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Rarely would you listen to a record with such a combination of references all packed into one tasty biscuit.'

good stuff.

are good reviews not allowed, if you don't like the music just say.

...get so entertainingly roundly slapped down is not because this is a site full of nasty music snobs. It is because we have a community here where people take recommendations seriously and it is a great place for reliably being turned on to new and interesting bands.

Shite like this will not wash here... at all.

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I've been sorely disappointed.

I was playing cards with some people recently & the music in the background was, um, everyman-centric. Current pop, eighties, stuff you'd hear at a sports bar. They'd hear something & start reminiscing about THE MOVIE it was featured in. After awhile I swear to God, I'd mention some song & they'd say "what movie was it in?" - and one of these people is a musician! Nowadays people get their music from whatever's licensed in films, or whatever they hear on TV. It makes me ill. X-Factor, Idol, adverts - miserable.

...guys, girls you are entitled to your opinion of course. The quotes you see are pulled from genuine reviews whether paid for or not, fact is, to get noticed a band has to find some way of marketing themselves. It's all part of the game and ultimately The Manic Shine enjoy themselves enough playing on any stage that whatever may happen in terms of success (or lack thereof) is irrelevant, though not discounted. Check out the music, if you like it great, if you don't great! Your comments are appreciated no matter how lewd, rude, positive, or controversial. Next gig Scala, London, 30th September.

is all well & good, but slightly undermined when you dress up like a homeless Village People tribute band.

But seriously, I've been hearing this tired old argument ever since I first got interested in music in the late 70s (I'm 43 now) - someone, usually some tedious old (or young) fart who thinks music began & ended with The Beatles, claims that modern music is shite, disco sucks, rap is crap, what DO they look like etc., and on further questioning you find that they only listen to Radio 1 or 2 & haven't heard of any of the good new stuff that's out there, and thus they assume that everything is shite. Rather like DLT's ridiculous claim in the late 80s that there were thousands of talented songwriters out there having to live in bunkers because they weren't getting record deals, then sticking on a fucking Huey Lewis record or something.

I'm probably of the age where I should be getting out the pipe & slippers & retiring to my boudoir with my old Smiths & Cure albums, but fuck it, there's still shitloads of good stuff out there if you make an effort to find it, and with the interwebs finding it is easier than ever. In fact there's now so much good stuff out there I simply don't have time to hear it all, what with having a business to run, a 4-yr old to look after an and ex-wife to avoid.

People who believe in a golden age of music which hasn't been improved upon since are merely projecting their own personal golden age onto it. That's why for so many baby boomers, the Beatles & the Stones are the be-all & end-all, because it was the 60s, and they were doing loads of drugs & having lots of guilt & disease-free sex. For me, 1987-89 is the golden age of music as most of my favourite albums come from this period, but I'm under no illusion as to why that is - it's because I was having the time of my fucking life at university & so anything from that era evokes that wonderful time in my life. To claim that no decent music had been made since then would be subjective in the extreme.

There has been good music ever since cavemen started banging rocks together, and there always will be, end of story.