lendmeyourearsmotherfucker

Thought it was a dreaful re-hash. Then I thought it sounded good but needed better songs. Then I loved it. Best thing he's done since 'Heartbreaker', for sure.

My creative Zen is full, but largely due to audio books, which take up monstrous amounts of space

"Cliche words spoken from the true heart of a Busted fan. Or maybe even an actual member of Busted, ynever know"

I couldn't care less about busted. What does however bug me is you imaging people liking music you don't like as diseased with practiced ease of the snob. Just bugged me, thought I'd comment.

as for the "cliche words" business...SCORE

" I think it's a genetic deficiency to like crap music. Or a weird disease...like BSE or SARS"

or pomposity, arrogance or self-righteousness, yes i see where you're going with this

"Charlie's a dick, he's just trying to be cool. Making too much effort is bad when it comes to stuff like that"

yes, i believe putting on a t-shirt is the equivalent of ten years slaving away in the mines of indie-cool.

A question occurs, hoe can a song be record of the year if no-one gives a fuck about it. I don't especially care for "Thunderbirds" but then, the majority speaks on this subject.

never heard so many people use the phrase "middle-class" with such contempt. It's rather easy to leap astride your hobby horse and rampage against "racism" against fifty cent, jesus God, every band that gets bottled does so for entirely musical reasons, and I'm never going to accept anything to the contrary.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe these people, "middle-class" though they may be, just don't give a fuck as much as you. That the festival is a broad experience rather than a sucession of bands and that maybe they might be right.

I don't give a fuck who got bottled or why, essentially no-one died and trust me THEY'LL GET OVER IT. Forgive me if i Don't weep tears of empathy for these guys.

And also, the guy who said guitar music is an obsolete music form is a prize numpty. A good song is a good song whether its thrashed screaming from a guitar or wrenched squeaking from a nose-flute. To willfully deny that just shows what a pointless, pink-with-indignation over-earnest waste of space you are

Peter fucking pinsent, good god, he gets about doesn't he? i'm familiar with the cunt from (sadly enough) the channel 4 music teletext thingy.

Depressingly small and annoying world

"The problem is that there are far more talented bands out there who don't get signed cos of bands like Keane making nice little ballads with string sections in them, which ppl in their 30's and 40's buy"


Nonsense, are you seriosly suggesting that record companies work like this, that if Keane were dropped, then 20 small bands would instantly would be picked up. Nah. If Keane stop selling records, then they would be dropped, and then a new artst in a similar style would be cultivated in their place.

Record companies, as i understand it, have structured rosta's, so certain budgets for whatever genre/market/type of band.

Also, why does everyone hate 40 year olds, i mean, all the time people criticise people for becoming older and having a job, like they're selling out or some bollocks. I wouldn't be surprised if exactly the same percentage of 40 year olds as 18 year olds were buying Keane.

"they went to Worthing Sixth Form College."

BASTARDS!!

kill all lower-middle class people!!
down with the middle-class!!
up with the lower class!!

apologies, with all the irony flying about there, i lost sight of my original goal, which was to agree with you

so.....hurrah

"Clive James (an Australian immigrant to Britain) said of Oswald Mosley (a British fascist)"

-REALLY?, and whose this Morrissey fellow you mention, he sounds an intiguing chap, sportsman is he?


seriously though, the problem with flag-waving resulted from the fact the Britain wasn't a particualrly popular place in the 80's/early 90's for Britains or otherwise and flag-waving lost it's appeal. Therefore it became pretty much the sole preserve of the far right ("there ain't no black in the union jack" etc), and anyone brandishing about was therefore see to associate themselves with them.
Even so, it must have been a pretty slow week at the NME (smelly or not) to accuse fucking Morrissey of racism. I'm amazed anyone even came close to buying it (the NME or the story).

one middle-class tosser, as requested.

Firstly, Simmons is a knobgoblin of the highest order, his new album is unforgivably atrocious. His comments on Islam were a fucking travesty, based upon hearsay and a very blinkered view.
However, to say that pornography in the west makes our attitudes similarly damaging is a step too far. How on earth would you (or anyone) know that women are seen as sex objects, obviously it happens. But so does incest, rape, murder and corruption but it doesn't mean they define the society in which they occur.

I'm afraid I meant you, you malignant toss.
What is this bollocks, saturating the message board for hours with linkin park. jesus.

get the fuck off my internet

Chasers was very half-arsed, but bouyant, it was essentially a demo that hinted at great things. Once I got used to the idea that "Life Goes On" wasn't a Poison cover it does it for me every time.
It's a real shame he's such a fuck-up because he can knock out pop-punk better than pretty much anyone else (Dancin' on Coupled With is astinishingly good).
Love John Poole as well, a great man, signed my fag pack in a pub before the gig.
They did the intro to "Cheers" sitting on the drum-riser, then did a drunken sprint to each mike for the start, then played Everlone. Transported me to Heaven for twenty minutes of the encore

Oh, unquestionably, they were quite, quite brilliant at Hammersmith. Tight as fuck, and far better than the forum in 2002 (and they played Dangerlust).
Seems a shame that getting this good with John Poole is at Danny McCkormack's expense, still yo yo's and chasers were very cool, hope to see him again soon

that line-up fills me with such rage, the wildhearts beneath: Soulwax, Peaches, Graham Coxon, Razorlight.
It defies belief. The Wildhearts had four top 30 singles in the last few months. and fuck knows how many over the years.
Soulwax is the one that gets me, a cult band who made a decidedly minor impact four years ago? gah. Still they're quite good, but even so.

"to smother a music scene already crippled by the paralytic presence of angst-cobbled acne-rock (Linkin Park and Papa Roach), the shallow folksy dawdlings of Travis and the fashion-mag friendly scene-obsession of nu-garage. "

my goodness, i didn't know it took two years for an article to be posted up, i assume the bits about Wheatus and OPM were lost in the post

well, it's one O clock and I'm not here by accident, so fair play.
perhaps though, rock fans are far more keen to let everyone else know that they're into it than anyone else. Never met anyone more pugnacious than a Tool fan with a Lateralus t-shirt and an attitude