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    Some of their songs were alright but that's about it. I just don't see what all the fuss is/was about them.

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    I always preferred Second Coming, though a lot of that could be because the debut sounds like it was recorded through a paper bag.

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    The start and end of the first album is great. The middle five songs make for a right chasm.

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    I enjoyed their debut. Its a shame latter-day Stone Roses isn't just Ian Brown's solo efforts with more guitars. Also, the Manics Street Preachers song for Wales Euro 2016 squad is kinda ... I dunno. Its like, shit and amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    The start and end of the first album is great. The middle five songs make for a right chasm.
    I agree with the exception of Bye Bye Badman, which I think is also great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Also, the Manics Street Preachers song for Wales Euro 2016 squad is kinda ... I dunno. Its like, shit and amazing.
    Listening now, this is fucking amazing. The bit in the middle where they go through the names, fuck me.

    Bill Drummond of the KLF said in his book that he nearly made the Scotland World Cup song in 1998, which I think would have been a laugh.

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    I heard the Roses new song yesterday and Lewis was spot on with the Quo/Madcheshter observation. So much so I wondered if I subconsciously heard it like that because I read the post the other day. Bizarre.

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    Anyone hear the father John Misty interview on Rad/Mac the other day? My face was contorting. Utterly embarrassing and cringeworthy.

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    No, what did he do?

    I saw him live last week, he was very good.

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    He was just being a monumental arsehole. The interview is on youtube iirc.

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    New Divine Comedy album announced plus tour later in the year. Leamington Assembly in October, here we come.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    New Divine Comedy album announced plus tour later in the year. Leamington Assembly in October, here we come.
    I'll almost certainly go as well. Wanna go smack afterwards ? X

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    I've been reading horror stories about the bouncers at that place in the student paper, throwing girls down stairs and all kinds of nonsense. Ah, to be young.

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    New song from upcoming Okkervil River album: http://pitchfork.com/news/65547-okke...er-rip-listen/

    http://www.stereogum.com/1877535/pre...bum-away/mp3s/

    That teaser has tones of a more upbeat Black Sheep Boy I reckon.

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    The new single from Field Music isn't half good. They've impressed me more every one.

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    This largely forgotten wussy 90s indie track has been stuck in my head all fucking week. Great tune.

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    Hamilton is something truly special.

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    Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes
    Korey Dane - Lovesick In A Hotel Wildfire
    Gang of Youths - Fear and Trembling
    Spanish Love Songs - It's Not Interesting
    Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life
    Craig Finn - Jester & June
    Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
    Brian Fallon - Little Nightmares
    PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will
    The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress

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    anyone got good Christmas stuff? I’ve been asked to put together a playlist and 90% of it is just Christmas In Harlem, that Sia Christmas album and the new Wllie Goulding single.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oimoi View Post
    Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes
    Korey Dane - Lovesick In A Hotel Wildfire
    Gang of Youths - Fear and Trembling
    Spanish Love Songs - It's Not Interesting
    Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life
    Craig Finn - Jester & June
    Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
    Brian Fallon - Little Nightmares
    PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will
    The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress
    You couldn't score in a tower block

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    Oimoi replying to a thread from 2016 with no fanfare is distinctly 2019.

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    This 'beef' between Stormzy and Wiley seems like something new on these shores. It can't be often that the biggest recording artist in the country has released a song about what a prick someone is for sending their mum away to safety rather than picking up a shotgun and protecting her himself.

    The song itself is really good though.

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    Wiley is approaching prime levels of cringe at the moment. He seems to do nothing but get drunk and rant on Twitter.

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    He’s a nut job. Friend of a friend was his manager for a bit. Seemed to get the job because Wiley was having a chimp out on the phone to his then manager and just sacked him and named the first person he saw as his replacement.

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    Stormzy calling him a fossil was so cuttingly accurate.
    I'm a twit

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    Wiley is unhinged, but he's got what he wanted. Whether you think he won or not, everybody is talking about the genre and his individual numbers have shot up shortly before he's due to drop an album. Stormzy's team have done well but it's easy to see through his manufactured bollocks.
    Last edited by Offshore Toon; 13-01-2020 at 07:53 PM.

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    I've become weirdly fixated with The Rolling Stones recently.

    Obviously I haven't made it as a music fan to my mid-thirties without being broadly aware of their more significant output, but they are one of those bands I never really properly delved into up until this point. I think part of it is Jagger and Richards being the larger-than-life almost caricatures of themselves that they are now, and them mostly existing as this money-making juggernaut of a touring machine for the majority of my lifetime, it somehow put me off properly exploring all their work.

    Anyway, that was a mistake. I've been working through a couple of albums at a time. I'm up to Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock & Roll, both of which are ace and seem to have suffered from a degree of "yeah, but it's not Exile is it...." critical prejudice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
    I've become weirdly fixated with The Rolling Stones recently.

    Obviously I haven't made it as a music fan to my mid-thirties without being broadly aware of their more significant output, but they are one of those bands I never really properly delved into up until this point. I think part of it is Jagger and Richards being the larger-than-life almost caricatures of themselves that they are now, and them mostly existing as this money-making juggernaut of a touring machine for the majority of my lifetime, it somehow put me off properly exploring all their work.

    Anyway, that was a mistake. I've been working through a couple of albums at a time. I'm up to Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock & Roll, both of which are ace and seem to have suffered from a degree of "yeah, but it's not Exile is it...." critical prejudice.
    It's funny doing full album listens with those bands that are as legendary as they are. You realise that you know a huge amount of their library without ever being aware that the song you heard in the background of some random tv show was a Stones B-side.

    I claim to this day that the only reason Example has a music career is this track:

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    Unrelated:

    Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    This 'beef' between Stormzy and Wiley seems like something new on these shores. It can't be often that the biggest recording artist in the country has released a song about what a prick someone is for sending their mum away to safety rather than picking up a shotgun and protecting her himself.

    The song itself is really good though.
    Just thinking about it, was it Wiley who had a go at Dizzee Rascal for running away after getting stabbed in Ayia Nappa?

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    There's a great verse on a Saint Etienne song from approx 2005:

    Gary can't believe the Claremont Road pitch is going to be covered in executive housing
    He talks about the Newcastle game, Boncho's debut
    But Tony can hardly hear him
    They took the jukebox out, and the Aussie bar staff are playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers
    He tells them what he thinks
    Manages to keep it clean
    Buys another round
    They knew.

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    I'm not sure how that even scans lyrically let alone understand the meaning.

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    It doesn't, it's spoken word. But I'm pretty sure back in those days mainstream opinion was RHCP were living legends. I think they went out with Obama if not earlier.

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    They read like something Mark E. Smith or Half Man Half Biscuit would write. I shall have to look that up now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    It's funny doing full album listens with those bands that are as legendary as they are. You realise that you know a huge amount of their library without ever being aware that the song you heard in the background of some random tv show was a Stones B-side.

    I claim to this day that the only reason Example has a music career is this track:
    Yeah, it's weird how prevalent they are in pop culture. It's almost more pervasive than the Beatles in a way, because they don't tend to license things very frequently.



    I previously had no idea this was a Rolling Stones song, for example. But I must have heard it on about ten separate occasions in relatively high profile adverts or TV shows over the course of my life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Unrelated:

    Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.
    I recall RHCP being a big thing when I was 13-18 ish, secondary school through college. Now I feel, despite them being a thing for the best part of four decades, they were relevant for about... six months. When BSSM came out. That album is still magnificent. Everything else is pretty much dross though, save Scar Tissue. That song still stacks up for me.

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    I've got heavily into Half Man Half Biscuit recently. Lovely stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Unrelated:

    Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.
    They're definitely still the most widely liked band of all time (at least in america) and they have the quality to back it up

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    Hmhb are fucking class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    They're definitely still the most widely liked band of all time (at least in america) and they have the quality to back it up
    You think so? I'd think Foo Fighters or like Dave Matthews or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    You think so? I'd think Foo Fighters or like Dave Matthews or something.
    I’m sure lots of people like Foo Fighters but most people know at least like 12 RHCP songs. Foo Fighters, maybe 2 or 3, and they’re not as good.

    I don’t know a thing about Dave Matthews, maybe it’s a generational thing

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    Dave Matthews is massive over there, isn't he? I always forget about him. It's one of those things that never really seemed to make it across the pond. I'm not sure I could name a Dave Matthews song. Sort of like Phish. Aren't they quite a big deal too?

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    Dave Matthews Band has really weird cult like fans just like Phish so ya kinda.

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    The RHCP stopped being good when they stopped the funk and went middle of the road radio. Don’t know what they’re at now.

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    There was a time when I thought Californication was a good album but I can't be arsed with it now.

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    I, like most people, still love most of the music I did when I first properly got into music (around 12-13ish), with two major exceptions - RHCP, and The Libertines. I find something quite embarrassing about them now.

    Not entirely sure what it is though, and it's probably pretentious and stupid to try to work backwards and figure out why I think they're crap, but I think part of it is how I definitely fell for the illusion of albums like Californication and By the Way being PROPER SERIOUS MUSIC then at some point the scales fell from my eyes and I thought oh actually this is a load of wank. If I'd never loved them so much I'd probably be a lot more indifferent towards them.

    I do think Higher Ground is a proper banger in fairness though.

    Oh, and on the topic of songs I love by bands I hate:



    just me?

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    Everlong is their best song.

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    I’ll still get a bit drunk and bang on Papa Roach so I have no high ground.

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