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Failure >> Frosting on the Beater

Sorry.

I fail to see how this coming NY's gonna solve the problem of the awful-decade-moniker

It only marks the halfway point where the noughties die and the teenies begin. We'll still have another ten years before a respectable date comes around.

No Pet Shop Boys

No Opinion

Mine still hasn't arrived!

Glad to see it getting praised though, looking forward to it even more now...

I was always gonna get this

whether you'd given it a good review or not. But I'm glad I read this anyway, cos I'd not realised it wasn't entirely new. So now I'm prepared.

I was also gonna make some snide comment after reading the first paragraph about how Buck hasn't been on Anticon for about a decade. But then you're ahead of me there, too...

I was a teenager in 2001

I preferred Haven...

^

Isn't Zane Lowe a kiwi?

It was awesome at Bestival

I don't care if it wasn't the loudest they can go, being outside in the dark and looking up at the stars with THAT going on = epic win.
And, y'know, it was still pretty loud.

Battle Jelly Donut

I wasn't aware anyone rated Mike Skinner's lyrics.

Maltesers are awesome.

That is all.

Except that sandwich bar/Masterchef thing doesn't work, does it?

Unless all the music on here was made by record shop clerks? Rather than just liked by them?

To say nothing of Gregg Wallace's career path...

^

Richter's 'Shadow Journal' has the BEST bass of anything ever. Factoid.
I'm glad to see this reviewed on here though.

Sugababes & Girls Aloud

doing "Walk This Way". Shoulda been awesome.

Wasn't.

^

It's nauseating, isn't it?

:D

Ooh,

I'm not sure I've ever heard Lords playing Lords' music, but I was VERY impressed when they backed Damo Suzuki, so I might have to track this down...

Yeah,

I wasn't saying "YOU have a username that is tenuously linked to a throwaway reference to millions of deaths, therefore how can you judge someone else using one", I was just wondering if you thought MBV had justified it. And maybe I was being a bit facetious as well.
But yeah, think it was just to do with their volume - in particular, the volume of a specific ear-bleeding part of their set - and I couldn't tell you whether it was a name they adopted or just one that was slapped on 'em. And it may not have been that name anyway (see above). Ah, I should stop rambling and get me dinner...

Oh, wait again

maybe it was "the apocalypse". As you were.

Wait

this is a review of a *record*??
Coulda fooled me, I thought it was a few vague thoughts about a genre unfamiliar to the writer.

However, only_shallow, I must ask (out of idle curiosity) how you feel about being named after a band who were/are infamous for a live show known as "the holocaust"..?

Oh boy

I just can't WAIT to see how many rants you get about your use of "jumping the shark".

Um,

it wasn't a joke: http://www.drownedinsound.com/label/view/822

DiS used to LOVE the Kaisers.

ALL the Peel sessions??

This is really, really bad news for my bank balance!

Over-earnest?

Have you been listening to Frank Turner by mistake..? Or is your only knowledge of the T-T world the (admittedly one-dimensional) 9 Red Songs, which has very little to do with Chris' main back catalogue?

You can throw many accusations at a man who's penned such hits as Eminem is Gay ("Lipstick all over his chainsaw
Dancing around in dungarees
And did you see where Dr Dre put his hands
When he stood behind him on kids TV?"),
The Headcold Bit Of The Winter("lucozade nurofen benylin lemsip anadin hot milk
n n n n n night nurse"),
Dreaming Of Injured Popstars ("it only took one match to burn down Kelly Jones")
but 'over-earnest' isn't one I'd go for myself...

But

he's not really a "political" artist, is he? He's done *one* "political/protest" album (which acknowledges its own lack of worth in the final song's first line) on top of a whole back catalogue of songs about hedgehogs, flying giraffes, turkeys with guns and Cliff Richard being nailed to a cross. What's not to like??

Snap!

In fact, I only read down this far to see if ol' fiddy had posted. 'Fraid I'm with Chris on this one...

The only Biffy song I know is And With The Scissorkick...

How indie am I???

(it's on a compilation)

(it's not very good)

(I'll go now. Sorry)

You missed Nation Of Millions

Not to mention Millions Now Living...

must be something to do with that "1,000,000" word ;-)

I don't understand

It's not a Friday already..?

So...

If I was only to have Kimono, where should I go next?

^what he said

Except I got to 3:20.

Also, "shine" is a fairly well-known verb last time I checked...

So, nothing in the north east?

Way to stick to your roots, guys!

It's all done on computers? Not a single guitar??

Must be "dance" then.

I've often wondered how many clubbers have been left staring at their stereos in bemusement after taking a punt on Autechre simply because it was between Basement Jaxx and Apollo 440...

They've been owned by Nike for years, I believe

Hasn't stopped legions upon legions of indie kids thinking they're cool though

I'm gonna go for both b) and c)

where c) is "DiS journalist Kev Kharas has read the words 'African tribal beats' and arrived at 'Afrobeat', in the process etc etc etc..."

Sorry.

C) Hi there

B) That's rich coming from a music reviewer.

A) How long it took you to mention the words "coffee table"...

*safety wink*

62 words

Disappointed, Diver, I'd expect more from you...

This may be the first time

DiS have reviewed a gig I was at. And sadly I don't agree. At. All.
It's the first time I've seen 'em, and I have to admit I was a little disappointed that it was essentially just the new album, turning what could have been Teh Best Gig Eva!!2! into just a very very good gig, but 5/10? If that was a 5/10 show I want to go to more shows with you!

Then again, I actually like the new album. It would seem you don't. So we were never going to agree really...

Gossamer Albatross

and Elf Power on the same bill?!
Where where where???

I love Elf Power, me

Really love them. Don't know why - they're far from amazing in any objective way - but I'd genuinely put them in my top 5 or 10 bands ever.
So I'm sad that I have to (almost) agree with you on this one. Admittedly I've only listened to it a handful of times, but so far it's a lowly 6/10 from me. I mean, I'll persevere because of who it is, but if I'm honest then this album by any other artist would've been forgotten by me after 3 listens.
A damn shame.

*Human

surely?

I do really like Born, Sandy, Devotional

but for some reason in my head it's inextricably linked with The Walkabouts' "Devil's Road". And, as that is undoubtedly one of my all-time top-ten records, the Triffids get unfairly shoved to the side. Hmmm.

George Clinton

Lee Perry
Sugarhill Gang

Think what you like about the rest of the lineup, this is gonna be amaazing

They should concentrate

on suing Coldplay instead