We Are Scientists: Crap Attack
Man, the UK gets fucking everything. All the exciting buzz bands, all the excellent single releases, all the enthralling accents, and when the US finally produces a herky-jerky guitar-rock band to get excited about, the UK steals them away from us too. Apparently, said herky-jerky guitar-rock band enjoys rubbing it in my face, lavisihing the UK with single releases and tour dates and now this: We Are Scientists have announced a UK-only CD/DVD of rarities and music videos, titled Crap Attack, slated for release November 6th. The CD culls b-sides from the band’s various single releases and features two new remixes and even two covers, of Sigur Ros’ “Hoppipolla” and Art Brut’s “Bang Bang Rock & Roll”, the former of which was only previously available as a live recording from one of the band’s BBC Radio sessions. Its DVD counterpart features music videos for all twelve songs on With Love & Squalor as well as live footage from the band’s April 13th Shepherd’s Bush Empire show, so between the two you’re getting quite a bargain it seems. If you’re in the UK, that is. The band’s got a real gift for words, so I’ll let them take it from here:
Behold Crap Attack, our most unedited expulsion to date. With 15 tracks on the CD, 12 videos and a full live show on the DVD, and emotional, semi-factual liner notes, and a standard plastic case that all that stuff goes in — this is truly a voluminous ejection.
The CD contains:
- Ram It Home
- Surprise
- The Great Escape (The Silence Remix)
- Mucho Mas
- Callbacks Under The Sea
- Hoppipolla
- Bang Bang Rock & Roll
- Nobody Move Under The Sea
- Sie hat Was vermisst
- Be My Baby
- This Scene Is Dead (Pete Predictable Remix)
- History Repeats
- This Means War
- The Great Escape (Under The Sea)
- Textbook (Under The Sea)
Whereas the DVD has only got:
- Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt directed by Akiva Schaffer
- This Scene Is Dead directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- Inaction directed by Eric Gross
- Can’t Lose directed by Graham Rich
- Callbacks directed by Akiva Schaffer
- Cash Cow directed by Keith Murray with Christian Owens
- It’s A Hit directed by Akiva Schaffer
- The Great Escape directed by Akiva Schaffer
- Textbook directed by Randy Bell & Justin Rice
- Lousy Reputation directed by Justin Rice & Randy Bell
- Worth the Wait directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- What’s the Word directed by Agnes Chu
- It’s A Hit (alternate version) directed by Mathieu Shrontz
- Shepherds Bush Empire show, April 13, 2006, with full commentary
I won’t stiff you on the mp3s, so below is the brand new studio version of “Hoppipolla” as well as the CD’s two serviceable remixes, for “The Great Escape” and “This Scene Is Dead”. “Hoppipolla” is the highlight here, as it’s awesome to hear it performed on an acoustic guitar and Keith actually does an a pretty serviceable job of recreating Jonsi’s unparalleled vocals. Who knew that falsetto even existed? Furthermore, dude even nailed the lyrics, an unbelievably impressive accomplishment, as memorizing lyrics in a language as ridiculous as Icelandic is surely no easy task. Downloads, ahoy:
MP3: “Hoppipolla” - We Are Scientists
MP3: “The Great Escape (The Silence Mix)” - We Are Scientists
MP3: “This Scene Is Dead (Pete Predicatble Remix)” - We Are Scientists
October 26th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
That was my exact reaction knowing that the UK gets this before the US, we’re always screwed over here when it comes to great stuff like this.
Thanks for posting it! You posted the second song I wanted to hear the most from this…I’m dying to hear “Sie hat Was vermisst.”
October 26th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
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October 26th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Oh crap… For some reason, I can’t download the “Hoppipolla” cover, so it would be great if you could check it
Thanks for the info! I didn’t know it was only for the UK; it’s a big bummer.
October 27th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Shoot.. it says internal server error when i go to download the tracks. that’s very sucky. check it please?? for the love of we are scientists?
October 27th, 2006 at 12:44 am
sigur ros cover? hmmm that’s weird - how do you copy a made-up language? apparantly you can and do it quite well at that.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:29 am
As far as I know, there will be an American release eventually, possibly in time for the 4-show end-of-the-year US tour.
Awesome! Thanks for the postage! I need some new music to get me through this horrible college essay all-nighter.
October 27th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Can’t d/l Hoppipolla :’{
I’ll listen to the BBC version while I wait
It’s not all one way traffic y’know. The only reason we get WAS is because they broke the mainstream here, whereas they were more or less ignored over your side of the pond. There are plenty of British bands who are bigger in America than the UK, bands like South, for instance. Hence the US get all their releases about 5 months earlier, an exclusive live DVD/CD & a proper tour. Whereas we…well…don’t. Woe.
October 28th, 2006 at 7:39 am
What’s the problemo? Amazon.co.uk (no this isn’t a plug) will sort you out a copy. I buy stuff through amazon.com so it works both ways…
October 28th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Yeah, I know, I do that too. It’s more the touring side of things that bothers me (that & the extra postage
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October 30th, 2006 at 1:54 am
I know ezarchive has hiccups a lot but I still cant get the links to work after several trys.
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
!!!
November 9th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Ok I know this comes a little late but Icelandic is not a made up language. Only () was in hopelandish, Takk,hoppipolla included, is in fact in Icelandic. Although it has only 300.000 speakers, the whole 299.999 of the others speakers understand me completely when I speak it so it can’t be made up
I saw We are Scientists in Iceland Airwaves in October, they were pretty good. My experience was a little bit coloured by the fact I was hugging a wall and didn’t actually see much. This album is great though.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Are you sure you can’t buy it in the US? We got in here in far north Norway.. Damn, and I love it. This band is so funny.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
The problem is that the dvd doesnt work in america. something with the different dvd players or something. so thats why it hasnt come out in america yet.they still have to convert it into a dvd that can play in american players.
but yeah i do feel a bit jipped, though i do intend once in my life to go to england and see them. if theyre still touring by the time im 18 or so.
oh and um south? yeah never heard of them. apparently theyre not popular in america or england..
October 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
The hoppipola-cover is very well made. Didn’t believe there could be a so neat crafted cover of sigur ros, but this one blew me away
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Oh my gosh.
You have made my shitting day, do you know how badly i’ve been after that Silence mix of ‘The Great Escape’ i always hear it at work on the store CD and could only find the original.
Thank you.
Peace
November 24th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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