The Enemy
Readers, aware, Tom Clarke’s been spouting again.
Over what or whom? This time the fluids are dripping from the unsettled mugs of Arctic Monkeys and Muse.
The Enemy frontman’s been attacking the former for their success at the BRIT Awards last month, saying that the event had “turned into the Arctic Monkeys show” and that the band were the easy option for BRITs bosses playing it safe.
“It's disappointing the Arctic Monkeys were given loads of awards,” Clarke told the Mirror after Alex Turner’s mob took away prizes for Best British band and Best British album.
"They only won so much because the bosses knew it wouldn't offend anyone.
"I suppose you can't begrudge them one award,” he continued, though not specifying which. "They have had one good album and one average one but they haven't done anything special this year."
If Clarke had managed to work out the dark motives working behind the scenes at the BRITs, he seemed more confused at the prospect of Muse.
“I like Muse, they’re brilliant. Musically they’re genius.
“But they are not the sort of band you can love from your heart, because the lyrical content ain’t there. You don’t know what they’re on about.”
He went on to laud the Manic Street Preachers and Oasis for being ‘people’.
“Manics don’t muck about with sh*t metaphors – they get straight to the point.
“Bands like Manics or Oasis you can really associate with. It’s obvious what they’re about. They are real people.”
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that made me want to buy a Horrors CD. or at least stop using the album as my coaster.
totally
it made me fancy faris a bit.
in all fairness though
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..."Oasis you can really associate with. It’s obvious what they’re about."
She's got a cousin
In fact she's got 'bout a dozen
She's got one in the oven
Lol @
that quote about the Manics again.
"Europe's gravestone carved in plastic
P.C. she says inoculate, hallucinate, beware Shakespeare,
bring fresh air, king cigarette snuffed out by her midgets, by her midgets"
Yeah! straight to the point, man!!
^haha!!!
oh my.
to be fair, you might be able to associate with that
if you were inbred.
Tom Clarke is a git
A really dumb one at that.
hes the ugliest frontman
ive ever seen
you should have accepted,
sold your story, ended his career and done us all a favour!
Would he please shut up?
Does a lack a part of his brain to stop any drivel he thinks falling out of his mouth?
Oh grow up Tom.
what do you mean you've actually been through puberty?
bollocks, as if.
Go write a song about a castle
you newt-faced twerp.
I don't think this guy is real, just a myth.
Made-up to scare people with opposable thumbs.
awesome band.
they really do speak for the average man. fuck pretention, i want some proper rock straight from the job centre.
This is pretentious,
surely? ^
I wonder
If he actually knows what he's talking about
Sex, Drugs and on the Dole
Calling Mr Clarke, your five minutes are up.
The Enemy
worse than The Others?
I'm leaning towards yes.
how long
before the enemy are revealed as an elaborate hoax, a bit like the moon landing but with less rhetorical polish?
ok. so itv news in birmingham did a piece on them..
and went round to his m'ams (oo underclass pronunciation please) and she lived in a lovely semi-detached house with manicured lawns on some lovely new build house estate. really fucking working class. the only thing working class is the fact they have parents. who work.
thats what annoys me about these rats. absolutley fake in every department. made me vomit a little.
"The bosses knew they wouldn't offend anyone"
They took the piss out of the whole crowd, for God's sake!
"He went on to laud the Manic Street Preachers and Oasis for being ‘people’."
Crikey, he's a dull fella. He spouts boring cliche after boring cliche. Anyone would think it's 1996 the way he carries on.
...and his band are even shitter than The Stereophonics.
tom clarke has the type of face which makes you want to kick his face in.
fucking bitchface.
"There's no lyrical content"
I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with this statement. It's difficult to make out any lyrics at all when all you can hear is "whinge controversy whinge" coming out of your own mouth.
Also,
he's actually calling Favourite Worst Nightmare an average album; instantly making void anything he says afterwards.
The Enemy =
music for football hooligans.
Oasis = music for football hooligans.
I'm tired and cannot be bothered to argue my point, but I am right, and never listen to a football hooligan.
I bet he likes The Fratellis as well (music for football hooligans).
No, no...
...almost, but not quite. There is only one band worse than the Stereophonics and that's the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It goes RHCP, Stereophonics, New Found Glory, M People.
Because .....
Football hooligans arent allowed to like music
out of all the bands
that could be from coventry, it had to be the enemy...
On the other hand,
"# Centrifuge: 10
# Jim Noir: 10
# The Dissociatives: 10
# Agent Blue: 10
# Sabotage Left: 10
# Adequate Seven: 10
# The Levellers: 10
# Twofold: 10
# Cave In: 10
# Span: 10
# Silverchair: 10
# Vex Red: 10
# Incubus: 10
# Nine Inch Nails: 10"
= music for the boringest, saddest losers this country has or will ever see
^
Have you stolen my list?!!
I heard this lad
speaking on Radio One when Jo Whiley di dher show from other people's houses. He sounded like the most unpleasant, narky, nasty little twat anyone could have the misfortune to meet. Now I know why being sent to Coventry is such a bad thing.
This means therefore that I have little time for this horrid little boy's rantings and ravings. I only clicked on the story in the hope that The Enemy were splitting up or being locked away. I am very disappointed.
but then...
Kasabian: 10
The Rolling Stones: 10
The Beatles: 10
Oasis: 10
The Libertines: 8
Music for people who pretend to be mods/are football hooligans.
...oh
...and monkey boys.
I also add...
The Feeling.
what a cunt...
...this is made me hate The Enemy even more. If that was actually still possible!
Oasis + Manics = fucking crap.
don't forget
Kasabian
music for football hooligans made by football hooligans.
This makes me even more convinced...
That the next album will be shitter than the first and that everyone will ignore them forever.
I hope.
Stop it.
You'll make me cry.
Apparently he can play the violin
and there's me thinking only well-educated posh kids were capable of that...!
they aint from coventry.
their from kenilworth. the two places are completely different. and two of the band members parents are doctors.
it is indeed very fake.
i'm not sure who i dislike more
this mug or the people on this site who jump on his every word with "ugly rat faced fucking prick idiot i hope he dies" or words to that effect. Especially when the statements he's making aren't in any way unusual (Muse are good musicians but their lyrics are nonsensical bollocks, whereas pubrock bands have lyrics which are down to earth and can be related to by the common man? NO FUCKING WAY!)
seriously, this is a total fucking non-story solely designed to get a rabid response from the Enemy lynch mob. For shame DiS..
come on now
cave in are/were awesome
Yes
although I managed to completely overlook them for years.
shut up
you tart
Somehow I cannot for one
imagine Tom Clarke being a football hooligan as real football hooligans would probably fall ovwer laughing if he were to be charging at them!
YEA!
ITS TRUE!!!!!!! i keep wondering why the monkeys pick up so many awards when theyve doine NOTHING special this year, they are just a safe option.
yet hes a bit closed minded on the whole music wht metaphors side... isnt the whole point that if u want to get really deep into it you can find things in the lyrics that appeal to you... lol
but atleast hes stiring an other wise boring, dry, repetitive scene up a bit eh.
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