deadcats

A line from one of their very recent reviews:

'Taking the longview, SDRE seem even less of their time than they were in the mid-90s, positioned between the more stone-faced acolytes of Fugazi and the branches of Jade Tree that went mathletic or simply stuffed as many proper nouns as possible into radio-intended pop-punk (see: songs called "Anne Arbour"). '

Long sentence, name-checking, pointless words like 'mathletic', et cetera.

How is this tedious stuff any better than a review which, although it jumps around a bit, is at least an honest, emotional response? Seriously? Where is its merit? Why is it good? I'm sick of reading music reviews which are full of adjectives. I just want to know how people feel about what they're listening to. More reviews like Natalie's, please.

cynics be damned, this is a 9/10 album. Been waiting for it for billions of years and am not disappointed. I haven't stopped listening to 'We Almost Had a Baby' and 'Absentee' since I first heard them.

Doesn't sound anything like Laura Marling though?!

i'm quite glad about the praise for 'out back' though. quite glad.

not sure what all this 'not being modern stuff' signifies. does this mean they should all get trendy mop haircuts and start doing angular beats and bleeps like everyone else? wouldn't that kind of entirely compromise their sound?

I used to listen to the dawn chorus there every other week when I lived near Bridlington.

And *I've* heard of Rolo Tomassi.

LOLLAGE

shame the song's so crap!!

that I should have first heard Madlib today.

violence = wtf

just because his songs don't contain tedious long words, derivative post-rock crescendi or wild drum machine interludes doesn't mean they're shit, folks.

shave your INDIE BEARDS OFF, TWATS

although there was lots of bend in it

for innovation's sake.

Bah.

but I met him a couple of times about 18 months ago and he was nice. This is quite funny, though.

bastards

is indeed their strongest song by a lot of miles.

snot that hard to say. just say 'passiondale'.

me = dumB - can never remember to click 'Post a new comment' and not 'Reply'.

for getting some decent Regina released, j_wo, Ladyfuzz... but I'm yet to be convinced about Battle and Larrikin Love never convinced me either. Foals are kind of growing on me a bit.

the singer who will never sing again?

this is a damn shame. reading some of the comments on that forum - they're very personal, and an awful lot of people are calling him an awful lot of names.

the whole thing is terribly sad. i wish him well and hope to hear many more good albums from him in the future.

with long hair, a lisp, and a comedy tie...

I must disagree. But then, if I agreed, I'd have to contradict everything I'd just written.

'Thou shall not watch Hollyoaks”… what? What the fuck else am I meant to do on Sunday mornings while chowing down on cheesy beans on toast – mixed herbs, optional'

This point just underlines how shit the world is, if this is your only option on a Sunday morning. 'Mixed herbs - optional'? Fucking hell, man!!

But still, the fact that the Nestle and Coca Cola references are bleeped out makes me annoyed.

fucking WHAT? they let me appear on their radio with MY VIEWS and they ban THIS.

WHAT.

FUCK OFF.

i disagree with the haters. i don't understand the hate. it's all pretty good stuff.

regina spektor is good and this isn't? who decides?

i mean, of course regina is good, but why isn't this?

But also A Secret History by the Divine Comedy. Neil Hannon hadn't released any shit albums by that point, gone with any 'market-driven' changes in direction or generally gone all Daily Telegraph on our asses. It got to No3, they were at the peak of their powers, and with the exception of a badly-chosen cover version of 'I've Been to a Marvellous Party' and a horrendous new track called 'Too Young To Die', it was 15 tracks of unadulterated genius.

need a band that are worse than Oasis, worse than Ocean Colour Scene and much, much worse than the Streets?

Is it to find out how low people will stoop?

Fucking hell.

but i can't say how much i hate it without feeling unjustifiably middle-class, which i'm not. i grew up in a council house but it doesn't mean i have to listen to fucking cack like this.

yay

SOD OFF, WORLD

Grace Kelly is a hella good song. I'm going to buy this album and listen to it. It might not have substance but I reckon it'll be full of decent tunes.

which recognises an excellent band for what they are, without giving in to 'cooler-than-thou' crap. Top.

and yes, he sounds like that.

What puzzles me is how he manages to look different in every photoshoot. I wouldn't be able to pick him off the street.

their music's got a sort of exuberance about it - they sound like they're emo but don't take themselves too seriously.

kudos to them. i still don't like it, but kudos to them. they're better than fucking orson. or the TWANG

but Sonic Dragolgo will be big if there is ANY justice.

(NB. Justice unlikely).

has spoken out about homophobia in hip-hop, and has criticised the Bush administration's appalling handling of Hurricane Katrina - all very laudable. Why would he say something as crash-bang-wallop irresponsible as this?

and failing on so many levels.

:( are better.

by someone who knows jeremy and has at some point been personally offended by him.

i say 'fuck you!'

saved the lives of me and my mate when we were sitting in a black pit of relationship-trouble death in a forest at end of the road fest. i understand not the hate.

still, kk gave jwo a good review, so that's cool.

to prove a point that a bit of hair and a bit of spunk and a bit of glitz sells records, regardless of anything else. and the people who created them would be right. these are the times we live in.

they do have xerox teens in their top myspace friends. xerox teens are fucking awesome.

this is what my 59-year-old mother had to say: 'i liked the first one, he seemed to get a lot of words in very quickly, but after track 7 i turned it off because it got slow'.

i was in the bimble inn for hemstad and suburban kids with biblical names too... also emmy... it was souptastic.

i'm from barcelona, micah p. hinson and merz were the finds of the festival for me (i've seen rose kemp a fair few times when she supported jeremy on tour).

was at the front for this gig and enjoyed it much. shwill appreciate the positive review. cheers.

pretty much saved our life when we were crying and depressed and rejected in a sad forest at end of the road and thinking of slitting our carotid arteries.

so they have a special place in my heart, the corny bastards.

but i can see why some people might dislike them more intensely than phil collins, and when faced with the prospect of blood spurting from their carotid arteries, might end their lives all the quicker!!!!1one

jake shears is elton john? have you no EARS? he sounds so much more like barry gibb!

*waaaaaaaaaaagh*

was reasonably constructed. Saying 'that was a lousy review' and then not saying why is pretty facile.