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They are certainly different enough to the majority of bland groups around at the moment, which gives them a huge head start. I understand how some people wouldn't like the yelpiness of the vocals, but again that's a sign of a band that polarises opinion, which is preferable to something that is, y'know, just nice.

I don't get the JF comparison really, either.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

that I still get the feeling that if they really, really wanted to, they could write another fantastic album. There have been a few - sparce, granted - moments on all the crappy albums they're poked at us for the last ten years to suggest that there's something still there. But I doubt it'll happen.

And Liam's still a mentalist, which is actually quite satisfying.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

Every day I have to wait until they come to Manchester is flippin' torture.

*puts head in saucepan and bangs it with spoon to ready ears for tinnitus*

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

I went and got my tickets for the gig out of the draw last night, just to look at them. It felt awesome.

*wets pants*

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

the same token rock song that they have done for every album they've released, like, ever. But assuming you like that kind of thing, it's free beer, I suppose.

And according to their MySpace, the new single has only been listened to 5,000 times. Yikes. It's not as bad as the crud that slopped out of Riot City Blues though..

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

and those trainers are SHIT.

it's a pretty nice piece of 'true authentic art', for an album cover, but he's milking it's 'iconic status' a little bit now isn't?

I mean, everyone and their gran has a Joy Divison T-shirt with that picture on it these days.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

But I think they're 'Emu' or something. I read about it in the Daily Mail.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

"I'm loving anal in sheds"

which frankly would make more sense.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

But it sounds like you know what you're talkling about.

I really love that they don't stand still, musically, but I'd love it if they made another XTRMNTR instead of the "I Heart MC5/Stooges/Rolling Stones" albums they do now and again, which fall so far short.

I wondfer how much influence Kevin Shields really had on their direction and sound on XTRMNTR and Evil Heat?

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

I didn't realise your geographical location was relevant to your views on anything. Dismissing someone's work because you think it's bad is one thing, but criticising them because you don't like where they're from or what they look like is idiotic, frankly.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

it distracts from the words that have been written. It's a shame to boil down a song into a mark out of ten or what have you.

You can usually tell if the song is your cup o' tea from them, and words are less subjective, innit.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

"Wasting time" - YES! His and ours.
"Should try a different profession" - YES! I recommend that he starts a new job as an Arsenic tester.

Didn't the Kooks go to some stage school anyway and have subsequently spent their careers trying to dispell this massively-uncool fact?

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

(on Popbitch, so take it with a pinch o' salt) that Bernard Butler has co-written a lot of the album with Tricky. Apparently the record company is trying to keep it fairly quiet in case Tricky's 'street' image is ruined by the idea of him collaborated with a fey ex-Suede guitarist (great hair, though).

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go from fronting such a great, great band to becoming such a deeply annoying Television Personality? Her oh-so-wry presenting style makes me want to gnaw my own ears off. WITH MY COCK.

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the scrawniest crotch in pop. Why she keeps exposing the sinewy horror of it to the world, I have no idea.

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...is a much better name for them. Perhaps Chris Martin could salvage at least a modicum of respect by convincing them to change their name to that. And then locking them in car and pushing it over a cliff.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com