ianMD

being obscure and indie ghettotastic don't equal importance either, no matter how closely even more people (especially a large proportion of those who inhabit messageboards) erroneously.. etc etc etc

people also need to learn how to separate the idea of having a huge audience from the concept of being 'mainstream'. Spend one hour less in Bardens and one hour more watching primetime TV and get a real sense of what mainstream REALLY means (your average X-Factor / Paul O'Grady show viewer would react with similar contempt to a Muse album as they would to a Boris or Sun City Girls album).

whilst a comment like "the most important british band of our generation" is obviously hyperbole, Muse - even if they aren't worthy of the indie-grot community's respect for their actual music - deserve recognition for the fact that they have taken a pretty unfluctuating 'no compromise' approach to their 'art' and how it is presented (at this point, I'm sure someone would go "but but, they signed to a major label so they must have compromised somewhere. whine whine".. to which i'll say, recent events have taught me that a lot of indie types are only interested in the idea of 'DIY' / independence when it comes along adhering to the childishly strict rules of the indie universe. end of the day, most folks will tolerate artists they LIKE signing to a major, but have no time for anything they don't like - or, even worse, that appears 'unclool' - no matter how much it fits into their moral code) and yet still managed to pull along a very real massive audience (as opposed to the usual transient audience artists who's entire stature is built on heavy marketing and a couple of radio hits manage to mop up for a tour and a decent Glastonbury slot one year) through the simple fact of being a band that actual real people connect with.

bottom line for me; 'Black Holes...' is absolutely up there as one of my albums of the year. maybe even would be up top of the list if it weren't for the Panic! At The Disco album
*ducks*

why would you bother going down there to look at guitars anyways?
its full of horrid stuff.
get yerself down Denmark St and gaze longingly in the windows instead.

with the best will in the world, you couldn't really count the Blaze years it 'working'. A brief flash of "hold on, this may all be OK" spiraling down to "shit shit... does anyone still have Brooce's number? I've got me lucky groveling pants on".

its a fucking room!
and a shitty room at that.

it holds no magic secrets of the power of rock. it did not invent punk.
anything good about CBGBs, the bands brought with them. it did not invent The Ramones. The Ramones invented The Ramones.

shut the fucking thing down and stop worshipping the past.

his problem is he knows his own audience is 35 year old blokes in footy tops who never got over Oasis at Knebworth or the first time they necked a bean and heard Screamadelica.
the idea that other bands have audiences that'll still be alive by the time their third album comes out must get his goat a bit.

i shall be in attendance.
there shall be merriment and fruit-based alcoholic concoctions!

hurrah.

don't get to decide what constitutes 'good'

I think Is It Just Me? is actually a pretty great song, and was the right follow-up to One Way Ticket.

but I agree with you on 'Girlfriend'. I like the song in the context of the album, but having that as 3rd single seemed like overkill of 'pop-Darkness'.
A little bravery and the release of something like English Country Garden would have gone some way to re-establishing that "what the fuck?!" response from casual observers to hadn't bothered with the album yet because the singles they'd heard already made them think this album was a re-hash of the first one.

'course... that's all easy for ME to say at this safe retrospective distance.

second album actually kicked the arse of the first one.
The main problem with it is that people prefer to listen to music through their fucking computers or stupid little Apple toys. Play that album thru even a half decent hi-fi and its like a good punch in the guts.

we didn't.
i would love to have done a DP album -we just did that one split picture disc with them and :( - but the simple truth of the matter is that we just don't have the money to put out everything we'd want to put out.

bah. i only got to see 'em once too. they were ace.

shame shame shame.

of course not. because hopefully Gerard won't go toppin' himself.

if it weren't for Kurt's death, Nirvana wouldn't be remembered in the same way as they are now.
they'd be supporting Pearl Jam.
(that was a joke. but not entirely)

I'm jealous of kids who're young enough that MCR are 'their band'.
I know this isn't the sort of opinion one should express in polite company, but fuck it... Nirvana were supposedly 'our band' and damn it if we weren't fucking RIPPED OFF.
fucking Nirvana...

I dig the MCR. there, I said it. least they got some tunes on 'em. and its kinda cool having a fat kid with his eyes too close together as yr superstar leads singer guy.

cos that'd be, like, amazing.
(fuck, that ball of sarcasm just broke one of my bestest typing fingers).

re; other stuff...
yes, The Division Bell IS better than you remember.
and it'd be pretty awesome if they did play just the one last Hyde Park show (so i could go) AND played When The Tigers Broke Free (i love The Final Cut, me).

fuck it... when are Bogshed gonna reform?

we can spend the evebing debating how difficult it is being IanJ's in a world seemingly obsessed with IanR's and IanT's.

12.30

like i said... supposed to be.

she IS triggering stuff (see thread aboot this in the forums bit). its keymapping and someone with better understanding of such matters can probably explain it better than a technophobe such as myself.

having been present at a couple of :( soundchecks I can stick my hand firmly on my heart and say that with all honesty that there's a whole bunch of noises and patterns triggered by the keyboard.
of course, this being a modern messageboard populated by the type of folks who generally use messageboards, you'll believe what you want and probably don't view the opinions of other with any validity whatsoever, that's my experience so i dont' even know why i'm bothering to respond.

fuck it.. while i'm here, i may as well squeeze some usefulness out of it, so some info;
YES... the spilt single did sell out super fast from our distributor, but we kept a few back for mailorder. that 'few' has seemingly now dwindled to about 30 copies. 30 or so copies and that's it gone forever (with i could say that for the more of our releases cos then there'd be some room and less stuff to pack in the van when we move office). So if anyone's still needing...

SO excited about this album. oh yes i am. indeed.