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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 09:09 Post subject: I got the Arctic Monkeys album and...... |
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It's really not "all that" you know.
Some "better than" Babyshambles garage-pop tunes with lyrics mentioning getting kicked in by cops and living near Hillsborough. Pulp and Supergrass did this kind of thing a million times better 10 years ago, and I'm sure others were too 30-40 years ago.
xxx _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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John M Guest
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:30 Post subject: |
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I reckon that if I was 10 years younger the Arctic Monkeys would sound like a cross between Oasis and The Streets and I'd devote my life to them. But I'm not so I'm sticking with my Madonna album for now, give me big multicolour disco tunes over angst ridden teens anyday.
Have you heard the Babyshambles album? It’s a rotten old thing, Slurred vocals and songs with no tunes may have a certain charm for a couple of singles but you need more than that over the course of 16 "songs". No wonder everyone in the studio had to use class A drugs to listen to it all the way through.
The new Streets album "Hardest Way To An Easy Life" (or something like that) is out in a couple of months, that excites as much as a Xabi Alonso goal from 900 yards. Please god don't let it be rubbish. |
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paulwhite
Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 396 Location: south england
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 16:57 Post subject: |
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i like the babyshambles album. you gotta listen hard for the tunes, but they are there. it is too long though.
arctic monkeys i was disappointed by. i prefered the demo versions to most of the songs especially 'riot van'. I'm still looking forward to seeing them though..
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stegger
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 44 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 18:16 Post subject: |
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Not even the best band in Sheffield. Not by a mile. _________________ never ever bloody anything ever |
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:22 Post subject: |
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and it's got 10/10 in the NME....
Oh the boring predictablility of it all _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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John M Guest
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:54 Post subject: |
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He does write good lyrics and I'll definitely buy the album, if only to prove that I'm still down with The Kids. You know how writes really great lyrics? Stephen Malkmus, that’s who. Also whoever wrote "Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson deserves a Grammy for the line "I'm so moving on" which fantastic.
I'm bored with temping now does anyone wanna give me a permanent job? I'm really good, honestly. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:08 Post subject: dRd sez |
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I haven't heard and have no intention of hearing the Arctic Monkeys album, or the Babyshambles album, or the Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Coldplay, Kasabian, Libertines, Razorlight, Bright Eyes, White Stripes, Keane, The Killers, The Bravery, The Streets or Bloc Party albums. Flavour of the month acts are almost always shite |
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:29 Post subject: dRd adds |
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oh, add in poxy Franz Ferdinand to that list (in case anyone thinks I like them) |
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John Mc
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:45 Post subject: Re: dRd sez |
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Anonymous wrote: |
I haven't heard and have no intention of hearing the Arctic Monkeys album, or the Babyshambles album, or the Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Coldplay, Kasabian, Libertines, Razorlight, Bright Eyes, White Stripes, Keane, The Killers, The Bravery, The Streets or Bloc Party albums. Flavour of the month acts are almost always shite |
Have you heard stuff by all those acts and decided you don't like them or are you not interested in them because of the hype around them? I'll listen to any old rubbish, even crap albums generally have one decent track on. |
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Dave w.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 20:45 Post subject: |
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hype's usually a bad sign of how good an album is, but the bright eyes albums from last year are both really good. i hadn't realised they'd been hyped that much. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 02:54 Post subject: dRd responds |
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John Mc wrote: |
Anonymous wrote: |
I haven't heard and have no intention of hearing the Arctic Monkeys album, or the Babyshambles album, or the Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Coldplay, Kasabian, Libertines, Razorlight, Bright Eyes, White Stripes, Keane, The Killers, The Bravery, The Streets or Bloc Party albums. Flavour of the month acts are almost always shite |
Have you heard stuff by all those acts and decided you don't like them or are you not interested in them because of the hype around them? I'll listen to any old rubbish, even crap albums generally have one decent track on. |
Yes, I've heard stuff by all of them; had to endure a good number of them at a festival last summer, too...
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 09:14 Post subject: |
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after 3-4 listens I'm really warming to the album now. It's still nothing like what the hype would have you believe it is, but it's got some good tunes, and the lyrics do raise it to that extra level. I don't think I'd have bothered with it by now if it hadn't been for those.
"Oh you saved me", she screams down the line, "the band we're fucking wank and I'm not having a nice time".
xxx _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 09:48 Post subject: |
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John is right though.... I reckon the 18 year old version of me would think a Revolution had just happened.... _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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mixedcasesspaces
Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 574 Location: In the bin, wriggling around with the apple cores
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:55 Post subject: |
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I think the 18 years olds do see that a revoution has happened - it's great, the band scene (in London at least, can't speak for elsewhere as I rarely leave London now) is full of energy and excitement at the moment.
Obviously there's a load of crap (or more likely, average) bands for every good one, but there's a lot of good ones too.
It's all very un-pretencious and about having fun again and songs you can dance around to, of course it's not very original mostly, but it's definitely a new movement and era in music in the same way as the 90's Indie scene was, and all those bands you mention DiscoRd are just the ones at the NME-have-chosen-to-like-them end of things.
Mark. x _________________ http://www.facebook.com/thelostcavalry
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stegger
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 44 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 13:44 Post subject: |
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mixedcasesspaces wrote: |
it's great, the band scene (in London at least, can't speak for elsewhere as I rarely leave London now) is full of energy and excitement at the moment. |
There does seem to be some renewed vigour on the Sheffield 'circuit' as well, which is probably a direct consequence. So fair play, I suppose. _________________ never ever bloody anything ever |
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