Bands who are quite good or simply 'alright'
Which bands do you think are quite good or simply 'alright'? Not bands you love, not bands you hate and not even bands you're even that fussed about. Just bands you're reasonably content to hear on the radio but not that worried whether you do or not.
I'd like to venture Supergrass, Klaxons and the Bluetones.
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The Kooks
Good call.
I probably find the Fratellis fit in this category too although I know many people hate them.
Yeah, i hate The Fratellis with a vengeance!
The second i hear their 'music' i just think 'Cockney-knees-up' and have images of inbred meatheads in england shirts ventalating peoples wind-pipes with broken beer glasses go waltzing through my mind.
But as for your question, er, cant think of anyone at the moment.
The Fratellis
are shit though.
I find travis totally meh.
I think the Bluetones are ACES
They are in my top 5.
Athlete
i can't understand how any one could hate them. i also can't understand how anyone one could love them.
The Zutons
*yawn*
Arctic Monkeys
I simply can't fathom their overwhelming success
The Killers
they're alright. Nothing mindblowing though.
Bloc Party
It's probably the inconsistency of the material that strips them of being anything other than 'alright' overall.
i would argue the opposite about bloc party
after seeing them by accident at reading this year they absolutely blew me away (far more than the arcade fire did to be honest...) i think that they are by far the most ambitious of this current crop of british guitar bands. and am truly interested as to where they are going? i just hope its more the prayer than is still remember...you get the sense that they havent even scratched the surface. likewise the klaxons, im curious as to where they are going? am i the onyl on the that thinks atlantis is thebest thing they have ever done?
^ you could not be any more correct^
i add the long blondes to this list.
i like the long blondes
Snow Patrol
alright.
^
i hate snow patrol
snow patrol make me angry
due to their dullness
but bands that are meh
are fucking annoying. really bland shit that shouldnt have a place on this earth. stuff that you dont mind hearing on the radio either ends up being something that you like and what to hear on purpose or not like. I heard the artic monkeys on t'radion all the time, really liked it, bought the album and have only listened to it once. do or dont, no trying (as a wise old man once said)
I don't have any bands in this category.
They get rounded down to shit.
this pretty much
^ this
If I begin to go off a band I generally just end up branding them as shit.
Jimmy Eat World
for me. Sorry to the fans on here.
I really hate hearing Snow Patrol and the Killers.
yeah JEW are alright
some decent tunes
But things like the Kooks and Snow Patrol
stop being "alright" because they are incomprehensibly popular and are constantly drooling their midtempo platitudes into your ear via every form of audible media.
When I think of alright bands I think of indie makeweights like Idlewild, Sleeper, The Concretes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Fields, Goodbooks, The Dears and the Spinto Band. Bands that get exactly the amount of attention they deserve.
BRMC is the dullest
band I've heard.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that front
as I've just heard Editors' most recent single.
Supergrass is so, so wrong
I'd like to venture.
The Pixies.
I've just never ever got why so many people rave about them.
Because they're absolutely amazing?
every band the DiS boards rave about
apart from the ones which are shit
If bands that are not currently
on radio are included. What I can think of instantly is Mineral. I thought iLiKETRAiNES was good at first. Now I just think they are boring.
Most of them
.
Sorry, but Queens of the Stone Age bar about 5 songs.
loads of twee bands
i swear I've died of boredom at strange fruit shows when the lucksmiths or airport girl are one, but there's nothing to actually hate about them, ditto lightspeed champion who are the most average C minus for effort band ever. And Stereolab, sorry...
I mean not everyone has to be G G Allin and break stuff and OD onstage but, come on people....
The Thrills
Big Sur's quite nice isn't it?
Yeah.
And the Delays
They were 'alright'. I had 'Long Time Coming' stuck in my head earlier and it made me think of this thread.
Add to the list
Dirty Pretty Things
Kaiser Chiefs (I know many people hate them)
We Are Scientists
Nine Black Alps
Let's face it
The Sleepy Jackson can probably go on here too.
Lovers is a great album!
Is that the first or the second?
I've got the first. It's a got a couple of great songs but I'm not passionate about it.
I really like the one that starts "I've been drinking and I've been thinking of you..." though.