Sleaford Mods

[Jennaonthebeach]

Oh, there's been a lot of criticism of DB. Much as his output is amazing, it can be hard to separate the man from his art.

Pretty much like all the artists you mentioned but they're all wankers at the end of the day.

All artists, musicians, actors, playwrights, directors etc are.

Shakespeare was clever - we know virtually fuck all about him. Best way if you ask me, let the work stand by itself.

 

[Orang Utan]

People change their opinions. They grow and change their minds about things.
Nothing more suspect than liking the same things you did when you were young. It shows conservatism and lack of progress. Some of my generation are stuck in the 90s, still listening to Blur and Oasis and other rinsed shit. Some people even still listen to the fucking Beatles ffs!
I found Bill Hicks funny and cool when I was a teenager, but have you gone back and watched those routines again? They haven’t aged well at all.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Urban has a long tradition of hating on figures they previously lauded.

To be fair, to me, I’ve always thought they were shite. And, essentially, a long boring petit bourgeois moan…

 

[Magnus McGinty]

To be fair, to me, I’ve always thought they were shite. And, essentially, a long boring petit bourgeois moan…

Another criticism I heard were that they were essentially appealing to the lumpen proletariat!
To me they’re just poets with music. So whatever.

 

[xenon]

What’s the urban beef with Charlie Brooker? I don’t remember that.

 

[xenon]

The gushing over Sleaford Mods in the early pages is pretty funny though.

 

[Orang Utan]

The gushing over Sleaford Mods in the early pages is pretty funny though.

One trick Shetland ponies tire quickly innit.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

not my sort of thing at all, never was.

 

[xenon]

One trick Shetland ponies tire quickly innit.

I suppose. I don’t hate them or anything but never got the love.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I suppose. I don’t hate them or anything but never got the love.

Are we talking about Sleaford Mods or Shetland ponies now?

 

[Orang Utan]

Are we talking about Sleaford Mods or Shetland ponies now?

Both!

 

[Dystopiary]

Somebody do a poll.

Did you ever like Sleaford Mods?

a) I thought they were alright.
b) Loved them. But condemn them now of course.
c) Never heard of them.
d) Always knew they were bourgeois wrong uns. Ner ner, I was right all along.
e) onion rings

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Of course, but the context is here. Over the years I’m thinking Bill Hicks, Michael Moore, Banksy etc. Brooker was loved and then loathed too iirc.

Charlie Brooker? What was his crime?

 

[Orang Utan]

Charlie Brooker? What was his crime?

Going from criticising telly to making it, maybe?
His Black Mirror series is quite patchy

 

[krtek a houby]

What’s the urban beef with Charlie Brooker? I don’t remember that.

There were rumblings from excitable male fans (not necessarily here) that he'd lost his edge when he married Konnie Huq. Gone soft and other nonsense.

 

[krtek a houby]

People change their opinions. They grow and change their minds about things.
Nothing more suspect than liking the same things you did when you were young. It shows conservatism and lack of progress. Some of my generation are stuck in the 90s, still listening to Blur and Oasis and other rinsed shit. Some people even still listen to the fucking Beatles ffs!
I found Bill Hicks funny and cool when I was a teenager, but have you gone back and watched those routines again? They haven’t aged well at all.

Still listen to stuff that I liked in those impressionable years from 12 - 49, but yeah, like favourite films, a lot of it isn't what it used to be.

Some fans absolutely lose it when you critical of their beloved bands/films that they imprinted on.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Conversely I don’t get why folk love to trash stuff they don’t like. If you don’t like something, why are you even bothering with a thread about them?
It must be an ego thing where folk think we need to know where their margins of what’s cool are currently set.

 

[PursuedByBears]

People change their opinions. They grow and change their minds about things.
Nothing more suspect than liking the same things you did when you were young. It shows conservatism and lack of progress. Some of my generation are stuck in the 90s, still listening to Blur and Oasis and other rinsed shit. Some people even still listen to the fucking Beatles ffs!
I found Bill Hicks funny and cool when I was a teenager, but have you gone back and watched those routines again? They haven’t aged well at all.

Imagine people liking just anything without the approval of the urban collective! I'm shocked I tell you, shocked and appalled. Has it come to this?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Nothing more suspect than liking the same things you did when you were young. It shows conservatism and lack of progress.

I’m guessing posting on here doesn’t count? Which you’ve been doing for a very long time.

 

[mojo pixy]

(Accidental post on the wrong thread)
(Today looking good already... )

 

[ElizabethofYork]

People change their opinions. They grow and change their minds about things.
Nothing more suspect than liking the same things you did when you were young. It shows conservatism and lack of progress. Some of my generation are stuck in the 90s, still listening to Blur and Oasis and other rinsed shit. Some people even still listen to the fucking Beatles ffs!
I found Bill Hicks funny and cool when I was a teenager, but have you gone back and watched those routines again? They haven’t aged well at all.

I still enjoy the music I listened to in the 1970s and 1980s. Doesn't mean I'm conservative and lacking progress in my life overall.

 

[andysays]

Urban has a long tradition of hating on figures they previously lauded.

Can I just take this opportunity to say I have always hated Sleaford Mods from the first time I ever heard of them, which was probably on this thread

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I didn't used to like Sleaford Mods, but now everyone hates them I might start liking them.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m guessing posting on here doesn’t count? Which you’ve been doing for a very long time.

It might for some, but not for me

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I used to think they were cack, but now I quite like them. Après-garde, I am.

 

[krtek a houby]

Conversely I don’t get why folk love to trash stuff they don’t like. If you don’t like something, why are you even bothering with a thread about them?
It must be an ego thing where folk think we need to know where their margins of what’s cool are currently set.

"Margins of Cool" should be their next single with b-side "That Fuckin' Scarf"

 

[Orang Utan]

Conversely I don’t get why folk love to trash stuff they don’t like. If you don’t like something, why are you even bothering with a thread about them?
It must be an ego thing where folk think we need to know where their margins of what’s cool are currently set.

It’s loads more fun to trash stuff than to praise it. That’s just human nature

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It’s loads more fun to trash stuff than to praise it. That’s just human nature

Oh I dunno, you seemed to be having fun earlier in the thread also.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh I dunno, you seemed to be having fun earlier in the thread also.

Er, yes I did. What’s your point?

 

[ddraig]

Bob Vylan calling them, and IDLES out