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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 17:07 Post subject: |
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Wonderful job off putting me off there, Tommy
i now want to listen to something noisy, aggressive and full of emotion!
x
edit: their?!?! _________________ "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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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 17:09 Post subject: |
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"If you’re too young to remember The Boo Radleys, they were a bit like The Bluetones. "
Some people shouldn't be allowed to 'blog'. _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 17:14 Post subject: |
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pfff, those are the only reviews I could find and I think they're all quite positive.
buy it. before it's too late.
or something.
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius"
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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CiaranMac
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sligeach
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:32 Post subject: |
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Bev wrote: |
"If you’re too young to remember The Boo Radleys, they were a bit like The Bluetones. "
Some people shouldn't be allowed to 'blog'. |
That's fucked on so many levels, not least because the blue-tones are hardly some sort of contemporary yard-stick, correct me if I'm wrong but they have done little since the mid-nineties? But sure blogs is blogs and anything and everything gets written on 'em _________________ www.myspace.com/storkboychoons
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 15:44 Post subject: |
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two great but underrated English guitar-pop bands who had their commercial peak in the mid-1990s... I don't see what the problem is
acts similar to The Boo Radleys, according to Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Boo+Radleys/+similar
The Bluetones were never what you'd ever call challenging, of course
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mrfiresky
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: surrey
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 09:19 Post subject: |
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That blokes a fucking knobhead. What a wanker. A bit like the fucking Bluetones??
Now I don't mind The Bluetones in a vaguely diverting jangly sort of way but you may as well say Iron Maiden are a bit like Cliff Richard such is the difference.
Shit like this my blood boil. _________________ we spent a lot of time trying to make our guitars sound like trumpets...then someone told us we could actually use real trumpets |
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mrfiresky
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: surrey
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 09:20 Post subject: |
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Incidentally I agree with most of the reviews of Balance.
In a nutshell: nice tunes needs more edge. _________________ we spent a lot of time trying to make our guitars sound like trumpets...then someone told us we could actually use real trumpets |
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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: Wed Nov 14, 2007 18:16 Post subject: |
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CiaranMac wrote: |
correct me if I'm wrong but they have done little since the mid-nineties? |
I have to stick up for the Bluetones! They have had some great albums and songs since then! 'Luxembourg' for example - great album, and 'Science and Nature', their best album I think (from 2002?)
That is all! _________________ http://www.facebook.com/thelostcavalry
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 20:33 Post subject: |
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If you're too young to remember The Boo Radleys, they were a bit like The Bluetones. Who you won't remember either. Basically you're looking at Britpop without the unique selling point that made other bands such as Blur so huge. The tunes are upbeat, melodic and above all "nice". |
I think you're all taking the "a bit like The Bluetones" part out of context. I think it's more to do with him trying to make the point that both bands released singles of a 'feelgood' nature, but didn't have anything gimmicky about them that the tabloids/NME (et al) could latch onto to use as a selling point.
why is everyone talking about The Bluetones, anyway? I thought this was a thread for the new Paperlung album
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mrfiresky
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: surrey
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 06:38 Post subject: |
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Ok. The Paperlung album is too balanced. _________________ we spent a lot of time trying to make our guitars sound like trumpets...then someone told us we could actually use real trumpets |
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Hew
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 529 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 08:11 Post subject: |
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i think just like the paperlung album that the bluetones are pretty good. nuff said. _________________ Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army |
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SnowMan
Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Kent
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:18 Post subject: |
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Paperlung... Load of old rubbish if you ask me |
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