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fuck me, they were shite...

I am not sure what the musical type is, but it seems all to prevalent and frighteningly samey. All that pop-hardcore cal-rock skater music that seems to be the staging music for Channel 4 youth programmes. Is it called emo?

It's drivel.
 
Orang Utan said:
That isn't a bad song, though All Night Long is THE one if you're gonna play any Lionel Richie
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I'll bear that in mind.

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Dubversion said:
actually, they were kind of fucked by a very lucrative but rigid contract which meant they had to keep making fairly wank electropop for years, in the meantime they were making decent dance tunes and dub stuff in their basement studio and releasing it on white labels and the like. Tom's now International Observer - excellent digidub stuff. And they could definitely play, so not sure what the backing track situation is - they were an electronic band so what did you expect them to play if there was a power cut?
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An accoustic set. :D

Didn't they read the bloody contract before signing. :p
 
Dubversion said:
Waterboys - should be tried for crimes against music.
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My daughter was born to the Waterboys crooning some fecking shite about the moon, thanks to her hippy ma. :(

I've still not had the heart to break it her yet, especially now with her love of r'n'b and hiphop and all things bling.

If she turns to drugs, i tell you, if she turns to drugs and a wanton lifestyle, I'll be round that wanker Scott's house for a serious talking to :mad:
 
I saw The Waterboys twice by accident - at the start and at the end of a tour that spanned several continents. I was bored both times, and I've never enjoyed their records.

I saw Arcade Fire at Brixton a couple of weeks ago. I was miserable the whole time. I left the room. I just totally don't get it at all. I kept thinking "go home and write the novel that is clearly shrieking to be set free!" The tour logo is a paperback book ffs*. I found the music smug, self-congratulatory, pompous, boring. I'm not saying they *are* those things, but that's how I heard it. The audience seemd to be made up of geography teachers, unpublished virgin novelists, office workers who never go to gigs, couples who were treating themselves to a night off from the kids. It was like anti-rockan'roll.

I just don't get it at all.

I mean, I can not enjoy a band, or even hate a band, and still get it. I just don't get Arcade Fire.



*yes, I know, it's a neon bible....
 
The Neon Bible is a book already of course. It was the first novel by John Kennedy Toole, who also wrote (the superb) A Confederacy Of Dunces.

I think you'd like them both.

I like the Arcade Fire and do get them, but I didn't think they were that great at the Academy. It all seemed slightly forced and just not chaotic enough...until the encore which was excellent, made mostly so by the berserk reaction of the crowd. I went on the Friday, by the way.
 
i loved the first album,was truly truly engrossed in it. but neon bible is limp in comparison, and yes i know that like children, albums should not be compared and that one must love each album individually but i cant help it, it was a long time coming and a disappointment. the EP was better than the album
i think there are one or two tracks that i like, but so forgettable that i cant be sure.
 
ianw said:
The Neon Bible is a book already of course. It was the first novel by John Kennedy Toole, who also wrote (the superb) A Confederacy Of Dunces.

I think you'd like them both.

I like the Arcade Fire and do get them, but I didn't think they were that great at the Academy. It all seemed slightly forced and just not chaotic enough...until the encore which was excellent, made mostly so by the berserk reaction of the crowd. I went on the Friday, by the way.
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Of course... silly me...

heh... didn't know that Ianw :oops: I'll look those out on your recommendation.

I went on the Wednesday. I'm prepared to accept that it might have been a bad night; but I know that that might be the thing, and make allowances.

But the songs were... oh I didn't like them. I couldn't imagine liking them on another night. I'll have to listen to some records (urgh, do I have to...? :( ) to hear the songs and maybe get it that way.

But I always prefer my music live; and I flatter myself that I have a fairly good ear, which is why I'm so very bewildered by disliking Arcade Fire as much as I do. I mean, even if I don't like a band, I invariably understand why others do.
 
Dubversion said:
Her Jazz was great.
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More than great, I think. An absolutely astonishing song. A true one-off, pure white-heat anger and defiance, a perfect punk rock classic that came out of nowhere, burned very bright for a very very short time, and then disappeared, taking the band with it. It's up there with "Anarchy In The UK" and "White Riot" and all those for me. A good decade after its release, I still find it unbelievably exciting.

And it's full of perfect moments!

That opening riff, total garage rock, dirty and sexy.
The singer sneering/smirking "This is happening without your permission"
The ending, them screaming "You lied to me!"
Fuck yes. Amazing.

Judge for yourself:
http://www.zshare.net/download/huggy-bear-her-jazz-mp3.html
 
Not a popular option, this, but I fucking hate The Ramones -- I loved loads of punk from the day, but the 'appeal' of those same 2 minute 'song' seventy million times across about the same number of albums thrashy shouty incomprehensible nonsense peddlars, escaped me entirely.

From that decade, and entirely separately, ELP and Yes, and Kool and the Gang and the Commodores, were all irredeemable shite ...

I feel less hostile to later stuff from other decades, beingh a bland old fart like :p :oops: ;) , but whoever nominated Travis for the 'bland but inexplicably popular' music award. had it right ...
 
Thanks to the creator of this thread I now know I have a shit taste in music! Cheers! *Chucks his Shamen collection in the bin*


Bands/"Artists" I hate with a passion include...

The Frattellis - Crap
Gwen Stefani - Surely shes gone funny in the head?
Disturbed - Everything thats wrong with today "metal" scene
Dido - Zzzzz
My Chemical Toilet - ...Sorry I mean My Chemical Romance
 
story said:
I saw The Waterboys twice by accident - at the start and at the end of a tour that spanned several continents. I was bored both times, and I've never enjoyed their records.

I just don't get Arcade Fire.
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Philistine x 2
 
Idaho said:
I refuse to let anyone slur the name of Men Without Hats! Safety Dance!

Also Radiohead, for all their latter tedium and pomposity, at least did The Bends which was good.

Waterboys? They did a good song I think. I even like a couple of the Thompson Twins hits. But then I have no pride when it comes to music.
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Brave soul. Let's do lunch. Eternally.
 
Orang Utan said:
I Can't Go For That, Maneater, Annie I'm Not Your Daddy, Stool Pigeon? You don't like those records? What's wrong with you? Are you a rock music fan who refuses to listen to anything funky? What in your opinion is the greatest music from the 80s?
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Word.
 
Hi-ASL said:
Funky, adj. From funk, noun. Allegedly.

OK, I'll come clean and grant you that the 80s wasn't all shite. Many, many exciting things happened in the world of rock.
Howard Jones and Haircut 100 are not what we fought the punk wars for.
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"Fought"?

Tarts.
 
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