Klaxon 5: from the charts, to your hearts
Klaxons look set for Sunday
I love Klaxons. I love them more than I probably should, and have spent the last five days listening to little else. Good news arrived at DiS today in the form of early indications that point towards new single 'Golden Skans' climbing into the top ten this week, on downloads alone. The band achieved number 16 on Sunday based on iTunes downloads alone.
Looking to join the band in the top flight are The View, Jamie T (awesome, times two) and the world's worst person, Mika.
Perhaps more interesting, though, are reports that following a particularly rousing rendition on Mika's favourite programme Celebrity Big Brother, 'I Want You Back' by The Jackson 5 is climbing rapidly.
In what looks set to be the first older catalogue track (it was released in 1969, reaching number two in the UK and the top spot in the US) to truly benefit from TV exposure, if reports are true, this could be where the face of the chart is truly altered forever and the songs played on Radio 1 on a Sunday are more about people's tastes, a nation's mood swings, and the adverts they're watching (iTunes reports a growth in sales of The Gossip's 'Standing in the Way of Control' this week, too; the song features on a Channel 4 advert for new show Skins).
Interesting times for sure, but also depressing for anyone, like me, who would rather cry tears filled with acid than listen to Mika.
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The View
Hmm
I can't see how Mika is much worse than Jamie T to be honest.
Mika - this year's Anthony and the Wankstains.
Jamie T - this year's 'breakthrough' cockney crap that gets one top 40 hit then fucks off.
The Gossip's album version of Standing In The Way Of Control is crap. Its slow and lasts for about 10 minutes.
The Unbearable Brilliance of Klaxons
Klaxons are a far more important band than The View or Jamie T can ever hope to be. Based on the incredible strength and consistency of their singles so far (the best run of classic pop songs since The Beatles), "Myths of the Near Future" is shaping up to be the "pet Sounds" of its generation.
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is this post for real?
Mika was absolutely WELL GOOD on Jools Holland.
Just him and his piano.
But I heard the recorded version and it had a band behind it. I think live, it looked like a really entertaining show to watch.
On record though, I don't think it'll work.
As for the wankstains comparison, he's better than them. They only got famous because 'Anthony' had about nine cocks or something.
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How do you know
they will be gone in 2 years?
Do you have some kind of machine, perhaps powered by hamsters?
Well...
Obviously comparing anything to such holy sacred cows as the Beatles and the Beach Boys is fairly provocative (consider it a converstaion stater than an informed critical response), but I think it has some essence to it - the Beatles, especially towards the beginning of their career (where Klaxons currently are), created accessible, brilliant, life-affirming, but essentially disposable pop songs, in just the same way that Klaxons do. It's all a matter of perspective. "Penny Lane" is either a feelgood little ditty with no real substance, or an incisive piece of man-in-the-street poetic songwriting, depending on your own opinion or the opinion of whoever you choose to listen to. I can imagine Klaxons producing a record that would be listened to in thirty years time. But obviously, only time will tell. If "Myths of the Near Future" is a disappointing pile of crap, I'll be the first disillusioned sucker to admit it. But why not have a little faith in contemporary music? I'd rather do that than be the cynical malcontent who refuses to like anything.
Hang on
Did somebody just call The View 'awesome'?
JT
"He writes songs which are relevant to our times with a lot more gusto than most"
and then goes and ruins it all by singing them as well.
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