The "Know Your Enemy" Discussion Thread

[Son of Stopped]

Although I wasn't the first to try and work it out, I feel no KYE thread can be without my transcription of the letters on the cover. It reminds me of the embrace of the net the band were supposed to have done for PFAYM nine years later?

"ok should be simply approachable not like the (obscured)"

"well you (obscured) interested (obscured) if you're or I can't be fucking (obscured)"

"right. yeah (obscured) ered (remembered?) reminesme of parliemst (obscured) stuff, so (obscured)"

"agas that reall(obscured)s,is quite, here it comes (obscured)"

"ee this work. I (obscured) hope so, but not in this (time?)(obscured)"

"few words on (obscured) any at the amont I (obscured)"

"ave found prod(obscured) p(obscured)nge eat,come on you warflie(obscured)"

"nd thats the best part(obscured) the new studio. I will have a show with just(obscured)"

"s,music as well, is running out of things to think, hmmm, suberaines! what ab(obscured)"

"ng the fucking picture is almost done, unless I decide to paint over it again +(obscured)"

"ese image came from watching a film I made while in Newark is it finished (obscured) is it?"

"hink the future will have people employed as cyberoligists, a career of search"

"internet for ancient websites. I MEAN AFTER you're dead prehaps your websites liv"

"on+on+on. we'll that's (obscured) out of this (obscured)"

(in grainy writing) "for ME + HER"

[Tiortranew]

1. Found That Soul - 4/5
2. Ocean Spray - 3.5/5
3. Intravenous Agnostic - 4/5
4. So Why So Sad - 3.5/5
5. Let Robeson Sing - 4/5
6. The Year Of Purification - 3/5
7. Wattsville Blues - 4.5/5
8. Miss Europa Disco Dancer - 4/5
9. Dead Martyrs - 4/5
10. His Last Painting - 3/5
11. My Guernica - 4/5
12. The Convalescent - 2.5/5
13. Royal Correspondent - 2.5/5
14. Epicentre - 3.5/5
15. Baby Elian - 3.5/5
16. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children - 3.5/5

[Midlands_Junk]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

Don't think you can get much more diverse than KYE? In relation to their other albums I mean.

I'm beginning to notice that you are entirely incapable of sensing sarcasm

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Midlands_Junk

I'm beginning to notice that you are entirely incapable of sensing sarcasm

Well you can't hear sarcasm on the internet can you? I thought it might have been but was just saying anyway!

[Radiomanic]

Originally Posted by RND

Great album, just too short. Groundhog Days, Locust Valley, Masking Tape, Masses, Close my Eyes, Just a Kid... should be included.

Also, it is too compact. Should be more diverse...

Too short? Really? 16 tracks plus a bonus track....long enough for me!

[Tiortranew]

Oh, a sarcasm detector! That's a really useful invention.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Tiortranew

Oh, a sarcasm detector! That's a really useful invention.

Yes, it certainly would!

[sculptureofabloke]

I love Know Your Enemy, but it'd probably work better as three or four EPs rather than one album. Lots of good ideas on the album but it seems a bit too fragmented.

[nocultureicons]

Originally Posted by sculptureofabloke

I love Know Your Enemy, but it'd probably work better as three or four EPs rather than one album. Lots of good ideas on the album but it seems a bit too fragmented.

Or a shorter album and the rest as bsides on CD2s of the singles.

[EmptySoul]

The album version of So Why So Sad is a shambles but I adore the Avalanches remix. They should have put that on instead of the original.

[starstruck]

might ramble a bit.....

i will play KYE before i play GATS, which seems to not be the general consensus on how one should see both albums.

it's an album full of mostly good songs that just doesn't sounds like an album all together, if that makes any sense?

whereas Baby Elian is one of the most precise, brilliant observational songs they've ever delivered, it sits on an album with Let Robeson Sing; a track which whilst no doubt was well intentioned sounds like one of the most forced, contrived tributes ever - to the extent that they allowed Ian Brown's clearly piss-taking remix to see light of day.

the "buzz" around the release was awesome - i mean, two singles released on the same day? who does that anymore? also, the screensaver you could get at the time with all the quotes on was ace - it kept crashing my work PC!

[PCCCP]

1. FOUNDSOUL - 3.5/5
2. OCEANSPRAY - 2/5
3. INAGNOSTIC - 4/5
4. SOWHYSSAD - 4/5
5. LETROBESON - 4.5/5
6. YEAROFPURI - 2.5/5
7. WATTSVLLE - 2/5
8. MISSEUROPA - 2.5/5
9. DEADMARTYRS - 2.5/5
10. HISPAINTING - 1.5/5
11. MYGUERNICA - 3/5
12. CONVLSCNENT - 4/5
13. ROYALCRSP - 3.5/5
14. EPICENTRE - 1.5/5
15. BABYELIAN - 5/5
16. FREESPEECH - 3.5/5

[PCCCP]

Might've been a short album (like SATT was):

1 Locust Valley
2 So Why So Sad
3 Masking Tape
4 The Convalescent
5 Groundhog Days
6 Found That Soul
7 Intravenous Agnostic
8 Baby Elian
9 Let Robeson Sing
10 Freedom Of Speech

[The Quatercircle]

Found that soul for me is one of their hardest most visceral songs to date. It never fails to get the blood flowing.

[Marwood]

Originally Posted by The Quatercircle

Found that soul for me is one of their hardest most visceral songs to date. It never fails to get the blood flowing.

Made a fucking AWESOME opening song on the PPF tour too

Regards,
Marwood.