Found: "the worst band in the world ever!!!"
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It's often said that you can find anything on the internet - and now a DrownedinSound.com reader has claimed to have found the "worst band in the world ever!!!".
Who are they? Click. London and the South East's My Passion have claimed the dubious accolade.
DiS user 'stabby3' - real name Tom Stabb - 'found' the band. He comments simply: "the music, the clothes, the hair!"
The band - who describe themselves as 'D.I.S.C.O PUNKS...' - have a heavy touring schedule mapped out ahead of them. They are signed to Style.Suicide.Records and their top four is made up of Sacha Sweet, Graceface :], helena lawl :] and Polo ? |My Heart Is Yours| [W.L.A.H].
Is this news? Have a decent weekend.
This is news?!
Who the fuck is Stabby?
Damn
I missed the last sentence there on the initial read. Egg on my face fo'sho.
Best Frday Pisstake Article.
..ever?
Drowned in Sound = Best Music website ever
Is that news? I think it should be
Cor blimey
They are pretty damn risible aren't they.
sometimes i forget how big an arsehole Dis Can be ..
i mean taking the mick out of them just because you dont like t......
Actually sod it..
God i love you DIS....
Your like the cooler older brother i never had..
if it wasnt incestuous id ask to marry you..serious..
This
is
news.
No. This is not the worst band ever.
That tune is at least slightly lively and likeable.
This is the worst band ever.
lol
read the last bit of the first comment:
nah
Their fail is still dwarfed by that of Razorlit
This is all part of a Warner viral marketing ploy
I'm sure of it. We're watching you, Stabb ;)
Les Naasts
are much worse...
as are
Enter Shitkari
:D
this article is good on so many levels..
bf
Poor qual...it's a little harsh to single these guys out for abuse
Isn't this cyber bullying?
bf
plus this sounds exactly like a load of bands people on here love...
go listen...
http://www.myspace.com/lesnaast
http://www.myspace.com/lesbrats
You'll love Enter Shitkari after...
names
please...
Harsh!
There are plenty worse bands.
Can you make a news story about me getting a job please?
it's music related: i'm going to be the best songwriter ever in the future
I've just seen 'cyber bullying'
on the tv, but I agree. Poor show. But that's the way the news section here is. Maybe they'll let DiS do ATP when they stop doing stuff like this.
Haha...
"Since this went up Shard have contacted me to let me know they are in fact a 4 boy/1 girl combo. Well, I did mention the boys wore a lot of makeup....."
.
It's the "like the English Blood Brothers" review that makes me hate them.
I find this article way too funny!
I'm easily pleased :)
bf
hehe...I'm not sure I know. Like a slightly worse produced test icicles maybe? I don't listen to that shit
Shame On You All
For giving me links to click on. You knew I'd do it and hate myself for it. I suppose worse bands exist, but...
It sounds like King Adora discovering The Gossip.
Terrible = yes.
THE worst = nowhere near.
YES!
their album will be better than brett andersons though.
oh, and their touring partner is actualy MUCH worse
hahahahaha!!
Cyber bullying? who gives a swimming fuck, this band are fucking TERRIBLE and I love DiS all the more for this news story! :D
and how ironic in a ten thousand spoons way
the worlds worst band reviewed by the worlds worst reviewer:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/10589
they arent that bad
one song is even 'alrite'
Sounds
Like: The Faint + Test Icicles + Bad Drum Beats
And
Panic! at the disco type pictures and clothes (which is not a good thing)
Don't say anything bad
about King Adora !
First album is great!
The second one is a different story, however...
Great!
DiS has just blown any moral high ground that it might have had against allegations that it is run by elitist, self-worshipping twats.
If I were connected to this band I'd regard this article as a badge of honour.
it's a post modern metajoke at the expense of DiS's readership
read between the lines ferchrissakes
I didn't see your name
on that review Dowling.
hahaha
brilliant.
yes.
er, otherwise i wouldn't have posted it...
"My bands better than your band" etc
.......this is the the is a tad odd.
DiS love incestuous
This isn't news, outside of the forum what does stabby mean?
The Video
Sounds like Elastica pretty much, but with a stabb at My Chemical Romance at the (slightly superflous) outtro section. For a band so conscious of their image and following in the long line of Johnny Thunders worshippers was a bit surprised to see them all wearing their guitars really high up like session players. I guess it's a bit too reliant on style over songwriting, but it makes me chuckle how the jeans-and-t-shirt wearing visually monotonous masses always get so perturbed by bands who try to DO something with the way they look. This is really little different from many bands on these pages...competetent and tight, delivered with plenty of attitude, but beneath the musical clothes doth not lie the foundations of a hit single.
Wow
Thanks for that.
i'm famous
this isn't news.
Ryan-y Giggsy-wiggsy. Isn't it? You know, marvellous.
Is George Best the old Ryan Giggs? But Giggsy-wiggsy. Precocious talent, isn't he? Mmm? Ooh, got it all, you know? Speed, acceleration, sweet left foot, all the tricks - the dummy, the drop of the shoulder, the shimmy, nutmeg, jiggery-pokery, hocus pocus, abracadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya. Steve Miller Band? Spin Doctors? Ooh, very similar.
I was just expressing surprise
absolutely not doubting you...
Yes !
A reviewer fight !
^I can't believe people can't see this!
They're taking the piss out of stabby and the rest of us declaring any band 'the worst ever'.
Chillax kids.
:)
No newcastle date i see
even the shit bands dont want to play here
indeed
it will happen 2moro. haha.
I have an idea :
you both post a review of the same album and the DiS readers vote for the worst reviewer :!
i'm pretty sure
there are worse bands than this in just about every town.
What's the name
Of Brainlove's band? The one with twelve second long songs about fish fingers?
exactly.
to be fair. they are the worst band ever.
To be fair,
anyone who doesent read the boards(i.e non-nerds) will NOT get this.
But still, theyre shit, so... yeah.
I knew you would like that idea !
The album you have to review is :
http://drownedinsound.com/release/view/7014
Well done
You've succeeded in giving the band more publicity than they could ever hope for.
Shard
were alright ish, nice fellas too. My Pleasure aren't as good, but by no means the worst band around.
Cyber bullying is wrong!
but this is OK.
here goes:
"theres nowt on it as good as the song that sounds like richard iiird by supergrass for about eleven seconds. vive le fete!"
a full informative review
is needed !
At least 300 words !
That's their other
album you numpty
I have had
the misfortune of seeing this band play as I was doing merch for pink grease. It is pretty telling when the band spends 20 mins doing a soundcheck and 2 hours on hair and make up.
because I like it !
It's stupidly fun !
i thought that song
was the standalone ep?
be rate. im definately catching my passion at rock city
oops
yeah haha
hmm
he has m83 mew and nappy3rd as favourite bands, and emboldened which i think means more of a favourite.
4-2
to the Tiger Outt!!!
I quite like them!
The people dancing in the video are good.
haha.
he has a wicked blog. I love when emo kids blog about how messed up their little lives are. 'no-one talked to me today'. legendary.
The DiS downward spiral continues!
Bring back Crablin!
And stick to bigging up Hard-Fi - I'm getting confused by all 'shit' bands DiS is so keen to promote... The real irony is the fact that DiS ignores a hell of a lot of decent new bands and prefers to constantly bang on about 'shit' ones! I'm convinced this is symptomatic of the DiS journey into the cash-lined bowels of the 'corporate machine'...
It's my conspiracy theory.
Haven't you heard? :D
Well, we don't, do we...
...if anything DiS is supporting 'decent new bands' at a level far higher than any peers. Plan B can only designate so much space; we're unlimited in said capacity. Artrocker is cack; we're not so. Et cetera.
A story like this, penned late on a Friday, is intended to close the gap between user-generated content and editorially controlled content; it blurs the lines and holds a mirror up to the lifeblood of the site. It is, most importantly, Just A Bit Of Fun.
Perceive it however you will, it's not a biggie. There's no 'irony', nor are we journeying towards any 'corporate machine' (heaven knows I wish we were - that way we could get a higher budget for tea-making facilities). There is no downward spiral - DiS is better than ever. If your personal opinion is entirely opposite to that, well, I'd proffer the suggestion that you are very much in a minority.
Methinks. Lates blates.
Mx
OK.
Good answer. It just doesn't sit easy with me, cos it makes you all look like silly schoolboys which - in your writing at least - we know you're not.
Lose the dodgy news stories, the Hard-Fi tour dates (or make up your mind whether you want to promote or thwart them), though and I for one would start reading the articles again.
But, you can choose!
Us reporting on Hard-Fi dates ins't an endorsement. We let our reviews push that side of the coin. Factual Pieces On Big Bands will always have a place on a site like DiS, purely because when such a tour is rumoured, fans start searching. I'd like to think that DiS is a decent provider of such information.
If you read 'Hard-Fi' in a headline, it's your choice whether or not you read it. We have no agenda, nor do we have a duty; we have our own options and choices, and make them according to our own judgement. You can do likewise and ignore what you want to ignore; hopefully there is content enough ont he site of a day to keep you occupied for a lunch break.
Dodgy news stories and the losing of? Well, I doubt very much given the office make-up we'll ever lose an edge of piss-take when it comes to Fridays, but a balance will always be present. If you can't sometimes make an example of an act then how will they ever learn? All publicity is good publicity, too, so do both parties win out? Probably.
_
I do understand your points, but I will never understand how you can claim to be so vehemently anti the likes of Hard-Fi (and other usual suspects), yet actively promote their wares on your website.
If you were simply passing on news, then that would be different, but you're not - you're saying 'Don't buy this - it's gash' one minute and then posting loads of tour dates and details of the new single the next. The Hard-Fi example is particularly indicative of a split personality that makes a mockery of your credibility. In my eyes. But I'm just bonkers, so ignore me.
*ignores you*
Bear in mind that there are 40+ writers here. One person's passion (oh broo ha ha in THIS band's case) is another's stinky fish. One can present The Facts, the other an opinion on said act's oddly-popular nonsense.
Never read into any editorial 'line'; there isn't a defined one. And posting dates but suggesting they'd be awful: fine by me. PR man or lady or label get what they need, we attract traffic from Googling souls searching for said news, and we also get to imply that the band is a bit gash if they deserve it (and OH MY do Hard-F ever deserve it). One, two, three, get down with the wicked.
Korn? OMG.
_
So essentially - the business comes first (keeping PRs and labels happy, getting as many readers as poss). The credibility second. That's fine by me and I understand that stance totally.
It's just I think a lot of people thought you guys were music fans first and foremost. That would logically necessitate thwarting bands that you see as second-rate by not giving them any publicity whatsoever. That wouldn't be difficult in simple terms, but yes - financial stability is understandably paramount.
re: thwart second rate bands by giving them no publicity
not really. it helps to define what you're against sometimes as well. we can't simply ignore what goes on outside of our own cloistered little indie ghettos. bottom line though: kev's story was funny. byyye!
You misread me
It's important to maintain a balance. Of course a degree of 'I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine' can creep in, but business vs credibility isn't even up for debate. If we took the dollar every time DiS would be very, very different right now. Like you could never imagine.
Music fans first and foremost is exactly what we are. It's what I am, certainly - you only have to look at the shows and tours I am getting DiS involved in/booking to see this (and I'm far from alone: Dom and Jordan in Notts do a fine job, the I Fly Spitfires crew in Edinburgh, and then there's da head-honcho Sean pushing acts he feels strongly about, too). It's not like we're putting our name to any old acts: we have/we are supporting Andrew Bird, Les Savy Fav, Efterklang, El-P, Okkervil River, Pelican, Meet Me In St Louis, Enablers...
I think those acts speak for themselves, and render the idea that the Royal We don't put the music we love first completely wrong.
Always awful
they used to perform/record under the name of Shard, but we called them Shart, describing the act of shitting ones-self while farting.
An altogether preferable experience to hearing this gash.
badge of honour
...it seems to be...
only 2 hours on hair and make up?
...tut tut!
if it is....
...it's not necesssary
as the band seem pretty capable of self-promotion already, if their myspace is anything to go by
aah, made me smile
even though i DON'T prefer keane to my passion...
this thread
is hilarious... as are 'my passion'. Perhaps they were created by Chris Morris for series 2 of Nathan Barley, (if there is gonna be a series 2).
and dont forget
we (the notts lads) gave the pigeon detectives their big break! LOLZZ
Indeed.
Yes it is.
The Pioneer
Did a few gigs there. I always quite enjoyed the venue. Apart from the 'getting there' part. Most of St. Albans looks the same to me!
well, i can't speak for everyone
but i know i am.
.
whut?


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