SnivelThem

Or he's working the "cultural" angle. "Them forrins, with their grungin', taking my livelihood away" Just shut up already.

Manipulating himself into Alternative Sacred Cow status via the press while not releasing a note of worth. "Boo hoo, no one buys my boring records. Must be because they're anti-intellectual. Waaa".

Would certainly get the mainstream recognition he obviously craves if he weren't a boring, uncatchy songwriter. Write us one we can whistle, scowler!

...A perfectly reasonable thing to do if you ask me!

You probably coulda made in a week back then as well, had the band's personal problems been sorted and Kev had written songs before going into the studio. Guess it's good for mythmaking though.

For all it's strengths, I wonder if Loveless is used by some bands as a justification for their wasteful "perfectionism"? It worked for them, right?

Anyway, I notice that the years that stadium squelches Coldplay spent on their latest has resulted in an album that's... OK, if you like that sort of thing. No more, no less. Case rested, and all that.

No sympathy from me: 6 months to mix an album is stupidly wasteful. This and the earlier indecision about choosing a producer hints at a greater dysfunction. At the end of the day there's no real magic in making a record, and the amount of time you spend tinkering with your "masterpiece" in the studio really has no bearing on the quality of the music. Loveless is the exception, but you could make that album in a week nowadays. Why not book more time in rehearsal, eh?

We Are Scientists are a shitty, shitty band. That's all.

Why are this band considered 'cool'?

I mean, they sound EXACTLY like the Ordinary Boys - but with a haughty girl singing instead of a drooling retard.

...That this doesn't mean I think Preston ISN'T full of shit, just that he's been topped by The Enemy for lowest-common-denominator fuckwittery.

Fingers go up the scale.

Fingers go down the scale.

Fingers go up.

And down again. Maybe on a Korg MS2000.

What an intelligent, uncompromising band.

...god, just FUCK this whole era of bullshit, phony "I'm just the man on the street telling it like it is" loser bands. I thought Preston was full of shit until Tom Clarke came along. Or Jon "not exactly Troy" McClure. Whenever I see his words in print I think "fuck, does he have Down's Syndrome or something?"

I'm not exactly Peterborough McHomeowner myself, but the idea that any of these bands represent me is insulting, and they can go fuck themselves.