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correction

It's not 'Lights Out' that contains the lyrics you describe - it's 'The Rubettes'.

seriously

check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFFOKFG4m2I

Unbelievable power. This performance reawoke my love for a song I thought I was bored of.

For about one second at 3:32 you can see how much rain is coming down on him when he moves his mic down.

um

Clearly if the song's point is worth anything at all, it has just as much point a year after the bombings than any other time. Providing a song doesn't condone such an event, I don't see how mentioning it in a song, or suggesting that some of the response to it has been negative, is "insensitive"...

this review is not well proofread

you mean 'near incomprehensible' not 'near incomprehensive' - the latter wouldn't make sense.

and there needn't be an apopstrophe in the 'culture's' in 'these cultures are old'.

sounds like a shit record though.

Vapour Trail

Will Vapour Trail be a version of the Ride song? If so, bet it can't top Trespassers William's version...

Tenacious D

Wankers.

Spot on.

I must admit...

I'm VERY surprised that 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' didn't make this. What an album.

Different Class

is truly one of those albums where every single track (with the possible exception of FEELINGCALLEDLOVE) is literally incredible.

Get Free

is a tune...

But

Reviews are more than reactions - otherwise just yelling 'good' or 'bad' would be a review.

I don't have objections to this kind of review to stuff that is clearly awful, but I actually think this song is OK.

Yes

She should sound more like The Mars Volta.

Think

That's a joke

Well

If it's better than the new Snow Patrol record it must be fucking great. I wonder if it's better than syphilis too?

Damn straight

Tortoise are so over-rated

Tbh

You should just buy 'Bring It On'. Whatever crap they may have produced, I won't hear a word against that album.

Well, I will, but I would disagree.

C'mon...

Where's 'Come On Baby'? His best song by miles...

It's happened

Moby - Animal Rights

Isobel Campbell

To be fair, she wrote all but one of the tracks on the record alone - I don't think a fuss should be kicked up.

I would like to see Hot Chip win but the Campbell/Lanegan record is good too.

um

when he was 18 it would have been 1998...which was before coldplay's first album

Um

1. This has been known for months, possibly since before James Dean Bradfield announced his...

2. It's actually I Killed The Zeitgeist

3. I don't think they are breaking up, they're meant to be doing an album for release next year

Brakes

"You know the girl from Sleater-Kinney; you said you could understand why it was that she continued to play when she was only earning ten grand P.A."

yeah

I saw them in Oxford, it was Grosvenor supporting.

Yes

This is a good review, and an utterly amazing album. It's so much better than their first record, they've come on so much.

Damn

I thought that said 'Sumner' - I was hoping for a collaboration between Slayer and Bernard Sumner.

That would have been amazing.

kids...

...pointing out that you like someone like Explosions In The Sky more than Sugababes, whether straight or in an unfunny "ironic" comment, is a totally redundant comparison.

yeah...

...because what with only 48 states left to make albums about, it's about time he released 21 songs as a separate outtakes collection!

It's

sure as hell better than most of the stuff on the album.

Well...

You could always illegally download them ;)

Yes

This is very nice indeed.

No...

It was 3 Doors Down who did Kryptonite.

Ooh

But are sociologists 'scientists'? Controversial! A whole debate in the Philosophy of Social Science! :P

No

You're deeply wrong. Amstell may have been the white, male, middle class, indie-looking one, (prompting joy from white, middle class, indie kids) but she was genius in her own way.

What?

Parachutes is the only consistently good Coldplay album, and even it is beaten by rather a lot of REM albums - Murmur, Reckoning, Life's Rich Pageant, Automatic For The People and Up...

Six By Seven - "We never told anybody that we split up, because we didn’t feel it was important."

Has anyone in the world actually heard the 5th album, Artists Poets Cannibals Thieves?

Yeah the website announced this ages ago; but it seems it's basically just not true if they're all going to be in not one but two new bands!

Re: Government looks to aid indie labels

um...no.

How does something like a tax break make you just like a major label?

Re: Government looks to aid indie labels

Well...it's not true that just because government has a reason to do this (ie it's not just because they like indie music - oh shock horror) it's a bad reason. For example, it could be because it's good for the economy. To describe boosting the economy as an ulterior motive is stretching a point Government wins, labels win, bands win. No need for it to be regulatory or censored or whatever.

Though I do imagine right-wing tabloids will now be able to run articles about "drug addict rock stars whose habits are funded by the government".

Re: Oceansize

I agree. It's all too frequent to see both smaller zines and larger websites like DiS afraid to give anything except the most obviously terrible a low rating. It's good to see reviews where the verdict is unpredictable. It's a reviews site, not a PR company. If certain bands are guaranteed positive reviews, then it becomes meaningless.

Re: Oceansize

Even better, download it off DiS.

Re: Oceansize

Yeah, Amplifier are fucking tragic.

Re: Cherubs - Man Of No Importance

Easy mistake, it was pretty inconsequential by comparison.

Cherubs - Man Of No Importance

It's a demo version. Apparently it's very different and not just laziness, according to them, but I haven't heard it for myself yet.

Also, it's not their last single, it was the one before (ie the first) - 'Club Hoola Hoop's Walls' or the 'I Go To Whom I Dressed For EP', depending on which you want to call it, was the last one.

Re: Oceansize

There's the specific link:

http://www.giittv.hypnotisingsilence.net/reviews/oceansizeampgrech.htm

Oceansize

I totally agree that the new material sounded not all that wonderful last night, EXCEPT for the last song ('Music For A Nurse') which was utterly immense and sounded like one of their best songs yet.

I had a lot of fun trying to dance to their time signatures, despite the lack of compatriots in that department.

And my oh my the Barfly is a shithole.

Re: The Rolling Stones ready 'Neo-con'

But whether it really celebrates British imperialism is pretty dubious...

Re: The Rolling Stones ready 'Neo-con'

I don't actually see how accepting a knighthood rules you out of the ability to critique anything that any government in the world does.

(Having said which this will be embaressing).

Re: The Silent Type - Of Writing / Of Violence

Amazon.co.uk have it. The used and new section has it at a reasonable price, too.

Downloads from this sound great - must get it.

Re: Popworld's Amstell to join Xfm

I liked iot. Pleasingly chaotic.

Amstell is a god, Popworld is genius.

Quit and not U

Poor headline tbh.

Oceansize: new single and tour

I'm there.