Knifing the hand that feeds: band slag NME, DiS on eve of headlining show

;)

therefore they don't stand out unless you listen to their songs lots, which given the amount of amazing music in the world, i'm not going to do. i'm not a fan of anything they've done except that one with them being eaten on a farm in the video, but that's just because they are not that good. if they wrote something that stood out and stopped being so bland all the time, maybe i'd like them!

If you look hard enough on this site, you can find that no band is immune from some hatred. Radiohead, Battles, Sonic Youth, Oceansize, to give some examples- there are people on here who hate them, but plenty more who love them. Every band that I love has been the subject of a vitriolic rant on the behalf of someone who hates them, thought they sold out, etc.
DiS has a pretty vast readership. I'm sure there are many people that like The Young Knives on here. In fact, in that thread, plenty of people seem to like them. So it's hardly as though everyone on here hates them. It's just I'd take more notice of the haters too.
That was sort of a rant, wasn't it? Anyway, just trying to defend my sad, niche passtime.

heard their single on the radio the other day and it was extremely mediocre. i quite liked some of their earlier stuff but the newer things have been bland bland bland. why must bands go in this direction? - why can't they go wierder???......so therefore unless its an album full of stonking tunes its always going to be a 6 out of 10. one simple thing they need to do if they don't like it. work outside the music industry machine - do the music you want to hear rather than what you think the music press is going to like. don't play nme shows. thats where all these bands fall down time after time.

Some people don't like certain bands
Sometimes people that like a certain band post that they like bands
Sometimes people that don't like a certain band post that they don't like a certain band

And so the world turns.

this band! My hatred for them began when I seen them supporting clor at the Charlotte and the tried to be a comedy act rather than a band!!!

Don't listen then you fuckwit

Just not mediocre shite like Young Knives. They wear wacky clothing and look unusual: no doubt they would be ignored if they didn't. The reason they notice DiS and the cynicism that comes with is because people are free to make their views heard on here! Maybe if that happened more often they'd realise people on most sites think they are boring. What is the point of The Young Knives? I'd rather listen to Battles and get excited or listen to The Wombats and get angry - at least I'd feel SOMETHING. So yes, YK, you've hit the nail on the head. Although I'm sure someone likes them so WHATEVER.

.. with Ant and Dec?

I'm not massively fussed either way about their comments though.

because that's what it will deserve.

That's not to say that The Young Knives aren't one of the best British bands getting mainstream attention right now, because they are. But they aren't THAT good.

Music, in general, really should be better I think, and it's a bit depressing that bands like The Young Knives, The Cribs, and maybe a couple of others I can't think of right now, are the cream of the crop of bands getting mainstream exposure. Both decent bands for sure, and both bands I like and go and see live every now and then, but to say their stuff is worth more than 6/10 or 7/10 would be ridiculous if you are rating against classic albums.

I don't want to tail off into a rant but everything is so wrong about British music, mainly due to the way the industry (the press, radio, tv and everything) is set up, and has been for as long as I can remember.

It's time there was a bit of a change I think.

to play in a band, give it your best shot, and then read some anonymous no- mark making out that you are the spawn of Satan on the internet; you put yourself in the public arena and that's what you get. I don't suppose they mind the same anonymous no-marks praising them to the skies.

i wasn't really being serious. well i do only like one of their songs, and i have only heard about5 but still i was going along the mundane line

'majorly punchable' LOL

like the Young Knives a lot. I'm looking forward to the new album.

Some people don't like the Young Knives. They're probably not looking forward to the new album.

Sunrise; sunset

they were good at V2006, but now they are just mediocre.

The NME is drek, isn't it? Imagine having to work for that to put food in mouths of your starving children?

no, you just make shite music. don't blame us for it.

for Henry. I interviewed him las week, he was charmingly caustic throughout. For the record, I like his band.

...was reading the music board.

Social board FTW

p.s. I like the young knives

...ly mediocre. They talk it like some amped up XTC but dont have one fiftieth of the style or grace. When they try to write a hit, they just repeat the chorus too often and end up soundling like Maximo Park B sides. Maximo Park being the absolute ACME of mediocre indie CRAP by the way. Being, or appearing to be, clever is not a ticket to the big table.

Like the person above said, be weirder or be popper, cos you are not cutting it at being proper.

However I do appreciate and slightly admire the turning-a-negative-into-a-positive aspect to their "look".
Being whippet thin is also not a ticket to the Big Table.

Or else the Enemy would be massive.

Oh.
fuck.
damn.

What year is it again?

Style. Grace. Power. Massive tunes.

Is it too much to strive for?

shit shit shit, toss, gash gash, gash, shit wank.

insightful.

and the cribs are supposed to be a band that stands apart from "mediocre" indie but they have never spoke out against the nme, who are the publication who have pretty much forced it onto the airwaves.

oh, its not Mika. but they easily are as shit as the aforementioned.