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Keane weren't shit

untrue [Edit] [Delete] 63 replies 04:50 March 26th, 2012

Somewhere Only We Know is the worst song ever written but Bedshaped is genius. Cheers.

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haha nah they were

Mehodor | 26 Mar '12, 04:51 | X | ^ This | Reply

josh, Royter-Hatfood, dis-charge, still_here, Und_Gorgeous_Cars, andyvine, shinymcshine, and moker this'd this
- YOU'LL FOLLOW ME BACK WITH THE SUN IN YOUR EYYYYEEEES
  
  AND ON YOUR OWWWWWN, BEDSHAAAAAAPED AND LEGS OF STONE
  
  untrue @Mehodor | 26 Mar '12, 04:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWMfhy0NEvk

cherrycola | 26 Mar '12, 04:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
See it's obviously genius if an opera singer sings it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ii2waVLyTY

untrue | 26 Mar '12, 05:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
See: "Things people say that immediately make you dismiss their taste in music"

blisters | 26 Mar '12, 05:07 | X | ^ This | Reply

bornin69 this'd this
- ^
  
  I dismiss their taste as soon as they say Bedshaped is shit
  
  untrue @blisters | 26 Mar '12, 05:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  xilia this'd this
Remember keaneshapedgirl?

poor thing never stood a chance here.

oceanRain | 26 Mar '12, 06:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
- unless she was shaped like ROY Keane
  
  thesewoodenideas @oceanRain | 16 May '12, 21:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
The debut is pretty swell in general

FlintyFoxy | 26 Mar '12, 08:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
spiralling

is great

thewarn | 26 Mar '12, 09:09 | X | ^ This | Reply

spiritofjazz, thedrill, belated, InsomniacBoy, xilia, and shadyadie this'd this
really good, i like 'em

justanothersheeldz | 26 Mar '12, 09:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
we're in past tense here

are they no longer a going concern?

zxcvbnm- | 26 Mar '12, 10:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
untrue

shrinebabe | 26 Mar '12, 10:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
New album out this year

rock on!

OvertakenByTractors | 26 Mar '12, 11:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Cry over your piano in the corner on!
  
  InsomniacBoy @OvertakenByTractors | 26 Mar '12, 17:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
When they first came out

I found that what they did went so far against what everyone else was doing, it seemed positively brave. I even gave them a 10 on my (almost never updated) profile. As time went on, they started to really bore me - the nadir being the film they put out when they really weren't getting on. Should try and be more objective really - a lot of their early stuff was very decent and Spiralling's a tune as well.

Damian | 26 Mar '12, 11:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
I revisited some of their old songs I used to like about a year or two ago.

Was disappointed that they didn't interest me much anymore. :(

Icarus-Smicarus | 26 Mar '12, 11:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bedshaped is a boss song

If I went to a festival they were playing, I would 100% see them for that.

oojimaflop | 26 Mar '12, 12:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
Wasn't really a fan of their production/sound/approach

But think they're pretty excellent songwriters.

Sonically there was something very late 90s Britpop about them, but they would never have had success with that sound if they didn't have those songs.

They probably would have had even bigger success if they didn't give off these slight Tory-vibes. Didn't their singer confess to having an addiction... to port?

oenso | 26 Mar '12, 12:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I mean this
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVe_KVzBFOo&feature=related
  
  Is a strong song, but the production, performance and video is bad. Especially the singer's constant awkward hey-look-at-me-I'm-the-singer-man rushing around...
  
  oenso @oenso | 26 Mar '12, 12:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I just had a revisionist listen to a bunch of their stuff
    
    and apart from maybe 3 songs it isn't as strong as I remember.
    
    oenso @oenso | 26 Mar '12, 13:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
I had a nostalgic cry to 'somewhere only we know' when it came on the radio the other day

HATED it at the time, but hey ... realised mortality+hangover = revisionism.

MrBones | 26 Mar '12, 12:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- hangovers will do that
  
  i cried at forset gump during a hangover, it was quite cathartic lol
  
  revgreen @MrBones | 18 Apr '12, 00:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Strong tagging.

TheoGB | 26 Mar '12, 14:22 | X | ^ This | Reply

cherrycola this'd this
- tagging is my fav thing about the music boards
  
  gonad @TheoGB | 26 Mar '12, 14:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Icarus-Smicarus this'd this
i listened to bedshaped right before going to bed

and i woke up early with the chorus going around in my head, making it almost impossible for me to go back to sleep. then i'd wake up every 20 minutes and it'd still be there.

you're a cunt.

CrispinAlexander | 26 Mar '12, 14:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bedshaped is brilliant

But 'Somewhere Only We Know' is still their best song by a mile. 'We Might As Well Be Strangers' too. Not a bad debut.

automatik | 26 Mar '12, 14:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
Erm...

...yes they were, Morrissey said so.

MadameChaos | 26 Mar '12, 15:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Try watching the film 28 Weeks Later
  
  after realising that the main kid in it with the distractingly prominent Real Madrid top has exactly the same head as the singer from Keane.
  
  ThierryEnnui | 26 Mar '12, 17:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I think you'll find...
    
    ...that's a physical impossiblity.
    
    MadameChaos @ThierryEnnui | 27 Mar '12, 14:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Fuck off
  
  Zapsta | 26 Mar '12, 17:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Fuck off
    
    untrue @Zapsta | 26 Mar '12, 18:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Fuck off
      
      ithica @untrue | 26 Mar '12, 18:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Radiohead
        
        in_limbo @ithica | 26 Mar '12, 21:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Mehodor this'd this
- My balls are about to explode!!!
  
  DirtyBurger64 | 26 Mar '12, 18:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
- very nice pop band
  
  Crystal Ball
  This Is the Last Time
  The Lovers Are Losing
  Hamburg Song
  Is It Any Wonder?
  Everybody's Changing
  ...
  the new single isn't also bad.
  
  cronenberg | 26 Mar '12, 18:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Oh yeah, Crystal Ball is good
    
    or was good the last time I heard it several years ago.
    
    Icarus-Smicarus @cronenberg | 27 Mar '12, 00:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Bedshaped is alright in retrospect
  
  Though I'm proud that I once went to one of their gigs just to see Rufus Wainwright as support - then fucked off before Keane came on. Didnt they release some dreadful electropop single? On another note - who remembers Kubb?
  
  beautiful_balloon | 26 Mar '12, 20:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Keane are played at work a lot
  
  Didn't realise bedshaped was them. Quite like it, very, very different to their other singles which bore the absolute fucking arse off me. Just watched the video for it too, very good. Still. Keane are shite, yeah?
  
  yuggy | 26 Mar '12, 21:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  dis-charge this'd this
  - ^^^ mistake - they are total wank ^^^
    
    dis-charge @yuggy | 16 May '12, 21:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
- This is very true OP
  
  I actually quite like 'Spiralling' as well.
  
  in_limbo | 26 Mar '12, 21:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- If Thom Yorke was singing this everyone would bum it:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZOg3Ybe9M
  
  untrue | 27 Mar '12, 00:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Andy_Woodhouse this'd this
  - I think an even better example would be...
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bh6Bvtkh5Q
    
    olliewh @untrue | 27 Mar '12, 00:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I'm a sucker for most of their first two albums, can't really get into anything after that, except maybe for that single they did with K'naan, though it wasn't their best.
  
  HeygirlHey | 27 Mar '12, 01:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Agreed, they weren't shit
  
  They are and always have been shit, however.
  
  moker | 27 Mar '12, 15:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
- bedshaped is a tune
  
  Noblet | 27 Mar '12, 16:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yes.
    
    hal_krishna @Noblet | 17 Apr '12, 23:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- every time i read this thread title
  
  i think you're saying they are shit
  
  you know, like, bitches aint shit
  
  CrispinAlexander | 27 Mar '12, 16:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  watsona7 this'd this
  - me too.
    
    watsona7 @CrispinAlexander | 18 Apr '12, 00:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I just remembered they did Crystal Ball...
  
  and now I hate them all over again. I do enjoy that Bedshaped video though.
  
  yuggy | 27 Mar '12, 16:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Hey untrue:
  
  You can buy a pillowcase with the lyrics to "Bedshaped" printed on it!
  
  http://shop.keanemusic.com/index.php/special-offers/keane-pillowcase-set.html/
  
  cherrycola | 17 Apr '12, 23:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i like somewhere only we know
  
  Fuck off
  
  shrewbie | 17 Apr '12, 23:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  hal_krishna this'd this
- This Is The Last Time
  
  Is a colossal tune.
  
  aactv | 17 Apr '12, 23:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  xilia and partyheart this'd this
- bedshaped
  
  the hazy guitar at the end. I hate these wankers, why is this song so good? Why is everything else by them so revolting?
  
  yuggy | 18 Apr '12, 00:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Yeah... they were
  
  Plenty of far better bands have gotten away with much worse songwriting, but dull music and lifeless production have held them back.
  
  I used to hate them, but had a bit of a bet with some friends that Keane were the most likely band of that generation to do 'a Radiohead' or 'a Talk Talk', and snap from their major label unit-shifting pressures to record something challenging and exciting. Then throughout the recording of the third album they kept talking about this big 'experimental departure' in their sound and I was intrigued... but if Spiralling is the best they can do, we're better off without them.
  
  littlebirds | 18 Apr '12, 00:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I upgrade my list with these two (from the new record)
  
  Disconnected
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUHkPf9D9k
  Day Will Come
  
  cronenberg | 16 May '12, 17:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Bedshaped is a fantastic song
  
  like so incredibly beautiful but I couldn't give a flying poo about anything else
  
  Yesiamaduck | 16 May '12, 20:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
- in line for a second consecutive week at number one
  
  mrdaniels | 16 May '12, 21:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
- true.
  
  they are.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8q7oRP36yDs#t=39s
  
  TheComedian | 16 May '12, 21:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Was working in HMV when their first album came out...
  
  ...and had to listen to it 2-3 times a day for a year. I still don't hate Bedshaped, so it must be alright. Gwen Stefani would get a spork to the flange if I ever saw in person though.
  
  Joemanji84 | 16 May '12, 22:09 | X | ^ This | Reply