborated live on multiple occasions but I have chosen to spotlight this performance they did at Trash in London. If you watch it, you'll know why I chose this one.
Well, that's it for this little segment. It's been a lot of fun but looking through these lesser explored parts of Feist's career but I think we're all ready for eliminations to start.
See you then.
ohnostalgia
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I saved the debut for last, I feel ya Feist.
I think another aspect I like about Let It Die is she sings so much more in French than the next three. Back then I was taking French in high school and continued to advanced studies in university so it was a neat way to practice my listening skills.
That's so cool! I bet it was great having her singing in French. I actually signed up for French when I got to high school but was placed in Latin due to there not being room left I imagine. I'm glad it happened though as it was a blast. I hardly remember any of it but I do think it helped strengthen the connection between English and Spanish I have always had.
Don't worry about but if you do want to make it up to me then you can give me points in the current round of PJ00's.
Side note: Am I the only one who thinks Leslie and Alexa Chung look at least a little bit alike?
Obviously we don't want to cheat, but if your song is as good as your usual entries, I'm sure you'll be getting points from me.Don't worry about but if you do want to make it up to me then you can give me points in the current round of PJ00's.
Side note: Am I the only one who thinks Leslie and Alexa Chung look at least a little bit alike?
