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They released this song in 2001 as Nylon Pylon. Surely they've moved on in 6 years?

I had to go for Klaxons but only by default because nothing else was there.

No Rakes?

No Puressence?

No BRMC?

No Enemey?

No NYPC?

No CSS?

No Hawley?

Poor effort compilers.

I think you'll find The Crimea were the first band to release their entire album as a free download.

Is he still alive?

I think I tunned out a long time ago.

Up The Bracket was amazing but the talent behind that clearly lies elsewhere.

Perhaps he should form a band with Bonehead, Guigsy and Rigo Starr?

I thought everyone grew out of grunge when they got to 12 and started big school?

Best band at describing what it's like to be upper working/lower middle class in contemporary urban Britain.

The album is fantastic, the best of 2007 so far IMO.

The concept of EPs is great. Loads of indie bands in the mid-90s, Mansun in particular comes to mind, used to release 6 or 7 tracks on EPs. It was only because they changed to chart rule to only allow 2 B-sides that this stopped, and that was to 'protect' pop acts who didn't actually write their own songs. Now even record companies don't give a fuck about singles charts so the EP is reborn.

McCabe that is, not Tong.

Simon Tong was brought in in 1996 to replace McCabe but remained as second guitarist when McCabe returned.

McCabe likes the more psychedelic sounds whereas Tong is more pop. McCabe often used to spend long parts of gigs sat on the floor playing because he had so much pedal work to do.

IMO he ranks alongside Squire, Marr and Butler (who also joined Verve for about a week between McCabe and Tong back in 1996) in the greatest indie guitarists of all time catagory.

This unintelligent chav-indie is not healthy. Can't they all f#~k off back to listening to Oakenfold and Tall Paul and all that dance bollocks.

Blimey, are these still around. I thought they'd gone back to pushing pallets in the Netto storeroom.

I also remember they used to wear horribly cliched matching t-shirts for gigs.

If you want this kind of thing but done slightly less worse, there's another Sheffield band called Champion Kickboxer who will probably be your thing.

I think this is a great album - probably the best I've heard so far this year and also the best 2nd album of the 2nd Britpop bands (Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Kasabian, Bloc Party etc).

These have been kicking around Sheff' for 5 pr 6 years now and they've always been pretty terrible. I somehow doubt they'll have improved massively on record.

When did Jamie Cullum start playing in an indie band? And this is a million miles better than any of their other material too. Flying down the Middle Of the Road with Toploader.

This sounds a lot like 'I, Ludicrous'. Sort of an homage to the indiepop/C86 bands from the mid/late 80s. In a similar tradition to the Mardy Bums. A single named after those Offbeat t-shirts too. Not great but it's better than most of the chav-indie stuff we have to endure round here.

I had high hopes for this after his excellent collaboration with Lush for the song Ciao! a few years ago. It certainly didn't live up to that benchmark.

This band are very much in the tradition of Menswe@r and fellow Leeds band The Dandys. They are a lot of fun and write really catchy song. They wont change the world but they have never pretended that they want to.

Commercial Breakdown is a Shine anthem of its time. Can see these being another legendary Jocasta, Geneva, Bennet, Ruth type band.

Fuzz Club....love it! At least these lot sounded as if they were better than Air Traffic who played the week before - they were fucking appauling

Thank fuck for a decent Sheffield band after 10 years when the Fat Truckers and Hoggboy were as good as it got. True heirs to Pulp and Longpigs.

This really makes no difference because 99% of mp3s that come from myspace and end up becoming 'illegal' downloads come from ripping the streams anyway. If the quality of that is staying the same then it makes no difference.

Actually, I have boths mags in front of me so here they are (rather than my paraphrasing).

Fly:- "If you want tales of birds and booze call your mates, but these are meant to be rock stars for Christ's sake. The Jam, Pulp and Oasis documented working class life but yearned for something different: here, it's like eating last night's kebab. Not bad per se, but surely there's something more?"

Clunge:- "On the other side, the coat-tailers of the coat-tailers. Milburn, 1984, The Harrisons. Worst of all, Bromhead’s Jacket and Little Man Tate, or Fixated and The Moon as they were known before a makeover more commonly associated with daytime BBC2. In a city where cynicism, integrity and hard work are key requirements for adoration, this was seen as whoring of the first degree, as bad as the multitude of Pop Idol (or Idle as it should be for the quick fix solutions they proclaim to deserve) contenders. These bands have become as resented in the local scene as, and for the same reason that, The Searchers and Menswear were by other bands of their time. Right time, right place, right look, little talent or substance. In this case, just sounding slightly shambolic and acting all ‘scally chic’ was enough for the new ‘chav indie’ market."

Clunge magazine is a free Sheffield based music and lifestyle magazine. We also have one called Sandman. Both are pretty good quality - a million miles better than Exposed anyway. http://www.clunge.co.uk/

Man, I really do hate this band. Chav and with so little aspiration in their music. Clunge magazine called them the coat-tailers of the coat-tailers and akin to Menswear or the Searchers of their time, while Fly compared them to last night's leftover kebab. Fraid I'd have to agree with both.

Should've called it a day after 'You held the world' single. Everything else has descended to being as bland and MOR as REM. I weap now when I hear how good chandelier was.

And the truth is that these and the Arctic Monkey are no better (or different) than the Ordinary Boys or Hard-Fi. Bland and unintelligent. Disappointing from a city that produces as talented and interesting songwriters as Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Kate Jackson. The chavs are welcome to this lot.

Chindie

A U.K. Phenomenon, however it is heavily inspired by American preppy clothing trends. A chindie is a chav who, upon discovering he looks 'smart' in shirts under pastel colour jumpers and khaki pants/faded jeans, wears them all the time. He then proceeds to experiment with smarter clubs than the usual chav haunts (which play soul destroying r'n'b/rap crap) and experiences middle of the road bands e.g. Kaiser Chiefs and Oasis. They 'discover' these bands, and spread them amongst their mates. Chindies spread. They piss off indie kids because they claim to like independant, fun music but really are sheep. Oasis and Kaiser chiefs are repetitive to the extreme, basically rap with guitars. Arctic Monkeys have mastered this form of music, and dress like the common chindie. They became huge because they are chindies, possibly the first band to be so after Oasis led the way. The word chindie is a mixture of chav/indie kid, although this is highly insulting to honest indie kids everywhere.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chindie

Easily the best band to come out of the Steel City since Pulp and the Longpigs. Unashamedly intelligent and chic as opposed to the Arctic Monkey's chav-indie. The album of 2006 so far by some distance for me. Just a shame there's no Appropriation or New Idols. Giddy Stratospheres is one of the top 5 songs this century.

ASh could never sight the Foo Fighters as an influence as Ash were around years before the Foo Fighterw were ever thought about, so it'd be vice versa if there are similarities.

Trailer and 1977 were quite interesting. Ash should go back to being a proper indie band rather than some pop-rock cliche like Green Day and Busted.

Just like their inspiration, the mighty Puressence. As good as One Chance or Everyone is Frozen.

I saw Nick Banks walking his dog this morning, should I call the National Missing Persons Bureau, or perhaps the spot a celb column in a tabloid?

Flackcaptain, check out Freaks by Pulp, it is the darkest album I've ever heard, especially the songs with Russell Senior on vocals.

Not at all, its their music which has changed dramatically. They used to write interesting guitar songs but now they have almost put down their instruments and become some sort of mock harmony choir. And popular???

The backing vocals really suck and he's a complete twat on stage. Good band otherwise.

Find this the perfect cure for my insomnia. I've yet to make it all the way though in one sitting. These used to be interesting a few years ago but know they just chant really bad harmonies. A piss poor housemartins. Sorry.

England's Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Its just clicked where I've heard this song before. "On a rope, on a rope, got me hanging on a rope" etc. Rocket From The Crypt, that's them

Used to be better when they were the Charlatans sound-a-like The Moon. Now just another 'Libertines with a Yorkshire accent' cliché band. The Long Blondes are the best band in the city by quite some way at the moment and these lot aren't even close.

I love Yer Actual and SDY, and I Spy is pretty good too. The rest is substandard in comparison. Obvious talent but needs more consistency in song writing and maybe a better editing process as well. Good first attempt.

Try as they might, they'll still never write Don't Look Back Into The Sun or Time For Heros. Coat tails will always spring to mind for me.

Another boring libertines soundalike. Long Blondes and thee SPC bands (http://www.theespc.com/) are the (or thee) interesting music coming out of Shef'.

I remember these supporting Puressence and Aziz at the Boardwalk about 3 years ago when they were called The Moon. They sounded much better then before they started being an Arctic Monkey's clone. There is so much better going on in Sheffield at the moment, just check out anything released by SPC - http://www.theespc.com/