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Mock Party: indie giants 'pretentious' says Calvin Harris

Disco man Calvin Harris has laid into Bloc Party for being too pretentious.

Speaking to The Big Issue in Scotland, the magazine's spiritual home, the man who got the idea for his name from me had this to say:

"A lot of these people think they're changing the world with their music, but actually they're just boring the shit out of everyone.

"Like Bloc Party - they are rubbish. They make very tedious music. What kind of person is going to make all this music and not make one single tune? What's the point?"

Not one single tune? Is that why I've had 'The Prayer' stuck in my head for the last three months? What about 'Banquet' or 'So Here We Are'? Surely tuneful. Surely?

Time to pick your side, DiSsers.

Calvin who?

?

this ^

I have to say he is talking shit

Bloc Party have more tunes than he does

this ^

this is not news.

I have to respect a man

who'll bury himself alive in oranges.

But he's wrong.

Man alive!

The new Bloc Party single is rubbish!

It works better

in the context of the album.

I like the song, but no so much as a single.

total horse

Bloc Party have started speaking to me in amazing musical ways.

weren't bloc party all born in the Eighties?

finally, Harris reveals his true colours.

good work Marwood

good work.

I Give Up

On thinking musicians have brains that function on levels other than their own music.

Every single bloody famous or non famous musician ends up mouthing off about someone or a band or a DJ or something. Its boring, unless its lily allen, then its ace

I've never

heard of him.

Bloc Party are shit but so is this Calvin Harris character

his acceptable in the 80s song is fucking shite, and he'll probably be a one-hit wonder and disappear back to the incest-fuelled cesspit he came from in the first place, go fuck your sister weasal boy!

he did that

acceptable in the 80's song, but he's better than that.

think i posted a review on DIS under the artist name, it was a tat review.

acceptable in the 80s?

I hate this song.
its trying to conjure up a feeling of retroness, much in with the fashion at the moment i.e sell more singles.

The new bloc party lyrics are a bit shit at times, but at least theyre honest and not contrived bollocks.

this ^ once more

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If he think Bloc Party are tuneless...

I assume he's never actually listened to a single Bloc Party track.
Most Bloc Party songs are more tuneful than anything this attention seeking dullard will ever do. I've not heard a 'dance' record with a tune in a very long time.

Does anyone else think of Citroen

adverts when they hear that godawful 'Acceptable in the Eighties' pap? Fuck him, Bloc Party have tonnes of tunes.

Silly article.

'Not one single tune? Surely tuneful.'

If he doesn't think so, surely not.

But yeah. Boring and crap live.

New artist in "Established artist is rubbish!"

shocker! New artist denies that he's just trying to make a name for himself!

laughable

I find the fact that he has a go at one of our best bands, but is friends with a pop star who rarely writes her own material to be the most hypocritical thing he could have done.

He's got

love for them.

ACCEPTABLE...'s got nice sounding vibes but the song in itself is poor - still, BP's new stuff is no better

forget rock and roll

bloc and soul is the only way to go. how dare this gay-face even dare think that he has any right to slag of the best band in the whole of the civilized world. he's got one song. bloc party have streams of audible sex. they speak to people like no one else can. he has a crush on kylie. didnt we all (when we were 13).

his single may be rubbish....

but he's right, bloc party are dogshit.

quite enjoyed the 1st album but the latest batch of songs are very poor.

anyone who describes them as the best band in the whole of the civilized world is either deaf or very easily satisfied.

sorry CH

sorry to my session mates in the band but come on! CH is the poor mans LCD Soundsystem, I'd rather try and push some musical boundries than chew up and spit out something that someone else has done better before you, then have the cheek to bask in the glory of it with a comment like that!
Rico makes far better music, they should have stayed there.

uhhhhh....

uhhhhhh...

what?

don't know...

where to begin...

bloc and soul???

no

^what Fullerov said^

it works really really well on the album, but doesn't hold its own too well as a single.

It SO should have been 'Hunting For Witches' - surely that's next?

I heard

he invented disco.

he may be a wab

but even wabs are right sometimes

THE NEW BLOC PARTY VIDEO

is embarrassing

dogshit might be a bit strong

but other than that i agree with what you're saying. Silent Alarm was a very good debut, especially considering they left, in my opinion, three of their best songs off the album ('Little Thoughts', 'Tulips' and 'Skeleton'). A Weekend in the City, on the other hand, is contrived, doe-eyed pap.

Still, compared to Calvin Harris they're musical masterminds.

who cares

different people like different things. why so aggressive??

Am I getting old...?

Who the fuck is this twat?

I think

he's got a good point here,even though as people have said, his song is nothing more than a clever novelty pop rip-off of LCD Soundsystem and Beck.

Bloc Party's first album was great, but this one is far too worthy, wordy, and London-centric from what I've heard (I had to turn it off cos the lyrics were so clunky)

Having said that

he's obviously never listened to the first album if he thinks they haven't written any tunes..

Nice one Calvin

Now we've heard of you and publicity for The Big Issue can only be a good thing.

Though this particular issue, by the way, is not big...

He is!

the resident presenter of Freshly Squeezed, i think

what else does he do?

I'm not the hugest Bloc Party fan..

But it always riles the shit out of me when bands suddenly lay into other bands just to sell some more of their own singles. It's a desperate shallow thing to do.

.

I wish for world peace! Cant stand musicians who take digs at other musicians. Fucking pointless.

balls

both their albums are shit

damn right

who is this guy? he's no one. Bloc party are an amazing band with thousands of albums sold, sold out gigs etc etc!
why do people have to be so afraid of bands who ask their fans to THINK?

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Weary eyed and forlorn, the northern line is the loudest
Sitting in silence in bars after work
I've got nothing to add nothing to contest
Can I still kick a ball 100 yards?
Now we cling to bottles and memories of the past

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I wouldn't praise a child for writing this pish. What a fucking garbage band. Don't give a fuck about this Harris guy but this is an unbelievably dull fucking band.

I like Bloc Party

Hunting for Witches is brilliant. I normally hate bands that get critical acclaim, so they must be good;)

calvin

calvin harris is a great guy....nah only kidding, total helmet.

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