sign of the times:

you buy a cd, first thing you do is put it into your computer and convert it into mp3's.....the cd goes into the collection and you don't see it for years.....I gotta look that one up again.....and also Black Cherry!

Is a certain princess ignoring this thread?

Coincidentally, last night I read an old interview with Alison from last year (Mixmag May 2006) and she said the exact same thing about the band's lyrics that heartbeatocean did: it's all about the interaction between man and machine.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Naw, she's just not around as much, Org note her the link to make sure she can't miss it.

I can't believe my name is the title of this thread.

Also, the idea I always had about the title was "felt" as fabric but HBOs take on things makes me see it as "felt" as in feel. Perhaps a bit of both. Machines that cannot feel as touch and cannot feel as emotion. Humans that can do both. Worlds colliding that can never every truly understand each other and reconcile their visions because what it is to be human is not to be a machine and vice versa. Thank you Ocean for making my very first venture into this album remarkable!

Coincidentally, last night I read an old interview with Alison from last year (Mixmag May 2006) and she said the exact same thing about the band's lyrics that heartbeatocean did: it's all about the interaction between man and machine.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Nice dissertation. Also, notice "felt" is in the past tense. Another reference to nostalgia, or an implication that we no longer feel.

True isn't it?

I also love how the cover is like a clone, siamese twins, two headed monster or an inkblot. All aligned with the freak and monster theme, and dismemberment...

Slave2daGroove said:

my mom was in town last week, no time for orging

heartbeatocean said:

I met her! She's very sweet.

Everyone should know that I watched H.B.O. perform punk music with her sexy-tet and it kicked ass!!!

NDRU said:

And why isn't she featured on youtube?

Also, the idea I always had about the title was "felt" as fabric but HBOs take on things makes me see it as "felt" as in feel. Perhaps a bit of both. Machines that cannot feel as touch and cannot feel as emotion. Humans that can do both. Worlds colliding that can never every truly understand each other and reconcile their visions because what it is to be human is not to be a machine and vice versa. Thank you Ocean for making my very first venture into this album remarkable!

'Felt Mountain', their 2001 debut, came after Alison somehow encountered "a mountain made out of fuzzy felt."

sextonseven said:

Can you post the quote? I'd be interested in reading it.

'Supernature' can be taken in extremis. Nature with a superstructure of synthesized, artificial sounds and the brilliant dysfunction therein.

"Yeah," says Will, "we like that sort of collision of human and machine."

'Supernature' can be interpreted in many ways. It's brilliant and multi-layered and very simple and exceedingly clever--and this odd couple came up with the name in a flash, a "pure Spinal Tap moment" during a photoshoot when their management was hassling them and the deadline had long passed. "It was, 'The record company really need to know now...'"

heartbeatocean said:

I met her! She's very sweet.

Everyone should know that I watched H.B.O. perform punk music with her sexy-tet and it kicked ass!!!

heartbeatocean said:

OK, do you think then that the picture of nature represents human existence? Elements, objects, things that cannot be found where the machines came from?

NDRU said:

So damn envious! :green:

Nature with a superstructure of synthesized, artificial sounds and the brilliant dysfunction therein.

More questions, the wailing siren in Lovely Head and Pilots. Do you think that is the language of the machines? Of perhaps what the machines hear when we speak?

.....and Alison is a freak!