mac_daddy

I have nothing more to add.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVPkKdgyyk&feature=related

fingers crossed it doesn't sound like a mess instead

yay i win

from their blogs on myspace it looked like they were really worried about him. excellent! c'mon Chi!

Drowned in sound's belief that the last Razorlight album was anything other that utter shite and the first album was anything but pretty darn good. i don't care about this new album. good day.

It has given many people such inspiration and good memories, that despite some of the shit that must have gone behind the scenes, Drowned In Sound's continued existence is for the good of the world and forever may it go on...

its a little better now

what a nightmare of a day im having

someone shit and not expected to win it will

only other thing not off puzzle was what i assume is a new one.

but Biffy annoyed me by only playing 1 track from their first 3 albums in their set. my only complaint really, oh that and QOTSA being deathly dull.

metallica were fupping awesomly loud. killers sound seemed piss poor but it may just be because i was so close to the front.

it is the first album I have got really excited about this year. can't wait to pick it up on Monday!

articles like this and Diver's article on Supersonic make me fall in love with DiS again.

It also all serves to make me VERY FUCKING JEALOUS of all those who went. perhaps next year?

would be worthy winners. They have toiled away, making some of the best pop music in britain and have released 4 outstanding albums, largely without the recognition of the radio 1 listening public.

Thus, I guess my opinion would have to be that the award should go to either up and coming acts with real, justifiable longevity or established acts who really deserve a shot at the big time.

really makes me wish i went. damn lack of friends and funds.

i am gonna have the worst rotted teeth if this is true

if Ronson now hates the NME that DiS users will start liking the NME?

good choice. very cheep indeed

to come.

a band i like active in the last decade have released.

good enuff??

is fucking ACE

i should have said a *recent* band, or perhaps, more accurately, a band i like has released.

Biffy have always excelled at doing great b-sides.

As for this, well i don't need it as i pretty much have everything.

oh, and vertigo of bliss - probably one of my favourite albums ever, and certainly the best 2nd album a band has released.

cos nobody wants to cunting go with me

pretty much bang on as usual mr diver fantasic all round but a lack of big hits and the sort of atmosphere not condusive to slow melancholic songs.

and Youthmovies of course. and how could i forget: Rosetta - Wake/Lift

The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Vampire Weekend - S/T
Foals - Antidotes
Russian Circles - Station

i don't like the fratellis and mistress mabel is a pile of tosh as, i expect, is the rest of the album, but they have made some half decent pop songs and i can tolerate them far more than any guff produced by SFG and their ilk.

I guess it's the sort of review we have come to expect from DiS, but sometimes it's nice to see a level-headed approach being applied to reviews of bands with such universal unappeal to the sort of demographic DiS appeals to, rather than pandering to it.

actually, fuck it, fratellis can suck my pole.

this is precisely why I am so disillusioned with the current market in music magazines (excluding the niche stuff like stool pigeon which i cant get as im in birmingham) as they are so firmly rooted in the past.

but really, whats the point of all these 'icon' awards? surely once one has been awarded thats it, thats the one icon they have chosen?

And don't get me fucking started on Duffy. Why can't this Alexander bellend just cut to the chase and say it sounds like it could have been made any time in the last 50 years simply because it's rehashing everything shit from the last 50 years?

me wantee.

I want to go to Supersonic fest and see them but no-one wants to go with me :(
stupid friends and their mainstream music tastes.

but as the review says, despite their ability to write a superior pop tune, it never fully translates on record to something worthwhile.

I have the new album but I am yet to give it my full undivided attention, however from what I have heard it hasn't progressed much from their last record, which despite having some enjoyable moments didn't really offer up anything memorable.

I do hope they keep sticking with it though as I continue to hope that at some point they will record an album that really does justice to the tunes they have the ability to make.

oh, i believe i did

london

who are we slagging off here? If it's CSS then I don't have a problem with that, but if it's TCTC then I have a bone to pick with you scallywags!

P.S i like the clause.

all fabulous albums. Blackened sky is the first album i ever LOVED

OLTA is rather good in my books. It's no TOTBL or Antics but Rest My Chemistry and Pace Is The Trick more than make up for it.

Rool on the new stuff.

i have been defending Reading and Leeds all along but Mars Volta? :( Latitude is shaping up to be the ultimo festival.

Oh well, roll on Leeds.

given the amount of material they have actually got now but i would say get Thickfreakness first and then straight away get Magic Potion.

Thickfreakness is probably one of the finest examples of blues-rock there is and it is a must just for 'Have Love Will Travel' and 'Set You Free' but for an album of just sheer unrelenting tune-age then Magic Potion cannot be bettered. I can still be often found bouncing around my room playing air guitar to this album.

That IS an awesome line-up.

and a spot on album.

The textures, arrangements and, as always perfect lyrics, combine to make an album that would make the majority of artists in this day and age stare glumly at their shoes in the shame and knowledge that they have never, and will never, be able to write anything this good.

Managed to get a listen now and its a superb record.

They have managed to once again develop their sound and remain fresh while always keeping to their core vision of fucking rocking out!

Oh and 'I Got Mine'? Get. In. My. Life.

As a massive 'Keys fan I am extremely excited to hear their latest offering. I am sure i will guzzle it down with my usual hasty abandon but it looks like some of the initial worry I had about the direction that this record was headed may have come to pass.

But that's the price they pay i guess for choosing a more 'produced' record (in The Black Keys sense of the word) over the balls out dirty nature of their previous works.

Ah well.