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My tip for 2010 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6902806.ece
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this Jod thing is getting really boring
is everyone being ironic?....is it a twitter thing?....does the super cool pop music site hipSoPOPaMuSt tweet about how so super fun this whole thing is and get every exicted and meta-frothing at the jingles of it all.
not for me.
*very
or possibly *everyone
this word mash thing is catching
they remind me of dan deacon
it's a large stretch and a different fish tank but they do.
Just fun loving Irish boys singing great tunes
i knew you'd be a fan ;-)
i want to kill myself
"Fleetwood Mac and Abba-sized? Or a more meaningful, still important 25 years on PiL and Kate Bush “big”?"
Are you trying to say Fleetwood Mac and Abba aren't meaningful? While Abba may have Mamma Mia totally boring everyone who isn't a menopausal woman, their songs are still some wonderful and beautiful pop compositions. It's a shame that Abba are often shat on - I see them on the same sort of level as, like, The Carpenters; Fleetwood too.
i have to say
it took being forced to watch mamma mia last christmas for me to realise how great abba are. tune after tune.
Fleetwood though, are fucking class and that should never be doubted.
it's hard to say very much in 500 broadstroke words
but am pretty sure more musicians relevant to 'our world' today are inspired more by PiL and Kate Bush than the other two who are two of the biggest bands of all time. The comparison was moreso that the new music polls are trying to find stuff of a more left of centre slant, rather than the biggest of the big.
I don't disagree that this point could have been put better but I think it makes most sense to the Times' audience.
p.s. fyi
i fucking love Rumours, one of my favourite albums of all-time.
can't believe they nearly went out last night
i shoulda included the voting hotline in the column
can't believe anyone on here
watches that program
it's been said time after time
but we're not all as cool, hip and cutting edge as you evidently still seem to think.
Nothing to do with being cool mate,
it's utter dogshit though. I physically can't watch it.
get sky+ then you can watch Strictly while taping X-factor
or watch it on iplayer
:D
I'm fucking supercool and hip and edgy but i watch it from time to time.
;)
How do you stop yourself
from putting your foot through the screen?
ps Can someone please explain what watching/not watching this has to be with being edgy/hip etc?
Its got nothing to do with edgy cool or whatever.
Its just braindead tv, sometimes you like to switch off and watch something that doesn't take much effort but still enough going on that you can develop deep hatred for talentless idiots and occasionally root for someone that ordinarily you never would.
I don't make a point of watching it sometime i like it.
yeah, the amount of rage generated in my heart by jamie afro's 'rock' posturing
is worth its weight in gold. his punching-the-air butchering of roy orbison this week was particularly hideous.
you have to take it on its own terms, and then it's brilliant, dumb entertainment. railing about the fact that its 'not real music' is just pointless. of course its not, but simon and louis at least are quite aware of that.
also its about a million times better than that t4 mobile phone indie thing
becasue x factor has no pretensions
...
It has the pretension that fosters the delusion that Louis Walsh, Danni Minogue and the other one are voting any way other than how Simon Cowell would want them to vote.
I don't see the point of sitting there mocking it,
I'd prefer to do something more positive.
What, like posting in an X Factor thread?
that's fair enough.
but i reckon i am enthusiastic about enough stuff to allow myself a couple of hours worth of piss-taking of a weekend.
And im always a sucker for those big, 'everyone's talking about it' cultural events. there's not much that unites late-capitalist british society, and if laughing at some spiky haired lads jumping about can do that for five minutes, then why not get involved.
i'm sorta with brightonb on this one,
not in a belligerent, self-righteous sense, but just in that it puzzles me how people who are passionate about music can watch a programme like that. that's all, not looking for a row, just pointing out that i kind of relate to what he's saying.
"not in a belligerent, self-righteous sense"
:D
that's me at my diplomatic best
Belligerent
is the only way to be when talking about X factor.
that depends on whether you think it has anything to do with music
i don't think it does really. Everyone who is passionate about music knows that prime time ITV is not the place to go to find it. It's just providing cheap, stupid entertainment and is quite funny.
that's a good point.
but to me, even if the music is a secondary thing, it's still horrific to listen to, and thus i can't enjoy anything else about the programme
exactamundo
it doesn't have anything do to with music, or the music taste of people who watch it. It's undeniably shit if you're watching it for the music, but i don't think most people do. They're in it for the lols, man.
x factor getting shown up for what it is
Shit
they should be locked in Da Bungalow, gunge'd and forgotten about
i can't believe people actually find them entertaining, they're shit. properly shit, can't sing, can't dance, and can't even do comedy numbers.
just awful.